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| Stereolab – Suggestion Diabolique Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Or, unknown to Laetitia, perhaps it is about one of the world's biggest Stereolab fans who grows up to become an equal-opportunity destroyer of bogus ideological premises and bad political propaganda, a sort of Achilles whose lover and best friend The Truth has been slain, on a mission of intellectual vengeance, but with a particular focus on toppling the far left's exalted high horse which they still pretend is an underdog, and all with eyes lit like none other thanks in part to the lyrical lessons of Laetitia, like lamp oil for my fire. Talk about falling out of a nest. ;) |
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| Stereolab – Suggestion Diabolique Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I have always felt this song was a horrified post-9/11 tribute to the evil world-changing force of Osama Bin Laden. Except, of course, that Sound Dust was released one week before, on 9/3, so...prophecy? In fact, the entire album struck me then and still strikes me now as a dark oracle of that day's destruction. The pyroclastic cover image and the album name. Hallucinex's looking-forward-to-explosions. Gus's being about the 9/11/73 Pinochet coup. The theme throughout of death being a necessary part of nature, progress. Other moments in other songs. And especially this song, Suggestion Diabolique. Imagine for a moment that this song was, in fact, somberly written after the fact, after 9/11, and was, in fact, about the terrible power of Bin Laden, seen here as a Lucifer-ish fallen angel. Could it have been written any more suitably? I don't see how. |
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