Pure Morning

Brian Molko of Placebo states: "It's a celebration of friendship with women, kind of immortalizing a couple of my friends. It's also about that time of the day when the sun's coming up and you're coming down;and everybody else is getting ready to go to work and you're feeling incredibly dislocated from the rest of the world; and all you really want is for a friend to be there to put their arms around you and help you ease into sleep."

This is the lead single from Without You I'm Nothing, Placebo's follow-up to their self-titled debut album, which was a #5 hit in the UK thanks to its hit single "Nancy Boy."

According to Molko, the band had a tough time making the album because of their dysfunctional relationship with producer Steve Osborne (U2's Pop). "And it wasn't as if we'd had any major arguments. We started off not talking much anyway, and then as the months went by, it became less until there was no talking. It was such a strange atmosphere," he told Vice in 2017. The turning point came when they brought in Phil Vinall, who had produced "Nancy Boy." Said Molko: "The breakthrough track was 'Pure Morning,' and we didn't record that until our work with Steve was done. We recorded that during a B-side session with a different producer, Phil Vinall. That was like we were kids in a candy shop. It was borne out of chaos, because the pressure was off. So we just started playing around with all of these different sounds and that song was the result."