The Poll That's Not Newsworthy

I've seen articles about a Guitarworld reader's poll floating around all Reuters sites lately, and had a couple write-ins about it, and thought I'd sum it up for y'all here:

In short, the poll results according to the articles claim that Limpbizkit's 'Results May Vary' is the worst album of 2003 with Creed at No. 2 (even though they didn't release an album in 2003), the Strokes at No. 3, followed by "all pop-punk bands" at No. 4 and pop-punk band Good Charlotte at No. 5.

Metallica's "St. Anger," was named biggest disappointment, but it also came in at No. 2 as the best metal album, behind Black Label Society's "The Blessed Hellride." Metallica's Kirk Hammett was named best metal guitarist (despite no solos on St. Anger) and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was named best rock guitarist.

Led Zeppelin, earned the best rock album of 2003 with the 3-CD live package "How the West Was Won." That category was rounded out by Audioslave's self-titled debut, the White Stripes' "Elephant," Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Vicious Cycle" and Rush's "Rock in Rio."

The other big disappointments of the year were listed as "all new music," the break-up of Texas metal veterans Pantera, the continued absence of a new Guns 'N Roses album, and Marcos Curiel's departure from Christian rock band P.O.D.

I think they meant all "nu" music, from a guitar standpoint (I personally have nothing against nu-metal in general). Overall the "results" sound like the typical crap you get from taking a free-form "readers poll" without offering any guidance - voting for bands who aren't around or haven't released anything in the past year, etc.

I can't fault them for finding 'Results May Vary' album worst of the year, and at least they realize that pop-punk is better than limpbizkit!

Source: Nate