Fervent fan … Luke Turner dyed his curly hair red in homage to Suede drummer Simon Gilbert. Photograph: Luke Turner Paine, Andre (6 October 2023). "SJM brings Suede and Manic Street Preachers together for outdoor summer shows". Music Week . Retrieved 24 October 2023. Clark, Stuart (2 November 1994). "Suede: "Dog Man Star" (Nude)". Hot Press . Retrieved 17 February 2017. a b c d e f g "Suede | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 29 September 2018. It’s hard to explain how out of sync ‘Dog Man Star’ sounded during the era in which it was released. Sexy when guitar bands were far from it; unsettling when so many of the band’s peers were desperately trying to be booked for Saturday morning kids TV, it’s an album that would change British pop – let alone its creators’ career – irrevocably.

Reynolds, Simon (27 November 1994). "Pop Brief: The London Suede: 'Dog Man Star' Nude/Columbia". The New York Times . Retrieved 8 April 2013. Unlike Dog Man Star, Britpop gets worse with age (especially when compared to trip hop and drum and bass, whose long tails still wag today). After 1994 it became the most conservative music in pop history, perpetrated by the children of baby boomers brainwashed by the myths of the Sixties and desperate for a piece of the action. Part of that Sixties afterlife was the urge to ape a perceived Englishness and update it to include football and beer with guitars. a b Jones, Chris (21 September 2007). "Brett and Bernard's big bust-up album. Lovelier than ever..." BBC Music . Retrieved 27 July 2013. Unlike most reformed bands, Suede still have the same creative fire in their belly and have released some of their best material, with the current album Autofiction being named Louder Than War’s album of 2022. The prospect of seeing this performed live is one that has resulted in sold-out shows right across the country Suede are still a big draw. The timing for the gig works out well for me, having watched the first episode of Channel 5’s Britpop series and reading bassist Mat Osman’s novel The Ruins. Suede are taking up a fair amount of space in my head at the moment. a b c d e f Caulfield, Keith (26 September 2008). "Ask Billboard: Blue Suede Shoes". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2013.

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Buller has said that Suede were rarely a unit in the studio during the album’s recording. Tensions between singer and guitarist were further frayed when Butler appeared on the cover of NME ’s sister magazine Vox , strapped with the words ‘Brett drives me insane’. Inside, he lamented, “[Brett] isn’t a musician at all. It’s very difficult for him to get around anything that isn’t ABC.” Anderson recalls reading the Vox interview the same morning he was recording the vocals for ‘The Asphalt World’. It served as unlikely inspiration for one of the singer’s career best performances. “I remember trying to channel all this hurt that I was feeling and the iciness I was feeling into the vocal,” he said. Butler walked out before the album was finished Suede's next record, Coming Up, was all about feeling great. What unites the neon-pop 'Trash' and McAlmont and Butler's 'Yes' is their collective flight from Dog Man Star's gloom and into the top ten. Suede enjoyed their biggest success with Coming Up, a party album with five top ten hits, retrieving some of the razzmatazz and wit of those first two singles but perhaps losing the poetic weirdness that Butler's "odd, nerdy" music inspired. a b Sharman, Martin (9 April 2013). "A Retrospective on Suede". There Goes the Fear . Retrieved 26 July 2013.

The wind howls. A door slams. Everything explodes into silence like the end of one of Dog Man Star's unfinished masterpieces. The remaining members of Suede breathe a collective sigh of relief and take the brass section through a rendition of 'The Girl From Ipanema'. Dog Man Star had to be finished without Butler. There were some overdubs he laid down at Konk, due to contractual obligations, although Buller now doubts that these were actually used. Parts of it benefitted, for sure. 'The Wild Ones' had its extended outro removed. Anderson and Buller made a loop of the singer's plaintive chorus refrain, glued it together with piano overdubs and faded the song out. It poppified the tune and a similar Butler outro felt far less bolted on when ending 'You Do', his single with David McAlmont. Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994". Guitar World. 14 July 2014. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014 . Retrieved 14 July 2014.

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a b Tangari, Joe (7 June 2011). "Suede: Suede [Deluxe Edition] / Dog Man Star [Deluxe Edition]". Pitchfork . Retrieved 8 April 2013. When the record was eventually released, it caused barely a ripple on the music scene; Blur and Oasis were already sharing the spotlight with Pulp. The only enthusiastic group seemed to be the critics, having found an excuse to write ‘sophomore slump’ on yet another review.

Hochman, Steve (18 December 1994). "The London Suede, 'dog man star,' Columbia". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 15 February 2017 . Retrieved 15 February 2017. Irishcharts.ie placements". irishcharts.ie. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011 . Retrieved 30 April 2009. a b Petridis, Alexis (22 April 2005). "Frankly I hated Suede". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 July 2013. a b Price, Simon (28 September 2003). "I was right all along, they're a work of genius". The Independent. Archived from the original on 3 May 2011 . Retrieved 29 May 2013. Whether it was proclaiming himself to be a bisexual who'd never had a homosexual experience, executing pronounced and artful sniffs as punctuation in interviews, making queeny comments about his rivals, or composing lovely vignettes in his songs, Brett Anderson always had a taste for a nicely, if overly-wrought, turn of phrase. And so it is that, in his liner notes for the reissue of Suede's self-titled debut album, the singer writes: "And now the rush has past, the dust has settled and we're left with this; the album where it all began. This was our music, this was our lives; flawed, strange but sometimes beautiful". In those latter five words, Brett Anderson perfectly sums up the Suede that's presented in this extraordinary, warts and all series of reissues of the band's five albums.The mixing of the album was hastily completed. Buller claims that what exists on the original masters is far superior to what actually emerged. What did emerge sounded subterranean, drenched in that Butler-baiting reverb. Over the years, such flaws become part of a record's peculiar charm, even becoming the sonic glue that binds it together. a b c "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 100–1". NME. 25 October 2013 . Retrieved 15 December 2016.