Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition) Suede

• 1 Introducing the Band 02:38
• 2 We Are the Pigs 04:19
• 3 Heroine 03:22
• 4 The Wild Ones 04:52
• 5 Daddy's Speeding 05:22
• 6 The Power 04:31
• 7 New Generation 04:39
• 8 This Hollywood Life 03:50
• 9 The 2 of Us 05:45
• 10 Black or Blue 03:47
• 11 The Asphalt World 09:25
• 12 Still Life 05:24
• 13 My Dark Star 04:21
• 14 The Living Dead 02:47
• 15 Stay Together (Long Version) 08:28
• 16 Killing of a Flash Boy 04:07
• 17 Whipsnade 04:21
• 18 This World Needs a Father 03:53
• 19 Modern Boys 04:07
• 20 Eno's Introducing The Band 16:05
• 21 La Puissance (The Power) (Live) 01:22
• 22 The Living Dead (Piano Version) 02:43
• 23 We Believe in Showbiz 03:45
• 24 Still Life (Orchestral Version) 05:13
• 25 The Wild Ones (Original Unedited Version) 07:17
• 26 The Asphalt World (Original Unedited Version) 11:29
• 27 Stay Together (Single Version) 04:19
• 28 NME Flexi 03:55
• Total Runtime 02:26:06

Info for Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Edition)

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

Digitally remastered

Suede
are an English alternative rock band, formed in London in 1989 and currently consists of singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Richard Oakes, bass player Mat Osman, drummer Simon Gilbert and keyboardist/rhythm guitarist Neil Codling. Having split up in 2003, the Coming Up/Head Music line-up of the band reformed in 2010. The band's original guitarist Bernard Butler left the band in 1994.

In 1992, Suede were described as "The Best New Band in Britain“, and attracted much attention from the British music press. The following year their debut album Suede, went to the top of the charts by becoming the fastest-selling debut album in almost ten years. It won the Mercury Music Prize and helped foster Britpop as a musical genre. However, the band's follow-up, Dog Man Star (1994), showed Suede distancing themselves from their Britpop peers. The recording sessions for Dog Man Star were fraught with difficulty, and ended with Butler departing the band after confrontations with the rest of the band. The album was completed without Butler, with the band touring the album with new recruit Richard Oakes. Although a commercial disappointment at the time, the album was met with a generally enthusiastic reception on release and has, over time been lauded with universal acclaim from critics.

In 1996, following the further recruitment of keyboard player Neil Codling along with Oakes, Suede went on to greater commercial success with Coming Up. The album reached number one in the UK, producing five top ten singles and becoming Suede's biggest-selling album worldwide. In 1997, Anderson became addicted to crack and heroin. Despite problems within the band, Suede's fourth album Head Music (1999) was a British chart-topper. The album was promoted heavily with the band receiving considerable press coverage on its release, however it garnered a mixed reaction dividing fans and critics alike. Codling left the band in 2001, citing chronic fatigue syndrome and was replaced by Alex Lee. The band's fifth album, A New Morning (2002), the first following the collapse of Nude Records, was a commercial disappointment, and the group disbanded the following year. After much speculation Suede reformed in 2010 for a series of concerts. Three years on from their reunion gigs, Suede released their sixth album, Bloodsports, on 18 March 2013. The album was well received by critics and returned the band to the top ten in the UK.

This album contains no booklet.