Definitely Maybe is the best album ever

[Flashman]

Oh for sure. Most of the albums on the '88 list are better than DM. And most of the other 70 I didn't C&P..

All these lists do is expose short-term trends - in this case, who reads the NME these days.

Or should that be - who reads the NME these days?

I dunno, good question.


The NME in that period was a proper indie shoe-gazing mag (probably still is I ain't read it for years but I'd guess there'd be a fair bit of Hip-Hop, Grime et al in there) and the list reflects that. In the old days I think it reflected the times more so you'd get Motown and such. The latest list is still white indie orientated though so I suppose it hasn't moved on that much.

 

[Cloo]

It was fun and energetic and jolly at the time, but it's derivative and it does pall, so it's hardly an all-time classic in my books.

 

[corporate whore]

It was fun and energetic and jolly at the time, but it's derivative and it does pall, so it's hardly an all-time classic in my books.

The NME?

 

[stavros]

It's the best Oasis album I've heard because it didn't sound like they were just retreading old ground.It's OK.

Interesting that you have to go down to number 35 until you get to an album which isn't made by guitar-orientated white men, and 45 for a woman feature. Nice to see the Spice Girls feature, but no hip-hop? NWA? Beasties? The Wu?

 

[Groucho]

The Clash London Calling is the best album ever. No need for polls.

By complete contrast the best single ever is Rock Lobster by the B52s.

Ok.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

It's an enormously loaded question since your voting for one or a few "albums," which let's face it, is a weird musical concept, something that the music industry tries hard to market. How many really good albums are there?

if you asked people the music they loved you'd come up with all sorts of strange stuff and rightly so.

Album lists are for saddo journos & do nothing for the true appreciation of music.

 

[Bajie]

Dont those people who come up with these concepts feel some twinge of idiocy talking about something being the "greatest of all time"? it is so stupid, for a start it is so very georgraphicallys specific (UK/USA) secondly only takes into account the fashion of the time, for which ever mellon's are contributing to it that is.

 

[siarc]

that is the worst such list i have ever seen

the next time q do a poll then they can probably compete in terms of myopic lumpen rockist inanity

cunts

 

[rorymac]

 

[wake_up]

Im not sure its the best, but its well fucking up there for me!!!!

is provokation yr okygen cos i'm drowning in this shit?
the very idea that ab oasis albulm etc


Just to put ye mortals out a yer missery. here is the coundown of the 10 greatest a;bulms of all time (altough prob not\)

10. BADMOTERFINGER (SOUNDGERDEN)
9. TOOL (LATERALUS)
8. BRIGHT FLIGHT (SILVER JEWS)
7. GREEN MIND (DINOSAUR JR)
6. SURA ROSA (PIXIES)
5. SMASH IT UP ( OK SO ITS A BEST OF BY THE DAMNED)
4. DIRT (ALICE IN CHAINS)
3. LONDON CALLING (THE EAGLES...JUST KIDDING!)
2. THE MAN COMES AROUND (JOHN CASH)
1. THE HOLY BIBLE (MANICS)

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Slate me if you like......

Songs from the big chair....tears for fears

Love it..........

 

[xenon]

Who's Next by the Who.
Best album.

End of.

Although Definitely Maybe is certainly Oasis's best album.

 

[hipipol]

Twas a decentish album

by a decentish pub band, who luckily managed to market themselves well.
The fact that they behaved like a bunch of stupid spoiled 12 year old who've knicked their dads Scotch (yer classic Stones/Sex Pistols pose), but unlike that template actually venerated the past - witness the snivelling veneration of Lennon, to the point I thought the twat would claim he was in "beyond the grave telepahic contact" - well the Saatchi boys couldn't have bettered that.
Listened to now, surely even those of you who were suckered into thinking the Emperor had any kit on MUST see what UTTER SHITE it is? (an for that matter always was!!!)
Personally I wouldn't swap my copy of Pinky and Pekys' Beat Party for the rights to the entire Oasis songbook
Over-rated, big mouthed small brain twats pretending to be talented, hard and clever.
They were none of them

 

[aylee]

Even though the Gallagher brothers are a pair of half-trained monkeys, "Definitely Maybe" was a good album. I'm not sure it would even get into my all-time top 50, however.

The thing that really shocked me about that survey was the placing of TWO albums by THE LIBERTINES in the top 20! Thus showing that NME readers are as prone as anyone else into being hoodwinked that Pete Doherty is worth even the third one off the wrist of the day.

 

[kakuma]

definetely maybe was good when it came out, it was the best pop music on top of the pops etc.

the beauty of oasis is you can sing them when you're drunk and sound a bit like liam gallagher. noel is a decent songwriter, but the reason they did so well is cos liam is an arrogant cunt who can't sing

it's a bit depressing that the youth of today rate oasis tho...

 

[thefuse]

that was the first album i produced proffesionally

a lot of people called it a surprise success, but we all knew something special was happening in the studio

do you remember doing those lines off patsy's ass?
ah yes, them were the days

 

[brahaminda]

Whats more depressing is the fact that Sgt Peppers is still no.2....


Hasn't anyone figured out that that album is unlistenable shit yet?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Thus showing that NME readers are as prone as anyone else into being hoodwinked that Pete Doherty is worth even the third one off the wrist of the day.

More prone than anyone else, I'd have thought.

 

[audiotech]

The one after that was complete shite and the band admit it was (well Noel Gallagher does at least).

A concrete example of mixing coke with music - thinking it's great at the time until the buzz wears off - when in actual fact it turns out to be a load of cack.

On some of the tracks Gallagher stated that he put on multiple guitar overdubs (I believe the figure he quoted was 17 ffs) and when you listen to it it's just a wall of noise that makes your ears bleed.

 

[kakuma]

do you remember doing those lines off patsy's ass?
ah yes, them were the days

whatever happened to patsy palmer anyways?

 

[thefuse]

whatever happened to patsy palmer anyways?

we're happily married with three sprogs. thanks for asking

 

[kakuma]

does she still do that thing with her tongue?

 

[thefuse]

does she still do that thing with her tongue?

why dont you come round later? we're having a swingers party

 

[kakuma]

why dont you come round later? we're having a swingers party

 

[thefuse]

i'm the one with the falsies

 

[kakuma]

i'm the one with the falsies

in the penguin suit?

 

[thefuse]

no, i'm second from the left. bring some rubbers.

 

[JE:5]

Definitely maybe not.

 

[Dubversion]

Definitely Maybe is a vile piece of retro shit that set music back a decade.

 

[Orang Utan]

I wouldn't go that far - I've never heard it though.
I've heard a few Oasis singles and they are indeed retro shite but how does that set back music a decade?