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I have to tell you, it was kind of hard for me to decide on this review, whether I should do it on the first one "Suede" or the one that I'm about to write about "dog Man Star" I finally decided on the second, why?..I don't know...for me both are epic, but the really good part of this record is that Butler and Anderson could've done just a mediocre show here (one never gets to realize how big they were after their debut album), but they denied failing to their responsability as musicians, instead they created a dreamy place on which you can be in love feeding your soul with rough sex and drug induced drama..They created their own personality, their own color.. Now let me ask you something else...remember Suede when Butler was around?...never, never in my whole life I lived through anything like this, this Anderson-Butler duet had the whole world in their hands!!, they could've marry the Queen if they wanted to, and change the name of Britain to "Suedeland".. But, just like Morrissey-Marr, McCabe-Ashcroft, and yes Butler-Anderson good musical duets always separate and take their own path, no matter if this way is as awful and disgusting as the path thet Ashcroft, Butler and Marr took..(yes Marr!! don't tell me you liked the Healers or electronic, please!!) But music registers everything, we, that own a copy of albums such as "the queen is dead", "northern soul" and "dog man star" own more than an album, we are proudly owners of a treasure.. Dog man star took a suck on a pill And stabbed a cerebellum with a curious quill Europe, America, Winterland Introducing the band Reinvention, a weapon that could kill an audience if it's used the wrong way, Suede from the very first track of this album set the example for future generations of how is a band supposed to grow and develop.. Introducing the band surprises you, and the greatest part of it is that at first you really don't get it, but something tells you that in a week or so, this song will conquer your entire media catalogue... "We are the pigs" contributes to Suede history, pure political glam, but don't forget the out-of-this-world guitar that comes with it.. Heroine, a song that gets you confused, "it's about Marylin or about heroine?", Suede demonstrates that all it takes is a line from Byron and a great band to create teen obsession..In this line exists "New Generation", a song for the masses, an anthem for modern love... And like all the boys in all the cities I take the poison, take the pity But she and I, we soon discovered we'd take the pills to find each other In this song Butler simply expanded my guitar horizons, his "Mars on ecstasy" riffs end the song with a "guitar hero" perfection.. But "The Asphalt World" simply does it, a ballad for that period of time, there's no way that you can't forget this "I know a girl she walks the asphalt world,She comes to me and I supply her with Ecstasy", a song that takes you right into the history, fulfills your entire body.. The album ends with "This still life", I read in an interview that this song was one of the reasons Butler left the band ("my creativity was taken away", he said), but I can't find a reason to agree with Bernard, the melodrama of this piece along with the 40-piece orchestration crying in your ears simply convert every second of it into an epic classic.. The Suede we once knew is gone forever, there's no way will do something of this importance any time soon, but they will be missed, this triumph is what music should really be about, creating a piece in your heart reserved for any record of this magnitude.. And yes, Butler-Andreson, Mccabe-Ashcroft and Morrissey-Marr, I'm still waiting for you to reunite..but well that's another subject..
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