Ainda respondendo aos fãs (a conversa foi longa, Brett ainda referiu que para ele, as grandes músicas que escreveu não foram "Catchy". O cantor preferia ser lembrado por músicas como The Wild Ones ou Song For My Father fo que Animal Nitrate ou She's In Fashion. Agora que está na casa dos 40 a música que vai fazer não será aquele Rock e assim que fazia nos 24 anos.
Brett Anderson:
let's face it Smash, none of the real quality stuff i've ever written has been 'catchy'.it's a sad fact that the general public know me for fluff like Animal Nitrate and She's in Fashion rather than The Wild Ones and Song for my Father.some of the bubblegum stuff , like the Drowners is great but you write that kind of thing when you are 24. i genuinely feel sorry for these sad tossers who are still puppets to the pop marionette in their 40's . it hints at something missing in them and i really don't want that kind of existence for myself.
Noutras confissões no forum Anderson revelou a origem da música "God's Gift". Ela vem da banda The Perfect, banda de Brett Anderson, Mat Osman e Justine Frischmann antes dos Suede (ou seja, os Suede antes de se chamarem Suede). Os The Perfect só tinham duas músicas, essa e Justice que nunca foi lançada.
Ou como disse Brett:
you're in luck Ben Ben Ben.. i'm feeling confessional... must be the Nurofen or something.
God's Gift was actually originally written by me for mine, Mat and Justine's pre-Suede band The Perfect. we only had 2 songs; that and one called Justice which sounded a bit like a long forgotten band called the Lilac Time. we would 'rehearse' in Justine's junk room in her Horton Street flat just off Ken High Street, me on acoustic, Mat on bass and sometimes keys and Justine doing her Joni Mitchellesque harmonies. it was all a bit 'amateur's night at the apollo ' to be honest but i kind of remember it fondly. when Suede needed a B side for some single and we had nothing new written i dug thru my bottom draw and dusted off God's Gift. what's it about?..i dunno really, probably some vague paean to Justine.. i wrote a few of those at the time.
Também falou de A New Morning e chega mesmo a referir que Positivity pode ser considerada como a música que destruiu os Suede:
well 82, i would never dis-own ANM, that would be respectful to those who had come to love the little runt. unfortunately that period in Suede's history was a very dark and confusing time for me and i feel that the work suffered. i had got clean from drugs but their huge, dark shadow still hovered over me disturbing my psychic balance and artistic focus. i think it's biggest problem was it's lack of vision. it sort of wanted to be a hazy, bucolic record, seeped in sun-kissed melancholia but of course was inevitably compromised by the need to please radio 1 and the NME so more paranoid, urban tracks like Obsessions and Beautiful Loser were shoe-horned on diluting the vision. Lost in TV is the best track on that record for me. i love the soft west-coast harmonies that never quite sound like a Beach Boys pastiche and the lyrics which tilt at people's engagement with virtual reality . Positivity was a strange one. when i first wrote it i thought it was a masterpiece but soon realized that many people were genuinely offended by it. i suppose because it just wasn't the sort of thing that they wanted from Suede (which was kind of the point). if there was ever just one song that destroyed a band then it was Positivity with Suede. the radio, the press and the fans pretty much hated it ( with a few exceptions) as confidence in the band ebbed away and the inevitable spiral towards a break up began. of course i'm not so dumb as to blame one little song for that, but it was the final cut in a series of body blows. for the record , now the dust has settled and that song pops up when i have my i pod on shuffle i still love it; it's metronomic melody and breezy, wide-eyed sentiment. oceans and obsessions are both quality songs but as i mentioned in my post yesterday, the album would have been so much stronger had it contained Cheap and Simon... oh well...
i suppose in my heart of hearts i knew at the time that the band had come to the end of the line creatively but it was like being faced with the heartbreaking decision of having a much loved pet put to sleep.
Falando agora das capas dos albúns dos Suede e dos Tears que ele é que escolheu as fotos ou entao que trabalhou as imagens com Peter Saville.
toadyhall... every sleeve of every album and single i have ever released , or will ever release, has been partly or exclusively art-directed by me. all of the first Suede releases were pictures i sourced and plucked out of vintage photography books. unfortunately i wasn't business savvy enough to bother getting the credit which i ceded to a design team who effectively just placed the Suede logos over the images i had chosen. i still deeply love the Drowners sleeve which i lifted from a book i had about the 60's model Veruschka and the debut album image still resonates powerfully today.i don't think i'm telling anyone anything new when i say that this sleeve was cropped from a larger image showing two naked women kissing, one in a wheel chair. although undeniably beautiful, the image was considered to be a little too confrontational and was sanitized . the 'we are the pigs 'sleeve is, by the way , a lost classic of which i am extemely proud.. in fact a copy of it hangs on th wall of my upstairs studio at home, along with visual cornucopia such as Prince's Lovesexy sleeve , Pink Floyd's Animals and a portrait my mum painted of me when i was about 10 which you can see in the You Tube version of Scorpio Rising.
it worked this way with almost every release up to Coming Up when i met Peter Saville and we started working differently together, develloping the images from scratch . my favorite of this period being the Head Music sleeve which i think is pretty much perfect.
with the Here Come the Tears sleeve i went back to my old methods and chose an image from a photograhy book. i thought that this approach nicely referenced the book-ended nature of mine and Bernard's relationship.
E depois das capas dos albúns vêem palavras sobre os vídeos:
unfortunately, B.Rain , almost every video i have ever been involved with, except maybe So Young, We Are the Pigs, Saturday Night and Love is Dead ,have been been nothing more than vacuous, promotional fluff. i honestly never intend to shoot another promo that isn't just a straight performance video ever again.
Ainda falou do seu estado de saúde e do Prince:
Hi Andy... nice to hear from you, still feeling a little dizzy and wobbly actually but just fit enough to type.
i just think EVERYTHING that Prince does is excellent, hilarious or both. don't quite know where this one falls but i do know i would consider it an honour to be sued by him.
take care x
E agora a resposta à pergunta se ele gosta muito da palavra "fluff"
yes i do 82, it's the name of my cat. my favorite word however is sentient.
E as últimas palavras para pôr ordem no forum
ok Smash.. before this turns into some ' Brett hates pop music and everyone who listens to it' thing , i was refering to those who still WRITE pop music in their 40's , not those who LISTEN to it. it just seems fake and false and sad and that's the last thing i have to say on the subject . i suppose i will have to endure countless , dull lists proving me wrong but whatever. now i'm off to my opiated boudoir to sniff the ivory scented skin of nymphets. good night and thank you.
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