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Placebo - Humpty Dumpty
Fronted by Belgian jazzercisist Marc Moulin, 70’s jazz/rock outfit Placebo are not to be confused with 90’s cross-dressing alternative lifestyle/rock outfit Placebo. There’s a certain humour in a band of white dudes so unabashedly blaxploitatin’ naming themselves Placebo, but I guess ‘The Offwhites’ was a bit too traditional and ‘The Safer, Gentler Soul Option’ too descriptive, though it would have been a great name for a 60’s UK Garage act.
‘Humpty Dumpty’ comes from Placebo’s 1971 debut, ‘Ball of Eyes’. The track features some really tricky ‘on the one’ beat and basswork and some pretty sweet Rhodes’n. Samplesmiths amongst us will recognize the hook in this song as one that’s been lifted dozens of times by the likes of AiM, Dilla, Pete Rock, and wordsmiths amongst us will giggle as they notice that with very little effort, the word ‘Belgian’ can be recalibrated into ‘Belgina’, a delightful term I’d like to put forth as a way of describing one’s exploits while backpacking in Europe. Correct usage: ‘I got off the train and was neck deep in Belgina instantly’. You’re welcome.
Pretty sweet nah-fro, Marc.
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