Just to finish my original point about Oasis and B-sides - there are many, many musicians and bands out there with fantastic and famous B-sides/outtakes, and The Beatles are certainly up there, but in terms of how Oasis' B-sides are perceived within their fanbases and where they stand compared to songs from proper studio albums, I can think of very few examples (another one that did come to mind now is Suede's Sci-Fi Lullabies) where, for instance, a B-side compilation is almost without any exception ranked among the top 3 records a band has did.
This does not mean that I personally think best Oasis B-sides are better songs than, say, the best Radiohead ones.
Lost Dogs is a great B-side collection which includes, among many others, Yellow Ledbetter, but there are relatively few Pearl Jam fans or lists on the internetz that will include it in their top 3 "albums".
Check any "rank Oasis albums" list and The Masterplan will often be there at no. 3, sometimes even above. It does help that The Masterplan is more concise than many of the B-side compilations that other artists have released and that were spread over two or three discs (e.g. Waits' Orphans, and even the aforementioned Sci-Fi Lullabies has a polarizing 2nd disc), and there is the "advantage" of having a discography that has turned, well, to shit in the 2nd half of their career, so the competition is lighter.
In any case, they better play Acquiesce and The Masterplan next year!
(and this is only pertaining to The Masterplan; they could easily have released another set of popular B-sides that were not included on that compilation and it would be among the most popular song collections they have)
