Tap Tap Thursday Presents: Placebo by Ed
June 18th, 2009
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
The band: PLACEBO
The jam: FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH from the long-awaited new album “Battle For The Sun.”
HEY! I know what you’re doing. You’re scrolling down this email right now and clicking the link to get this track into your TTR. It’s O.K, I understand, we all do it. Just be sure to come back and find out why “For What It’s Worth” is a perfect Tap track.
Alright, are you back? Awesome song, huh? Let me refresh you on PLACEBO. British band, formed in London in 1994. They’ve sold over 10 million copies of their six albums, with hits including “Pure Morning” and “Nancy Boy.” The new album “Battle For The Sun” comes 3 years after their last release, and they love to play live. Head over to placeboworld.co.uk or myspace.com/placebo and look at that tour schedule. When they set out, they hand their tour bus driver a globe, not a map.
And how about that track? Are you loving it? FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH is a killer Tap Tap Revenge track, and let me tell you why.
1. It moves: When a song starts with fast 8th-note guitar/bass pulsing, get your fingers ready. Because 16th notes on the high-hat can’t be far behind. Which leads us to…
2. You can lock into it: The tempo gets your blood pumping faster, and you start anticipating how all the musical elements fit together. When they hit the big breaks and the Super-Mario/carnival-music bridge, you already know how the targets and shakes are going to come.
3. Tap-appropriate lyrics: “I always aim to please.” In Tap Tap Revenge, you aim for the targets with your fingers! “I tear the sun in three.” There are THREE rails in TTR!!!! This is like Angels and Demons!
Alright, maybe not so much on the lyrics. But go see for yourself…
The Placebo Most Points Contest
UPDATE: Congrats to the winners!! — Grand prize winner: felpscott. Runner up winners: Kratos111, nechunra, leekid101, skill432, raainmann.
The Prizes: VIP tickets to a Placebo show on the upcoming fall tour, and 5 autographed copies of a Placebo album.
How to win: This weekend, we got a MOST POINTS CONTEST. Your goal is to get as many points as you can, as much as you can. Every score you submit to the global leaderboard on Placebo’s track is added to your personal contest bucket.
At the end of the contest we’ll add up all your points and draw the VIP ticket winner from the TOP 50 players with the most points in their bucket. Then, we’ll draw five more winners from the top 50 to receive an autographed Placebo album.
The contest begins Friday, June 19th at noon PDT, and ends at 11:59 pm on Sunday, June 21st PDT. You must submit your scores to the global leaderboard, while online, to be counted in the contest.
June 18th, 2009
hi this is laptopmad ( tap tap revenge name) i am 10 in the world so far with 284,616.. wish best of luck to evey one
n hope they bring out an app for this .. e.g whole album
June 19th, 2009
NO MORE OF THIS, NO NO! Bring me some Thunder, Celtic Thunder that is.
June 19th, 2009
http://facebook.com/taptaprevenge
June 19th, 2009
BRING ON THE RGING METAL
I WANNA ROCK OUT WILL PLAYING TAPTAP
June 19th, 2009
Interesting. Just heard of these guys. Interesting yet slightly cliche sound. Good job again, Tapulous!
If you’re into metal, get Bloodmeat and other trax from Protest the Hero. If youre into death metal… thats not very rhythmic, is it?
June 19th, 2009
Sereously, these guys aren’t that great. Celtic Thunder is the greatest music group ever and here’s why, they sing, they dance, they sing love songs, they sing contemporary, and they have an irish acent, not to mention they were top of the world charts 2008.
June 19th, 2009
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Albums&f=European+Top+100+Albums
June 19th, 2009
Here is Celtic Thunder, April 2008:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=339&cfgn=Albums&cfn=Top+World+Albums&ci=3093780&cdi=9739653&cid=04%2F26%2F2008
June 19th, 2009
If you are the Tim that works at Tapulous could you put a word in to the Tap Tap Team?
June 20th, 2009
Come on Tapulous! We need more extreme tracks! Almost every one of the tracks coming out are never extreme!
June 20th, 2009
I think the problem with this one is that you chose a song that is only popular in Europe. Even Celtic Thunder wasn’t that well recieved in Europe, even though that is where they are from, they got their popularity in the US and Canada and was only taken from their no#1 spot when their second cd “Act Two” came out securing the no#1 spot.
June 21st, 2009
Right now both Celtic Thunder albums are in the top ten on iTunes World Charts.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTop?id=20&popId=11
June 22nd, 2009
Ugh, ugly song!
June 22nd, 2009
Pffft! This song is topping the charts!! AND it’s a sweet song.
June 22nd, 2009
The theme is even more smoother than TTR: LG which is saying something! The theme looks really good, nice job !!!!
June 22nd, 2009
SRSLY. Tap Tap McFly
June 22nd, 2009
Or.. just 1 song. They’re their own record label. You don’t need to go through Universal and they’re on Twitter/Facebook – Everything. Just one song
(or the whole app) 
June 25th, 2009
Ugh…..No one likes McFly they are terrible, ruddy pop… Bring out some Green Day tracks, like Know Your Enemy, and Wake Me Up When September Ends and would it kill you to re-release some Michael Franti & Spearhed? I have ALL of their albums and they are just too good to miss!
June 25th, 2009
Not Green Day but that is just my personal opinion, We’ll just have to see what “GREAT” (Posibaly Un-great) hit they come out with today. PLEASE BE CELTIC THUNDER!
June 25th, 2009
@ED
Where are your resources? This song not to mention this group as of today is not even in the Billboard top 100 or 200 in the USA. This was a sick song and we want something better than this bunch, just take the majority’s advice and stick to the good stuff like Keith Urban, Saving Abel, and CELTIC THUNDER.
June 25th, 2009
i’ve got 2 pleases to tapulous.
i love tap tap. i only have tap tap on my ipod touch and that scores ive made in only 2weeks:
(without arrows)
#1-> a fact of life
bloodmeat
catch 22
garden state
gives you hell
here i go again
no stars over betlehem
rum is for drinking not for burning
#2-> bombs away
electricity
magnetic baby
#3-> bite to break skin
in only 2weeks ..
please mad a very difficult track from dragonforce trough the fire and flames (but not impossible) but very difficult
and make a worldchampionschip like GNGWC or other
i know my english is bad XD
ty
June 26th, 2009
Hey tapulous…please make a “TapTap Ladytron” Edition. that would be it!!! i’d buy it in a heartbeat
-> velocifero <- 
July 7th, 2009
PLEASE
let me made an extreme track!
watch my highscores above!
i know very much people, who search new tasks. No stars over betlehem is not so hard more how at beginning. Some very good tapper search a new challenge like: extreme from tap tap revenge to tap tap revenge 2. tap tap 1 very much people found that extreme hard (omg) [i had played there with 1 thumb XD] and then the extreme from tap tap revenge 2. tapper need a challenge again. make a new difficulty level like hardcore or something!
& please let me make one sick track!!