Without You I'm Nothing (studio album) by Placebo

Without You I'm Nothing by Placebo
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 784th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 388 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1998 (12th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (138th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (784th)

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Without You I'm Nothing is ranked as the best album by Placebo.

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77/100 (from 388 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.9/100, a mean average of 75.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.

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85/100
From 06/29/2022 04:03
Dude, are you serious?
This album only has two potentially bad songs on it, "Brick Shithouse" and "Scared of Girls". The rest of the songs are exceptional, full of mostly somber overtones.
The best song on the album is undoubtedly "Without You I'm Nothing", which deserves a much higher rating. I'm surprised how underrated you guys have Placebo here.
Do you guys want to see Brian Molko singing that he woke up yesterday sucking on a lemon to give this album a five-star rating?
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75/100
From 03/07/2022 01:42
It starts off extremely well with what is the joint best song on the album but is then inconsistent in terms of quality for the rest of the record. From song to song, the performances go up and down and never really nail down a constant flow making the album feel quite disjointed. The filler tracks are just bland and feel empty at times and the quantity of filler tracks is quite concerning. However, when they get into their rhythm they are brilliant. This is exemplified on the tracks Pure Morning, Every You Every Me and Burger Queen. The performances on these cuts are infectious and make for some of my favourite songs of theirs by a long shot. Unfortunately, the album drags on to long for these songs to outshine the content that drags the record down. Overall, it is still a pretty decent album boosted massively by those few huge songs and without those the album would really suffer.
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45/100
From 02/13/2022 11:27
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75/100
From 12/09/2020 23:00
Always in two minds with Placebo albums. Starts of with absolute greatness (Pure Morning) & continues with another couple of fantastic tracks. Some other killer tracks (Every Me, Every You) along with some very good ones (My Sweet Prince, Scared Of Girls). But I find a lot of similar monotonous filler on there albums and this one is no exception hence why I can't rate it higher. Also, whats the guts with hidden track bullshit. "Burger Queen" is a good song, then you have over 10 minutes of silence before another track appears. An annoying concept.
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80/100
From 11/23/2020 18:37
Very consistent throughout, their finest album, not to mention the nostalgia factor, it brings up a lot of emotions and memories, Overall, 80/100.
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85/100
From 06/22/2020 14:39
Good album Favourite songs: Without You I'm Nothing and Every You Every Me
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90/100
From 03/15/2020 21:05
Outstanding late 90's rock
Worst track: Brick Shithole
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90/100
From 07/21/2018 17:37
Great album, this should be destined to become a classic.
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85/100
From 10/18/2016 04:36
This album just gets better with age.......love burger queen, every you
every me, and of course pure morning.
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From 10/17/2015 16:48
It's a pretty good album, with some great songs on it, but overall it didn't really stand out for me.
Best tracks: Pure Morning, Every You Every My, You Don't Care About Us
Worst track: Brick Shithouse
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