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.
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.