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“We Are The Pigs” by Suede
From the album Dog Man Star (1994)
“We Are The Pigs” by Suede appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1999. It was first released in 1994 on the album Dog Man Star. Its best result is #564 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,545 alternative song of all time.
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Suede fired the opening shot of Dog Man Star with "We Are The Pigs", out on Nude Records on 12 September 1994, and it announced a band gone darker than anything on their debut. Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler wrote it, Ed Buller produced, and its unsettling sound set it well apart from the popular Britpop bands of the moment.
Anderson wrote it while living in Highgate, and it sets that area's middle-class comfort against the council estates of nearby Archway: a song about revolution, and by his account a violent warning that the people the middle classes kept underfoot would end up crushing them. The odds were stacked against it: Butler left the band before the single appeared, the video barely got aired, and it stalled at No. 18 in the UK and No. 34 in Sweden. The sleeve uses a still from the cult film Freak Orlando.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 564 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
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