KingOfMetal Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Top 60 British albums of the past 60 years  1. Iron Maiden / The Number of the Beast (9.18%) 2. Depeche Mode / Violator (6.30%) 3. The Beatles / Sergeant Pepper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted May 28, 2012 Moderators Share Posted May 28, 2012 1. Iron Maiden / The Number of the Beast (9.18%) Â No it isn't. Â I really do wish they would not ask the Great British Public on matters such as these and would instead ask me, and just people I deem appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted May 28, 2012 Richard Blackwood misses out again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 28, 2012 Moderators Share Posted May 28, 2012 I have actually listened to, properly all the way through, only 9 of those albums. Â I've never listened to a whole Beatles album. Â Â Edit: 11 of them. I missed Led Zeppelin and The Clash on first count (I haven't heard both of the Zeppelin albums listed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted May 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted May 28, 2012 Black Grape's debut album wins this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted May 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted May 28, 2012 1. Iron Maiden / The Number of the Beast (9.18%) Â No it isn't. Â I really do wish they would not ask the Great British Public on matters such as these and would instead ask me, and just people I deem appropriate. Â I'm with you. Â It should've been Powerslave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffingtonClyro Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 What an odd list. Teenage fanclub in the same list as fucking Adele? Crazy. Teenage fanclub are an absolutely tremendous band and Adele is the flavour of the month. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Adele isn't talented, I'm just saying I wouldn't expect her album to be listed if they done this poll again two years time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 1. Iron Maiden / The Number of the Beast (9.18%) Â No it isn't. Â I really do wish they would not ask the Great British Public on matters such as these and would instead ask me, and just people I deem appropriate. Â I'm with you. Â It should've been Powerslave. Â I agree. NOTB isn't even top 3 Maiden albums. Violator over DSOTM is shocking. And where the hell's The Wall?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WU LYF 4 LYF Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Another laughable list. Barely a dance, hip hop, electronic or folk release among them. Barely worth even commenting these days tbh, there's a awful list out every other week in whatever publication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted May 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted May 28, 2012 What an odd list. Teenage fanclub in the same list as fucking Adele? Crazy. Teenage fanclub are an absolutely tremendous band and Adele is the flavour of the month. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Adele isn't talented, I'm just saying I wouldn't expect her album to be listed if they done this poll again two years time. Â It's already the fifth best selling album in British history, despite having been out a little over a year. It's sold at least 4.8 million in the UK, which means that something like one in five homes has a legal copy. It's the type of album that people who never buy music get, so I suspect it will do well in these polls (or at least one's that ask a genuinely representative sample of the public) for many years. Â All that said, it's very obvious this is neither a crafted list (so it's ridiculous to get upset and say "how can you rank X above Y") nor a representative poll and it's just a poll of visitors to the HMV website, which has allowed metal fans to fuck about with it. It's perf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted May 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted May 28, 2012 Another laughable list. Barely a dance, hip hop, electronic or folk release among them. Barely worth even commenting these days tbh, there's a awful list out every other week in whatever publication. Â How many good British hip hop albums have come out in the last 60 years? Â None. That's how many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted May 28, 2012 Another laughable list. Barely a dance, hip hop, electronic or folk release among them. Barely worth even commenting these days tbh, there's a awful list out every other week in whatever publication. Â How many good British hip hop albums have come out in the last 60 years? Â None. That's how many. Â Richard Blackwood misses out again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Burchill's Buddy Posted May 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted May 28, 2012 Somewhere there's a Depeche Mode fan smugly laughing to himself about how clever he is to have submitted 6,000 votes by himself. Â Can't argue with numbers 3-20 though. Seems pretty spot on and in line with what you usually see in these polls, either public ones or by music journalists. Both Number of the Beast and Violate are good albums, somewhere around the 50-70 mark though. Not the top 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier Six Brawler Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 I don't know anyone who thinks What's the Story is better than Definitely Maybe. Â Rubber Soul is the best Beatles album IMO. SPLHCB is ridiculously overrated. Â Fat of the Land was a rubbish album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted May 28, 2012 Moderators Share Posted May 28, 2012 Another laughable list. Barely a dance, hip hop, electronic or folk release among them. Barely worth even commenting these days tbh, there's a awful list out every other week in whatever publication. Â How many good British hip hop albums have come out in the last 60 years? Â None. That's how many. Â Â Run Come Save Me is on that list, and I think it's most definitely deserving of being there. Â Â Odd choice of Black Sabbath album to make the list. All of the other early Ozzy-era albums are better, and on a list like this I'd expect Paranoid to be the one flying the flag for Sabbath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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