Placebo - Black Market Music

I'm a huge fan of Placebo's second album Without you i'm nothing I reckon it would sneak into my top 100 all time. Brian Molko has the sort of voice that you either like or loathe. there is no in between. it's certainly unique, and its special whinyness adds to the urgency and desperation of most of Placebo's songs. Molko seems to be protagonist in most of his lyrics and his subjects are love, loss, life, death and drugs not necessarily in that order. This is the "big hit" album with 3 singles "taste in men", "slave to the wage", "special k" and concert favourites "passive aggressive" and "black-eyed". But i still thinks it lacks the intensity and passion of the previous lesser embraced release.