Track Listing

1. Introducing The Band
2. We Are The Pigs
3. Heroine
4. Wild Ones
5. Daddy's Speeding
6. Power
7. New Generation
8. This Hollywood Life
9. Two Of Us
10. Black Or Blue
11. Asphalt World
12. Still Life

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21930 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-12
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Gothic pop
ok so it's not goth music how you imagine it but its certainly gothic in atmousphere and imagery. This is how I would describe the sound of the record anyway.
Brett anderson's lyrics started to contain lots of recurring images here and are often very funny when viewed as characature (the fags, rented cars, gasoline etc etc). However his use of familiar anderson-esqe imagery also serves to create a place of his own, like a postcard from a dark,dreamlike world. Its a very effective technique and draws some similarities with Tom Waits approach.
Much darker and more pretentious than 'Suede' you can kind of see why people dismissed it as indulgent, but why not be indulgent?. Ambitions are what makes music great and original. A truly epic record and very underrated. Definatley the best album from the whole britpop scene (though not typical of it). Blur and Oasis were more vital socially because when you think back, those were the bands that opitimised the scene but when the dust settled it's clear that seude were the best.
If you like your music dark, gothic, epic but still melodic you cant go wrong. A desert island disk.

Dog Man Star
Since this album was released, indie music has only got worse. This album is better than anything Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, or The Arctic Monkeys have ever, and will ever, make. There, I said it. And it feels good. This record is almost perfect, every song having an insightful message, a catchy chorus, and, perhaps most incredibly, a quotable line.

The highlight of the show is `We Are The Pigs', however. With an explosive riff reminiscent of The Smiths, Bowie and the Stones all rolled into one, the song struts through four minutes of vitriolic indie rock. With almost apocalyptic lyrics, the end of our society has never sounded cooler, with the chant-able chorus of `we are the stars of the firing line' almost a revolutionary soundbite.

Not that the other songs aren't close behind, however. `The Asphalt World' could be a Pink Floyd classic, particularly the outstanding guitar solo by Bernard Butler, and `New Generation' finds vocalist Brett Anderson carving through youthful ideals with social commentary the likes of which Alex Turner can only dream of writing.

This is a dominant, experimental, and above all sexually charged record, with fantastic choruses, powerful lyrics, outstanding instrumentation, and perhaps best of all, real danger. This is a band on the edge, and because of that, this album is one of the best of the era.

'Mindblowing'
This album is stunning,seems to get better and better with time. As a life long Suede fan,I'd have to say it's their finest work. Right up there with 'The Stone Roses'' debut album and 'The Queen Is Dead' by 'The Smiths'Not a bad song on it,highlights for me would be the beautiful 'The 2 Of Us' and the stunning 'Still Life'.Don't just settle for their 'Singles' album because you'd be missing out on some truly hidden gem's. All in all,a flawless album.