Suede is the debut album by English alternative rock band Suede, released in March 1993 on Nude Records. It was recorded in London at Master Rock studios late 1992 and early 1993 and was produced by Ed Buller. At the time the fastest-selling debut album in British history in almost a decade, Suede debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart, won the 1993 Mercury Music Prize, and is often cited as one of the first Britpop records.
Suede are working-class lads striving for glamour, and they achieve it by piecing together remnants of the past with pieces of the present, never forgetting the value of a strong hook in the process. And while the sound of Suede frequently recalls the peak of glam rock, its punk-influenced passion and self-conscious appropriation of the past make it thoroughly postmodern.
Suede themselves still regard the album as one of their best, but they have their reservations, particularly in regard to the production. Anderson had this to say about Moving : It never sounds as good on that album as it did live. There’s hardly anything of the energy, it’s over-produced, it’s all a bit FX, it’s a bit grim. Successful singles from the album include Animal Nitrate, So Young, Metal Mickey and the aforementioned The Drowners.
On Night Thoughts, Suede delivery a sweeping semi-concept album about addiction and desire. Once the poster children for porcelain-skinned druggy excess, they’re now the embattled survivors sharing cautionary tales of bad decisions and dreams unfulfilled. On Night Thoughts, Suede delivery a sweeping semi-concept album about addiction and desire. Blackstar isn’t the only album released this month to take on added poignancy in the wake of David Bowie’s passing.
Suede had been a masterclass in trashy glam-pop, its singles sticking rigidly to a verse-chorus-verse structure. And so if Anderson’s lyrics aren’t his most original – a strange, suburban, sci-fi Romeo and Juliet story of two star-crossed lovers trying to escape squalid city life with Blade Runner-like council towers and poisonous skies – it’s the composition that points towards a brave new world of twisted, ethereal guitars that gather like acidic stormclouds. The quintessential Suede song? If Dog Man Star was intended to be the anti-Britpop album, then Coming Up was the anti-Dog Man Star.
Suede - 'Bloodsports'. Picture Brett Anderson. Now picture Brett Anderson a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (2002, to be precise). Picture a Brett Anderson who, just like. As ever, the road to redemption is littered with the odd pothole: ‘Hit Me’ has all the ingredients of classic Suede but comes out decidedly stodgy. And while there’s a fine line between silliness and genius, it’s not hard to work out which side of the divide ‘It Starts And Ends With You’ errs on with the lyrical clanger Like a hairline crack in a radiator, leaking life.
| 1 | Filmstar | 4:00 |
| 2 | Trash | 4:34 |
| 3 | Heroine | 3:03 |
| 4 | She | 4:44 |
| 5 | Lazy | 3:13 |
| 6 | By The Sea | 4:41 |
| 7 | Starcrazy | 3:23 |
| 8 | Animal Nitrate | 3:28 |
| 9 | The Wild Ones | 4:54 |
| 10 | Saturday Night | 5:01 |
| 11 | So Young | 3:43 |
| 12 | New Generation | 4:37 |
| 13 | Beautiful Ones | 5:16 |
| 14 | Picnic By The Motorway | 4:17 |
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