Suede

High on diesel...to start with.

Mostly classic!

Search: 'Suede', 'Dog Man Star', 'Coming Up', 'Sci-Fi Lullabies (Disc One)'
Destroy: 'Head Music', 'A New Morning' (except 'Obsessions'), 'Sci-Fi Lullabies (Disc Two)' (except 'This Time').

And here we go:

http://thequietus.com/articles/09986-suede-recording-new-album

"Ed Buller is producing it."

:/

Ha, they considered Trevor Horn! Love Suede, love Ed Buller's anemic production, but not sure how I feel about this, because I don't love the last several things Anderson and/or Suede have done.

Butler's production on The Tears record is everything negative said about Buller's to the power of 10

Are any of Brett's solo records not boring?
Ppl were in a mild lather over the last one (due to the reunion, yeah?), but the tracks I heard were average pleasant predictable at best.

I actually really liked The Tears record, so... it's not like I'm the most discerning listener either. heh

I'm actually quite pleased to hear that Ed Buller's producing the record, I don't think it can be contested that the band did all of their best work with him behind the desk. I liked The Tears' album, rather than loved it; I thought it would have been much better if the album had been a couple of songs shorter. 'The Ghost Of You' is a classic Anderson/Butler composition though, IMHO.

The Tears album was really good but the live shows were even better.

I've heard all the Brett Anderson albums. The self titled one is dull with terrible production. Wilderness is a tiny bit better but sounds like a bunch of rushed demos. Slow Attack is his best work since Coming Up due to the massive Talk Talk influence, it's really beautiful in places. His last album was more of a band effort and had some good songs but nothing really special, kind of how I imagine a new Suede album would sound.

This is a new song they've been doing live that might make the album, it's just ok.

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

I feel kind of weird saying this but I kind of want them to come back with something that sounds like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umU0r8r76to

Turns out they premiered a few songs last year on tour, according to Wikipedia:

They then performed in Athens on 11 September 2011, and wrapped up their touring commitments in Russia on 16 and 18 December 2011 where they showcased new songs "Falling Planes", "The Only", "Someone Better", "I Don't Know Why", "Cold War", "Future Nightmare" and "Sabotage".

Of course he would do a song called "Cold War"! In Russia!

Meantime in a fit of organization, scrounging through all my singles again and some headscratching, I think I've figured out a playlist of everything that didn't end up on the remasters, so I just called it The Uncollected B-Sides and Rarities. A bit of fudging here and there -- the first three songs barely got released if at all and the Modern Rock Live session tracks were only ever released on a Sony promo disc, but everything else one way or another got a formal release on Nude, Sony/Epic or the Suede fanclub. Honestly surprised how much they ended up leaving out even with the inevitable live/alternate overlaps, this is three and a half hours worth of music! So in hopes fellow obsessives find it of interest:

Wonderful Sometimes
Be My God
Art
Just A Girl (1994 version)
This Hollywood Life [Modern Rock Live session]
The Wild Ones [Modern Rock Live session]
Killing Of A Flash Boy [Modern Rock Live session]
Animal Nitrate [Live - New Generation CD 2]
The Wild Ones [Live - New Generation CD 2]
Pantomime Horse [Live - New Generation CD 2]
Shipbuilding
By the Sea (live) [Coming Up US 2 CD version]
She (Strings)
Elaine Paige
We're So Disco
By The Sea [Acoustic Version]
Picnic on the Motorway (live)
She (live) [Coming Up US 2 CD version]
Europe Is Our Playground (live) [Coming Up US 2 CD version]
Saturday Night (live) [Coming Up US 2 CD version]
Killing of a Flash Boy (live) [Coming Up US 2 CD version]
Lazy (live) [Coming Up US 2 CD version]
Digging A Hole
Another No One [Sessions CD version]
Europe Is Our Playground [Sci Fi Lullabies rerecording]
Implement Yeah! (live at Reading Festival with Justine Frischmann plus Head Music demo clips and interviews)
Indian Strings [Protocol Demo]
She's In Fashion [Protocol Demo] (full version -- for whatever reason the one on the Head Music remaster loses a minute)
Can't Get Enough [Sessions CD version]
Beautiful Ones [Sessions CD version]
Savoir Faire [Sessions CD version]
Saturday Night [Sessions CD version]
Weight Of The World
Head Music (Arthur Baker Remix)
Everything Will Flow (Rollo's Vocal)
She's In Fashion (Lironi Version)
Since You Went Away [Sessions CD version]
Everything Will Flow [Sessions CD version]
By The Sea [Sessions CD version]
Untitled [Stanbridge Demo]
Simon (Instrumental)
Simon (Radio Version)
Attitude (demo)
Attitude [Mick Jones Remix]

I forgot about Wonderful Sometimes! Such a sweet little song.

The Sci-Fi Lullabies re-recording of 'Europe Is Our Playground' is the definitive studio version as far as I'm concerned!

I'm kinda curious now if there's anything rumored left in the vault that the remasters plus all the tracks above missed. I guess the release of the full length "Asphalt World" and the studio take of "Music Like Sex" were the two big ones from the remasters.

Well, there's 'I Don't Need A High' and 'Teenage Rose' which were two songs they were rumoured to be working on alongside the likes of 'Attitude' and 'Golden Gun' etc. They were performed live, but I'm unsure as to whether they got recorded.

The full length 'The Wild Ones' with the original ending was far more of a revelation to me than the full length 'The Asphalt World'. I really wish they'd retained that part. The bands decision to edit 'The Asphalt World' down for the album was justified, I thought.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if, rather than cropping and recolouring the photo they used for the sleeve of their debut album, they actually used the full photo like they were originally intending to.

Someone has scanned it in here, for those that are curious/don't have the remastered edition/have never seen it before...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16953040@N08/5952716714/

Meanwhile here's some of what Richard's been up to as well:

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/07/18/interview-artmagic/

Both David Barnett and Jude Rogers posting today about how they're off to record handclaps today on a new Suede record so there you go.

I love Sleeping Pills; its the song of their's I always go back to. I also remember seeing them at the Phoenix Festival in 95. Butler had just left, the press said they were all washed up, and it was pouring with rain. They played a blinder.

A legendary show, that one. They debuted "By the Sea" that night.

How handy, YouTube has it to hand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jreCPK3D0

The bass on that sounds ridiculous, I don't remember the record sounding like that at all.

and lol at them drafting in outside help to do the handclaps

That bass is very silly, but it's a good song. I'd love them to do a great new record. Seems hardly possible.

and lol at them drafting in outside help to do the handclaps

the selection of hand clappers insures a good write up in certain publications.

cynic. me ?

What I want to know is, are they paying their crowd-sourced handclappers industry standard union musician rates?

They're a last minute substitution as Abu Hamza is suddenly unavailable.

Hey! Jude is one of my irl good friend's best friend. She's great! Small world.

Well maybe not for music people but she is great in any event.

Hamza's a mean triangle player, I hope they did those parts first

He's good at coming up with hooks as well... *gets coat*

it's hanging over there, on the polemicist

I wouldn't say I was ever an obsessed fan or anything but...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4iJ6dnCEAAHBHD.jpg

Then again maybe I was.

Is that Fernando Saunders on that track from yesterday?

So apparently there were a LOT of people on handclaps:

http://www.suede.co.uk/gallery/

So it was some kind of "All You Need Is Love" supersession? Oh, I see, no not quite.

Re: the remasters, Ismael said this about Dog Man Star way earlier:

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

Listening closely now, I have to agree. There's this oboe part at the end of "The 2 of Us" I swear I never noticed before which is just amazingly melancholic.

New album is called Bloodsports:

http://thequietus.com/articles/11054-listen-suede-barriers-new-album-bloodsports-details

One new track, Barriers, available to stream (watch out for big Brett face):

http://suedebarriers.viinyl.com/

I dunno.

Kinda not hating this song at all.

The song is not bad, but the production is kind of, hmmm, boring?

Love Suede, glad Suede is back, don't need new Suede. Have enough Suede.

It's OK. Sounds like something I wouldn't mind but would mostly ignore on daytime Radio 6. Editors or something.

Weird how basically nothing happens in the middle 8 before it goes back into the chorus. Some strokes of the guitar but hardly a solo. Maybe Richard wasn't that fussed (he doesn't look too fussed nowadays).

I first listened on headphones, and it's ugly how it jumps into the chorus. VERY LOUD.

Another thing: the second time the word "barriers" is used in every chorus, something musical happens that makes it sound very very Suedey. There's this chord/key change that they've used a million times before, but it is distinctive.

I'd be bored by an album full of this kind of stuff but will probably buy it nevertheless.

Yeah. I don't think the song is great by any means, but it does sound very Suedey.

Cashing in on Richard Osman's new found fame.

It's bugging me what the first two lines sound like! More specific than 'other suede songs' like the rest of it...

intro sounds very

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxM42rG0a08

yeah it does! That's not what I'm thinking of, though.

don't mind this, but fuck me producers are getting lazier and lazier, it feels like there's so much more that could have been done with this

I really like this. I'm so relieved.

I really like this. As it's 'just' an album track I look forward to the singles.