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Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"

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walktothewater

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Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« on: July 10, 2024, 03:51:04 PM »
The Suede track is here, for those unfamiliar with it:

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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2024, 04:18:21 PM »
Suede were excellent. I’m bored of one now
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2024, 04:33:37 PM »
Quote from: Larry Lovebucket on July 10, 2024, 04:18:21 PM
Suede were excellent. I’m bored of one now

Ditto.

But also, I'd be prepared to argue that that specific Suede track is better than One. I like both songs, they're both great.
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"I'd just like to put on record that that's bobbins" - Ian Brown, singer, ditto

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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2024, 09:22:37 PM »
One is a little in the same boat as Losing My Religion (the R.E.M. song).  Both have been run into the ground, but if you go many, many years without hearing the song at all, they can sometimes come back to life. 

Losing My Religion is in that category; I have not knowingly heard it at all (I do not habitually listen to the radio) in a decade or more... and I think I could come back to it with fresh ears now.
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2024, 03:31:17 PM »
Never heard the Suede track before but didn't like it and what a cheesy video.
I feel like One has now become the forgotten classic.  It was everywhere in the 90s and i think Mtv even listed it as the number 3 song of the decade.  I never hear it and don't think i have in years.  At my work, the 20 and 30 year olds didn't know who u2 were and when i played a few songs they recognized most of them but no one had ever heard One before.
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2024, 04:37:20 PM »
Both equally brilliant.
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2024, 04:47:09 PM »
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2024, 04:51:54 PM »
Quote from: walktothewater on July 11, 2024, 04:47:09 PM
Quote from: Amor fati on July 11, 2024, 04:37:20 PM
Both equally brilliant.

Yeah.

If this were 1994 i would have probably chosen ONE over Wild Ones to be honest.  Of course 30 years later i would be more interested in Suede than U2
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2024, 04:57:39 PM »
Quote from: Amor fati on July 11, 2024, 04:51:54 PM
Quote from: walktothewater on July 11, 2024, 04:47:09 PM
Quote from: Amor fati on July 11, 2024, 04:37:20 PM
Both equally brilliant.

Yeah.

If this were 1994 i would have probably chosen ONE over Wild Ones to be honest.  Of course 30 years later i would be more interested in Suede than U2

If this were 1994 or probably even 2004 I would definitely have chosen One over The Wild Ones....mind you perhaps not the album version of One even back then...some of the live versions are really great though....by contrast the album cut of the Suede track is already perfect. If I were to look at live versions of the track on Youtube I'd probably not like them all that much.
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"I'd just like to put on record that that's bobbins" - Ian Brown, singer, ditto

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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2024, 05:02:28 PM »
Quote from: walktothewater on July 11, 2024, 04:57:39 PM
Quote from: Amor fati on July 11, 2024, 04:51:54 PM
Quote from: walktothewater on July 11, 2024, 04:47:09 PM
Quote from: Amor fati on July 11, 2024, 04:37:20 PM
Both equally brilliant.

Yeah.

If this were 1994 i would have probably chosen ONE over Wild Ones to be honest.  Of course 30 years later i would be more interested in Suede than U2

If this were 1994 or probably even 2004 I would definitely have chosen One over The Wild Ones....mind you perhaps not the album version of One even back then...some of the live versions are really great though....by contrast the album cut of the Suede track is already perfect. If I were to look at live versions of the track on Youtube I'd probably not like them all that much.

You should probably recommend more Suede songs here. 
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2024, 05:05:32 PM »
Quote from: Shank on July 11, 2024, 03:31:17 PM
Never heard the Suede track before but didn't like it and what a cheesy video.
I feel like One has now become the forgotten classic.  It was everywhere in the 90s and i think Mtv even listed it as the number 3 song of the decade.  I never hear it and don't think i have in years.  At my work, the 20 and 30 year olds didn't know who u2 were and when i played a few songs they recognized most of them but no one had ever heard One before.

Cheesy video? I remember the first time I saw that video soon after it was released...I only caught it by accident on some music programme on late night tv - and I really had no time for Suede before that, thought they were massively overrated by the Brit music press....but I thought and still think it was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. It was the track that got me into Suede, and I stlll think it's the finest thing they've done.
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2024, 08:18:50 PM »
I love Suede. Dog Man Star and Coming Up are absolute classics. One and The Wild Ones are equally brillant.
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2024, 12:14:08 PM »
I know nothing about Suede but when i see their name i tend to think of Slade- who is also unknow in the states and i know only for their christmas song.
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2024, 01:57:05 PM »
Quote from: Shank on July 12, 2024, 12:14:08 PM
I know nothing about Suede but when i see their name i tend to think of Slade- who is also unknow in the states and i know only for their christmas song.

They are known as "The London Suede" in America.

Suede's commercial success in the United States was limited, and due to a lawsuit with an American singer with the same name, the group had to change its name for the American market to The London Suede.

Don't know if that rings any bells....
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Re: Suede's "The Wild Ones" versus U2's "One"
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2024, 03:25:09 PM »
Yeah they did tour the US with the Cranberries back in the day but they never took off there.
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"I'd just like to put on record that that's bobbins" - Ian Brown, singer, ditto

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