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I mean it was a bit pretensions towards the end but it started out well enough
For all the drama that was going on while recording this album I don't feel like it really showed in the music. The vocals and music really blended together seemlessly and the music was really good, which is impressed because the band seemed disconnected from the writing and singer. I read some reviews saying it was pretentious. But I don't get that he was trying to be pompous and or thought he was more important, more that he had a lot of emotions that he wanted to get out and he didn't want to spend time partying. Music was a release for him and didn't want to necessarily deal with fame. For the band they wanted to be famous and rock out doing something they were good at. Neither is wrong...in the meantime they made a decent album
I really liked it. It was an intense, yet melancholic record.
I think a clear 3. It has a few songs which were quite good AND was an overall quite enjoyable listening experience. Favourites: We Are the Pigs; The Two of Us; Still Life.
Weiß ich nicht, hier und dort mal episch, mal wehleidig, sehr experimentell. Konnt man hören, aber werde ich wieder vergessen dieses Album
Fand 'we are the pigs' cool, der Rest aber nichts besonderes.
Weiß ich nicht, hier und dort mal episch, mal wehleidig, sehr experimentell. Konnt man hören, aber werde ich wieder vergessen dieses Album
🎧Kind of interesting. Not great, not terrible. Favorite track: The Power
lekker melodramatisch! respecteer dit immens maar is niet echt mijn ding helaas
Very cool back half. Kind of like a bowie album
The first track made me want to quit listening, and while it improved quite a bit in the tracks that followed, I find myself wishing I was listening to something else. I have a feeling I'll not have enough time to finish the album this morning before work and that I'll be uninspired to finish it today. This isn't bad, really. Maybe just bland? I don't know. Uninspiring, for sure. Also, the vocals a tolerable, but only just ⭐⭐.75
It’s alright. Another British album ™️ for the 1001 list
Seemed like a gushing excess of emotion. I liked the sound I generally but the lyrics and the tone felt melodramatic.
Siento que podría gustarme porque le encuentro cierto atractivo, pero no termina de ser mi estilo. Tal vez si escuchase otro álbum podría terminar de definir si me gusta la banda o no.
Solid album. Good tracks to revisit. Heroine and whips are Stand out but the epic crescendo of a lot these songs get a bit repetitive.
Spotify described this as glam and I realized this is much closer in time to glam than to today and now I have to go to bed.
Such DRAMA! It's like a watered-down U2. The other Suede album we had made no impression on me at all, while this one is just exhausting. Not sure if that's better or worse.
Way better than I thought it was going to be. Enjoyable. I had never heard a single song on this album.
Enjoyable. But a little long.
I actually like some stuff on here which is nice. I don’t really think it ascends beyond, britpop album that’s fine though
I was feeling defensive of this album for a couple tracks, enjoying the ambition and grandeur of the vision. Maybe midway through I was getting why people felt it was pretentious, but I still got to the end more open to it than not.
God save the Queen and all that. Am I doing it right?
This record didn't really start well, but I am surprised that it finished very strongly. Favourite Track(s): The Asphalt World Least Favourite Track(s): Introducing the Band
Yet another album that is impossible to find to even listen to...found it on Apple Music (in US) listed under 'The London Suede'. Like their s/t album, glad I got to listen to this, but really nothing special.
Not too bad, but nothing really grabs my attention, and I got bored about halfway through. Various tracks, such as "Heroine", "The Power", and "New Generation", sound very much like David Bowie.
If David Bowie got his start in the 90s and wrote 5-min songs I blanked out on...
There was something here, but I couldn't quite tell if I really liked it or not. It's a weird combo of a mid-90s alternative sound with almost a new wave singer. To be honest, not sure it worked. There were some songs that I dug like The Asphalt World, which clearly demonstrated that they had talent. I just didn't find it consistently great, or even good. An average album, worth a listen, but not much more.
It was... okay. I expected more since my father loves this band. Same issue as with Pulp's "This is Hardcore". Very nice bits but overall let down.
All over the place. Each track sounds like 4 or 5 tunes piled on top of one another. Pompous, dramatic, occasionally beautiful, especially Bernard Butler's lead guitar. Strong last few tunes
Solid band, with quite a few decent singles behind then. Although their melodic sensibilities are quite strong, I find something very treble-y and sibilant about the production. That gets quite tiring after a while and left me with no real desire to delve into the extended edition's extra tracks.
I do hear a Morrisey/ Bowie vibe
Jeg fik ikke lyttet ordentligt, men det lød umiddelbart nice? Lidt bowie lyd
Ik: "Mh, dit klinkt best wel als Bowie en the Smiths" Wikipedia: "In contrast to their debut album Suede, which exhibited the influences of David Bowie and the Smiths, Dog Man Star exhibits a more varied aesthetic and draws from a wider range of influences" lmao Was lekker
They headlined when I went to Reading 1997 and I didn’t watch them. I like the guitar but the voice grates on me at times.
This was good life-contemplation music for my bus ride
Este álbum está muy bien producido y es cohesivo, pero nada readapto y llamo la atención para ser honesta. Mi cancion preferida o la que más me gustó fue stay together (long version), ya que aunque sea raro me recuerda mucho a las canciones de fleetwood Mac.
I was not previously familiar with this album, and the artist I only knew from listening to their first album earlier in this exercise. This is pretty interesting, it's alternative rock and I hear some Smiths influence, but it's more than that. This album does well to have a varied tone but still sound cohesive. I enjoyed the first album and I like this one too. I would listen again.
Extra star for the album cover
I was neither bothered nor persuaded.
Oke
I can understand the complaints that this felt too pretentious in 1994. If you gave this to me without a date stamp, I would've guessed it was an early-mid 80s 'post-punk' New Wave record, and that genre feels like it was well dead by 1994. If not, it certainly wasn't in the post-grunge mainstream anymore. I hear some Prog Rock influence here - like Suede was focusing their nostalgia on the early 70s (Yes, King Crimson, even some Pink Floyd and David Bowie) instead of the usual early 90s brit-rock nostalgia for the late 60s. Kinda fun to contemplate that - punk developed as a counter to prog, then post-punk developed from punk, and new wave from there, then new wave starts pulling inspiration from prog and ends up in the same pretentious place that started the loop in the first place? Interesting that even after grunge (punk 2.0) exploded, there were still bands doubling down on this kinda sound. Anyway, I like new wave, so I listened to this record several times and grew to appreciate it. I'm not sure I love any of it enough to revisit the album in it's entirety, but it has some moments I'd circle back to. I have no other experience with Suede (or, "The London Suede" as they're also known), so I can't comment on how this compares to their other work. Notables: "Introducing the Band" - this could be the opening for a Pink Floyd album "We Are The Pigs" - the second most played song according to Spotify. My favorite "The Wild Ones" - must have been the hit "The Power" - very King Crimson "The Asphalt World" - more prog-rock "Still Life" - the most pretentious song on the record, but not in a bad way? There's a bit of Phantom Of The Opera style theatrics here that I didn't expect.
Overall Rating - 2.61/5 (5.21/10). Mostly forgettable, mid-90's rock.
Wow, so much Bowie. Dog Man Star is a seriously pretty album, and it was also orchestrated and recorded well. The thing is that I hear Bowie in every song and every note sung on the record. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Bowie is awesome. If I had heard this album when it came out, I think I'd be more inclined to listen to it enough for it to go into the rotation. But all these years later, I think I'd just rather listen to Ziggy. The arrangements and singing on some of the songs remind me of The Divine Comedy's A Short Album about Love, which would come out a few years later. I liked that one more, I think, because it was more over the top, leaning even more into the orchestration and cheesy love ballads. Dog Man Star is another really cool album that I'm happy I've heard. I just don't see myself coming back to it much. Three stars.
I still haven't got a satisfactory definition of brit pop from a musical sense. Lots of bowie to be heard in this. It's fine.
Diverse, focused, slow, fast, fun, it's a bit of it all. Crazy that there are people in this world that choose Oasis over this. FOOLS!
Like Echo and the bunnyman but more rocky. 5/10
Found this to be pretty decent, I enjoyed listening to it, probably won't go out of my way to listen to it again however.
This can't be their best album ? , a mixed bag , 3.5/5
Die ersten beiden ersten Songs sind ganz cool, danach verrennt sichs a bissl in beliebigen Rock. Highlights: We Are The Pigs, Heroine, This Hollywood Life
Me gustaría haber prestado más atención porque me parece que está bastante bien
diet david bowie
Kinda sounds like Bowie
it was a decent album over yeah not too bad
this was fine. it started off as five stars and slowly dwindled as time went on.
6.7
If I wanted to listen to Morissey, I'd just listen to the real things.
Alright
Better than I expected!
fun but forgettable. I wonder if I'll literally ever say this album name out loud. THREE! also spot on by me to be at the global average
Britpop is one of my favorite genres and I knew Suede pretty well, or so I thought. This is a first time listen.. Starts out strong, but fizzed out on the back end. Loved the sweeping solos and grandiosity that the genre is known for. Good stuff. Don't know if it'll replace any of my faves, but that's okay.
I have never heard this band before but I will say this much, they are not Britpop. I don't know who would have ever classified this as brit pop. It reminds me a lot of for lack of a better term 'British Rock' bands from roundish the same era, but not like Blur or Oasis two bands who I think of when I think of Britpop. I really enjoy this kind of music though Discogs has Glam tossed in as a 'genre or style', and I think that fits. Pretty expensive if you're a first edition collector as well we're talking 200 dollars for the first pressing of this record.
One of my good high school friends got me into Suede's 1993 debut, so I saw them when they toured behind this album—but this is the first time I'm hearing it. Back then, I remember liking them best in smaller doses, because Brett Anderson's voice skewed melodramatic for my taste. That's also the case on Dog Man Star. By the time "Still Life" rolled around, it sounded like Spotify had segued into the original cast recording for some Broadway show. That said, I still found plenty to like here, particularly "Stay Together" and "Whipsnade." 3.5 stars.
For some reason in high school I got it in my head that Suede was like the forthcoming greatest rock and roll band of all time - maybe from something I read, or the oddly located super hipster record store in my very non-hipster suburb that prominently placed the poster of their first album - and then I saw the video of Metal Mickey on 120 Minutes and even in my "I want to believe" phase of trying to get into what the cool kids were into, I was not very impressed. And then I never heard of them again until they popped up here. But as with many things on this list I'm very mildly tickled to see that they continue to put out no. 2 albums on the UK charts to this day. Anyway, this sounds like the original cast soundtrack for a rock musical that I probably wouldn't go to see. The bass guitar is on point. Also, these guys need Jesus. Or at least to relax.
Not necessarily the band I'll seek out when I'm in a Britpop mood, but enjoyable.
-been a little bit since i listened to Suede, but this album struck me as a little more sophisticated than their debut. it’s probably an improvement, though i honestly found myself liking it less -idk, guess it’s hard for me to get into Britpop / this particular type of glam rock as it sounds a little convoluted. don’t hate it though, solid 3 -Favorites: Introducing The Band, The Asphalt World
Surprisingly decent.
Like Bowie banged the Soup Dragons.
I like the style of these but by the end of the album it felt like too much of the same thing. Would listen to the songs again but probably not the whole album in one go. I did enjoy the atmosphere and the instrumentation, just found it better in small doses. Fav song: The Wild Ones Least fav: This Hollywood Life
I enjoyed the vibe but could have done with a few less songs- they started to get a bit much of the same thing by the end. Could even say they got a bit... pointless... (the bassist is Richard Osman's brother Mat Osman, now read the joke again and laugh please!) Favourite song: New Generation Least: Daddy's Speeding
grew on me a bit
Not bad. A few really good tunes. Sounds like some Echo and the Bunnymen in places. Gets a little psychedelic is other places. And then there’s some below average tunes.
Didn't do a huge amount for me but I did listen to the whole thing!
Decent
I used to have a friend in school but our musical tastes were in someways diametrically opposed, at least within the realms of guitar based indie or rock based. He was a big fan of Suede and hence I was not! I’d readily chucked the band in with Britpop fodder and in some ways th timing of Suede was probably both a blessing and a curse to them. But listening to this now, there’s a lot more going on than your average Britpop band . I’m not going to profess undying love but it’s certainly earned another listen.
Glamorous, even pompous, britpop with glam elements. It works well as an album and I like how smooth it is, but none of the songs stood out. I prefer Blur and other britpop albums from the era. Perhaps I need more listens?
It's okay, nothing stood out
Another great band, who are still going today (enjoyed their latest album, Antidepressants, which came out this year). I tend to listen to “Coming Up” more than their other albums, with their debut “Suede” next on the list, so haven’t listened to this one for a while, despite it having The Wild Ones on which is a great little track. Looking forward to revisiting this today. Still not my favourite of theirs, but a good listen.
Not what I expected
It took a little while to get going, but once it did this was actually really quite an enjoyable album.
Some tracks are way overdone -- "Still Life", for example. But other tracks ("New Generation") still seem to hold up, mostly because of the guitar work.
Interesting rock album, singer reminded me of David Bowie, musically great moments, singing was eh for me but not bad whatsoever. 5/10
Wollte erst eine 2 geben, dann hat mich die Platte aber doch noch "gepackt".
I liked their self-titled album a little better. It was alright.
Reasonably good time. Does tend to blur together a bit. High 3?
first listen some interesting, some meh
Honestly fairly good. I've never heard of them before, but they have a sort of Bowie meets Pink Floyd vibe?
Def a vibe, would listen to again!
The album has grown on me. At first listen, I thought it was a bit too "crooner-y". He's got a loud and powerful voice, and uses it forcefully. But it pair so well with the hard-hitting electric guitar solos that I think I can excuse it. It's sort of a mix between The Cure and Muse. It's a good rock album. I don't know that I'll listen to it that much further beyond this review, but it was reasonably enjoyable.
Meh. It's fine.
It's more interesting to me than when it came out, but I still can't imagine purposely engaging with it.
Not for me. I appreciate the mode they’re working in, but I prefer my Britpop to be more poppy than Bowie.
dejando de lado las canciones que se me hicieron un poco repetitivas, hay algunas que si me engancharon y no me empalagaron tanto (me cuesta un poco el glam rock perdon) Ojalá hubieran mas canciones en el album como The Asfalt World, se luce mucho más la instrumentalizad de la que son capaces. Nunca los había escuchado igual, no se por qué me esperaba algo un poco mas emo. Un 3.5 para los ante Favs: Heroine, The Power, The Asphalt World
Not really sure if I'm supposed to 'get' anything from this, because it was mostly fine?
Despite being very swept up in Britpop, I never really gave Suede the time of day. The singles they released did nothing for me and I couldn’t stand Brett Anderson’s whiny voice or pretentious posing. Listening to the whole of this album was less painful than I’d feared but also reinforced my gut feeling. Not a fan. The deep cuts and slower, more layered songs are better than the upbeat rocky ones but he spends too much energy trying to channel Bowie and Morrissey for my liking. The closing trio was probably my favourite part of the album; all three are too long and contrived, and the needlessly strings-y 'Still Life' is almost definitely ridiculous and over-the-top but I actually thought it was an interesting and pretty nice way to end the record.
A heavy album in between their solid debut (the eponymous Suede) and poppy comeback (Coming Up), the fact they even needed a comeback after this tells you how well this was received.... if their debut was the drugged up high of poppers, this is the hard comedown. "The Wild Ones" and, appropriately, "Heroin" stand out.
it's a good rock band which has a solid list of tracks that are neat if i got stuck in a car with but not anywhere else. sometimes i feel like there's too many of these "forgettable but good" rock albums on the list, which kinda sucks for it being a list about tryna be dirverse.
This was alright. I bit prolonged and maayybbeee pretentious but not too much. Just could be trimmed down by like 33% I really enjoyed the 90s new wave (is it new wave?) kind of vibes and the little videos Spotify plays in relation to the songs made me feel nostalgic. That's about it though, no great call outs
New to me band, but I generally enjoyed this. Great voice, lyrics and music. Need to listen to more of their stuff. High 3+
What is this? A 70s prog rock/new-wave/britpop mashup? Sounds like Bowie in places. Don't know why, but I get pretentious vibes.. It's so 70s in vibe, not sure in a good way? Not sure what I'm meant to be impressed by? The Asphalt World is like prog meets grunge, not bad. Still Life is a bit overblown! Sounds like it's from a stage show! Best track - Daddy's Speeding, The Asphalt World 3 stars - I get what it is but it doesn't resonate with me
Actually, pretty good.
Alright
I was pretty skeptical and ended up enjoying it. The rock songs are catchy, lush, and dense. The ballads are less compelling. Maybe a little bloated, but I had a good time with my listen and would revisit.
Just…mid
ait was aiight
Took 2 tries to listen in it's entirety. Yay, Brit pop, mellow sounding, a little angsty, can't place which singer vibes i was getting. Didn't wiki this one to connect band members to any other groups. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): ⭐⭐⭐: Liked it well enough
Oh, how I grimace now when I seen an album time over an hour for an unfamiliar band. Thankfully this wasn't bad. Good songs and Bowie-like vocals, but the vibes were too mellow for my taste. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): New Generation ⭐⭐⭐: Liked it. Saved one track.
Good
Heb niet goed geluisterd volgensmij was het wel een 4 waard maar boeie
intro started off strong, had me thinking this is gonna give some effortlessly moody vibe, but the rest of the album was kinda whatever. the songs just sound the same to me and blended together into one hour of british guy droning on the guitar. it's fine but unimpressive. the asphalt world is a great track tho 💖the asphalt world
An oddly 80s sounding record for 94. I like a lot of the elements in it, reminding me of Bowie and U2. It’s a little too musical theatery for me to really love but it’s not bad at all.
I could tell there were some interesting things in there and clearly some good musicianship (and can also see some Pulp in it), but it failed to capture my interest. It's not bad, but I don't think I'd listen to it again unless someone could point me in the direction of the things worth listening to.
Sounds like a mishmash of many better albums.
This album was interesting because it had a super strong middle section, while the opening and closing tracks I felt were lacking. I actually thought I was going to hate this for the first two tracks, but things started to really pick up with “Heroine.” The tracks were bombastic in a good way and the lyrics were engaging. Really found myself loving it at that point, but then it dropped off significantly for me starting with “Black Or Blue.” “Still Life” was alright for a closer but didn’t quite get to the same level as the middle tracks. Nothing was bad, though. The opening and closing just seemed weak in comparison. I’m waffling between 3 and 4 stars, but I think I have to round down. It’s a high 3, though, and definitely something I’m glad I heard before I died.
Pretty much what I expected a Suede record to sound like
3.5
Suede went from arguably inventing Brit Pop to distancing themselves from it between their first and second albums. The rise of bands like Blur and Oasis may have turned them off from the label. A large amount of personal in-fighting in the band further strained them. The resulting second album is still pretty Brit Pop, but with a lot of orchestral and slightly experimental elements. But really, aren't they just doing the same thing as the others? This split audiences and critics and I can see why. It has a few good tracks, but some of it does come across as pretentious and over the top. The relatively straightforward "New Generation" is the highlight for me, but I wasn't blown away from the album overall.
It was okay.
Representing the Bowie inspired glam art rock side of brit pop, Suede's crowning album is a massive sweeping music with arch high drama vocals. Great songs and sounds but the mix is muddy so it never fully realizes the grandiose scale they're going for though. A few tracks are immediately grabbing but overall it feels like a grower.
That is a joke NME, the 31st greatest album of all time? The top 35 are like: one of these things is not like the others. British music press is wild. It's pretty damn good but anywhere in the top 500 might be an exaggeration. No bangers but an album I wouldn't mind returning to at all. "New Generation" and "We Are the Pigs" are the standout tracks.
It was ok, I like other Suede albums better
Het is goeie muziek en ook een goed bij elkaar passend album maar gewoon niet helemaal mijn stijl
nuevo descubrimiento, buena musica
Pretty mid but listenable.
Milk toast
Quite a nice plane soundtrack. I think that I generally like this era and aesthetic, so I didn't need to pay too close attention in order to get what they were going for, which is good because I feel like this music is more about gesturing toward a vibe than anything.
Grandiose in nature, but a bit dense... or maybe I'm just too dense to fully appreciate this thing. Idk, who cares lol.
Unfamiliar. Grew on me thru second listen… more of a fan of the second half. Fav was Stay Together (Long Version).
Pretty average 90s Brit pop rock.
Yeah it was ok
I was super stressed when listening to this so a lot of it when right past me but from what my freaked out mind understood this was slightly annoying and very britpop-y, which makes for an average and kind of weird cocktail mix of an album
The Wikipedia page describes this album being influenced by the works of The Smiths and David Bowie. That rings true. But the album is not as great as either of them and it's hard to point to exactly why that is. Maybe it lacks a bit of a distinctive character like those role models.
First time listening to this. Enjoyed much of it.
Aurait sa place comme nouvel élément dans le tableau périodique : pas pesant mais plutôt lourd. 2.75 étoiles
i get why people might like this but i dont really. its sorta boring and good but not in a way id ever really get into. kinda gay. i like blur better
First time listening to any Suede. I like the first track! Overall I like the sound and the riffs throughout, though the album does lose me somewhat in the back half.
Surprised I liked this one, not bad for Britpop
Sitting on the fence with this one! Didn’t hate but didn’t get excited about it!
That's not my taste in music - But some pleasant songs
Maso
This was a decent British psych rock album (which may not mean much from me, an amateur in this genre). It had a gritty sound to it; I was particularly a fan of the production for this reason, because I felt it was done well. The guitar was a star throughout the album! My favorite tracks were The Wild Ones, New Generation, and The 2 of Us. My main critique is that this album is very long, and not for good reason in my opinion.
We Are The Swine 1001 Albums Generator 104 (08/26/2025) Suede is one of the big four of britpop (along with Oasis, Blur, and Pulp) and they are the only one that I have never listened to. Dog Man Star is an interesting album that leans into the artsy, glammy side of britpop that Pulp was also in. This album reminded me a lot of This Is Hardcore. It is long with a really strong start (the first four songs are fucking fantastic), but drags on a little bit. We Are The Pigs and The Wild Ones are especially great and energetic. The 2 Of Us is a grat ballad that earns its length, and I also like the last two songs. The Asphalt World is an epic, proggy song and Still Life is a beautiful chamber pop ending. Some songs in the middle drag along and blend together for me. The memorability factor of this album is not quite as high as the Pulp or Blur albums that I have listened to so far. This is like a 3.5/5, rounded down to a 3. Favs: We Are The Pigs The Wild Ones The Asphalt World Least Fav: Black Or Blue
Great record! Love Suede and the way they build their sound in the Brit pop era.
This was a cool album. Just had that sort of jam to it. I enjoyed it, but honestly can't really distinguish between the different songs. Even so, I was able to enjoy the whole thing.
reminds me of Bowie, Queen, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers. good songwriting, but maybe too theatrical for my tastes.
No me pareció un álbum tan experimental como lo mencionaban (aunque tal vez se deba a que es mi primer álbum de este estilo siendo fan de skz) pero me gustaron algunas melodías, es verdad que abarca algunos ritmos diferentes pero no me parece tan exagerado. La diferencia entre aquellas canciones con el guitarrista Butler son muy diferentes a las que ya no lo tienen, pero siento que ambas versiones son muy interesantes de escuchar. #1
goed voor enkele nummers, maar niet voor een hele plaat na elkaar
Getting into a habit of needing to take a couple listens to really hear what's going on, which is kind of time consuming. Second listen - think it's a great but flawed album. A lot going on, but never trying to be showy. 3 seems harsh, and 4 generous. 3.5
'Introducing the Band' came on and it was giving me horrible flashbacks to an old Spotify algorithm where it thought that I liked Suede. The voice grated on me, and I didn't think it was particularly inspiring musically or lyrically. In fact, it took me three listens to really get through this album. I will admit that it got better. I even found myself caught up in the hook of several songs, including 'Heroine'. And, as the album progressed, I found I wasn't that bothered by it. In fact, I kind of liked it. I really emphasise 'kind of' here. Not sure I'd look them up, but they have their place. 3 Stars.
Some great guitar work and their rocks songs worked well. But the attempt at mellow songs fell flat
Some people rate this as Suede best album, for me it's too over dramatic. But I'll keep New Generation and We are The Pigs as highlights of the band.
I am a dog I am a man I am a star The world is my stage And Suede is my soundtrack
I just...I don't know. Something about this album was just so inconsequential to me. Like, I listened to it, and I immediately couldn't remember any of what I had just listened to. So then I listened to it again. Still nothing. I don't even really know why -- it's not bad? I guess I'm just really not a fan of the David Bowie thing. I can see how people would call it melodramatic, that finale is something else. But for whatever reason it just floats right past me. Fave songs: - We Are The Pigs - The Asphalt World I think??
Not bad but certainly not a classic.
This was a band I've not heard before they were not bad either! The album I was worried about after reading the wiki about but ended up being way better than I thought it was gonna be!
Great britpop (better than Oasis/Blur) but still a bit bloated.
Mostly uninteresting, but The Asphalt World is a great song.
- ganz stimmig mit einigen Längen zwischendurch, zum Ende dann aber nochmal richtig stark 3-4/5
fine
A strange one - really pleasant to have on in the background, but totally anonymous and forgettable. The Asphalt World was good, mind. Smiths-lite.
I have mixed feelings about this album but I think that's because I can't really figure out what it is. I guess it's considered alternative and I guess as a description of the music - alternative it is. It shifts from quiet to loud, mellow to bombastic, normal to ... not normal. I liked some of it fine but there were some things where I just looked to Gina and said "well, this isn't a good song." I guess Rolling Stone called this pretentious but I think I would go with confident - perhaps occasionally misplaced but it is unabashedly exactly what it is. I'll never listen again but I made it through this once.
Didnt like it much at the time, very glam rock seventies like.
Glam Rock being mid-tempo featuring distinctive, overly-emotive vocals.
Not awful, but definitely too long. Felt overblown and pretentious and completely unmemorable.
drei Smooth Operator
I think this record helped me understand Suede better. I know they're big and I listened to their self titled, but it didn't do much for me. This one was easier for me to link it with the other britpop bands. Not bad, but I doubt I'll choose to put it on.
“The power” sounds like David Bowie. This is a good album. It’s sounds like all the popular English groups. At least vocally? I’m surprised my friends who were Smiths fans aren’t into this.
I liked more than I thought I would. Early REM vibes.
this is perfect for a manic main character bike ride at 1am, not that i did that at all, listening to this, but if i did i think that would be a great way to spend my time listening otherwise kinda gives general vibes, no big songs stuck out but pretty chill this one is actually just a solid 3 stars
Certainly an ambitious album, which clearly owes a debt to Bowie. The problem is, I didn't really get into it...
Art rock that is a bit too much but not overly eccentric so it's still listenable. Lots of David Bowie influence.
This is good but not great. I came to Suede an album later, so this doesnt hit me in the nostalgias. I actually saw them libe last yer and they were really good still Some great tracks, an overly long run time and i know Bretts voice can be divisive.
Meh
I'm kind of a sucker for the Brit pop rock sound, so this one brings some interesting arrangements for me. While listening I had the thought "sounds interesting, perhaps a bit pretentious, but that's art, so oh well". Then I read the wiki and kind of hated myself for that thought... In the 90's there was probably no worse criticism than that, but I'd say this one has aged well enough. I've been through the Bowie and Smiths catalogues enough that it's kinda fun to hear a derivative that I wasn't familiar with, and Suede fills that niche.
Sigh. I thought these guys were OK back in the day, but through the lens of the 1001, there's no reason for Suede to have two albums on this list. They just aren't that good. It's the classic UK 1980s / 1990s bias problem because of the author. I'm a little tired of it now that I've got 700+ albums done. Decidedly mid.
Shades of Bowie and U2madhrd together.
Some really strong moments and great vocals but the production falls flat occasionally and it drags a bit at points, may revisit this one again
Their second album. Alternative Rock. The band's move away from 'Brit Pop'. We Are Pigs, nice track with Bowie esque vocals. In fact Bowie's influence and sound is all through this album. It's grandiose and somewhat pretentious but has depth. Bowie / Glam / Brit Rock. Daddy's Speeding is a good track. The Power is one of the pretentious tracks, Ha! New Generation is nice. This Hollywood Life is gloriously dramatic with a random sax intro. Is this album really good or a huge self indulgent wank whilst doing your best David Bowie impersonation?
Have never got on with Anderson's whiny vocals
Good. But not amazing
A bit of glam and post-punk influences, which is not my favourite thing. Overall ok. Low 3.5 stars
I don't really get the acclaim of this album. I think they sound like a lot of other British artists, most notably David Bowie, but I don't feel like they really do anything interesting on top of being influenced by some good artists. "We Are The Pigs" is probably the highlight here, but I don't think the songwriting is that memorable though the rest of the album. Definitely my least favorite of the major Britpop artists. 3 stars.
Not bad. Some halfway decent songs.
was surprisingly good
I enjoyed this way more than I anticipated. I’m not the greatest fan - too much of a Bowie tribute band but I was suprised by how good this album is. I will listen again. A 3 bordering a 4.
Hints of Spiritualized and other bands in here. Very dramatic, but worth a listen.
It was interesting, clearly of a certain genre, heavy on The Smiths as inspiration, but not as well executed. Listenable if you like that style.
I don't think I've ever heard of Suede, nor anything from this album, which is always a potentially interesting prospect from this collection. I'm not sure they really delivered on that potential, but I also found the album a somewhat interesting collection of mid-90s alternative rock, with more than a healthy dose of David Bowie-esque influences and homages (most obvious on "The power" and "New generation", but present throughout). The album didn't really grab me, but I thought "Daddy's speeding" and "The asphalt world" were the better tracks of the lot. It didn't help their cause much to read all the sordid details of the guitarist/co-songwriter's split with the rest of the band mid-album over...I'm not entirely sure what, exactly, but it sounded pretty ugly and acrimonious, and didn't make a lot of sense given how ho-hum the album seems overall.
Feels like a guilty pleasure listen, if all the songs were as good as The Power and New Generation. I respect their over-the-top sensibility and picture them as glam rockers with hearts of gold.
Fine. This band seems like something I’d like given I like adjacent bands, but for some reason this band never connected with me.
It had some nice moments, and some songs stood out more than others. It got a little boring and overly long, but I liked it fine.
Not bad.
I liked a couple songs, but really just ok to me!
I see the potential in Dog Man Star. This album had a couple of outstanding tracks (highlights: We Are the Pigs, Asphalt World), however they were usually followed by one or two duds that took me out of the album.
A little convoluted for my taste - but some bits were pretty great
Not bad
Album 761 of 1089 Suede -Dog Man Star (1994) Rating : 2.5 / 5 This didn't offend my ears but I just never grabbed me. Some nice guitar work. Well produced. Can't say it is a bad album. Your time won't be wasted listening but don't expect too much.
Lots of Bowie inspiration. Notable tracks: Heroine, Stay Together (long version). Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
It's ok for casual listening. Honestly, I was waiting for just goth club music so this is a nice surprise.
Hm, some good musicality and themes, but kind of a beige album. 3* Also no way I'm listening to the 2.5 hr version of this moany thing on a Friday.
I didn't totally hate this, but at times the vocals were just over the top and gave me the impression of someone with a self-inflated view of themselves. The entire album feels melodramatic and pompous.
I like Suede however I don't seem to enjoy all of their songs. Some work perfectly for me.. others I don't get them ;!
3, pulp if they sucked
Pre-listening thoughts: I’ve actually never heard a song by Suede despite really liking Britpop so we shall see why that is! Post/during listening thoughts: this is like if Pulp’s This is Hardcore met Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ocean Rain. Certainly not as upbeat as other artists who get compared to Suede like Supergrass or Blur. I should love this, in theory. It’s just not really clicking with me today. Some parts of it just also sound poorly produced or mixed or something. Not sure if this was intentional but I don’t like when music sounds low quality. It’s also just too ballad-y. The front half is great but the back half is not as much. 6/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: nope Fav tracks: Heroine, The Wild Ones, New Generation, Still Life Least fav tracks: The 2 of Us
Even when britpop has a bit more glam and trippiness to it which is usually up my alley it still finds a way to sour on me with how mundane the end product usually becomes. I was actually enjoying a few of the tracks towards the beginning, particularly Heroine, but then after that daddy's speeding song everything started poetically going a bit downhill in terms of my enjoyment. I get it dude you have a lovely David Bowie impression now please turn the reverb down a little even I have my limit for that stuff
Of all of the Britpop bands that have been lost to time (at least to the civilised world) that have come up on this list, this one was probably most interesting to listen to. At points its musical influences are extremely obvious and took me a bit out of the experience, the opening track is probably the most notable example as it feels like the band were a bit TOO into Live At Pompeii (reading the wiki for this album basically confirms this. Regardless, the majority of tracks on here are very listenable but I would find it hard to say that this album is particularly memorable. It was novel to get a britpop album that wasn’t total shit for once though, so this gets bonus points just for that. There is a good variety of vaguely sad music here and it’s colourful without being unfocused. These guys were overshadowed by the Cranberries on their own tour for good reason, if they had come out at a quieter time I’m sure they would have been bigger. Unfortunately we ended up with Oasis instead. Highlights: Heroine, The Power, This Hollywood Life, The Asphalt World
Bueno
Some decent highs and corny lows.
proto-arcade fire vibes. i prefer the crispy cold braggadocio of oasis when it comes to 90s britpop but this, though uneven and overdramatic - it doesn’t suck
They must have listend to a lot of early 70s Bowie.
Not bad
Hard to rate this one for me. The tracks weren’t all fine, just a bit boring… May have been a day where my patience was too short to give it a good enough chance, I will need to revisit
I've not heard this album in full before! Suede appeared in my radar around the release of Coming Up album. I was more of an Oasis bruv. It sounds very familiar, maybe just a bit rougher around the edges, not that polished and I like it! Brett Anderson already has all of his mannerisms tho. I do like the recods for the most part. Some of the ballads are kind of weak tho, I skipped few tracks like that midway through out of boredom.
Definately a little over blown, produced and wrought.. More than a little reminiscent of Diamond Dogs (starting instead of ending on a chant...) but lacking the songs. Undeniably has some moments though..
What is the true purpose of this list? If it’s to showcase the best 1001 albums of all, then this release has no place on it IMHO. If however it’s to showcase musical evolution and highlight interesting points along that journey, then Dog Man Star serves as a fantastic example of a bands failure to match soaring ambition with suitable execution. This is a warts and all exposé of a band in turmoil, consuming a shed load of drugs, and simply not working well together. The outcome is a divided group struggling to match the expectation that came with quick success and openly tearing themselves up as they lay down the tracks. If was not a huge fan upon release. I’m not a huge fan now. Bernard Butlers signature guitars inevitably stand out on the rockier tracks he plays on, but ultimately he was right, the production is god damn awful. The album has enough good tracks to lift it above mediocrity, but it’s messy, it’s not at all cohesive, and that production, eugh.
I keep going back and forth on this album. It doesn't quite sink its teeth into you, but I want to see what comes next. I keep thinking maybe it'll be over soon but being pleasantly surprised when it keeps going. I see the Bowie vibes but it never hits that full Bowie masterpiece mark, while also having plenty of other directions that it excels in.
I am going 3.5 on this bad boy. Can't quite push it to a 4 but I was pleasantly surprised on it.
This one’s pretty good, I like their self titled album that came out before this one a little more though. 3.5
This played in the background while I worked. Look, they are good at playing their instruments, and this was a pleasant enough album, but I found it largely a snoozefest. Just kind of basic with little flares here and there. We are the Pigs stood out. New Generation had a David Bowie vibe. Good production, but the songs are middle of the road for me. It did seem to get better as it went on, but I can't bring myself to give it more than a 3.
New band for me. Kind of a bridge between the Smiths and early Radiohead with some David Bowie thrown in. Not bad, but upon first listen nothing super grabbed me, either. The singer was sometimes a little yodelly for me. There was one song, "Stay Together (Long Version)" that I had to tap out before the end. I guess what made it the long version was the extended sequence of layers upon layers of distorted cacophony. Interesting, but very grating. Fuck that (literal) noise. 3.5
When this came out, there was a lot of media hype for them, cause they looked good in magazines. The music was okay. Fine, but nothing exciting. It’s still fine, but ultimately not much more than that.
I've been pretty critical of the Britpop groups on this list and questioned why some of them are even on the list, as opposed to different albums, but here we are. Suede is a band I've heard of before, and have heard their songs, but never knew it was them. I guess Britpop was just a bit too much in the 90's and Oasis got way more popular here in the US than other bands. After hearing this album though, I appreciate the music. Not bad, but not drop dead amazing as everyone says it is. *shrug* 3/5
A lot better than I anticipated. I'd not realised how like Bowie his vocals are. Some good stuff in general although writing the day after nothing much has stayed with me
A trip down Memory Lane that I'd rather not revisit. Too many bad drugs.
First listen
I feel like this one needs a couple more listens to really get into. Some really interesting moments on this, particularly where it descends into noise - whilst the vocals I remain undecided on. Could see how this might be someone's obsession though
Britpop. Like the Blair government more flash than substance. This is ok. But I’m not sure. 2.5.
interesting, didnt listen very close tbh
Better than expected.
Just had this band five albums ago. Still don't like this guy's voice. The whole thing sounds regressive for 1994, a time when rock bands in general were innovating pretty fearlessly.
Not their best - too mellow. band with very unique sound.
BIG album within certain cliques at my school. Never saw the hype then, still unsure now
Suede's sophomore album sound pretty close to their debut, in my opinion. It's good and prettty influential to the whole Britpop movement. Not much else to say about it. Nice butt btw. Key tracks: We Are the Pigs The Wild Ones
So I really missed the whole Brit pop thing while I was busy with other stuff back on the 90s. Turns out I kind of dig it.
It was infinitely better to read about this album, then actually listen to it. No wonder Suede is pretty forgotten now, even though music is not that bad, the vocal makes it a super long slog. Britpop? Only Blur, Oasis and Supergrass.
Don't have a ton to say. It's very Bowie, pretty good. Just not really into it much, and sounds pretty dated for a 90's album.
Heard the name when growing up but never knew any songs and after this I still don't... The 90s and 00s seem to have a bunch of bands that just existed. That being said it's not bad but I don't really see anything unique or memorable about this.
You can’t spell ‘pretentious’ without ‘pretty’. You’d have to misspell it like ‘prettie’, though.
mun betra en ég óttaðist. það var líklega ekki fyrr enn á næstu plötu sem þeir hófu að sjúga lim kölska af áfergju. 3,5.
I listened to about half of the album. Yes, the music was okay. But overall I found it a bit boring. I wasn't interested in the album. That's why I didn't listen to it all the way through. I also wonder why this album is one of the 1000 albums you should have heard. 3/5
Heard some Bowie and Morrissey influences on this one. Upon first listen the only tracks that really stood out for me were Daddy’s Speeding and Still Life. I gave it another run and tried to pay closer attention and yea, I just found it to be a tad meandering without enough hooks beyond the mopey vocals to fully draw me in. It was fine but I won’t return. 3 stars
The album is okay. But the his voice is really buggin me , kinda theatrical vibe to it really annoys me.
Cool album, not gimmicky like some 90’s Brit pop bands.
It's okay, nothing remarkable.
Of what I know, Suede is easily my least favorite of the big four Britpop bands. They lean a lot more into a post-punk sound that is pretty hit and miss with me. At its best, I find this album agreeably energetic and somewhat melodic. At its worst, I find it overwrought and/or anonymous. Although I don’t think I’d say I outright dislike any of it, I think almost everything I’ve heard by Oasis, Blur, and Pulp is more interesting or appealing. 3/5
Better than expected, like the tracks with orchestra on
This seems the sort of record that one should like a good bit more, being right in one's sweet spot. The potential of the first record also seemed a positive harbinger. One can't escape the feeling that these guys took themselves too seriously and were mabye trying too hard. The orchestral excess of "Still Life" is more bombast than one wants from Britpop and there's too many glam effects througout. "The Wild Ones" is generally satisfying, but veers dangerously close to melodrama in the spirit of Scott Walker and Trafalgar-era Bee Gees. "The Power" has the same issue, though with a slightly more hair-band power-ballad vibe. Indeed, the overdone vocals are a recurring problem. This group is well outside the Britpop top 3 anyway, being nowhere near as cheeky as Pulp, nor as shape-shifty as Blur, nor as gloriously bloated and over-the-top (try though they might) as Gallagher, Inc. As such, do they really have the stature to jusify "Introducing the Band" (even allowing for new personnel)? There are some undeniably good bits ("Stay Together" and "Whipsnade" closer, which might not have been on album in first place). But too much is just replacement level Britpop which is not enough to hold a place in the Pantheon (at least one's own personal Pantheon). Certainly this record doesn't deserve anniversary editions (though neither does the debut).
At times almost unlistenable, at times great.
It’s alright. But it won’t help save Brit pop from my worst genres in my summary. 90s brit pop rarely hits the sweet spot: it’s either trying too hard to be clever - like this and Blur, or it’s too dumb (Oasis). The only one I really liked so far is The Verves Urban Hymns.
• 3/5 • all the elements of a great 90s britpop album present, but doesn’t quite hit the mark • overwrought, over-orchestrated, and too precious by half - Suede trying to out-Oasis Oasis
I love the style and sound of 90s music in general. So I was excited I had never heard of this one but ultimately it’s just whatever. It’s fine, it want to be David Bowie while failing to do so.
Seems fine, but nothing really stuck out to me.
It was good music, so far as these things go, but I didn’t get grabbed by anything in it.
I thought this was okay. Nice light 90s rock. Didn’t really have the one or two songs to go beyond ‘nice’ 6/10
Not enough here to listen all the way through.
Can’t say that I am too familiar with Suede. A dark and melancholic album. Some of the guitar work really shines. Some good songs and heavily influenced by Bowie. 3⭐️
I’d forgotten I quite liked Suede back in the day.
If it wasn't for the typical 90s muddy production I'd actually like this album a lot more
A bit more off-center than their debut, Dog Man Star shows Suede's development away from their own creation as Blur and Oasis came to champion the main space. I do not feel it comes off pretentious as many others have noted, but a misunderstood pushing of boundaries. Not overwhelming, yet a definable classic of the era. 3.5/5
I like new generation and some of the other songs, but it’s below Brit pop I haven’t listened to from Oasis and Radiohead. Went down from 4 to 3
Mellow
Quite liked this one, pleasantly surprised. Went a bit moaning Bowie in the middle but some good catchy songs in there. Fave: The Power
Ok so clearly this album is overblown and pretentious but part of me admires the route they took with this as the rest of the country was hurtling headlong into Britpop. A few of the songs are decent and I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Stay Together and We Are The Pigs is decent. Problem is there are equally a number of songs that are just quite boring and don’t offer much. The potential for something differently interesting and good in the face of Britpop was there but it just doesn’t really fulfil the promise.
Ok, but never quite hits the heights of their debut
I remain baffled by this list putting albums of artists in when they were halfway changing direction and which clearly isn’t their best material (Kid A, for example, I’m also looking at you). Here we go again. Anyway, Suede’s debut album was and is stunning (must be in the list to come, surely). It was peak Butler guitar style (he’s never been the same since) and Anderson in fine fettle. This album just loses some of their edginess by slowing everything down in a variety of ways and the guitar lead often vanishes somewhat. There’s still a sniff of the old form in We are the Pigs and This Hollywood life (great tune), but all in all it’s a bit flat. I guess illustrated by Butler quitting before it was finished. Come on list, let’s skip some of these albums.
If it rocked out more, it would have been a great album. But there's too many ballads that bring this one down a bit. Decent but could have been better.
HL: “We Are the Pigs”, “New Generation”, “2 of Us” Liked it more than the last (London)Suede
Solid album
Pretty good. Rockier than expected, but vocal style is a bit off-putting: Bowie style big high notes, without Bowies tunes and voice.
I enjoyed this one! Nothing was super catchy or memorable but it was still a good listen.
Really enjoyed this, it felt pretty Bowie-esque at times.
A sensação é de estar ouvindo o vocalista do INXS em outra banda, o que não é ruim. O disco vai crescendo conforme vai chegando ao fim. É um disco que faz nos relembrar o quão importante é ouvir a sequência correta das faixas.
Listened Before? N Pretty good pop record. I can see how it may have been considered a bit pretentious at the time (anyone who lists Morrisey as an influence runs this risk anyway), it seems to have held up well and - in context of overall 90s pop/rock - is a solid contribution. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Heroine
A little of this band goes a long way.
So meh.
6/10 - It kind of sounded like david bowie but most of the songs were worse. For some reason I loved new generation tho.
Fine. Mostly boring, couple good songs
3.5/5
Definitely can see the building blocks of britpop. The large string arrangements and soaring guitars. The vocals bridge the gap between Bowie and Pulp/Blur. That being said it was good not great on first listen. Will revisit
A surprisingly enjoyable album for having virtually no streams on Spotify (I guess that’s part of my metric in gauging an albums “greatness”)! Seems to be under the label of “Brit Pop” but I thought it was kind of psychedelic at times. 3.5/5
I agree with Dylan, some pretty good songs on the first listen that deserve a relisten, but overall it doesn’t seem like a great album
I mean, I like Bowie as much as the next guy. But it’s a bit much, innit?
Slow and methodical to its detriment at times. Some standouts but overall just kinda fine
A lighthearted album with touches of excitement. I agree with some other reviews, it feels very Bowie-esque at times. 3.5/5
Interesting
Not as bad as I remember it being 30 years ago.
- Wow, the opening songs are great! - Meh, vocal doesnt move me, but music is really nice - Only 3/5
Bland enough, but I like it - perhaps because I remember when it was new.
This did not stand out on first listen, but I felt like I definitely needed to listen to it again, and I knew I had the weekend without new albums to do so. I realized throughout the weekend that I wasn't exactly excited to give it another listen. Finally did a little late, and a few songs jumped out a little better on the second listen. I'll try again someday. This is the album that made me confirm my suspicion that the author of the 1001 book is British. I really think a lot of these British works would not have made the cut if the organizer of the list weren't British. But there are groups I never would have heard of without that, so it's okay.
Like Suede, but prefer other records.
decent, didn't blow me away, but ok.
Perfectly average
Just listen to Pulp.
Not bad. The Asphalt World was good. Can't listen to the whole thing cause I'm busy.
not as good as self titled but still some good brit pop
Interesting one. I like the first Suede album, with it being the originator of Britpop and everything. But this one was a bit long and not enough to get you going. Simpsons: No
I listened to it and it didn't hurt my ears but wasn't particularly memorable so a nice safe 2.5 round up to 3
Pretty neutral feelings on this one. It reminded me the Echo and the Bunny men album at times. Album cover: (C+)
I'm not sure if putting this near The Divine Comedy is helping me differentiate between the two. As with Casanova, I liked this album, but it doesn't really stand out with even a couple of listens. There seems to be an attempt by Brit bands to respond to commercial success by becoming more esoteric and intricate. Cool and nice to dig into, probably rewarding multiple listens, but upon initial listens it just sounds like a dude who is a bit obsessed with sex.
Okay. Ville ikke skippa sangene, men legger ikke til heller. 3
The Good: non-grunge in the ´90s era. The Bad: it isn´t grunge in the ´90s era. The Ugly: trying to figure out if Dog Man Star is a reference to the album cover, and if so… Don´t really know what to think about this album. I like certain numbers, then just kind of wonder what the hell they were thinking with other ones. Personally I believe this should have been released years earlier for it to be viewed as avant-garde… now it´s neither avant, and obviously there was no garde as you can see by the album cover. 3*