From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: UAP #25 - Results for The Who
Keywords: Usenet Artists Polls
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:13:47 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Enea Data AB

Here are the results for The Who with somes days delay, because of
my laziness, machine failure and news problems. My apologies.

29 persons voted, which was definitely lower than expected. I seemed
to recall from my days in rec.music.misc that The Who were frequently
popular. Also, it is noticeable that although I asked you to remove
the comments in angle brackets, many of you who voted failed to do so.
Anyway, I rewrote the tallying program (one day I shall rewrite it in
Perl!), so it's no big deal. Thanks to everyone who voted. Next poll
is David Bowie, see separate article.


Total number of ballots: 29

     TITLE                        POINTS   LISTED   FIRST   LAST
     =====                        ======   ======   =====   ====
  1. Who's Next                      869       29   14.50      1
  2. Quadrophenia                    788       27       7      0
  3. Tommy (Original version)        771       26       3      0
  4. The Who Sell Out                755       17       0      0
  5. My Generation                   632       12       0      0
  6. Meaty, Beaty, Big And Bouncy    604       20       1      1
  7. Live At Leeds                   582       23    0.50      1
  8. Direct Hits                     560        3       0      0
  9. Who Are You                     529       26       1      2
 10. The Who By Numbers              493       22       0      0
 11. The Kids Are Alright            492       14       0      2
 12. Odds And Sods                   470       14       0      1
 13. Join Together 1989              396        9       0      0
 14. A Quick One                     392       17       0      2
 15. Hooligans                       384        8       1      1
 16. Who's Missing                   383        8       0      1
 17. Rarities Vol. 2                 327        4       0      0
 18. Magic Bus                       321       12       0      1
 19. Face Dances                     296       17       0      2
 20. Who's Better, Who's Best        285       10       0      3
 21. The Story Of The Who            284        3       0      0
 22. Two's Missing                   253        6       0      0
 23. It's Hard                       252       17       1      4
 24. Rarities Vol. 1                 210        5       0      1
 25. Tommy (soundtrack)              156        9       0      3
 26. Who's Greatest Hits             134        7       0      0
 27. Who's Last                      119        8       0      3

"The Singles" and "The Who Collection" were mentioned on two ballots,
and the rarities album called "Join Together" on one. All these did
fairly bad.

Three ballots did only say "Tommy", but assumed they referred to the 
original version, not the soundtrack. Similarly, one ballot had entered
"(soundtrack)" after "The Kids Are Alright", but as the title appeared 
only once on this ballot, I assume that was the same "The Kids..." as 
on the other ballots.

The winner was not a surprise, was it? For once, the album which
topped my ballot was also the number 1 in the vote. As you see,
the victory was undisputed while it was quite tight on places two,
three and four. Notice that only 9 of 30 albums managed to get above 
50% popularity. And the loser has an appropriate title, hasn't it?
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc