10 Bands That Never Topped Their 1st Album

Mere months after Kurt Cobain's tragic suicide in 1994, the rock and roll power pendulum started to swing back over the Atlantic to Britain.

In the United States, alt-rock and grunge's anti-rockstar agenda began to run its course and out of that void came Manchester's Gallagher brothers. Not only did they crave rock stardom, but they had the arrogance to borrow or steal any and every trick from The Beatles, T-Rex and even Slade playbooks to get it.

Definitely Maybe made its way up to the top of the UK Album Charts fast thanks to the strong singles Shakermaker, Supersonic and Live Forever. The album went platinum seven times over in the UK and sold over a million copies in the US, a major achievement for such a defiantly British album.

The Gallaghers weren't done, though. Many fans, and probably the Gallaghers themselves, would argue they should be nowhere near this list thanks to the world-beating success of its follow-up (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

As undeniable as the greatness of singles like Don't Look Back In Anger and Wonderwall is, the album carried some excess fat in the form of throwaway instrumental swamp boogies and maybe just one too many cello. It's also to blame for many perfect evenings ruined by guys with acoustic guitars uttering the words "Here's Wonderwall."

In 2006, British music magazine NME ran a readers' poll that ranked Definitely Maybe as the greatest album ever made. Those arrogant brothers actually outdid their heroes.