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| Photo credit: Covers of the album and singles, edit by Silke |
Four singles were released from the album, all of them reached top positions in the international charts.
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Two guest vocalists feature on the album: Severe Loren sings the backing vocals on “Taste in men” and “Special K”, “Spite and Malice” is a duet of Brian with Justin Warfield of She Wants Reenge who sings the rap part of the song.
“Slave to the wage” samples “Texas never whispers” by US indie rock band Pavement.
While “Commercial for Levi” is dedicated to sound engineer Levi Tecofski who once saved Brian's life when he pulled him back from the street before he could get hit by a car the rest of the album is dedicated to the memory of music publicist Scott Piering.
The last song on “Black market music” is a hidden track called “Black market blood”. All songs were produced by Paul Corkett except for “Taste in men”, the first single from the album, which was produced by Dare Mason.
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"This album rocks harder then the first two albums put together. It deals with violence quite a lot”, Brian stated in an interview with Kerrang (July 15th 2000). "It's quite a dark record on a lyrical level. It's still about falling in love, it's still about the impossibility of love in some places, there's quite a lot of religious imagery and a smattering of politics", he explained it to a journalist of Sunday Times one day later. The guiding thread that runs through the album is that what people most get addicted to in life are love and drugs. “People have the same reactions to both. That theme runs though our work. This idea of addiction, whether it be to people, emotions, substances or situations“ (Brian, Melody Maker, October 20th 2000).
It's interesting that Brian gave all the songs of “Black market music” a second title when he started to write down the tracklisting. They didn't make it on the album but Brian used them to sum up in one phrase what the songs represented to him. "Narcoleptic" for example was "Love and drugs are one big pillow".
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๐ข "It's aggressive. It's angry. It's our big rock album, the one we've always wanted to make."
(Brian, Sunday Mail, October 1st 2001)
๐ข "The new album is the one we are most proud of. It is also the first one where we sort of take a production credit. We did the production with a guy called Paul Corkett who did the engineering in the second album. We just had a really good time recording it as well, we sort of laughed our way through this one. I think if there was one thing we wanted to do with it, it was to have more fast tracks and slow tracks, but nothing suffered from having a divided energy."
(Stefan, Top 40, October 2000)
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(Brian, Lib, 2000)
๐ข "It's anger and energy. It's the final part of our trilogy.“
(Brian, Kerrang, July 22nd 2000)
๐ข “There's a theme that runs through the album and that's that what people get addicted to most in life is love and drugs. And that they are often the same. People have the same reactions to both. That theme runs though our work. This idea of addiction, whether it be to people, emotions, substances or situations.“
(Brian, Melody Maker, October 20th 2000)
๐ข "To be honest, it's been an incredibly joyful experience. We laughed all the way through the last nine months. It feels a bit like the end of a trilogy. Everything we've attempted before we've finally realised and purified to make this glorious album."
(Brian, Select, September 20th 2000)
๐ข “There's a theme that runs through the album and that's that what people get addicted to most in life is love and drugs. And that they are often the same. People have the same reactions to both. That theme runs though our work. This idea of addiction, whether it be to people, emotions, substances or situations.“
(Brian, Melody Maker, October 20th 2000)
๐ข "'Black market music' is a reference to something that's sordid and seedy and kept under the counter, basically something illegal that you shouldn't really have."
(Brian, Rock Sound, October 2000)
๐ข “‘Black Market Music’ was a record we were proud of at the time but it definitely sounded self-produced – it has that one-dimensional, blanket sound.”
(Brian, Rock Sound, April 2003)
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