Continuing our Britpop season with the second part of our ‘battle of the exes’, and after Tim guided us through Elastica’s debut album on last week’s show, this week it’s Kev’s turn to lead us through Suede’s third, and most successful, album ‘Coming Up’. Well, I say that Kev leads us through it - and to be fair he mostly does - but Tim keeps taking over the conversation and leading it down all sorts of tangents.
There’s loads of interesting stuff about Suede that we do cover, not least of all how the band recovered from Bernard Butler’s departure and the commercial failure of ‘Dog Man Star’ by recruiting a 17 (SEVENTEEN) year old guitarist and going very much ‘back to basics’ for the follow-up. We also talk about how the success of ‘Coming Up’ took its toll on the group and led to their eventual, albeit temporary, demise. In between all that we chat about, y’know, the songs on the album and what we think about them.
In this week’s ‘video killed the radio star’ we revisit a stonewall classic of the Britpop genre and find out what happened when Mansun took 25 grand in cash to Liverpool Street Station.
We of course score these two albums and find out whether it will be Justine Frischmann or Brett Anderson who comes out on top (oh grow up). And finally, Tim reveals the two albums that will go head-to-head in the final clash in our Britpop season.
Also this week:
This. Is. ALBUM CLASH!
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