Pitchfork placed "We Are the Pigs" at No. 169 on their list of the Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s. In 2006, Total Guitar ranked Butler's solo at No. 57 in its list of the "100 Hottest Solos". The B-side "Killing of a Flash Boy" became a staple of Suede's live set list and was included on the B-sides album Sci-Fi Lullabies. In 2014, NME ranked the song at No. 364 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
