exile Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 The Whole list is here The top 10 are here: 1. Oasis ?Wonderwall 2. Queen ?Bohemian Rhapsody 3. Led Zeppelin ?Stairway to Heaven 4. The Beatles ?Let It Be 5. John Lennon ?Imagine 6. The Police ?Every Breath You Take 7. The Jam ?Going Underground 8. Verve ?Bittersweet Symphony 9. Robbie Williams ?Angels 10. The Stranglers ?Golden Brown I like Oasis alot but #1??? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 That was my first thought as well. Like U2 and R.E.M., Oasis is another of those bands that everyone seems to love but me. Better than the Beatles, though? Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 Oasis were insanely huge in the UK. Not quite as big now thanks to their last couple of albums being crap, but in the mid 90s, they definitely were as big as the Beatles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 No love for Peter Frampton? Not even in the top 100? Criminal! The Beatles "A Day in the Life" is regularly in the top 5 of most U.S. polls, but in the UK it's #93. Very interesting. Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 It's a fairly conservative mix of traditional UK rock bands with the current mainstream favourites (Keane, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Stereophonics etc). Some of the choices of individual songs by artists is a bit odd, but oh well. It should be noted that it's the top 100 British songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 Good to see The Jam littered throughout. A little disappointed to not see The Smiths in there, but overall I'd say it's pretty accurate from a popularity standpoint barring the current faves littering the lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlucci Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 It should be noted that it's the top 100 British songs. So did the Brits disown Peter Frampton when he became an American citizen after 9/11? How rude! Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 Wasn't actually aiming that at you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 I would have Radiohead in there for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 Ya, the fact that there isn't a single Radiohead song in there makes the list bunk. These aparently aren't the same brits that names OK Computer the best album of the 90s or whatever it was... maybe it was ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry the Clown Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 The state of the music world, at least the general consumer’s attitudes toward the music world are so fickle here on British shores these days. This is a week where the most irritating mobile phone ring tone you could possibly imagine (dubbed the Crazy Frog) had its inane sound effects tacked on to a remix of Axel F and sales of the single sold well enough to rob Coldplay of the right of their first Number#1 single. I just tend not to follow anything like this anymore, and in the UK on TV and radio you can’t move for these blasted pop culture themed polls where whatever inevitably ends up at number one is a film, book, song high on public consciousness for some reason or other, usually because it’s barely a decade old, and the majority of people who vote for these things are in their twenties with no interest in much that came before their time. Fifteen years from now and all these eight year old kids who bought the Crazy Frog single will be voting that number#1 in a similar poll. Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 As if to say "WTF?" to the Virgin listeners poll, Spin Magazine named Radiohead's OK Computer as the best album in the past 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrillho Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 As if to say "WTF?" to the Virgin listeners poll, Spin Magazine named Radiohead's OK Computer[/url'] as the best album in the past 20 years. I tried to find the rest of this list on Spin's web site but could only see numbers 100-90, WTF is Pearl Jam's Ten doing at 93. They put Nevermind at number 3 and Ten at number 93, what a stinking travesty. I really have to see the whole list now. Ten was and always will be imo the better album. Nevermind just gets all the credit due to that S.L.T.S. video. Don't get me wrong I loved that album too. But I just always thought ten was the way better album. And to put it 90 spots behind nevermind.... :eh. Sorry had to vent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 As if to say "WTF?" to the Virgin listeners poll They spend their time listening to Virgin Radio. "WTF?" is relevant in so, so many more important ways than this. I'm not surprised in the least to find Oasis at No. 1 on the list. The channel's mission statement from the start seems to have been "a station for Oasis fans, so they don't need to hear any of that weird modern stuff with keyboards". They disowned Radiohead back when Kid A launched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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