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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19333 Location: Cheshire

Coming this Easter Radio 2's top 100 albums.

Cast your vote here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/vote/top-albums/

I was surprised to find I own a fair few of them!

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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I think there are some very notable omissions from the selection offered but from the choice available I went for 'Bat Out Of Hell'

How on earth they could have included artists like Emili Sande who have only been around for less than 18 months but yet not include established acts like The Moody Blues is completely beyond me Rolling Eyes

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Pink Floyd for me.

Schizoidman · Joined: 20 Sep 2010 Posts: 1140 Location: Rural West Sussex

This seems lke a feeble idea, only one album per artist!!??

And why should single releases be an indicator of popularity or success?

In any event most of the albums listed had no singles released from them (eg Sgt Pepper, Dark Side, Deja Vu). This is pathetic broadcasting by the 80s obsessed BBC. Shallow and uninformative.

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6812

Last week 6 Music compiled their Top 100 Greatest Hits from the music they have played in 6 Music's lifetime and asked the audience to choose their favourite To my surprise Clocks by Coldplay won.

The album that that is from (A Rush Of Blood To The Head) is on this Radio 2 list and whilst it's an album rather than just one song it will be interesting,to me, to see where it comes, in the result, as voted for by the Radio 2 audience.

oldraver · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 1175 Location: London

How can you have any album list, that doesn't contain Revolver ? Sgt Pepper's is about fifth or sixth choice for me, amongst Fabs albums. I shall vote for Lady Soul.

Coldplay will probably win, unless there's an Ultravox album on there. Or Robbie Williams.
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Toggy · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239

Has to be Rumours out of that lot.

unclebuck · Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 276 Location: Warwickshire

What kind of tortured logic is this?
It seems that we can vote for a 'favourite album', but only if it's on a list of 'most played' albums on Radio 2.... except that these are not the 'most played' albums, they are the albums that the 'most played' singles happened to be on (ie. an almost arbitrary selection).
What a shame.... this would have been an interesting exercise if it had made any sense at all. The artists who actually concentrated on making great albums, rather than generating hit singles, have been completely wiped out of the poll. Bizarre!
Have I got this wrong? Confused

I voted for Out of the Blue.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

Absolutely right Uncle - but even leaving aside the very good points you make if the stated criteria is correct for example why is the Album 'Heaven On Earth' by Belinda Carlisle not on the favoured 100 list?

It spawned no less than 7 hit singles most of which are played fairly regularly on R2 and the following Album 'Runaway Horses' included a further 6 hit singles most of which get played from time to time

The conclusion has to be that even based on their own criteria the powers that be are massaging the facts to make things fit their own biased agenda and what they actually tell us is frankly absolute bull---t in my view Mad

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Would have liked to vote for Rubber Soul but can't. So have gone for the Kinks.

Ian.

R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

I couldn't see ELO TIME, the most influential album of my life, so I voted for Pulp.

unclebuck · Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 276 Location: Warwickshire

Ah. Time....
Sir Jeffrey of Lynne at his peak: every track a gem.

Excluded, presumably, and for reasons already discussed, because it was a concept album, like so many others dropped from the list. (Moody Blues also previously mentioned - massive albums, major chart success on both side of the pond).
OK, so it's 'most played', supposedly, but how seriously can you take a poll of 'most played albums' that doesn't include such unheard-of obscurities as Saturday Night Fever?

Looks like R2 put the YTS in charge again, just like they did with their poll of greatest 'number-twos'. Wink

Fog on the Tyne · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 1090

And of course everyone knows that Invisible Touch is the pinacle of Genesis's output Rolling Eyes

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littlepieces · Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 1098 Location: Lowestoft

Pink floyd or oasis
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6812

There are a few on that list I could vote for so I think I'll just stop agonising and plump for (the less obvious?) Dare by Human League... an album I enjoy as much now as I did back when it was new.

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unclebuck · Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 276 Location: Warwickshire

Wow.
You've inspired me to listen to it again!
I had it on vinyl originally, then bought the remastered 2001 version on CD. Whilst evocative of the time, it never had the kind of resonance for me that it obviously has for you - I just thought it was a great album.

Listening to an old album like this is like meeting an old friend again after a long time. Especially when you find you know every word, even after a couple of decades!

R2Icon · Joined: 10 Sep 2009 Posts: 1444

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I can't say that it makes me feel 12 (or even the 29 I was when it came out) but Time is indeed a super album - I've dug the LP out to play in its entirety when I've got some time to myself later.

It's an absurd list, even for a "most played" qualification.

I can't vote for two-thirds of them because there are so many better albums by the artists concerned, and the other third don't deserve to be there in the first place.

If my life depended upon having to vote there's only one that stands out - Frank Sinatra's Songs For Swingin' Lovers.
Now wouldn't it be delicious if everyone gave daft polls such as this the finger and voted for that.
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