All Time Top 1000 Albums
ISBN 0-7535-0493-6 | | |
| Preceded by | All Time Top 1000 Albums 1st Edition, All Time Top 1000 Albums 2nd Edition | |
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All Time Top 1000 Albums is a book by
MIDEM
– and ranked in order. Each album's entry is accompanied by an annotation with a 100-word review, details of its creation, and notes about the band or artist who recorded it.
The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album made the top spot in the first edition, and the same band's Revolver made the top spot in the second, third and pocket editions of the series.
Background
In 1987, radio presenter
Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Larkin set about polling several thousand people via a printed voting form, left in record shops and sent to schools and universities. The result was the first edition of the All Time Top 1000 Albums, published in 1994.[2]
In 1998 the second edition was published by
BBC London 94.9. He collected 100,000 votes, and the 2nd edition sold 38,000 copies. In 1999, Virgin published a smaller pocket edition, followed by a 3rd edition published in 2000, by which time the ongoing poll had reached over 200,000 votes cast.[3] In September 2000, BBC News reported the "head-to-head" battle between the Beatles and Radiohead, the two bands who took the top four positions on the list.[4]
Editions
- Larkin, Colin, ed. (1994). All Time Top 1000 Albums (1st ed.). London: ISBN 0-85112-786-X – via the Internet Archive.
- Larkin, Colin, ed. (1998). All Time Top 1000 Albums (2nd ed.). London: ISBN 0-7535-0258-5– via the Internet Archive.
- Larkin, Colin, ed. (1999). All Time Top 1000 Albums (2nd, pocket ed.). London: Virgin Books. ISBN 0-7535-0354-9– via the Internet Archive.
- Larkin, Colin, ed. (1999). All Time Top 1000 Albums (2nd, pocket ed.). London: Virgin Books.
- Larkin, Colin, ed. (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). London: ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.
See also
References
- ^ "1987 Paul Gambaccini – All Time Top 100 Albums". Timepieces.nl. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "1994 Colin Larkin – All Time Top 1000 Albums". Timepieces.nl. 24 October 1962. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "Rocklist.net..Colin Larkin 1000 Albums – 2000". Rocklistmusic.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "Radiohead gun for Beatles' Revolver". BBC News. 3 September 2000. Archived from the original on 7 June 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2012.