Anderson's vocals had a little of Bowie and a little of Morrissey, but there was a lot more there than a simple swirling of influences. And here Suede were, with a very bold, direct, and sexually charged song that had the swagger of glam rock and was focused on the voice of Brett Anderson, who was powerful and distinctive. The British rock world was dominated by two waning trends, shoegaze and Madchester, both of which emphasized sound and vibe over personality and pomp. They have curated their past well.Ĭonsider the arena this band was entering when it debuted in May, 1992 with ' The Drowners'. The band's entire output, with the notable exception of three early unreleased tracks, 'Be My God', 'Art', and 'Wonderful Sometimes', is now available on five very well-done reissues that include all of the original artwork for both the albums and the singles. The whole band, including once-estranged original guitarist Bernard Butler, was involved in putting together these packages, each of them a 2xCD/DVD featuring the original album, demos, unreleased outtakes, every contemporary B-side (plus one non-album A-side), music videos, interviews and live performances. Stories and meta-cultural narratives aside, the music is what we have to listen to now, and there is a lot of great music spread over these elaborate reissues. This stuff is all important to understanding who Suede were- the music they made, especially on their first three albums, is tied closely to their story as a band- but I really want to make sure that as I make my way through that story, the music doesn't slip to the side of the conversation. They were ignored in the United States and ridiculously had to change their name in this country to the London Suede after a lawsuit by an obscure lounge singer.

They were the band on the cover of the issue of Select that invented Britpop as a concept, they were massively hyped before they even released anything, and their debut album was the fastest-selling in British history. Suede were at the center of the conversation that gave us the Britpop narrative that so dominated the UK in the mid-90s. The reason I'm saying that up front is that discussion of the first two Suede albums is invariably framed in a discussion of the bigger picture, both in terms of what was happening in British rock in the early 1990s and in terms of the discord within the band, particularly during 1994.

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