Reviewing the 2006 deluxe edition, Garry Mulholland of "Q" stated that the album "defined the mood of the day", while "Drowned in Sound" described "Different Class" as "easily the best album of its year of release and arguably the best album from the Britpop era" and went on to call it "a certifiable masterpiece that not only lived up to the sky-high expectations heaped upon it with appalling ease, but surpassed them."