Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", Ranked #3 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - "...the new-crowned kings of glammy bluster...", "...Suede plunder the styles of their pop-fop forebears and rock your last nerve like a fabulously inappropriate prom date..." - Rating: B+, "...Suede's best songs are models of melodic ingenuity, blending coy lyrics with unambiguous sing-along refrains ...enough tuneful guitar to keep any listener happy....Suede does more in 11 songs than the Smiths did in two albums...", Ranked #5 in Melody Maker's List of the `Albums of the Year' for 1993-"...Gorgeous...", 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Suede is everything that great British pop stars used to be--compelling, confounding, infuriating...in singer Brett Anderson, the band boasts one of the great love-it-or-loathe-it voices in English rock...both irresistable and believable...", Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's '10 Best Reissues Of 2011' -- "This is their meteoric ascendance in full.", Included in Q's List of `The 50 Best Albums of 1993'-"...Mesmerising in Its Emotional Sweep...", 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Anderson is a tremendous performer...musically, Suede have created a sound-world that is uniquely theirs...shifts from raucous garage rock to luxuriant sweetness, sometimes within the same song...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "On their eponymous 1992 debut...they were arguably the most thrilling band in Britain -- all glam decadence and guitar invention...", Ranked #94 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...Ed Buller's lush, widescreen production is the star of the show, filled with sonic holes for Bernard Butler's post-Marr guitar to revel in, weaving the web of musical deceit in which Brett Anderson's occasionally Cockney, occasionally Bowie...vocals can flourish...", 7 - Very Good - "...has all the essential Suede elements: sex (of the high temperature, doubtless illicit variety), drugs (do 'em, though the message is ultimately cautionary) and vague homilies to the greatness of being so young...Anderson is a twisted pied piper for a permanently lost generation..."
