In a poll conducted by British music magazine NME, Oasis' Definitely Maybe has been voted the best album of all time. One caveat: 95 percent of the voters in the poll were from the U.K., and the British have always been a bit Anglo-centric in their music tastes. Nowhere is that more evident than in the results of NME's poll, which gives nine of the top 10 "best album" nods to British bands (Nirvana's Nevermind was only non-Brit entry in the top 10, at #6).
As far as albums from our former motherland are concerned, you probably can't go wrong with Oasis' debut album, though I've always preferred What's The Story (Morning Glory)? as far as their output is concerned. Anything after the Beatles' teen idol period would also qualify - Revolver, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper's.
I don't know if either checked in on the overall top 100 - I can't find any information about the poll results on either site linked in the story above - but two very strong (in my opinion) albums from the U.K. are Sleeper's The It Girl and Catatonia's International Velvet. Both bands, sadly, flamed out shortly after their followups to those albums (I may be mistaken in Catatonia's case). Britpop-rock with sultry vocals that are occasionally about shagging? My cup of tea!
Anyway, if I had voted, these would have been the 10 albums on my ballot (in no particular order, national origin ignored, and limiting myself to one album per artist/band):
Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Bad Religion - No Control
Portishead - Dummy
John Walsh and the Sinkholes - Antimatter Eisenhower
Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera
Sloan - Between The Bridges
The Olivia Tremor Control - Music from the Unrealized Film Script "Dusk At Cubist Castle"
Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
My second 10:
Catatonia - International Velvet
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Beck - Odelay
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon
Elf Power - When the Red King Comes
Johnny Cash - American Recordings
Sleeper - The It Girl
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Toadies - Rubberneck
To those who knew me 10 years ago, it might be surprising to see that Napalm Death and Obituary missed the cut; however, I did toy with the idea of including Megadeth's Rust In Peace and 1916 by Motorhead on my list. Yes, really.
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