Blog: SUEDE - "Metal Mickey" (part 1)

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I've just watched Top Of The Pops 2 (well, this particular bit of it anyway), which i taped purely because i'd seen that Suede were going to be on it, and i hoped it'd be this. It was FANTASTIC.

Many years ago, back in the Very Early 90's, when VOON CLASSIC were in full swing, i shared a house with Dr Neil Brown and Simon From Voon. We were happy, though we were POOR, for we had ROCK in the house, and would sit together almost every night, smoking Comedy Marlboroughs and playing music.

We'd decided to rent this particular house because it was upside down, with most of the bedrooms downstairs and the kitchen and living room upstairs, although it wasn't really much of a living room - it had two (broken) chairs, a massive painting that our friend Chris had done, hanging on the wall, and a crappy old telly that the previous owners had considered broken and so left behind. It was, technically, a colour telly - most of the picture was green, except for three yellow stripes that spanned the screen.

And it was this telly that me and Simon sat before GOGGLE EYED one night and got our first taste of What Was To Come, when Suede made their debut on Top Of The Pops, doing "Metal Mickey", thus heralding those first GRATE few years of Britpop (No compilation album could ever do justice to that summer of wearing suede jackets and going to Indie Discos to hear songs we ACTUALLY KNEW THE WORDS TO!).

We Could Not Belive What We Were Watching, as Brett Anderson FLOUNCED and PRANCED, as Bernard Butler and indeed The Other Two did EXACTLY THE SAME, making REAL PROPER ROCK MUSIC a million miles away from the shit poodle rock we'd grown up with, or the terminally dour GRUNGE we'd just lived through, and a billion biliion light years better than the bloody BLOODY BLOODY AWFUL bollocks that passed for Indie in those days - remember Mega City Four? I wish i didn't.


posted 25/2/2003 by MJ Hibbett

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