Song · Placebo
“Too Many Friends” by Placebo
From the album Loud Like Love (2013)
“Too Many Friends” by Placebo appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2013. It was first released in 2013 on the album Loud Like Love. Its best result is #7 on the Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #180 alternative song of 2013.
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"Too Many Friends" was the first single from Loud Like Love, Placebo's seventh album, arriving as a download in July 2013 before turning up in August as a limited German CD and seven-inch. Brian Molko wrote it with Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest, and Adam Noble produced it.
It's a song about living online: feeling closer to friends on a screen than to anyone in the room, and the loneliness that comes with it. Molko framed it as a modern update of waiting by the phone for a call that never comes. The band went to Los Angeles to shoot the video with filmmaker Saman Kesh, who staged it as a detective case unravelling around a pool party, with the novelist Bret Easton Ellis narrating in voiceover. Molko's sardonic whine never had a better target.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | Studio Brussel Flanders, Belgium | Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2013 | 40 |
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