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From: r032@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP ( Sam Rebelsky)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Finally: The top n album list
Message-ID: <1143@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 04:40:59 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 04:40:59 1985
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Finally:

	>>>	The USENET top 78 album list <<<

First, the apologies/explanations:
  Sorry that this took so long to get posted, but I did say that I would
  post the results in the middle of September.  I was delayed because the
  system was down for a week and a half and I also had other work to do.
  Only some of the following errors are mine.  Hopefully there aren't many.
  If someone didn't know the name of an album, and I didn't know it either,
  then I left their comment.  I think that I didn't lose anyone's list, but
  if I did, I'm sorry.

Second, the rating system:
  I felt that an album that more than one person included in his/her top
  ten list deserved more points than one that only one person included.  So,
  for albums that were in an order, I gave 20 points for 1st, 19 for 2nd,
  and so on.  Albums that received equal ratings split their points (so
  for the people that refused to order their lists, everything received 
  15.5 points).

Third, some explanations of what's being posted:
  This posting only includes the albums that more than one person voted
  for.  I wasn't planning to post the albums that only got one vote, but
  then I realized that people did spend effort compiling their lists, and
  would like everyone to see the neat albums they included, so I will
  post a separate list of albums that only received one vote.  I may also
  compile some sort of list of artists (probably one that doesnt' give
  multiple points for someone who includes the same artist multiple times).
  Finally, I'm still working on the collection of longer reviews, and will
  mail it to the people who requested it when I'm finished.  I will continue
  to mail it to people who request it until I'm crazy or sick or bored.

The following list is in the form:
  ranking) artist - album title - number of points

Without further garbage, here is the list:

1)  Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon - 190.5
2)  Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 174
3)  Pink Floyd - The Wall - 149
4)  Who - Who's Next - 140
5)  Beatles - Abbey Road - 132
6)  Bush, Kate - The Dreaming - 108.5
7)  Led Zeppelin - ZoSo (Zeppelin IV) - 107.5
8)  Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album) -  116.5
9)  Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 98
10) Springsteen, Bruce - Born to Run - 88.5

11) Clash - London Calling - 85
12) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 77.5
13) Talking Heads - Remain in Light - 65.5
14) Pink Floyd - Animals - 65.5
15) Who - Quadrophenia - 61
16) Dire Straits - Making Movies - 61
17) Beatles - Revolver - 57.5
18) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - 56
19) Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery - 54.5
20) Joel, Billy - The Stranger - 53

21) Gabriel, Peter - PG4 (Security) - 52
22) Grateful Dead - Live Dead - 51
23) Steely Dan - Aja - 50.5
    Grateful Dead - Europe '72 - 50.5
25) Kansas - LeftOverture - 49.5
26) Dire Straits - Love Over Gold - 49
27) Hendrix, Jimi - Electric Ladyland - 48.5
28) Jethro Tull - Aqualung - 48
    Bush, Kate - Never For Ever - 48
30) Springsteen, Bruce - The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle - 47
31) Yes - Close to the Edge - 46
    King, Carole - Tapestry - 46
    Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East - 46
34) Who - Tommy - 45
    Credence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys - 45
36) Doors - The Doors - 43
37) Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire III - 42
38) John, Elton - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - 41
39) Joel, Billy - Piano Man - 40
40) Grateful Dead - American Beauty - 39
    Bush, Kate - Hounds of Love - 39

42) Little Feat - Dixie Chicken - 37
43) XTC - Black Sea - 36
    Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments - 36
45) REM - Murmur - 35.5
46) Genesis - Selling England By The Pound - 34.5
    Genesis - Foxtrot - 34.5
    Bowie, David - Ziggy Stardust - 34.5
49) Van Halen - Van Halen - 34
    Pretenders - Learning to Crawl - 34
51) Costello, Elvis - Armed Forces - 33.5
52) Bush, Kate - The Kick Inside - 32
53) Vega, Suzanne - Suzanne Vega - 31
    Smith, Patti - Horses - 31
    Nyro, Laura - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - 31
    Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus - 31
    Genesis - Trick of the Tail - 31
    Davis, Miles - Kind of Blue - 31
59) Bush, Kate - Lionheart - 30
    Derek and the Dominoes - Layla - 30

61) Supertramp - Breakfast in America - 29
    Stevens, Cat - Tea for the Tillerman - 29
    Ramones - Ramones - 29
    Police - Synchronicity - 29
65) Springsteen, Bruce - Nebraska - 28.5
    Reed, Lou - Rock 'n' Roll Animal - 28.5
67) Yes - The Yes Album - 28
    Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols - 28
69) Yes - Fragile - 27.5 
    Dylan, Bob & the Band - The Basement Tapes - 27.5
71) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - 27
    Benetar, Pat - Crimes of Passion - 27
73) Springsteen, Bruce - Born in the USA - 26.5
    Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks - 26.5
    Fagen, Donald - The Nightfly - 26.5
76) Prince - 1999 - 26
    Gabriel, Peter - Peter Gabriel (1st Solo) - 26
78) Simon and Garfunkel - Greatest Hits - 25

Thanks very much to everyone who participated.  

-- 
Sam Rebelsky 
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