Oasis, featuring singer Liam Gallagher, took top place with their first album, Definitely Maybe, in the vote to identify the best of all time.



IT COST just £85,000 to produce and propelled the Gallagher brothers, Liam and Noel, to national fame. Now the 1994 Oasis debut, Definitely Maybe, has topped a poll rating it as the greatest album of all time.

That may jar with some rock critics who insist that the Beatles' 1967 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the defining moment in modern music history.

But the Beatles' seminal concept album was pushed into second place yesterday as 40,000 music fans from across the world chose the Oasis album as the best ever.

The record, containing the singles Live Forever and Supersonic, launched the Manchester group into the big league with worldwide sales of seven million, and in retrospect is seen as a symbol of the "Britpop" era.

In another coup for Oasis, their 1995 album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? makes fifth place.

The survey, organised by the book British Hit Singles and Albums and NME.com, gathered votes from as far afield as New Zealand, Croatia and Colombia.

While the Beatles were knocked off the top spot, the Fab Four's place in rock history is recognised with five entries in the 100-strong list. Revolver enters at No3, with the White Album, Abbey Road and Rubber Soul all making the league table.

The chart anoints a number of 1980s and 1990s albums with classic status, while name-checking 1970s greats of rock aristocracy. The top ten, for example, features Radiohead's OK Computer (1997) and The Bends (1995), Nirvana's Nevermind (1991) and the Stone Roses' eponymous 1990 album.

However, striking a blow for the early 1970s at No8 is Pink Floyd's landmark Dark Side of the Moon (1973). U2, Queen, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Bob Dylan are all included. Led Zeppelin's Four Symbols album (1971) - containing Stairway to Heaven, frequently voted the greatest rock song of all time - comes in at a respectable 17th.

The revival of all things Eighties is marked by several entries. The Human League's 1981 Dare, a landmark of synth-pop, is at 77, followed 11 places later by ABC's The Lexicon of Love, the album that catapulted foil-suited singer Martin Fry to fame with hits including Poison Arrow and The Look Of Love.

The survey, which marks 50 years of the Official UK Albums Chart, suggests that cult status co-exists with commercial success in determining what music lovers treasure. The same chart that contains Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and Michael Jackson's Thriller - which sold 47 million albums and won seven Grammy awards - also acknowledges Joy Division's Closer and The Velvet Underground & Nico by the Velvet Underground.

Pete Doherty, the British songwriter known as much for his court appearances on drugs charges as for his music, is mentioned. Up the Bracket, the 2002 debut by his former band, the Libertines, is the most recent album in the top 20, in 15th place.

David Roberts, the editor of British Hit Singles and Albums, said: "Usually these polls are full of records that people have only just bought - they are freshest in the mind.

"Only two albums in the top 20 were released in the past five years, so the voters have clearly thought hard.

We believe our readers are the most knowledgeable music fans, so for them to have decided that Definitely Maybe should be No1 is really something."

'Greatest 100 albums of all time'
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
8. Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd
9. The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths
10. The Bends, Radiohead
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


Source:Scotsman.com

yeah, this list is running for a few years for now, with some current updates, like Franz Ferdinand and Coldplay X&Y, American Idiot.

Am I right, that in this mainly rock leaning environment COO is the first solo female album at #64? And that only 3 female solo artist lended an album inside in this top 100?

What an achivement for Shania (and Mutt).

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To be honest with you, i dont know if Shania's album is the first female album to reach no.64.

Well, I am happy Shania is on the list.. it seems groups/bands are recognized more...

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Thanks for the post. It certainly wouldn't be my Top 100, but I'm glad to see Shania there.

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