Saturday Night by Suede
Published by simon on May 6, 2008It was some time in the mid 90’s, i was renting a room slightly bigger than a closet somewhere in SS2.
Everyday, i come home from work, plonk down onto my spring metal bed with the plywood-thin mattress (bought for RM22 at the pasar malam) and turn on my old 14″ TV sitting on the floor sitting next to my shoes (no money to buy TV stand).
Every weekday at the same time, i turn on the MetroVision (remember that defunct channel?) where they played Channel V’s Rewind, UK Top 20, with VJs like Trey and the fabulous Sophiya. It was on their UK countdown that introduced me to Suede and their song ‘Saturday Night’…
I immediately fell in love with that song.
Those days, i lived for weekends and Saturday nights in particular…
Listening to the song again brings chills to my body, Brett Anderson’s lilting, androgynous voice still sounds haunting, as he sings:
Today shes been working, shes been talking, shes been smoking,
But itll be alright,
Cos tonight well go dancing, well go laughing, well get car sick,
And itll be okay like everyone says, itll be alright and ever so nice,
Were going out tonight, out and about tonight.
today’s only tuesday, another 4 more days to saaaaturday…
I remember the time, man, I remember the time!
Things were much simpler then, eh?
I remember having a lot more free time those days.
yep. remember the times at the sidewalk cafe with a certain hsu shin?
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