Polls and stuff
I have spent quite a while collating your contributions for the reader's poll, cursing myself for making it so complicated! I had hoped that my plan would make it diverse if only 3 or 4 people voted but I ended up with fifteen widely varying lists, I also noticed that a lot of my choices weren't going to count so I didn't include my own in the vote - I have a separate chin-stroker list on the way! Here is your discerning and diverse top 40....
1= Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
1= The Streets Original Pirate Material
3. The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
4. EL-P Fantastic Damage
5. Boards Of Canada Geogaddi
6. Sonic Youth Murray Street
7. Lambchop Is A Woman
8. Liars They Threw Us All In A Trench...
9. Sleater-Kinney One Beat
10. Tom Waits Alice
11. Beck Sea Change
12=. Spoon Kill The Moonlight
12=. And you will know us by the Trail of Dead Source Codes and Tags
14. Tom Waits Blood Money
15. DJ/Rupture Minesweeper Suite
16. Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights
17. Akufen My Way
18. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man Out Of Season
19. Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
20. Godspeed you black emperor - yanqui uxo
21. Low Trust
22. Suicide American Supreme
23= The Notwist Neon Golden
23= Sigur Ros ()
25. Badly Drawn Boy Have You Fed The Fish?
26. Doves The Last Broadcast
27. The Delgados Hate
28. Johnny Cash American IV - the Man Comes Around
29. Jim O'Rourke Insignificance
30. DJ Shadow The Private Press
31. Antipop Consortium Arrhythmia
32. rjd2 - Dead Ringer
33. Missy Elliott Under Construction
34. Pretty girls make graves - Good Health
35. Songs: Ohia Didn’t it Rain
36. The Books Thought for Food
37. Breeders Title TK
38. Desert Hearts Let’s get Worse
39. Ben Kweller Sha sha
40. Asa-chang & Junray Jun Ray Song Chang
Surprised? I thought the top end turned out quite predictably but there was nice variety lower down. For the life of me I have no idea who the Books or Pretty Girls make Graves are, but they got votes from three separate people so there you go. Comments on the message board if you like....
Oh, and John Peel's Festive 50 is now listed online.