NME's 100 Best Albums of All Time
 

1 Oasis Definitely Maybe 1994 Buy
2 Beatles, The Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967 Buy
3 Beatles, The Revolver 1966 Buy
4 Radiohead OK Computer 1997 Buy
5 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? 1995 Buy
6 Nirvana Nevermind 1991 Buy
7 Stone Roses, The The Stone Roses 1989 Buy
8 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon 1973 Buy
9 Smiths, The The Queen Is Dead 1986 Buy
10 Radiohead The Bends 1995 Buy
11 U2 The Joshua Tree 1987 Buy
12 Clash, The London Calling 1979 Buy
13 Beatles, The The Beatles (White Album) 1968 Buy
14 Beatles, The Abbey Road 1969 Buy
15 Libertines, The Up The Bracket 2002 Buy
16 Sex Pistols, The Never Mind The Bollocks 1977 Buy
17 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV 1971 Buy
18 Bowie, David The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust 1972 Buy
19 Queen A Night At The Opera 1975 Buy
20 Strokes, The Is This It 2001 Buy
21 Killers, The Hot Fuss 2004 Buy
22 Beach Boys, The Pet Sounds 1966 Buy
23 Buckley, Jeff Grace 1994 Buy
24 Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible 1994 Buy
25 Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell 1977 Buy
26 Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction 1987 Buy
27 Kaiser Chiefs Employment 2005 Buy
28 Beatles, The Rubber Soul 1965 Buy
29 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 1977 Buy
30 Libertines, The The Libertines 2004 Buy
31 Verve, The Urban Hymns 1997 Buy
32 Green Day American Idiot 2004 Buy
33 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head 2002 Buy
34 Blur Parklife 1994 Buy
35 Jackson, Michael Thriller 1982 Buy
36 Pink Floyd The Wall 1979 Buy
37 R.E.M. Automatic For The People 1992 Buy
38 Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand 2004 Buy
39 Oldfield, Mike Tubular Bells 1973 Buy
40 U2 Achtung Baby 1991 Buy
41 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here 1975 Buy
42 Rolling Stones, The Exile On Main Street 1972 Buy
43 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water 1970 Buy
44 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II 1969 Buy
45 Blondie Parallel Lines 1978 Buy
46 Dire Straits Brothers In Arms 1985 Buy
47 Dylan, Bob Blood On The Tracks 1975 Buy
48 Bowie, David Hunky Dory 1971 Buy
49 Coldplay X&Y 2005 Buy
50 Who, The Who's Next 1971 Buy
51 Keane Hopes And Fears 2004 Buy
52 Coldplay Parachutes 2000 Buy
53 Abba Arrival 1976 Buy
54 Pulp Different Class 1995 Buy
55 Velvet Underground, The The Velvet Underground + Nico 1967 Buy
56 Love Forever Changes 1967 Buy
57 Gaye, Marvin What's Going On 1971 Buy
58 Rolling Stones, The Let It Bleed 1969 Buy
59 White Stripes, The Elephant 2003 Buy
60 Pixies, The Doolittle 1989 Buy
61 Muse Absolution 2003 Buy
62 John, Elton Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 1973 Buy
63 Queen Sheer Heart Attack 1974 Buy
64 Twain, Shania Come On Over 1997 Buy
65 Prince Sign O' The Times 1987 Buy
66 Pearl Jam Ten 1991 Buy
67 Kasabian Kasabian 2004 Buy
68 Green Day Dookie 1994 Buy
69 Muse Origin Of Symmetry 2001 Buy
70 Bush, Kate Hounds Of Love 1985 Buy
71 Dylan, Bob Blonde On Blonde 1966 Buy
72 Jam, The All Mod Cons 1978 Buy
73 Mitchell, Joni Blue 1971 Buy
74 White Stripes, The White Blood Cells 2001 Buy
75 Suede Dog Man Star 1994 Buy
76 Metallica Metallica (Black Album) 1991 Buy
77 Human League Dare! 1981 Buy
78 Joy Division Closer 1980 Buy
79 Nirvana In Utero 1993 Buy
80 AC/DC Back In Black 1980 Buy
81 Arcade Fire Funeral 2004 Buy
82 Razorlight Up All Night 2004 Buy
83 Madonna Ray Of Light 1998 Buy
84 Springsteen, Bruce Born To Run 1975 Buy
85 Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti 1975 Buy
86 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006
87 Queen A Day At The Races 1976
88 ABC The Lexicon Of Love 1982 Bu
89 Spice Girls Spice 1996 Buy
90 Depeche Mode Violator 1990 Buy
91 Snow Patrol Final Straw 2004 Buy
92 T. Rex Electric Warrior 1971 Buy
93 Morissette, Alanis Jagged Little Pill 1995
94 Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 1979
95 Radiohead Kid A 2000
96 Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.) Out Of The Blue 1977
97 Smiths, The The Smiths 1984
98 Hendrix, Jimi Electric Ladyland 1968
99 Rage Against the Machine Rage Against The Machine 1992
100 Eagles, The Hotel California 1976

http://www.timepieces.nl/Top100%27s/2006NME.html

wow the UK is overly infatuated with Oasis. Over here we know them as the third-rate Beatles parody band that they are. :2 cents:

Excuse me? :321GFY

Different tastes over the pond i guess. :thumbsup

Good list, I agree with most of the choices.

I love a LOT of British rock, Muse, Radiohead, Floyd, Portishead, list goes on forever. Oasis is just shyte. Yuck.

that dude's voice makes me want to strangle small children. I actually never understood the Beatles comparison at all. McCartney & Lennon could actually both SING.

Liam can sing but he just has a rough voice, Noel is a better singer though, mabye it's because you are american and the accent sounds weird to you? Either way, they are musical genious.

Muse are very good by the way, never understood why they are not big in Amerca.

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Gimme a fucking break


I didn't even need to read the rest of the list, what a crock of fucking shit

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I've noticed a pattern, the only people knocking Oasis are Americans....it's cool if you don't agree with the list, i didn't make it but personally i would have Sgt pepper #1, Stone roses #2 and Deffinitely mabye at #3.

Limey, I assure you that hiphop is the worst music in existence if that's what you are insinuating.

As much as the NME has glorified to overwhelming levels some of my favourite bands and it's my source of indie knowledge I do know it should not be taken that seriously ;)

Pulp FTW!

Some (ALOT) of the best bands in history are from somewhere in the UK, it's not what you think. But when a bunch of little cocksuckers think that they can write better songs than the beatles, then all the retards read the interview in spin and feel inclined to believe them because 99.9% of people know fuck-all about music...dude fucking come on.

The Beatles are their idols, i doubt they ever said they are better than the Beatles, once they said bigger, but not better and really they were bigger, they broke the beatles record sales.

Have you listened to Deffinitely Mabye from start to finish? Be honest.

No fucking way, shit's too gay for me but I know exactly what it sounds like...have you ever listened to a Chuck Berry record?

According to that list, the spice girls are better than Elvis, Little Richard, The Ramones, Chuck Berry and Iggy Pop. Oh my.

two Oasis albums in the top 5 is too much for me

Oasis being #1 isn't surprising considering it's a UK list.

What is surprising is Definitely Maybe #1 instead of Morning Glory, which just about every Oasis fan will tell you was their best album.


Oasis never really got their recognition in the US, but for a period in the 90's they were the biggest band in the world.

IMO Oasis can't hold a candle to other great UK bands like Pink Floyd, The Clash, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, even The Cure is a much better band than Oasis.

:1orglaugh yea I missed that - hahaha the spice girls. Brits are weird, some of the best bands in the history of music are British, and yet they include Oasis & the Spice Girls as if their music means ANYTHING. Staying within the confines of British music, Pink Floyd's Dark Side should be #1 (one of the most brilliant albums of all time), Beatles Revolver #2, Led Zeppelin IV #3, Black Sabbath Paranoid #4, Radiohead The Bends #5, Pink Floyd The Wall or Wish You Were Here #6

That's just fucking obvious. The influence those bands had on every band that came after them is enormous. Putting Oasis on that list at all, let alone #1 is a fucking joke.

How a nation that produced Zeppelin, The Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Sabbath even blinks twice at a 3rd rate bands like Oasis or Coldplay is beyond me.

We have a winner.

Just like when American sportscasters show the top plays of the year (or all-time), isn't heavily slanted towards American sports, reviewers rate top movies and so on. There obviously is a bias and if the list was from an American source, you can bet there would be differences.

Ha ha no UK bias in that list at all...

The best music of all time is almost always the soundtrack to the happiest times in one's life. From there, the best band of all time was their favorite band during that period.

I think it's safe to say that this magazine's target demographic is people aged 25-35.

The really modern sounds aren't listed until around #30, yet they will do this list again in 10 years (and have a new readership demographic) and that Arctic Monkeys album at #86 will be moved into the top 10.

Ahh, I see.. this is just a UK reader based survey... no one in their right mind would have the list so damn full of UK shit.

Considering that most of the greatest bands of all time are from UK my list would definitely have almost ALL UK shit at the top, co. But it would still look much different from this one.

I remember this list about 7 or 8 years ago had 3 radiohead albums in the top 5. It's not a bad list though.

I'd like to see

Seal - Seal
Paul Simon - Graceland

Added though, and a couple of others squeezed in.

Great list. I don't agree with Oasis x 2 in the top 5 either. Maybe both in the top 20.

Remove *.U2, *.coldplay.

Coldplay are the most overrated band ever. wishy washy cack.

Doggystyle should be in also, even a UK list should have some Snoop in.

Wow a UK list of 100 greatest albums and Elvis Costello gets the snub????????????????????

that alone makes this list worthless

Where the hell is Smashing Pumpkins -- Siamese dream? That album is a masterpiece, and they've got the fucking Kaiser Chiefs on the list.

Foul.

Oasis # 1 ? ... W T F

Morning glory was good but it was not the masterpeice that Definitely mabye is, anyone will tell you that.

I don't agree with the list either, it would be absolutley impossible to make a perfect top 100 list but Oasis definitely (no pun intended) do not get enough credit in America. The other guy that was bashing them admitted he didn't even listen to the album lol

It's obviously a UK list but still a good list.

Just re-arrange it a bit and you have a US list. :)

http://therawfeed.com/pix/spice_girls.jpg


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Oasis? lol... That's one fucked up list :1orglaugh

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Some 40,000 music fans were asked to name their favourite work in a survey by the book of British Hit Singles and Albums and NME.com. The vote was announced in last year's edition of British Hit Singles & Albums, said editor David Roberts. Anyone could vote for as many as 10 albums, in rank order, and probably 95 percent of the 40,000 votes came from Britain, he said.

The list was basically done by the public

Nice list!!

Agreed :thumbsup

Speak for yourself man. Not everyone loves Garth brooks

Please do tell me who should be number 1?

Platinum Bryan may be a rangers fan but he knows his music :thumbsup

Ah, so that even further explains it.

Many years ago our own MuchMusic asked viewers to name the top videos of all-time. New Kids on the Block were still popular (so yes this was a *few* years ago!) and the result was something like 3 of the top 5 were from them. Credibility of list = zero.

Clearly the majority of voters were, as Matt suggested, in their 20s/early 30s, so there is an obvious bias towards newer bands ... but overall less so than I'd assume - there are plenty of true classics in there, just not as high as expected.

Great list there dude... those are awesome bands. I love the Brits as well and why wouldn't Pink Floyds Dark Side or Radioheads OK Computer easily top off any Oasis album

Uh, ok...so just because someone doesn't like watered down, overly safe faggot radio pop that makes them a redneck?

Not Oasis.

Great list!! I agree with over half!!! Good job! ;)

UK music is shit i can admit that and im from the uk, cant say ive ever listened to a full beatles song its trash, same goes for the who, u2, zeppelin and all that other shit it all sounds the same. One or two oasis songs are ok i could listen to wonderwall without a problem. Dance/Drum & Bass beats all those shitty bands. But even kayne west, lil wayne etc are better than the beatles.

some shockers here for sure. Oasis? how can they be #1?? even if you really like them they are not getting the #1 slot please. The Beatles have to have that and the White Album should be higher. Radiohead could be higher as well. Everything that bad puts out is amazing

if that list was made in any part of the world it wouldn't be massively different. the uk has and continues to produce some of the biggest and best bands from the 60's to present day, in most genres with the exception of country, rap etc.