Coming Up
by Suede

Coming Up by Suede
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-09-02
Overall rank: 1,329th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 292 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (25th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (240th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,329th)

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Suede bestography

Coming Up is ranked 3rd best out of 21 albums by Suede on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Suede is Dog Man Star which is ranked number 459 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,656.

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Coming Up track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,329th | 1990s rank: 240th | 1996 rank: 25th
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2026 imacgillTop Greatest Music Albums 201-30092/100 -
2026joathomeTop 57 Music Albums of 19969/574
2026 JoaoMoreiraTop 71 Music Albums of the 1990s5/7119
2026 RasmVTop 34 Music Albums of 19963/345
2026wizardalienTop 19 Music Albums of 19966/194
2026 BachTop 100 Greatest Music Albums24/10076
2026wizardalienTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s61/1008
2026cicadelicLes Inrocks Les meilleurs albums 199648/50 -
2026 TamthebamTop 91 Music Albums of 199619/914
2026 JoaoMoreiraTop 43 Greatest Music Albums18/4359
2026 MadhattanJackTop 77 Music Albums of 19961/775
2026 videoheadcleanerTop 75 Music Albums of 199641/752
2026 johnnerTop 100 Greatest Music Albums63/10037
2026 BachTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s14/10017
2026AndrasTop 96 Greatest Music Albums22/9678
2026 JoaoMoreiraTop 7 Music Albums of 19962/74
2026KettwigTop 32 Music Albums of 199629/321
2026cicadelicQ magazine Recordings Of The Year 19969/50 -
2026JohnnyoIndie albums of the year 1996 by Radio X18/25 -
2026matterhornriderTop 52 Music Albums of 199614/524
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 229
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 1,282
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 292 votes)
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80/100
 
04/25/2026 14:31 markl73  Ratings distribution  59978/100
 
75/100
 
03/08/2026 18:33 Milhaud  Ratings distribution  1,96970/100
 
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12/14/2025 20:26 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,58570/100
 
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12/13/2025 14:14 Leonard  Ratings distribution  6,56470/100
 
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12/09/2025 05:18 Kingturtle  Ratings distribution  7,57973/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.

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From 01/15/2026 09:46 | #312644
Shortlisted for album of the year at the 1997 Mercury Music Prize. The winner was New Forms by Roni Size & Reprezent
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50/100
From 10/10/2024 20:32 | #305597
Prefer this to their debut album. Not a weak track, littered with loads of characteristically catchy guitar riffs. Beautiful Ones is the highlight. Chemistry Between Us is also a beautiful track
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85/100
From 10/01/2023 17:03 | #299328
Suedes best album imo
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80/100
From 01/27/2022 04:35 | #280158
Another strong album from Suede, they really were up there with the best of the Brits in the 90s but sadly too often get overlooked in the 2020s. The Chemistry Between Us is just so beautifully sad and poignant, brings back so many wonderful memories. One of Suede's greatest songs from their third consecutive excellent album.
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80/100
From 09/02/2021 18:02 | #273214
Played it for the first time on its 25th anniversary, how I have missed out on this one! Complete Bowie homage and very enjoyable.
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75/100
From 08/17/2021 11:14 | #272588
In the 90’s there was a Britpop war going on. You had two album wonders Oasis, there was Pulp ( I never understood the Jarvis Cocker thing), there was Blur with plenty of substance beneath the hype and of course there was the shoe gazing of Ride, Lush and MBV among many others. But there was another band, a much under appreciated band and for me they were the ones, and it’s time we looked back and acknowledged the brilliance of Suede

The run of Suede beginning with 1993’s self titled debut through ‘Dog Man Star’ and concluding with 1996’s ‘ Coming Up’ represents a three album run better than any of the Britpop heavy weights. There is something simply magical about Suedes ability to capture the pulse of the times through drugs, interesting characters and sexual ambiguity. It was and is an intoxicating mix
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75/100
From 05/11/2020 16:52 | #251303
Bearing in mind what happened during and after Dog Man Star, it's pretty much a miracle this album exists, let alone that it is an exquisite collection of pop songs, from Trash - one of the greatest pop songs ever made - to 'Saturday Night', a wonderfully evocative and melodic piece of glam. Pop at its best.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 08/11/2018 21:25 | #219577
A near perfect album with only let down for me being Picnic By The Motorway. But so many killer tracks here including Trash, Filmstar, Lazy, She, Beautiful Ones and Saturday Night.
Love Brett Andersons vocals throughout - might be part of the Britpop 90's but plenty homage to glam rock.
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From 05/12/2018 15:38 | #214661
Picnic by the Motorway is one of the most criminally underrated songs ever. Give it a listen.
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100/100
From 01/25/2018 13:56 | #206491
If you don't buy the Deluxe Edition, then you'll be missing out on "Europe Is Our Playground", one of Suede's best songs. Many of the other b-sides, including "This Time", are pretty damn good too.
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