remastered, not new

the best of
It's a beautiful cover. Seems to fit both the season and the music.

Unsung

Lines

I know a girl laying down
she's sleeping weeks at a time
and when she wakes up she watches tv
counting cracks in the ceiling...

Girl laying down - Anna Ternheim

Musical love

I saw something this afternoon that made my heart happy. That doesn't happen that often. My eyes read the news which told that I will once more have the opportunity to experience a night of true electric passion.

I already had one night to look forward to, in December. Now I have two. Or, I will have, as soon as I get my hands on a ticket.

I will once more stand in a crowd of dedicated people and feel the magic, the excitement in the air. My body will once more become energized with this wonderful music, live. I will once more enjoy the sensation of this musical love hitting my heart and spreading to my entire body.

I will sense it, see it, hear it, breathe it, and touch it, the music that I love.
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This song

When it's summer, on a day like this, I think this is a perfect song to listen to as the summer breeze moves my hair. However, when autumn has arrived it is a song made for the leaves changing colour, and then, when the cold wind is blowing on a winter’s day, this is a song to warm my ears.

Whatever season, whatever moment, this song shares its beauty and caresses my body. This song is for now and tomorrow and it carries the memories of yesterday. This song is:



A fantastic song by Suede and a beautiful video by Simon Gilbert. See more att SuedeVideo.

Some Suede for Midsummer

Fantastic treats for suede suckers...

Check out:
The Suede Video Channel

Below a nice comment from the man compiling all the material...

Re: Suede's You Tube Channel

Posted by: Simon Gilbert

Date: June 16, 2010 03:33PM

Smash Wrote:
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> There will be no DVD film then?

Oh but there will be.. these are just some little teasers for you all until its all done..

Read more at: forum.suede.co.uk 

Shaking on the scene

I just must mention this, to spread the word, or to spread the music...

I have thought about that I need to write about things and music that aren’t related to my favourite band but it seems almost impossible to accomplish. Yes, this post is yet another one with s u e d e in mind.

At one of the sites that I've linked to at the further-page, A Different Place, I found this other link that I want to share. If you're interested in a nice bootleg recording of the Albert Hall gig, you definitely should click on to: Tea with Tufty. Need I say more? Oh, that lovely night on March 24. Now you can listen to it again, and again, and.. I think you get the idea. And you can find some other interesting stuff there too.

To end this post, a hello and welcome to P3 Pop and any of P3 Pop's twitter-followers that might have found this blog through their tweet the other day. Thank you for mentioning my blog, and yes I am a regular when it comes to listening to the show, at least I used to be and now I’m trying to be one.

On the radio

I'm currently listening to a long-time favourite of mine when it comes to radio shows. It’s Swedish Radio’s P3 Pop. I used to listen to it every Monday night between ten and midnight when I was in my teens, and later on too. It was two hours of ‘my kind of music’. Music that wasn’t played that often on day time radio and new music that I probably wouldn’t have come across if it wasn’t for this programme.

The years I started to listen to this show was in the days before the Internet. No, not really, but it was before Internet was accessible to almost every person at home or at work. Because of that, radio was still an important source for hearing music, especially new music. Specific radio shows, music magazines and a few tv-shows, those were my major sources for new and interesting music.

At present I can’t see myself without using the Internet. However, all the accessibility that the net provides also makes me forget about my favourite music show that still runs every Monday night. At times I come to think of it and listen to the most recent shows that are available for re-listening, but then, some weeks on, my mind focuses on something else and I forget about listen to the show, live on the radio or on the Internet. It's a shame really. This evening I’ve spent some of my time listening to the show from this Monday, but tomorrow I’ll probably be doing something totally different and some time will pass before I’ll put some time aside to listen to P3 Pop again. That’s how it goes, I guess.

Because you're worthless

I bought this single most for fun, because I love vinyl and thought it would be nice to have something more of The Tears.

Yesterday I wrote about the aesthetics of this green record, and I hadn’t listened to it by then. I did however listen to it later on, when the darkness had entered my living room. Now, I don’t know how many times I have listened to it, the b-side that is.

What an amazing composition it is! I have listened to this song, ‘Because You’re Worthless’, in the same way that I used to listen to Brian Eno’s version of ‘Introducing the Band’ (b-side on ‘The Wild Ones’ single 1994). I have listened to it over and over again, almost making it mantra-like, though it is difficult to manage that with a song just about five minutes long. ‘Eno’s Introducing the Band’ is about fifteen minutes long, if I remember correctly, so it’s a bit easier with that one.

I think the reason for me not listening to The Tears album that much is that I couldn’t relate to the songs, and to be honest it’s impossible not to compare those songs with the early Suede ones. It might be unfair to do so, but inevitably it happens if you’re an old Suede fan and you know their back catalogue by heart. If however the album would have sounded more like this b-side... Maybe I should listen to the album too. I probably haven’t listened to it that many times since it was released. Perhaps I’ll do that later.

Gorgeously green vinyl

About a week ago, I happened to enter the site of a record store that I hadn't visited for a very long time. I was probably looking for something. I don't remember what that might have been, but I do know what I found. Today I got my order by mail and even though I bought several records, there was one that made this purchase somewhat special. I bought a 7" green vinyl.

Yes, this record store is one of those that sell vinyl and at times one can find some interesting stuff there, at least one used to. Since they seem to have made some changes at the site I don't really know how it is these days.

I was really looking forward to receive this record. To hold it in my hands, examine the sleeve and feel the vinyl. I really do love vinyl, for many reasons, the main ones being that the moment of listening to the music feels more 'exclusive', and that the artwork of the sleeve comes to its right. Of course I love the simplicity of mp3 and digital music, however, I'm one of those that still like to by a physical product (obviously) and when it is something produced by one of my favourite artists/bands, having it on vinyl adds extra value to the song/s.

Maybe you wonder, what's on the 7"? I haven't actually played it yet, but I'm going to, after I've posted this. The gorgeously (?) green vinyl is The Tears' single from 2005, i.e. "Lovers". I didn't listen to The Tears that much when Bernard and Brett released their album, and I haven't listened to any of the songs for many years, so it's going to be a special moment, without a doubt.