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

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I am a sucker for EOY polls and have frequently bought - and continue to buy - records that feature on them. (Thanks for nothing, whichever rag it was that raved about The Avalanches.)

The Xmas/New Year double issue of NME was the only issue in the year that wasn't fit only for lining the budgie cage. I was a MM man as you know.

I probably got annoyed at the Q list last year (as per usual).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

my 'something totally different' answer to Q2 isn't actually all that different. I start thinking about it around June. Then I forget all about it again until December (or when prompted by others' listmaking). Relative positions on the list are only sorted properly on December 31st however.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Something that's always fascinated me is why - when it comes to pop - critics' lists are scrutinised to the nth degree but hardly anybody pays much attention to, let alone analyses, best-seller lists.

Contrast with the book world, for example, where what sells seems far more important.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Cos pop is a mass medium which is neurotic about whether or not it's art, and publishing is a mass medium which is neurotic about whether or not it's still popular?