Slave to the Wage
by Placebo
- Type: Single
- Released: 25 September 2000
- Label: Hut
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 13:43
- Community rating: 3.59/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Kevin Westenberg, Riverman, Paul Corkett
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Built on a sample of ABBA's 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)', 'Slave to the Wage' turns the disco loop toward a lyric about wage labour and stalled ambition. It was the second single from 'Black Market Music'.
Genres
Descriptors: existential, conscious, noisy, melodic, work
Tracklist
- Slave To The Wage (Radio Edit) (3:50)
- Leni (4:40)
- Bubblegun (5:13)
Credits
- Pavement - performer [sample from 'texas never whispers']
- Scott Kannberg - written-by [sample from 'texas never whispers' written by]
- Stephen Malkmus - written-by [sample from 'texas never whispers' written by]
- Lorraine Francis - engineer [engineered by], mixed by
- Paul Corkett - mixed by, producer [produced by]
- Riverman - management
- Kevin Westenberg - photography by
- Dare Mason - producer [produced by]