Infra-Red (song)

"Infra-Red" is the third single from Placebo's fifth studio album, Meds, and was released on 19 June 2006. The song peaked #42 in the UK, #35 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart, and #91 in Germany.

The words "beggar's banquet", featured in its lyrics, references the Rolling Stones' album of the same name.

A live version of the song is available on the Live at La Cigale EP.

Music video

The music video features businessmen apparently conspiring against the public. They observe a computer disk containing a graphic of a DNA molecule with a hazardous ligand. Meanwhile, a group of ants interfere with their computer equipment. A character, identified as a corporate executive president, gives a press conference with the help of a computerized prompter, but the ants' interference causes the prompter to say "I lied to you. We are the enemy", which the president reads.^[1]

Track listing

7"

• Side A - "Infra-Red"
• Side B - "Infra-Red" (Call the Ambulance remix)

CD

1. "Infra-Red"
2. "Infra-Red" (Hotel Persona remix)

DVD single

1. "Infra-Red" (video)
2. "Song to Say Goodbye" (extended video)
3. Behind the scenes footage & interviews from the "Infra-Red" video shoot
4. "Song to Say Goodbye" (River & Tears Remix)

References