Without You I'm Nothing went platinum in the UK and gold in France and has sold over one million copies to date.

[4][5] The vocals are considerably lower in tone; Molko said he was tired of having a high-pitched "squeaky" voice.

[citation needed] Album opener "Pure Morning" consists mainly of a guitar loop.

[citation needed] The people who inspired it are a couple of friends of mine, you know; it's kind of like a celebration of a friendship with women.

[citation needed] The album's opening song "Pure Morning" was written off the top of Molko's head.

[8] In an interview Molko said that the song is "a ghost story, about somebody watching their lover make love to the person who killed them".

"You Don't Care About Us" which was written about an ex-lover telling their partner they are terrible at relationships.

[12] Brian Molko has said that "My Sweet Prince" was important to him and that it was about two romances, one with drugs and one with a person, with both ending tragically.

The voices heard during the hidden track "Evil Dildo" are actual death threats left on Molko's answerphone.

The video for "Without You I'm Nothing" features a live performance with David Bowie, which was included on the single release, and the video for "Every You Every Me" features clips from the movie Cruel Intentions, as well as another version with the band playing the song live at London's Brixton Academy.

[24] Delvin Neugebauer of Trouser Press remarked that Osborne's production "brings a new dimension to the songs, making their seamy subject matter feel less like compulsive thrill-seeking than insecurity and agoraphobia.

"[30] Michael Sandlin of Pitchfork wrote "Moonboy Molko is a lousy songwriter, but his campy lyrical melodrama hits home with paste-eating geeks and plenty of hard-up, acne-ridden adolescents... [...] providing entertainment ideally suited for the young, cynical, insecure and sexually-ambiguous male virgin".

[citation needed] Polish webzine Screenagers ranked it number 21 on its 2004 list of the Top 100 Albums of the '90s.

[citation needed] A thirteen-month tour accompanied the album; during this tour Stefan Olsdal fell off the stage and broke his arm, whilst on the same evening Brian Molko slept in the same position for ten hours, waking up with a compressed vertebrae in his neck and with no feeling in his head.