It's taking me Pollver - Suede Singles

If you listen carefully you can hear the sound of treading water by the end of their career but one of the greatest singles sequence in British music until then.

Think I'll vote for 'New Generation' which has a fantastically fat sound courtesy of the judicious use of some horns and an absolute peach of a guitar solo at the end.

eheh, an old flame : my late teenage self loved their first 2 albums and accompanying singles so much (I never enjoyed them as much after butler left).
So it would have to be one of their early singles. "animal nitrate" I guess since it's the one that turned me into them (although "wild ones" might be their best song).

"new generation" never did it for me. dunno why since the melody is strong and all...

Metal Mickey 4EVA!!!

"Animal Nitrate", although "Trash" is close.

Outside of their first album, I think Suede made a number of poor singles choices, e.g. "We Are the Pigs" (although DMS wasn't really packed with potential singles like the debut album was), "Filmstar", "Can't Get Enough" ...

Well, I can't really see other potential singles on DMS beside the ones released. Maybe "heroine".

I have to go with "Trash" since that was my first exposure, being not a Brit and all.

I liked We Are The Pigs. At the time, tbh I can't remember how it goes now. I think I still have the single tho. Never actually listened to the whole album cos I went off them around then.

So I guess it'd be Animal Nitrate, really.

All the best potential singles from the DMS era were B-sides, oddly enough!

(Killing of a Flashboy, Modern Boys, Together)

true for the first two (not together which was a not bad but clumsy first attempt at songriting from hawks).

They really were a fantastic singles band. A tie between "The Drowners" (whose influence on me was incalculable) and "The Wild Ones."

I voted for Stay Together but it was tough between New Generation, Metal Mickey and the gloriousness of Trash!

toss-up between so young and stay together for me. love so young and the b-sides (dolly, and, um, the other one), but stay together is just, like, 8 minutes of over the top massiveness and pot smoke beauty. plus, the stay together b-sides are all kinds of awesome too (my dark star and, um, the other one). oh, so i pick stay together.

this thread is reminding me how dumb i am for not owning a copy of sci-fi lullabies. i'll get on that. i also need a copy of dog man star. i haven't heard it in years. i'll bet i would like it even more now than when it came out.

"Sci-Fi Lullabies" is arguably a better collection of songs than the singles in this poll, we should poll that album too.

Oh wow, I forgot about the song Dolly.. I wish I had that single! My Dark Star and.. the Living Dead? Haunting.

"My Insatiable One" would walk away with this poll if it qualified.

Yeah, "sci-fi" (disc 1) is amazing. "he's dead" being close to "insatiable" in term of greatness...

Yes to "My Dark Star" and "The Living Dead," saw the band do the former as an encore in 1995.

Having run the mailing list for god knows how many years and all that -- and last visited London in part to see Brett's first solo gigs -- I'm a touch surprised to be fairly indifferent here; at the same time, a recent rewatch of the Lost in TV DVD put them in a very specific time and place for me that I am not sure warrants a full revisit, at least at present. That said I will say that "Attitude" is a bit of a secret great lost single because it's about the only attempt by any band of its time/place/lineage to try and do an openly Timbaland-knockoff arrangement -- wasn't a big hit obv but there are far worse ways to inadvertantly bow out.

"I'm a touch surprised to be fairly indifferent here"

Me too, and I was a Suede CD singles completist (until the end of the Head Music run, that is).

Some of these songs were cool and I liked them at the time. I don't mind hearing them out but wouldn't play them now of my own choice.

This is the worst poll thread title ever, though.

yeah, I haven't listened/heard a suede track for a while... but maybe I'll give it a try following these 2 threads !

This is the worst poll thread title ever, though.

That's pretty much what I was aiming for. It was either that or 'Poll Young'.

metal pollkey ?

...but you're holding on to that one for another paul.

x-post

"there wobbles one POLL of a retard!"

I love "Trash". But nothing IMO matches the excitement of the "Drowners" intro. BTW, Brett Anderson has one of my favorite voices ever!

Everything will Poll? Poll's in Fashion? :) I kind of like Pollver..

Mrs V bought this. The last album is fucking horrible. The couple before that so-so. About half of this is great singles tho. "So Young" is my favourite by fucking miles, Brett's delivery of the final chorus and then that long unwinding guitar line pretty much sum up what they did well.

"She polls heart, she polls meat"

drowners i think

for my choice

had to pick something from their second album, as i picked a b-side from the other poll. my vote today goes to the incredible "New Generation." what a great band these guys were.

*insert* from the first album for that other poll.

stay together, definitely. the three tracks on that single represent their best work. the two b-sides (as mentioned upthread) are my two favourite suede tracks.

i forgot about "Stay Together," can i change my vote?

"The Beautiful Ones". Although there are better non-singles on the debut (the slow, moody ones - the absolute best stuff they did).

Well, I can't really see other potential singles on DMS beside the ones released. Maybe "heroine".

"The Power" wasn't a single, was it? That one was picked up by Norwegian radio stations and played a lot here just after the album's release.

Animal Nitrate, by miles

I voted Animal Nitrate, but would change to "Drowners"

I just watched both UK and US versions of "Drowners" video. That US video's level of androgyny was shocking to me the first time I saw it, but the look and the song stuck in my head for years before I bought the CD and fell in love with the whole album.

In conclusion, the London Suede and the CD The London Suede were a band I saw on 120 Minutes dancing like the guy from Stone Temple Pilots years before he lost all that weight and started to dance like that.

This is SLIGHTLY easier than the Sci Fi Lullabies poll.

Probably Drowners or Metal Mickey.

(Though I have a total weak spot for Trash, it's the one I tend to put on when I want dance about the bedroom in a Brett Anderson stylee, strewing bras everywhere.)

Was Moving not a single? Guess it's gonna have to be The Drowners.

"Animal Nitrate". I sang that recently at a birthday party in a karaoke room, complete with *obligatory* slapping-bum-with-microphone routine in the middle section, think quite a few people present didn't really know the tune (it's ooooold now!) and were genuinely a bit shocked and puzzled by it, just like the old days. Also one of their best videos out of a fairly uneven collection. (also see the commentary on the Lost in TV DVD where Brett and co are bitching about the nonsensical images in most of their videos, haha)

"The Power" wasn't a single, was it? That one was picked up by Norwegian radio stations and played a lot here just after the album's release.

argh, that might be the song I like the least on DMS. Always found it very boring. And I think butler doesn't even play on it. IT's just anderson trying to do the basic guitar lines from the demo version, if I remember well.

argh, that might be the song I like the least on DMS. Always found it very boring.

I like it. And it is, like, perhaps the most straightforward song on DMS, which is a typical single thing.

true. and I clearly see why people like it and how it would have been a good single.
It just doesn't work for me.

wow, this band is good. where have they been all my life!

Now 'Lazy', but 'Metal Mickey' was hard to beat.

A final thought before the poll closes: Suede (along, to an even greater extent, with the Manic Street Preachers) were the only band during my band-loving years whom people really loathed. Even though such passion was really only confined to the music press and indie kids, it feels like after about 1994 conformity descended, whereby everyone liked everything (well everything that Noel Gallagher was into, at any rate). The music got bigger certainly, but it also lost the things that I love about Stay Together in particular - the pretension, the audacity, the feyness

I don't know, I think you're talking shite: after 1994 is when the loathing really started. Kula Shaker, to name the first that comes to mind.

And I don't think anyone loathed the Manics anyway. They just thought they were laughable.

it's a fair point xp

x-post-ish I actually do remember lots of people actively loathing Suede. I have a friend who took his buddies to see Suede when (the only time?) they toured the US, and he told me his friends just made fun of the group the whole time. Anyway, this works in American fans' favor, since this band is both awesome and larger than life, yet never over-exposed here to the point of nausea. Compared to Oasis, Blur and even Pulp, they're like Brit-pop's great lost pillar, at least from a Yank perspective. Those first three albums, plus all the attendant b-sides, comprise an awesome cult catalog minus all those cult band cooties.

Well, Suede suffered the indignity of watching The Cranberries, their opening act on the US leg of the tour, successfully woo their audience and, ultimately, winning them over.

when (the only time?) they toured the US

They toured the US four times all told -- brief spring/early summer tour 93, fall tour 93 (the one with the Cranberries), winter 1995 and winter/spring 1997. (Yes, saw them every time.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

WTF? Surprise upset there.

new generation bit of a lurkers choice

i cant believe stay together is so popular.

I can't believe new generation won this.

this is an outrage.

it's a fine song, but really! who voted for New Generation, and why?

what happened ? I am confused.

This has shaken my faith in the poll system! "New Generation"??? Really? Huh. Wow.

burn down the poll system !

hang the blessed deejay!

cos' All we see and believe is the D.J. and the debts dissolve

hahah - I don't even know that song - wtf

Styles turn and the books still burn.

is that post-Butler? dont recall it

Suede ... were the only band during my band-loving years whom people really loathed....

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 22:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Does anybody remember "Are you getting old, or are we shite" off Spitting Image?

yes, it's from Dog Man Star (xpost)

sleeping pills was the finest moment, but too mogadonned for single release perhaps

Post-Butler leaving but it was the last single released that he cowrote and performed on.

Suede were on Spitting Image?! That's a result

I didn't know Spitting Image was still going when Suede were around!

there first album was 15 years ago... lol I'm so old (so gone)

Let's take some Metamucil
Nooooooow.

This is a joke. The singles of 'Coming Up' are ridiculously underrepresented here.

i thought trash wouldve done a lot better

xxp: 'Unknown Pleasures' was more "recent" when Suede s/t came out than the latter is now :-(

I'm pretty depressed by that thought now...
Is this still life all I'm good for too ?

Was "New Generation" like their highest chart placement or something? I can barely remember it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suede_discography#Singles

Trash and Stay Together both made #3 in the UK. New Generation is way down the list. I'm surprised that everything from Coming Up made the top 10.

New Generation was only mentioned four times on the thread, and one of those was negative! It winning is a bit of a surprise, if it's for real - I kind of like the idea of some lurker caring enough to create fifteen voting doppelgangers

This is a joke. The singles of 'Coming Up' are ridiculously underrepresented here.

― zeus, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hell no.

kind of surprised at result but glad that the early ie better stuff prevailed.

people are being a bit harsh on 'new generation' imo.

Yeah, I adore it, especially the abrupt tempo change preceding the "telephone wires/platinum spires" bit, but then again I adore most of Dog Man Star except for the long wanky numbers.

New Generation is great.. It's music is much more accessible and optimistic sounding (if not the actual lyrics) than most of their stuff, so I can see how it might have got the lurker vote..

I saw them in Boston on the fall 93 tour, and I thought the opening band was Counting Crows, but there might have been 3 bands. And I could very well be wrong.

I saw them in Boston on the fall 93 tour, and I thought the opening band was Counting Crows

Gigolo Aunts, surely.

You know what it aint

Okay, now I remember The Cranberries playing that show -and a lot of people there to see them - but there was a 3rd band I could've sworn was Counting Crows before they were "big" (I hadn't heard of them before). It was a wtf why is this band on this bill?

"Yeah, I adore it, especially the abrupt tempo change preceding the "telephone wires/platinum spires" bit, but then again I adore most of Dog Man Star except for the long wanky numbers.

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), 2009. március 25. 18:34 (2 hours ago) Bookmark"

The problem is, Dog Man Star is full of long wanky numbers.

new generation is great. dog man star is great. whiners stfu.

The problem is, Dog Man Star is full of long wanky numbers.

ahah, exactly what I thought. I like these long wanky numbers, though ! (I would love to hear the full length - something like 15min ? - version of "asphalt world").

"Positivity" hit #13 in Canada? How did that happen? Why that particular single? Anyone??

Has the überlong Asphalt World ever leaked? I'd love to hear it too if anyone has a link

i take it back! i pick so young! high rising is the best friggin' b-side by anyone ever!!!!!