Originally written by Sean Adams · 16 August 2012
Ever wondered what music the people who post on the DiS boards are into? Us too. We've always thought about doing some sort of poll-of-polls, and then - as is often the way with DiS - a member of the community took it upon themselves to start one. The results of which were revealed on the boards but right here, right now, we can reveal far more than the top 20...
1) My Bloody Valentine Loveless 2) Radiohead OK Computer 3) Radiohead Kid A 4) Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights 5) Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 6) The Smiths The Queen Is Dead 7) Sufjan Stevens Illinois 7) Weezer Pinkerton 9) Arcade Fire Funeral 10) The National Alligator 11) The Cure Disintegration 12) The National Boxer 13) Joanna Newsom Ys 13) Pixies Doolittle 13) Weezer Blue 16) Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible 16) The Wrens Meadowlands 18) Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A#OO 19) The Beach Boys Pet Sounds 20) Nirvana In Utero 20) Radiohead In Rainbows 20) The Beatles White Album 23) David Bowie Low 23) Sigur Rós () 25) Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 25) Bjork Vespertine 25) McLusky Do Dallas 28) 65daysofstatic The Fall of Math 28) Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique 28) Joy Division Closer 28) Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 28) The Clash London Calling 33) Talk Talk Spirit of Eden 33) The Stooges Fun House 35) Bloc Party Silent Alarm 35) Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 35) The Stone Roses The Stone Roses 35) Why? Alopecia 39) Brand New The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me 39) of Montreal Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer? 39) Primal Scream Screamadelica 42) Bruce Springsteen Born to Run 43) Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas 44) Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists 45) Spiritualized Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space 46) Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One 47) At The Drive In Relationship Of Command 48) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See A Darkness 49) Elliott Smith XO 50) Explosions In The Sky The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place 51) Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun 52) Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream 53) Blur 13 54) Deftones White Pony 55) Elbow Asleep In The Back 56) Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness 57) Wu-Tang Clan Enter the 36 Chambers 58) dEUS Ideal Crash 59) Dizzee Rascal Boy in da Corner 60) DJ Shadow Endtroducing 61) Idlewild 100 Broken Windows 62) Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 63) LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver 64) My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything 65) New Order Low Life 66) New Order Technique 67) Talking Heads Remain In Light 68) Tom Waits Rain Dogs 69) Wire Pink Flag 70) Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica 71) Dinosaur Jr You're Living All Over Me 72) Radiohead The Bends 73) The Replacements Let It Be 74) Tindersticks 1st 75) Beck Sea Change 76) Bruce Springsteen Darkness on The Edge of Town 77) Desaparecidos Read Music/Speak Spanish 78) Flying Lotus Los Angeles 79) Pantha du Prince This Bliss 80) Rush Moving Pictures 81) The Blue Nile Hats 82) The Radio Dept. Lesser Matters 83) Velvet Underground & Nico 84) Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank 85) Brand New Deja Entendu 86) Burial Untrue 87) Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill 88) Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring 89) Mew And the Glass Handed Kites 90) Modest Mouse Moon & Antarctica 91) Mogwai Young Team 92) Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral 93) Panda Bear Person Pitch 94) Sugar Copper Blue 95) The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs 96) Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 97) Animal Collective Feels 98) Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 99) Brian Eno Another Green World 100) David Bowie Hunky Dory 101) Future of the Left Travels with Myself and Another
A Few Thoughts...
° The full list contains 630 different albums. ° Votes were totted up with 10 points awarded for position 1, 9 points for 2, 8 points for three, etc... ° Only 21 points separated albums listed from 30-10, so the positioning of it was all very, very close. ° The debate as to which Radiohead and Weezer albums the DiS boards prefer is over (until the next time someone mentions it). ° Three of DiS' editors top 10, didn't even make the top 101 (see here for my list). ° Fleetwood Mac's Rumours didn't even get one vote?!?! ° There's a weird lack of electronic releases, perhaps due to there being so many personal favourites, making it harder for them to rise to the top, so yesterday we started a thread to find out what the DiS community's favourite Electronic album is.
DiS would like to thank community member japes for the time taken to compile and share this list. We're putting together a little package for you as a thank you.
DiScuss: Predictable? Anything surprise you by its inclusion or absence? (Where's NiN's The Fragile? Mansun's Six? Does anyone really think Neutral Milk Hotel are better than Bowie? Really? Like, really-really?) How many of these do you own? What did you vote for and do you wish you had been more or less tactical?