... And WTMD's #1 is........

[helen99]

So... WTMD finally got to #1. The way they arrived at the list (they said) was by votes of the listeners. I had no idea that indie listeners liked old music so much. Most of my favorites were completely missing from the countdown. I doubt they even know who Woflsheim is, and where was the *real* greatest album of all time, "Fragile" by NIN? To its credit, the winner is a very, very Britsh piece of work, which lends it 50 points of charm aside from its musical worth, which is prodigious.

The greatest album of all time, according to the listeners of WTMD 98.7, 105.5 is:

The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I don't think that I'd personally put it at #1, but definitely in the top 20, and likely in the top 10. One of the problems with newer albums in such a rating is that I'm assuming that many people take how influential an album has been into account, and older albums have obviously had a chance to influence music for more decades.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Balancing popularity with influence, the Beatles were peraps both the most influential and popular band. It's weighted toward the earlier bands for several reasons. The first is the fact that there are more decades to influence. The second is that there were fewer bands to compete with, and so became possible to capture the imagination of a larger percentage of the audience. Some of the later ones had an influence, but only on a cross section of people and not on everyone. I'm not sure how that would have affected listener votes, though - they tend to vote for what they like, and many of them wouldn't remember half of those bands. I think the programming on WTMD (at other times besides the indie slots in the morning and evening) makes for a very broad spectrum of listeners, and the listeners tend to be better educated musically.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Adding to my last post, by "earlier", I mean 1963 to about 1971.. Before that there were greatly influential artists (Muddy Waters, et. al.,) and very popular ones (e.g., Elvis Presley), but I think the media ability to generate huge influence and popularity actually peaked around the 60s to very early 70s. After that the audience was divided, having a much greater choice.