― Nick, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicole, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I loved the flashness of Coming Up when it came along in the autumn of 96. You just had to admire Anderson’s survivalist instincts despite it being obvious they were never to be centre stage again. It had a cetain romance about it. They went for that deliberately cold, robotic, and mechanized sound with Head Music but what initially to me sounded brilliant soon wore away after a few weeks – it was the Suede LP that was stranded without context.
Saw them from speaker distance in the 100 club between their first 2 singles at the height of the hype and it was fantastic esp. after spending the summer at lank haired grunge gigs. I remember some of the radio interviews around the time of the DMS release. Brett seemed fucked out of it from the drugs but the album seemed like a strange but necessary anomaly in those last months of 1994 amongst the explosion of jungle, trip hop and Loaded culture. Anderson might have been an asshole but rather him than the whining and supercilious musoness of Butler.
Fave songs: The Chemistry Between Us, Wild Ones,
― David Gunnip, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But THEN I SAW SENSE
― The one and only trash pop slut, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the one and only trash pop slut, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I mean, just think of it this way, Brett looked less Instant Decadance than the Manics did. I mean, talk about putting any old clap on and then pretending to be fabulous, lordy.
NICK YOU HAVE NO SENSE.
― DG, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― A Homosexual Who's Had Several Bisexual Experiences, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
So what does everyone think of the McAlmont & Butler album then?
― Norman Phay, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maryann, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Simon, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maura, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Well, he did usually sport a builder's crack, and not to great effect.
Now he looks like Steve Dallas, at least that's funny...
― Nicole, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm not really overly concerned or critical about the lyrics because they're supposed to be cryptic, OTT and rub people the wrong way. Bernard Butler really poncey and a bit phobic about Suede lifestyle things but he was the one I saw in Hampstead walking away from Diana funeral motorcade passage so perhaps secret royalist/conservative?
The difference between Suede decadence and Ritzy decadence is the former is queerish and the latter reads no books and loves no art.
― suzy, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I knew there was something weird about him, this makes sense (and is very funny)...
― Ally, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
They met cos: Brett and Justine were at architecture college and togeth-ah for that duration and decided to form band with Mat, Brett's best friend. Drummers were tried, including Mike Joyce from the Smiths, then they got Simon and stuck with him. Bernerd was thrown up by a Melody Maker advert. Rule A is that the last one in on the advert is always the first one chucked. Ally, you won't like this but they wrote a great big long letter to Nick asking for their great hero Momus' verdict on their stuff; he wrote a sniffy one back saying they were so mediocre they'd be massive. Justine left band after leaving Brett for Demon Allbran.
Justine should've just stayed in Suede, she'd probably be better off.
― bob snoom, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicole, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But I'm paying for it now, just bringing this up has placed unsavory mental images in my head.
― gareth, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The DrownersMy Insatiable OneMetal MickeyAnimal NitrateSo YoungStay Together (edit)We Are the PigsThe Wild OnesNew GenerationTrashBeautiful OnesSaturday Night (edit)LazyFilm StarThe Chemistry Between UsElectricityShe's In FashionEverything Will FlowCan't Get Enough
(80:09, this one was easy to compile as a hits survey. the non-single tracks are my essentials - and remember if you disagree, post yours!)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 November 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
― kinski (kinski), Sunday, 16 May 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
I guess it's not that much of a surprise, but I just randomly put on the latter and it hit me like a falling anvil.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
As it happened, I brought the singles disc with me to work. Revival time!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Heck no. A noted fan is one Mr. John Darnellye of the Goats of Mountain, who wrote a wonderful essay on the album in one of the last print editions of Last Train to Jakarta.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I haven't heard this record yet but I will soon. I notice I'm flip-flopping all over the place in the thread above about the post-2010 stuff. For most of the past decade, I think I mostly only ever listened to these records on headphones, where they do tend to sound truly diabolical. Recently, I made a point of listening to all of them through speakers - even reading the lyrics while doing so - and the experience was revelatory. Fuck me, with a bit of air between your ears and the overstuffed arrangements, these records are really fucking good. Night Thoughts especially. I've never heard such perfect descriptions of stifled middle-aged horniness. For example, I was amused to discover that the song Outsiders, which I'd previously dismissed as Suede-by-numbers with a title to match, was actually about two people having the kind of affair where you literally have to fuck outdoors.
Anyway, when I do hear the new one, I'll give it a proper listen before jumping in with any criticisms.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 22 September 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
I look forward to your listen.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 September 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
Because streaming is so easy I tend to listen to music in the shittiest manner possible, almost like a transistor radio. but when I listen on the stereo and actually get the physicality of the music, it's such a refreshing change.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
Surprised to see this go in at number two and be their highest charting album since Head Music. I know album sales are crazy low at the moment, but 14,000 is actually not too bad and apparently higher than the last few (Blue Hour opened with 10,000). Even though I'm still unsure about some of the album, I'm happy for them and what they've achieved with this comeback. Keeping up the momentum this long since their reunion show in 2010 is not something I expected. It's crazy to think that the same time has passed from Bloodsports to the new one as their debut to A New Morning.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 24 September 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
I bought tickets to their Chicago show, since I never expected I’d see them live. (I was also too young for their peak, having only started listening to them in 2005, in my 20s). I remember hearing the Tears and some of their first comeback LP, but I see I’ve missed a lot in the interim. Guess I’ll have to brush up on their last few, or at least, find a "best of" playlist that covers the last ten years. I have even less idea of what the Manics have been up to—I’m a fan of The Holy Bible more than I’m a fan of the band, though I dig assorted other songs.
― blatherskite, Saturday, 24 September 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
I keep getting stuck replaying Personality Disorder and forget to listen to the rest of the record
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
Jesus Christ was that ever a show last night.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:17 (one year ago) link
They were so great! Really hope they don’t take another 25 years to come back.
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
(to the sf Bay Area)
Show is tonight, I'm psyched. Looks like they might have reduced prices for leftover seats.
I saw a couple tweets from Mat Osman today or yesterday, one making fun of overcooked American food and the other making fun of Chicago's currently gloomy weather, and I immediately thought to myself, come on, dude, you're British, you invented overcooked food and gloomy weather.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
The timing is nice; I revisited their discography and bootlegs a year or so ago, for the first time since I fell for them in 2007. My fervor for them at 38 year old isn't quite what it was at 23 (I'm less tolerant of Anderson's yelps) but it's a literal "once in a lifetime" chance. "The Wild Ones" was my go-to wallowing track whenever I'd fly home after visiting my long-distance girlfriend, and I spent many a sore-fingered afternoon trying to replicate Butler's guitar lines. Plus, the amazing Pavement shows last month thawed my resistance to seeing 30 year old bands. Finally, it'll be nice to just be among other fans; I've never met anyone IRL who's heard of Suede, and have only heard them in the wild at a Britpop night at the bar I used to frequent. (Club Foot, for fellow Chicagoans who remember it.)
It's more accurate to say I'm a fan of The Holy Bible than of the Manics; I bought the reissue when I was just discovering Howard Zinn etc. in the Bush years, so all those leftist quotes and iconography hooked me. I was on the fence about staying for them, but their setlist has enough stuff I'm familiar with that I might as well. Perhaps all those old ILX references to Nicky Wire in a banana suit will finally make sense...
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
At least he recognized how beautiful the venue is:
Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre is stunning pic.twitter.com/CNGlOunXye— Mat Osman (@matosman) November 16, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
Wow, what a band.
So, I've never really understood Manic Street Preachers, and indeed, midway through the opening set, my wife leaned over and said "I don't get this band." I certainly can't see them following Suede, have they really been swapping headlining slots?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 November 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
Yup, they have. Over in the UK that would likely make total sense but here...yeah, hm.
Suede headlining SF meant I had the right night.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 November 2022 05:20 (one year ago) link
Suede opening in Toronto means my friend and I get to leave early and go for a few drinks before getting home at a reasonable hour on a work night!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 17 November 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
So which band is likely to be opening tonight in Silver Spring? Chicago was the last show.
― Chris L, Friday, 18 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Probably Suede, as the Manics opened in Chicago, and I believe they’re alternating.
― blatherskite, Friday, 18 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
I saw Suede at the Øya festival in Oslo in August. I loved it and it was the festival highlight for me. But obe thing surprised me, and that was the lack of new songs. The entire set contained the the new single and one song from "Bloodsports", nothing else from the reunion years, everything else from the 90s even including some deep cuts from the debut album (so great to hear "Pantomime Horse" at a Suede gig in 2022). And they had s new album coming in even, but ignored it completely save for that one single.
Looking at their setlists, this seems to be a typical thing. I like their new albums a lot (especially the two moodier ones in the middle) but they almost ignored that phase completely. This may have made the concert better, because even though the new songs are good, fans are less familiar with it than the old stuff. Especially since this was a festival eith not only hardcore fans in the audience.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Friday, 18 November 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
Hmm. We got two from the new album, one from Blue Hour, one from Bloodsports and iirc none from Night Thoughts (which may be my fave of the comeback albums). One b-side (Flash Boy), the rest hits (as such). I suspect that because of the dual headliner nature of the set that the band lost some stage time.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
I've seen them quite a few times in the last 10 years, and they play a lot more of their newer songs in regular tour gigs. Festivals are definitely greatest hits affairs, and they seem to be treating the US tour that way too. I would expect a few from the new album and its immediate predecessors when I see them in Glasgow in March, though they'll no doubt end the set with a lot of of the big ones.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
They played a slew of shows tied in with Autofiction's release that was nothing BUT the new album plus "It Starts And Ends With You." So it does vary.
Giving nothing away about the conversation: when I had that nice chance to hang with the band the other week, it was very clear they're very conscious about their setlist choices and what they play depending on where they're at, the nature of the show etc., and that they're open to turning over ideas among themselves.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 November 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link