Suede

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.

Amazing! How did you come across this?

My friend Jason dug it up earlier today.

I hope Brett has seen it.

had no idea the song had such a singalong quality!

How can't you sing along to it!

So.. yeah.

http://a-different-place.co.uk/?p=893

Demon Music Group’s Edsel label is immensely proud to announce the acquisition of the license for the Suede catalogue. The first releases will be the re-issues of all five studio albums as Deluxe 2CD + DVD Editions in digipaks in June 2011, the first time that these hugely influential albums have been re-issued. All the packages are being put together with the full involvement of all current band members and Bernard Butler.

These Deluxe Editions will feature:

* the non-album b-sides (including many not previously compiled)
* demos from the collections of Brett Anderson, Bernard Butler, and Richard Oakes, including several previously unreleased songs
* DVDs featuring the videos for all the singles, and appropriate concert footage

And the 28 page booklets will contain:

* brand new, specially-written notes by Brett Anderson
* the lyrics for all the songs, including the b-sides
* Brett’s original hand-written lyric drafts
* studio tracking sheets where available
* previously unpublished photos from the collections of both the band and their friends

I'm really excited for these, I hope they turn out as well as those Pulp ones from a few years ago which were just perfect.

Think like most people I'll be buying the first three, Is there much point in a New Morning reissue? There is a theory that they picked the wrong songs and there are better versions out there but I'm not convinced. I did like maybe three songs from that period but they were wasted as bonus tracks and B-sides.

those hand-written lyric drafts could advance the cause of Suede scholarship by years, hope they've sent it to the legal deposit libraries.

'Suede' remastered and expanded, released 30 june, 2011.

DISC ONE

1. So Young
2. Animal Nitrate
3. She’s Not Dead
4. Moving
5. Pantomime Horse
6. The Drowners
7. Sleeping Pills
8. Breakdown
9. Metal Mickey
10. Animal Lover
11. The Next Life

DEMOS
12. The Drowners [Rocking Horse demo]
13. Metal Mickey [Island demo]
14. Pantomime Horse [Island demo]
15. He’s Dead [Rocking Horse demo]
16. Moving [Rocking Horse demo]
17. To The Birds [Rocking Horse demo]
18. Sleeping Pills [East West demo]

DISC TWO

THE B-SIDES

1. My Insatiable One
2. To The Birds
3. He’s Dead
4. Where The Pigs Don’t Fly
5. Painted People
6. The Big Time
7. High Rising
8. Dolly

EXTRA TRACKS
9. My Insatiable One [piano version]
10. Brass In Pocket
11. Diesel [instrumental] [previously unreleased studio outtake]
12. Stars On 45 [previously unreleased rehearsal room recording]
13. Just A Girl [early demo, featuring Justine Frischmann]
14. Sleeping Pills [strings]

DVD

SINGLES VIDEOS

1. The Drowners
2. Metal Mickey
3. Animal Nitrate
4. So Young
5. The Drowners [US version]

THE BRIT AWARDS, ALEXANDRA PALACE, 16th FEBRUARY 1993
Animal Nitrate

LIVE AT THE LEADMILL, SHEFFIELD, 27th FEBRUARY 1993

1. Metal Mickey
2. Moving
3. My Insatiable One
4. Animal Nitrate
5. Pantomime Horse
6. The Drowners
7. Painted People
8. So Young
9. Animal Lover
10. Sleeping Pills
11. To The Birds

LOVE AND POISON
Live at Brixton Academy, 16 May 1993

1. The Next Life
2. Moving
3. Animal Nitrate
4. My Insatiable One
5. Metal Mickey
6. Pantomime Horse
7. He’s Dead
8. The Drowners
9. Painted People
10. She’s Not Dead
11. To The Birds
12. Sleeping Pills
13. So Young

BONUS DVD FEATURE:
BRETT ANDERSON AND BERNARD BUTLER 2011 INTERVIEW, INCLUDING FILM INSERTS BY SIMON GILBERT

..and for the rest click here http://www.suede.co.uk/

pretty amazing reissue business!

14. The Asphalt World [original unedited version]

This couldn't be the rumoured sixteen-minute version?!

'Shipbuilding' doesn't seem to be on any of these discs, which is a shame, but otherwise A+

has anyone ever re-released their Help tracks under their own name?

yeah the Shipbuilding video clip is on the CU reissue but not the song itself.

Radiohead re-released Lucky on OK Computer i suppose.

What was Help, was that the Bosnia charity album? If so, Radiohead used 'Lucky' really soon afterwards.

did they not record a different version?

hm maybe. didn't sound much different.

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/suede-we-are-the-pigs-live---casino-de-paris-november-1993/820412289001

iTunes Genius Playlist stuck a load of random Suede songs on my iPhone, and I have been grooving all weekend! So much from Coming Up and Head Music which I had forgotten about but has been perfect in this shitty, rainy spring!

check the interactive reissues thingamajig here. some great artwork! especially the alternate Dog Man Star cover.
http://www.facebook.com/suede?sk=app_220955937932158

woah! don't love the alternate cover myself tbh but this whole site is kinda cool!

check that Coming Up out-take o-0

way interesting and exhaustive new interview with Ed Buller here:
http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/interviews/ed%20buller.htm

can't do any music listening on work PC :(

or did you mean the boobie picture? lol!

ha yeah that's the chap.

<3

Suede may be one of the few bands to have been at various times among the most popular, the most overhyped and, ultimately, the most underrated bands.

I've ordered the first two albums already but looking at that site I kind of want the whole lot, I know deep down there is no reason to ever own a reissue of A New Morning.

I wish it were 5 years ago and I could justify spending more than, like, $15 on these, since they look awesome. Assuming they were even released in the US.

Why did they leave off Be My God, Art, Wonderful Sometimes and others from the new release? It doesn't seem to be because of their sound quality, a lot of the demos on the new issue sound pretty bad.

Maid In London is the one i always liked.

ah, I forgot entirely about Wonderful, Sometimes. Great song!

I picked up Dog Man Star today, mostly for the promised extended 'Asphalt World'. I was a little disappointed by this, it's only a couple of minutes longer, and half of that's the radio randomly tuning to the form guide for Newmarket at the end, which isn't quite in keeping imo.

But now I've got the album proper on and woah is it something - it definitely didn't sound as warm and clear as this back in the day, everything's been properly separated and there are tons of things going on in the background that I swear never used to be there. Shame it's taken seventeen years to put right (a pity, too, that it shows up the rhythm section as a bit leaden, but hey it's not like you could draft in Sly & Robbie to patch that aspect up).

Interesting, also, that Brett writes in the notes that nowadays he'd sequence it: Introducing - Pigs - Heroine - Wild Ones - Daddy - Dark Star - Flashboy - Hollywood Life - New Generation - Living Dead - 2 of Us - Asphalt World - Still Life. You should've just went for it here matey, that sounds great!

I am so glad these are pretty reasonably priced here, considering they still seem to be classified as "imports". I've been holding out for reissues for really diving into Suede.

I have SUCH a weird relationship to this band though. Up until I picked up Singles in the Tower closing sale, all I had was Sci-Fi Lullabies, which I dubbed to cassette and was my go-to driving tape for like eight straight months of college. With their pretty limited exposure where I was living (Oasis, Blur, MSP, Radiohead, etc all were relatively easy to track down import singles of, Suede was not for some weird reason), this meant that for the longest time I knew these guys more through B-sides than anything else at all.

If there's one band where that works though ...

Oh I know! When I first picked up Sci-Fi, I had no idea it was B-sides strictly, I thought it had A's and B's. I grabbed it on a complete whim based on what I'd read of them in the undergrad library's copy of NME.

Lol brett's tracklist replaces all the crap with the b-side bangers, good work.

Oops. Hit enter too soon. Anyway, I was blown away when I found out it was all B-sides.

But I'd go all the way and sub whipsnade for 2 of us.

Yeah I just got the Dog Man Star reissue today, really happy with it. I too was a little disappointed The Asphalt World was only a bit longer but apart from that they've done a brilliant job. I especially like the We Believe In Showbiz demo.

That's really interesting Brett picking his ideal tracklisting, I wouldn't say the songs he replaced are bad at all but there's no denying it could have been even better with those additions. Flashboy is probably my favourite Suede song ever.

I have the debut on it's way to me and I'm thinking I'll pre-order Coming Up too. It's kind of a shame that once I have all the reissues I won't have any need for Sci-fi Lullabies, it's one of my most played albums ever.

Has anyone watched the dvd disc yet? pretty interesting interview with Brett and Bernard. Even though they are obviously both grown up and theres a lot of water under the bridge there is just something really uncomfortable about them being together, like they just don't trust each other or something. Still no idea how they made that Tears album together.

Not overly impressed by the remastering of "Suede" tbh, seems a bit overcompressed and needlessly enloudened. A quick comparison with the previous Sony release seems to confirm the volume's been wacked right up. All I was hoping was they'd tweak the low-end a bit so it wasn't so tinny. Disappointing.

May still pick up DMS, if only to have those rare b-sides on disc.

DMS was at the time my favorite album of '94.

The first album still sounds patchiest to me: two ballads too many, "Animal Lover" a redundancy. And doesn't "Moving" sound more like a B-side -- an inessential one -- than "To the Birds" or "My Insatiable One"?

I've just had on the Paris gig - hilariously rudimentary picture, but actually quite reasonable sound. They were damn good live.

And now onto fnac for a four-song set that opens with 'Dolly', then 'High Rising'. Really giving the public what it wants there, guys. Pretty lovely songs to be fair.

ah, funny was just watching the dvd to "suede" ! the interviews are interesting and yeah, they don't seem too comfortable with each other but then again I don't think I've seen a video, even from 93 where they seemed like best mates etc !
I'm also a bit disappointed by the remastering job on "suede". not that it's bad or anything. just that I don't feel like there's much difference. some sounds are a bit clearer.
I've ordered DMS anyway.
takes me back to my teenage years as I really loved "suede" when it was released and butler changed my (musician) life.
I was thinking that it's been almost 20y since the debut album was released and coming back from the record store I thought I was exactly like the guys who went to buy sgt pepper on cd in 87 for its 20th bd. funny cos 67-87 seems a much longer time than this ! (of course cos it's 2years longer, one may say...).

my fave Breet n Bern interview is this, and they do actually kinda get on in a matey way.. only to then they split up within a few months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5cT0gd5uGQ
kinda eerie actually; them sitting in the same posture and finishing each other's sentences. they were big big mates pre Suede fame by all accounts.
these ere DVDs should have THIS kinda stuff on as it's way more revealing than any 18 years-after-the-fact-chatter.

this is probs the most telling bit of footage from the just-weeks-before-the-very-end era of Suede Mk 1; Matt Osman looking forward to pretending to beating Bernard up(!)
and Brett clearly as high as a novelty kite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di_6IqUwKu4

That making of the video clip is fantastic. I don't know which is my favourite bit, Brett forgetting what he's talking about, Bernard's "that's mr Anderson for you" or the grin on Matt's face when talking about battering Bernard.