Suede was supposed to be the next big thing from the UK, not Oasis. But with the uber-flamboyant frontman (turns out it was just an act), they never had a chance in the US. Nowadays they would be, except that they wrote actual songs and not the drivel that makes up the airwaves now. I didn't hear them until probably around 96. I was hooked when I heard Animal Nitrate the first time. Some of the other songs I liked, but a lot of it was in the "I'm not quite sure what to think of these guys" territory until I listened to it some more. The album has a good cohesion, front to back. Guitar work is excellent and original by Bernard Butler (I put some of my thoughts in a different post, but I think it was deleted because I did 3 posts in a row and now there's just the SDE announcement post). If you dig some of the Bowie glam years and some of the 90s Britpop, I think these guys land somewhere in between. They never had a record nearly as good, though, and I think Butler left after the 2nd record.