Well, these polls always tell us more about the voters than anything else and, perhaps more importantly, about which music fans are most loyal when it comes to online voting. So well done to the Radiohead faithful who succeeded in voting ‘OK Computer’ to the top of Channel 4’s best album poll, which aired last night. Now we love Radiohead here at CMU, but were not convinced ‘OK Computer’ can really be said to be a better album than, say, ‘The White Album’ and ‘Revolver’ and ‘Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’, but such is the whim of these surveys.
Anyway, here’s the top ten (every one “changed the world as we know it” if the pundits commenting were to be believed):
1. Radiohead - Ok Computer
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
6. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
7. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
8. Madonna - Like A Prayer
9. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
10. The Beatles – Revolver
The full top ten is at :
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites
/G/greatest/albums/results.html