Brett Anderson/ Suede

[Rob McCow]

I'm sure both Brett and Damon had a timeshare on 'Hot New Star' Justine Frischmann of Elastica. For a while.

When I was younger, my favourite Brett lyric was from 'The Wild Ones'. It was the line 'We'll go to the pond where the ducks still roam each day'.

Now, wiser heads prevail and I realise it was actually 'We'll run from the home where the debts still grow each day'. Those poor ducks never even existed!

[Dave Lewis]

We'll raahn from the bunggaaalows where the debts still groooow each daay...

He's the lyrical Jessie James. Or Jessie and the Pussycats.

I'm sure both Brett and Damon had a timeshare on 'Hot New Star' Justine Frischmann of Elastica. For a while.

I never understood the appeal of Justine at all... Aesthetically, Damon and Brett were both far too good for her. She must have been a cracking shag. Or a crack fuelled shag.

[Milky Tears]

She had a cracking moustache.


There was that bitter week in November 1994 when Blur released 'End of A Century' (charted at 19) and Suede released 'The Wild Ones' (charted at 18).

I was as torn as Imbruglia.

[Dave Lewis]

By then, the summer excitement of Parklife had worn off and Dog Man Star had totally taken me ovvverrrrr... as it were. I remember thinking that End Of A Century already belonged to a different era. Justine's moustache was one of the highlights of Britpop.

[Milky Tears]

I always preferred Sonya Aurora Madan, Louise Wener or even Donna Matthews from Elastica!

[Si Hunt]

I hated Suede when I first saw them, performing "We Are The Pigs" on "Top of the Pops". I don't know why, I just hated that song! Later of course, I recognised the might of singles like "Trash" (what a great song that still is - "we're trash/you and me/like litter on the breeze/we're trash/me and you/in everything we do/in everything we doooooooo!") and it's follow-ups. I was never THAT interested though, perhaps because I bought the "Coming Up" album for my sister instead of myself, and neither of us became fans.

I always hated that bloody Justine Frischmann though. She epitomised the sort of person who wanted to be a celebrity instead of make music - Elastica only ever made one album didn't they (until "The Menace" eight years later anyway!). What a waste - how many people would love to have the chance to release pop albums, they could and just didn't bother. They used to trade off so little for so much - every week Donna Matthews would "leave" Elastica and we were supposed to care even though they hadn't released anything for six years. She was an absolute ligger.

Si.

[Matthew T]

I always quite liked "She's in Fashion" though!

Me too! It evokes very strong memories of sunny mornings getting ready for work listening to Zoe Balls on the Radio breakfast show. Happy days.

[Carol Baynes]

I thought Justine was alright...although God knows she made loads of problems for herself. "Elastica" is a great album imo. (I'm starting to see why the Elastica thread I started once didn't prove popular! )

Glad people remember when it was Suede vs Blur, long before Oasis v. Blur. The Suede/Blur fight was a cult thing I guess, which never made headlines outside the music press. There must have been something about Damon!

[SiHart]

There must have been something about Damon!

There was... it certainly made me stand up and pay attention to something that had been a bit hidden before.

Si xx

[Captain Tancredi]

I know 'Trash' when I hear it, although when I think of Brett Anderson I can only really visualise the impression David Baddiel used to do of him, which was marginally less camp that Kenneth Williams. I think The Project is going to have to look at the mid-1990s fairly soon; it's one of the rare periods in my life when I had more than a passing interest in music, mainly because for about a year and a half I belonged to a circle of friends and actually went out a bit. Also remember having a bit of a thing for Louise Wener, although the two strands of hair dyed blonde did look a bit sad when you saw somebody who'd obviously decided to copy it.

[Anthony Williams]

I think The Project is going to have to look at the mid-1990s fairly soon

in that case, I can't recommend enough Suede's Dog Man Star album!

Ant x

[Dave Lewis]

I want the style of a woman, the kiss of a man.

[Milky Tears]

I want to get him shacked up, bloodied-up and sucking on a gun.

[Dave Lewis]

The milky tears of suburbia have drowned the land...

[Milky Tears]

Oh let the century die to flakey hands

[Rob McCow]

OMFG Brett Anderson on Twitter!

http://twitter.com/reallybanderson

My faves:

One thing you can say about Blur..they never compromised their essential essence. Total dicks all the way through their career.

and

The reason DogManStar is so timeless is you can rearrange it to make ManStarDog, StarDogMan, ManDogStar or just leave it as it is

or maybe

If at first you don't succeed, you're not Brett Anderson.

[SiHart]

That can't be the real Brett. Even he isn't that obvious!

Oh and he hasn't mentioned Terylene, Gasoline or asphalt, so I don't believe it for one minute.

Si xx

[Rob McCow]

Oh yeah?

Have to say although getting high on diesel and gasoline is fine, sometimes you just want a nice Lambrini.

As thanks for citing the brand name Bostik in Beautiful Ones the Suede office was sent a truck of glues. Sticky situation but we managed.

[SiHart]

I stand corrected.

Si xx

[Awesome Wells]

Tragically, it's not Brett. Brett's real Twitter account is deathly boring. Compare and contrast below.

The Real Brett

I wish this was the real Brett

[Dino]

This was as close as I could find to a thread about Suede.
So...
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProduct....do?sku=592941

1. Animal Nitrate
2. Beautiful Ones
3. Trash
4. Filmstar
5. Metal Mickey
6. New Generation
7. So Young
8. Wild Ones
9. 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. Pantomine 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. Living Dead, The
12. To The Birds
13. Big Time, The
14. Two Of Us, The
15. Asphalt World, The
16. Still Life
17. Next Life, The

A stab in the gut for those who think Head Music is brilliant. (me, basically)
Anyone going to bother? Brett and Bernard put the tracklisting together themselves.

Well, they've probably got the time on their hands...

[Rob McCow]

Disc 2 is the winner for me!

[Si Hunt]

Disc 2?

[SiHart]

It's a very Steve disc.

I like disc 1 better meself.

We're goinjg to see Suede at the 02 in December it seems, which should be nice.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

That was mooted here! But now we're going to the Manics, so I don't suppose it'll happen (and tickets were hard to come by).

Si.