YMMV / Suede

• Americans Hate Tingle: Britpop as a genre never took off in the USA, but Suede in particular have been victims to this: not only were they denied the right to be called Suede in America, but during their 1994 tour, they were actually switched places with their opening act The Cranberries.
• Broken Base: Everyone seems to agree that their first two albums are great, but each album afterwards has prompted mixed reactions.
  • Similarly, the fanbase is also broken over Richard Oakes. Some fans think that he is an underrated guitarist who ultimately gave the band a second life, while others think that he can't hold a candle to Bernard Butler's guitar or songwriting skills.
  • There's a smaller Broken Base over whether their first album or Dog Man Star is their best album.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: "Killing of a Flashboy", a B-Side from "We are the Pigs", is a fan-favorite and has become a staple of Suede's live performances. In the liner notes of the twentieth-anniversary expanded edition of Dog Man Star, Anderson outright says that it should have been on the album.
• Epic Riff: Several, including "The Drowners", "Metal Mickey", and "Animal Nitrate". Bernard Butler has said that "Animal Nitrate" was a deliberate attempt to write one, as he intended to write a riff with the same level of recognizability as "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
• Even Better Sequel: Suede's self-titled debut album was very well-received - but their sophomore effort Dog Man Star, while fairly unsuccessful commercially, is nowadays widely considered to be the band's masterpiece.
  • Their 2013 comeback album, "Bloodsports", received good reviews and was praised as a strong comeback, however the follow up, 2016's "Night Thoughts" received even higher praise and is considered to be almost as good as their early albums.
• Heartwarming Moments: "The Drowners", a song about passionate, loving homosexual intercourse in a time where such things were still discouraged by society. The chorus is blissfully orgasmic.
• Ho Yay: Deliberately done by Brett Anderson. Examples include the androgynous couple kissing on the cover of Suede (actually two women), and lyrics like "We kissed in his room to a popular tune".
• Missing Episode: The original 25 minute version of The Asphalt World, which reportedly sounded so incredibly abrasive and nightmarish, Brett almost couldn’t sit through the whole thing. Producer Ed Buller trimmed the song down to the 9 minute cut on the finished album, drawing Bernard’s ire and contributed to his leaving of the band. An 11 minute edit surfaced on the Deluxe Edition years later, but the full uncut track has yet to surface.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Animal Nitrate", a song with a dreary and aggressive (by britpop standards) guitar backing over exasperated and pained vocals, with cryptic lyrics that appear to describe a person being abused by a drug-addict and strongly desiring to be subjected to the same abusive sex after their abuser dies from an overdose.
• Refrain from Assuming: "By the Sea" is commonly believed to be titled "Into the Sea" because these are the words repeated in the chorus.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "She's Not Dead" was written about a woman and her black lover who commit suicide in order to escape the social stigma a mixed relationship would endure, and was inspired by the life of the singer's real aunt.
  • "The 2 Of Us", "The Wild Ones", "The Next Life", "The Big Time" and "Animal Nitrate" as well.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The narrator of "Animal Nitrate" seems incredibly and insensitively frustrated that the target of the song is unable to be properly aroused despite that the fact that they've been sexually abused and suffer from stockholm syndrome and emotional trauma as a result. This might have been intentional.
• Vindicated by History: Dog Man Star did not sell as well as their debut album and received mixed reviews from critics, particularly in the United States. It has since become a fan favorite and has been reappraised by many critics in later years.