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5. The Stone Roses' 1989 debut album has been voted the best British album of all time in a Sunday newspaper poll
Sun Nov 23, 2025, 02:40 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3823983.stm

Sunday, 20 June, 2004

The Observer Music Monthly poll of 100 musicians and critics voted the album ahead of The Beatles' Revolver (1966).

The Clash's London Calling and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks took third and fourth place.

The Beatles and David Bowie led the list, both with five albums in the top 100 list.

The top ten list did not feature Radiohead's OK Computer (24)- consistently ranked the greatest of British album in many lists - nor Oasis' debut Definitely Maybe (19).

Other perennials ignored in the top ten included The Smiths' The Queen is Dead (37) and Primal Scream's Screamadelica (68).

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1 The Stone Roses - The Stones Roses
2 Revolver - The Beatles
3 London Calling - The Clash (pictured)
4 Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
5 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
6 The White Album - The Beatles
7 Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
8 Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
9 Blue Lines - Massive Attack
10 Metal Box - PiL

Source: Observer Music Monthly

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]


Label: Silvertone Records – ORE LP 502
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Embossed Sleeve
Country: UK
Released: 2 May 1989
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock



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