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Oasis in MTV top ten, but lose out to Jacko and... Craig David!

REWIND: Oasis were out voted by Craig David fans

FAMILIARITY may be said to breed contempt, but it doesn't seem to be the case when it comes to album polls.

As once again, Burnage boys Oasis have claimed positions in the upper echelons of another chart, this time for MTV.

The band’s mid-‘90s halcyon period spawned both seminal debut offering, Definitely Maybe plus (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? and MTV viewers have deemed both are worthy of places in their top ten at positions six and seven.

So which records finished above them you may ask… well largely it’s the usual suspects – Nirvana’s grunge landmark ‘Nevermind’, Gun N’ Roses’ rip-roaring Appetite For Destruction and Radiohead’s prog master-piece ‘OK Computer', with top spot understandably going to the biggest selling LP of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

That leaves one place and the Gallagher brothers and their fervent fanbase will be bemused to hear that securing second spot behind the King of Pop is early ‘90s soul offering, Born To Do It, from Craig David!

There was more good news for the Manchester music scene further down the poll though with The Stone Roses' eponymous Britpop blueprint (which is 20-years-old this year) and indie forefathers The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead (for many Morrissey and Marr's songwriting pinnacle) coming in at 13 and 15 respectively.

Here's the top 25 in full:

1. Michael Jackson – Thriller
2. Craig David – Born To Do IT
3. Guns ‘N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction
4. Radiohead – OK Computer
5. Nirvana – Nevermind
6. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
7. Oasis – Definitely Maybe
8. U2 – The Joshua Tree
9. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
10. Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
11. The Strokes – Is This It?
12. Kanye West – The College Drop Out
13. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
14. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
15. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
16. Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
17. Prince; The Revolution – Purple Rain
18. REM – Automatic For The People
19. Usher – 8701
20. Pixies – Doolittle
21. The Notorious B.I.G – Ready To Die
22. Lauryn Hill – The Mis-education of Lauryn Hill
23. Human League – Dare
24. Jay-Z – Blueprint
25. Dizzee Rascal – Boy In Da Corner

To see the countdown of MTV’s Greatest Album Ever tune in to MTV on Saturday, April 11 at 9pm across MTV One, MTV Two, MTV Base, MTV Hits and VH1. For more information go to: www.mtv.co.uk/greatestalbum.