 It was voted the third best album of all time in the 1998 "Music of the Millennium" poll conducted by HMV and Channel 4, and in the following year's expanded survey, which polled 600,000 people across the UK.Also in 1998, it was ranked first in Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums", directly ahead of "Sgt.Pepper" and "The Beatles", and it was first again in the 2000 edition of the book.