Black Market Music

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Black Market Music
Placebo's studio album

Publication
(s)

October 6, 2000

Label (s) Hut Record (EMI)

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Rock , alternative rock

Title (number)

12 + 1

running time

55 min 47 s

occupation
chronology
Without You I'm Nothing
(1998) 		Black Market Music Sleeping with Ghosts
(2003)

Black Market Music is the third album by Placebo , which was released on October 6, 2000 on Hut Records (EMI).

After the end of their successful Without You I'm Nothing tour in October 1999 and a break of only five months, they began to work on a new album in March 2000. On July 17th the first single "Taste in Men" was released, which already showed that the band had developed their style towards rockier sounds. In pieces like “Blue American” and “Narcoleptic” you can still find the melancholy side of their music.

With the video for their second single "Slave to the Wage" they won various online surveys in the category "Best Video of the Year 2000". The tour for the album began on August 4, 2000 and lasted about a year. As on the predecessor Without You I'm Nothing, there is a bonus track after the last track.

Track list

  1. In menu button - 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 - 4:07
  9. Commercial for Levi - 2:21
  10. Hemoglobin - 3:46
  11. Narcoleptic - 4:22
  12. Peeping Tom - 14:11
  13. Black Market Blood - 3:56 ( Hidden Track )

Single releases

  • Button in Men (released July 17, 2000)
  • Slave to the Wage (released September 25, 2000)
  • Special K (released March 19, 2001)
  • Black-Eyed (released October 8, 2001)

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