yeah Coming Up is a superb album (still remember being blown away by the Trash video/song, my first encounter with the band), and By The Sea/Picnic by the Motorway provide the depth to what might otherwise come across as a slight-seeming āpopā record
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great haircuts too
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Just remembered they were The London Suede, in the US at least, not sure if thatās still the case.
That remains the case, yep. And apparently thatās why they rarely play the States - as they hate the name!
Surely more to do with a lack of popularity
Iāve actually never a heard a Suede song before, but since they got the objectively best score of 3.30, Iām going to give the debut a shot this week.
I remember reading āBritpop, Blair & The Demise of English Rockā by John Harris (great book) and Alex James says something like āBernard Butler was really annoying wasnāt he? It was all long hair, cowboy boots and guitar solosā haha.
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Yeah, disc 2 has some great stuff like āEurope is Our Playgroundā (although, the original b-side version is better and āAnother No-Oneā.
The Tears album could have been great if it was a bit shorter. Some great songs on it.
The thread Iām saddest to have missed. As others have said, awesome early albums (I like Coming Up though!), dodgy middle, decent comeback (although Iām yet to find the Britpop comeback album that really does it for me). But the early albums / Sci Fi Lullabies were life changing and I absolutely murdered them between 2010 and 2013, just listening to them and Blur and Pulp over and over again. Pretty sure I put a Brett quote in my Cool Britannia/English nationalism dissertation which has ended up being way more relevant to the national climate since I wrote it, oops.
The Drowners is my favourite single (released in the week I was born, fun fact) but Animal Nitrate isnāt far behind, DMS is best album though. Once made a list of 50 things I loved about their Brits performance of Animal Nitrate. cried loads after I saw them live (at a festival 5 mins from my parents house - went by myself and spent 8 hours wangling myself to the front of the crowd, right in the middle), it was so good and Iāve been desperate to see them again since.
People on the Suede forum were really mean and over serious but they are a big sexy 5 for me. Second only to Blur in terms of favourite bands.
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Also: this band that had been successful in the UK with their first two albums replaced their guitarist with a 17 y/o schoolboy whose previous band were called The Poole Grammar Stompers and whose first gig wasā¦ Suede. Heād learned his entire playing style from Bernard Butler.
Iāve always found this very funny indeed
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I reckon the fact he was 17 probably helped. If he was in his 30s, the complete mimicking of someone elseās style might have come across as contrived!
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can you remember what the Brett quote was?
I think it was about how the roads in the US are laid out in blocks which is really unimaginative whereas Britainās are laid out in a really arcane, random way which is more interesting to him
Quite a gammony quote really but it was in the chapter explaining Britpop 
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Someone just dropped this on me
Jesus 
Without doubt the musical act with the most reissuing and rehashing of old material. Especially if you apply the ratio of actual albums:reissues.
Last year for RSD they reissued the debut for the nth time ā¦ but with The London Suede as the band name!
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Who is buying best ofs in the age of Spotify?
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exactly. I figured this was an artist approved playlist, but nopeā¦ a multiple version physical package
could have sworn they released a best-of with that exact title already.
Yeah, since Suede did a deal with Demon about 10 years ago there has been a ridiculous amount of re-issues.
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