Sounds From The Junkshop #63 - Bernard Butler
"So cherish the days when we'd search for caves and paddle our feet in the midday heat" - Bernard Butler - You Must Go On I have to be honest, I ummed and ahhed a bit about doing an SFTJ on Bernard, not least because we kind of briefly covered his solo career when we did the Garbage Days Revisited on the band he made his name with, Suede , a few months ago. However, I think there's enough of a distance here for his two albums to merit a bit of a mention on their own. I think it's safe to say that, when Bernard left Suede following the release of Dog Man Star , a bit of the mystique went with him. As I mentioned in the aforementioned Suede GDR entry, I wasn't a particularly big fan of Coming Up and thought that despite a few standout tracks, it was just a bit Suede-by-numbers for me. Head Music (the subject of said GDR entry) was a bit better before the group well and truly bombed out with the decidedly poor A New Morning album and split shortly afterw...