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Una delle caratteristiche secondarie delle band Brit pop degli anni '90 è stata quella di produrre delle ottime b-side in un periodo dove il formato 45 giri andava perdendo di commerciabilità.
I Suede hanno pensato bene di raccolgiere in un doppio cd le loro migliori b-side dai tempi del loro Lp di esordio, in modo tale da poter cavalcare il successo del precedente disco Coming Up del '96.
Il doppio cd è datato 1997 e contiene in pratica tutte le b-side dei loro singoli (estratti da Suede, Dog Man Star e Coming Up) in ordine cronologico di pubblicazione con il CD1 che ripropone praticamente la band ai tempi del primo chitarrista Butler e il CD2 le composizioni dopo la dipartita dello stesso e l'ingresso nella formazione di Oakes alle chitarre e Codling alle tastiere.
Si tratta di una raccolta di ottimo livello musicale che nulla ha da invidiare alle altre pubblicazioni della band.
Le sonorità sono, molto più di quanto si possa evincere negli album, un elogio alla scuola degli Smith e la voce di Brett Anderson suona quanto mai (sopratutto del CD1) alla Morrisey mentre Butler ha imparato a memoria e fatti suoi gli arpeggi e i riff di Johnny Marr realizando quindi una tela sonora fatta di dissonanze e glissandi che sono il tappetto musicale sulla quale disegnare le melodie naif di Anderson.
Inutile paragonare i due dischi e quindi i due periodi differenti della band: sicuramente le b-side a firma Anderson/Butler hanno una originalità di maggior livello rispetto ai successivi brani composti da Anderson con Oakes. La dimostrazione sarà piu' evindente all'ascolto delle b-side dei singoli estratti (ma non contenuti in questa raccolta) dal Lp Head Music del '99 e da New Morning del 2002.
Si evidenziano in particolar modo "My Dark star", "Whipsnade", "Modern Boys" (dal primo Cd) e "Another no One", "Young man" e "W.S.D." (dal secondo Cd)
Sicuramente un disco da comprare se amanti del genere Brit pop in salsa glam.
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02 To the Birds (05:23)
Don't take your life cos your bicycle won't fly
You may be going to heaven tonight
Don't spoil the show for the love of some albino
You won't be going to heaven alone
I see her by the window waiting every night
So I wouldn't give a shit if your bicycle's in bits
I think I'm going to heaven on it
I see her by the window pour the poison from you
I'll go there through the window in my sixteen hole boots
And I'll sing to the birds here at my side
And I'll sing to the birds that will save my life...
Don't take your life cos your bicycle won't fly
You may be going to heaven tonight
I wouldn't give a shit if your bicycle's in bits
I think I'm going to heaven on it
I see her by the window and I see there's a day
We'll walk out through the traiffic and pour the poison away
So I'll sing to the birds there at my side
And I'll sing to the birds who will save my life
na na na na na na na
...I will lie down for her
04 He's Dead (05:13)
I wake up every day,
But I don't want it that way
I take my thoughts to the round about
Cause me and them we like to get out
Oh what you do in your head,
You do in your head
Oh if he is dead
He said he had a horrible house
I looked in it and learnt to shut my mouth
He said I had the luck of a son
With all the love and poison of London
Oh what you do in your head
You do in your head
Oh if he is dead
Oh what you do in your head
You do in your head
Oh if he is dead...
05 The Big Time (04:28)
I watch the slow hand kill the day
See my starring role tick away
I watch the skyline for him to come
And when he comes along we'll be gone
And we'll go into the city
Into the light
We'll be there in the headlines
There overnight
Cause this is the big time
This is the way
Now he's in the big time
He'll show you the way
This is the big time
This is the way
Now he's in the big time
And you're in the way
08 My Dark Star (04:26)
In a hired car she will come to England from the sea
And as the tide flows the London snows will come.
And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history
So in a hired world she will buy a gun
And she will come from India with a love in her eyes
That say oh how my dark star will rise
In rented gear 2000 years we waited for a man
But with a tattooed tear she'd die for us all tonight.
And she will come from India with a gun at her side,
Or she will come from Argentina
With her cemetery eyes that say
Oh, how my dark star will rise,
...and she will rise.
11 Modern Boys (04:08)
come unto me my winter son
we could lie on the rails
and when the morning comes
we'll be miles away, miles away
slipping away while the city sleeps
running away from this cruel disease
miles away, miles away
modern boys, modern boys
hand in hand
sick of the fear
chasing away all the hungry years
we're the modern boys
come unto me my sickly thing
we could lie on the rails
but to really win
we'll just drive away, drive away
yes the world calls my international
so let the decades die
let the parties fall
and we'll be miles away, miles away
'cos we'll be living like
modern boys, modern boys
hand in hand
sick of the fear
chasing away all the hungry years
we're the modern boys, modern boys
into the night, under the stars
jumping the lights in the silent cars
he's on your left
i'm on your right
it's so easy in the concrete night
14 Europe Is Our Playground (05:36)
Run with me baby, let your hair down
Through every station, through every town
Run with me baby, let's take a chance
From Heathrow to Houndslow, from the Eastern block to France
Europe is our playground, London is our town
So run with me baby now
Run with me baby, let your hair down
Through every station, through every town
Run with me baby, let's make a stand
From peepshow to disco, from Spain to Camber Sands
Europe is our playground, London is our town
So run with me baby now
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