A poll of 40,000 people by the British Book of Hit Singles and NME.com have decided that the best album ever is Oasis’ Definitely Maybe. I’m not so sure. Dont get me wrong, I’m a big Oasis fan but I’m not prepaired to agree that it’s the best Album ever. Compare other albums in the top 100, I would go for a Smiths or Beatles album before Oasis. But then what do you go on? A complete album? An inspirational album? Most life affirming? It’s horses for courses I suppose.
Here’s the top ten;
1) Definitely Maybe, Oasis
2) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, The Beatles
3) Revolver, The Beatles
4) OK Computer, Radiohead
5) (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, Oasis
6) Nevermind, Nirvana
7) The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses
Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd
9) The Queen Is Dead, Smiths
10) The Bends, Radiohead
I’m going to say that I think The Queen Is Dead album is my top, perhaps followed by OK Computer.
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11) The Joshua Tree, U2
12) London Calling, The Clash
13) The Beatles (The White Album), The Beatles
14) Abbey Road, The Beatles
15) Up The Bracket, The Libertines
16) Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols
17) Four Symbols (Led Zeppelin IV), Led Zeppelin
18) The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, David Bowie
19) A Night At The Opera, Queen
20) Is This It, The Strokes
21) Hot Fuss, The Killers
22) Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
23) Grace, Jeff Buckley
24) The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers
25) Bat Out Of Hell, MeatLoaf
26) Appetite For Destruction, Guns N’ Roses
27) Employment, Kaiser Chiefs
28) Rubber Soul, The Beatles
29) Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
30) The Libertines, The Libertines
31) Urban Hymns, The Verve
32) American Idiot, Green Day
33) A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Coldplay
34) Parklife, Blur
35) Thriller, Michael Jackson
36) The Wall, Pink Floyd
37) Automatic For The People, R.E.M.
38) Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand
39) Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield
40) Achtung Baby, U2
41) Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
42) Exile On Main Street, The Rolling Stones
43) Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
44) Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
45) Parallel Lines, Blondie
46) Brothers In Arms, Dire Straits
47) Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan
48) Hunky Dory, David Bowie
49) X&Y, Coldplay
50) Who’s Next, The Who
51) Hopes And Fears, Keane
52) Parachutes, Coldplay
53) Arrival, Abba
54) Different Class, Pulp
55) The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground
56) Forever Changes, Love
57) What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye
58) Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
59) Elephant, The White Stripes
60) Doolittle, Pixies
61) Absolution, Muse
62) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
63) Sheer Heart Attack, Queen
64) Come On Over, Shania Twain
65) Sign ‘o’ The Times, Prince
66) Ten, Pearl Jam
67) Kasabian, Kasabian
68) Dookie, Green Day
69) Origin Of Symmetry, Muse
70) Hounds Of Love, Kate Bush
71) Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan
72) All Mod Cons, The Jam
73) Blue, Joni Mitchell
74) White Blood Cells, The White Stripes
75) Dog Man Star, Suede
76) Metallica (the Black Album), Metallica
77) Dare! Human League
78) Closer, Joy Division
79) In Utero, Nirvana
80) Back In Black, AC/DC
81) Funeral, Arcade Fire
82) Up All Night, Razorlight
83) Ray Of Light, Madonna
84) Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen
85) Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
86) Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, Arctic Monkeys
87) A Day At The Races, Queen
88) The Lexicon Of Love, ABC
89) Spice, Spice Girls
90) Violator, Depeche Mode
91) Final Straw, Snow Patrol
92) Electric Warrior, T. Rex
93) Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette
94) Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division
95) Kid A, Radiohead
96) Out Of The Blue, Electric Light Orchestra
97) The Smiths, The Smiths
98) Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix
99) Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine
100) Hotel California, Eagles
tubula bells? Hotel california?
Was my mom voting?
I knew there were some good reasons what I didn’t read NME anymore.
I can’t believe ‘Screamadelica’ isn’t in the list. Maybe it rambles a bit in places but it’s one of the most important British albums ever man. House, Indie, Trip Hop, Gospel it’s all in that CD.
Also not sure why there’s no place for Neutral Milk Hotel’s ‘Aeroplane over the Sea’. I’d be happy if that was there, even if it was about number 91 by Snow Patrol (come on?! Snow Patrol?? the musical equivalent of reading the label on a shampoo bottle on the toilet because you’ve left your book downstairs).
Other than that the top 10 is pretty solid, maybe in the wrong order and a little too Anglophile, but no complaints really. Parklife should be higher, Kaisers lower, Shed Seven tribute band the Killers should be nowhere, Doolittle and Arcade Fire’s Funeral should be higher too and they’ve put the wrong Suede LP in.
The Stone Roses is number 1,
Dark Side of the moon is 2.
Nothing else counts.
What, no Bucks Fizz?