1. DM
2. WTSMG
3. TM
4. NGHFB
5. DBTT
6. DOYS
7. DGSS
8. BHN
9. HC
10. SOTSOG

1.Definitely Maybe
2.Morning Glory
3.The Masterplan
4.Be Here Now
5.Different Gear Still Speeding
6.Don't Believe The Truth
7.High Flying Birds
8.Heathen Chemistry
9.Dig Out Your Soul
10.Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

DM
MG
HFB
The Masterplan
DOYS
BHN
DBTT
DGSS
SOTSOG
HC

CLASSICS
Definitely Maybe
The Masterplan
Morning Glory

EXCELLENT
High Flying Birds
Be Here Now

VERY GOOD
Heathen Chemistry
Don't Believe The Truth

GOOD
Standing on The Shoulder of Giants

FAIR
Dig Out Your Soul
Different Gear Still Speeding

Morning Glory
Definitely Maybe
Be Here Now
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Dig Out Your Soul
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Don't Believe the Truth
Heathen Chemistry



Different Gear, Still Speeding

WTSMG
DM
NGHFB
BHN
SOTSOG
DOYS
DBTT
DGSS
HC

I don't like dismissing other peoples opinions, but I find it laughable how many people have DGSS bottom, especially the zany ones who have a big gap between their second last and last choices.

If you really think that then fair enough. But this is the same forum that was gushing with praise for it less than a year ago. In fact I was actually laughed at when I gave it an average review at the time when the majority were going over the top handing out 8s, 9s and 10s everywhere. It just seems like pure fanboyism - both the ridiculous way over the top initial reviews and then the dismissing of it once Noel released his.

Personally I think the top 2 speak for themselves. After that I don't think there is a great difference between Be Here Now, DOYS, DBTT, DGSS and High Flying Birds as they're all good albums but flawed:

Be Here Now is a great collection of songs but is far too long and makes your ears bleed listening to it all the way through

DOYS could have been their best effort since Morning Glory, but tails off so dramatically after Falling Down that the final 4 songs are genuinely a chore to listen to

DBTT is a good, steady album but lacks that the raw punch that the others have

DGSS contains a few excellent highs, painful lows and a couple of average songs inbetween

High Flying Birds is really well written and produced and is probably the most consistent album since Morning Glory, but personally speaking I find it a bit dull and that a fair chunk of the songs are too samey to work together on the same album

SOTSOG and Heathen Chemistry each contain a couple of classic songs but are mostly shit.

Not ranking The Masterplan as it's a compilation album.

This is why ranking albums is touchy.

Someone comes on here and sees the ranking of the albums and automatically thinks, "DGSS is ranked last on almost every list. Everyone must think it's shit or something." I believe that kind of thinking is often short sighted and is too often the usual the natural reaction when looking at rankings.

A ranking doesn't show what you think in terms of the quality of the album, just what you think of relationship of the album between the other. I'll use this analogy again. You could be ranking Smiths albums and say that the Queen Is Dead is their fourth best album. Does that mean you think it is a bad album? No. It just means that you believe that in terms of relationship between the rest of the Smiths work you think it is the fourth best album. You could think that the Queen Is Dead an amazing album, yet still find it to be their fourth best. The two beliefs are not mutually exclusive.

It is the same with DGSS. You can have DGSS last and still think it is a really good album. The ranking has nothing to do with your overall opinion of the album's own merit. It just says what you think about it in relation to other albums. Yes, there are a few ranking which either include ratings or have a gap between DGSS and the rest of the albums, but I would stress that there are only a few posts like this.

In terms of people who gave it 8's, 9's, 10's, I was one of the people who argued at the time that it was an average album. Anyone can go and check back to my posts at the time and see that I clearly stated that I believed that it was an average album. And my opinion has not changed. I was not the only one who gave it an average ranking, though I was one of the few people who debated it. I think that's where the confusion is coming from. A good number of people on the forum gave the album an average ranking, but only a few debated. This made it seem like only a minority believed that it was average when really there was a good percentage which believed the same.

I think a good thing to do is to keep in mind that a ranking doesn't show if you think the album is good or bad or not, it just shows a comparative between the rest of the albums (unless the poster chooses to show ratings).

I would definitely agree with your views here but I also kind of agree with what some of the others are saying with rankings not being an indicator of an album's quality as such.

I like DOYS more than most people, although it has 1 or 2 songs which could be labelled as some of the worst Oasis have ever had, but the potential for it to have been a truly great album is probably more than it was with DBTT which is why I don't think DBTT is better than DOYS although DBTT does not have the same low points as DOYS. SOTSOG had wonderful production and some really good songs but like DOYS was let down by some poor quality songs. Heathen Chemistry is the only really poor Oasis album for me, not even that big a fan of the singles and Liam's vocals don't have it like with SOTSOG.

You could put BHN as 6th or 7th in terms of it being an unlistenable album but the quality of some of the songs individually makes it one of the best Oasis have ever put out. I suppose the problem here is that a lot of people order their albums without explanations which leaves it open interpretation, perhaps they put an album last because they think its shit or perhaps they put it last because they of specific reasons or because its relatively weaker.

I find it difficult to rank the Beady Eye and Noel albums in between the Oasis albums. DGSS does not have a single Noel written track and NGHFB does not have any Liam vocals. I just can't quite put either in between Oasis albums for this reason. DGSS certainly surprised a lot of people who expected it to be terrible, it was a decent effort. NGHFB is a very solid album albeit not out of this world.

I look like an idiot when I went back to edit my post several days after I post it... but it will be better because I finally found a way to rate them with the same standard.

The space between the albums does not show how much I hate them, each album has their stand out tracks and therefore they all deserve at least 6/10. There are space between them because I start to skip some tracks. I don't skip any of the tracks when I'm listening to MG/DM/TM/DOYS/SOTSOG/DBTT, HFB is the first album I start to skip some tracks, so the space is there. And I skip even more tracks (or I rarely play these albums) when I'm listening to BHN/HC/DGSS. The reason DGSS is at the bottom isn't because I hate it, it's nearly the same with HC for me, but HC has a few great singles I like, DGSS has only one (TBGO).

01) Definitely Maybe
02) (What's the Story) Morning Glory
03) Be Here Now
04) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
05) Heathen Chemistry
06) Dig Out Your Soul
07) Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants
08) Don't Believe The Truth
09) Different Gear Still Speeding

I'm not counting the Masterplan because it would probably be no.1, it contains music from various era and it'd skew the results a bit. I tend to be a much bigger fan of HC than most on here and a much lesser fan of DBTT than most. IMO no song on DBTT is 10/10 or is as good as any of of the 4 singles on HC. The only other album that doesn't have a 10/10 song is DGSS. Love all the albums though!