“Taste In Men” by Placebo

"Taste in Men" was a 2000 single from Black Market Music, the English band Placebo's third album, and it reached 16 in the UK. Brian Molko wrote the words and shares the writing credit with Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt; the band produced it with Paul Corkett and Andy Mason, and Severe Loren adds a guest vocal. Molko said Nine Inch Nails, and "Wish" in particular, were on the band's minds while they recorded it. Gigwise ranked it Placebo's greatest hit, a fizzing, space-age slab of claustrophobic electro-rock; Pitchfork heard a lazy rerun of the Roland 303 industrial funk of "Pure Morning".

Barbara McDonogh's video, shot in the Central London Register office, drops Molko into a love triangle with a feuding couple, and the song stayed in the set through the Black Market Music and Sleeping with Ghosts tours.

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