Placebo's Black Market Music CD Cover

Placebo released Black Market Music in .Tracks include Taste in Men, Days Before You Came and I Feel You [*] - Placebo, Martin Lee Gore.The average rating from customers is 4.5 stars from 39 reviews, and the album is ranked #97378 on Amazon. Read more about Placebo or browse their Placebo CD Covers.

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Black Market Music may not contain anything as immediately catchy as Without You I'm Nothing's "Pure Morning," but the dark hooks of "Taste in Men," "Special K," and "Slave to the Wage," with its Pavement sample, sink in deep after just a few listens.

The London-based trio Placebo carries on the modern-rock banner with this third collection of glam-influenced guitar pop.

"Spite and Malice," featuring a guest turn from One Inch Punch rapper Justin Warfield, is a surprisingly successful marriage of Britpop and hip-hop, while the moody drone of "Passive Aggressive" showcases the band's more reflective side.

And while songs about tumors and hemoglobin threaten to close the album on a lyrically bleak note, two bonus cuts change the mood: a reprise of Without You I'm Nothing's title track with Brian Molko's hero David Bowie joining in on vocals, and a cover of Depeche Mode's "I Feel You." Black Market Music isn't exactly the feel-good album of 2001, but it gives hope to those who still have faith in the future of Britpop.

--Bill Forman.

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