Q or non-Q : polling middle England?

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So far as I can see...

Number of women in bands on that list: 0

Number of non-white people in bands on that list: 1 (drummer from the Libertines)

Nice work Q!

plus 1 from the Prodigy

That's not very nice to Amy Winehouse, Neil. <insert zing here>

Some on "Exile On Main Street" too

I'm presuming the Depeche Mode website had a good crack at rigging this poll, then?

Oops, sorry, reading that list literally made me fall asleep and hence miscount!

Maybe Q Magazine gave prospective voters a choice of 50 albums to vote for.

this worthless list was already polled 4 months ago alas:
HMV/Q "Best British Albums Ever " List. Do The UK Music Buying Public Suck?

sorry not polled, just moaned about

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The list is not at all worthless, but the poll may be, considering it was already polled 4 months ago.

I thought they just said it hadn't been polled.. Link?

Not four months ago obv. but two months ago, yes.

so, link?

(like I care!)

Kind of amazed how little mainstream haircut indie of the last few years made the poll, one Arctic Monkeys record, one Libertines record and that's it. The Killers and the Kaiser Chiefs are surprisingly absent, Strokes and White Stripes even more surprisingly absent.

Ditto Franz Ferdinand for that matter.

You know, the album age has lasted since the 60s, and those acts you mention have only been around for a few years. It is natural for such a poll to reflect the entire history and not just the past few years.

After all, most of the best music was made in the 60s, 70s and 80s anyway.

OK, explain Keane then.

As much as I like Franz Ferdinand, Keane are better. They are more tasteful, more sophisticated, more melodic, and trying less to "rock".

Not to mention more fucking boring.

lol at the accents on depeche mode

i vote white album, it's the most modern of all of them

But isn't it less tasteful, less sophisticated, less melodic, and trying more to "rock" than Keane?

LOLOLOLOL @ "tasteful" "sophisticated" and "not trying to rock" being used in relation to a poll with OASIS at numbers 1 and 2.

The actual songs (speaking of the melodies, not the lyrics) of Oasis are actually rather sophisticated. The production is not though, apart from the "Morning Glory" and "Staying On The Shoulder Of Giants" albums, which are thus also their two best albums.

and yet, "going no further than the shadows of giants" is notable by its absence.

Kind of amazed how little mainstream haircut indie of the last few years made the poll, one Arctic Monkeys record, one Libertines record and that's it. The Killers and the Kaiser Chiefs are surprisingly absent, Strokes and White Stripes even more surprisingly absent.

British albums, innit?

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Ah my mistake.

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

and yet, "going no further than the shadows of giants" is notable by its absence.

It has wrongfully gotten the reputation of being their worst album. Probably because it consists of mostly ballads and midtempo stuff and very little "rock". Which is IMO exactly what makes it so great.

I mean, "Who Feels Love" is easily their third best single, behind "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back In Anger", and yet it was one of their biggest ever flops. Some people don't understand subtle and sophisticated pop quality.

That one was decried for being too 'experimental', but the fuckin in the bushes, the most experimental, were taken as it's highlights.

Side 2 gets very generic oasis to the extreme. That is what lets it down. "Little James" was an indulgence they didn;t get away with as nothing after it was any good either.

"Heathen Chem" is worse, though. Liams songs were the highlights there.

"Who Feels Love" is actually kind of experimental. Or, no, it isn't. But for an Oasis song it is. :)

I agree "Heathen Chemistry" was their worst.

I keep seeing this and thinking it's a Q and Not U thread.