Best Album From The Top 50 of The Guardian/HMV/Channel 4 top 100 Albums Of The Millenium

12. The Beatles Abbey - Road

Somebody - Ban Me From Just ILM If That's Possible Please

this looks so close to the Q readers' poll of the same time, it's untrue.

3 Oasis albums in the Top 50

thing is, a list like this didn't seem so inconceivable back then as it did now. a list like this would be laughed out the house in 2011 - not even considered.

no, I'm pretty sure any list that ranked The Stone Roses the second-best album of all time and What's The Story? (Morning Glory) as the fifth-best album of all time was also stupid in 1997

unless maybe you were 12

the way miles davis pops up there couldn't be bettered

Only a thumping victory for Meat Loaf can save us now.

the way miles davis pops up there couldn't be bettered

― watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:01 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

"Kind Of White", more like

58. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend

Cos that's the only one you need, right?

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On, Whitey

Pet Sounds in at 26 - was similarly low on the Q Readers' Poll if memory serves me correctly. Funny how the album would snowball with revisionist cachet in the following years.

I doubt it would be much higher now, would it?

I feel like we're just marking time until Geir steps in and send the thread supernova.

1997 was obv. a bad year for the Beach Boys

Oasis had got everyone listening to those fuckers, the Beatles

what scares me is that if this same poll was done today, somehow either Owl City or Fester the Peehole would end up on it

Not in the UK thank fuck

i mean maybe, i dunno, i am joyously out of touch with what people who listen to that sort of thing listen to

I doubt it would be much higher now, would it?

― Euripides Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:08 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

Circa 2004 I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been number 1.

(xp) oh that's true

enjoy yr Jessie J and La Roux

With the general public? I doubt it. (xp)

Pet Sounds was regularly number 1 when the NME did this sort of thing in the mid 80s thru early 90s, i seriously doubt that its poll cachet has ever been as high since.

trippy coincidence but those are exactly my favourite 50 albums, in order.

Yeah, it's not like "Pet Sounds" has only been re-discovered in the last few years. Obviously the peak popularity for it with the general public would have been in 1966!

dunno about that Tom, in 1966 i think the general public was only just beginning to get the hang of this "bullshit reverence for the album as the most perfect form of musical expression ever" thing

Yes, they had a more Mike Love approach in those days

2 Beach Boys Pet Sounds Jul 1966

how an album sold in the mid 60s compared to other albums doesn't tell us anything about the horseshit that this thread is about

lol Spiralli

I think it shows that the general public was only just beginning to get the hang of this "bullshit reverence for the album as the most perfect form of musical expression ever" thing

you may not agree...

84. Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals

My favourite placing.

Vaguely surprised by the lack of the Jam / the Specials / Small Faces / the Kinks, I thought they would be shoe-ins for this sort of thing after having been so lauded during the britpop era.

No Who at all. For some reason, that doesn't surprise me.

Someone had to make way for Meatloaf

The artists that influenced The Beatles most are not on this list.

25. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

bahahahahahahaaaa

I was pretending that hadn't happened tbh

Straight dying @ NV itt

still voting for Forever Changes

xpost Should I use an IDGI token here?

well, The Fat Of The Land may be The Prodigy's most successful album but in 1997 it was easily their worst (no one at the time knew they had an Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned in them)

It was mindlessly overrated at the time.

not be jjjusten or me, is what the takeaway should be

best thing about that album was ibanez guitars having to give an endorsement to a guy named gizz butt imo

also "Diesel Power"

whoops looks like we just ran out of best things

actually prob the best thing was playing older prodigy records for people that were super into it and watching them wait for the ripping geetars that never came

i still talk to people who think the prodigy only got good on FOTL.

those people are wrong and stupid

Jimi Mandrax

Jimi Mandrax - Are You Even Awake?

u know people say steve vai is the best but as far as i am concerned there's no doubt jimi hendrix is the best

Groovejet?

feel confident that a 2k11 poll would see Moseley Shoals crack the top 50.

oswald colour scene

I think y'all are sleeping on the quiet genius of this: Every type of music was eligible: from the Beatles to Beethoven; from country to classical; from pop to hip hop. It was the most ambitious survey ever undertaken.

what's your favourite beethoven album?

greatest hits

Camper Van Beethoven - II & III

john lennon was great in the beatles but im not sure if his other stuff is up to scratch to be perfectly honest with u

I think y'all are sleeping on the quiet genius of this: Every type of music was eligible: from the Beatles to Beethoven; from country to classical; from pop to hip hop. It was the most ambitious survey ever undertaken.

I know!!! You'd think they would have quietly buried that part once they saw their results! "Before Kind Of Blue, earth was a world without music or form..."

no offence but kind of blue is kind of boring imho

"What's Goin' On" jas never done much for me either, get both of them out of this poll

that may seem controversial but at the end of the day we live in a democracy

no offence but kind of blue is kind of boring imho

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:06 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"What's Goin' On" jas never done much for me either, get both of them out of this poll

― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:07 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

otm -- also hendrix but no clapton? the fuck?

eric clapton is the sort of proper music that never gets a look in in these polls

too many journalists with gnvqs from some polytechnic who think they can decide what is good music, imho

He's too black for these racist polls

tbh i dont think it matters if he is black or not its not about that its all about the music

Blue.

30. Oasis - Be Here Now

O-0

i agree about the lack of Clapton but don't take it out on Miles Davies, he was a huge influence on guys like Nik Kershaw and Level 42.

Yes, they improved on him by adding more melody

And getting rid of the annoying trumpet sounds

Replacing them with superior synth trumpet sounds

another common criticism of these polls is that the dance and electronic genres aren't recognised, but bands like radiohead and the killers have been inccorporating dance influences into soundscapse that work at home as well as in the club

Unfortunately Miles Davis never had the chance to work with a bass player as gifted as Mark King, who knows what he - they - might have achieved

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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no juice newton albums?

4eva lol at these lists

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

47. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell 4

well at least we got something out of this

The knowledge that album even exists?

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/meat_loaf-7650221.jpg

meatloaf says "FUCK YOU"

his name is robert paulson

The knowledge that album even exists?

― PoMo with a shotgun (snoball), Wednesday, September 28, 2011 4:04 PM Bookmark

...

MEATLOAF WAS ROBBED I DEMAND A RECOUNT

"This poll's a lemon and I want my. mon-ey. back!"

full footage of the show inc where bob geldof got angry at the #2 album

https://youtu.be/sYzfILjp0LI?t=4278