Suede (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Suede
Type = Album
Artist = Suede


Released = flagicon|UK March 29 1993
Recorded = 1992-1993 at Master Rock Studios
Genre = Britpop
Length = 42:36
Label = Nude Records
Producer = Ed Buller
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hi6fmpsd9ffo link]
Last album =
This album = "Suede"
(1993)
Next album = "Dog Man Star"
(1994)
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"Suede" is the debut album of the English alternative rock band Suede, released in 1993 on Nude Records. It was a widely influential debut that, along with albums from Blur and Pulp, jump-started the Britpop revolution in the UK on that year. It became the fastest-selling first album in UK history, immediately going to number one on the UK album chart, and won the Mercury Music Prize for 1993.

The album's gender-ambiguous cover art provoked some controversy in the press, prompting Suede frontman Brett Anderson to comment, "I'm not really interested in being controversial. If we wanted to be controversial we'd have called the album "I Fuck Dogs"."

In 1998 "Q" magazine readers voted "Suede" the 60th greatest album of all time.And the album is included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". [http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm]

According to Nielsen SoundScan, "Suede" is the group's best selling album in the United States, having sold about 105,000 copies as of 2008. [Caulfield, Keith. [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/ask_bb/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003855686 "Ask Billboard: Blue Suede Shoes"] . billboard.com. Sept 26, 2008]

Track listing

All songs written by Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler.

# "So Young" – 3:38
# "Animal Nitrate" – 3:27
# "She's Not Dead" – 4:33
# "Moving" – 2:50
# "Pantomime Horse" – 5:49
# "The Drowners" – 4:10
# "Sleeping Pills" – 3:51
# "Breakdown" – 6:02
# "Metal Mickey" – 3:27
# "Animal Lover" – 4:17
# "The Next Life" – 3:32

UK singles charting

* 1992 "The Drowners" No. 49
* 1992 "Metal Mickey" No. 17
* 1993 "Animal Nitrate" No. 7
* 1993 "So Young" No. 22

US singles charting

* 1993 "Metal Mickey" #7 Modern Rock Tracks [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=108140&model.vnuAlbumId=131809 Billboard Chart History] ]

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