HW: Planet Rock

[Paul Mather]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:14 +0100, Steve Freight wrote:
> My only reason to "pool our vote" is so that it doesn't get diluted.
> 
> There was a poll recently reported in the paper for the best no1 album ever.
> The Beatles Sgt Pepper won by 250 votes over Thriller. Consider though that
> had Jackson won and the Beatles come 2nd that the actual Beatles vote was
> split over 8 albums in the top 20 to Jackson's 1. If there had been only one
> Beatles album to vote for I guess (unless those who voted for the other 7
> preferred Thriller to Sgt Pepper) that the margin would have been much
> greater. I was just suggesting that we get HW as high as we can by
> considering pooling votes - I'm sure other lists will be doing so.

It's not that kind of poll.  It's a vote for the most "must-have"
Hawkwind album.  Hawkwind are guaranteed to come top of such a poll. :-)

Cheers,

Paul.
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