Slave to the Wage

Slave to the Wage

Infobox Single |
Name = Slave to the Wage
Artist = Placebo
from Album = Black Market Music
Released = 2000
Genre = Alternative Rock
Label = Virgin Records
Chart position =
* #19 (UK)
Last single = "Taste in Men" (2000)
This single = "Slave to the Wage" (2000)
Next single = "Special K" (2000)
"Slave to the Wage" is a single by alternative rock band Placebo. Taken from their third album, it reached number 19 in the UK singles chart. The song, inspired by the drudgery of having a "9 to 5" job in the modern world, is about not working oneself into an early grave. [ [http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/archive/selectaug00.htm FITTER. HAPPIER. MORE PRODUCTIVE.] . Select - Aug/Sep 2000.] Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" is also mentioned in the lyrics.

The music video is directed by Howard Greenhalgh and was inspired by the movie Gattaca.

Track listings

CD1
#Slave to the Wage (Radio edit) – 3:50
#Leni – 4:39
#Bubblegun – 5:13

CD2
#Slave to the Wage (Album version) – 4:09
#Holocaust – 4:26
#Slave to the Wage (Les Rythmes Digitales remix) – 4:29

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Slave To The Wage — Single par Placebo extrait de l’album Black Market Music Face A Slave To The Wage Face B Leni Bubblegun Sortie 25 septembre 2000 Durée 04:08 …   Wikipédia en Français

  • The Bitter End — Single par Placebo extrait de l’album Sleeping with Ghosts Face A The Bitter End Face B Evalia Drink You Pretty Sortie 10 mars 2003 D …   Wikipédia en Français

  • The Never-Ending Why — Single par Placebo extrait de l’album Battle for the Sun Face A The Never Ending Why Sortie 14 septembre 2009 Durée 3:23 Format …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Wage slavery — is a term first coined by the Lowell Mill Girls in 1836, [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YXT kSv1btIC pg=PA87 lpg=PA87 dq=lowell+%22wage+slavery%22 source=web ots=WsT3bkI 0G sig=w7N0JGBskFiUHReS 00amVMNaPY hl=en Artisans Into Workers: Labor… …   Wikipedia

  • Wage labour — is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour under a contract (employment), and the employer buys it, often in a labour market. [Deakin, Simon; Wilkinson, Frank.… …   Wikipedia

  • The Slave Power — (sometimes referred to as the Slaveocracy ) was a term used in the Northern United States (primarily in the period 1840 1875) to characterize the political power of the slaveholding class in the South.BackgroundThe problem posed by slavery,… …   Wikipedia

  • Slave codes — were laws each US state had defining the status of slaves and the rights of masters; the code gave slave owners near absolute power over the right of their human property.ProvisionsDefinition of slaves There have been a number of legal… …   Wikipedia

  • The Songs of a Sourdough — is a book of poetry published in 1907 by Robert W. Service. In the United States, these poems were published under the title The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses . It contains these poems:* The Land God Forgot * The Spell of the Yukon * The… …   Wikipedia

  • wage — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} (also wages) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ competitive (esp. AmE), decent, fair, good, high ▪ inadequate, low, meagre/meager (esp …   Collocations dictionary

  • The Slave Power — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Power. Reproduction d une coupure de presse du journal Wooster Republican, Massachusetts The Slave Power (la p …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”