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Keane in 8th best British album, ever shocker!!!

Jambo31 [Edit] [Delete] 64 replies 09:06, 18 February '08

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7249473.stm

BEST BRITISH ALBUMS
1. Oasis, Definitely Maybe
2. Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
3. Radiohead, OK Computer
4. Beatles, Revolver
5. Stone Roses, Stone Roses
6. Beatles, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Clash, London Calling
8. Keane, Under the Iron Sea
9. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
10. Verve, Urban Hymns
Source: Q/HMV survey

This poll looks pretty predictable at first glance until you notice that Keane are placed rather highly with their latest album.
Now, I don't hate Keane as much as others on these boards, but how on Earth did that happen??!

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  • i just had a big rant about this

    at work.
    no-one was interested, but i had fun.
    although to be fair, that was voted for by Q readers...

    worrier1 | 18 Feb '08, 09:15 | X
    • Be Here Now and Don't Believe The Truth

      were both in the Top 25 as well!

      domgourlay @worrier1 | 18 Feb '08, 09:19 | X
      • bloody hell

        I expect some guy posted news about the poll on the Oasis forums rallying all the fans to vote away for every album.
        Same for Keane, I guess.

        Jambo31 @domgourlay | 18 Feb '08, 09:20 | X
        • Bizarrely

          Be Here Now (22) is better than Unknown Pleasures, anything by The Beatles bar Abbey Road and The Holy Bible. Glad I've never read Q...

          domgourlay @Jambo31 | 18 Feb '08, 09:26 | X
  • This is so, SO off the mark

    medulla | 18 Feb '08, 09:18 | X
  • That list is..... depressing

    Mainly just the top 2.

    yes_ | 18 Feb '08, 09:20 | X
    • !!!!!!

      wHAT!!!!!

      mrstu @yes_ | 18 Feb '08, 09:20 | X
      • that's Q magazine

        for you.
        they might as well have put newton falkner in the top 5 as well just to really push the boat out...

        worrier1 @mrstu | 18 Feb '08, 09:21 | X
      • ...

        He's saying that because Oasis are one of the worst bands this country have ever produced.

        Stealthy @mrstu | 18 Feb '08, 14:14 | X
  • Exactly what I'd expect from Q

    aside from the lack of a Smiths album

    DanielKelly | 18 Feb '08, 09:21 | X
    • The Queen Is Dead is in there

      somewhere but not as high up as Don't Believe The Truth (14) or 2 Keane (11 & 8 respectively) albums!

      domgourlay @DanielKelly | 18 Feb '08, 09:28 | X
  • wow.

    What an amazingly diverse and exciting list. I must go and buy all these albums, right now.

    shucks | 18 Feb '08, 09:23 | X
    • Amazon wishlist?

      DanielKelly @shucks | 18 Feb '08, 09:29 | X
      • totes.

        shucks @DanielKelly | 18 Feb '08, 09:35 | X
  • Here's the full list...

    1 Definitely Maybe - Oasis

    2 (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis

    3 OK Computer - Radiohead

    4 Revolver - The Beatles

    5 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

    6 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

    7 London Calling -The Clash

    8 Under The Iron Sea - Keane

    9 Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

    10 Urban Hymns - The Verve

    11 The Bends - Radiohead

    12 Abbey Road - The Beatles

    13 Hopes And Fears - Keane

    14 Don't Believe The Truth - Oasis

    15 Violator - Depeche Mode

    16 The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

    17 A Night At The Opera - Queen

    18 Whatever People Say I Am - Arctic Monkeys

    19 The White Album - The Beatles

    20 Never Mind The B******s - Sex Pistols

    21 Rubber Soul - The Beatles

    22 Be Here Now - Oasis

    23 Absolution - Muse

    24 Rio - Duran Duran

    25 Parklife - Blur

    26 A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay

    27 The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers

    28 Origin Of Symmetry - Muse

    29 IV - Led Zeppelin

    30 The Wall - Pink Floyd

    31 Up The Bracket - The Libertines

    32 X&Y - Coldplay

    33 Who's Next - The Who

    34 Black Holes And Revelations - Muse

    35 Back To Black - AmyWinehouse

    36 Songs Of Faith And Devotion - Depeche Mode

    37 Word Gets Around - Stereophonics

    38 The Fat Of The Land - Prodigy

    39 Different Class - Pulp

    40 In Rainbows - Radiohead

    41 Hunky Dory - David Bowie

    42 Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys

    43 Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers

    44 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

    45 Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys

    46 Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

    47 Parachutes - Coldplay

    48 Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones

    49 Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division

    50 Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

    Oh dear...

    JGJug | 18 Feb '08, 09:28 | X
    • ^ T In The Park line-up 2008

      medulla @JGJug | 18 Feb '08, 09:35 | X
    • 24 Rio - Duran Duran

      Wut?

      simon_t @JGJug | 18 Feb '08, 09:39 | X
    • Be! Here! Now!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????

      Jesus.......

      hello_dave @JGJug | 18 Feb '08, 09:57 | X
      • Proof,

        if any was needed, that DiS' over-hating of that record is limited to a few, misguided individuals.

        wrightylew @hello_dave | 18 Feb '08, 13:54 | X
    • Stereophonics at 37.

      Due to that, and many others on the list, I just died a little inside.

      Anyway, don't Q do this all the time? I swear it hasn't been long since one of these shiter than shite 'best ever' lists from them.

      jakam0 @JGJug | 18 Feb '08, 10:06 | X
    • three Muse albums in the top 50

      oh my fucking God

      noise_annoys @JGJug | 18 Feb '08, 11:32 | X
  • I'm sorry

    I know this is like pointing out a disabled kid has a bad haircut, but seriously: Verve, Urban Hymns? Come ON. It shouldn't even be anywhere near the top 40, without Storm in Heaven and Northern Soul at least 50 places above.

    Jesus. People who make lists as bad as this should be shot.

    berksy | 18 Feb '08, 09:30 | X
  • 'in rainbows' makes a best albums ever list for the first time

    certainly won't be the last.

    Jambo31 @Jack_El_Biscuit | 18 Feb '08, 09:36 | X
  • haha

    and come next week, no-one will remember this list or care much about it either.
    normal service resumes in 6 days...

    worrier1 @Jack_El_Biscuit | 18 Feb '08, 09:37 | X
  • Must... resist... urge... to... pick... holes... in...

    list that doesn't even deserve the slightest bit of attention from me or anyone or anything else!

    MelesMeles | 18 Feb '08, 09:57 | X
    • YES! BEST ALBUM EVER

      37 Word Gets Around - Stereophonics

      Old_Man_Burner @MelesMeles | 18 Feb '08, 10:13 | X
    • The most...

      irrelevant list ever compiled

      It could have been funny if marketed as:

      'The CD collection of your average, boring, middle class, office working, Starbucks coffee drinking Q reader'

      ...but the fact that it's serious is horrible

      Matty_PARIS @MelesMeles | 18 Feb '08, 10:15 | X
      • why 'middle class'?

        Yuck.

        wrightylew @Matty_PARIS | 18 Feb '08, 14:12 | X
  • I get the feeling...

    ..that these lists are based on an e-mailed spreadsheet from the BPI to Q magazine details which ones are no longer selling that well...

    EJamesB | 18 Feb '08, 10:17 | X
    • I get the feeling

      That they forgot 'The Feeling'

      Old_Man_Burner @EJamesB | 18 Feb '08, 10:21 | X
      • ^ Ha

        Brilliant!

        TSRlovesyou @Old_Man_Burner | 18 Feb '08, 11:40 | X
  • -=sigh=-

    pieces_of_reece | 18 Feb '08, 11:37 | X
    • that album =

      massive WTF

      stwerewolf @pieces_of_reece | 18 Feb '08, 11:39 | X
      • * list

        oops

        stwerewolf @stwerewolf | 18 Feb '08, 11:40 | X
  • Irrelevant

    "Two releases by rock group Oasis have been voted the best British albums ever recorded in a poll of 11,000 people."

    That'll be 11,000 people with very small record collections and very short memories.

    H-Stein | 18 Feb '08, 13:07 | X
    • 11,000 people is a pretty insignificant number

      to compile a list of the best british albums, EVAR.

      still a manageable amount of people to maim and murder though.

      not a court in the land, yadda-yadda...

      eightyseven @H-Stein | 18 Feb '08, 13:11 | X
    • complete

      piss.

      Jo_Frosty | 18 Feb '08, 13:17 | X
    • Almost the entire list is post 1990

      Everybody over 25 needs to wake up and realise how lucky we've all been.

      quakerstoy | 18 Feb '08, 13:36 | X
    • I know they're usually bad lists

      but this one is astonishing. Under The Iron Sea by Keane the eighth best British album of all time.

      supersonic | 18 Feb '08, 13:36 | X
    • I've never really understood

      why magazines etc. keep doing lists of best British albums. What does it really matter? I suppose it's just to fill the time inbetween best albums ever lists.

      For the record Paranoid, Entertainment! and Metal Box should be in that list, among with loads of others I've forgotten probbably.

      Corpsey | 18 Feb '08, 13:39 | X
      • WHERE

        is Silent Alarm?
        useless list.

        TRSTN @Corpsey | 18 Feb '08, 13:45 | X
    • this is ridiculous.

      i second most of the consternation alreay expressed. why are there three coldplay albums? only two are really that good, let alone good enough for this list. and three muse albums too, again, ridic.

      the fat of the land should be higher too.

      Vian | 18 Feb '08, 13:42 | X
    • Not a bad top ten, considering the amount of cunthole journalists there are.

      1. Oasis, Definitely Maybe - 9/10
      2. Oasis, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? - 9/10
      3. Radiohead, OK Computer - 9/10
      4. Beatles, Revolver - 10/10
      5. Stone Roses, Stone Roses - 9/10
      6. Beatles, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 10/10
      7. Clash, London Calling - 1/10
      8. Keane, Under the Iron Sea - ???
      9. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon - ???
      10. Verve, Urban Hymns - 7/10

      Could be worse. Its a good job Unknown Pleasures isn't in there as it usually is, because its actually not that good.

      wrightylew | 18 Feb '08, 13:49 | X
      • could be worse how?

        Jo_Frosty @wrightylew | 18 Feb '08, 13:55 | X
        • Stereophonics 36 places higher?

          This is too stupid to get worked up about. It's like getting annoyed about NME hyping Joe Lean or the brits for having a very mainstream nominations list. Just accept that people are different and often have rubbish music tastes. However Keane did make me laugh.

          black_rooster @Jo_Frosty | 18 Feb '08, 14:01 | X
        • Remember this is wrightylew you're talking to

          simon_t @Jo_Frosty | 18 Feb '08, 14:02 | X
          • true..

            Jo_Frosty @simon_t | 18 Feb '08, 14:08 | X
        • Sex Pistols could've been in there.

          Manics, Blur, Smiths, Pulp... Those types of average/crap bands tend to make these lists. As do Arctic Monkeys, for some odd reason.

          DiS' users seem to be under the impression that 'if you actually like music, you don't like Oasis'. This is far from the truth.

          The fact they recognise the two best Beatles albums is good. It shows that despite them not being in fashion any more, people still have their heads screwed on.

          The reason they get beat by the Roses and Oasis is probably down to the fact most 20-30 year old music fans (ie. the people who voted) were into them in their 'prime'. So to be honest, it seems like a fair list.

          I haven't heard that Keane record, nor have I listened to DSOTM, but I'll definitely be willing to give it (Keane) a listen if I get the chance, now I've seen it so high up there.

          wrightylew @Jo_Frosty | 18 Feb '08, 14:09 | X
          • ...

            Agreed. It should be "If you actually understand music and aren't some steakhead troglodyte whose head would explode at the merest hint of a time change - you don't like Oasis".

            Stealthy @wrightylew | 18 Feb '08, 14:23 | X
            • ^This x100000

              hello_dave @Stealthy | 18 Feb '08, 15:00 | X
          • Sex pistols is at 20

            Not worth paying this list any attention, these are "music for the masses" albums

            Gringo @wrightylew | 18 Feb '08, 14:30 | X
    • these kinds of things

      are just moronic. I was going to say irrelevant, but I think that gives Q magazine too much credit. They're made up every three months from the same artists to make middle aged grey faced accountants feel better about their record collection and to wind everyone else up.

      Parsefone | 18 Feb '08, 14:27 | X
      • Fucking Oasis 1st and 2nd

        When are people gonna realise that they weren't really that great. What about Low by David Bowie? Surrender by Chemical Brothers?

        rowley @Parsefone | 18 Feb '08, 14:40 | X
    • spot on that

      agreed

      84joe | 18 Feb '08, 14:38 | X
    • no Cure in the TOP50 !

      Outrageous !

      lyle | 18 Feb '08, 14:47 | X
      • I think

        that has got to be one of the most uninspiring lists ever produced

        Annoying_person @lyle | 18 Feb '08, 15:01 | X
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