Sci-fi Lullabies - Suede

This is not a compilation of Suede songs but a collection of their B-Sides. Disc 1 has some amazing tracks on it such as My Insatiable One, The Living Dead and the completely unmissable Killing of a Flash Boy. This disc is really worth the price of the whole album and I am amazing that some of the songs were deemed to be destined for the B-Side status when they could have easily have been a single in their own right. Or at least on the album. Then we come to disc 2 where you can understand that these are B-Sides. Taken from the days where Suede had altered the line up of the band, these songs really are weak in comparison. The only really stand out ...  Read the complete review

Sci-Fi Lullabies is a 27-song double album that collects the b-sides from the early days of Suede through to 1997 and the end of the 'Coming Up' period. One thing I want to point out immediately, and I'll return to this later, is that disc 1 (apart from three songs) features the first incarnation of Suede with the mighty Bernard Butler on guitars. The second disc of b-sides is solely the second incarnation of Suede with Richard Oakes and Neil Codling added and Butler absent. Suede The stark but moody cover reflects the tone of many of the songs. The picture was taken in 1991 by John Kippin and features a derelict plane lying in a ...  Read the complete review