Dog Man Star

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If only the stars had fallen ever-so slightly differently and Suede had seen fit to make room for Killing of a Flashboy on Dog Man Star, it would have been flawless. Sure, it’s not Suede’s favourite Suede song, but it’s still an oddly strange, decadent little thing that showed the way towards Dog Man Star and beyond. While Spin gave a figurative description of the record as "the work of a man cautiously opening the bedroom door and reeling from the discovery that other people have lives.

Butler drew inspiration from The Smiths' The Queen is Dead, Joy Division's Closer, Marc and the Mambas' Torment and Toreros and The Righteous Brothers' " You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling". Anderson has been described as a mix of Morissesy's homoerotism and David Bowie's over the top campness. When the record was eventually released, it caused barely a ripple on the music scene; Blur and Oasis were already sharing the spotlight with Pulp. Surely the hi-res blu-ray format would have been best served with a proper ‘audiophile’ remaster of the source material, or even better, why not get Bernard Butler to do a ‘director’s cut’ version of the album?

No, you loved Suede, you lived and breathed them, you dressed like them, smoked the same fags they did and, when they invented the brown rice diet, ate like them too.

The other videos (or Top of the Pops appearances) aren’t included for the Bernard-Butler-wasn’t-involved reasons explored above.

Other influences were Kate Bush's Hounds of Love and Berlin by Lou Reed; which Anderson described as "albums with a musical journey and stories of sadness and darkness. Corners have been cut in every single regard, and over and over again these reissues come out in new colours, etc, with absolutely no attempt to improve the audio reproduction. According to drummer Simon Gilbert, Butler was becoming intolerable and impossible to work with, and the band could not function together any longer.