I think they're seriously underrated. Even here in the UK. I love them! :) What does everyone else think of them? (In the U.S I think they're called The London Suede.)
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Having just looked at your profile,i apologise for the use of bad language. Didn't realise YOU ARE A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL!!!
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Blimey! A 13 year old New Order fan..Shame on all you for swearing
I'm through cussing on NOOL now. Brett is a twit.
Well Bernard Butler left them acrimoniously in the mid 90's and they weren't quite the same.
They actually split up a couple of years back, and Suede are deffo no more.
BUT Brett and Bernard got back together, as the 'The Tears', and had a small hit earlier this year.
Beats me, what's going on, but i smell a scam to get out of a record contract sorta thingy.
Interesting Suede facts:
I sold my beloved Shergold Masquerader to Richard Oakes.
Bernard Butler drinks with the Vikings. Something to do with his brother I think ;)
I thought their first album was brilliant - it coincided with a great time in my life when I was having fun and didn't give a flip about anything.
When Butler left, they had a huge audition to find a replacement. The kid they found was from Poole. I only remember this because I was living there at the time. He was, as I remember, absolutely brilliant at copying Butler. Then I lost interest.
Brett Anderson was nipping the same girl as Damon Allbran out of Bleugh? Justine someone from Elastica. I prefered the one with red hair, myself. She looked a bit like a girl from my school and I snogged her once. The girl from school, not the red haired one from Elastic. Then again, it might have been the one from the band. It was a very confusing time.
Edit: What on earth am I on about?
Suede were, occasionally, brilliant. Animal Nitrate is easily one of the best songs of the decade, and stuff like Trash is also fantastic. Pity they blew it really because they could have been massive...
The Tears on the other hand, are shite. I remember Leeds festival last year, and i was walking to the coach during Foo Fighters encore (I dont like encores) and i walked through the NME tent and the tears were on, headlining the same stage that Kasabian did the night before. they were 200/300 people watching. Quite sad really.
Animal Nitrate is a great song and their first album, wich include it, is also good.
The genius Peter Saville was art director of the Coming Up album cover. Respect.
I refused to get into Suede at the time because the NME were so obsessed with them. Don't believe the hype, kids! Same with Gay Dad, I was right obviously!
I don't quite get this thing about Suede being underrated and somehow "blowing their chance to be massive". Between 1992 up until they released Head Music they were pretty fuckin big. In fact from '92 up until the whole Britpop pish of '94 they were the biggest most talked about act around.
I've seen them on numerous ocassions including one of my all time favourite gigs at the now bulldozed Glasgow Plaza in 1992. say what you want about brett Anderson but he puts on a brilliant performance. Top live act with some outstanding albums. Roll on the inevitable reunion tour in about 3 years time.
Well, the first two albums are far far better than anything Blur ever did, and better than pretty much everything Pulp ever did (with the exception of Different Class) and both of them became massive.
Uncle Liam wrote: Well, the first two albums are far far better than anything Blur ever did, and better than pretty much everything Pulp ever did (with the exception of Different Class) and both of them became massive.
When were Pulp massive? Suppose they were relatively popular with Britpop bandwagon jumpers between the release of Common People and Disco 2000 i.e. for about 6 months! Remember them having to shift a gig from the SECC to the Barra's circa '98.
Suede were fuckin everywhere between '92 and '97. I remember Radio 1 having a "Suede Day" when "Coming Up" was released in '96. I could see an argument for them being overrated but certainly not underrated 
Perversely my favourite Suede album is actually their last one "A New Morning" which was universally panned!
Pulp were massive when they replaced the Stone Roses at Glasto in 95.
Pulp were massive when they headlined the first ever V Festival in 96 or 97 when they headlined the first ever V festival.
Pulp were even kind of massive in 2002, when they sold out the Forest tour and aaprently attracted the largest corwd of the weekend at Reading.
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Uncle Liam wrote: Well, the first two albums are far far better than anything Blur ever did, and better than pretty much everything Pulp ever did (with the exception of Different Class) and both of them became massive.
When were Pulp massive? Suppose they were relatively popular with Britpop bandwagon jumpers between the release of Common People and Disco 2000 i.e. for about 6 months! Remember them having to shift a gig from the SECC to the Barra's circa '98.
Suede were fuckin everywhere between '92 and '97. I remember Radio 1 having a "Suede Day" when "Coming Up" was released in '96. I could see an argument for them being overrated but certainly not underrated
Perversely my favourite Suede album is actually their last one "A New Morning" which was universally panned!
I remember that, it was panned so badly they didnt sell out Manc Academy, and their gig in belshaft was cancelled. I was gutted as i'd never seen them.
I listened to it once or twice, and then was filed away, never to be listened to again.
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I listened to it once or twice, and then was filed away, never to be listened to again.
Please tell me your CD's aren't in alphabetical order
no, filed away means put with the rest of the CD's i dont like. The ones i do like are sprawled everywhere...
Uncle Liam wrote:
GlasVegas wrote:
Uncle Liam wrote: Well, the first two albums are far far better than anything Blur ever did, and better than pretty much everything Pulp ever did (with the exception of Different Class) and both of them became massive.
When were Pulp massive? Suppose they were relatively popular with Britpop bandwagon jumpers between the release of Common People and Disco 2000 i.e. for about 6 months! Remember them having to shift a gig from the SECC to the Barra's circa '98.
Suede were fuckin everywhere between '92 and '97. I remember Radio 1 having a "Suede Day" when "Coming Up" was released in '96. I could see an argument for them being overrated but certainly not underrated
Perversely my favourite Suede album is actually their last one "A New Morning" which was universally panned!
I remember that, it was panned so badly they didnt sell out Manc Academy, and their gig in belshaft was cancelled. I was gutted as i'd never seen them.
I listened to it once or twice, and then was filed away, never to be listened to again.
I think they're one of these bands that if they did reform in a few years time they would actually pull far bigger crowds thatn they ever did even at the peak of their careers. Look at the Pixies selling out Meadowbank Stadium last year for a similar example. I saw them about a month after Doolittle was released and they were still playing the QMU (capacity 600).
Other bands who could reform and play to bigger audiences now than in their heyday ; My Bloody Valentine, Jesus And Mary Chain and, obviously, The Stone Roses.
I saw Suede a bunch of times, the first one when they were supporting the Cranberries(??!!) at Leicester Uni circa '92.
At the time I'd never seen anything quite so wonderfully OTT as Brett Anderson thwacking his arse with his mic all the way through and Butler literally humping hs guitar as they played. Their first LP is pretty much up there as one of the best albums of the 90s for me.
LAUGH all you want i really liked GAY DAD!Superb ARTWORK too by SAVILLE.I also thought SUEDE quite good but never bought the great ARTWORK cover by SAVILLE for their album....was it HEAD MUSIC?
steveone wrote: Having just looked at your profile,i apologise for the use of bad language. Didn't realise YOU ARE A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL!!!
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That's fine, I'm quite foul mouthed for a 13 year old actually. 
Bernard Butler lives round the corner from me.
And a few of us were stood with him at Wemberlee.
We´re on holiday with his big bruvva. 
I have Dog Man Star and some other Double disc thingy. Can't remember the title. I like what I've heard but am failing to see what all the hype is about. Am I missing something?
