If you haven't yet tried the LOTB Suede Quiz, then the edition of #totp89 currently on BBC Four might just provide you with one of the answers...👀

Happy New Year one and all. Thanks for making 2025 an amazing first year! We've got some brilliant stuff coming up for you in 2026:

New Episode! We return to our chronological march through the band's recording career - as we look at the 'Stay Together' single! We discuss all three versions, all five(at least!) acts, all its thousands of radio plays and sales..and much more! Available wherever you get your podcasts !

New Episode! We return to our chronological march through the band's recording career - as we look at the 'Stay Together' single! We discuss all three versions, all five(at least!) acts, all its thousands of radio plays and sales..and much more! Available wherever you get your podcasts !

Also: I know today can be really hard for lots of you, for all sorts of different reasons. Do what you need to get through it, and know you're loved and valued and part of our big gang of music-driven Suede lovers. See you down the front in 2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJf...

Received the latest edition of the Record Collector Rare Record Price Guide as a gift today...and I'm already putting it to sound use... 1) That's an impressive mis-press of 'Coming Up'... clearly intentional. 2) Suede Crocodiles bonus episode anyone?

For the record...it's this one. 'Walk Out To Winter' (!)

Compliments of the season to everyone who has followed, listened or interacted with this little podcast of mine! It's impossible for me to thank you all enough for your support. A Brett thumbs-up to each and everyone of you

Your festive bonus, if you fancy a deeper dive into Suede lore: the excellent Litter On The Breeze podcast, just now embarking on a track-by-track trawl through the canon. Demand a special episode dedicated to Elephant Man now! www.buzzsprout.com/2438248

Recording the kind-of-sort-of Christmas Special this weekend... Looking for your Suede Song Titles As Seasonal References, because I'm going to have go with 'As The Reindeer Falls', and ain't nobody got time for that.

Finally got a Christmas release schedule sorted. Bloody thing..;) Christmas Eve - 'Love and Poison' and other bits Boxing Day - LOTB QUIZ (didn't mean for that to come out in all caps, but it works) The Strangest Day Of The Year (27th December) - 'Stay Together' 3rd Jan - 'Dog Man Star' Part 1!

NEW EPISODE! Tat’s Entertainment! The chart as it was on 17 December 1995! Join Juliet and Ed and find out what is soundtracking the Diva House Christmas Party and whose good name is being besmirched by a clear imposter making a dreadful record… available wherever you get your podcasts!

I won't be talking about it too much on air, but...'Banana Youth' though.

Wherever you are now Rob, I hope you are both yakking *and* boogieing.

Its Criterion reissue in September is utterly essential. It is a truly complete official presentation, pulling together the in and out-of-character commentaries, all the ancillary stuff, all looking great, with even more outtakes than ever. You need it. Just get it. Honor the man and the work.

DMS means everything to me. It was the right album at the right time. It got me through so much. I was 18 when it came out (I needed my heroines haha). I love its darkness and its originality. It stuck 2 fingers up to everything else at the time. For an outsider like me that was empowering 🐶🤵‍♂⭐️🖤

Right then. The time has come. The most open-ended question I'll probably ever ask in the course of this podcast. What are YOUR thoughts on 'Dog Man Star'?;) (Share here on the socials, or via email at [email protected] )

For everyone-understandably!- asking, think I'll give you all the small matter of 'Dog Man Star' in the first week of January...All seems rather fitting!

Hoped to have beaten my cold/probably-flu by today but still under the weather. 'Stay Together ' episode should therefore be recorded this weekend..plus at least one Christmas Special.👀

Coming soon...

I'd love to hear your thoughts on either/both versions of 'Stay Together'. Plus any more you might have about the debut album! Recording in a few days:)

'Work'..

I put it to you that Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” is not merely the worst Christmas song but is also in fact the worst song in the history of recorded sound.

We've appeared in a fair few Spotify Unwrappeds and equivalents... I'll see if I can do one of those thank you videos next time;) And thank you!:)

Thanks to everyone who has listened to this record-breaking episode!:)

(Making notes for and about 'Dog Man Star' is both extremely easy and completely impossible...)

Anyway if you have enjoyed our skeets this evening, please do check out our podcast, which is currently going through the chart week by week from 1995 IN REAL TIME! #totp linktr.ee/ChartLife

youtu.be/dPtJtbRXi3I?... 34 years ago today and still continues to do everything it intended (I'll always be here for Mark Goodier not even trying to contain his delight at both this and 'Sound' being new entries on said chart when announced the previous Sunday.And the next week they both went up!)

I know what I'm listening to tonight!

New episode!!! Part Two of our track-by-track of 'Suede'! Every song from 'The Drowners' to 'The Next Life', the reaction to the album at the time, some of your thoughts and of course the all-important LOTB score out of 10! Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Best Western Hotels now use AI to create automatic pages for bands and other events, basically going 'there are gigs, here are the nearest hotels'. They might need to train their AI to get better on 'if you like Suede, you might like...' blurbs, though

ICYMI. Part One of our Deep Dive (as we must call this sort of thing these days) into 'Suede'. Get caught up before Part Two lands this weekend - including the all-important score rating out of 10* *Pretend you don't know what that will be www.buzzsprout.com/2438248/epis...

Arrived today. A band who are always a pleasure..

Been told that my podcast voice is "soothing". Shall I take that?

www.mojo4music.com/articles/the... If I ever do do that The Cure season...

Just received the official download and listener number for the week and it's absolutely amazing. I suppose if you're talking about an album 100,000+ bought in its first week of release you've got a decent enough pool to work from, but even so! Thanks to everyone who has listened. Part two soon!

Starting 'Dog Man Star' 'prep' today...I may be some time.

New episode!!! And it's the first of many 'big ones'! As so many of you have been looking forward to, today we embark on our album-by-album journey by looking at the first side of 'Suede'! From 'So Young' to 'Pantomime Horse' and plenty in between! Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Fantastic episode!! 🖤 Looking forward to the next one!

New episode!!! And it's the first of many 'big ones'! As so many of you have been looking forward to, today we embark on our album-by-album journey by looking at the first side of 'Suede'! From 'So Young' to 'Pantomime Horse' and plenty in between! Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Our brand new series/season begins today! A 13-month journey looking at every track of every Suede album! Listen to our introduction episode to find out exactly what we have in store.. And then get ready for our deep-dive into 'Suede' , beginning tomorrow! Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Awfully sad news today. The Stone Roses laid the path for so many alternative bands to follow. I didn't see them, but I'm glad I got to see Primal Scream live. RIP Mani youtu.be/wD6Pq0bSMPo?...

Mani could also be relied upon to give good interview. His tractor story on the 'Definitely Maybe' 10th anniversary DVD is worth the price of admission alone. He's brilliant on 'Seven Ages Of Rock - British Indie' too; ever-present twinkle in the eye illuminating every utterance.

Wish I was announcing the following in happier circumstances...

So here's my Mani live-in-concert story, one of the two times I saw him. Too long for just one post and to make it easier, just c/ping my FB post instead. A true dude, and the posts from people I know who met or interviewed him saying he was a prince of a guy make it clear we lost a good one.

Watch THE Blackpool Empress Ballroom performance - something everybody should do multiple times in their life- and even before the sound hits you, just look at the guy's *swing*. Did he ever have it. RIP Mani.

What's the first thing you hear on that debut album, after the opening bit of ambient/semi-industrial noise? The bass. That was the key.

Nice!

Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today! buff.ly/nflmjN6

We're all ready to go, so I'm bringing forward the planned release date for the first two episodes of S2. Introduction will now be with you this Thursday, and Part 1 of 'Suede' on Friday!