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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: List of Top Albums
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 10:35:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 10:35:01 1985
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In article <2381@sjuvax.UUCP> kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) writes:
>
>I can agree with you to a point Sue but, I also think it has to do with the
>age of the average person that is on the net. I can think of a lot of "new"
>albums that I would consider in my "favorites" list. Examples include Joy
>Division's Unknown Pleasures and Echo and the Bunnymen's first album. I didn't
>mean my comment regarding "not wanting to listen to anything else" as bad--
>I just think it's a fact that people get used to certain things and tend not
>to want to change to something new.
>
   Has anybody stated the obvious yet?  Nearly everybody has recent albums that
they enjoy enough to put in their top ten list.  Nearly everyone has older
albums in that list.  There are a helluvalot more "old" albums than recent
albums.  There are certain albums which enjoy widespread popularity, for
whatever reason (could it be that they contain good music with lasting value?),
and continue to be enjoyed over the years.  Since more than a couple people
would list those albums *somewhere* on the list, they would get a high score
in the poll even if it was number 10 on each list, and the top nine were
divided among the thousands of albums released in, say, the last 3 years.
Personally, several of my top picks made it to the "One vote" list, while
most others were not in the top 20.  However, down there at number ten
was Dark Side of The Moon, because I couldn't *not* put it on the list
(however, I've since listened to "Meddle" and "Wish You Were Here" again,
and consider them better than DSM).
   Another lesser issue has been brought up.  That's the fact that trying
to pick ten definite "top" albums is extremely difficult for most people
(me included), and trying to order them is even worse.  I think if we
were to rerun the poll (that's NOT a suggestion), giving people the
current poll results to help jog their memories, things would be a bit
different (but just a bit).
 
 - joel "vo" plutchak
   {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster

Can you say "opinion"?  I *knew* you could!