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Brits: Oasis album is best ever
UK rockers' 1994 set, Definitely Maybe, topped the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolver.
Let the debate continue.
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Definitely Maybe
British music fans have long struggled with the place of Oasis among the greats, and a new survey will likely stir the pot once again.
Brits voted Oasis' debut album, the 1994 set Definitely Maybe, the greatest album of all time, topping the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolver. Oasis also garnered the fifth best album ever in the survey with (What's the Story) Morning Glory? , while Radiohead joined the Beatles with two albums in the top 10 with OK Computer and The Bends.
The survey was conducted by the book of British Hit Singles & Albums and NME.com, the Web site of the music news weekly New Music Express. More than 40,000 music fans cast votes in the survey, which was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Official UK Albums Chart. Voters were allowed to rank their top 10 choices, and 95 percent of the votes came from Britain, according to British Hit Singles and Albums editor David Roberts.
"Usually these polls are full of records that people have only just bought because they are freshest in the mind," Roberts said in a statement. "But this poll shows that the truly great albums always have longevity. Only two albums in the Top 20 were released in the last five years, so the voters have clearly thought long and hard about their decision."
One of those two albums released in the past five years might come as a surprise to music fans: Up the Bracket, the 2002 debut by The Libertines, the group formerly fronted by now-Babyshambles frontman and drug-addled paparazzi magnet Pete Doherty. That album was voted the 15th best album of all time.
Only two albums by US bands appeared in the top 20, Nirvana's Nevermind in sixth and The Strokes' Is This It in 20th. Other notable albums included U2's The Joshua Tree at 11, Michael Jackson's Thrillerat 35, the Rolling Stones'Exile on Main Street at 42, The White Stripes'Elephant at 59, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run at 84, and the Eagles'Hotel California at 100.
The top 10 albums:
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
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