[Introducing the Banned, David Barnett, SIS]

Suede heads are the insatiable ones, glitter in their luvverly eyes and Anderson's lyrics scratched on shiny rings, written down spines, and tattooed to their bleeding heavy metal hearts. Since drowning to the first single, the tough kids have devoured every suede song, but not every sci-fi lullaby made it to public consumption. Here's a furtive shifty at Suede's secret heritage.

Natural Born Servant/Justice
Two of the songs played at the first ever suede gig back in March 1990, if we are to believe York Membery's much denied suede pamphlet. According to Mat, the band played seven songs on this occasion, all of which have since been consigned to pop's dustbin.

Wonderful Sometimes
A brilliant slice of naive C86 pop perfection. The two ex-guitarist chime sweetly together, the drum machine chugs stoically along and Brett pleads "Do I just love you cause you look quite good?" like Stephen Pastel with singing lessons. This won Gary Crowley's Demo Clash several weeks running and was included on the What The World Is Waiting For compilation tape of Powerhaus regulars, which is why its fairly easy to get a poor quality tape of it.

Break The Law/Carry Me, Marry Me
The Couple were named in a not very complimentary Melody Maker review of June 1990. The band's lips remain sealed.

The Labrador In You
The song from the infamous camcorder clip shown on The Word years later. No discernible tune whatsoever, but snugly familiar imagery. "Big black dog in her," anyone?

Be My God
The legendary unreleased first single, dismissed as awful by the band, but actually quite good in a claustrophobic Cure with a tune kind of way. Pre-drowners S&M hijinks from Brett and a robsust drum shuffle from burby Elastician Justin Welch. Oh, and a lot easier to get hold of than you might think.

Art
On the other hand, A promising start as Mike Joyce (who also produces) bashes out the old Barbarism Begins At Home drumbeat. Mat does his best to copy the bass line and the two guitars lose the plot completely. Brett does his best Mickey Mouse impersonation, swamped in special effects presumably there to disguise the embarrassing lyrics (something about "going down the disco").

Maid In London
This is one of the first songs Simon remembers playing with the band. The title hints at the usual puns on dominance/submission and blurred sexual imagery. Either that or Simey can't spell Made.

The Bike Tragedy
Embryonic version of To The Birds.

Going Blonde
A punky number in the same vein as contemporaries Painted People and Dolly. Justine took the lyrics with her when she formed Elastica and the song re-emerged as See That Animal. "Going Blonde was much better," reckons Simon. The original chorus went, "Oh Terry, oh Terry, oh Terry, Terry's Going Blonde."

Diesel
A pounding instrumental workout left over from the first album. "I never got around to writing any words for it," says Brett. Simon describes it as sounding like the theme from the Holiday Programme. "We might release it as an instrumental. It's brilliant."

Caroline Says An unreleased Suede track - but only just! Bernard and Siouxie got together at the Derek Jarman benefit at Clapham Grand to perform this touching cover of the Velvet Underground classic (more commonly known as Stephanie Says).

We Believe In Showbiz Originally intended as one of the B-sides for Stay Together, this one was dropped not for any Diesel type no-lyric-scenario, but because it fell short of Suede's stringent quality control standards. In other words, well, a tad on the crap side basically.

A Day In The Life
For Suede's MTV appearance in November they were asked to perform a cover version as a trailer. This tender reading of the Beatles' classic was the brave choice and the result was nothing short of majestic. Will we ever hear it again? "We might play it at a fanclub gig," fibs Simon.