Black-Eyed
"Black-Eyed" | ||||
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Single by Placebo | ||||
from the album Black Market Music | ||||
Released | 8 October 2001 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Songwriter(s) | Steve Hewitt, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal | |||
Placebo singles chronology | ||||
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"Black-Eyed" is a song by English alternative rock band Placebo. It was released as a single from their third studio album, 2000's Black Market Music. The song tells the story of a character with a troubled childhood, bitterly affecting their development: "I'm forever black-eyed/A product of a broken home".
The official music video includes scenes from the 2001 German film Engel & Joe.[citation needed]
Reviews of the song ranged between it being called "clumsy posturing"[1] and applauded that as "things start getting mellower and darker [...] One of the nicest [is] Black-Eyed, which sees the electronics politely let the guitars have a go between wailed choruses. In fact, alongside current single Slave To The Wage, this is possibly a favourite moment on the album."[2]
Live performance history
The song was played throughout the Black Market Music and Sleeping With Ghosts tours. It has made intermittent appearances on the Meds and Battle for the Sun tours, at shows in the earlier legs of said tours. The song was also being performed as part of the band's 2012 tour.
Track listing
- "Black-Eyed"
- "Pure Morning (MBV Remix)"
- "Black-Eyed (Le Vibrator Remix)"
References
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- Brian Molko
- Stefan Olsdal
- Robert Schultzberg
- Steve Hewitt
- Steve Forrest
- Placebo
- Without You I'm Nothing
- Black Market Music
- Sleeping with Ghosts
- Meds
- Battle for the Sun
- Loud Like Love
- Never Let Me Go
- Extended Play '07
- B3
- Life's What You Make It
- Covers
- Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996–2004
- A Place for Us to Dream
- Live at Angkor Wat
- MTV Unplugged
- Soulmates Never Die: Live in Paris 2003
- Once More with Feeling: Videos 1996–2004
- We Come in Pieces
- MTV Unplugged
- "Bruise Pristine"
- "Come Home"
- "36 Degrees"
- "Teenage Angst"
- "Nancy Boy"
- "Pure Morning"
- "You Don't Care About Us"
- "Every You Every Me"
- "Without You I'm Nothing"
- "Taste in Men"
- "Slave to the Wage"
- "Special K"
- "Black-Eyed"
- "The Bitter End"
- "This Picture"
- "Special Needs"
- "English Summer Rain"
- "Protège-moi"
- "Twenty Years"
- "Because I Want You"
- "Song to Say Goodbye"
- "Infra-Red"
- "Meds"
- "For What It's Worth"
- "Ashtray Heart"
- "Bright Lights"
- "Too Many Friends"
- "Loud Like Love"
- "Jesus' Son"
- "I Feel You"
- "Sleeping with Ghosts"