Brett Anderson (Suede) 2007 album sampler


A small clip of each track from Bretts debut solo album released April 2007.Track listing
1. Love Is Dead
2. One Lazy Morning
3. Dust And Rain
4. Intimacy
5. To The Winter
6. Scorpio Rising
7. Infinite Kiss
8. Colour Of The Night
9. More We Possess The Less We Own Of Ourselves
10. Ebony
11. Song For My Father

FROM WIKIPEDIA: Born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England, Anderson spent much of his childhood playing sports and becoming a rock star.

In his teens, Anderson played guitar for garage bands such as The Pigs and Geoff, the latter featuring future Suede bassist Mat Osman. In the late-1980s, Anderson and Osman formed Suede with Anderson's girlfriend, Justine Frischmann, soon recruiting guitarist Bernard Butler through an advertisement in the NME. After receiving percussional help from former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, in 1991, Simon Gilbert joined Suede as their official drummer. It was around this time that Frischmann left Anderson for Blur frontmanDamon Albarn, which created an early rift in the burgeoning Britpop scene of the early 1990s. After missing too many rehearsals and flaunting her relationship with Albarn while still living with Anderson, Frischmann was fired from the group, going on to front Elastica.

Even before Suede's first album appeared in stores, Anderson's androgynous style and vague "confessions" about his sexuality stirred controversy in the British music press. In 1993, Suede hit number one on the UK charts. Combining Morrissey's homoerotic posturing with David Bowie's glam theatrics, Anderson achieved instant fame in the UK. America, however, was still spellbound by the grunge revolution and Anderson's grim yodellings clashed with the raw anger of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. Furthering complications across the Atlantic, due to a trademark dispute with the American lounge singer Suede, the band were forced to change their name to The London Suede for the American market. Although the departure of songwriting partner Butler in 1994 during the recording of second album Dog Man Star (number three on the UK charts) led many to fear Suede's eventual demise, the band continued to release critically and commercially successful material in the UK, such as 1996's critically-acclaimed Coming Up (another number one of the band).

Coming Up proved to be a last high point, as Anderson's well-publicised problems with crack and heroin addiction put the band on hiatus in the late 1990s. The band carried on to release Head Music (number one on the UK charts and in several countries) in 1999. But A New Morning was a commercial disappointment in 2002. In 2003, after the release of their "Singles" compilation, Suede disbanded.

Anderson has commented that the history of Suede is "...ridiculous. It's like Machiavelli rewriting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It involves a cast of thousands. It should star Charlton Heston... it's like a pram that's just been pushed down a hill. It's always been fiery and tempestuous and really on the edge and it never stops. I don't think it ever will."

On his own, Anderson collaborated with Stina Nordenstam, and his guest vocals can be heard on the album This Is Stina Nordenstam and has made a duet with Jane Birkin in 1995 which exists in 1998 Birkin's Best Of album. He also sang the lyric "You're going to reap just what you sow" in the Children In Need charity single Perfect Day.

In 2004, after resolving their differences, Anderson and former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler formed the band The Tears, who released a critically acclaimed debut album Here Come The Tears. It was produced by Bernard Butler and largely recorded at home, andfeatured the singles Refugees and Lovers.

Anderson was close friends with Simon Hobart (promoter of Popstarz) and was the DJ at the benefit night held in Hobart's honour after his death.

In 2005, Anderson "ended speculation" when he publicly came out as a bisexual man who has never had a homosexual experience.[1]

In May 2006, Anderson announced details of a forthcoming solo album consisting of 11 tracks, which is set for release on 26th March 2007. He told NME that the title will be 'Brett Anderson' since "...that's my name, you see." The accompanying video for Anderson's first single LoveIs Dead debuted on UK television in February 2007, quickly finding its way to YouTube. Love Is Dead made its debut at #42 in the UK singles chart, and the album went to #54 the following week.







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ZoeNatalia (September 24, 2008 at 7:59 am)
I still love his voice, thanks for posting, I will be buying a copy of his album for sure. I still love Brett. I think he's still with his wife, but not positive. I remember when i saw him with Suede in 93 and he kissed my hand from the stage. He was so sweet!
secondleap (August 22, 2008 at 4:36 am)
I ran across Mr. Anderson by accident, if one believes in such things. I'm an old hippie grandma, who keeps up for the sake of the sanity of my children and grandchildren. I would hope this artist (who is sooo gifted) would listen a bit to others like Townes Van Zandt, Ron Sexsmith, not for the music, but because I believe gifts stir up gifts. Van Zandt dreamed an entire song, awaken and wrote it. He wrote "Pancho and Lefty" two weeks prior to seeing those two Mexicans on TV. Blessings.
ingridine (May 8, 2008 at 4:30 pm)
dust and the rain..is a great song ! thanks again Brett !
maturitysucks (April 19, 2008 at 6:41 am)
You say downhill as if they absolutley sucked after that. They made 1 classic album without him and that was coming up. I didnt like head music all that much. New morning was better and had some really great tunes on. Then they had that awesome song called simon. Did they really lose it as bad as oasis?

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