Best British Albums competition

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You may have seen the recently announced Q Magazine Reader's Top 50 Best British Albums- we want to see if you agree or disagree with it. Do you really think Oasis deserve the top two spots?

Tell us your top 5 best British albums and be in with a chance of winning £50 iTunes vouchers! There's also an extra prize for the most original list (ie. none of the albums appear in Q's list).

To enter (and to view the full top 50) go here:

MY TOP 5 BRITISH ALBUMS ARE.....

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If your favourite new band isn't on there, simply tell us in the comments box and we'll add them.

[Jukebox Jury]

Cant be arsed entering, here are my top 5

1. The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
2. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
3. Juju - Siouxsie & The Banshees
4. Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
5. Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Jukebox Jury

[Trouble shoves me]

Really, Hunky Dory? I don't rate it at all, I'd take Ziggy, Aladdin, or Space Oddity over Hunky Dory any day.
(no offense meant by the way, I'm just always surprised as to why people cite it as their favourite Bowie album, let alone one of the best of all time).

Just had a look at the Q list and they should retitle it 'a thick person's guide to English rock albums'. There is so much crud in that list that it beggars belief, and why so few non guitar bands and non Non english bands? It's hardly representative of Scottland, Wales and N.I.!

What the hell are 3 Oasis albums even doing in their, let alone occuping the top 2 slots? And don't get me started on the White album. Where is Vauxhall and I? Were is Dog Man Star? Where is Tiger Milk? Where is Pelaton? Why am I even asking?
Teh lesson here: I'm clearly not in Q magazines target market!

[modrevolve]

wow..that list is pretty funny..Keane in the top 10 British albums ever..they are a nice band and all but c'mon

BTW..No Pills N Thrills and Bellyaches???

[Jukebox Jury]

wow..that list is pretty funny..Keane in the top 10 British albums ever..they are a nice band and all but c'mon

BTW..No Pills N Thrills and Bellyaches???

As ever ewith these polls, it is always what is fresh in peoples minds that gets in, plus the age of the fans voting means it will be recent albums that get it, hence where as 'The Queen Is Dead' used to romp all the polls during the 90's, with each passing year it is knocked down a peg.

I remember in the mid / late 80's Radio 1 did a listeners poll on the greatest ever single ever.

3. She loves you - The Beatles
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1. When will I be famous - Bros.

Enough said.

Jukebox Jury

[modrevolve]

you are correct JJ

if this was two years ago, Whatever People Say I Am by the Arctic Monkeys would have been listed #1..

[Jukebox Jury]

Really, Hunky Dory? I don't rate it at all, I'd take Ziggy, Aladdin, or Space Oddity over Hunky Dory any day.
(no offense meant by the way, I'm just always surprised as to why people cite it as their favourite Bowie album, let alone one of the best of all time).

I just like the simplicity of the album, songs like Kooks and Ballad of Robert Zimmerman, Changes, eight line poem etc
They weren't glam songs (although I was into Glam as a 10 year old when it came out!), more acoustic sounding versions, it just appealled to me
The exception being 'Life on Mars'. Great album, *goes to put it on*

Interesting that this was the first Bowie album that Visconti did NOT produce after his initial success.

Jukebox Jury

[Jukebox Jury]

As ever ewith these polls, it is always what is fresh in peoples minds that gets in, plus the age of the fans voting means it will be recent albums that get it, hence where as 'The Queen Is Dead' used to romp all the polls during the 90's, with each passing year it is knocked down a peg.

I remember in the mid / late 80's Radio 1 did a listeners poll on the greatest ever single ever.

3. She loves you - The Beatles
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1. When will I be famous - Bros.

Enough said.

Jukebox Jury

If they did the poll today it would be

3. She Loves You - The Beatles
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1. Flying Without Wings - Westlife

Jukebox Jury

[still ill life]

This would probably be my top 5 (6), but I don't dare to put them in any particular order:

David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
Suede - "Suede"
The Cure - "Disintegration"
Radiohead - "OK Computer"
The Smiths - "The Queen is dead"
(Iron Maiden - "Seventh son of a seventh son")

[Black_Eyed_Sioux]

I think I would plump for:

Juju - Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Homogenic - Bjork
Dry - PJ Harvey

[nugz]

I think I would plump for:

Juju - Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Homogenic - Bjork
Dry - PJ Harvey

Bjork isn't British...

or am I missing something here?

[nugz]

seriously, the list should go something like...


any beatles album
any bealtes album
a smiths album
ok computer
a zeppelin album




kthx.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

I remember in the mid / late 80's Radio 1 did a listeners poll on the greatest ever single ever.

3. She loves you - The Beatles
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
1. When will I be famous - Bros.

Enough said.

Jukebox Jury

HAHAHAA.... come on, that was a good song! I still wear watches strapped to my shoes to this day!

[Practising Troublemaker]

My top 5 British albums;

The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Clash - London Calling
Morrissey - Viva Hate

Love PTxx.

[Musley]

The Smiths at 37, you're 'avin a laugh! And Radiohead - I just cannot get into that band, I suppose like some people can't get into Morrissey!

[Musley]

My top 5 British albums;

The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Clash - London Calling
Morrissey - Viva Hate

Love PTxx.

An excellent choice of albums, for someone from Leeds!

[Moonbeam]

HAHAHAA.... come on, that was a good song! I still wear watches strapped to my shoes to this day!

Watches? Wasn't it Grolsch tops?

[Worm]

seriously, the list should go something like...


any beatles album
any bealtes album
a smiths album
ok computer
a zeppelin album

kthx.

Hilarious, nugz. You're right, that list's a given!

[Practising Troublemaker]

An excellent choice of albums, for someone from Leeds!

The Clash are just great and Manchester is simply the best city for music...in Leeds we can save ourselves with The Wedding Present/ Cinerama...and then we get bloody Kaiser Chuffs and Pigeon Detectives...argh I hate the latter!

Love PTxx.

[Worm]

The Clash are just great and Manchester is simply the best city for music...in Leeds we can save ourselves with The Wedding Present/ Cinerama...and then we get bloody Kaiser Chuffs and Pigeon Detectives...argh I hate the latter!

Love PTxx.

The Wedding Present count for lots of extra bonus points, I'd say.