Earlier this month, Chicago magazine Pitchfork announced details of The People’s List.

Effectively a readers poll on a major scale, The People’s List polled Pitchfork‘s readers on their favourite albums released during Pitchfork‘s lifetime – so the last 15 years, from 1996-2011. The top three will surprise absolutely nobody, and nor will the fact that 88% of the 27,981 total voters were male.

It’s a list worth reading though – even with a lack of real surprises in the overall top 200, it’s interesting to be able to seperate the poll’s results by genre, location and so forth, and the fact that you can read writers’ individual lists (Jess Harvell’s, for instance) is a music nerd’s dream. It’s particularly worth seperating the poll’s results by age: only one age group went with a different number one to the overall chart, and it wasn’t a number one that we’d have suspected.

You can read the results in full here.