... 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

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[helen99.livejournal.com]

I do too, but ironically not until more recently (when "beatlemania" was going on, I looked on the screaming crowds with disdain as I listened to Robin Williamson (friend of RJ's btw) and the Incredible String Band). But -- the Beatles' music gave me an interesting cross-section of English life, spanning the lonely and desperate (Eleanor Rigby, A Day in the Life, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), the mundane (Penny Lane, Mr. Kite), the violent (Helter Skelter), and the mythical (Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Within you and Without you) (etc.). They were an interesting mix of retro (by 1967 standards) and futuristic. But more than anything else, and all the trappings of the time aside, they were ... British.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Edit - In this video, Robin is the light-haired one with the beard on the left. Mike Heron (the other half of incredible string band) is the dark-haired one on the right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOyiDIUhbAE

I got the two confused, hence the edit.