Prince only got the one mention, Sign "O" the Times at number 56.

No.1 was OK Ccmputer by Radiohead, great if you want to jump off a bridge. Ok I'm biased and I've not heard it but I don't have the urge to either.

This prompts me to compile my own list of top 10 albums in which I boringly only use four sets of artists.

1. The White Album (The Beatles)
2. Sign "O" the Times (Prince)
3. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie)
4. Revolver (The Beatles)
5. Abbey Road (The Beatles)
6. Off the Wall (Michael Jackson)
7. Purple Rain (Prince & the Revolution)
8. Hunky Dory (David Bowie)
9. Thriller (Michael Jackson)
10. Lovesexy (Prince)
[Edited 4/18/05 2:29am]

The top 100 were...

THE 100 GREATEST ALBUMS


RADIOHEAD - OK Computer
U2 ? The Joshua Tree
NIRVANA - Nevermind
MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
PINK FLOYD ? Dark Side of the Moon
OASIS ? Definitely Maybe
THE BEATLES ? Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
MADONNA ? Like a Prayer
GUNS N' ROSES ? Appetite For Destruction
THE BEATLES - Revolver
R.E.M. ? Automatic for the People
THE BEATLES ? The White Album
QUEEN ? A Night at the Opera
COLDPLAY - Parachutes
OASIS ? (What's the Story) Morning Glory
ALANIS MORISSETTE ? Jagged Little Pill
LED ZEPPELIN ? Led Zeppelin IV
THE VERVE ? Urban Hymns
JIMI HENDRIX ? Are you Experienced
THE SMITHS ? The Queen Is Dead
JOHN LENNON - Imagine
RADIOHEAD ? The Bends
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - Exodus
THE STONE ROSES ? The Stone Roses
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL ? Bridge Over Troubled Water
BJORK - Debut
THE DOORS ? The Doors
ABBA - Arrival
MICHAEL JACKSON ? Off the Wall
DURAN DURAN - Rio
SEX PISTOLS ? Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
DAVID BOWIE ? The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
THE BEACH BOYS ? Pet Sounds
JOY DIVISION - Closer
THE ROLLING STONES ? Let It Bleed
BLUR - Parklife
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ? Born to Run
BILLIE HOLIDAY ? Lady Sings the Blues
THE WHITE STRIPES - Elephant
BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
THE SPECIALS - Specials
THE ROLLING STONES ? Exile on Main Street
FRANK SINATRA ? Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
THE CLASH ? London Calling
THE PRODIGY ? The Fat of the Land
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND ? The Velvet Underground and Nico
DIRE STRAITS ? Brothers in Arms
PIXIES - Doolittle
ARETHA FRANKLIN ? I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
THE LIBERTINES ? The Libertines
HAPPY MONDAYS ? Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
PATTI SMITH - Horses
THE WHO - Tommy
LOU REED - Transformer
BOB DYLAN ? Blood on the Tracks
PRINCE ? Sign 'o' the Times
DIDO ? No Angel
AIR ? Moon Safari
ELTON JOHN ? Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
THE JAM ? All Mod Cons
JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace
FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
MOBY - Play
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ? Blood Sugar Sex Magik
THE POLICE - Synchronicity
JONI MITCHELL - Blue
CURTIS MAYFIELD - Superfly
ELVIS PRESLEY ? The Sun Sessions
OUTKAST ? Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
PULP ? Different Class
KRAFTWERK ? Trans-Europe Express
MASSIVE ATTACK ? Blue Lines
BECK - Odelay
STEVIE WONDER ? Songs in the Key of Life
KATE BUSH ? Hounds of Love
TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
EMINEM ? The Marshall Mathers LP
MARVIN GAYE ? What's Going On
GEORGE MICHAEL - Faith
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER ? The Original Movie Soundtrack
PRIMAL SCREAM - Screamadelica
JOHN COLTRANE ? A Love Supreme
LOVE ? Forever Changes
PAUL SIMON - Graceland
NICK DRAKE ? Five Leaves Left
MEAT LOAF ? Bat Out of Hell
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD ? Dusty in Memphis
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High and Rising
THE STROKES ? Is this It
MADNESS ? One Step Beyond...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS ? I've Been Expecting You
NEIL YOUNG ? After the Gold Rush
PUBLIC ENEMY ? It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
BLONDIE ? Parallel Lines
THE EAGLES ? Hotel California
JAMES BROWN ? Sex Machine
THE STREETS ? A Grand Don't Come for Free
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS ? Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
ROD STEWART ? Every Picture Tells a Story
The HUMAN LEAGUE ? Dare

Sounds like a list compiled by english people.

lilgish said:

Absolutely, but it was a UK TV programme. Nice to see no place for the likes of Beyonce in the top 100!

However, missing out INXS "Welcome To wherever you are", Depeche Mode "Violator", Stevie Wonder "Innervisions" and Pet Shop Boys "Please" is terrible.....

ROBBIE WILLIAMS - I've Been Expecting You

SquirrelMeat said:

You know the Brits are not the biggest Prince supporters...Whenever you see Oasis in the top ten of ANY!!!! albums list, you know you are dealing with the UK.....

murph said:

I'm speechless that Definitely Maybe has placed higher than any Beatles album - that's just...damn, I'm at a loss for words. It's an injustice - not an injustice on the scale of Union Carbide or anything, but an injustice nonetheless.

Three out of the top 10 belong to the skip--
:applause:

but -- why r u putting ? next to OUtkast, GNR or Queen? should there be any ??

cinnamonjo said:

I didn't do that Squirrelmeat did, but I'm not so sure about that Queen album, my favourite is A Kind of Magic.
If I was to lay down a giant ? it'd be beside that Madonna album. Though I haven't heard it in years I thought it was dreadful dreary rubbish the title track aside, very commercial without being catchy. Even the Prince duet on there is highly disposable. I've seen that album on these lists before and I just can't understand it. Mabye it's me though. I used not really like Lovesexy but it's really great collectively rather than being about individual tracks.

Oh my good lord, whatever about the rest of my top 10 but theres no Abbey Road in there?????

1st list ive seen in a long time ,..... london calling not top ten !!!

some of my absolute faves on there,.....

clash, london calling
prince, sott
sex pistols, bollocks
joni, blue
bowie, ziggy
specials, specials
police, synchcronicity
the jam, all mod cons
dexy,s, searching
h league, dare
blondie, parallel lines

some more of my faves i,m surprised were included,...

oasis, def maybe !
white stripes, elephant !
the libertines, the libertines !
dido, no angel !
coldplay, parachutes !

what happened to purple rain, i thought that would make at least in the top 20, sott should of been higher.

lilgish said:

first thing I thought when I read it

the people who were commenting on Sign O The Times were pretty cool.

Courtney Pine was bigging it up.

Also, (v beautiful ) Mary Anne Hobbs (Radio 1 DJ), who said something along the lines of:

"I don't think I'd trust anyone who said they didn't like Prince. What's not to like? In fact, I don't think I'd even go for half a lager with someone who didn't like Prince."

murph said:

OASIS really made some classic POP-songs ...
just like the Beatles / the Stones / Led Zeppelin and all the millions of other brittish bands ...
Can you name just ONE great American band with classic POP songs ????
Please, don't make me laugh at The Doors or the Beach Boys ...

Without the Funk and the Grunge, American bands would have had zero impact on music since the 60's

No ... I'm not brittish

ThataintFunky said:

I don't know about Oasis..I liked the first album (Morning Glory.....)and that was it...They are essentially a Beatles Cover band...As far as your assessment that American bands not having classic POP songs, you make a bit of a point.Most of the great American bands lean heavily on the Rock/singer-songwriter side...

And you have to include hip-hop bands into your Funk and Grunge statement...No matter what any of the snobs say on this site, hip hop groups like Grand Master Flash & the Furious 5, Public Enemy, Run DMC, NWA, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and the Wu-Tang Clan were very revolutionary....

noel gallagher is the genius in oasis. his songs united britain's tanked-up, working class. every pub on a saturday night was full of people chanting one of his chorus's. he has wrote some absolutely brilliant pop songs, no one has matched since. its fair that oasis are in there. they put it back to basics - songs, melody, hooks, guitars.

the closest prince came to them, in the same period is dolphin, dinner with delores, some off the truth album.

i remember, in 1995, wishing that prince would release more anthem/singalong/melodic stuff like oasis, instead of short repetitive grooves, which is his comfort zone. he connects to people in a more subtle way i suppose.

spoida said:

I am not at all ignorant about the impact Oasis has had on the music scene beyond America...I know how important they were to the British canon of pop and I've seen impressive footage of the Gallagher brothers perfroming in front of 70, 000 fans going out of their minds...But they can hardly be compared to Prince...And while Radiohead have turned into knob turning, pretentious bloaks (to use a Brit term), they still clean Oasis' clocks...Really, Oasis will forever be known as the Beatles influenced band that made one really good album...

murph said:

???

Definitely Maybe
or ...
(What's The Story) Morning Glory?

???

Which one of these excellent classic albums are you refering too???

So what .. Oasis is influenced by the Beatles ... who isn't?
Oasis added some punkish attitude too the Beatles, and that's great!

As if Coldplay or Maroon 5 or any other rock band isn't influenced by the Beatles .... the just don't add anything to it!

What? No Cure albums? At least "Kiss Me" should've been included!