#suede songs

[turnipoddity]

will you be my lover?

will you be the one?

will you be like no other

for how long?

[brookbee]

Suede — "Beautiful Ones," 1996

[weakfreak]

the most honest and impartial top 5!!!

[thislovintime]

Photo from The Monkees Monthly.

“When he was nine years old, Peter Tork’s parents bought him a piano for $15. He taught himself to play and read music. But then his parents delivered an ultimatum: either take piano lessons or don’t touch the piano again.” - article by Lisa Stenza, Connecticut Daily Campus, February 26, 1982 “I owe a lot to my piano lessons. At one point I switched from playing Beethoven and Mozart to theory. And I learned how to spell chords, you know like, ‘what’s an F# minor chord?’ and when I took up guitar I would say, ‘OK, what’s the next note in such-and-such a chord above the note on the string? How many frets do I have to get up to, to play a note that’s in the chord I want.’ And I came up with some unusual formations too, like that add-4 chord I mentioned earlier. [i.e.] [In ‘For Pete’s Sake’] the chord on the word ‘Everything,’ — which is a 7-add-4, which is a highly unusual chord. It sort of fell out of my hands on the guitar. […] I wrote a set of chords [in college] once and thought, ‘Gosh, this is great.’ I couldn’t think of anything to do with them. A couple years later I wrote ‘Can You Dig It,’ to those chords. They were… let’s see: D-minor to B-flat major 7th to an E diminished 9th chord. That’s a really interesting way to set it up to the V chord. Or to look at it another way: we’re in A — Arab scale, which is — I don’t want to get too heavy. But it’s an unusual scale in Western music, in pop music. And it worked fine for me. I was just really glad. It just fell out of my hands again. It really felt good.” - Peter Tork, Shanley On Music, 2014 (x)

[guerrilla-operator]

Suede // Filmstar

What to believe in, it's impossible to say What to believe in when they change your name Wash your brain, play the game again Again, again, again Yeah, yeah, yeah

[yellow-yarrow]

A short Smoker on the balcony fanmix

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

If you haven't heard one or both of the songs before, it's recommended that you do so before voting!

Define "better" in any way you wish :)

[some-greatreward]

that fanecdote about peter waiting after the bernard butler gig to get his poster signed is sooo sweet actually

[turnipoddity]

First your playlist, now this. Suede, for me, will forever be associated with saw

oh yeah i’m gonna

[adharafirenze]

Here are my beautiful Bernie gifs!!

I got these from the new music video Bernard made for his song ‘camber sands’. (Which I think people are sleeping on…)

[ceroporcientoblog]

[whatcannotbesaid-shallbewept]

It's been an eventful month for my listening statistics

[thislovintime]

A look at songwriter and composer Tork:

Q: "From what sources do you draw your songwriting inspirations?" Peter Tork: "Sometimes just a phrase or a word catches my fancy. Then I hear a musical line. I try to figure out what kinds of sounds are coming out. Basically I just go by the sound. Then I try to find words that sound like they belong there." - Blitz!, November/December 1987 Q: "How do you write a song. What starts you off." Peter Tork: "Pretty women start me off, and there’s no one way to write. Sometimes someone says something that sounds interesting, and you jot it down. Sometimes you find yourself humming something that you realize you haven’t exactly heard before. The hard part is 'asking' for the inspiration to get the other parts, other verses, bridges, if any, etc." - Beachwood Confidential Newsletter, 1995 "I’m really pleased that the stuff that I have written has been a little outside the mainstream. [...] [In 'For Pete's Sake,' one chord] is a 7-add-4, which is a highly unusual chord. It sort of fell out of my hands on the guitar. [...] I wrote a set of chords once [in college] and thought, 'Gosh, this is great.' I couldn’t think of anything to do with them. A couple years later I wrote 'Can You Dig It,' to those chords. They were… let’s see: D-minor to B-flat major 7th to an E diminished 9th chord. That’s a really interesting way to set it up to the V chord. Or to look at it another way: we’re in A — Arab scale, which is— I don’t want to get too heavy. But it’s an unusual scale in Western music, in pop music. And it worked fine for me. I was just really glad. It just fell out of my hands again. It really felt good." - Peter Tork, Shanley On Music, 2014 "I like to sit at home and play piano and write stuff. I have a blues band. This coming January, I’m going to be going down to Lexington, Kentucky. I’m going to have them play a piece I wrote for piano and orchestra. It’s fairly brief. It’s seven minutes long. They’ll be doing some pop music, it’s a pops orchestra. But I’ll have them tackle this thing I wrote." - Peter Tork, ibid "[As a songwriter, Peter] was always trying to do something which you hadn’t heard. Which is pretty rare, because many of the hit songs that you hear are derivative, they sound like some other hit song. Peter always wanted to write something that you hadn’t heard before. […] I mean, his writing was interesting, you know, and fun to play. Always surprising.“ - James Lee Stanley, The Monkees Pad Show

[punk-chicken-radio]

Smelly’s Song Of The Week…..

Suede - Personality Disorder

TOS 

[guerrilla-operator]

Suede // Trash

But we're trash, you and me We're the litter on the breeze We're the lovers on the streets Just trash, me and you It's in everything we do It's in everything we do

[franken-shits]

No one will ever appreciate hesitant alien like a britpop girl would