is "truly as good as most Greatest Hits albums." Writing for Vox, Simon Price felt that Anderson wrote some of his funniest lyrics on CD2, on the tracks "Young Men" and "Jumble Sale Mums". Aside from "Duchess", which he called "lazy rubbish," he had strong praise for both discs. The album continued Suede's run of consecutive top ten albums, peaking at no. 9 in October 1997. Despite never placing on any of Billboards charts, Sci-Fi Lullabies had sold 19,000 units in the US by 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Legacy Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club and Scott Plagenhoef of Stylus Magazine spoke of the effort invested in Suede's B-sides, with the band discarding "failed" ideas or experiments in favour of high quality tracks. Plagenhoef asserted: "Those early B-sides—collected on disc one of Sci-Fi Lullabies remain Suede's strongest collection of songs." The album has been named as one of the finest in the B-side/rarity genre. Independent critic Simon Price hailed it as "the greatest B-sides album ever made." Kevin Courtney of The Irish Times expressed similar views of the album's quality, while admitting that only The Smiths' Hatful Of Hollow could supersede it. Another Irish Times writer Brian Boyd felt that a compressed version of the collection would be a hit record, writing: "if this was a single 12-track album, it would be pushing for inclusion in the album of the year lists." In 2017, Pitchfork ranked the record at number thirty in its list, "The 50 Best Britpop Albums." The A.V. Club included the compilation in its list of 35 essential B-side/rarity/outtakes collections. The article described Sci-Fi Lullabies as being "as good as any of Suede's proper albums." NME featured the compilation in their list of "30 Killer B-Side And Rarities Albums You Might've Missed", noting that Suede's B-sides "were as exciting as anything Britpop could muster." The record was also included in a 2013 NME poll of the 500 greatest albums of all time, where it placed at number 448. The 1995 book, Spin Alternative Record Guide wrote: "Like the Smiths, Suede littered many of its best songs on its B-sides, a case in point being the fine 'My Insatiable One'." The song was covered by former Smiths singer Morrissey during his 1992 solo world tour. Live performances The Suede B-sides have been an integral part of Suede's live shows as well as Anderson's solo performances. Favourites from