Suede

I knew there was something weird about him, this makes sense (and is very funny)...

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.

But I'm paying for it now, just bringing this up has placed unsavory mental images in my head.

The Drowners
My Insatiable One
Metal Mickey
Animal Nitrate
So Young
Stay Together (edit)
We Are the Pigs
The Wild Ones
New Generation
Trash
Beautiful Ones
Saturday Night (edit)
Lazy
Film Star
The Chemistry Between Us
Electricity
She's In Fashion
Everything Will Flow
Can'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!)

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.

As it happened, I brought the singles disc with me to work. Revival time!

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.

when is LOVE AND POISON coming out on dvd then do we think?

I'm kinda surprised the website is still up. Did Mat, Richard and Simon just decide to retire and relax?

Underrated "Filmstar" moment -- that shift between the NIN/Zeppelin crunch on the verses and the none-more-psych tripped-out chorus. If you will.

aces. brett in a shirt n tie, first performance of 'by the sea'...sweet.

Also, I faithfully bought all the editions of all the CD singles, right the way up to, and including, Positivity.

When I did my UK trip to celebrate Tom's wedding in 2003, I was invited, thanks to me running the mailing list, to stop by Suede's management office, Interceptor. This was after "Attitude" came out but just before the singles comp got released and, subsequently, the band decided to call it quits.

The band weren't there but Charlie Charlton, David Barnett and Ben Myers were -- all very good folks -- though I think there were a few low-key tensions that probably made sense a few weeks later. Anyway, while there they invited me to rifle through all the releases as I wished -- I had pretty much everything but this way I was able to pick up the most recent singles and the non-"London" Suede editions of most of the albums, rather handily.

I was listening to the fanclub only See You in the Next Life as well, released when the band wrapped it up, and I do love the unlisted bonus -- it's the full string arrangement from "Still Life," minus Brett or the rest of the band. V. dramatic.

Ha, for me it was (unranked outside the top 10), 4th, 2nd, 6th, and I didn't bother with "A New Morning" either.

On the most overlooked early bsides is Bernard's rocker "Painted People." I think it was on the Animal Nitrate single.

Like others I was not interested when A New Morning came out. About a year after the release I found the import for real cheap and bought it. I really isn't that bad and was expecting something much worse. The problem was, just like the Tears, I rarely played it and don't have a complete evaluation of it. When you loaded the CD into your computer you could go to this web site and hear the original Tony Hoffer version of this album that the band aborted.

(2004-present) Post-break activity
(Tears stuff chopped)

Alex Lee played a short set with Patrick Duff at the Tsunami Appeal Gig at the Bristol Carling Academy on Saturday 19th February and continued to tour with him. He now plays guitar and keyboard with Placebo. Neil Codling has toured as keyboardist for pop singer Natalie Imbruglia and has played as a duo called Barry O'Niel compromising him and Harriet Cawley. Gilbert is currently the drummer for international band Futon, based out of Bangkok, Thailand while Osman plays for the U.K. rock band Mista Brown.

Brett Anderson also has confirmed that he has a self-titled solo album planned for early 2007.