Suede Unveil Two-Disc Greatest Hits

Posted on Sep 23rd 2010 8:15AM by Matt Glazebrook
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It may well be that recently reconstituted Suede will record new material (they remain tight-lipped on the subject) but if they do, it won't be before they've squeezed a little more commercial life out of their decade-plus back catalogue. On Nov. 1, the NME reports, the Britpop veterans will release 'The Best of Suede,' a two-disc collection that compiles singles, B-sides and album tracks.

Disc one of the set comprises singles ranging from 1992 debut 7-inch 'The Drowners' to 2002 effort 'Obsessions,' a cut from the band's final album 'A New Morning.' The 18 tracks cover much the same ground as 2003 one-disc retrospective 'Singles.' Disc two, meanwhile, includes B-sides like 'Killing of a Flashboy' (the reverse of 1994's 'We Are the Pigs') along with album tracks such as 'Pantomime Horse' and 'Sleeping Pills' from the band's self-titled 1993 LP.

Suede -- singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Richard Oakes, keyboard player Neil Codling, bassist Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gosling -- returned to live duty in 2010 after a five-year hiatus. In an 11-year recorded career prior to their initial split, the London glam rockers released five albums -- 'Suede,' 'Dog Man Star,' 'Coming Up,' 'Head Music' and 'A New Morning' -- the first two of which featured founding guitarist Bernard Butler, who quit the group in 1994.

The full 'Best Of Suede' tracklist is as follows:

Disc 1
'Animal Nitrate'
'Beautiful Ones'
'Trash'
'Filmstar'
'Metal Mickey'
'New Generation'
'So Young'
'The Wild Ones'
'The Drowners'
'Stay Together'
'Lazy'
'Everything Will Flow'
'We Are the Pigs'
'Can't Get Enough'
'Electricity'
'Obsessions'
'She's in Fashion'
'Saturday Night'

Disc 2
'Pantomime Horse'
'My Insatiable One'
'Killing of a Flashboy'
'This Hollywood Life'
'Europe Is Our Playground'
'My Dark Star'
'Sleeping Pills'
'By the Sea'
'She'
'Heroine'
'The Living Dead'
'To the Birds'
'The Big Time'
'The Two of Us'
'Asphalt World'
'Still Life'
'The Next Life'