Suede

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Suede
Suede, royal albert hall 2010.jpg
General information
Genre (s) Britpop
founding 1988
Website https://www.suede.co.uk/
Current occupation
Brett Anderson
Mat Osman
guitar
Richard Oakes
Simon Gilbert
Keyboard, guitar
Neil Codling
former members
Guitar, keyboard
Alex Lee
Guitar, piano
Bernard Butler
Drums, bass
Justin Welch
Drums
Mike Joyce
guitar
Justine Frischmann

Suede ( English for suede ) is an English band that is considered to be one of the pioneers of Britpop .

history

In 1981 singer Brett Anderson and bassist Mat Osman formed a band. Later, when Anderson moved to London in 1988 , the two called each other Suave and Elegant ("friendly and elegant"). They found and hired the talented guitarist Bernard Butler through an advertisement in the music magazine NME . Finally, Anderson's girlfriend at the time, Justine Frischmann , joined them.

They signed with RML Records , an indie record company from Brighton and soon changed the band name. Suede's first recording was Be my God / Art with Mike Joyce on drums, but that single was pulped before it was released because of problems with the record company. With Simon Gilbert as the drummer, Suede signed with Nude Records . Around this time Justine Frischmann left the band to eventually found the group Elastica and, which was particularly important for the Yellow Press , entered into a relationship with Blur singer Damon Albarn .

Suede's first single The Drowners was released under an "alternative" media ecstasy and was a mediocre hit, clearly surpassed by subsequent singles Metal Mickey and Animal Nitrate (a reference to the drug amyl nitrite ) a few months later. The band's debut album, Suede, cemented the band's popularity and won the Mercury Prize for best British album. As is so often the case with newer British bands, success in the US was limited, despite the fact that they toured with The Cranberries and received massive support from MTV . In addition, the band was forced to perform in the United States under the name London Suede through a lawsuit by a lounge singer .

The pre-existing tensions within the band came to a head when work began on the second album. Anderson and Butler fought incessantly, so Butler eventually left the band even before Dog Man Star (1994) was released. The album received high praise from the critics, but sales were slow.

Butler was replaced by a longtime fan of the band, Richard Oakes , before embarking on an international tour to promote the album. During the recording of the album Coming Up (1996), with which Suede was finally able to record the greatest mainstream success, keyboardist and background singer Neil Codling also joined the band. The album was hugely successful across Europe, Asia and Canada.

The next album, Head Music (1999), was acknowledged as a disappointment by critics and fans. Suede said goodbye to Nude Records and instead signed a contract with Sony to record their fifth album, A New Morning (2002). During the recording of this album, Neil Codling left the band due to chronic fatigue syndrome . He was replaced by Alex Lee, a longtime friend of the band. He took over the background vocals and played the second guitar or keyboard at concerts, as well as the occasional harmonica .

After a major retrospective of their work was published, Suede played a different album every night in chronological order on five evenings in London's ICA ( Institute of Contemporary Arts ) in the fall of 2003 - with B-sides and rare songs as encores. After the release of their singles album and the accompanying single Attitude , the band announced that there would be no more projects under the name Suede in the near future.

The last concert took place on December 13, 2003 at the Astoria in London and was a two and a half hour gig that was divided into two parts, the first of which was under the motto “South's Favorite Songs”. Anderson made the announcement that there would be "a new Suede album" but added that it would be "... not yet". With Anderson's final remark "See you in the Next Life" the band said goodbye to the music business.

In May 2004, Anderson confirmed rumors that he and Bernard Butler would be working again. Under the band name The Tears , the two finally released the album Here Come the Tears with 13 songs in June 2005 . It did not achieve any significant sales.

On March 23, 2007 the self-titled solo album by singer Brett Anderson was released, which by and large was more introverted and musically less guitar-heavy than the releases by Suede or The Tears. The style itself, however, remained unmistakable, not least because of the typical Anderson signal words such as "asphalt, plastic, flow, breeze, pillow, etc.", which appear again and again in his oeuvre. Three more solo albums by the Suede singer followed.

In March 2010, the band reported back with concerts at the London Club S 100 and the Royal Albert Hall. Neil Codling was there again. Motivated by the great popularity, the band finally promised several concert and festival dates in various cities in Europe for the period August – December 2010.

In December 2011 Suede played two concerts in Russia (Moscow, St.Petersburg), seven new songs were tested live. On March 24, 2012, on the 2nd anniversary of the comeback, a DVD and CD of the concert was released in the Royal Albert Hall.

On January 7, 2013, Suede released the title Barriers as a free download. In March 2013 the album Bloodsports was released . The concept album Night Thoughts was released on January 22, 2016 . The Blue Hour followed in September 2018.

meaning

The band conquered the charts and hearts of the English in the early 1990s with lots of glam and their exalted front man Brett Anderson. With and around Suede, the term Britpop finally established itself as an independent genre, which reached from the Stone Roses at the end of the 80s to the most commercially successful representatives Blur and Oasis well into the 90s.

Suede themselves experienced and celebrated the hype about British music with their first album Suede themselves, but fell on the nose with the critically acclaimed second album Dog Man Star 'britpop' and sales-wise. The singles did not achieve any great chart success, even though the album reached number 3 in the UK charts. The following album Coming up was to be Suede's greatest commercial success: All five singles reached the UK Top 10, the album number 1. With the two following studio albums, the band no longer managed to build on this successful period.

Between the first two albums, Suede released the single Stay Together . The single came to number 3 on the GB charts, the band's highest chart position, which was also achieved by the 1997 single Trash .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1993 Suede DE50 (10 weeks)
DE
- CH37 (1 week)
CH
UK1
gold
gold

(27 weeks)UK
-
First published: March 29, 1993
1994 Dog Man Star - - - UK3
gold
gold

(21 weeks)UK
-
First published: October 10, 1994
1996 Coming up DE37 (7 weeks)
DE
AT39 (2 weeks)
AT
- UK1
platinum
platinum

(49 weeks)UK
-
First published: September 2, 1996
1999 Head Music DE26 (6 weeks)
DE
AT19 (5 weeks)
AT
- UK1
gold
gold

(20 weeks)UK
-
First published: May 3, 1999
2002 A New Morning DE74 (1 week)
DE
- - UK24 (2 weeks)
UK
-
First published: September 30, 2002
2013 Bloodsports DE95 (1 week)
DE
- - UK10 (5 weeks)
UK
-
First published: March 18, 2013
2016 Night Thoughts DE31 (2 weeks)
DE
AT72 (2 weeks)
AT
CH71 (1 week)
CH
UK6 (4 weeks)
UK
-
First published: January 22, 2016
2018 The blue hour DE32 (1 week)
DE
AT58 (1 week)
AT
CH44 (1 week)
CH
UK5 (2 weeks)
UK
-
First published: September 21, 2018

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1997 Sci-Fi Lullabies - - - UK9 (4 weeks)
UK
-
First published: October 6, 1997
2003 Singles - - - UK31
gold
gold

(3 weeks)UK
-
First published: October 20, 2003
2010 The best of - - - UK31
silver
silver

(2 weeks)UK
-
First published: November 1, 2010

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1992 The Drowners
Suede
- - - UK49 (2 weeks)
UK
-
First published: May 11, 1992
Metal Mickey
Suede
- - - UK17 (3 weeks)
UK
-
First published: September 14, 1992
1993 Animal Nitrate
Suede
- - - UK7 (7 weeks)
UK
-
First published: February 22, 1993
So Young
Suede
DE98 (1 week)
DE
- - UK22 (3 weeks)
UK
-
First published: May 17, 1993
1994 Stay Together
Singles
- - - UK3 (7 weeks)
UK
-
First published: February 14, 1994
We Are the Pigs
Dog Man Star
- - - UK18 (6 weeks)
UK
-
First published: September 12, 1994
The Wild Ones
Dog Man Star
- - - UK18 (7 weeks)
UK
-
First published: November 7, 1994
1995 New Generation
Dog Man Star
- - - UK21 (4 weeks)
UK
-
First published January 30, 1995
1996 Trash
coming up
- - - UK3
silver
silver

(10 weeks)UK
-
First published: July 29, 1996
Beautiful Ones
Coming Up
- - - UK8th
silver
silver

(8 weeks)UK
-
First published: October 14, 1996
1997 Saturday Night
Coming Up
- - - UK6 (5 weeks)
UK
-
First published: January 13, 1997
Lazy
coming up
- - - UK9 (6 weeks)
UK
-
First published: April 7, 1997
Movie star
coming up
- - - UK9 (4 weeks)
UK
-
First published: August 11, 1997
1999 Electricity
Head Music
DE92 (1 week)
DE
- - UK5 (7 weeks)
UK
-
First published: April 12, 1999
She's in Fashion
Head Music
- - - UK13 (6 weeks)
UK
-
First published: June 21, 1999
Everything Will Flow
Head Music
- - - UK24 (2 weeks)
UK
-
First published: September 6, 1999
Can't Get Enough
Head Music
- - - UK23 (2 weeks)
UK
-
First published: November 8, 1999
2002 Positivity
A New Morning
DE99 (1 week)
DE
- - UK16 (3 weeks)
UK
-
First published: September 16, 2002
Obsessions
A New Morning
- - - UK29 (2 weeks)
UK
-
First published: November 18, 2002
2003 Attitude / Golden Gun
Singles
- - - UK14 (3 weeks)
UK
-
First published: October 6, 2003

swell

  1. a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. Music Sales Awards: UK

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