Black Market Music
by Placebo
User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 66 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 60 out of 66
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 66
  3. Negative: 3 out of 66

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Awards & Rankings

37
#37 Most Discussed Album of 2001
46
#46 Most Shared Album of 2001

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. Rolling Stone
    50
    Black Market Music loses its sparkle and its melodic sense whenever it grows a conscience.
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  2. Q Magazine
    60
    Black Market Music feels like a watershed, a merely good record after a great one, and that in itself is disappointing.
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  3. Alternative Press
    80
    Charging rock songs and austere balladry make this album resonate more than the morass of bad music currently plaguing us. [#155, p.80]
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