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“Slave To The Wage” by Placebo
From the album Black Market Music (2000)
“Slave To The Wage” by Placebo appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2000 and 2002. It was first released in 2000 on the album Black Market Music. Its best result is #47 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #280 alternative song of 2002.
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"Slave to the Wage" was a single off Black Market Music, Placebo's third album, from 2000, and it finds Brian Molko railing against the nine-to-five treadmill: a song about refusing to work yourself into an early grave, with a nod to Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" in the lyric. It rides on a sample of the intro to Pavement's "Texas Never Whispers", and Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg share the writing credit with Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt. Placebo produced and mixed it with Paul Corkett, and Lorraine Francis engineered.
Following "Taste in Men" out the door, it reached 19 on the UK Singles Chart, with a Howard Greenhalgh video that took its cue from Gattaca. It stayed in the set until 2005, came back for the summer 2012 tour and turned up acoustic on their 2015 MTV Unplugged.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 47 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000 | 100 |
| 2002 | 61 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 | 224 |
Also listed as: Slave To the Wage.
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