Worst/most cringeworthy lyric on Oasis' 'Be Here Now'

Q Readers All Time Top 100 Albums

February 1998 Issue

1. OK Computer ~ Radiohead LOLOL
2. Revolver ~The Beatles
3. Automatic For The People ~ R.E.M.
4. The Stone Roses ~ The Stone Roses
5. Nevermind ~ Nirvana
6. The Bends ~ Radiohead
7. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ~ The Beatles
8. (What's The Story) Morning Glory? ~ Oasis
9. The Fat Of The Land ~ The Prodigy
10. Dark Side OF The Moon ~ Pink Floyd
11. Everything Must Go ~ Manic Street Preachers
12. Abbey Road ~ The Beatles
13. Be Here Now ~ Oasis
14. Definitely Maybe ~ Oasis
15. Achtung Baby ~ U2
16. Dummy ~ Portishead
17. The Beatles (The White Album) ~The Beatles
18. Urban Hymns ~ The Verve
19. Jagged Little Pill ~ Alanis Morissette
20. Parklife ~ Blur
21. The Queen Is Dead ~The Smiths
22. Electric Ladyland ~ The Jimi Hendrix Experience
23. The Joshua Tree ~ U2
24. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars ~ David Bowie
25. Rumours~ Fleetwood Mac
26. Led Zeppelin IV
27. Screamadelica ~ Primal Scream
28. Physicai Graffiti ~ Led Zeppelin
29. Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness ~ Smashing Pumpkins
30. Never Mind The Bollocks ~ Sex Pistols
31. Pet Sounds ~ The Beach Boys
32. London Calling ~ The Clash
33. Moseley Shoals ~ Ocean Colour Scene
34. Wish You Were Here ~ Pink Floyd
35. Dog Man Star ~ Suede
36. Coming Up ~ Suede
37. Different Class ~ Pulp
38. Out Of Time ~ R.E.M.
39. Blur ~ Blur
40. Rubber Soul ~ The Beatles
41. The Holy Bible ~ Manic Street Preachers
42. Exile On Main Street ~ The Rolling Stones
43. Hunky Dory ~ David Bowie
44. K ~ KulaShaker
45. Blood On The Tracks ~ Bob Dylan
46. Stanley Road ~ Paul Weller
47. Blonde On Blonde ~ Bob Dylan
48. Hounds OF Love ~ Kate Bush
49. Dig Your Own Hole ~ The Chemical Brothers
50. Sign ‘O’ The Times ~ Prince
51. Odelay ~ Beck
52. Astral Weeks ~ Van Morrison.
53. A Northern Soul ~ The Verve
54. Ten Pearl ~ Jam
55. Woodface ~ Crowded House
56. Graceland ~ Paul Simon
57. Highway 61 Revisited ~ Bob Dylan
58. Blue Lines ~ Massive Attack
59. New Adventures In Hi-Fi ~ R.E.M.
60. Suede ~ Suede
61. Pablo Honey ~ Radiohead
62. Music For The Jilted Generation ~The Prodigy
63. In Utero ~ Nirvana
64. Harvest ~ Neil Young
65. The Wall ~ Pink Floyd
66. Little Earthquakes ~ Tori Amos
67. Siamese Dream ~ Smashing Pumpkins
68. In It For The Money ~ Supergrass
69. Let It Bleed ~The Rolling Stones
70. His'n'Hers ~ Pulp
71. The Velvet Underground & Nico ~ The Velvet Underground & Nico
72. BloodSugarSexMagik ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
73. Purple Rain ~ Prince
74. Debut ~ Bjork
75. Grace ~Jeff Buckley
76. The Band ~ The Band
77. Unplugged In New York ~ Nirvana
78. It's Great When You're Straight…Yeah ~ Black Grape
79. All Mod Cons ~The Jam
80. Leftism ~ Leftfield
81. So ~ Peter Gabriel
82. Forever Changes ~ Love
83. The Second Coming ~ The Stone Roses
84. Bryter Layter ~ Nick Drak
85. Low ~ David Bowie
86. White On Blonde ~ Texas
87. Placebo ~ Placebo
88. Songs In The Key Of Life ~ Stevie Wonder
89. After The Goldrush ~ Neil Young
90. Zooropa ~ U2
91. The Tunnel Of Love ~ Bruce Springsteen
92. Lexicon OF Love ~ ABC
93. The Doors ~ The Doors
94. All Change ~ Cast
95. Maxinquaye ~ Tricky
96. Imperial Bedroom ~ Eivis Costello
97. What's Going On ~ Marvin Gaye
98. Hysteria ~ Def Leppard
99. Like A Prayer ~ Madonna
100. Otis Blue ~ Otis Redding

got nothing against Oasis myself, the first two albums are pretty good, and Definitely Maybe a classic, but BHN is not a particularly great album.

Q Artists And Albums Of The 21st Century
(The 1st 10 Years)
From Q 282 - Jan 2010

1. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
2. The Strokes – Is This It
3. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
4. The White Stripes – Elephant
5. Coldplay – Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
6. Arcade Fire – Funeral
7. Green Day – American Idiot
8. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
9. Radiohead – Kid A
10. Johnny Cash – American Iv:The Man Comes Around
11. The Killers – Sams Town
12. Kasabian – Kasabian
13. Kings Of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
14. Queens Of The Stoneage – Songs For The Deaf
15. Sigur Ros - ()
16. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
17. Alicia Keys – Songs In A Minor
18. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
19. The Streets – A Grand Don't Come For Free
20. Justin Timberlake – Justified
21. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
22. Missy Elliott – Under Construction
23. Gnarls Barkley – St Elseware
24. Mgmt – Oracular Spectacular
25. Tv On The Radio – Dear Science
26. The Good The Bad The Queen – The Good The Bad The Queen
27. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
28. Lcd Soundsystem – Lcd Soundsystem
29. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
30. Radiohead – In Rainbows
31. Neil Diamond – Home Before Dark
32. Antony And The Johnsons – I Am A Bird Now
33. U2 – How To Dismantal An Atomic Bomb
34. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
35. Joanna Newsom – The Milk Eyed Mender
36. Elbow – Leaders Of The Free World
37. Tom Waits – Alice
38. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – B.R.M.C.
39. Justice – Cross
40. The Verve – Forth
41. Oasis – Don't Believe The Truth
42. Bat For Lashes – Fur And Gold
43. 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
44. Peter Doherty – Grace/Wastelands
45. Death Cab For Cutie – Plans
46. Damien Rice – O
47. Jay-Z – The Black Album
48. Bjork – Vespertine
49. Perl Jam – Riot Act
50. The White Stripes – De Stijl
51. Coldplay – Parachutes
52. Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
53. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
54. My Morning Jacket – At Dawn
55. Rufus Wainwright – Want Two
56. The Knife – Deep Cuts
57. Rufus Wainwright – Want One
58. Robert Pollard – Is Off To Business
59. Blur – Think Tank
60. Tinariwen – The Radio Tisdas Sesions
61. Kinney – The Woods
62. Tony Christie – Made In Sheffield
63. Joan As Police Woman – To Survive
64. Cold War Kids – Robbers And Cowards
65. Peaches – The Teaches Of Peaches
66. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga
67. The Libertines – Up The Bracket
68. Jeffrey Lewis – It's The Ones Who've Cracked
69. Queens Of The Stoneage – Rated R
70. Silversun Pickup – Swoon
71. Lykke Li – Youth Novel
72. Adele – Youth Novel
73. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
74. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
75. Hush Arbor – Yankee Reality
76. I Am Kloot – I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge
77. Liars – Drum's Not Dead
78. Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
79. The Gaslight Anthem – The '59 Sound
80. Soul Assassins – Soul Assassins Ii
81. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak
82. Stephen Fretwell – Magpie
83. Grace Jones – Hurricane
84. The Fratellis – Costello Music
85. Ray Lamontagne – Trouble
86. Young Jeezy – Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101
87. Kathleen Edwards – Failer
88. Rtx – Transmaniacon
89. Grinderman – Grinderman
90. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
91. World Party – Dumbing Up
92. Republic Of Loose – Aaagh
93. Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
94. Social Distortion – Sex, Love And Rock 'N' Roll
95. The Moldy Peaches – The Moldy Peaches
96. Sara Watkins – Sara Watkins
97. Weird War – If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em
98. The Cribs – The New Fellas
99. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Behind The Music
100. Jay-Z – American Gangster

you choose the worst list of the 2

put the stone roses album in there and i'd legit believe that the second one was Q's updated list of the top 100 albums ever

J.D. just for you...

Q readers 100 Greatest Albums Ever

Issue Jan 2003

Nevermind

1. Nirvana – Nevermind
2. Radiohead – OK Computer
3. The Beatles – Revolver
4. Radiohead – The Bends
5. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
6. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks
7. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
8. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
9. The Strokes – Is This It
10. U2 – Achtung Baby
11. Nirvana – In Utero
12. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Californiacation
13. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
14. The Clash – London Calling
15. The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper
16. U2 – The Joshua Tree
17. Madonna – Ray Of Light
18. Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
19. Guns N’ Roses - Appetite For Destruction
20. Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of..
21. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
22. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory
23. Dr Dre – The Chronic
24. Jeff Buckley – Grace
25. Coldplay – Parachutes
26. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Mainstreet
27. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
28. Led Zeppelin – IV
29. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
30. R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
31. David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust..
32. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
33. Public Enemy – Fear Of A Black Planet
34. Pixies – Doolittle
35. Radiohead – Kid A
36. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
37. Prince – Sign ‘O’ The Times
38. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
39. The Verve – Urban Hymns
40. Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks
41. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
42. Pearl Jam – Ten
43. Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
44. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
45. The Beatles – The Beatles
46. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
47. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
48. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
49. Pink Floyd – The Wall
50. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
51. Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
52. Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power
53. Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
54. The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
55. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
56. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
57. Moby – Play
58. Blur – Parklife
59. Nwa – Straight Outta Compton
60. Joy Division – Closer
61. Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
62. Bruce Sprinsteen – Born To Run
63. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – By The Way
64. Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
65. Specials – Specials
66. Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
67. Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
68. The Who – Who’s Next
69. Alicia Keys – Songs In A Minor
70. The Vines – Highly Evolved
71. Bob Marley And The Wailers – Exodus
72. The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land
73. Michael Jackson – Thriller
74. Ramones – Ramones
75. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
76. Spritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
77. TLC – Crazysexycool
78. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
79. Depeche Mode – Violator
80. Stereophonics – Word Gets Around
81. Elvis Presley – Elvis Presley
82. DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
83. Metallica – Metallica
84. Lou Reed – Transformer
85. Wu Tang Clan – Enter The Wu Tang
86. Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape
87. The Doors – The Doors
88. James Brown – Live At The Apollo
89. Ryan Adams – Gold
90. Soundgarden – Superunknown
91. Sly And The Family Stone – There’s A Riot Going On
92. Air – Moon Safari
93. Beck – Odelay
94. Outkast – Stankonia
95. Portishead – Dummy
96. Ash – Free All Angels
97. Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You
98. AC/DC – Back In Black
99. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
100. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin

3 years later they did it again

Q Readers Best Albums Ever 2006

Q 235 Feb 2006

1. OK Computer – Radiohead
2. The Bends – Radiohead
3. Nevermind – Nirvana
4. Revolver – The Beatles
5. Definitely Maybe – Oasis
6. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
7. Automatic For The People – R.E.M.
8. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory – Oasis
9. Achung Baby – U2
10. Kid A – Radiohead
11. The Joshua Tree – U2
12. The Queen Is Dead – The Smiths
13. Grace – Jeff Buckley
14. Abbey Road – The Beatles
15. The Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd
16. Urban Hymns – The Verve
17. The Beatles [White Album] – The Beatles
18. Pet Sounds – Beach Boys
19. Sgt. Peppers Loney Hears Club Band – The Beatles
20. London Calling – The Clash
21. Led Zeppelin Iv – Led Zeppelin
22. In Utero – Nirvana
23. Blood On The Tracks – Bob Dylan
24. Appetite For Destruction – Guns N’ Roses
25. A Rush Of Blood To The Head – Coldplay
26. Is This It – The Strokes
27. The Wall – Pink Floyd
28. Never Mind The Bollocks – The Sex Pistols
29. Rubber Soul – The Beatles
30. Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
31. Californiacation – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
32. What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
33. Ray Of Light – Madonna
34. Exile On Main Street – The Rolling Stones
35. Park Life – Blur
36. Blond On Blond – Bob Dylan
37. Out Of Time – R.E.M.
38. Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix
39. Screamadelica – Primal Scream
40. Parachutes – Coldplay
41. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
42. The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico
43. Doolittle – Pixies
44. Closer – Joy Division
45. Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
46. Hunky Dory – David Bowie
47. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
48. Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones
49. Document – R.E.M.
50. Forever Changes – Love
51. Who’s Next – The Who
52. Unplugged In New York – Nirvana
53. All That You Can’t Leave Behind – U2
54. Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins
55. Dummy – Portishead
56. Play – Moby
57. Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin
58. Thriller – Jack Michealson
59. Ten – Pearl Jam
60. Amnesiac – Radiohead
61. Odelay – Beck
62. Hounds Of Love – Kate Bush
63. Are You Experienced – The Jimi Hendeix Experience
64. Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
65. Blue Lines – Massive Attack
66. White Blood Cells – The White Stripes
67. White Ladder – David Grey
68. Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
69. The Holy Bible – Manic Street Preachers
70. The Man Who – Travis
71. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
72. Kind Of Blue – Miles Davis
73. Jagged Little Pillock – Alanis Vinaigrette
74. Origin Of Symmetry – Muse
75. The Doors – The Doors
76. American III: Solitary Man – Johnny Cash
77. The Clash – The Clash
78. Back In Black – AC/DC
79. Setting Sons – The Jam
80. Low – David Bowie
81. Word Gets Around – Stereophonics
82. Born To Run – Bruce Sprinsteen
83. Stanley Road – Paul Weller
84. Songs In The Key Of Life – Stevie Wonder
85. Different Class – Pulp
86. The Marshall Mathers LP – Eminem
87. Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea – P.J. Harvey
88. After The Goldrush – Neil Young
89. Vauxhall & I – Morrissey
90. Disintegration – The Cure
91. It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back – Public Enemy
92. Everything Must Go – Manic Street Preachers
93. Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
94. Purple Rain – Prince
95. Raw Power – Iggy Pop
96. The Man Machine – Kraftwerk
97. Transformer – Lou Reed
98. Paul’s Boutique – Beastie Boys
99. Rain Dogs – Tom Waits
100. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco

clearly they ran it again just so Radiohead could win it this time

Badly Drawn Boy

.. despite the tea cosy.

everytime noodle vague looks at these lists i reckon he looks just like the noel pic at the top of page

Anyway there's tons of Q (and other publications lists here)
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/publications.htm

I'd wager most of them did the albums of Millennium thing

i think Woolworths did one and had a special display in their stores

some of the lol 90s stuff in the 98 list was laughable THEN.

White on Blonde? In It For The Money? Placebo S/T?

I mean what the holy fuck.

Surely there was plenty of young interest in the late 80s - CD issues in 1987

In the '90s young people (unless they were serious, serious music geeks) didn't really give much of a shit about The Beatles.

I think you're both right - I was 15 in '95 and a lot of kids my age had grown up with the Beatles songs, been really into them circa their parents "rediscovering" them via the reissues plus the general 60s "golden oldies" thing of the mid/late 80s, but by their teens come to see them as childish or Dad Music, etc.

There was one really obsessive Beatles fan in my year at school and we were all happy to hear about them but a bit bemused, "yeah my Dad likes them, s'pose the early stuff's OK, well yes I guess the late stuff was very clever but I don't really get it." They were the band teachers would play to prove that they were hip really etc.

xpost:

I still like In It For The Money and I don't mind that first Placebo album either.

White On Blonde is another result of the 'Chris Evans factor', not content with helping to resurrect Ocean Colour Scene's career, he turned his attentions to Texas.

we had to sit through the yellow submarine film in music at school

One of the funniest things about this album is remembering long time weekly/monthly music journos fawning over this record at the time.

I assumed this was cz when Morning Glory and The Great Escape came out and had reviews in the same issue as a supposed grand Britpop face-off all the press (that I saw) gave Oasis like 6/10 and Blur 9/10 and they wanted to make up for it in the face of popular opinion going the other way

this doesn't make as much sense written down as it did in my head

...but by their teens come to see them as childish or Dad Music, etc.

― not a player-hater i just hate a lot (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:05 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, this is exactly what I was getting at. It's unavoidable for people to grow up in the UK without hearing about The Beatles and being familiar with large numbers of their songs, but teens did see them as being somewhat 'childish' and 'dad music'-like, yeah. Oasis and the rest of the Britpop bands made The Beatles cool to like here in the UK. Post-Oasis, a teenager could freely admit to liking The Beatles without getting a response of "why the fuck are you listening to that old-hat shit?"

I like both of the latter albums but it seems a shocking lack of perspective given the somewhat more venerable Q demographic

I assumed this was cz when Morning Glory and The Great Escape came out and had reviews in the same issue as a supposed grand Britpop face-off all the press (that I saw) gave Oasis like 6/10 and Blur 9/10 and they wanted to make up for it in the face of popular opinion going the other way

this doesn't make as much sense written down as it did in my head

― not a player-hater i just hate a lot (a passing spacecadet),

I already said that!

NME’s 100 Best Albums - 2003

Stone Roses

1. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
2. Pixies – Doolittle
3. The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
4. Television – Marquee Moon
5. The Beatles – Revolver
6. Love – Forever Changes
7. The Strokes – Is This It
8. The Smiths – The Queen In Dead
9. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
10. Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks…
11. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
12. The Clash – London Calling
13. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
14. Joy Division – Closer
15. Nirvana – In Utero
16. Radiohead – Ok Computer
17. Spritualized – Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
18. Blondie – Parallel Lines
19. Nirvana – Nevermind
20. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
21. The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground
22. New Order – Technique
23. Primal Scream – Screamadellica
24. The Beatles – The Beatles [Aka The White Album]
25. The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
26. David Bowie – Low
27. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
28. The Verve – A Northern Soul
29. Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
30. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
31. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
32. The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd Brothers
33. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
34. Patti Smith – Horses
35. Jeff Buckley – Grace
36. Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express
37. Oasis – [What’s The Story] Morning Glory
38. Scott Walker – Scott 4
39. Ramones – Ramones
40. Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head
41. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
42. The Stooges – Fun House
43. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
44. Radiohead – The Bends
45. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
46. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
47. Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks
48. REM – Automatic For The People
49. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
50. Blur – Parklife
51. The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow
52. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Mainstreet
53. Slint – Spiderland
54. The Smiths – The Smiths
55. Aphex Twin – Richard D James Album
56. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
57. Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
58. The Rolling Stones – Stick Fingers
59. The Specials – The Specials
60. Big Star – Third/Sister Lovers
61. The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
62. Pulp – His ‘N Hers
63. Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis
64. Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
65. Duran Duran – Rio
66. The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace Of Sin
67. Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman
68. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
69. Andrew WK – I Get Wet
70. The Verve – Urban Hymns
71. Eminem – The Slim Shady LP
72. AC/DC – Back In Black
73. Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
74. The White Stripes – Elephant
75. Lou Reed – Transformer
76. Pulp – This Is Hardcore
77. The Coral – The Coral
78. Suede – Dog Man Star
79. The Clash – The Clash
80. Neil Young – After The Goldrush
81. The Jesus And Mary Chain – Psychocandy
82. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang
83. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
84. De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising
85. The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
86. David Bowie – Heroes
87. The Slits – Cut
88. Primal Scream – Exterminator
89. Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
90. Leonard Cohen – Songs Of Love And Hate
91. Queens Of The Stoneage –Rated R
92. Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
93. Joni Mitchell – Hejira
94. Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home
95. Pink Floyd – Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
96. The Vines – Highly Evolved
97. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
98. Madonna – Like A Prayer
99. The Congos – Heart Of The Congos
100. The Beach Boys – Surfs Up

One thing that stands out to me is Marquee Moon missing the 98 list.

lol i remember in about 92 my mate told my dad he loved the beatles and my dad "bit boring, aren't they?"

xps OK I guess you did! I took your response to "wasn't there interest in the 80s" to mean "nah they had always been square to The Kids until Oasis"

this was a god piece about how The Beatles were out of favour to a degree back in the late 80s/ early 90s
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jan/16/thebeatles.popandrock

"We put the Beatles on the cover of Q in 1987 for the 20th anniversary of Sergeant Pepper, and it was seen as a real risk," remembers Mark Ellen, then editor of Q, now editor of Word. "They were just seen as an old group who had split up - and there were plenty of old groups who were still about."

Lest we forget last years top 500 of all time
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nme_500_greatest_albums_2013.htm

anyway I'm just chatting uselessly here because I am too old to be a millennial and too young to be a sage old-timer on the other thread

I thought the Wilburys might have brought back some goodwill. Maybe goodwill amongst 40+ somethings at the time though.

Naw R, I meant this

morning glory only got average reviews. 6/10 nme. 3/5 other places. so they overcompensated with be here now so they couldnt get caught out.
yet it was dogshit

― ۩, Friday, January 24, 2014 10:46 PM

oh sorry, missed that one. so yeah, that plus an added layer of wrong-horse embarrassment at the Blur album a year later

lol @ the thought of pitting All Around The World against Essex Dogs

so weird to me that the Beatles were seen as unfashionable or embarrassing to be associated with, but then I came of age longggg after Britpop and the Anthology series.

we used to have a saying at school in the mid to late 80s, "that went out with the Beatles."

Select had a best of the 90s

1. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
2. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
5. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
6. Blur - Parklife
7. Happy Mondays - Pills N' Thrills & Bellyaches
8. Pulp - Different Class
9. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
10. Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
11. Radiohead - The Bends
12. Tricky - Maxinquaye
13. Boo Radleys - Wake Up!
14. REM - Automatic For The People
15. Pixies - Bossanova
16. Oasis - Morning Glory
17. Suede - Dog Man Star
18. Pj Harvey - Rid Of Me
19. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
20. Portishead - Dummy
21. Wu Tang Clan - Enter The 36 Chambers
22. Manics Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
23. Paul Weller - Wild Wood
24. U2 - Achtung Baby
25. Morrissey - Vauxhall And I
26. Bjork - Debut
27. Hole - Live Through This
28. Method Man - Tical
29. Elastica - Elastica
30. Various Artists - Help
31. Sonic Youth - Dirty
32. Stereo Mc's - Connected
33. Sugar - Copper Blue
34. Blur - The Great Escape
35. Black Grape - It's Great To Be Straight,Yeah
36. Julian Cope - Jehovahkill
37. Supergrass - I Should Coco
38. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
39. Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
40. Nirvana - In Utero
41. Goldie - Timeless
42. Genius/Gza - Liquid Swords
43. Charlatans - Charlatans
44. Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up
45. The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
46. Stone Roses - Second Coming
47. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
48. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
49. Paul Weller - Stanley Road
50. Therapy - Troublegum
51. Neil Young - Ragged Glory
52. REM - Out Of Time
53. Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
54. The Shamen - Boss Drum
55. Arrested Development - 3 Years...
56. Nick Cave - Let Love In
57. St Etienne - Fox Base Alpha
58. Sabres Of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
59. U2 - Zooropa
60. Manics Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
61. Dj John Digweed - Renaissance:The Mix Vol.1
62. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
63. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
64. Pulp - His N'hers
65. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonnesque
66. Depeche Mode - Violator
67. Pet Shop Boys -
68. Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
69. The Fall - The Infotainment Scan
70. The Verve - A Northern Soul
71. Ice T - Original Gangster
72. Orbital - Orbital(The Brown Album)
73. Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
74. Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker
75. Julian Cope - 20 Mothers
76. Massive Attack - Protection
77. Ride - Nowhere
78. Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
79. Dr Dre - The Chronic
80. David Holmes - This Film's Crap
81. Aphex Twin - Ambient Classics 1985-92
82. Plastikman - Sheet One
83. Flaming Lips - Hit To Death
84. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
85. Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
86. Manics Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
87. Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
88. Pj Harvey - Dry
89. Suede - Suede
90. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
91. Leftfield - Leftism
92. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
93. A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
94. Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm
95. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
96. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
97. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
98. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
99. Nas - Illmatic
100. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

Britpop for me was over when that Blur album came out.

Remember a Select feature quizzing Blur on US indie and everyone flopping badly except Coxon

The albums I was mostly listening to in early '97 were: Blur, Everything Must Go, The Bends, Coming Up and New Adventures In Hi-Fi.

you were but a child then

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And then Ultra, In It For The Money, Radiator and OK Computer came out later in the year. I didn't really listen to much Oasis in '97, because I'd heard all of the songs to death all the way throughout '96, so by the time Be Here Now came out I'd had quite a break from listening to them, and my attentions were pretty much going elsewhere. By the time Be Here Now came out, and it wasn't what it was cracked up to be, I fell off the Oasis thing completely. But I don't remember it being much of a problem, because I tons of other stuff to listen to still.

you were but a child then

― ۩, Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:36 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

13 going on 14. Great year!

so weird to me that the Beatles were seen as unfashionable or embarrassing to be associated with, but then I came of age longggg after Britpop and the Anthology series.

― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:25 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll put it this way: it would have been near-unthinkable for a UK teenager to be interested in Paul McCartney circa his 1993 album Off The Ground, but after Britpop and the Anthology series it wasn't hard to imagine a teenager wanting to check out Flaming Pie.

they got all they deserve

did they check out Spike at the same time?

I remember liking Q's "90 Best Albums of the 90s" feature (10 albums for every year '90-'98). Much better than any of the reader top 100 lists.

Just been reminded that Bob Geldof was REALLY VISIBLY ANGRY that the stone roses beat all his fave 60s and 70s classic albums.

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I remember watching this quite a few times. As much as I'd love to slag off Bob Geldof I kind of remember it was Paul Gambaccini who really had a problem with The Stone Roses beating all those 60s classics. Maybe Bob said something too but I remember Paul saying something like "They've made a good album and good luck to them, but they shouldn't be higher than Dylan" John Peel was presenting (with Jo Whiley) and said he'd have A Different Class in his top ten, Paul and Bob were both like "Don't be ridiculous" The only modern album either of them had anything good to say about was Jagged Little Pill which Paul called "The Tapestry of the 90s" Wonder if he still thinks that?

Highlight of the show was John Peel saying before one of the ad breaks "We'll be back soon to see if any of my precious Fall albums have made the top ten"

I have a problem with the Stone Roses beating all those 60 classics, but not because they're 60 classics.

Q Artists And Albums Of The 21st Century
(The 1st 10 Years)
From Q 282 - Jan 2010

1. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black

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Always found it amusing they had this at number one as they completely ignored it in 2006. They printed a top 100 albums that year (which was one the worst lists I've ever seen) and couldn't even find room for it. This was they same year they gave 5 stars to Muse, Razorlight and a Red Hot Chilli Peppers album I think even their fans hated then gave that classic half a star review to Silent Shout.

60s, christ

I actually ended up reading a Noel interview yesterday and found this quote.

Of course. I’m proud of everything that we ever did. I mean, some songs are pretty shit, and there’s a couple of periods you’d rather forget, but I think on the whole… I think we made three great albums and four good ones, which is not bad out of eight. Kind of a 50 percent record. That’s pretty good, I think.

I honestly don't know which albums he rates as good ones and the great ones. The only album I know he hates is Standing and obviously he loves Definitely Maybe but no idea which category the others would fall into. Is he now claiming Be Here Now is a good album?

I think he rates Don't Believe The Truth highly, alongside the first two.

Unless he's counting The Masterplan too!