Q Mag Top 100 Albums Of All Time Readers Poll

But then, what ARE the 100 best albums ever? How can you conduct a poll that will not get everyone riled up?

In truth, the fact that people voted these albums in entitles them to their place. How else are you going to decide what the all-time best albums are, other than by asking people? You could say: this is just the readers of one mag, so it's not a good reflection. But a more widespread public poll would throw up even more contentious results.

But then, why is the absence of the above artists contentious? What entitles them to a place? I wouldn't complain about the absence of Yo La Tengo or Susuma Yokota, so why do I notice the absence of Astral Weeks more, when I don't even like it that much?

So, all polls are pointless. But why is it that when I look at this one, I automatically think "WRRRROOOONNNGGGG!"?

Erm, I'm not sure what my point is...Continue!

- Best of 1972
- Best of 1980 (hurry up it will be closed tonight)
- Best of 1999

The selection of ten records per year is mine. The best stuff from my collection.

P.S. The 1980 poll is closed now. The winner was Joy Division's Closer with almost 40% of the votes.

bloke i went to college with done good :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/09/q-magazine-appoints-editor

I know him vaguely, he's a nice guy, good luck editing Q though.

yeah .. will be interesting to see what he does to it.
would love to stop getting mojo for me monthly fix and try something different.
just the so-called humour in Q gets on my fucking nerves (the dreadful captions etc)

Rees apparently a victim of the chase-the-kids strategy. He had no idea it was coming.

Not quite "made good" for Andrew, given that a few years ago he was the boss of the editor of Q.

fair enough.
i don't keep up with the politics of the industry that close ..

yeah always seems like a nice fella on the WORD podcasts and a proper oldskool knowledgeable dance fan if i'm not much mistaken. i finally stopped buying Q after reading it since 1986 in the 'Rees era' so it'd be interesting to see what he does with it.

iron maiden will give interviews to Q again now?

just dont leave any chutney around

xpost Were you studying politics at Leeds in the late 80s then, mark e?

@VBB : late 80s + leeds, yes. politics, no.

used to hang out with the hall of residence crowd that AH was part of.
we used to chat re designers republic/age of chance etc a lot, especially as AH and his bro ripped tDR styled graf-x for their time @ the student newspaper.

Do you remember his "drugs issue" of Leeds Student, printed over a paisley underlay, which rendered all the content unreadable?

seem to recall a fair bit of content unreadable whatever the underlay ..

joke.

[actually now you mention it, yes i do recall that .. ]