Meds - Placebo
User Score
7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 64 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 49 out of 64
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 64
  3. Negative: 7 out of 64

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  1. [Anonymous]
    Apr 6, 2006
    1
    Big transgressive work. Sad.
  2. Matt
    Apr 11, 2006
    2
    Just a highly annoying CD. They have lost everything that made them a little interesting.
  3. suede
    Apr 10, 2006
    0
    meds is worst album of the 2006. all songs are boring. yeah, Infra-Red is good but other songs are so stupid.
  4. RobertJ
    Apr 6, 2006
    2
    actually it should be "oh, these guys are still together?/10". they need to add that option to the dropbox.
  5. SoupS
    Apr 7, 2006
    0
    I wish there was more to this band than their image. But all the bisexual-goffick-singing-about-gay-sex posturing in the world won't save a band who writes songs as utterly boring as this one.
  6. AndrewA
    Jun 3, 2006
    4
    Placebo's worst album so far. A bad version of Sleeping With Ghosts. It doesn't have the energy nor the beauty that characterized Placebo's earlier works
  7. logans
    Oct 20, 2006
    2
    Have placebo given up entirely? There hasn't been a whole lot of variety when it comes to their music but at least in the previous albums they sounded they were trying to experiment and evolve. With this album, it sounds like they decided to give up on that and write nothing but simple, catchy pop songs that make it easy for DJs to remix for nightclubs. Too easy in fact. This is Placebo at their most formulaic and predictable. When you can guess the tempo changes during and between songs, and often the lyrics a couple lines ahead, it is clear they are merely going through the motions. I want to know when they are going to put out a "boy band" video in the vein of the Backstreet Boys. That is all they really are now, a boy band, albeit a dark, broody one at that.… Expand
  8. TheMedium
    Jun 12, 2007
    1
    Predictable, one-dimensional, bollocks. Granted, spotty teenagers who dress in black and aren
  9. pauld.
    Jul 15, 2007
    4
    no way near as good as there early stuff.

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Metascore
65 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Rolling Stone
    60
    Piles on near-emo levels of deep feelings over a plush bed of New Order synth beats and echoey atmospherics. [6 Apr 2006, p.69]
  2. NOW Magazine
    70
    Molko still manages to carry songs with his affected, nasal delivery as the band provides a steady backbone.
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  3. All Music Guide
    70
    Meds is as bare and honest as Placebo has ever been.
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