4CD+DVD media book! Suede’s third album Coming Up will be issued as a five-disc 20th anniversary super deluxe edition next month, with a special coloured double vinyl edition also on offer… The 1996 long-player shoved two fingers in the air to critics who predicted Suede were a spent force after Bernard Butler had departed (shortly before 1994’s Dog Man Star was completed) and achieved something the previous album hadn’t, by being a big commercial success with an incredible five top ten hit singles during the 1996/7. Trash and The Beautiful Ones in particular are to this day stalwarts in live sets and as with previous 45s, the string of singles produced an even bigger string of B-sides/extra tracks, some of which were as good as, if not better, than some album tracks. Europe Is Our Playground, Another No One, Young Men, Every Monday Morning Comes, and Sam come to mind. This new super deluxe edition features the album, the B-sides, a CD of previously unreleased demos and monitor mixes and an unreleased Amsterdam concert from 1996. The DVD features various BBC TV performances (including five Top Of The Pops), and an hour-long film of the band and producer Ed Buller discussing the writing and recording of the album with Pete Paphides, all issued for the first time. All of the above comes packaged in a book which includes a new note from Brett Anderson about the creation of the cover image, along with the lyrics, hand-written lyric drafts, tape boxes, and photos from the band’s collections.
