Brits pick Oasis over the Beatles for best album ever

[MonaMe577]

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British Vote Oasis Album Best of All
Jun 1, 9:28 AM EST

The Associated Press

LONDON -- "Definitely Maybe," the debut album by Oasis, has beaten the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in a British vote for the greatest album of all time, organizers said Thursday.

The Beatles also took third place with "Revolver" and had three other albums in the Top 100 in the vote staged by British Hit Singles & Albums, an annual publication, and NME.com.

The vote was announced in last year's edition of British Hit Singles & Albums, said editor David Roberts. Anyone could vote for as many as 10 albums, in rank order, and probably 95 percent of the 40,000 votes came from Britain, he said.

The biggest surprise, in Roberts' view, was The Libertines' debut album, "Up the Bracket," at No. 15 — a strong showing he attributed to singer Pete Doherty's well-publicized involvement with supermodel Kate Moss and his arrests for alleged drug use.

Other albums on the list include U2's "The Joshua Tree" (No. 11), Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (No. 35), the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street," (No. 42), The White Stripes' "Elephant" (No. 59), Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" (No. 84) and the Eagles' "Hotel California" (No. 100).

The top 10:

1. "Definitely Maybe," Oasis.

2. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts 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.

8. "Dark Side of the Moon," Pink Floyd.

9. "The Queen Is Dead," The Smiths.

10. "The Bends," Radiohead.

[62hofner]

Not a bad list... although I'd have moved #2 and #3 up one each, and moved #1 down two. :wave1:

[.Psychedelic.Stars.]

Bleh.

[Pepperland Kamer]

These polls aren't anything to get worked up about since there seems to be one every few minutes. But you can tell this was a heavily British voted poll, cause if there was more of a U.S. representation, I can almost guarentee The Smiths, Stone Roses and Oasis would be nowhere in the top 10, (even though they are good bands, especially the Smiths!)

[Love Fest1969]

My brother loves Oasis but I don't care for them.

[wednesdaymorning]

(What's The Story) Morning Glory? Is way better than Definately Maybe. And Radiohead is a fantastic little band. Pink Floyd isn't all that great, and the Beatles are better than all those other bands combined. But people who'd vote on that would be a younger crowd. They're the people that would even care. It's all a matter of personal opinion. And Oasis is one of the most popular British bands at the moment. Hence the results.

[Harbidge]

Oasis are pretty good, What's the Story is definitely better than their debut album IMO. They've released some pretty good songs but imo would be better if they got rid of Liam. Noel has proven that he can hold the tunes just as well!

But this is NME we're talking about here - the readers are all teenagers and whathaveyou, so it's quite impressive that Nevermind didn't top the poll and that the Beatles appeared at all.

[Beatle Corinne]

And here I was, thinking you Brits were so much smarter than we Yanks :wink2:

[Lt. Pepper]

The past is respected by no one, except for those of us who live in it! :eyebrows:

[BadLittleKid]

The poll was however set up as this: VOTE TO WIN MANCHESTER CITY SEASON TICKET

[BeatlesFan4life]

Not a bad list... although I'd have moved #2 and #3 up one each, and moved #1 down two. :wave1:
I agree with 62hofner with what he said.

[lennonluvr9]

I gotta say i'm a little surprised though, i didnt think oasis was still that popular...

[Mean Mister Mustard]

The poll was however set up as this: VOTE TO WIN MANCHESTER CITY SEASON TICKET

And I still missed out....damn it.

Maybe I can take Joey Barton's spot in the team.

Back to the poll. I would not have voted Oasis's debut album Definitiely Maybe number one. They did take the spotlight away from the grunge scene Seattle and a bunch of guys who didn't know how to tuck their shirts in or comb their hair.

"Pet Sounds" by The Beach Boys had brilliant harmonics, yet that was not included. If it was not for Pet Sounds, Sgt. Ppper would not have been as brilliant or as important as it turned out to have been, because it tested the skills of all 4 Beatles as well as George Martin as a producer, and they stood tall at the end of it all.

I am not sure why Nirvana were included. If I want to listen to something as depressing as Kurt Cobain always put out, I would have gone to a funeral. Neil Young's "Harvest". But as has been stated, NME caters to a mainly younger audience. The parents would have listened to the Beatles more frequently because that was their time, along with a host of other bands of that era.

Perhaps I am being short sighted and biased, but without the Beatles there would have been no Oasis. And great rock albums stand the test of time, something the Beatles will still do in the next generation.

[Georgie Girl]

Personally, I never thought of Pepper as the Beatles'
best album anyway. It was certainly ground-breaking
and all that, but there is a lot of "novelty" appeal with
Pepper. It did have a few great songs, but Abbey Road
had all great songs. It seems that Pepper has always
had more sentimental value for the people who
remembered when it came out.

[Lucy]

I love Oasis - I really like their latest album and think it is a return to form - but I think what we can really take away from this is that although The Beatles just miss out on being number 1, look at the fact that 40 years on they are still competition to rival modern acts!
Will Oasis even be in the top 10 in 40 years time? Who knows but I suspect perhaps not.
And yeah these polls are always silly. Other yers Revolver has been ahead but they seem to change all the time.
I fully rate Radiohead but I think to put an album that includes a track of a robotic voice talking as the 4th greatest album of all time is ridiculous. And just to be clear, I do really like that album but see no point in that track. Surely to be that great of an album, every single track has to be wonderful.