Izdavač: Ostalo
Žanr: Alternativni Rok, Hard Rok i Metal, Rok
Poreklo: Strani izvođač

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Studio album by Placebo
Released 9 October 2000
Recorded Late 1999 – mid 2000
Studio Olympic Studios, Townhouse Studios and Moody Studios in London, England
Genre Glam punk[1]
Length 55:44
Label Hut
Producer Paul Corkett
Placebo chronology
Without You I`m Nothing
(1998) Black Market Music
(2000) Sleeping with Ghosts
(2003)

Black Market Music is the third studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo. The album took nine months to record, from late-1999 to mid-2000; the longest that the band had ever spent recording an album until 2022`s Never Let Me Go. It was released on 9 October 2000 by record label Hut.

Four singles were released from the album: `Taste in Men`, `Slave to the Wage`, `Special K` and `Black-Eyed`. The album reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart, and received a generally favourable reaction from music critics.

Background and content
Speaking to Kerrang! in June 2009, Brian Molko remembered:

We had a real swagger and bravado when we went into the studio for this one. We had just come off a really successful tour and felt we`d really exploded. We felt like cowboys of rock! We were also really heavily medicated and beginning to get quite deep into drugs. That`s probably why it took nine months to make an album. The drugs also contributed to a certain amount of arrogance. At least that`s what I remember from the time. I think we had a desire to write about the world we saw around us. We thought it was cool that, though other people were a little afraid to get deep down and dirty, we could take it on ourselves to write about those things. I think that album was the start of us trying to mix genres. We had so much hatred for rap-rock bands like Limp Bizkit and all they represented – misogyny, homophobia and commercialism – that we wanted to do our own version of it.[2]

The album is dedicated to music publicist Scott Piering,[3] who died of cancer in early 2000.[4] The song `Commercial for Levi` is a reference to the sound technician Levi Tecofski, who on one occasion saved frontman Brian Molko`s life: Molko, drunk and about to cross the road, was quickly pulled back by Tecofski from the path of an approaching vehicle.[5]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Placebo, except where noted

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Taste in Men` 4:15
2. `Days Before You Came` 2:33
3. `Special K` 3:52
4. `Spite & Malice` (featuring Justin Warfield)
PlaceboJustin Warfield
3:37
5. `Passive Aggressive` 5:24
6. `Black-Eyed` 3:48
7. `Blue American` 3:31
8. `Slave to the Wage`
KannbergMalkmusPlacebo
4:06
9. `Commercial for Levi` 2:20
10. `Haemoglobin` 3:46
11. `Narcoleptic` 4:22
12. `Peeping Tom` (all versions except the vinyl edition contain the hidden track `Black Market Blood`, starting at 10:14) 14:10
Total length: 55:44

Personnel
Placebo

Brian Molko – vocals, guitar, keyboards, 6-string bass, production, mixing
Stefan Olsdal – bass, guitar, 6-string bass, keyboards, backing vocals, production, mixing
Steve Hewitt – drums, percussion, production, mixing
Additional personnel

Rob Ellis – string arrangements
Bill Lloyd – bass on `Peeping Tom`
Severe Loren – backing vocals on `Taste in Men` and `Special K`
Dimitri Tikovoï – string programming
Justin Warfield – rapping vocals on `Spite & Malice`
Technical

Paul Collins – sleeve art direction
Ian Cooper – mastering
Paul Corkett – production, mixing
Lorraine Francis – engineering
Scott Kannberg – sampling
Dare Mason – production
Kevin Westenberg – sleeve art direction, sleeve photography