The Masterplan (compilation album)
by Oasis
Oasis bestography
The Masterplan is ranked 3rd best out of 12 albums by Oasis on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Oasis is (What's The Story) Morning Glory? which is ranked number 58 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 17,489.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 20 hours ago |  RasmV | 2,457 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/14/2025 21:19 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,232 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2025 19:06 | kinginsomniac12 | 383 | 100/100 |
| ! | 10/28/2025 06:38 |  Tamthebam | 22,857 | 69/100 |
| ! | 09/20/2025 10:59 | suzukikai | 70 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.9.
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Given the incredible quality of the tracks, it's unbelievable that this is an album consisting of b-sides. This is better than most studio albums. Acquiesce and Talk Tonight are amazing, definitely both in my top 5 Oasis tracks. It's criminal that they were overlooked for (What's the Story) Morning Glory, if they added those two to that album in place of Hey Now and Hello it would hands down be the best album of all time.
Brad1770 09/10/2022 06:55 | #289543
I bet in hindsight NG regrets putting all of theses great tracks out as B-Sides. Woops
This just feels like a record of filler content with the occasional gem popping up every so often. These gems would include Half The World Away, Acquiesce and Talk Tonight. These songs are all classic Oasis and are actually some of my favourite tracks by them. However, the rest of the album lets them down with pretty bland performances and repetitive songs. A lot of their songs are usually quite simple but that would add to the charm of them and make them effective whereas on here they just seem too simple and that makes them become stale pretty quickly. The Beatles cover is pretty bad as well and it always leaves a bad taste for me when that track ends. Overall, there is nothing really to draw me back to this album as I would just listen to the three songs I like outside of the album.
AlvaroIesus 10/12/2021 09:52 | #274895
Could have been their 3rd A+ studio album. Solid tracks.
On par with Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory, in my opinion. Should be ranked higher. Forget swamp song and the questionable walrus cover and you've got a solid album. It's criminal that these songs were wasted as B-sides.
Considering these are B-sides, it is more than decent.
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InsanityPrawnBoy 09/29/2019 07:16 | #243178
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Alot of great tracks here, in their Singles like Marc Bolan & T.Rex the B.Sides were just as good as the hit if not better at times.
YEEZY 06/24/2018 19:07 | #217216
A really great collection of B-sides. Half the World Away is a classic but Acquiesce and The Masterplan are underrated gems in Oasis' discography.
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