What an opening for an album. Anderson really Introduces the Band and prepares the listener to the songs that will follow. You have references to pills, sex, violence that are all over Suede's universe that Anderson stabs with his curious quill. There's the stutter, the Heavy Metal Machine from flashboy (unfortunately left out of the album), there's the ever-mentioned suburbia and there's the imagery of BDSM where the subservient son is shacked-up, bloodied-up and sucking on not exactly that kind of gun, if you know what he means... The violent hands taking the power and watching them burn. Maybe the sci-fi lullabies really started to be built here.
On a final note, only flashboy Anderson could say he wants the style of a woman and the kiss of a man and drive women crazy. The melody is hypnotically sexy. Never heard a better opening.
deorison April 27, 2011 Link
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