Proof that music critics need fuck all about music (mostly C&P)
® Pseud (in the United Kingdom) 29 Dec 2004 at 10:14 GMT

"Kanye West's album, the College Dropout, is the critics favourite album of 2004. It topped HMV's annual Poll of Polls, rounding up the end of year lists from all Britain's major newspapers and magazines.

Chart:
1 Kanye West - The College Dropout
2 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
3 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
4 The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
5 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus
6 Dizzee Rascal - Showtime
7 Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
8 Brian Wilson - Smile
9 Killers - Hot Fuss
10 Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
11 The Libertines - The Libertines
12 Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
13 Tom Waits - Real Gone
14 U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
15 Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
16 Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In The Hands
17 The Futureheads - The Futureheads
18 Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill
19 Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
20 Wilco - A Ghost Is Born"

First off how the FUCK did Franz Ferdinand get to be third? And what the FUCK are U2 doing way down at 14 and Morrissey even further down at 19?
The Scissor Sisters and The Libertines should barely be scraping into the top 20 NOT taking up the lofty positions they are doing!
And where the FUCK are Slipknot, Motörhead, Isis and Chris Rea in this poll? And Brian Wilson should be head and shoulders above the damn lot of them!!
As for the rest of the albums in this chart, with the exception of The Streets, I've yet had the pleasure/misfortune to hear them.

Re: Proof that music critics know fuck all about music (mostly C&P)
® Pseud (in the United Kingdom) 29 Dec 2004 at 10:55 GMT

Sorry, just correcting the title of the thread.
Do carry on...

Re: Proof that music critics know fuck all about music (mostly C&P)
® Melba (in the United Kingdom) 29 Dec 2004 at 12:06 GMT

Or perhaps just proof that their taste differs from yours?

Re: Proof that music critics know fuck all about music (mostly C&P)
® Pseud (in the United Kingdom) 29 Dec 2004 at 22:10 GMT

That goes without saying!
But the travesty that is this poll also illustrates that they know fuck all about music imho!