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Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 30 Nov 2010, 00:26
by SoGone
Proving my utter lack of a life and willingness to waste my time, I have decided to construct a list of every single Suede song that I've heard*, ranked from my favorite to least favorite. I'd invite you to join in, but I doubt anyone else is dumb enough to contribute to this thread.

*Excluding bootlegs

(Love, love, love; these go to my desert island):

My Dark Star
Bentswood Boys
Modern Boys
So Young
Animal Nitrate
Oceans
The Living Dead
Picnic By The Motorway
Down
Crack In The Union Jack
She's Not Dead
He's Gone
Indian Strings
To The Birds
Trash

(Love, but if it came to these or "Never Mind The Bollocks," well...)
My Insatiable One
Europe Is Our Playground
Everything Will Flow
New Generation
Obsessions
Sleeping Pills
Beautiful Ones
Heroine
She
Animal Lover
The Drowners
Pantomime Horse
Starcrazy

(Love...just slightly less):
Morning
Metal Mickey
Saturday Night
The Sound Of The Streets
Every Monday Morning Comes
Still Life
This Hollywood Life
Have You Ever Been This Low?
The Two Of Us
You Belong To Me
Black Or Blue
Stay Together
One Hit To The Body
Streetlife
Together
Beautiful Loser
Introducing The Band
Electricity

(Like...a lot):
Moving
Killer
The Power
Lazy
We Are The Pigs
Bored
Leaving
Elephant Man
Money
The Asphalt World
Breakdown
Untitled
By The Sea
Young Men
Jumble Sale Mums

(Like):
Can't Get Enough
Savoir Faire
The Wild Ones
Daddy's Speeding
The Chemistry Between Us
Sadie
Duchess
Lonely Girls
Head Music

(Like/tolerate):
Where The Pigs Don't Fly
She's In Fashion
Dolly
Positivity
Whipsnade
Lost In TV
Filmstar
Killing Of A Flashboy
Popstar
When The Rain Falls
Astrogirl
Asbestos
Hi-Fi
Graffiti Women
This Time
Another No One
He's Dead

(Boring/Unlistenable!):
High Rising
Weight Of The World
The Big Time
These Are The Sad Songs
WSD
See That Girl
Waterloo
Crackhead
The Next Life
Seascape

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 30 Nov 2010, 00:31
by SoGone
I should have posted this in Off-topic under the title "Prove that you have no personality." Oh well.

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 17 Dec 2010, 21:43
by Marquis
i think i would not have the patience to make such a list... but it's nice to read though :)
it's funny to see how tastes can change from one person to the other

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 17 Dec 2010, 22:44
by SoGone
Finally, someone who appreciates my devotion/lack-of-life, lol!

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 00:40
by Marquis
:lol: :lol:


hey...but... how is this possible :

(Boring/Unlistenable!): The Next Life :shock:

crazy you :wink:

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 02:28
by mark
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Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 12:22
by mark
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Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 16:32
by SoGone
Marquis wrote: hey...but... how is this possible :

(Boring/Unlistenable!): The Next Life :shock:

crazy you :wink:

I guess I tend to enjoy the glammy side of Suede more than the slow ballads (though I love The Living Dead and Oceans...huh).

I don't like the tune...that's really not something I can explain why, just that some sequences of notes do it for me and some don't...and if I don't like a melody, it's hard for me to find a reason to like a song.

The words aren't bad, but I just can't find any way to relate to them. Compare that with Pantomime Horse, where every line bites and has an undercurrent of lived tragedy. The lyrics are equally universal/vague, but with Pantomime Horse, I get the feeling that there's a genuine, honest story being told...with The Next Life, it just doesn't feel real to me.

Please note that I'm not denying that the song was inspired by something real or that it's noble in what it tries to say..."The Rising" is as well (Bruce Springsteen's album "about" 9/11/2001), but that doesn't make it great art.

As a concession, I do like the falsetto, wordless part...but it's too little, too late.

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 16:37
by SoGone
mark wrote: the fact he hates possibly the greatest song Suede have ever made in their career (not just my thoughts, but the thoughts of almost every single Suede fan I have ever encountered)

Funny, the Suede Parade results as of today have no mention of it:

Favourite song (overall)
1. The Asphalt World 43
2. The Wild Ones 26
3. Still Life 22
4. Europe Is Our Playground 19
5. Animal Nitrate 17

Best song lyrics
1. The Wild Ones 30
2. The Asphalt World 27
3. The 2 Of Us 26
4. The Living Dead 25
5. By The Sea 17

Best song music
1. Animal Nitrate 43
2. The Asphalt World 41
3. Still Life 30
4. Beautiful Ones 21
5. The Wild Ones 20



...and if we're going to bring popularity into it, we might as well conclude that Britney Spears is greater than Suede, because she's sold more records and, extrapolating from that, has more fans.

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 17:10
by mark
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Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 17:27
by SoGone
mark wrote: your statistics prove nothing...
And neither do yours, which the point I was trying to make. History has held that the Beatles are better than your beloved Stones...but hell, I'll be damned if I say that's a reason why you should like the Beatles more than the Stones.

Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 17:33
by mark
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Re: Semi-epic Suede rankings thread

Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 17:36
by SoGone
mark wrote: the bizarre thing is you compare the lyrics in The Next Life with Pantmime Horse (a mistake to start with because although everyone does it I hate people who compare songs - even songs by the same band because every song is individual and a work in its own right - comparing The Next Life with Pantomime Horse is like comparing a ball point pen with a banana - they are two completely different things...) and strangely whilst the lyrics in The Nrext Life are heartfelt, sincere, open, honest and based in reality of thought, the lyrics in Pantomime Horse are poetic nonsense - beautiful poetic nonsense I give you that but nonsense all the same...
The reason I brought up PH is because I thought it was good example of an emotional lyric...no other reason. I wasn't saying "The Next Life sucks because it's not Pantomime Horse"...not at all!!!

See, I don't think PH is nonsense...differing points of view, I suppose. There's a definite story in there, two real people, among the circus imagery and the odd juxtapositions. When I listen to the song, I really get the sense that there's this guy who had this really, um, abusive relationship with this other person, and I feel for him, even through his self-pity. "Did you ever go round with them?" Well, no, but the fact that he's asking that question (and so wonderfully in the musical context of the song) says something to me; it helps bring that pain to life.

...and The Next Life has none of that, at least for me. If it was a thrilling (but relatively empty) song like, say, "Animal Lover," I wouldn't care...but The Next Life really succeeds or fails based on its lyricism and musical pathos, and I just don't get any sense of something emotional to latch onto. You do. That's fine. I'm not telling you you're an idiot for loving it.