Is this really the best poll I can manage?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sadly, yes.

[Poll #1085055]

Have you ever bought a record because of an end-of-year round-up? Was the NME's Christmas double issue ever a beloved yuletide tradition? What was the last end-of-year poll that actually managed to make you cross?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I keep a rolling wordpad list of albums - this is easy as there's never exactly a surfeit of great albums.

I always intend to keep a rolling wordpad list of singles but this is TOO HARD as there are LITERALLY HUNDREDS of the things - last.fm this year has proved such a boon, there is no danger of me forgetting anything b/c if I haven't played it at home more than a few times it probably shouldn't be in the list anyway.

I don't really know why I do it (well NOW it is to submit to eg P&J or whatever), it's part recommendation, part knowledge that other people will be doing it and the public will pay attention so I gots to rep for my favourites, part sifting what I REALLY enjoyed over a year from what I was merely OK with, and part "YES PARIS HILTON IS BETTER THAN WHAT OF IT"

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I do that with wordpad, only with songs not albums- I stumbled across a really old one (well, five years or something) the other day and was mortified by the level of INDIE.