The White Stripes Top Most Influential Album Poll

The White Stripes’ ‘Elephant’ has been named the most influential album of the past two decades by readers of MOJO Magazine.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the popular music monthly, MOJO asked its readers to have their say on ‘20 Albums That Shook the Last 20 Years’.

Readers voted for their favourite album in each year of the magazine’s existence, with The White Stripes’ critically acclaimed 2003 opus accumulating the most votes overall.

Phil Alexander, editor-in-chief of MOJO magazine commented: “A decade on from its release, Elephant has lost none of its charm or power.

“Building on the band’s three previous LPs, it delivered accessible and complex material in equal measure. The album helped spawn a raft of two-piece imitators, yet continues to stand alone.”

Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’ is at no.2 ahead of Bob Dylan’s ‘Time Out Of Mind’ and Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ at three and four respectively.

Other albums inside the top 20 include The Strokes’ ‘This Is It’ (5), Arctic Monkeys’ ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ (10) and Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ (19).

The 20 Albums of the past 20 years ranked in order of popularity:

1 The White Stripes - Elephant 2 Arcade Fire - Funeral 3 Bob Dylan – Time Out Of Mind 4 Radiohead - OK Computer 5 The Strokes - Is This It 6 Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 7 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 8 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 9 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 10 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 11 Beck - Odelay 12 Jeff Buckley - Grace 13 Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs 14 Radiohead - In Rainbows 15 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 16 Oasis - (What’s the Story) 17 Portishead - Dummy 18 Pulp - Different Class 19 Nirvana - In Utero 20 The Libertines -Up the Bracket The votes by year:

1993 - Nirvana - In Utero 1994 - Grace - Jeff Buckley 1995 - Oasis - (What’s the Story) 1996 - DJ Shadow – Endtroducing 1997 - Bob Dylan - Time Out Of MInd 1998 - Mercury Rev - Deserter’s Songs 1999 - Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin 2000 - Radiohead - Kid A 2001 - The Strokes - Is This It 2002 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2003 - The White Stripes - Elephant 2004 - Arcade Fire - Funeral 2005 - Antony And The Johnsons: I Am A Bird Now 2006 - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 2007 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2008 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 2009 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 2010 - John Grant - Queen of Denmark 2011 - PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 2012 - Tame Impala - Lonerism The Special Collector’s Issue of MOJO Magazine is on sale tomorrow (Tuesday 29th October).

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