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Suede split.

18:21 / 07.11.03

Sorry, I know a lot of people here like them.

Presonally, I thought they were crap; some good tunes at first, though this dropped off with Bernard Butler's departure; and gawd, the wrost pseuds-corner style lyrics ever. Like fridge poetry with the words 'kids' 'glue' 'street' and 'tenement.'

But I'm sure some of you feel bad. Ah well....

18:24 / 07.11.03

'bout bloody time I say.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

18:43 / 07.11.03

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

20:28 / 07.11.03

Great tunes post-Butler became a rarity rather than a certainty, Anderson became such a lazy fucking songwriter "I know, another song where every other line is the same, and the lines in between them are only slightly different!" while the rest of the band turned into Sleeperblokes with all the allure of a salmon in a sock.

Brigade du jour

21:08 / 07.11.03

But they had a good beat.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:37 / 07.11.03

You're missing what was important. It's not the house/mouse lyrics - it's the fey arse-slapping dancing! Do you not see?

Besides, any band that can fill out a whole verse with "nah-nah nah-nah nah-nah-nah" is great. Was great. You know what I mean.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:44 / 08.11.03

And while other bands were poncing about with coy transgender imagery they were going full on with transpecies songs! "We are the pigs, we are the swine, two chords bad, four chords good, death to Snowball Albarn..."

18:33 / 08.11.03

They were the band of my formative years, Dog Man Star is a very important record for me but even I (as resolutely besotted with them as I was) had to admit this is long over due.
Post Bernard these boys were a different band, not particuarly as good or as interesting as Suede mk I and then the third incarnation after losing Neil Codling was just pathetic. At least you could have your Dorian Grey fantasies about Neil whilst Brett went around destroying what was left of a great band.

Sigh... the end of an era indeed but its a shame no-one told Suede that 3 years ago. At least.

Jack The Bodiless

10:41 / 12.11.03

No one needed to. They've gone on record as saying that they should have split up after Head Music, and Anderson's said that the reason they're breaking up is that he's in a rut and can't get out while he's in Suede. They knew what they were doing, they were just to scared to lose the golden goose. It's understandable - how many new starts have you heard of that approached anything near the higher levels of success, artistic or commercial, of the previous band?

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:58 / 12.11.03

Yeah, I actually think this was pretty well timed. It's very easy to say that bands should split up after they make the last decent record they're going to make, but how many bands actually *do* that? It's hard to blame people for not doing that: you make a good album, people will want another one. So you kind of have to wait until you've made at least one shit record before you quit... And Head Music was pretty well-received by at least some of their fans, and others (I'm pretty sure I remember 'She's In Fashion' being on all over the radio that summer). I'm on record as thinking that it's as good an album as they've made, with the benefit of hindsight that makes some of Dog Man Star sound a little *too* operatic and maudlin to anyone not stuck in a teenage wasteland.

A New Morning was a stinker, though - what the FUCK happened to Bret's voice? - and it seems they've correctly taken that as the cue to call it a day.

11:06 / 12.11.03

Yes, if they'd split after Coming Up, which was the last album of theirs that I liked (for which I am still derided by my far-more-hardcore-Suede-fan friends) I would have been disappointed, but as it is my comment on hearing that they'd split was 'oh good'. I actually rather admire them for admitting that they've made a poor record, rather than pretending that they left while the going was good...

Like fridge poetry with the words 'kids' 'glue' 'street' and 'tenement.'

I would buy this product.

11:08 / 12.11.03

i've always been worried about mr brett's emotional maturity. the obsession with council houses, glue and the solipsism of teenagers is the kind of thing that it's easy to forgive in an adolescent - they dwell on it for a bit then get into something else, but for a grown man to be banging on song after song for ten years or more? and still just selling to the same teenagers as they rotate through growth roles? that lack of fluidity and inability to direct one's interest elsewhere is just deeply deeply uncool. [this is a twist on the eternal dichotomy of the musician: youth spent mastering an instrument=nothing good to say thereafter] maybe he's realised that, and called it a day accordingly. a signifier in need of new signifiers maybe. if i think of all the different types of music i've had obsessions with since i last bought a suede record, the depth and breadth of things i feel i've covered, then look at him as he tries to splice bowie and numan into a no.14 hit *again* - poor chap. poor twat.