Serious question - Suede, Stay Together

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The extended version that goes on for 8 delightful minutes. What does he say in that big long speech bit?

― Calum, Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not that I'm agrophobic it's just that it's not safe to go outside anymore so I just stay indoors with my TV Times my petty crimes and my nursery rhymes, someone said that the sound of a baby crying is the most beautiful sound in the world, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder but as my heart grows colder and colder I just feel so tired. The fridge is empty, the walls are damp, there's no hot water and I look like a tramp and tramps like us baby we were born to walk but where does a mother's girl go when her mother's gone?

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:25 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I REALLY want to know this.

Anyone?

― Calum, Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

derek bailey was good last night calum.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Calum here are the real lyrics:

I’m drinking a soy latte I get a double shote It goes right through my body And you know I’m satisfied I drive a mini cooper and I’m feeling super-dooper Yo they tell I’m a trooper and you know I’m satisfied I do Yoga and pilates and the room is full of hotties so I’m checking out the bodies and you know I’m satisfied I’m digging on the isotopes this metaphysic’s shit is dope and if all this can give me hope you know I’m satisfied I got a lawyer and a manager an agent and a chef three nannies, an assistant and a driver and a jet a trainer and a butler and a bodyguard or five a gardener and a stylist do you think I’m satisfied?

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Dawn of light lying between a silence and sold sources,
Chased amid fusions of wonder, in moments hardly seen forgotten,
Coloured in pastures of chance dancing leaves cast spells of challenge,
Amused but real in thought, we fled from the sea whole.
Dawn of thought transfered through moments of days undersearching earth
Revealing corridors of time provoking memories, disjointed but with purpose,
Craving penetrations offer links with the self instructors sharp
And tender love as we took to the air, a picture of distance.
Dawn of our power we amuse redescending as fast as misused
Expression, as only to teach love as to reveal passion chasing
Late into corners, and we danced from the ocean.
Dawn of love sent within us colours of awakening among the many
Won't to follow, only tunes of a different age.
As the links span our endless caresses for the freedom of life everlasting.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone help?

― Calum, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

partly :

'lots of style, lots of scenes...
she stands around and another world shines in her hands
dont take me back to the past...
don't take me back to the farm with the cows again...
take me somewhere else...'

other than that i dunno.

the word cocaine springs to mind.

surely the least-airplayed big indie hit of all time.
i don't think i've ever heard it anywhere outside my own house,
and yet it went to number 3 !! ace bit in the video where bern
loox like he's tearing a piece out the metal mickey poster.
saw them do it live for the very first time the week of release
and the talking bit at the end
was totally different. one of the best gigs ever.
blackpool. people screaming *constantly* all the way through beatlemania style.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I really like "stay together", actually, tho' stuff on "dog man star" 0\/\/|\|z it. I have no idea what brett is on abt, but going on his usual lyrickal malarkey @ thee time, prob. nuclear sky/heroin/2 ov us together running away in neon-lit subway. words are not one ov suede's strengths, generally.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Asphalt World" = my favourite one

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

All of Dog Man Star = lovely beyond belief. The most heart breaking album ever.

― Calum, Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Suede a lot, I think their best songs are really incredibly gorgeous. Dog Man Star, however, is terribly over-rated and Anderson's lucky anybody got past that penny-dreadful opening couplet.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Noooooooo, heartbreaking tunes, lovely words, a voice to die for, everything about that album is perfect.

― Calum, Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never been able to take DMS - pointlessly long songs, dreadful words, no hooks stick in my brain - but blimey are it's devotees devoted. Someone who lives not a million miles from my house just bought the thing on a third format!

"Stay Together" is good yeah. The mumbly bit was trailed in the press as Brett doing a rap!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

''The mumbly bit was trailed in the press as Brett doing a rap!''

hehe...would many ppl pay to hear for that instead of his post-bowie-isms.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

''The mumbly bit was trailed in the press as Brett doing a rap!''

He actually *did* used to rap that bit when they did it live. Honestly. I've heard an mp3 of it n' everything.

All the band really despise the song, don't they? On the Suede DVD, when they're watching the videos, they all simultaneously leave the room when it comes on.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Dog Man Star, however, is terribly over-rated

Quite.

On the Suede DVD, when they're watching the videos, they all simultaneously leave the room when it comes on.

No, Mat lingers for a bit. Then he leaves. The band regard it as "Bernard's song" and have never cared for it after his departure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Dog Man Star, however, is terribly over-rated

Quite.

You're both wrong.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

DMS has some of Suede's best ever songs, unquestionably. I go for "Heroine," "Still Life," "We Are the Pigs," "This Hollywood Life," "The Wild Ones," etc. without hesitation. But as an album it's always felt too long somehow, the last half just seems to drag towards its end. I think it's best heard a couple of songs at a time rather than as a whole.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

You wouldn't say that about The Lord of the Rings.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

True. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

The first time I ever posted a message on an internet board, it was to ask Calum's question. That was a long time ago.

As someone mentioned above, there are two versions of the rap. Live, I think it was totally different.

I'm not too bothered about what Brett's saying anymore. I don't think anyone knows.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

The words to Dog Man Star are nothing less than moving - Still Life, The 2 of Us, Black and Blue, The Wild Ones... beautiful.

― Calum, Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I am shocked -- shocked! -- to hear Ned, an even bigger Suede-defender than myself (and I once wrote 2,000 words in defense of Head Music), agreeing that DMS is over-rated. Again, "The Wild Ones" is almost without flaw (though the over-whispering of the line "Running! with the dogs!" comes perilously close to f*cking it up at one point), and "We Are the Pigs" is quite great. But "Dog Man Star took a suck on a pill" remains one of the least compelling album-opening lines...EVER because it's so damned stilted. My point stands. Besides, it's the B-sides circa Coming Up (and the Coming Up singles generally speaking) where Suede really got down to the nuts and bolts of breaking hearts with a sledgehammer.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I bought the ST single years ago, I actually tried disciphering the intro. After a number of times, I could feel the wheels in my head grinding to a halt. This is when I stopped, and let the song wash over me, instead. Still one of my favorites, though....even now.

Give me 95% of DMS, and I would die happy: "2 of Us", "Asphalt World", "Still Life", "Heroine", "Power", "Wild Ones"....(I know that's 50%, but we all know what the list of songs are.)

Besides, it's the B-sides circa Coming Up (and the Coming Up singles generally speaking) where Suede really got down to the nuts and bolts of breaking hearts with a sledgehammer.

I know I still feel a little squeeze when I listen to them.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I am shocked -- shocked! -- to hear Ned, an even bigger Suede-defender than myself (and I once wrote 2,000 words in defense of Head Music), agreeing that DMS is over-rated.

I still love that defense, John, I would have typed it up for the Suede list if I had had the time. Meantime, don't be shocked. I don't think I ever outright fell for the album all the way through even upon release, whereas Coming Up was a grand slam from the "Trash" single on. Though Nicole gave me a tape of their radio sessions at the time which was even better!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

tom was bringing it here.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 21 December 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Don't take us back to the past.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 21 December 2007 12:38 (eighteen years ago)

Emo Calum = always amusing.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

More proof Ewing invented LBZC

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

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Serious question - Suede, Stay Together - what IS he saying?