From Australian Broadcasting Company website:

Oasis's debut, Definitely Maybe, has edged out the Beatles to be named the Greatest Album of All Time.

Votes came in from around the world in the poll of more than 40,000 fans that celebrates 50 years of the Official UK Albums Chart.

Nonetheless, it has a distinctly British feel, with the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band coming second and their Revolver third, followed by Radiohead with OK Computer and another (yes, another) Oasis album in fifth, (What's the Story) Morning Glory.

Whoever said jimming off another band wouldn't make you more popular?

Only two US bands got into the top 20 - Nirvana at number six and The Strokes' Is This It came 20th.

Here's the top 10 for your discretion:


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

egregious.

I have given this album a fair chance and I just don't see what the hell is so great about it. I only like about two songs on it.

Everyone listen to "Cigarettes and Alcohol" and "Bang a Gong" by T-Rex back to back, by the way.

Let me just clarify that this is not a survey of Australians, but from an NME reader poll. Explains the shitenesss and obviousness of it.

Although, I have no doubt that an equivalent poll of readers of, well I guess Australian Rolling Stone would be the only option, would be just as crap, only probably filled with a whole lot more local and American punk-pop crap and bland A&R like Pete Murray and Bernad Fanning (shudder)

I'd say everyone of those albums in the Top Ten was at least 'good' and in most cases much better than that so I fail to see why it's a 'shite' or 'crap' list. In fact if you took all the trendy indie release from this year everyone of them probably has its roots in (if not directly ripped off from) at least one album/artist on the list.

Your other adjective, obviousness, is more revealing. There is actually nothing wrong with 'obviousness'. What you object to is being mistaken for (oh no!) someone with mainstream tastes and therefore dismiss the relative merits of the albums on the list in order fuel your own sense of being 'different'.

Give us a break. So many people on this supposedly knowledgeable music website don't even listen to music. All opinions are pre-judged in the head according to whatever little niche you'd like to see yourself in.

Oh, and we discussed this list in detail a couple of days ago.

Though I don't agree with the top ranking, anyone who would have picked a Beatles album as the top of all things back around '65 or so would have been roundly scorned by hipsters and critics alike.

Time is what tests these rekkids. DM is pretty good stuff.

All 10 of those albums are good, actually.

sure the records are fine

but the list is pretty fucking boring

Yep.

There's no Disco Tex And The Sex-O-Lettes

If that is what the British desire, god save the queen.

It is such a weird list... to me, in that it makes a perfect sense, is logical... and at the same time totally off the wall. It is the whitest music possible.

where the fuck is art brut? ehh...i suppose it was no. 11.

oh yeah, i am not an nme reader, and i love definitely maybe. it's not about cigarettes & alcohol (although it's a good song), but slideaway, digsy's diner, and married with children are the best tracks in my opinion.