Thank
you all very much for submitting your votes towards my Top 20 albums survey.
As
mentioned last year, I am now only compiling overall results for those people who have voted over the last 5 years. This has taken the number of lists down to 42 including many who have submitted new choices this year as
well as three new voters.
Before
giving you the results, a note on the voting procedure. I have allocated points for each vote. If your album choices were
ranked 1 to 20, I have awarded 20 points to your no. 1 choice, 19 for your no. 2 and so on down to 1 point for your no. 20
choice. Many people didn’t rank their list of 20 albums in order - in these cases I have, as before, given each of the
20 albums the median points value of 10.5 points.
Anyway,
that’s enough about the scoring procedure - here are the Top 40 Albums from my poll ranked by points then by no. of
votes with the December 2010 positions in brackets (Top 60 only).
The
Top Albums for those who have voted in the past 5 years only are below (last year’s position in brackets – Top
60 only).
|
|
Artist / Group |
Title |
Votes |
Points |
|
1 (1) |
Beatles |
Revolver |
9 |
99.0 |
|
2 (11) |
Beatles |
Sgt. Pepper |
6 |
89.5 |
|
3 (3) |
Pink Floyd |
Dark Side Of The Moon |
6 |
82.5 |
|
4 (2) |
Radiohead |
OK Computer |
6 |
81.5 |
|
5 (7) |
Radiohead |
The Bends |
5 |
60.5 |
|
6 (10) |
Kinks |
Village Green Preservation Soc |
5 |
58 |
|
7 (4) |
Manic Street Preachers
|
Holy Bible
|
4 |
55.5 |
|
8 (46) |
Pink Floyd |
Wish You Were Here |
5 |
55 |
|
9 (16) |
Simon & Garfunkel |
Bookends |
4 |
48.5 |
|
10 (5) |
Beatles |
.Rubber Soul |
4 |
48 |
|
11 (8) |
Simon & Garfunkel |
Bridge Over Troubled Water
|
4 |
44.5 |
|
12 (10) |
Pulp |
Different Class |
4 |
42.5 |
|
13= (20) |
Bruce Springsteen |
Born To Run |
4 |
42 |
|
13= (41) |
Pink Floyd |
Meddle |
4 |
42 |
|
15 (31) |
Fairport Convention
|
Liege & Lief
|
3 |
38 |
|
16 (26) |
Neil Young |
Harvest |
4 |
37.5 |
|
17 (17) |
Joni Mitchell
|
Blue |
2 |
37 |
|
18= (13) |
Beatles |
Beatles (White Album) |
3 |
36 |
|
18= (18) |
Bob Dylan |
Blonde On Blonde |
3 |
36 |
|
18= (32) |
Van Morrison |
Astral Weeks |
3 |
36 |
Among
the albums between 21 and 30 are Wishbone Ash – Argus, David Bowie – Aladdin Sane, John Fogerty – Revival
and Muse – Origin Of Symmetry. Muse’s Absolution (6 last year) is
by far the biggest “casualty” in this year’s chart.
The
top overall group / artist sorted by total no. of points then total no. of votes, then no. of different albums is as follows
(December 2010 positions in brackets - top 25 only)
|
|
Artist / Group |
Total Votes |
Total Points |
Different LPs |
|
1 (1) |
The Beatles |
35 |
391 |
12 |
|
2 (3) |
Pink Floyd |
20 |
227.5 |
7 |
|
3 (2) |
Radiohead |
15 |
182.5 |
5 |
|
4 (8) |
Neil Young |
11 |
126.5 |
6 |
|
5 (5) |
Elton John |
11 |
116.75 |
7 |
|
6 (6) |
Bob Dylan |
10 |
109.5 |
7 |
|
7 (4) |
Muse |
11 |
101.5 |
5 |
|
8 (7) |
David Bowie |
10 |
98 |
5 |
|
9 (12) |
Led Zeppelin |
8 |
98 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10 (13) |
Joni Mitchell |
8 |
97 |
5 |
|
11 (9) |
Simon & Garfunkel |
8 |
93 |
2 |
|
12 (10) |
Manic Street Preachers |
7 |
85.5 |
4 |
|
13 (11) |
Queen |
8 |
82.5 |
6 |
|
14 (14) |
Bruce Springsteen |
7 |
73.5 |
4 |
|
15 (18) |
Frank Sinatra
|
4 |
65 |
4 |
Among
the slightly more unusual artists just below the Top 15 are Tomasz Stanko and Fairport Convention..
I
will shortly put these overall results onto my web site http://www.fieldfareguru.com which
also includes album, gig, film reviews and much more.
Keep
enjoying the music,
Greg
May
2011
