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The wrong Suede
The idea of Suede playing the big room at the Millennium Dome would have been cool. At the Millennium.
Not sure it works now - it has the aura of a bid to scrape in as much cash as possible.
There are also ominous rumours of a new record. With the wrong line-up. It's like going to a school reunion, and discovering only supply teachers and the foreign exchange kids have turned up.
There's nothing wrong with late-period Suede. Providing you approach it as the decline of the band. Why would you go back to the twilight?
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the idea that Suede went crap when King Butler jumped ship is bullshit : plenty of the Butler era material was rubbish - "Animal Lover", "Moving", "Dolly" - stinkers, all of them. It's not the Wrong Suede. In the way that post-Syd Floyd wasn't "wrong", just different.
I'd make room for the suggestion that Dolly wasn't great - but Moving? Animal Lover? Stinkers?
And, yes, it's a different Suede - but it's the wartime, make-do-and-mend Suede, the 'that'll do' Suede.
It's like cloning someone, but cloning them after they'd started to develop an illness...
Yes, "Animal Lover" and "Moving" are obvious make-a-racket-in-a-rehearsal-room bores. Oakes-era Suede is different from Butler-era, but to be honest, Suede lucked out with him joining. Where they went wrong then, was writing 40 songs in a year for "Coming Up", releasing all of them, and making a botch of "Head Music" by sticking the dull songs on the album and some of the best stuff on the b-sides
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