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7.10.02

suede: game over


....says Chig in unneccessarily attention-grabbing headline. But let's just look back at the history of suede's albums and their highest chart positions;
'suede' #1
'Dog Man Star' #3
'Coming Up' #1
Sci-Fi Lullabies #9 (Not really a 'proper' album; just a collection of b-sides.)
Head Music #1 (Entered at #1 too.)

And yesterday's new entry position for 'A New Morning'? Number 24. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. oh dear. It's brilliant as well...
Still, suede can thank their lucky stars, as Soft Cell's new 'Cruelty Without Beauty' has failed to even match the hopeless #52 position of the first single. Not even my purchasing of the album on Saturday could help it scrape into the Top 75 at all. Even though Marc Almond is used to this with his solo albums, I can't help thinking it's a tremendous disappointment for 'the big comeback', and the album certainly deserves better, from the couple of plays I've given it so far.

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