{"id":35059,"date":"2020-10-14T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35059"},"modified":"2023-04-07T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:44:33","slug":"placebo-celebrate-20th-anniversary-of-black-market-music-with-new-video-series-black-market-music-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35059","title":{"rendered":"Placebo celebrate 20th anniversary of \u2018Black Market Music\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2020 is the 20th anniversary of Placebo\u2019s beloved third album \u2018Black Market Music\u2019. To celebrate, the band will share a four-part video-series &#8211; \u201cBlack Market Music Stories\u201d &#8211; which sees bassist Stef visit treasured locations and walk viewers through the writing, recording, touring, and personal stories, that would shape the conception of the album. Featuring new and archive footage, it includes interviews with the people who were key to bringing the album into the world &#8211; producers, singers and other collaborators, managers and more offer their memories of the time. You can watch Episode 1 below. Subscribe to the series in full&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-ejlihlkhu-t\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaIbFC-yiwY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The band comments:&nbsp;<em>\u201cWith our chests out, riding high on the success of our second album, we entered the studio to record Black Market Music. We were full of bravado and confidence, and proceeded to create our most visceral, dark and poppy collection of songs to date.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a humble nod to its 20th birthday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Market Music came together as the band saw their notoriety swelling exponentially in the wake of breakout successes with their self-titled debut, and the follow-up \u2018Without You I\u2019m Nothing\u2019. Reaching #6 in the Official UK Album Charts and spawning the singles <em>Taste in Men<\/em>, <em>Slave to the Wage<\/em>, <em>Special K<\/em> and <em>Black-Eyed<\/em>, it is a record that by the band\u2019s own admission was created during the height of their \u201cparty phase\u201d.<br><br>\u2018Black Market Music\u2019 was also released into a new world, one in which mainstream chart interest was moving away from late-era grunge and instead setting its gaze on rap-rock and nu-metal, genres that the album resultingly put in its cross-hairs as it rallied against the macho &#8211; and sometimes misogynistic and homophobic &#8211; image of the scene. The introduction of hip-hop MC Justin Warfield to <em>Spite &amp; Malice<\/em> was done in-part to show that the style needn\u2019t be constantly draped in aggression.<br><br>Listen the album \u2018Black Market Music\u2019 in full&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.cmail20.com\/t\/j-l-aakjc-ejlihlkhu-d\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and watch the re-mastered video for <em>Taste In Men<\/em> below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5QML71sBu1E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>2020 is the 20th anniversary of Placebo\u2019s beloved third album \u2018Black Market Music\u2019. To celebrate, the band will share a four-part video-series &#8211; \u201cBlack Market <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35059\" title=\"Placebo celebrate 20th anniversary of \u2018Black Market Music\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29],"tags":[9535,1988],"class_list":["post-35059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","tag-black-market-music-stories","tag-placebo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/21B8FB64-DBC7-4EC7-9682-E524F9CDBAF8.jpeg?fit=777%2C776&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-97t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30061,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30061","url_meta":{"origin":35059,"position":0},"title":"Placebo celebrate 20 years of &#8216;Without You I\u2019m Nothing&#8217; with the launch of new fan-site","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"October 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"October 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of Placebo\u2019s iconic second album 'Without You I\u2019m Nothing. 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