Suede

dog man star + bernard tracks on sci-fi lullabies unquestionably >>>>>>>>>> all other brit-pop but what the hell is up with the first album? the production/mix is so flat and shit.. it boggles the mind as to why/how its b-sides sound so stellar! i only really like "animals nitrate" and "the next life" on the thing anyways..

i have visions of a rollicking extended full-band version of "the living dead" possibly with the "if i was the wife of an acrobat.." part as a refrain/chorus or something

also repping for billy mckenkie while dissing brent anderson = dud

Both names wrong. Good work.

Reforming! (minus Bernard obvs)

Beyond that one-off benefit gig?

Nothing concrete so far. But i bet there'll be a small tour @ least.

I thought they would give it a few more years before reforming, especially as Brett has finally just put a really good solo album.

Mr. Butler wishes them well.

Quick note for all -- friend of mine is flying in to London for the reunion and would like someone to go with on the 20th. Drop me a line if there's interest!

My memories of a lunch.

Brett I remember looking at the menu a bit with a very, very considered air. He looked…not totally unapproachable but definitely knowing that yes, he was the star, or at least a star. We chatted for a short bit after the meal was over and I remember him adding a drawing of his cat Fluffington to the promo photo of him sitting in his flat, so that’s a nice touch.

looooooooooool

So the new 2 cd Best Of is out in a week or so. Biggest non festival UK gig ever at the O2 in December.
Artwork for the best of looks like this:
http://artcritical.com/DavidCohen/2008/images/peyton-september.jpg

Tracklist like this:
Disc One:

'Animal Nitrate'
'Beautiful Ones'
'Trash'
'Filmstar'
'Metal Mickey'
'New Generation'
'So Young'
'Wild Ones'
'Drowners'
'Stay Together'
'Lazy'
'Everything Will Flow'
'We Are The Pigs'
'Can't Get Enough'
'Electricity'
'Obsessions'
'She's In Fashion'
'Saturday Night'

Disc Two:

'Pantomime Horse'
'My Insatiable One'
'Killing Of A Flashboy'
'This Hollywood Life'
'Europe Is Our Playground'
'My Dark Star'
'Sleeping Pills'
'By The Sea'
'She'
'Heroine'
'The Living Dead'
'To The Birds'
'The Big Time'
'The Two Of Us'
'Asphalt World'
'Still Life'
'The Next Life'

Good job of compiling the hits on 1 disc and other good stuff on the other. Should have 'Moving' on it mind but hey ho.

like THIS rather

http://artcritical.com/DavidCohen/2008/images/peyton-september.jpg

'Positivity', a top 20 single, gets ignored. Presumably as the fans only bought it for the b-sides.

Disc Two:

'Pantomime Horse'
'My Insatiable One'
'Killing Of A Flashboy'
'This Hollywood Life' Daddy's Speeding
'Europe Is Our Playground'
'My Dark Star'
'Sleeping Pills'
'By The Sea'
'She' High Rising
'Heroine'
'The Living Dead'
'To The Birds'
'The Big Time'
'The Two Of Us' 'He's Dead'
'Asphalt World'
'Still Life'
'The Next Life'

would be pretty much my ideal Suede

or maybe like just Sci-Fi Lullabies Disc One

I mean, it's a great selection but it needs 'He's Dead' and 'High Rising' so very much

b-b--b-but "Sleeping Pills" is ker-lassic

gonna plead ignorance on those three in the middle I've nixed - DMS, SFL and parts of the s/t are my jam wrt this band

wait 'sleeping pills' is on the s/t

ok reinstated

'Daddy's Speeding' is so great.

^^^also this, it's the stealth highlight of DMS

it kinda is the most evocative of all the songs on that album

I used to like that whole album so much - now I realise it's kinda only really about We Are The Pigs, Daddy's Speeding and The Asphalt World, maybe The Wild Ones too (also got a soft spot for Black Or Blue)

the debut album was more consistently great

the songwriting improved greatly on DMS, imo. "the two of us" and "black and blue" really drag down the momentum of the album, though.
the production all over DMS is so classic. extra stuff like that unholy siren thing that comes in towards the end of "the power"... so cool.

Positivity', a top 20 single, gets ignored. Presumably as the fans only bought it for the b-sides.

― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:42 AM

I still remember the disappointment of hearing that song for the first time. Their were a couple of really good B-sides on that single that were much better than anything on that last album. Simon was probably their last great song.

The second CD of this new Best of is a great collection songs but the main problem is the choices from Coming Up. That album is all about Picnic by the Motorway and The Chemistry Between us for me.

As for the B-sides I would like to see Together on there along with a few more from the Coming Up era, maybe Young Men, The Sound of the Streets or Every Monday Morning Comes.

Is anyone going to see them live this winter? I really wanted to, but didn't have the money.

just noticed that Breakdown didn't make this set - i feel like the petulant wail of "Does your love only come ... in a Volvo?" might be one of Suede's best lines.

Certainly one of their (intentionally) funniest.

The drama of swedish automotives.

You know, I just relistened to "She's in Fashion" – much better than I remembered.

Brett n Bernard have done the remastering job on the Best Of *together* according to today's NME.

i wouldn't bet against him popping onstage for the encore at the O2.

xp Noo! It's terrible, terrible. Could be the combo of hearing it every day on Virgin 1215 in my shitty teenage job, or that horrible advert it was on, but I think it's bad enough on its own merits. To me it seems to be one of their laziest self-parodying singles. Love pretty much everything else they did up til then, though.

Love the swirly "Indian" strings and Anderson's falsetto this time around.

Head Music is a strange but sometimes great album -- I stick by my claim that the B-sides from that period are often wonderful. I still love how "Let Go" ended up being a fluke Swedish hit in its own right.

Also, how great is this, stepping back a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnANXROIGBo

I still love that song.

Never saw it with Bernard but I count myself very lucky it was the final encore at the Dog Man Star show I caught, full band rendition. The place went nuts.

And as long as we're talking alternate renditions of "Stay Together" B-sides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELBkZK-PNZ0

Actually, here's something I scrounged up:

http://www.youtube.com/user/purplelazystarshine#p/c/9B33E41639289D65

It's a playlist of the 1997 fanclub show they did which was nothing but B-sides.

It's been said before, but those pre-1995 b-sides would make their own godly Suede album.

Wow at those two live 'Stay Together' b-sides. What great singing, the balls to do that in indie in 1992 - brilliant!

Love Bernard's little solo there. MTV's Most Wanted had a few nice singer-and-guitarist sets around that time. There was an amazing Verve one that I remember - Nick McCabe was playing a HUGE lead far too loud but it worked great. Must try to track it down.

I saw Bernard and Brett do The Living Dead at Glastonbury when they were The Tears, it was actually pretty special.

I still listen to Suede a lot but I can't say I've listened to Head Music in the last 5 years or so. I did love it at the time, not sure how I'd feel about it now.

The first disc of Sci Fi Lullabies stands up so well and if it was an actual album I would have no problem putting it in my all time top 50, there isn't a bad song on it.

Nice piece in The Guardian this morning. Only a curmudgeon wouldn't wish them the best.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/21/suede-reunion-best-of

Richard Oakes with a receding hairline? Time does pass.

a pleasant set of comments as well - they even bring out the best in the guardian

I'm really glad they are back in favour at the moment. I'm kind of split on if they should continue and make another album. I'm sure they could make an album better than A New Morning but I think these gigs are doing a great job of reminding people how great they were, another average album could ruin that.

Brett maybe be better off continuing with his solo career, after a couple of weak albums he finally nailed it with last years album. I'm interested to see what he does next.

Brett Anderson reminds us – sits in a hotel room on a darkening weekday evening, remarkably untouched by both time and excess

Um.

And a little more 1993.

Suede!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC7x0mT8z7Y

Oh wait.