... 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

[drchuck1968.livejournal.com]

WFUV's listeners put Bob Dylan at the top of the heap:

http://www.wfuv.org/music/best/essentialalbums.html

[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.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's a fair cop. I don't know enough about music to pluck alternative suggestions out of the air. If you gave me a list I probably couldn't rank them because I wouldn't have even ever heard 80% of them. I do like Sergeant Pepper.