The 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the ’90s: 40 – 21 The fourth part of our examination of the 100 Greatest Alternative Singles of the ’90s includes Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Pulp, and My Bloody Valentine. 40. Suede – “The Drowners” (1992) The first single from Suede’s widely-hailed self-titled debut is a sexy glam-rock raver, Brett Anderson’s flamboyantly stylized vocals rising to a shimmery falsetto before gliding headlong into Bernard Butler’s churning T-Rex guitar riff. Suede elegantly fuses the grandiose melancholy of the Smiths with the soaring theatrics of David Bowie and injects a dose of brash attitude. Suede’s sonic vibe is slicked with a tincture of decadence, an aura of wading through forbidden underground sex enclaves where depravity is celebrated and hedonism is religion.