“Twenty Years” by Placebo

"Twenty Years" was the one genuinely new song Placebo released as a single from Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996–2004, their 2004 best-of on Virgin, with Jim Abbiss producing. Brian Molko wrote the words, and he shares the writing credit with Stefan Olsdal, Steve Hewitt and Paul Campion.

It got to 18 in the UK and came in at 95 in Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 of 2004, then grew legs on stage: Placebo picked it as one of just two songs, with "The Bitter End", for their set at the Paris leg of Live 8 in 2005, and live they often stretched it out with an extra middle eight of heavy, experimental guitar. Since 2009 they've played it in an arrangement first tried at their Live at Angkor Wat concert.

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