Seven ages of rock - a history of rock music over the past 50 years

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• Dog Man Star
  Suede from1992-94 were more exciting, urgent and vital then their contemporaries and any of todays bands for that matter. It kicked against 1980's 'day-glo' britain and the worst excesses of the 'mad-chester' scene. Before Suede it felt that no-one since The Smiths had thought about writing about sex and suburbia. Suede felt like a huge jolt and a wake up call.Also, the economic recession at the time along with John Major made Britain a rather depressing place to grow up in and the spikey, androgenous, urban and romantic music that was Suede was a God-send in the early 1990's

  Guy, Birmingham
  There is no doubt that Suede started what would later be called Britpop. The reason for this is that in Anderson & Butler they had a songwriting duo, a pair of frontmen, who the press actually wanted to write about. I recall the NME letters page throughout 1993 constantly regaling the various merits of Blur vs Suede. Oasis and Blur would later become the two bands most synonomous wih the genre but Suede had the personality, alttitude, style and substance that actually mattered. I was one of their fans, stuck in bedroom in Manchester, desperately wanting to get out and live my life in the style dripping from their first two records. Bernard was a total hero, Brett was perfect. If only it had lasted.

  Matt, Cardiff
  The hooks, the hairdos, the sexual malevolence...these were times untainted by celebrity culture and the naffery of the Beckhams. To be a young at the time was amazing - I thanked God for making me a skinny fop; and the momentary pause in the culminative guitar solo of 'Animal Lover' was infinately more orgasmic than the sex I was convinced everyone else was having except me...

  Nick, London
  I watched it as a 15 year old, in awe. They were incredible. I instantly fell in love with the band. They were a million miles away all the other crap on the Btits.

  Monkey, Northants
  Out of tune, Out of time but stunning,The look on the Penguin suited record company execs was amazing.At the end the band left but Bernard (Guitar) walked to the front put his coat back and walked off the stage. Nobody really knew what to think.

  Nick, London
  I remember it well. The Guardian called them 'Swayed' in their write up the following day.