Barrel of Fish

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Q mag's Top 100 albums EVAR as voted for by readers - yes yes I KNOW - flicked through it in a garage yesterday, can't find the list online but The Sun has the top 20. Last time it did this in '98 or so Radiohead won, and now Radiohead win again, blimey.

So this confirms what you thought about Q readers, but for seasoned canon-watchers (ahem) it's sort of interesting, the dominance of 90s records and - really intriguing this - nothing post-2002 (remember that in the 98 poll Q readers were hardly shy of voting for recent stuff). What does it suggest?

- not good results for Q, as despite the enormous current boom in new "Q-ish" music the reader's aren't loving it like they loved Britpop, which suggests that fans of Killers, Franz etc. aren't that interested in Q.
- genuine shift in canon, or at least this version of it (dunno if a Mojo survey wd produce remotely similar results, but a Radio 1/2 poll might well). One of the things we clucked about at the time of Britpop was the whole "feeble rerun of 60s" thing, but the 60s have been trounced in this survey. The Q reading demographic firmly and unshakeably believes that music was never better than in 1995-1997.

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it tells us that Q readers don't like new music, so much as they aren't yet agreed on what new music is the greatest ever - I'm not a rock press reader these days, but while I have a vague notion of what they are loving in current bands, I've not noticed any consensus on MONUMENTAL CLEARLY CANONICAL albums lately, like there was for Radiohead or the Stone Roses.

Obviously it looks a depressing (though unsurprising) list to me because it's all white blokes with guitars.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah but you'd expect to see a few lower down, and if the Sun is right (quite possibly not!) that isn't happening.

Oh well it's only Q! May it go bust sooner not later.

[(Anonymous)]

The full 100 breaks down into decades as:
50s: 1
60s: 15
70s: 25
80s: 15
90s: 32
00s: 12

Which suggests 60s definitely dethroned, affection for the 70s, no real feeling for the 80s despite all the talk over the last few years, total love for the 90s and actually almost as much for the last few years....