Black Market Music

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Black Market Music
Black Market Music cover
Studio album by Placebo
Released May 8, 2000
Recorded 1999/2000
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 45:44
Label Virgin Records
Producer(s) Paul Corkett
Professional reviews
Placebo chronology
Without You I'm Nothing
(1998)
Black Market Music
(2000)
Sleeping with Ghosts
(2003)


Black Market Music is an album by the rock group Placebo, released in 2000. It took 9 months to record, which is the longest that Placebo have ever spent recording an album to date.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Taste in Men" – 4:15
  2. "Days Before You Came" – 2:33
  3. "Special K" – 3:52
  4. "Spite & Malice" – 3:37
  5. "Passive Aggressive" – 5:24
  6. "Black-Eyed" – 3:48
  7. "Blue American" – 3:31
  8. "Slave to the Wage" – 4:06
  9. "Commercial for Levi" – 2:20
  10. "Haemoglobin" – 3:46
  11. "Narcoleptic" – 4:22
  12. "Peeping Tom" – 5:19

[edit] Chart positions

  • #1 - France
  • #4 - Germany
  • #6 - UK
  • #7 - Australia
  • #7 - Austria
  • #15 - Switzerland
  • #17 - Sweden
  • #24 - Finland

[edit] Miscellanea

The U.S. release of the album adds two bonus tracks:

  • "Without You I'm Nothing" featuring David Bowie
  • "I Feel You" - Depeche Mode cover

Justin Warfield of She Wants Revenge features on "Spite and Malice"


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Placebo
Brian Molko | Stefan Olsdal | Steven Hewitt
Live members: William (Bill) Lloyd | Alex Lee
Discography
Studio albums: Placebo | Without You I'm Nothing | Black Market Music | Sleeping with Ghosts | Meds
DVDs and compilations: Soulmates Never Die (Live in Paris 2003) | Once More With Feeling (video collection) | Once More with Feeling
Singles: "Bruise Pristine" | "Come Home" | "36 Degrees" | "Teenage Angst" | "Nancy Boy" | "Pure Morning" | "You Don't Care About Us" | "Every You Every Me" | "Without You I'm Nothing" | "Burger Queen Francais" | "Taste In Men" | "Slave To The Wage" | "Special K" | "Black Eyed" | "The Bitter End" | "This Picture" | "Special Needs" | "English Summer Rain" | "Twenty Years" | "Protège-Moi" | "Because I Want You" | "Song to Say Goodbye" | "Infra-Red" | "Meds" | "Follow The Cops Back Home"