Art of the Cover - Suede's "Night Thoughts" (2016)

 

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The Video - The Boo Radleys' "I Hang Suspended"

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Ahhh, those heady days of 1993, from a band I really liked back in the day, it's The Boo Radleys' and "I Hang Suspended"

Written by singer Martin Carr and released on the legendary/infamous Creation Records, it's a wonderful slice of power-pop meets shoegaze meets proto-britpop.

Yeah, some real My Bloody Valentine and Suede  musical echoes in there!

Kicking off with a blistering opening riff, it's a swirling, deliciously melodic, addictive beast.

The song appeared on their third LP  Giant Steps, which reached the UK Top 20. A fine album  indeed ... a bit of a lost classic actually.

In fact, reviewing the album's re-release in 2008, Sic Magazine wrote ....

"For 64 minutes they were the greatest band on the planet."

Also NME and Select Magazine named Giant Steps as their album of the year for 1993. 

However, despite critical acclaim, the band never really attained the success they much deserved.

The wonderful 2010 expanded/ remastered edition of "Giant Steps" is the way to go ... that's a full 3 CDs of material! ... click link on LHS/below.

Anyway, below is the memorable promo for "I Hang Suspended"!

The boys seemed to be having a blast in the fucked-up fun vid!

I wonder what they'd, erm ..  imbibed that day!

  

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Art of the Cover - Dum Dum Girls' "Too True " (2014)

Asstounding artwork indeed!

Yap, that damn minx, Dee Dee Penny and the Cali riot-grrls are back with a brand new 2014 album, baby!

For this one, Dee Dee has cited Brit indie legends Suede, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Stone Roses - as well as, erm .... clapped out, muzak mongering hag Madonna - as big influences (however, I don't feel much of the latter influence in here, myself - thank fuck!)

This swirling melange of pussy-punk, narco-shoegaze and Spectoresque girl-group pop was recorded in Hollywood with Sune Rose Wagner (The Raveonettes) and Richard Gottehrer. 

Mee-fucking-owwww, baby!
    

 
Tracklisting

1. Cult of Love
2. Evil Blooms
3. Rimbaud Eyes
4. Are You Okay?
5. Too True to Be Good
6. In the Wake of You
7. Lost Boys & Girls Club
8. Little Minx
9. Under These Hands
10. Trouble Is My Name  

 

Art of the Cover - Suede's "Coming Up" (1996)

Typically stylish and ambiguous art adorns the wonderful third album by Suede - their last great collection - released in September 1996 on Nude Records.

This, of course, was the band's first album since the departure of guitarist Bernard Butler, who was replaced by Richard Oakes.

Coming Up was a commercial success, removing many fans' doubts about Suede's new line-up.

It spawned five top 10 singles in the UK and charted at number one on the UK Albums Chart.

The album proved a hit in Europe and Asia and sold 1.5 million copies worldwide. The lead single "Trash" was their joint top charting single along with "Stay Together", reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart, however it outsold the latter making it their biggest selling single ever.
 

 

Tracklisting

1. Trash
2. Filmstar
3. Lazy
4. By The Sea
5. She
6. Beautiful Ones
7. Starcrazy
8. Picnic By The Motorway
9. The Chemistry Between Us
10. Saturday Night

 

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Art of the Cover - Suede's "Bloodsports" (2013)

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The Video - The Donnas' "Skintight"

Baby, you're so sweet, I got a toothache. I wanna take you home with me, wine and dine you with some cable TV. C'mon now, don't be so shy.

Yap, it's the bastard daughters of the Ramones! But sexier .... far far sexier .... with a wonderful slice of frothy carnal punk pop from some moons back. A great playful vid to boot.

Is this thing really from back in 1999? Man, I'm getting old! However, since you're as young as the gal you're feeling, I'm always 21!

An excellent pop-punk outfit that never garnered the success they deserved, the Donnas are, thankfully, still in the game and releasing fine music.

In a drunken stupor during the wee hours of this morning I again caught that B-movie ('B' as in Boobilicious!) "Jawbreaker" on some dumb movie station (well, the remote was just too fucken far away right there at the other end of the bed!) a flick though dumber than the scary idiot offspring sprung from the gates of hell via the ungodly union of GW Bush and Sarah Palin, I admit to kind of liking! Maybe something to do with the fact that the Donnas are in there, knocking out two great numbers as the best prom band ever. And no, nothing to do with the slew of sumptuous sensual sweeties therein, including Irish toothless bard Shane's daughter, the voluptuous Rose McGowan! .... Thus this ditty came to my little mind.

Interestingly, the dad of the hot lead Donna was such a huge fan of Britpop pioneers Suede (regardless of the fact that said band wouldn't even exist until a decade after the event!) that he named his daughter Brett Anderson! .... They should get married to each other!

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The Song - Suede's "We Are The Pigs"

And as they call you to the eye of the storm, all the people say "Stay at home tonight!" I say we are the pigs. We are the swine. We are the stars of the firing line!



"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths."

- J. G. Ballard

A gorgeous raw bleeding slice of Bretty and Bernie at their glorious prime! One of the best tracks of the Nineties, no muddafucken doubt. One of the best slices of modern music,more broadly! A song that certainly warmed my cockles back in those faraway indie-kid days!

The video, directed by David and Raphael Vital-Durand, features a grim, 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'-like setting. Featuring urban rebellion, arsonism, cross burnings and various acts of violence (plus a few too many satanic "All-seeing Eye" images for my liking) , the promo was banned by numerous stations.

Interestingly, the video features who would be the band's Bernard replacement - new guitarist Richard 'Butler' Oakes!

Yap, it's "We Are The Pigs", probably the highlight from the band's stunning sophomore LP, the masterpiece that is "Dog Man Star" - some sort of fucked up concoction of The Smiths, JG Ballard, Dave Bowie, Buzzcocks, Camus and some raving anarchist down the pub!!

A stone-cold modern invigorating encapsulation of existentialism!

A call to arms against the masonic machine!

A wonderful single release with an amazing B-side; one of my fave Suede moments, the pitch black pop of "Killing of a Flashboy"!






A band once more over-fucking-hyped than the so-called "moon landing"! But unlike the so-called "moon landing", the band's music had a shitload of veracity. And, for a long time, more than an importance in the doldrums of modern music/ culture; a real criticality!

Bernard here does a great Johnny Marr to Brett's bleakly beautiful and beautifully bleak Mozza-esque words. All the alienation of the angry young man in the big bad bastard city - one of the many conglomerations of 'slaves' in the fascist masonic masters' world (a thing essentially a giant pig sty in the NWO view!) A heavenly place where "the Church bells are calling and Police cars on fire." A circle of hell where "as the smack cracks at your window, you wake up with a gun in your mouth."

But it's a place where reality is suddenly dawning as powerfully and suddenly as a flying knuckle-dusted fist to the fucking face. The masses have had enough of this fascistic bullshit ...."Deceit can't save you so we all watch them burn!"

A homage in part to Pier Paolo Pasolini's fucked-up parable "Porcile" ("Pigsty") where PPP concludes that the modern world is built upon people acting like pigs! A theme ironically visited many years later by Morrissey in his great "Life is a Pigsty"!

The raw, naked, pretty, sculpted minimalist urban, haikuesque poetry all driven along by Butler's blistering, glorious guitar work! A stormy, incendiary, convulsing thing. One that sadly heralded the end of the singer / guitarist relationship (more Smithsesque comparisions again!) Worse, the death-knell for the "real" Suede.

Anyway, c'mon everybody - time to fucking wake up and do something ... "We are the pigs! .... ....We are the swine!"

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Chase The Rainblown Fields Away

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There's a song playing
on the radio ,
sky high in the airwaves
on the morning show
and there's a lifeline
slipping
as the record plays
and as I open the blinds
in my mind
I'm believing
that you could stay
And oh if you stay,
I'll chase the rainblown fields away.
We'll shine like the morning
and sin in the sun.
Oh if you stay,
we'll be the wild ones,
running with the dogs today.
There's a song playing
through another wall.
All we see and believe
is the D.J. and debts dissolve
and it's a shame
the plane is leaving
on this sunny day
'cos on you my tattoo
will be bleeding
and the name will stain.
But, oh, if you stay ,
we'll ride from disguised
suburban graves.
We'll go from the bungalows
where the debts
still grow every day
And oh if you stay
I'll chase the rainblown fears away.
We'll shine like the morning
and sin in the sun.
Oh, if you stay,
we'll be the wild ones
running with the dogs today.

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The Art - Elizabeth Peyton's "September [Ben]" (2001)

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The Music - Suede's "My Insatiable One" (Live & Acoustic)

In the high life, I've got this feeling now. I've got this horrible feeling. On the escalator, they took it out on him, as the ridiculous world went ...'oh'!

A nice acoustic version of this classic piece of Suede, from a Copenhagen gig on 09/10/2002. A bit of Brett banter thrown in for good measure too!

A song much admired by Suede hero Morrissey who has played the song numerous times in live shows ... catch the Mozza version here.


A great song from back in the band's heyday. A postmodernist deconstruction perhaps of Richard Thompson's peerless "The Great Valerio." uality going on!

"My Insatiable One" originally appeared as a B-side (really!!) to the band's sublime debut single "The Drowners" back in 1992. It later appeared on the magnificent LP of obscurities "Sci-Fi Lullabies", as well as, most recently, on the mighty 2-CD collection "Sci-Fi Lullabies"!


A song laden with Butler's trademark ambiguous dark sexuality. One with oodles of his fucked-up blacker than black surreal dark humour for good measure! Take ... "On the high wire, dressed in a leotard, there wobbles one hell of a retard"! Or this ... "Oh he is gone! He's my insatiable one. Oh he is gone - and he was my ... inflatable one"!

A song too that's chockful of Ballardesque existential angst and alienation - a tale of he sick sad suburbs where "on the escalator, we shit paracetemol, as the ridiculous world goes by"!

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The Cover Version - Morrissey does "My Insatiable One"

In the high life, I've got this feeling now. I've got this horrible feeling. On the escalator, they took it out on him, as the ridiculous world went ...'oh'!

Back in the Brett and the boys' heyday, there was a law that every reference to the sublime Suede in the muzak mags had to include the words "The Smiths"! Yeah, ok, there were perhaps a few influences from the Manc lads (amongst many others) on the big city suburban slickers, but here Morrissey really returns the favour, showing his respect for Suede's unique work with a lovely restrained version (no Brett vocal histrionics or Butler's blistering guitar acrobatics here!) of "My Insatiable One"!

Well, the great Brett Anderson song, the wonderfully titled (in Mozza fashion) "My Insatiable One" - a postmodernist deconstruction perhaps of Richard Thompson's peerless "The Great Valerio" - which originally appeared as a B-side (really!!) to the band's sublime debut single "The Drowners" back in '92 - does certainly have a lot of Mozza's trademark ambiguous dark sexuality going on!

And oodles of his fucked-up blacker than black surreal dark humour for good measure (again in Moza stylee)! Take ... "On the high wire, dressed in a leotard, there wobbles one hell of a retard"! Or this ... "Oh he is gone! He's my insatiable one. Oh he is gone - and he was my ... inflatable one"!

It's a song though too with shitloads of Ballardesque existential suburban angst and alienation ... "On the escalator, we shit paracetemol, as the ridiculous world goes by"!

The song later appeared on the magnificent LP of obscurities "Sci-Fi Lullabies" and most recently on the mighty 2-CD collection "Sci-Fi Lullabies"!

This performance comes from a Mozza gig in Leysin, Switzerland back in July 1992!

Switzerland??!! .... Wait a goddang minute! Didn't Mozza give a famous and controversial quip years ago about his absolute hate for playing in Europe, saying something which encompassed detesting everywhere from "greasy Greece" to the "flooded fields in Belgium"!! ... Maybe Mozza was going through a cheese and chocolate addiction phase which overcame these phobias when this gig took place!!

Or maybe he'd just heard about Matter's Horn!!!

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Art of the Cover - Suede's "Best Of" (2010)

Gorgeous cover artwork, as designed by American painter Elizabeth Peyton using her 2001 work "September (Ben)."

If anything would convince you how sadly underrated this band was - especially in the U.S. - it's this collection released a couple of months back. Suede weren't just a 90s "Britpop" band, even if they unintentionally heralded the advent of ridiculous copycats and the coinage of the vile term "Britpop".

They were - and are - exciting, loud, shocking, suggestive - and wonderful.

This collection includes the band's great singles on the first disc and other rare tracks and B-sides (including one of my faves "Killing of a Flashboy") on the second.

A whopping 35 tracks in all!






All songs were remastered and both Brett Anderson and former guitarist Bernard Butler - aided by Chris Potter - were involved in the remastering. And it shows - especially in some of the earlier songs; classics like 'So Young', 'Pantomime Horse' - really shine, especially on a quality sound system.

It's also a collection carefully compiled and sequenced by the band itself (particularly Brett Anderson) over several months, and the order of the tracklisting shows the amount of effort undertaken.

It's a nigh perfect collection. One that needs to be listened to in the order here.



Tracklisting

Disc: 1

1. Animal Nitrate
2. Beautiful Ones
3. Trash
4. Filmstar
5. Metal Mickey
6. New Generation
7. So Young
8. The Wild Ones
9. The Drowners
10. Stay Together
11. Lazy
12. Everything Will Flow
13. We Are the Pigs
14. Can't Get Enough
15. Electricity
16. Obsessions
17. She's in Fashion
18. Saturday Night

Disc: 2

1. Pantomime Horse
2. My Insatiable One
3. Killing of a Flashboy
4. This Hollywood Life
5. Europe Is Our Playground
6. My Dark Star
7. Sleeping Pills
8. By the Sea
9. She
10. Heroine
11. The Living Dead
12. To the Birds
13. The Big Time
14. The Two of Us
15. The Asphalt World
16. Still Life
17. Next Life

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Art of the Cover- Suede's "We Are The Pigs" (2004)

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

- J. G. Ballard

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The Music - Brett Anderson's "Wilderness" (2008)

Former Suede head honcho Brett Anderson has announced that he will release a new solo album, 'Wilderness', later this year.

Fans who bought a ticket for Anderson's gig at London's Mermaid Theatre on July 7 received a copy of the album on USB stick format! Very high tech Brett!

The album will of course also be released on conventional formats .

The LP features a minimal set-up, with Anderson playing piano and guitar joined by cellist Amy Langley, it also features guest vocals from French hotty Emmanuelle Seigner on the song 'A Different Place'.

Tracklisting

1. A Different Place 04:11
2. The Empress 03:38
3. Clowns 03:02
4. Chinese Whispers 03:21
5. Blessed 04:40
6. Funeral Mantra 02:56
7. Back To You 03:14
8. Knife Edge 03:01
9. P Marius 04:36

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The Music - Suede's "Thrilling Us Softly" [Boot] (1998)

Suede -Thrilling Us Softly (1998)

Catalogue No./Label: HOWL 14 (Silver Wolf)
Release Date: February 1998
Running Time: 70 min

Gotta say we loved Suede in the early days. A gust of fresh air into the Brit Indie hovel of the time, and, for once, a band that lived up to the immense hype that surrounded their arrival onto the scene.

With songs full of characters and scenes that might exist in perhaps a JG Ballard novel or Lou Reed were he a Brit, biting poetic lyrics, Brett's idiosyncratic vocal style and stage presence, and Bernard Butler's driving swaying luscious Johnny Marr guitarscapes, they made some classic albums and put on some amazing live shows.

This was during the period they released their eponymous debut Suede (1993) and the magnificent Dog Man Star (1994), which marked the departure of Butler.

They continued with the same template - with Richard Oakes doing a remarkable job in the Butler role, and perhaps bringing a lot of extra stuff to the party - for the great Coming Up (1996) and Head Music (1999), until their final hurrah with New Morning, in 2002 (No. Dylan didn't sure them for nicking the title of his great 1970 opus!)

This bootleg from 1998 compiles the best performances from two live shows - the 1997 Reading Festival show and an earlier 1996 performance at Maida Vale Studios.

The sound quality is very good on both shows.

Of course, there are some amazing songs on the tracklisting.

Tracklistings

Live at Reading Festival .... August 22nd 1997

She

Trash

By The Sea

So Young

The Wild Ones

Saturday Night

Picnic By The Motorway

Europe Is Our Playground

Beautiful Ones

Filmstar

Live at Maida Vale Studios, London ... August 28th 1996

Trash

Saturday Night

By The Sea

She

Lazy

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