Suede are an English indie rock band formed in London in 1989 by singer and songwriter Brett Anderson (born September 29, 1967 in Lindfield, Sussex), bassist Mat Osman (born October 9, 1967 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) and initially guitarist Justine Frischmann, who soon left and went on to invent Elastica, and completed by guitarist Bernard Butler (born May 1, 1970 in Stoke Newington, London) and eventually drummer Simon Gilbert (born May 23, 1965 in Tiddington, Warwickshire). Suede instantly caused a stir when they were the first band to have yet released a record to appear on the cover of Melody Maker – who called them ‘The best new band in Britain’ – in 1992. Suede eventually released their first single The Drowners a month later, and within a year had scored a UK Official Album Chart Number 1 when their self-titled debut entered at that position, and which also went on to win the Mercury Award later that year. Suede’s next album Dog Man Star was overshadowed by the departure of Butler just ahead of release, but he was shortly replaced by guitarist and fan Richard Oakes (born October 1, 1976 in Perivale, London) in Autumn 1994, and then the Suede augmented into a five piece with the arrival of keyboardist – and Gilbert’s cousin – Neil Codling (born December 5, 1973 in Tiddington) ahead of the release of their third album, 1995’s UK Official Album Chart Number 1 Coming Up. Suede first split up in October 2003, with Anderson claiming they’d be back at some point, and in 2010, they were, announcing a one off return at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Suede have since reconvened and released more new material as well as Anderson becoming a noted author.
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Velvet Android
Astonishing to realise that as of this week, Suede's 'second' album-releasing career has now extended precisely as long as their 'original' one did.
There was 8 years, 6 months (and 2 days) between the chart entries of debut Suede and the moment where their initial hitmaking run fell off a cliff, the entry of A New Morning at a lowly #24. Then after a decade's hiatus, and commencing almost exactly 20 years after that original run did, there has now followed another span of 8 years, 6 months (minus 1 day) between the releases of Bloodsports and Autofiction – where in contrast each new album has topped the peak of its predecessor. Amazing!
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Angry UK Chart Fan
Suede's self-titled charted as two separate entries (93, 94)? Did they reissue it or something?
Velvet Android
I didn't think so, and it's not like they changed record label or anything midway through its chart run. The catalogue numbers given for the two – if you click on the (+) to expand the entry for details – are slightly different, but it looks like a mistake to me
Blank
Their biggest hit single was released in Feb '94. Seems a very big gap though. Even form the drop out it's 7 months July to Feb.
Blank
The cat no. is the same but typed differently. As you say, looks like one of the (very frequent) mistakes. In particular with cat. no. formats.
Velvet Android
That's interesting, I hadn't clocked the significance(?) of the timing of the alleged 'reissue', but yes it's a fortnight before the chart debut of Stay Together. Which was a non-album single released midway between Suede and Dog Man Star, but it makes sense that that song getting airplay a couple of weeks before its release would reignite interest in the debut album.
Still can't see the supposedly 'different' catalogue number ( NUDECD1, as against 1CD) as being anything other than a database error, mind.
Blank
I did my own research into literally every chart week and hit listed here. Whilst logging the errors (mostly cat no's) on this site, I stopped at 4 pages of A4 as there were too many to keep up with! That was only for hits up to 1960.