The Guardian's Best 50 Albums of the 21st Century - The Official I Love Music Poll

That Dido went from Queen of Carthage to Queen of the Charts was a real landmark of feminsim and an inspiration to us all. Well, the birds and that. Well done Dido - she gets my vote.

a real g goes a to z (gaz)

It's such an odd list. You'd think The Guardian would have stuffed it full of people who are fashionable right now, or were fashionable until recently, or who get good press - Robyn, Billie Eilish, Sam Smith, Tegan And Sara, etc.

Or is this an arch Ilxor joke? It's an arch Ilxor joke, isn't it. The Guardian's list has a hundred entries. It's still pretty crap but it's not as bad as this. The Guardian's list describes Lily Allen as "the voice of a generation", those exact words. Or is this from the print edition of the paper? There's no Grouper, no Benoît Pioulard. Is it satire? It's satire.

Of all the albums in that list the only one I own is A Day Without Rain, which I have so far never listened to. I've copied the contents of the compact disc into iTunes, but I've never listened to it. I like to imagine that Enya exists outside of lists like this because she's inoffensive and barely ever promotes herself. She is without sin. Not like the others.

After skimming through The Guardian's actual list of a hundred albums there are two dozen good ones. The best is Untrue by Burial. It exists on a higher level than the other records.

this has to be a troll poll

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILM understands

Ok I guess I need to listen to Gaz Coombes.

Why did this album win and why I haven’t heard anyone on ILM mention it before. Is this a joke I’m not aware of?

it's a joke

get familiar!!!

GAZ familiGAZ

(nb: i may not have heard any music by this guy but his name is gaz coombes)

Good turn-out and of course a pleasure to see Gaz vindicated as 150 percent better than the Beatles.

Xpost: Oh thank god, I felt like I was going crazy, listened to the first trio of songs and they were very unremarkable

Why did this album win and why I haven’t heard anyone on ILM mention it before.

this is a challenging question though

Guess there are still people on ILM who don't really *love* music

These results are chefliss.jpg, ty NV for your invaluable service <3

chefkiss even

I voted Jack Johnson this is bullshit

i forgot to vote for dido why didnt she win

I hope somebody writes an article about ILM and uses this as an example of the current consensus and Gaz suddenly gets all kinds of critical plaudits and gets p4k album of the century

American Idiot too low