(2021) Suede - Love & Poison-Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May 1993


Review:
The soundtrack to the band’s first concert video, recorded at Brixton Academy on 16th May 1993, only a month after the release of their Mercury Prize-winning debut album. Issued on vinyl for the first time, the concert setlist includes stunning versions of nine album tracks, including the singles Animal Nitrate, Metal Mickey, The Drowners, To The Birds, and many others. Suede kick-started the Brit-pop revolution of the ’90s, taking English indie pop/rock music away from the swirling layers of shoegaze and dance-pop fusions of Madchester, and reinstating such conventions of British pop as mystique and the three-minute single. Before the band had even released a single, the U.K. weekly music press was proclaiming them the “Best New Band in Britain,” but Suede managed to survive their heavy hype due to the songwriting team of vocalist Brett Anderson and guitarist Bernard Butler. Equally inspired by the glam crunch of David Bowie and the romantic bedsit pop of the Smiths, Anderson and Butler developed a sweeping, guitar-heavy sound that was darkly sensual, sexually ambiguous, melodic, and unabashedly ambitious. At the time of the release of their first single, “The Drowners,” in 1992, few of their contemporaries — whether it was British shoegazers or American grunge rockers — had any ambitions to be old-fashioned, self-consciously controversial pop stars, and the British press and public fell hard for Suede, making their 1993 debut the fastest-selling first album in U.K. history. Though they had rocketed to the top in the U.K., Suede were plagued with problems, the least of which was an inability to get themselves heard in America. Anderson and Butler’s relationship became antagonistic during the recording of their second album, Dog Man Star, and the guitarist left the band before its fall release, which inevitably hurt its sales. Instead of breaking up, the band soldiered on, adding new guitarist Richard Oakes and a keyboardist before returning in 1996 with Coming Up, an album that took them to the top of the British charts…





Track Listing:
01. Intro / The Next Life (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
02. Moving (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
03. Animal Nitrate (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
04. My Insatiable One (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
05. Metal Mickey (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
06. Pantomime Horse (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
07. He’s Dead (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
08. The Drowners (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
09. Painted People (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
10. She’s Not Dead (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
11. To the Birds (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
12. Sleeping Pills (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)
13. So Young (Live at the Brixton Academy, 16th May, 1993)


Media Report:
Genre: indie-pop, live, rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits