Terrifying Charts: Poll The People
Poll the People launched earlier this year, with the intention of compiling the definitive Top Tens To End All Top Tens. The big idea is that because they are on the internet and not a bunch of po-faced or point-scoring magazine editors, they can find out what we civilians consider to be our favourite records/films/tv of all time. In a coup of magnificent marketing non-imaginativeness, they even called upon Nick Hornby to do some of the first ones. It is also some sort of social networking site too, but you know, zzzzzzzzzzz.
Anyway, now it is time to see how they are doing. We went on the site this morning and looked at the music charts for R'n'B, Indie, 'Hard' (i.e. not hard) Rock etc. Readers, there are some frankly TERRIFYING results.
First off, here is what they reckon have been voted the Top Ten Best R'n'B Albums, OF ALL TIME:

No readers, you have not gone soft in the crainium after being attacked by a man in a hockey mask. That is Sophie Ellis Bextor at #4.
Next, here are the Top Ten Best 'Hard Rock' Albums.

Now, we have not listened to Trip The Light Fantastic, so maybe it IS, in fact, a cacophony of 8-minute drum solos and needling guitars. But we suspect not.
Next up, hip hop. It is not that bad, although, you know, Public Enemy may have been worth a mention being the Godfathers of the genre, and all that. Obviously Linkin Park are an abomination, but at least they are only at #9.

However, the real shock-horror in the hip hop chart is what comes next, at numbers 11, 12 and 13. But mostly 11 and 13. To wit:

Black Eyed Peas are definitely in one of our Top Tens, but it is not this one.
Lastly, we come to what Poll the People currently reckon are the Greatest Albums In The World Ever. What do you think is at #1, readers - Rubber Soul? Thriller? What's Going On?
No. It is this:

Now if that does not scare you readers, nothing will. Either Poll the People = Worst Top Ten Site EVER, or their website is broken.
The lesson we have learned here is that people might be nice to look at sometimes, but in the main they are idiots. Never give them a chance to register their opinions on things.
It has just occurred to me that perhaps it is an amazing marketing ploy. They are hoping people will go on and vote for things they consider to be better than Bextor. Either that or her online PR team are very very active.
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