“Because we’re young
Because we’re gone
We’ll scare the skies with tiger’s eyes
Oh yeah? Oh yeah”

“She walks in beauty like the night
Discarding her clothes in the plastic flowers
Pornographic and tragic in black and white
My Marilyn come to my slum for an hour”

….to this….

“She’s in fashion
Ouh Ouh Ouh
She’s in fashion
Ouh Ouh Ouh”

“But you and me
All we want to be is lazy,
you and me, so lazy”

“She live in a house
She stupid as a mouse”

Suede burst onto the music scene in 92 and were proclaimed to be the ‘best new band in britain’ by the NME. In the style of Bowie and the Smiths they made British guitar music great again during a time of muppet grunge and a terrible UK indie scene.

The rollercoaster lasted just 2 years though as Sir Bernard Butler left the band after the second album Dog Man Star (possibly the most under-rated album of the 90s). Suede recruited a Bernard clone in Richard Oakes and carried on as if nothing had happened. But it had. The band Suede were no more, it was game over and what we were left with was just a disappointment. True, some of the post-Bernard material would be fine for youre average band but Suede set the highest of standards and everything after Dog Man Star only stood to remind us of who great they *used* to be.

Now after all this time Brett ‘n’ Bernard are back together but its all a bit pointless. Move on lads, everyone else has…

I do beg to differ on a couple of points though

1) Suede and Brett did not influence any of the bands I listen to as the bands I listen to were about at the same time, but they did not feel they had to sell out and become heros of the NME to justify their existence.

3) How do you know the new album is brilliant if it is not out until June? If you are basing it on their live performance I would like to point out that bands can be good live and shit on their records, or have you obtained an Illegal copy of the album via download thus denying the band you love so much a much needed record sale?

4) Many reformed bands (The Seahorses anyone) have had one hit wonders have made it into the top ten before, then people have realised that the just can’t cut it anymore, they wanted to see if the band had something new to deliver, but found that it was the same old stuff with a tidy new wrapping and underneath it remained unchanged.

5) Although I admit i love hip hop, anyone that knows me is aware that the hip hop i like is not the mainstream crap that is in the charts that Chrisybhoy seem to value so much. I also like most types of music and the fact that someone feels passionatley about the Tears and at the same time feels just as passionatley about Christina doesn’t say much for the fan base that the Tears have!!!!!

6) I am glad that you are filling up your car with all that stuff as by the time we reach Perth my brain will have melted and I will not be able to be held responsible for my performemnce at the quiz!
I would like to thank you as you have obviously take time to present a well structured rant, just a pity you are wrong
GI

What GI has obviously forgotten is that Bernard Butler left Suede after their 2nd album.

Brett and Bernard (B&B) have only recently started talking again after a nine year exile.

There is unfinished business between B&B hence the reformation under the tears.

I will acknowledge that the tears are not radically different from Suede but hey I’m a Suede fan therefore I am now a Tears fan.

Brett is a charasmatic and excellent front man who pioneered what was the indie scene back in the early 90s and no doubt was an inspiration to many of the bands GI now worships (with exception to the skip hat big baggy trousers rap with a silent C brigade that he has strange leanings to)

The Tears have made the top 10 this week with their excellent new single refugees, B&B are back and will earn an army of new fans. The album comes out in June and is brilliant. I went to see them in Edinburgh a couple of months ago and as live performers they cut it with the best of them.

I am currently choosing my music for the car (10 disc multi-changer) for my long journey to Perth for the pop quiz GI and I are taking part in next week. Rest assured that GI will be enduring a montage of B&B hits spread over all 10 discs as punishment for yet another ill informed rant.