Top 20 Readers Poll Results

We'll keep this survey active until March 31, 2003. Our top choice, Rosie Thomas' When We Were Small, finally cracked the reader's honerable mention list. Our #2 pick still has an overwhelming lead among our readers: Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a masterpiece of an album. We'll keep updating this list periodically so keep checking back, and if you haven't taken the survey yet, click here to vote for your favorite CDs from last year.

Results as of 2/15/03: The #s in parenthesis are where it was ranked last week/where it was ranked in the Paste list. (HM=Honorable Mention, NR=Not Ranked)

TOP VOTE GETTERS:
#1 (1/2) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
#2 (5/4) Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
#3 (2/5) Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
#4 (3/15) Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
#5 (10/6) Beck - Sea Change
#6 (9/HM) Steve Earle - Jerusalem
#7 (7/13) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
#8 (6/NR) Sixpence None the Richer - Divine Discontent
#9 (4/HM) Bill Mallonee - Fetal Position
#10 (11/20) Aimee Mann - Lost In Space
#11 (8/HM) Buddy Miller - Midnight & Lonesome
#12 (12/NR) Counting Crows - Hard Candy
#13 (13/17) Ryan Adams - Demolition
#14 (16/HM) Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
#15 (14/HM) Tift Merritt - Bramble Rose
#16 (15/HM) Rhett Miller - The Instigator
#17 (17/3) Pedro the Lion - Control
#18 (20/16) David Gray - A New Day at Midnight
#19 Beth Orton (HM/NR) - Daybreaker
#20 Hem (HM/19) - Rabbit Songs

YOUR HONORABLE MENTIONS:
(18/14) Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars
(NR/1) Rosie Thomas - When We Were Small
(NR/HM) Sigur Ros - ( )
(NR/12) 16 Horsepower - Folklore
(HM/HM) Doves - The Last Broadcast

And finally, there were 448 write-in votes. Here were the Top Vote Getters from the write-ins:

TOP WRITE INS:
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel
Bill Mallonee - Locket Full Of Moonlight
Kim Richey - Rise
Dixie Chicks - Home
Peter Gabriel - Up
Nickel Creek - This Side
Paul Westerberg - Mono/Stereo
Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - Sonoran Hope and Madness
Guy Clark - The Dark
Going Driftless - An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown
Frank Lenz - The Hot Stuff
John Mayer - Room for Squares
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Woven Hand