Oasis' Definitely Maybe has been voted the Greatest Album of All Time, beating Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
17 of the Top 20 Greatest Albums of All Time are by British acts, and were voted for by fans worldwide.
The Times June 02, 2006
Definitely the greatest album (maybe)
By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent
Oasis' 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe.
IT LAUNCHED the Britpop phenomenon and made Liam Gallagher the rock’n’roll star of his dreams. But is Definitely Maybe by Oasis really the Greatest Album of All Time?
The 40,000 music fans from around the world polled for the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums survey believe that it is the pinnacle of rock achievement. Oasis’s 1994 debut, with hits such as Live Forever and Supersonic, pushed the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band into second place by 37 votes.
Definitely Maybe’s anthems proved more popular than Radiohead’s experimental OK Computer, voted the Greatest Album in a poll of Q magazine readers last year.
Definitely Maybe, made for only £85,000, exploded on to a stagnant British music scene, making its debut at No 1 and selling seven million copies. Noel Gallagher’s songs were heavily indebted to the Beatles, T-Rex and Slade. Its defining lyric, “Tonight I’m a rock’n’roll star”, was adopted by thousands of fans at Oasis gigs.
The album introduced the Manchester band to the US, selling a million copies. Though the follow-up, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? sold 15 million copies, Noel Gallagher admitted that later releases failed to match Definitely Maybe. “I pretty much summed up everything I wanted to say in Rock’n’Roll Star, Live Forever and Cigarettes and Alcohol,” he said. “After that I’m repeating myself.”
The poll, marking 50 years of the UK album chart, has 17 of the Top 20 albums by British acts. Readers of Rolling Stone magazine, America’s music bible, put Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at No 1 in its Top 500. Radiohead’s OK Computer topped Q magazine’s Best Album polls in 1995 and last year, and Channel 4’s Best 100 last year. But it missed the Top 100 in Rolling Stone. The music monthly Mojo put the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds at the top of its 100 Best Albums in 1995.
The Times poll-of-polls concludes that the greatest album is two parts Radiohead, a large dollop of Mancunian attitude and a dash of Lennon and McCartney’s melodic genius.
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17 of the Top 20 Greatest Albums of All Time are by British acts, and were voted for by fans worldwide.
The Times June 02, 2006
Definitely the greatest album (maybe)
By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent
Oasis' 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe.
IT LAUNCHED the Britpop phenomenon and made Liam Gallagher the rock’n’roll star of his dreams. But is Definitely Maybe by Oasis really the Greatest Album of All Time?
The 40,000 music fans from around the world polled for the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums survey believe that it is the pinnacle of rock achievement. Oasis’s 1994 debut, with hits such as Live Forever and Supersonic, pushed the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band into second place by 37 votes.
Definitely Maybe’s anthems proved more popular than Radiohead’s experimental OK Computer, voted the Greatest Album in a poll of Q magazine readers last year.
Definitely Maybe, made for only £85,000, exploded on to a stagnant British music scene, making its debut at No 1 and selling seven million copies. Noel Gallagher’s songs were heavily indebted to the Beatles, T-Rex and Slade. Its defining lyric, “Tonight I’m a rock’n’roll star”, was adopted by thousands of fans at Oasis gigs.
The album introduced the Manchester band to the US, selling a million copies. Though the follow-up, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? sold 15 million copies, Noel Gallagher admitted that later releases failed to match Definitely Maybe. “I pretty much summed up everything I wanted to say in Rock’n’Roll Star, Live Forever and Cigarettes and Alcohol,” he said. “After that I’m repeating myself.”
The poll, marking 50 years of the UK album chart, has 17 of the Top 20 albums by British acts. Readers of Rolling Stone magazine, America’s music bible, put Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at No 1 in its Top 500. Radiohead’s OK Computer topped Q magazine’s Best Album polls in 1995 and last year, and Channel 4’s Best 100 last year. But it missed the Top 100 in Rolling Stone. The music monthly Mojo put the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds at the top of its 100 Best Albums in 1995.
The Times poll-of-polls concludes that the greatest album is two parts Radiohead, a large dollop of Mancunian attitude and a dash of Lennon and McCartney’s melodic genius.
thetimesonline.co.uk