Every Oasis Album, Ranked
Oasis played to 250,000 people across two nights at Knebworth in August 1996, and every album gets judged against that summer; your rank decides how. Any Oasis record billed as a studio album is in, weak ones too, and nothing besides. The Masterplan is a B-sides collection and so a compilation, which keeps it out with the live albums and the EPs. Where a ranking slots those in, they come out and the studio albums close up. Eight rankings feed the tier, one apiece from Louder, Goldmine, Rough Trade, SPIN, Exclaim!, NME, WhatCulture and Under the Radar. The upper tier takes any record that at least 4 of the eight put first or second, and every other record stays below it. The gate decides what is here, the tiers are a coarse sort from those rankings, and your vote ranks each one. Every link opens the earliest Spotify copy of its album, matched on how many tracks it has and what they are called, never on the printed year; an entry says where its copy departs from the original.
Oasis — (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) is #1 on “Every Oasis Album, Ranked”.
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Oasis — (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
Alan White had replaced Tony McCarroll on drums by the Rockfield sessions in Wales, though McCarroll is still on Some Might Say. Paul Weller plays lead guitar on Champagne Supernova, and the twelve tracks include two Swamp Song fragments, printed as Version 1 and Version 2, each under a minute. It places second or better in 7 of the 8 rankings, three more than the upper tier asks for, and won the 1996 Brit Award for Best British Album.
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Oasis — Definitely Maybe (1994)
Two scrapped attempts, at Monnow Valley in Wales and Sawmills in Cornwall, came before Owen Morris stripped back Noel's guitar overdubs, put tape delay on the drums and had Liam redo some vocals. Supersonic was cut at Pink Museum in Liverpool in December 1993, before any of that. The sleeve was shot in Bonehead's house in Didsbury, with diluted Ribena in the wine glass because red wine photographs black, and 6 of the 8 rankings seat it second or better.
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Oasis — Be Here Now (1997)
Sessions ran from October 1996 to March 1997 across Abbey Road, AIR, Orinoco, Master Rock and Ridge Farm, with Owen Morris and Noel co-producing. All Around The World runs 9:20, the longest track on the record, and a 2:08 reprise closes it. It moved about 663,000 copies in Britain in its first seven days. Goldmine alone has it second or better, at first: 1 of the 8, where the upper tier takes 4.
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Oasis — Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000)
Bonehead and Guigsy left in July 1999 mid-session, and their parts were re-recorded for legal reasons. Go Let It Out was the lead single in February 2000, and the album topped the UK chart on about 311,000 first-week copies. Noel took the title from a phrase on a £2 coin, and it misquotes Newton. Three rankings seat it third among the studio albums and none second or better, which makes 0 of the 8.
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Oasis — Heathen Chemistry (2002)
Liam wrote three songs, Songbird the first Oasis single he wrote, and Gem Archer and Andy Bell one apiece, their first writing credits on an Oasis album. Oasis produced it at Wheeler End in Buckinghamshire and Olympic in London. The Spotify copy shows eleven tracks, the last, Better Man, running about 38 minutes, which is where the original's hidden twelfth track sits. WhatCulture has it second and no other ranking goes that high, which gives it 1 of the 8.
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Oasis — Don't Believe the Truth (2005)
Early sessions with Death in Vegas were scrapped, and Noel and Dave Sardy produced the version that came out, cut from December 2003 to January 2005 at studios in England and California. Zak Starkey debuts on an Oasis record, and Noel drums on Let There Be Love. Lyla topped the UK singles chart in May 2005. Goldmine ranks it second, its only finish of second or better, which leaves 1 of the 8 against a line of 4.
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Oasis — Dig Out Your Soul (2008)
Sessions ran at Abbey Road from August to December 2007, Dave Sardy producing again and Zak Starkey a full member. Noel wrote six of the eleven songs, Liam three. The Shock Of The Lightning led the singles in September 2008, and the band split near Paris in August 2009. The Rock Hall named Oasis to its 2026 class on 13 April 2026. Exclaim! has it third among the studio albums, its best, so second or better is 0 of 8.
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