Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Suicide (band)" in English language version.
I think you understand that we're not informed by other contemporary music. We're informed by Hawkwind and the Stooges and Suicide and strange Japanese films. And we also write some killer riffs, and we deliver them with intelligence, wit, and energy. That's about it.
[Davey Havok:] I can pull out the Suicide record. What a rough past year we had, because we lost Alan, amidst other great, hugely influential artists. Safe to say that we're all fans here of their work and this record, which is just so wildly ahead of its time and cutting edge in what they were doing with electronics and soundscapes and mood and creating darkness within this minimal crunchy noise art sound.
'Go and see Suicide, everybody go and see Suicide NOW!' So screamed Nick Cave on stage at the end of Grinderman's set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, 2011.
One memorable festival moment of the last few years for me was Grinderman finishing on one stage at Primavera and Nick Cave ordering the crowd to rush over and see Suicide across the way, as 'none of us bands would be here without them'.
I think we were like that anyway. We were into bands that were confrontational and challenging like Suicide. We were trying to make a pop version of that, which we did in a way. There is a book that has come out recently called 'Suicide: A Love Story', and there is a quote in there from Alan Vega - I used to know Alan quite well. I met him many times. Sadly he is no longer with us - and he was asked, 'What do you think of Soft Cell?' and he said, 'Yeah, man, they had some good songs, but they were kind of like Suicide the easy way' (Laughs). I think that sums us up really. We were not quite as confrontational as them, but we had the same heart and spirit. We were, however, not going to get on 'Top of the Pops' if we did 'Frankie Teardrop'.
Suicide was such a big influence on Hot Snakes, it was probably the main influence – that and the Wipers – so I really wanted to have them represented in some way.
'Go and see Suicide, everybody go and see Suicide NOW!' So screamed Nick Cave on stage at the end of Grinderman's set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, 2011.
One memorable festival moment of the last few years for me was Grinderman finishing on one stage at Primavera and Nick Cave ordering the crowd to rush over and see Suicide across the way, as 'none of us bands would be here without them'.
I think we were like that anyway. We were into bands that were confrontational and challenging like Suicide. We were trying to make a pop version of that, which we did in a way. There is a book that has come out recently called 'Suicide: A Love Story', and there is a quote in there from Alan Vega - I used to know Alan quite well. I met him many times. Sadly he is no longer with us - and he was asked, 'What do you think of Soft Cell?' and he said, 'Yeah, man, they had some good songs, but they were kind of like Suicide the easy way' (Laughs). I think that sums us up really. We were not quite as confrontational as them, but we had the same heart and spirit. We were, however, not going to get on 'Top of the Pops' if we did 'Frankie Teardrop'.
I think you understand that we're not informed by other contemporary music. We're informed by Hawkwind and the Stooges and Suicide and strange Japanese films. And we also write some killer riffs, and we deliver them with intelligence, wit, and energy. That's about it.
[Davey Havok:] I can pull out the Suicide record. What a rough past year we had, because we lost Alan, amidst other great, hugely influential artists. Safe to say that we're all fans here of their work and this record, which is just so wildly ahead of its time and cutting edge in what they were doing with electronics and soundscapes and mood and creating darkness within this minimal crunchy noise art sound.
Suicide was such a big influence on Hot Snakes, it was probably the main influence – that and the Wipers – so I really wanted to have them represented in some way.
[Davey Havok:] I can pull out the Suicide record. What a rough past year we had, because we lost Alan, amidst other great, hugely influential artists. Safe to say that we're all fans here of their work and this record, which is just so wildly ahead of its time and cutting edge in what they were doing with electronics and soundscapes and mood and creating darkness within this minimal crunchy noise art sound.
