November 28th 1994 I met Matt, Brett, Richard and Simon in Oslo. They all signed my copy of Dog Man Star, and Brett signed a poster of the album cover and signed it "Love, Brett". Super kind of them, I still have all of these items :D
If you'd have told the teenage me that dog man star would be so lauded all these years later I wouldn't have been surprised in the slightest. It's extraordinary. It's genius. If you'd told me then that middle aged suede would be producing work that's even better, that would have been the surprising thing. But it's true, and I'm not even certain their best days aren't ahead
Excellent interviewer with some really good, interesting questions. The band must have discussed this album a hundred times before but this interview really managed to go a bit deeper than I’ve heard before.
one of my favorite albums ever. that, "the downward spiral", "superunknown", "definitely maybe", "music for the jilted generation", "parklife", "live through this", "my iron lung" EP, "mtv unplugged in new york", "second coming"... 1994 was a great year in music. i came of age during that time as a 13-14 year old kid. i didn't hear "dog man star" until i was in my 20s as suede was never a big thing here in the u.s. still, it's one of those great albums to have.
Fantastic interview, rooted to the spot for 74 minutes. I rediscovered Suede with Autofiction (which was my album of the year in 2022) and enjoyed reliving the music from the 90s heyday since.
44:36 glad he still says this about Wild Ones. just like noel said Some Might Say will always be oasis best song, and stuck to that. my first fav suede song was to the birds for something like 15 years, and then asphalt world after i read bretts books (esp after i read the recording process for that in bretts second book), and now its wild ones. its such a beautiful sort of mission statement, talks so beautifully about being young to me. kudos to simon price you snap them out of the PR circuit stupor they have after a few minutes with how clearly engaged and how well informed you are about them.
34:04 It’s so cool that people talk about things like this! Seriously, it’s amazing to hear someone actually say it. I have about a dozen “imaginary” people in my head (probably because, like me, they’re obsessed with storytelling, each in their own way). I imagine conversations with them, turning to them for advice and drawing strength from them, because in real life, they talk about things no one around me ever even mentions-but somehow, those things burn quietly in the back of my mind. It might sound silly at best or like madness at worst, but for me, it’s a huge part of my reality (even if it’s not reality at all). And hearing someone mention something kind of like it in the interview as if it’s a relatively normal thing made me feel juuuust a little less like a weirdo.
Amazing album. It has the quality where people look for meanings in it and make their connections where they were at in life. 1994 was a significant year for me. Lots of turbulence and some pain. It was my soundtrack and reference point. The Two of Us, Wild Ones, The Power and Still Life. All amazing songs.
Great interview. Remember buying my CD of it on October 10th 1994 at my local Woolworths. I’d loved the first album and knew this one would be even better and it was. I knew some of the songs from recording the Blackpool gig from Radio 1 on tape. The album was an instant classic and stands up so 30 years on. Still regret not seeing them on that tour though. Saw them on the Coming Up tour in 1997 for the first time. Legendary band 🫡🙏
Very interesting to hear Brett's take on the lyrics,as I must have listened to that album a thousand times,especially when it first came out... I could relate emotionally and it's sad and it's tragic and really wonder if they even know how Incredibly inspirational and beautiful...it Is!!!! But definitely they have evolved musically and still continue to amaze..They honestly are the greatest band ever then and now ❤❤😊
With Brett's comments about the context of the work emerging during and post - my pretentious teenage self was convinced that the artificiality of the Still Life string outro was intentional, leading us out of the over-saturated, lush glamorous darkness of Dog Man Star back into the BBC light orchestra programme
UA-cam suggested this video. I bought a flat late 90's but tough on my own. Bills. a friend said "i'm up for moving in as flatmate". so I worked in magazine dept at ASDA in 1990's. - NME had a massive double sided poster & one side was Brett Anderson. I put it above his bed before he moved in... (lol) he wasnt into guitar music. He said WTF is this. funnily enough he stayed 6 years and never took poster down from above his bed. True story.
I saw them on a Sunday in June 1992 at Princess Charlotte, Leicester.I think only The Drowners was released at the time.They were truly great.To The Birds was the last song in the set.Still my fave.
loved the bit about signing La Puissance in Paris. I was there both times 1994 & 2022. It happened exactly like that 😅 Thing is in 1994 La Puissance had a charm because it was played to teenagers (I was 14) and early 20s crowd. Brett could cough at the time and we would have scream in adoration. So him attempting at singing in French was exciting. In 2022, we were for the most part a crowd of 40s and 50s years old crowd. The translation that second time appeared to us very clumsy without the veil of youth in adoration. What was charming became quite embarrassing.
When they discuss mattresses I had to think about Ren's Seven Sins lyrics "A bed where I never deep rest, A bed where I'm always depressed, A bed with a human oppressed, A bed for the tomb where I slept, A bed in this room that's a womb for this mess"
How can they answer this guy's questions wout laughing in his face when I was younger I loved Suede totally groundbreaking from the grunge era here n we all were into the scene n dyed our hair had the whatever look but I'm sorry to see an old dude w hair horns now I just can't 😂😂
I do think that many people in the so-called music industry, which is really an entertainment history seem to be extremely insecure, though they may believe that confidence…has to do with doing drugs and abusing your body.. people pleasing and loads of alcohol and wearing tight clothes and revealing outfits to try to please people constantly. This is a sign of extreme insecurities…. The arrogance is stemming from insecurities. There is no such thing as arrogance and confidence in the same room. That’s a contradiction of terms… confident people are not bombastic in nature they are not allowed. They are not attention, whore material, but that’s what the entertainment industry’s about. It is not a music industry… when things have to be boiling down to how much money how big the houses are.. fakery, materialism, and making believe that you’re not a business and making believe that it’s all about art when it’s just business and insecurities, because you do need to be driving the best cars and living in the best houses it is insecurities.. they take wrists the risk is not to make a lot of money… when you’re quiet and you’re subdued and music is very subtle. How can you get attention from people that’s how business people think because they’re so insecure about themselves they can’t make a double digit six figure income, not being loud, bombastic and insecure…. Because they wouldn’t be happy being poor, because they’re too insecure to be poor…. The industry was really great, especially the film industry where we have these very unknown composers, coming in creating beautiful masterpieces no one ever saw their face, the word, shaking their booty down with tight pants and revealing clothes, and they weren’t promoting drugs. This is all really insecure, and they should use the word insecurities and stop hiding and making believe there’s something they’re not, which is confident… confident people don’t need to rehash thinks they don’t need to jump on bandwagons. They don’t need to sound like the Beatles. They don’t need to talk about the sex pistols they don’t need to rehash something to try to fish fit and they literally are taking risks… why do we need bands… we have tons of bands ..It’s not a new concept, bands but they were afraid of taking risks and not promoting bad. It’s just composers might be something that could be a risk factor… songwriters are passe… bands are passé we had a lot of bands… we need to take risks now and focus on serious composers… and we need to focus on bands that do not wish to be bombastic in nature that are taking risks harmonically… and bands and composers that are taking risks in dynamic range and harmonics which they are not doing and I’m speaking in general I’m speaking about the industry not willing to take risks, including how they make records which is overly compressed and there’s lacking a dynamic range and they know nothing about music because if you don’t have a lot of dynamic range, you don’t really have music in general they have a little bit of dynamic range here and there however, the harmonic wrists in the entertainment industry right now, or nothing.. they have to have it in their ear, and they have to be artistic people and artistic people take risks. If you ask these two men what is harmonic diversity what is harmonic talent what is the use of interesting harmonics they wouldn’t even know…. Because artistic people would know because they are the ones taking risks.
What the hell is that interviewing suede? However he did a pretty good job. I’m glad I got the answer to my lifelong question of if they have ever played this world needs a father live.
How on earth do you know Suede but not Simon Price? 😕 He's one of the most lauded music journalists in the UK. His books on The Cure and especially The Manic Street Preachers have been hailed as some of the best music biographies ever written.
Hello, you were contacting me from one of your pages to sell me books and also ask me for money for supposedly the divorce of Brett Anderson, who had his accounts tapped and had no money...those pages are on Facebook, I hope someone responsible can corroborate it because they leave very bad for the band...for now, after that I left and left accounts that I had where I followed the band until I canceled some purchases of Brett's books because of this whole situation...a shame
Interesting hint about album 10 at the end, possibly another punk one. I'd love another The Blue Hour or Night Thoughts...and a colourful album cover next time please! Suede have always great album covers...
November 28th 1994 I met Matt, Brett, Richard and Simon in Oslo. They all signed my copy of Dog Man Star, and Brett signed a poster of the album cover and signed it "Love, Brett". Super kind of them, I still have all of these items :D
If you'd have told the teenage me that dog man star would be so lauded all these years later I wouldn't have been surprised in the slightest. It's extraordinary. It's genius.
If you'd told me then that middle aged suede would be producing work that's even better, that would have been the surprising thing. But it's true, and I'm not even certain their best days aren't ahead
Excellent interviewer with some really good, interesting questions. The band must have discussed this album a hundred times before but this interview really managed to go a bit deeper than I’ve heard before.
one of my favorite albums ever. that, "the downward spiral", "superunknown", "definitely maybe", "music for the jilted generation", "parklife", "live through this", "my iron lung" EP, "mtv unplugged in new york", "second coming"... 1994 was a great year in music. i came of age during that time as a 13-14 year old kid. i didn't hear "dog man star" until i was in my 20s as suede was never a big thing here in the u.s. still, it's one of those great albums to have.
Fantastic interview, rooted to the spot for 74 minutes. I rediscovered Suede with Autofiction (which was my album of the year in 2022) and enjoyed reliving the music from the 90s heyday since.
Such a great interview. It really makes a difference having a journalist who has a certain intelligence to them
44:36 glad he still says this about Wild Ones. just like noel said Some Might Say will always be oasis best song, and stuck to that. my first fav suede song was to the birds for something like 15 years, and then asphalt world after i read bretts books (esp after i read the recording process for that in bretts second book), and now its wild ones. its such a beautiful sort of mission statement, talks so beautifully about being young to me. kudos to simon price you snap them out of the PR circuit stupor they have after a few minutes with how clearly engaged and how well informed you are about them.
My favourite album when released and my love for it hasn't diminished one bit.
34:04 It’s so cool that people talk about things like this! Seriously, it’s amazing to hear someone actually say it. I have about a dozen “imaginary” people in my head (probably because, like me, they’re obsessed with storytelling, each in their own way). I imagine conversations with them, turning to them for advice and drawing strength from them, because in real life, they talk about things no one around me ever even mentions-but somehow, those things burn quietly in the back of my mind. It might sound silly at best or like madness at worst, but for me, it’s a huge part of my reality (even if it’s not reality at all). And hearing someone mention something kind of like it in the interview as if it’s a relatively normal thing made me feel juuuust a little less like a weirdo.
Amazing album. It has the quality where people look for meanings in it and make their connections where they were at in life. 1994 was a significant year for me. Lots of turbulence and some pain. It was my soundtrack and reference point. The Two of Us, Wild Ones, The Power and Still Life. All amazing songs.
Outstanding interview - quite possibly the Definitive DMS interview actually - I mean what on Earth is left to say? Perfect.
Just missing Bernard
Intervista davvero meravigliosa, grazie per averla realizzata e condivisa.
Great interview. Remember buying my CD of it on October 10th 1994 at my local Woolworths. I’d loved the first album and knew this one would be even better and it was. I knew some of the songs from recording the Blackpool gig from Radio 1 on tape. The album was an instant classic and stands up so 30 years on. Still regret not seeing them on that tour though. Saw them on the Coming Up tour in 1997 for the first time. Legendary band 🫡🙏
Now I miss Woolworths!
@ yes it was a good store. A bit of everything in there. Ah, the innocent days of the 80’s and early 90’s 😂
Thank you for the moments in the 90s❤
Very interesting to hear Brett's take on the lyrics,as I must have listened to that album a thousand times,especially when it first came out... I could relate emotionally and it's sad and it's tragic and really wonder if they even know how Incredibly inspirational and beautiful...it Is!!!! But definitely they have evolved musically and still continue to amaze..They honestly are the greatest band ever then and now ❤❤😊
I’ve always LOVED how utterly ridiculously over the top DMS is.
With Brett's comments about the context of the work emerging during and post - my pretentious teenage self was convinced that the artificiality of the Still Life string outro was intentional, leading us out of the over-saturated, lush glamorous darkness of Dog Man Star back into the BBC light orchestra programme
UA-cam suggested this video. I bought a flat late 90's but tough on my own. Bills. a friend said "i'm up for moving in as flatmate". so I worked in magazine dept at ASDA in 1990's. - NME had a massive double sided poster & one side was Brett Anderson. I put it above his bed before he moved in... (lol) he wasnt into guitar music. He said WTF is this. funnily enough he stayed 6 years and never took poster down from above his bed. True story.
I saw them on a Sunday in June 1992 at Princess Charlotte, Leicester.I think only The Drowners was released at the time.They were truly great.To The Birds was the last song in the set.Still my fave.
My favourite album of all time. Concert 24 November 1994 Paradiso, Amsterdam ❤
loved the bit about signing La Puissance in Paris. I was there both times 1994 & 2022. It happened exactly like that 😅
Thing is in 1994 La Puissance had a charm because it was played to teenagers (I was 14) and early 20s crowd. Brett could cough at the time and we would have scream in adoration. So him attempting at singing in French was exciting.
In 2022, we were for the most part a crowd of 40s and 50s years old crowd. The translation that second time appeared to us very clumsy without the veil of youth in adoration. What was charming became quite embarrassing.
A very excellent interview indeed; Simon gets to the core of things
Absolutely love dog man star, however I am still a bit bummed out because we didn't get a remaster in 2024, which this album deserves and NEEDS.
When they discuss mattresses I had to think about Ren's Seven Sins lyrics "A bed where I never deep rest, A bed where I'm always depressed, A bed with a human oppressed, A bed for the tomb where I slept, A bed in this room that's a womb for this mess"
How can they answer this guy's questions wout laughing in his face when I was younger I loved Suede totally groundbreaking from the grunge era here n we all were into the scene n dyed our hair had the whatever look but I'm sorry to see an old dude w hair horns now I just can't 😂😂
🖤🖤🖤
suede best ever album!
How does it feel to led Suede and The Donnas altogether, Brett?
I do think that many people in the so-called music industry, which is really an entertainment history seem to be extremely insecure, though they may believe that confidence…has to do with doing drugs and abusing your body.. people pleasing and loads of alcohol and wearing tight clothes and revealing outfits to try to please people constantly. This is a sign of extreme insecurities…. The arrogance is stemming from insecurities. There is no such thing as arrogance and confidence in the same room. That’s a contradiction of terms… confident people are not bombastic in nature they are not allowed. They are not attention, whore material, but that’s what the entertainment industry’s about. It is not a music industry… when things have to be boiling down to how much money how big the houses are.. fakery, materialism, and making believe that you’re not a business and making believe that it’s all about art when it’s just business and insecurities, because you do need to be driving the best cars and living in the best houses it is insecurities.. they take wrists the risk is not to make a lot of money… when you’re quiet and you’re subdued and music is very subtle. How can you get attention from people that’s how business people think because they’re so insecure about themselves they can’t make a double digit six figure income, not being loud, bombastic and insecure…. Because they wouldn’t be happy being poor, because they’re too insecure to be poor…. The industry was really great, especially the film industry where we have these very unknown composers, coming in creating beautiful masterpieces no one ever saw their face, the word, shaking their booty down with tight pants and revealing clothes, and they weren’t promoting drugs. This is all really insecure, and they should use the word insecurities and stop hiding and making believe there’s something they’re not, which is confident… confident people don’t need to rehash thinks they don’t need to jump on bandwagons. They don’t need to sound like the Beatles. They don’t need to talk about the sex pistols they don’t need to rehash something to try to fish fit and they literally are taking risks… why do we need bands… we have tons of bands ..It’s not a new concept, bands but they were afraid of taking risks and not promoting bad. It’s just composers might be something that could be a risk factor… songwriters are passe… bands are passé we had a lot of bands… we need to take risks now and focus on serious composers… and we need to focus on bands that do not wish to be bombastic in nature that are taking risks harmonically… and bands and composers that are taking risks in dynamic range and harmonics which they are not doing and I’m speaking in general I’m speaking about the industry not willing to take risks, including how they make records which is overly compressed and there’s lacking a dynamic range and they know nothing about music because if you don’t have a lot of dynamic range, you don’t really have music in general they have a little bit of dynamic range here and there however, the harmonic wrists in the entertainment industry right now, or nothing.. they have to have it in their ear, and they have to be artistic people and artistic people take risks. If you ask these two men what is harmonic diversity what is harmonic talent what is the use of interesting harmonics they wouldn’t even know…. Because artistic people would know because they are the ones taking risks.
Mat has no chair in this. His long arse is sat on the floor.
People didn’t ’catch up’ either. Some liked them, some didn’t. Big long-arsed tit
46:03 Simon missing the chance to plug Late Nite Minicab FM
Why does the host look like Bono's grandmother during the Zoo TV tour?
52:29 LOL
You mess with Suede you mess with the Suede fanbase !
What the hell is that interviewing suede? However he did a pretty good job. I’m glad I got the answer to my lifelong question of if they have ever played this world needs a father live.
How on earth do you know Suede but not Simon Price? 😕
He's one of the most lauded music journalists in the UK.
His books on The Cure and especially The Manic Street Preachers have been hailed as some of the best music biographies ever written.
@@terrra_2024can’t stand the cure so I won’t be reading that book and suede are just the greatest band ever so of course I know them.
Most bands historically, and understandably, have a difficulty writing their 2nd record. Few are are as good as this sophomore.
Nice can of Sprünt
Hello, you were contacting me from one of your pages to sell me books and also ask me for money for supposedly the divorce of Brett Anderson, who had his accounts tapped and had no money...those pages are on Facebook, I hope someone responsible can corroborate it because they leave very bad for the band...for now, after that I left and left accounts that I had where I followed the band until I canceled some purchases of Brett's books because of this whole situation...a shame
Listened to it after about 20 years off the other day. It’s got some good songs, but it just sounds AWFUL.
Best band ever.
We are waiting f a new rough guitars album ❤️
Interesting hint about album 10 at the end, possibly another punk one. I'd love another The Blue Hour or Night Thoughts...and a colourful album cover next time please! Suede have always great album covers...