Infra-Red (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Infra-Red
Artist = Placebo


from Album = Meds
Released = June 19 2006
Format =
[ Recorded = ]
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:17
Label = Virgin Records
Writer = Brian Molko
Producer = Dimitri Tikovoi
[ Certification = ]
Chart position =
Last single = "Song to Say Goodbye" (2006)
This single = "Infra-Red" (2006)
Next single = "Meds" (2006)

Infra-Red is the third single from Placebo's sixth studio album, "Meds", and was released on the 19th June 2006. The song peaked #42 in the UK, #35 on the US 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 download-only EP.

Music video

The music video features politicians seemingly conspiring against the public; meanwhile, a group of ants interfere with their files. A character (apparently a president or similar leader) gives a speech with the help of a computerised prompter, but the ants' interference causes the prompter to say "I lied to you. We are the enemy", which the president reads.

Tracklist

7 inches

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

CD

# "Infra-Red"
# "Infra-Red" (Hotel Persona remix)

DVD single

# "Infra-Red" (video)
# "Song to Say Goodbye" (extended video)
# Behind the scenes footage & interviews from the Infra-Red video shoot
# "Song to Say Goodbye" (River & Tears Remix)