End of civilisation as I know it.

[Big Dave]

Outraged!

<headline>Oasis beats Beatles to top British album poll</headline>

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<!--articleExtras-wrap--> <bod> </bod>Rock group Oasis has claimed the top two spots in a poll of Britain's best ever albums, ahead of iconic albums by The Beatles and Pink Floyd.
Oasis's 1994 album Definitely Maybe and (What's the Story) Morning Glory from 1996 came number one and two respectively, according to a survey by Q magazine and retailer HMV to find the 50 best ever British albums.
Radiohead's OK Computer came in third, while the Beatles' Revolver could only finish fourth in the survey of 11,000 people.
Two other albums by Oasis made it into the top 25 - Don't Believe the Truth, at 14, and Be Here Now, at 22.
"It's clear that, having polled three times more votes than any other act, Oasis are undoubtedly the nation's most loved band," said Paul Rees, editor of Q magazine.
Rudy Osorio, HMV head of music, said people were starting to "recognise the iconic appeal of Oasis and the brilliance of Definitely Maybe as an era-defining album".
The full list of 50 British albums was heavily dominated by rock bands, including The Clash, Pink Floyd, Queen and Arctic Monkeys.
Five albums by the Beatles made it onto the list. The only female artist to be included was Amy Winehouse, whose Back to Black came in at number 35.
The top 10
1. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
2. (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
3. OK Computer - Radiohead
4. Revolver - The Beatles
5. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
6. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles
7. London Calling - The Clash
8. Under the Iron Sea - Keane
9. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
10. Urban Hymns - The Verve.
AFP

[skelstar]

Guess it comes down to who was polled (obv)...

Hmmm...thought Sgt Peppers would poll higher than Revolver. Good to see Stone
Roses in there. Mint album for sure.

[Hitcher]

There is a generational shift at play here. Given that it's thirty-odd years since the Beatles recorded anything, it's quite on the cards that a generation has been born that hasn't heard of Oasis, let alone the *Fab Four*.

Or that

*Lady Madonna, baby at your breast
Wonder how you managed to feed the rest*

Isn't a tribute to Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie.

[Paul in NZ]

Guess it comes down to who was polled (obv)....

Aint that the truth - probably the Oasis fan club...

Dave - you get used to it mate... Pretty soon you start saying 'It aint right', telling whippersnappers that it was better when you were young and listening to talk back radio (because you hate modern music)... Relax... The cordoroy shoes and brown slacks are actually quite comfy...

[idb]

Well, as Oasis is really a tribute band to every Brit group from the Beatles to T Rex it's probably fair enough.
It's a bit like saying a 'Best Of...' album is your favourite from any given act.

[jrandom]

I'd personally rate Morning Glory above Revolver. Just marginally, mind you.

Then again, I don't feel any particular obligation to prop up my personal image by raving on about pop music that was recorded in a cooler decade of history.

:)

[Big Dave]

Keane above Dark Side!!!!

Ow for Owtraged

[jrandom]

Keane above Dark Side!!!!

Ow for Owtraged

Well, yes, that's just obscene.

[idb]

Who is Keane? (ooo..inadvertent double entendre *nyark nyark*!)

[James Deuce]

Which just goes to show that Iron Maiden fans don't read Q, much less vote in polls sponsored by Q.

[Mental Trousers]

Which just goes to show that Iron Maiden fans don't read Q, much less vote in polls sponsored by Q.
Indeed.

Still can't believe Oasis rate higher than Radiohead. What the hell is up with that?? Still, it took over 30 years to knock The Beatles out of the top position. Bet Oasis won't stay there 1/4 as long.

And who is Keane anyway??

[Tank]

Which just goes to show that Iron Maiden fans don't read Q, much less vote in polls sponsored by Q.

Iron Maiden fans can read?

These polls are all crap anyway - it should be done by albums sold, playtime, $ earned etc (yeah I know formulas to take into account inflation etc) - not a poll in some metro-sexual mag.

If they ran the same poll in a real blokes mag - I bet the results would be quite different (the pussy cat dolls would be in there for a start - just based on the videos).

And remember - this is the UK. The country that has brought you fantastic no 1's like Mr Blobby, Bob the Builder, and that fucken Crazy Frog. Seriously they have the generation that music forgot.

[Big Dave]

And who is Keane anyway??

It's an Irish word for Thug.

[skelstar]

If they ran the same poll in a real blokes mag
Yeah...for instance?

...and a car/bike mag doesn't really count as they wouldn't really run that sort of survey.

I bet that after cars/bikes/sports the next most popular or well read mag for men is prob Womans Day/WWeekly.

[Tank]

Yeah...for instance?

...and a car/bike mag doesn't really count as they wouldn't really run that sort of survey.

I bet that after cars/bikes/sports the next most popular or well read mag for men is prob Womans Day/WWeekly.

Loaded, FHM, tone, Maxim, playboy, ......there are 000's

[Jiminy]

There is a generational shift at play here. Given that it's thirty-odd years since the Beatles recorded anything, it's quite on the cards that a generation has been born that hasn't heard of Oasis, let alone the *Fab Four*.

Who are the *Fab Four*? :lol:


Which just goes to show that Iron Maiden fans don't read Q, much less vote in polls sponsored by Q.

+1! :Punk:

[skelstar]

Loaded, FHM, tone, Maxim, playboy, ......there are 000's
Ah, 'real blokes', not 'real men'. Got it :niceone:

[ManDownUnder]

Which just goes to show that Iron Maiden fans don't read Q, much less vote in polls sponsored by Q.

LOL damned fine point, and very well made LOL.. oh how true that is.

The definitive Q magazine poll, right up there with the Baseball World Series All teams welcome unless you need to cross water or border to the South.

Who the fuck do Q Magazine think they are?

[Maha]

Iron Maiden fans can read?


Yes we can, i just choose not too!
Weren't the Beatles a cover band for about five years in the 60's?

[idb]

Yes we can, i just choose not too!
Weren't the Beatles a cover band for about five years in the 60's?

Yeah, they sound just like Oasis.

[skelstar]

Yes we can, i just choose not too!
Weren't the Beatles a cover band for about five years in the 60's?
They were to a small extent (try 3 years). Epstein 'hired' them when they were playing their own stuff though.

[Maha]

Yeah, they sound just like Oasis.

Thought as much, that Noel dude looks like the bastard son of Ringo...:confused:

[Big Dave]

exile on mainstreet

goats head soup

[idb]

exile on mainstreet

goats head soup

The Bends is better than OK Computer.

Siamese Dream

Rock and Roll Over

[Sanx]

What truly scares is that enough people thought OK Computer was a good eough album to get third. Radiohead - when they weren't spending times stroking each other's egos and indulging in pseudo-philosophical musings - have managed to produce just two passable songs, neither of them on OK Computer. That album was nothing more than a musical version of Kim (or is it Kath?) shouting: Look at moi! Look at moi!

[Hitcher]

exile on mainstreet

goats head soup

Get yer Ya Ya's out!

[Swoop]

Just be thankful that The Spice Girls weren't in the top 20...

[Coyote]

Is it just me, or do Radiohead suck?

[James Deuce]

It is most definitely, not just you.

[Big Dave]

Get yer Ya Ya's out!


Machine Head

Dire Straits

[skelstar]

Is it just me, or do Radiohead suck?
I like the way RH sounds. Some of their stuff makes me dance (its ok, its on the inside).

[Oscar]

In 1996 one of the Idjut Gallagher Brothers procaimed that "Oasis were going to be bigger than the Beatles". Guess what the biggest selling album in the UK in 1996 was?


"No. 1's" by The Beatles.

Greatness needs perspective.


Oasis will be remembered as the Hermans Hermits of Brit Pop.

[Hitcher]

It's the end of the world as we know it
But I feel fine.

[Big Dave]

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane,
Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
Serves its own needs, dont misserve your own needs. Feed
It off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength,turn, ladder
Start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
In a fire, representing seven games, in a government
For hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
A hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
By team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
Overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
Yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
Listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
The revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
Patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
Psyched

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
Towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
Churn. Locking in, uniforming,and book burning, blood
Letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
Fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
a Tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
Offer me alternatives and I decline

(chorus)
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it's time I had some
time alone)

I feel fine

(repeat chorus)

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
Drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
Symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right

(repeat chorus)

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (it's time I had some
time alone)

(repeat chorus 2x)

Fine
It's the end of the world as we know it (it's time I had some time alone)

[idb]

Is it just me, or do Radiohead suck?

Maybe, maybe not but for the record they are one of my fave bands (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loooove yoooou Thoooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!).

[puddytat]

I fucking hate Oasis.:yawn:

[Coyote]

Maybe, maybe not but for the record they are one of my fave bands (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I loooove yoooou Thoooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!).
I think they've got to the stage that now they have a huge fan base they're trying to find the limit by spouting out shit and seeing how blindly loyal their fan base will remain.

Creep is their only good song, and several others I don't mind in the background.

[skelstar]

What was their last album that you listened to dude?

[James Deuce]

Muse do Radiohead SO much better than Radiohead do.

[skelstar]

Muse do Radiohead SO much better than Radiohead do.
Cool, which album? I'll try it out.

[James Deuce]

Muse's Radiohead album is Black Holes and Revelations.

Absolution is my favourite, but that will be too Prog Rock for you :)

[skelstar]

...but that will be too Prog Rock for you :)
You're basing your knowledge of my music tastes on one band Jim? :blink:

[idb]

Muse are mere pretenders.

Listen to The Bends...loud!

[Richard Mc F]

Harrumph.......I see with some pleasure that a list of the most collectable ($ wise) vinyl number 3 and 3 were the sex pistols.......that and the ducati bevel soundtrack rate as some favorites