Sci-Fi Lullabies (compilation)
release date: Oct. 6, 1997
format: 2 cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Ed Buller
label: Nude Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights:
Disc 1:
1. "My Insatiable One" (4 / 5) -
3. "Where the Pigs Don't Fly" -
4.
"He's Dead" -
8.
"My Dark Star" -
9.
"Killing of a Flash Boy" -
11.
"Modern Boys" -
12.
"Together" -
13.
"Bentswood Boys" -
14.
"Europe Is Our Playground"
Disc 2:
1. "Every Monday Morning Comes" (4 / 5) -
4.
"Young Men" -
5. "The Sound of the Streets" (4 / 5) -
6.
"Money" (3 / 5) -
8.
"This Time" -
11.
"Sadie" -
13.
"Duchess"
Compilation album by Suede, which indeed is a most interesting release. Normally, compilations are best of, 'most of', or any such labels. It's interesting in that respect that it's the collection of B-side singles to all of the band's single releases - with a total of 27 tracks issued as a 2 discs album. Now, how many bands would promote such an idea with expectations of much success? Very few, I reckon, and that's why this album is quite an accomplishment. Some tracks do seem like leftovers but the above highlighted tracks could easily have been released on any of their so far three studio releases without lowering the standard, and some of the songs would undoubtedly have raised the quality.
Most tracks are (once again) produced by Ed Buller.
[
allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
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"My Insatiable One"
"In the high life, I've got this feeling now
I've got this horrible feeling
on the escalator they took it out on him
as the ridiculous world went...oh
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one...oh
On the high wire, dressed in a leotard
there wobbles one hell of a retard
on the escalator
we shit paracetemol
as the ridiculous world goes...by
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
he's my insatiable one
oh he is gone
and he was...my inflatable one"
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"Every Monday Morning Comes"
"Oh when you and I
Watch the planes go by, silver in the sky,
Do whatever we like,
Oh you and me
See the birds in the sea
People on the streets, do whatever we please
But every Monday morning comes,
Every Monday morning, yeah
Oh every Monday morning comes
Every Monday morning, yeah
Oh, when you and I
Watch the London sky, Traffic rolling by
Do whatever we like,
So we chase the day away
Feel the morning rain
Piss our money down the drain
And do whatever they say"
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"The Sound Of The Streets"
"She walks the streets of summer
Inside her there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
The cash machines are laughing
At plastic people passing
She walks the streets to pass the time
Sadie, Sadie in the sound of the streets
Insane as anything, ah ah
Sadie, Sadie kn-knows the sound of the streets
It's the same as anything, ah ah
She sees the midnight taxis
The toilets and the backstreets
She feels the wheels and needs a line
Outside there's crazy parties
There's dames in faces laughing
So many ways to pass the time
Sadie, Sadie kn-knows the sound of the streets
It's the same as anything, ah ah
She walks the streets of summer
Inside her there's no future
She walks the streets to pass the time
Inside she feels like winter
For the child that died within her
She walks the streets to pass the time
Sadie, Sadie kn-knows the sound of the streets
It's the same as anything, ah ah"
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