Liam Gallagher during Oasis’ final US tour (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Two UK radio stations spent the Easter weekend counting down their listeners’ favourite albums and tracks, with Pink Floyd and Oasis coming out on top.
Absolute Radio conducted a poll to find the Greatest Album Of All Time – a novel idea we’re sure you’ll agree – as Pink Floyd’s classic ‘Dark Side Of The Moon‘ collected the most votes, just ahead of Fleetwood Mac‘s ‘Rumours‘.
Oasis were at #12 and #13 respectively with ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?‘ and ‘Definitely Maybe‘, and the Gallagher brothers were prominent too, to say the least, on Radio X’s own listener vote which wanted the Best British Song ever.
The Manchester band took the top four spots thanks largely to tunes from that aforementioned 1995 LP, while David Bowie had two songs in the Top 10.
Best Album Of All Time (Absolute Radio):
1/ Pink Floyd – ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’
2/ Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’
3/ Guns n Roses – ‘Appetite For Destruction’
4/ Adele – ’21’
5/ Meatloaf – ‘Bat Out Of Hell’
6/ Queen – ‘A Night At The Opera’
7/ David Bowie – ‘The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’
8/ The Stone Roses – ‘The Stone Roses’
9/ The Beatles – ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
10/ Led Zeppelin – ‘Led Zeppelin IV’
Best British Song of All Time (Radio X):
1/ Oasis – ‘Wonderwall’
2/ Oasis – ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’
3/ Oasis – ‘Champagne Supernova’
4/ Oasis – Live Forever’
5/ The Stone Roses – ‘I Am The Resurrection’
6/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’
7/ David Bowie – ‘Heroes’
8/ David Bowie – ‘Life On Mars?’
9/ The Verve – ‘Bittersweet Symphony’
10/ The Rolling Stones – ‘Gimme Shelter’