[sp4cetiger]

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I can't see the problem here either. It's not like Maxinquaye was some obscure unkown shit. As Happymeal said, it's acclaimed as hell. Also, I do think that if Please Please Me had not be recorded by that bad called Beatles, it would be much lower in the charts, not only on BEA, but everywhere. I'm not even saying it's overrated; that would be like giving my opinion about it. Regardless of my enjoyment of the album, I'm convinced a huge part of its popularity is because of who recorded it.

Its possibly undeserved popularity may precisely be the reason why it is now losing. It's not about people making a list of music they have heard and like, but it's about comparing two albums which are supposed to be known by every user participating to the poll. The fact that it's known by more people now has strictly no influence (at least in theory).

Now don't get me wrong : what I mean is nowhere near "omg if you like PPM you are brainwashed", and I don't question the love people have for it either. I'm just saying that charts and polls and fundamentally different ways of ranking music because in the first one, you can only list albums you know; in the second one, if you haven't heard everything, you can't participate. I don't think it's too risky to say that the proportion of people who haven't heard Max among people who have heard PPM is probably much higher than the proportion of people who haven't listened to PPM among people who have heard Max.

That's why I think popularity has a very minor role is polls, if it has any at all, and that's why this result doesn't really surprise me.

[Mercury]

[Guest]

The voters didn't please you this time, Beatles.

17-10

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