Suede - Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition) '2024

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Introducing the Band
02. We Are the Pigs
03. Heroine
04. The Wild Ones
05. Daddy's Speeding
06. The Power
07. New Generation
08. This Hollywood Life
09. The 2 of Us
10. Black or Blue
11. The Asphalt World
12. Still Life
13. My Dark Star
14. The Living Dead
15. Stay Together (Long Version)
16. Killing of a Flash Boy
17. Whipsnade
18. This World Needs a Father
19. Modern Boys
20. Eno's Introducing The Band
21. La Puissance (The Power) (Live)
22. The Living Dead (Piano Version)
23. We Believe in Showbiz
24. Still Life (Orchestral Version)
25. The Wild Ones (Original Unedited Version)
26. The Asphalt World (Original Unedited Version)
27. Stay Together (Single Version)
28. NME Flexi

Suede’s era-defining second album from 1994 celebrates its 30th
anniversary this year. It was the last album to feature the band’s
guitarist and co-songwriter Bernard Butler. It includes the classic hit singles
‘We Are The Pigs’, ‘The Wild Ones’, and ‘New
Generation’. Art and design for this new format has been undertaken for
Suede by official designer and photographer Paul Khera.

On the reissue, bassist and founding member Mat Osman said this in a press
release: “Your first album is songs you’ve been playing live for a
long time. Generally, it’s almost set. The songs evolved in a certain way
and you’re just trying to get them down. Dog Man Star was the first time
where we just said, ‘Right, what happens if you push everything further?
The slow songs, we take all the drums out. If we have a big closing song,
we’ll have a fucking orchestra. To start the record, let’s have
something that’s on one chord, and it’s just like a mantra. The
kind of band we are, how far can we take it before it breaks?’”

"Instead of following through on the Bowie-esque glam stomps of their debut,
Suede concentrated on their darker, more melodramatic tendencies on their
ambitious second album, Dog Man Star. By all accounts, the recording of Dog Man
Star was plagued with difficulties -- Brett Anderson wrote the lyrics in a
druggy haze while sequestered in a secluded Victorian mansion, while Bernard
Butler left before the album was completed -- which makes its singular vision
all the more remarkable. Lacking any rocker on the level of "The Drowners" or
"Metal Mickey" -- only the crunching "This Hollywood Life" comes close -- Dog
Man Star is a self-indulgent and pretentious album of dark, string-drenched
epics. But Suede are one of the few bands who wear pretensions well, and after a
few listens, the album becomes thoroughly compelling. Nearly every song on the
record is hazy, feverish, and heartbroken, and even the rockers have an insular,
paranoid tenor that heightens the album's melancholy. The whole record would
have collapsed underneath its own intentions if Butler's compositional skills
weren't so subtly nuanced and if Anderson's grandiose poetry wasn't so strangely
affecting. As it stands, Dog Man Star is a strangely seductive record, filled
with remarkable musical peaks, from the Bowie-esque stomp of "New Generation" to
the stately ballads "The Wild Ones" and "Still Life," which are both reminiscent
of Scott Walker. And while Suede may choose to wear their influences on their
sleeve, they synthesize them in a totally original way, making Dog Man Star a
singularly tragic and romantic album." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG)

Brett Anderson, vocals
Bernard Butler, guitars, piano, additional instrumentation (credited as
"things")
Simon Gilbert, drums
Mat Osman, bass
Additional musicians:
Phil Overhead, percussion
Simon Clarke, trumpet
Roddy Lorimer, saxophone, flute
Richard Edwards, trombone
Andrew Cronshaw, cimbalon, ba-wu flute
Tessa Niles, additional vocals
Sinfonia of London
Brian Gascoigne, arrangements, conducting
The Tricycle Theatre Workshop, children vocals



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