With Richard Oakes established on keyboards and vocals as well as Brett Anderson’s new songwriting foil, all Suede had to do to show they still had it was release a new album in the year after 1995’s Britpop triumph in the UK. Did they ever: resulting in a massive run of smash UK singles, with Coming Up Suede equalled and surpassed the glam-rock-for-the-nineties vibe of their debut, with ridiculously catchy songs like “Trash,” “Beautiful Ones,” “Saturday Night” and “Lazy” saying it all.

– Ned Raggett