POSSIBLE INFLUENCES - Dystopia

FROM SUEDE

We Are The Pigs

Suede were Britpop. Not just a mere cog in it but the oil that first greased the machine. They were the ones who, before they even released a single, were hailed by Melody Maker as Britain’s best new band; the ones who the music press, desperate for a something new they could own, backed to do it for Blighty and stick one on the Yanks. And yet Suede hated Britpop: the crass Carry-On humour, the cartoon laddism, the brutish and boozy boorishness – it left them cold. Such isolation fed into their second album Dog Man Star, a darkly extravagant masterpiece that stood against everything the movement they helped spawn had become. Just compare, for example, any of Oasis’s hymns to living big dreams in the big city and having it large with We Are the Pigs, in which London is turned into a thuggish dystopian playground, or a sexier version of Threads. “Well the church bells are calling/ Police cars on fire,” sings Anderson, like a camp town-crier preaching bloody insurrection, and then quickly turning crazed witch-catcher and shrieking “But deceit can’t save you!” And then there’s the odd musical flourishes: the crunching guitars, the blaring horns, the creepy choir of kids gleefully chanting “We will watch them burn.” Doomsday has seldom sounded so good.

Foreboding images like satellites and tower blocks, if I could have something as intimidating/threatening like that

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DRAMAS ABOUT NUCLEAR APOCALYPSES:

• Threads
• The War Game
• The Day After

Just discovered this band through an article by The Guardian, with feminist dystopian music promos, 

THE LOOK OF "THE CITY"



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