quotes

quotes from other people about suede

"Dame Brett, Anybody?" - David Bowie in Select 1996 (thanks to Glenn Welch)

"It's amazing how this singer is so quiet and polite on real life, but on stage - he's an animal. Really!" - Yoav Kutner (radio presenter, while broadcasting a show in Israel) on Brett

"Suede... emotional, individual, glamurous, sexually ambiguous, timely yet timeless. More relevant, more downright adorable than ever." - Melody Maker

"Suede possess enough creative verve and vitality to set them apart from the rest of the pack. They have created a minor masterpiece with Head Music." - Son of Barly (Australia)

"The album reflects the spirit of our time through Suede's deforming mirror. It's crafty and brave at the same time: this is the hundredth demonstration of Brett Anderson's vital poetry." - Jam (Italy)

"Suede have perfected the ability to create drama and mystery around the most utilitarian of subjects. Their splintered edge promotes them musically to ranks that could hardly be envisioned by their contemporaries." - Rip It Up (New Zealand)

"... Head Music finds these glitter gold diggers still on a creative roll... a truly glorious rush of sexy guitar trash." - Rolling Stone (USA)

"This could be their biggest album yet." - Marie Claire (Singapore)

"Put those headphones at ten!" - BLVD (Holland)

"Suede's new record is hungry, angry, crazy, electricifying, bittersweet, glam-rocking and border-crossing." - Salzburger Nachrichten (Austria)

"A modern English album that perfectly blends human passion with electronics." - What's In ES (Japan)

"[Head Music] challanges time and throws away the idea that everything wearies and fades away." - Liberation (France)

"Suede's best record to date, a transitional yet rampantly audacious vision of a cold, airless pop futurism. It's an album that remains sensual even at its most arid and electronic. It's awesome." - Uncut (UK)

"Still in their own league, Head Music is exactly that. Slip on a pair of headphones and let it blow your mind, then come for your hips and heart." - The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

"Suede's music is as decadent, sparkly and richly melodic as the best glam-rock should be." - The Calgary Sun (Canada)

"Suede is the body of glitter pop, and vocalist Brett Anderson is the ultimate dandy of the '90s. The combination is close to unbeatable." - Dagladet (Norway)

"Brett Anderson is not only generous with his poses and sense of glamour, but also in delivering great songs with powerful lyrics. The albums clearly portray Suede as a band with a perverted, sexy mysterious and melodramatic sound." - Humo (Belgium)

"Anderson is a treasure trove of Suede; a combination of sensuality, Alain Delon and David Bowie, a personality gifted with a unique split vocal flying wildly from the depth to the sky." - Pravo (Czech Republic)

"... This British quintet revive the electric guitar as an instrument of seduction... overflowing with throbbing bass lines, hip-swaying tempos and romantic melodies you can sing along with." - People magazine (USA)

"Suede are unmissably, shaggably, outrageously, meteorically the best band in the cosmos." - Melody Maker (UK)

"When I first put their demo on, it was like: "Jesus! This is exactly what I've been looking for! I hadn't heard anything like this for ages." - Ed Buller, Suede's producer before Head Music

"Suede are still my favourite band ever." - Saul Galpern, Nude Records chief

"Suede. Still one of the great British bands of the '90s." - David Bowie, long time Suede admirer

"Suede are very good with their fans, lovely lads that they are." - Kimble Garcia, Suede roadie

"Suede have never looked so current, so alive." - Melody Maker on their Reading appearance

"I'm not Morrissey. I'm not Bob Dylan. I'm not Brett Anderson. They are better lyricists than I'll ever be." - Noel Gallagher out of Oasis

"Suede were the second band I ever fell in love with, after The Beatles. Frannie came round my house one morning to pick me up on the way to art school, and he put this tape on. I thought it sounded just like Adam And The Ants and I was enchanted from the first f***ing hit of the drums." - Dougie out of Travis on The Drowners

"They're back, back, back, and they're good, good good. They've moved things on a bit, but they're still Suede. I've always loved them - it was so outrageous that they didn't get nominated for a Brit for that last album. So hopefully this next one will just blow everyone's tits off. It should be their first number one, cos people are chomping at the bit for them... Suede, I love 'em." - Jayne Middlemiss (TV star)

"On stage, he's electrifying." - Donita Rose (MTV Asia VJ) on Brett