The Wild Ones

The second single from Dog Man Star peaked at number 18 in the UK and number six in Iceland. Anderson regards it as the high point of his writing with Butler and as his favorite of all Suede songs. Butler played a Fender Telecaster instead of his usual Gibson ES-355, and the intro was recorded on a dobro with Butler on the roof of a car outside Master Rock. The main refrain was partly inspired by Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas, and Anderson alternates between tenor and falsetto. Brian Gascoigne arranged the orchestra.

The original recording had a four-minute extended coda that was cut for the album, and the longer mix appeared on the 2011 expanded edition. The B-side Modern Boys was added to the US and Japanese editions of the album, and the single also carried a version of Introducing the Band by Brian Eno. The video was filmed on Dartmoor, directed by Howard Greenhalgh and cost 150,000 pounds. Anderson has said he dislikes it.

Pitchfork in 2011 said it might be Suede's best single, with orchestration, vocals and guitar in fragile but perfect balance. NME placed it at number 370 in its 2014 list of the 500 greatest songs. The Canadian band Destroyer named their 2017 album Ken after the song's original title.