| features | in every issue | fun stuff | events | contact us | |
| coming uppance | news | fanclub minutes | suedefest 2004 | ||
| head mutterings | reviews | school reports | |||
| high barnett | rogues' gallery | violent stars of the cinema | |||
| fannish disposition | blast from the past | oh my god - art! | |||
| lost in tv |
|
issue 1 june 2004 |
 |
|
| this article |
| page 1 |
| page 2 |
| page 3 |
| page 4 |
| print version |
| head mutterings (con't) 2 |
 |
|
nme gave the album 7 out of 10 possible points (a new morning got the same later). the reviewer, as most of the head music reviewers in fact, did write with a slight smirk on his face – especially when it comes to brett’s vocabulary and all that (and he naturally has to mention the house mouse line), but tried as he might have, he couldn’t dislike the album. it’s “hair-rising pop” after all. magazines such as select, the face and uncut welcomed suede back with open arms, dedicating covers and dozens of pages to them. brett might have had one or two problems with the face a few years earlier, but edward harrison’s 1999 article (“sleaze! – what have suede been up to?") is written with an apparent understanding of what suede were about – thus also seeing the relevant factors of head music. a little funny is his statement that “finally, the rest of the world has caught up with suede. – they arrive in 1999 more loved and valued than ever, and more in tune with their times.” was it really their year to that extent? daft me who thought they’d been pretty popular and influential since a couple of years before. roy wilkinson’s story in select is almost as understanding, bringing up in several places how suede “stand as unchanging as granite” and how head music is “suede but more so”. wilkinson treats the songs he hears like they’re little babies: a tad silly, but what’s not to love about silly babies. (he also makes a comparison that i think is one of the most fitting attempts to describe the album, saying head music sounds like the result of prince having been forced to produce placebo. indeed!) head music gets to number 14 in select’s “albums of the year” chart. “a misunderstood masterpiece” it was called even then.uncut’s tom sheehan salutes suede with an 18-page retrospective article. he starts the story from, well, from the very beginning, goes through the ups and downs and |
|
|
©
2004 suede fanzine.
All rights reserved.