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Post by Kailey on Oct 8, 2009 17:16:09 GMT -5
 Discuss the songs, cover art, inside booklet, etc of Suede's self-titled first album. |
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Post by subrosa on Nov 15, 2009 1:28:23 GMT -5
This is going to sound completely random or even pointless (and it is)...but here goes! *ahem* I love listening to this album while walking around at night. The town I live in isn't that big, but it's got a lot of 'urban decay' what w/ tacky modern construction piled onto crumbling 1920s structures and façades. It isn't well lit beyond all the yellow street lights and, perhaps it's just me, but once the sun goes down, the over all level of sadness is like a lead blanket. Anyway...last night I walked down to my university's campus to listen to a lecture on Intelligent Design and I popped this album into my old player, (Can you believe I still use a working discman?!), and I thought, '...wow. The dreariness of this town at night just suits the melancholia of this album beautifully.' Seriously. Everytime I listen to this album and walk under a specific and rather dank underpass, I expect to see Brett and some waif of a girl (or boy) walking past me. Or hell, lots of places down town seem suited for the background of a Suede song. There are no high rises, but plenty of grim government row houses--like mine. My point is that this town has that failure of modernity that I think a lot of Suede songs seem to have at heart. I don't think of sunshiney, pleasant little meadows and trees when I think of Suede, rather I think of concrete and depression and escaping...this town is those three words made physical. *cough* Ok then. I could probably listen to this first album all day. That didn't used to be the case w/ me a few years ago. I preferred Coming Up over anything else cos I thought Brett was teh sexx and found this album to be 'dreary'. I suppose it was to me at the time...but...now I can just put it on and let my mind wander.  |
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Post by thedrowners on Nov 25, 2009 1:33:19 GMT -5
D: You found this album dreary?!?!?! This is one of the few albums where I can, and have always been able to, listen all the way through. I agree with thinking of "concrete and depression and escaping" when listening to Suede. Escapism is somthing which I can see a lot of especially in this album
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Post by subrosa on Nov 26, 2009 22:48:01 GMT -5
The key is that I *used* to find it dreary. I have since seen the light and have been saved.  This is a re-occurring phenomenon for me, though. I will listen to something and not like it at first, or just not care...but then after a time I'll hear it again and fall complete ass over tea kettle in love. That has DEFINITELY happened w/ this album. |
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Post by denton83 on Feb 12, 2011 10:51:16 GMT -5
It's a great album. Animal Nitrate is my favourite track.
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This is a re-occurring phenomenon for me, though. I will listen to something and not like it at first, or just not care...but then after a time I'll hear it again and fall complete ass over tea kettle in love. That has DEFINITELY happened w/ this album. 