From: geigel@seas.gwu.edu (Joseph Geigel)
Subject: CHART: *** Best albums of 1992 Poll results ****
Followup-To: rec.music.misc,alt.rock-n-roll
Originator: recmusic@cygnus
Reply-To: geigel@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:38:30 GMT

Hello all...

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who participated in this
year's poll.  This year, I recieved a total of 162 votes, with the average 
number of albums per vote being 9.84.

A small note about the scoring.  I scored this year in the same manner 
as last year.  In order to give equal weight to position within a given
vote as well as simply being mentioned in a given vote, I adopted the
following scoring system.  Each album recieved 10 points for simply
being listed in somebody's list.  In addition, "bonus" points were given for
the position within the list (20 points for #1, 19 points for #2, ect.).
Unless specifically mentioned, I assumed that the albums were listed
in order.  If it was specifically mentioned that the albums were in 
no particular order, the "bonus" points were distributed equally amoung
the albums in such a vote.

Enough administrivia...now, on with the list  The number after the
album and artist is the total number of pointes recieved.  The number 
in parentheses is the number of votes in which the album appeared.


                       The USENET Top 100 of 1992

  1) automatic for the people/r.e.m. - 1334.0 (51)

  2) us/peter gabriel - 1107.0 (47)
  3) little earthquakes/tori amos -  658.0 (23)
  4) the southern harmony and musical companion/the black crowes -  603.0 (23)
  5) dirty/sonic youth -  511.0 (22)
  6) nonesuch/xtc -  497.0 (20)
  7) 99.9 f/suzanne vega -  488.0 (19)
  8) copper blue/sugar -  469.0 (18)
  9) achtung baby/u2 -  440.0 (17)
 10) ten/pearl jam -  422.0 (16)

 11) amused to death/roger waters -  421.0 (16)
 12) harvest moon/neil young -  414.0 (17)
 13) diva/annie lennox -  372.0 (16)
 14) wish/cure -  361.0 (16)
 15) singles/soundtrack -  344.0 (14)
 16) angel dust/faith no more -  335.0 (13)
 17) magic and loss/lou reed -  325.0 (13)
 18) unplugged/eric clapton -  320.0 (14)
 19) bone machine/tom waits -  305.0 (13)
 20) apollo 18/they might be giants -  281.0 (11)

 21) our time in eden/10,000 maniacs -  280.0 (12)
 22) psalm 69/ministry -  273.0 (12)
 23) iii sides to every story/extreme -  266.0 (12)
 24) ingenue/k.d. lang -  251.0 (10)
 25) never enough/melissa etheridge -  242.0 (10)
 26) o+/prince -  218.0 (9)
 27) lucky town/bruce springsteen -  217.0 (9)
 28) nevermind/nirvana -  215.0 (8)
 29) live/ac/dc -  213.0 (9)
     check your head/beastie boys -  213.0 (9)

 31) girlfriend/matthew sweet -  213.0 (8)
 32) your arsenal/morrissey -  209.0 (10)
 33) the extremist/joe satriani -  205.0 (8)
 34) dehumanizer/black sabbath -  204.0 (8)
 35) dirt/alice in chains -  202.0 (8)
 36) pocket full of kryptonite/spin doctors -  199.0 (8)
 37) kiko/los lobos -  196.0 (7)
 38) rites of passage/indigo girls -  194.0 (8)
 39) dry/pj harvey -  181.0 (7)
 40) honey's dead/jesus and mary chain -  179.0 (8)

 41) 3 years, 5 months, and 2 days in the life of.../
	arrested development -  178.0 (8)
 42) 0898/the beautiful south -  175.0 (7)
 43) out of the cradle/lindsey buckingham -  174.0 (7)
 44) blood sugar sex magick/red hot chili peppers -  173.0 (7)
 45) meantime/helmet -  169.0 (8)
 46) sweet oblivion/screaming trees -  165.0 (7)
 47) vulgar display of power/pantera -  164.0 (6)
 48) slanted & enchanted/pavement -  162.0 (7)
 49) hey babe/juliana hatfield -  161.0 (7)
 50) countdown to extinction/megadeth -  160.0 (7)

 51) adrenalize/def leppard -  159.0 (7)
 52) tubular bells ii/mike oldfield -  155.0 (6)
     images and words/dream theater -  155.0 (6)
 54) good as i been to you/bob dylan -  154.0 (6)
 55) fear/toad the wet sprocket -  152.0 (6)
 56) the one/elton john -  151.0 (7)
 57) television/television -  150.0 (6)
 58) keep the faith/bon jovi -  144.0 (6)
 59) welcome to wherever you are/inxs -  142.0 (6)
 60) gordon/barenaked ladies -  141.0 (5)

 61) unplugged/mariah carey -  137.0 (5)
 62) piece of cake/mudhoney -  136.0 (6)
     hypocrisy is the greatest luxury/
	disposable heroes of hiphoprisy -  136.0 (6)
     black eyed man/cowboy junkies -  136.0 (6)
 65) broken/nine inch nails -  131.0 (6)
 66) a picture of nectar/phish -  129.0 (5)
 67) secret story/pat metheny -  124.0 (5)
 68) shimmering warm and bright/bel canto -  123.0 (5)
 69) cracker/cracker -  120.0 (5)
 70) the criminal under my own hat/t-bone burnett -  120.0 (4)

 71) doppleganger/curve -  118.0 (5)
 72) uh-oh/david byrne -  117.0 (5)
     izzy stradlin' and the juju hounds/
	izzy stradlin' and the juju hounds -  117.0 (5)
 74) incesticide/nirvana -  113.0 (5)
 75) revenge/kiss -  113.0 (4)
 76) joshua judges ruth/lyle lovett -  112.0 (5)
     body count/body count -  112.0 (5)
 78) solace/sarah mclaughlin -  109.0 (4)
     don't tread/damn yankees -  109.0 (4)
 80) going blank again/ride -  108.0 (5)

 81) walking in london/concrete blonde -  107.0 (5)
     spooky/lush -  107.0 (5)
 83) the great deceiver/king crimson -  106.0 (4)
     may i sing with me/yo la tengo -  106.0 (4)
     grave dancer's union/soul asylum -  106.0 (4)
 86) hormonally yours/shakespear's sister -  102.0 (5)
     greatest misses/public enemy -  102.0 (5)
 88) human touch/bruce springsteen -  101.0 (5)
     blind/the sundays -  101.0 (5)
 90) arc angels/arc angels -  101.0 (4)

 91) nerve net/brian eno -  100.0 (5)
 92) the end of silence/rollins band -   99.0 (4)
     erotica/madonna -   99.0 (4)
 94) u.f.orb/the orb -   98.0 (4)
 95) until the end of the world/soundtrack -   92.0 (5)
 96) mondo bizarro/the ramones -   92.0 (4)
 97) fear of the dark/iron maiden -   91.0 (4)
 98) fully completely/tragically hip -   90.0 (4)
 99) somewhere between heaven and hell/social distortion -   88.0 (4)
     celine dion/celine dion -   88.0 (4)


   Well, there you have it.  Once again, it looks like R.E.M was
the clear winner.  It should be noted however that U2's Achtung Baby
(#9) charted in as #2 in last year's poll.

   Hope you enjoyed this.  We'll try it again in December!

 
                                   -- jogle
                                      geigel@seas.gwu.edu
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