The discography of the English alternative rock band Suede consists of nine studio albums, four compilation albums, five video albums and over twenty singles. Suede were formed in 1989 by singer Brett Anderson, bassist Mat Osman and guitarist Justine Frischmann. Guitarist Bernard Butler later joined after the group responded to an ad in the Melody Maker. The group played as a four-piece with a drum machine until drummer Simon Gilbert joined. Frischmann left before the group released any material.
| Suede discography | |
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 Suede performing live at Ally Pally in 2021 | |
| Studio albums | 9 |
| Compilation albums | 6 |
| Singles | 35 |
| Video albums | 5 |
| Music videos | 26 |
Despite the media frenzy that surrounded the group, their 1992 debut single "The Drowners" only peaked at number 49 on the UK Singles Chart.[1] It would not be until the release of their third single, "Animal Nitrate", that Suede would break into the top ten, with the song peaking at number seven following their performance of it at the 1993 BRIT Awards.[1][2]
Suede became associated with the Britpop movement of the period and achieved commercial success throughout the United Kingdom, with three of the group's five studio albums charting at number one.[1] Their popularity throughout the rest of the world varied throughout the group's lifetime, but had several charting hits in Denmark,[3] Finland,[4] Norway[5] and Sweden.[6] Suede's commercial success in the United States was limited, and due to a lawsuit with an American singer with the same name, the group had to change its name for the American market to The London Suede.[7] Despite the lack of commercial success in the US, the four studio albums released in America all charted on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart,[8] though the group never charted on the Billboard 200.[8] Suede also had three minor hits in the US, with "Metal Mickey" peaking at number seven on the Modern Rock Tracks in 1993, "Everything Will Flow" charting at number 28 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1999 and "Hit Me" in 2013.[9]
Butler left while the band were recording Dog Man Star and was soon replaced by Richard Oakes.[7] Keyboardist Neil Codling joined the group for Dog Man Star's follow-up Coming Up. Following a commercial resurgence with Coming Up and 1999s Head Music, Codling left in 2001 due to complications with chronic fatigue syndrome and was replaced by former Strangelove keyboardist Alex Lee.[10]
After a long and expensive recording span, A New Morning was released in 2002 and was a commercial and critical disappointment in the UK. The first single released from A New Morning, "Positivity", became the group's only single to chart in Canada,[11] and peaked at number one in Denmark.[3]
In November 2003, Suede released the compilation album Singles which included all 19 of their previously released singles, and also contained two new songs, "Attitude" (itself released as a single along with the non-album "Golden Gun" to promote the album) and "Love the Way You Love Me". Following the release of Singles Suede announced they were disbanding at the end of 2003.[12]
Reforming in 2010 to play a concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust Foundation,[13] the band decided to start recording again. 2013 saw the release of Bloodsports.[14] An even more successful album followed in 2016 with Night Thoughts.
Albums
editStudio albums
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||||||||||||
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| UK [1] |
AUS [15][16] |
FIN [17] |
FRA [18] |
GER [19] |
JPN [20] |
NED [21] |
NOR [5] |
SWE [6] |
US Heat. [22] | ||||||||
| Suede | 1 | 23 | 12 | 34 | 50 | 31 | 77 | 18 | 7 | 14 | |||||||
| Dog Man Star |
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3 | 73 | 14 | 32 | — | 39 | — | — | 5 | 35 |
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| Coming Up |
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1 | 35 | 4 | 30 | 37 | 27 | 65 | 3 | 1 | 17 | ||||||
| Head Music |
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1 | 26 | 3 | 39 | 26 | 29 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
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| A New Morning |
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24 | 57 | 9 | 68 | 74 | 59 | 81 | 6 | 19 | — |
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| Bloodsports |
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10[A] | 181 | — | 97 | 95 | 42 | 65 | 18 | 32 | 14 | ||||||
| Night Thoughts |
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6 | 134 | — | 64 | 31 | 34 | 23 | 25 | 37 | 10 |
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| The Blue Hour |
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5 | — | 37 | — | 32 | 58 | 52 | — | 48 | — |
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| Autofiction | 2 | — | 23 | 108 | 20 | — | 11 | — | 41 | — |
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| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region. | |||||||||||||||||
Compilation albums
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [16] |
DEN [3][34] |
FIN [4] |
IRE [35] |
JPN [20] |
NOR [5] |
SWE [6] | ||||||||||
| Sci-Fi Lullabies |
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9 | — | 11 | 12 | — | — | 22 | 16 | ||||||||
| Singles |
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31 | 123 | 9 | 35 | 47 | 67 | 14 | — |
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| See You in the Next Life... |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| The Best of Suede |
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31 | — | 27 | — | 58 | 192 | — | 20 |
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| Beautiful Ones – An Introduction to Suede |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Beautiful Ones: The Best of Suede 1992 – 2018 |
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16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region. | |||||||||||||||||
Live albums
edit| Title | Details |
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| Live in London |
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| Royal Albert Hall, 24 March 2010 |
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| European Tour Live – O2 Academy, Leeds |
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| European Tour Live – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels |
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| Dog Man Star. 20th Anniversary Live. Royal Albert Hall. |
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Box sets
edit| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
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| UK [1] | ||
| The Vinyl Collection |
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| 7" Singles |
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199 |
| CD Singles |
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| The CD Album Box Set |
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| Studio Albums 93–16 |
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Singles
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [15][16] |
DEN [3] |
FIN [4] |
GER [37] |
IRE [35][38] |
NOR [5] |
NZ [39] |
SWE [6] |
US Mod. [9] | |||||||||||
| "The Drowners" | 1992 | 49 | 39[B] | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Suede | ||||||||
| "Metal Mickey" | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 33 | 7 | |||||||||||
| "Animal Nitrate" | 1993 | 7 | 89 | — | — | — | 11 | — | 11 | 21 | — |
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| "So Young" | 22 | 178 | — | — | 98 | 25 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Stay Together" | 1994 | 3 | 104 | — | 15 | — | 18 | — | 47 | 10 | — | Non-album single | ||||||||
| "We Are the Pigs" | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 34 | — | Dog Man Star | |||||||||
| "The Wild Ones" | 18 | 167 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "New Generation" | 1995 | 21 | — | — | — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| "Trash" | 1996 | 3 | 119 | 3 | 1 | — | 19 | 12 | — | 5 | — |
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Coming Up | |||||||
| "Beautiful Ones" | 8 | — | 14 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 11 | — |
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| "Saturday Night" | 1997 | 6 | — | 4 | 7 | — | — | — | — | 11 | — | |||||||||
| "Lazy" | 9 | 156 | 9 | 10 | — | — | — | — | 19 | — | ||||||||||
| "Filmstar" | 9 | — | 13 | 12 | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | ||||||||||
| "Electricity" | 1999 | 5 | 63 | — | 5 | 92 | 18 | 5 | 39 | 13 | — | Head Music | ||||||||
| "She's in Fashion" | 13 | — | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | 59 | — | ||||||||||
| "Everything Will Flow" | 24 | — | — | 20 | — | — | — | — | 55 | —[C] | ||||||||||
| "Can't Get Enough / Let Go" | 23 | 137 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Let Go / Can't Get Enough"[D] | 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 58 | — | Non-album single | ||||||||
| "Positivity" | 2002 | 16 | — | 1 | 15 | 99 | 44 | 15 | — | 32 | — | A New Morning | ||||||||
| "Obsessions" | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Attitude"/"Golden Gun" | 2003 | 14 | — | 16 | — | — | 50 | — | — | — | — | Singles | ||||||||
| "Barriers" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bloodsports | ||||||||
| "It Starts and Ends with You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Hit Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "For the Strangers" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Outsiders" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Night Thoughts | ||||||||
| "Like Kids" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Pale Snow" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||
| "No Tomorrow" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "What I'm Trying to Tell You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "The Invisibles" | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Blue Hour | ||||||||
| "Don't Be Afraid If Nobody Loves You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Life Is Golden" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Flytipping" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Wastelands" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "She Still Leads Me On" | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Autofiction | ||||||||
| "15 Again” | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| “That Boy On The Stage” | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not issued in that region. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Video albums
edit| Title | Details |
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| Love and Poison |
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| Introducing the Band |
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| Lost in T.V. |
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| Royal Albert Hall, 24 March 2010 |
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| Night Thoughts – Film |
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| The Insatiable Ones |
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Music videos
edit| Title | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| "The Drowners" | 1992 | Lindy Heymann |
| "Metal Mickey" | ||
| "Animal Nitrate" | 1993 | Pedro Romhanyi |
| "So Young" | David Lewis Andy Crabb | |
| "The Drowners" (US version) | Matthew Amos | |
| "Stay Together" | 1994 | Jon Klein |
| "We Are the Pigs" | David Vital-Durand Raphaël Vital-Durand | |
| "The Wild Ones" | Howard Greenhalgh | |
| "New Generation" | 1995 | Richard Heslop |
| "Trash" | 1996 | David Mould |
| "Beautiful Ones" | Pedro Romhanyi | |
| "Saturday Night" | 1997 | |
| "Lazy" | ||
| "Filmstar" | Zowie Broach | |
| "Electricity" | 1999 | Mike Lipscombe |
| "She's in Fashion" | Johan Renck | |
| "Can't Get Enough" (Australian version) | Simon Gilbert | |
| "Everything Will Flow" | Howard Greenhalgh | |
| "Can't Get Enough" | John Hillcoat | |
| "Positivity" | 2002 | Julian Gibbs |
| "Obsessions" | Grant Gee | |
| "Attitude" | 2003 | Lindy Heymann |
| "It Starts and Ends with You" | 2013 | Giorgio Testi |
| "Hit Me" | David Barnes | |
| "For the Strangers" | Ben Lankester | |
| "Outsiders" | 2015 | Roger Sargent |
| "Like Kids" | ||
| "Pale Snow" | 2016 | |
| "No Tomorrow" | ||
| "What I'm Trying to Tell You" | ||
| "The Invisibles" | 2018 | |
| "Life Is Golden" | Mike Christie | |
| "Wastelands" | Giles Campbell Longley |
Notes
edit- ^ Also charted at No. 2 the UK Indie Chart.[30]
- ^ "The Drowners" and "Metal Mickey" was released as a double-A sided single in Australia
- ^ "Everything Will Flow" charted at number 28 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
- ^ In Sweden "Let Go", originally the B-side to "Can't Get Enough", was released as the A-side of the single instead of "Can't Get Enough".[40][41] Therefore, "Let Go" became the track played on Swedish radio and even charted as high as No. 5 on Swedish Radio (Sveriges Radio)'s Tracks-chart.[42]
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