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I CAN'T HANDLE MY HOT POLL
Is this any way to celebrate fifty years of the album chart? The Guinness Book of British Hit Everythings and NME.com came together to decide what is the greatest album of all time, ever, and this was the result:
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
Let's not even think about the depressing top end of the chart; let us console ourselves instead with this thought: There are enough people who, when they put their heads together, will insist that since Edison's day, there have only been nineteen albums released which outclass and outrank Is This It by The Strokes.
I think that really sums up the electorate quite comfortably, and allows us to lose no sleep over the claims that Oasis made the greatest record in the world.
3 comments:
Roughly what you'd expect from largely NME readers though, surely?
The breadth of variety there is stunning: from white boy guitar pop rock through to er...white boy heavy rock?
No blacks, no women. Are we meant to accept this is really a cross culture thing or is it really the Eton rowing team that voted?
'Ugh, boys, old stinker Harris voted for something called a 'Carole King'. What a poofter! Let's get him lads! O-as-sis!'
Aren't the people who compile these sort of charts legally bound to have 'Pet Sounds' at number 2?
At least Oasis's mid-pace-rock-by-numbers kept the ludicrously over-produced "Sgt.Pepper's" off the top spot. Nice to know Oasis have some purpose at last.
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