To get non-soulish for a second, let me once again publically declare my LOVE for early Suede. I cannot imagine why this isn't Jilli's favorite rock band of all time. It's so swoony and grand. (Way way better than Placebo, Jilli! And just as pretty.)

At AMG Stephen Erlewine asserts:

The double-disc Sci-Fi Lullabies collects the majority of those B-sides, leaving behind the odd live track and remix, as well as the worthy "Painted People" and "Asda Town" and the non-LP single "Stay Together." What's included is stellar, offering an alternate history of Suede. In fact, the first disc — comprised of Suede and Dog Man Star B-sides, plus the haunting "Europe Is Our Playground" — is as strong as any of their albums, featuring such essentials as the sleazy "He's Dead," "The Living Dead," "My Dark Star," the storming "Killing of a Flash Boy," the sighing "Where the Pigs Don't Fly," and "Whipsnade," all strong enough to be A-sides.

And I think he's right. I'd put the first disc of Sci Fi Lullabies up with the eponymous Suede debut.

Well, not any more than I do on most people I know, Tep I've not been in "Chaka" for a year. Cause I'm ignorant and don't wanna go around "showing myself", but I'm really excited about that, almost indecently so.Thank you does not seem adequate.I owe you porn, or something. My Saturday night's a bit too spot-on...sitting around watching "Rear Window"...if I wrote that in a story my editor would say "Nuh uh!" But, I shit you not. And, what Tep said.

I cannot imagine why this isn't Jilli's favorite rock band of all time. It's so swoony and grand. (Way way better than Placebo, Jilli! And just as pretty.)

Because I haven't heard as much of them (most of Pete's Suede collection is still at his folks' house in the UK, and he, I quote, "refuses to buy any version of their work that says 'London' Suede"), and because what I have heard of them doesn't instantly grab me the way Placebo did. The first few songs I ever heard by Placebo went straight to my hindbrain and made it their own.

Well there's a fair amount of Suede on your imminently incoming package. Glam, Neo-Glam and dark lovely Cabaretish things. The Hunger itself is set to TiVo which will allow me to include "Bela..." on the Gothish video tape, which means it's about done. (Despite the non-inclusion of "The Perfect Drug" or "Where The Wild Roses Grow" which The Alternative refused to air).

Well there's a fair amount of Suede on your imminently incoming package. Glam, Neo-Glam and dark lovely Cabaretish things

Yay!

Despite the non-inclusion of "The Perfect Drug"

I found my NIN video box set, and discovered that "The Perfect Drug" was the very last video on the collection. I now have to show it to the other half of the GothFashion Hivemind, as (somehow) she has never seen it. I threatened to revoke her GothCard.

"The Perfect Drug" was the very last video on the collection. I now have to show it to the other half of the GothFashion Hivemind, as (somehow) she has never seen it. I threatened to revoke her GothCard.

Curiously I had a long conversation recently with a guy who was an expert on absinthe. Did you know that traditionally absinthe came in both the green version that we are familiar with, and also an amber version (heavier on the wormwood, lighter on the anise)? I did not know this.

This guy was cool! I wanted to hook him up with a single Buffista immediately. He's a co-owner of Green Apple books.

Can't believe it wasn't mentioned in the art songs convo- Virginia Wolf

Also- Be My Yoko Ono- Barenaked Ladies and I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono- Dar Williams

Did you know that traditionally absinthe came in both the green version that we are familiar with, and also an amber version (heavier on the wormwood, lighter on the anise)? I did not know this.

I knew this, but that shouldn't come as a surprise. There's also a white version of absinthe, that is fairly heavy on the wormwood, but with a much lighter taste.

I went off Suede pretty soon, but their first 3 singles (which is more or less disc 1 of Sci-Fi Lullabies) are astonishing. Just brilliant. I saw them just before the first album, and they were electric, too. Once Bernard Butler left they plunged downhill, though.

Hec, any chance of trading, oh, a kidney, for a copy of that Soul box?

Songs about artists, BTW: the whole of Songs For Drella (Warhol)