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Today's album of the day

Dog Man Star by Suede (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1994.
Country:
Overall rank: 494
Average rating: 79/100 (from 526 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Introducing The Band
2. We Are The Pigs
3. Heroine
4. The Wild Ones
5. Daddy's Speeding
6. The Power
7. New Generation
8. This Hollywood Life
9. The 2 Of Us
10. Black Or Blue
11. The Asphalt World
12. Still Life

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.

[bluekite]

I really do think this is an underrated album, easily up with the very best in the 90s for me. I love the dark tone, and the b-sides from this album were extraordinary.

[MadhattanJack]

The thing about this album is, it's really good musically but the album cover is just a guy on a mattress. So you think, "oh, this is sleep music," which it clearly isn't. So for their third album, Coming Up, they hired Peter Saville to do the cover — the same guy who did Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures — so you think this is going to be great, but no, it's just another guy on a mattress. After that we got Head Music and A New Morning (the latter is grossly underrated here, I might add), neither of which had any mattresses on them, so we all thought, "okay, we're safe now, they're done with the mattresses." But they were just lulling us into a false sense of security, because two years ago Autofiction comes out, and what do we get? That's right, a guy on a mattress!

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And of course, all this is putting aside the fact that the album cover for 2016's Night Thoughts is practically a direct lift of the cover art for Bill Evans and Jim Hall's 1962 album Undercurrent, but they've never admitted to this and apparently we're all supposed to believe it's a complete coincidence. Needless to say, I don't think so.

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