Yesterday, it was Rolling Stone’s readers and their inexplicable devotion to Green Day. Today, it’s SPIN’s readers and their downright confusing reader’s poll.Apparently, 2009 was the year of Pearl Jam and music writers all over the world simply missed the memo. Backspacer, the PJ album the readers chose as the year’s best, is currently moldering as the 56th most acclaimed album of the year (according to Acclaimed Music). In fact, SPIN magazine itself didn’t even have that album in their Top 40 of 2009. Even stranger is “Unthought Known” getting voted the year’s best song, despite the fact that it wasn’t even a single off the album. Either Eddie Vedder’s been stuffing the online ballot box or a few SPIN readers got way too zealous. There’s just no way tens of thousands of fans arrived at that conclusion independently.
Either way, it seems like there’s a major disconnect between SPIN and their readers. Just look at their little graphic at the top of the reader’s poll page. They’ve got Green Day, the Dead Weather and Bat For Lashes on display, despite the apparent mandate for more Pearl Jam by their own readers. Meanwhile, the magazine’s choice for Artist of the Year, Kings Of Leon? Nowhere to be found. Awkward…
More disturbing still are the comments at the bottom of the readers poll. To think that after all this time there are still people who, not only like Green Day, but take their "Political" lyrics seriously gives me chills.
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