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New edition hits the mat...
Posted by Gavin Adam on 11 July 2011 - 3:39pm.
...Hip! 2 CDs this month - Hip! Suede on the cover - Hurr...Eh??????
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I may
break my habit of reading all pages in number order to race over to Gavin "vinnell" Hogg's Ivor Cutler article. A quick glance and it looks very tempting. Only thing missing is a photo of the writer. Shame (he's lovely).
Subscriber's cover fiasco!
Disgraceful! It wouldn't have happened in the fifties! Young magazine distributors these days, they don't know they're born. Lazing about all day with their silly hair cuts and their trousers at a disgraceful slouch. Tsk, harrumph, etc. This calls for a letter to the News Of The World!
Oh.
Not sure I get your point Gavin...
Are you saying Suede are too passe to be on the cover unlike the previous six cover stars, those icons of modern pop music: Dave Davies, Keith Richards, Elvis Presley, Woody Guthrie, Elton John and Tom Waits?
Not too passe
just not of the standard of all the other names listed above.
Indeed not
but few are.
And, let's face it, they're better than Dido and she's been on the cover!
"Better than Dido"
She's becoming a benchmark of bad judgement.
Poor girl.
No point intended...
...just a bad joke, which I couldn't resist. No intention to insult, irritate or irrupt anyone's sensibilities. Apologies, if I have done so.
Not insulted...
...nor irritated, nor irrupted.
Just intrigued. :-)
It is fair to say...
...that, being in the upper end of the Word demographic, all those you mention are better known to me than the estimable Suede. However, whilst on hols I did listen to the Brettcast and am now determined to investigate further - once I've dealt with this pile of ironing!
Suede
Big Suede fan here, so I'm looking forward to it.
Suede #2
I was right to look forward to it - great article. Richard Oakes now resembles a slightly dishevelled Richard Hammond.
Suede #3
Latitude tie-in notwithstanding, there seems to have been a genuine heartfelt undercurrent of "forgotten how good they were, good to have them back" for Brett & the boys, both on this board and "out there", so I think it was a nice (and leftfield) cover choice. I'm saving the article for the weekend, but have high hopes.
I agree
Suede have often been overlooked. If they'd stopped after the first two albums*, they'd be spoken of in hushed tones, like The Smiths.
* That's not a dig at Coming Up, which is great. I just think there'd be more mystique about the original line-up / darker early stuff.
Good Grief
Has Brett Anderson grown a beard?
More importantly will I be able to get it in time for the drive to Latitude?
Suedesuedesuede
Well, I personally can't wait to get my copy. I remember a time when it was all Brett Anderson on the covers 'round 'ere...
oh hoh - neon pavements, etc
Totally agree. It cant hurt to have some non-bearded, alive, released something in the last 20 years type people on the cover once every few years.
Also:
Headlining latitude,
re-issues lovely
packing em in all over the world at the moment
Hope you shift some units!
2cds!
Very generous.
Suede article could be interesting.
This will do nicely thank you.
Yes! Yes!
What's all this about 2 CDs then?
Latitude
Standard Word compilation PLUS a compilation of acts on at Latitude.
Thanks
Thanks for that
This Month's "Now Hear This"
I think if I hear a worse track this year than track 6 on this month's (main) CD it will be a very bad year indeed.
Lovely surprise
I resubscribed about ten days ago, after enduring something of a financial fallow period, and was informed that it would take 6-8 weeks for the subscription to start. Imagine my joy, then, to find the new issue waiting for me when I got home tonight. And what a corker it looks, too! Trebles all round!
Tony Blair on Leadership...
Did anyone else find this far to close to the 1930's "Homes & Gardens" article thats popped up a few times in Word were Chancellor Hitler showed us around his lovely alpine retreat?
Wink, arf.
You were engaged by some of the new issue then?