ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

so Hendrix needs a pollrunner? I'm up for taking that on.

oh shit pp's doin' 'tallica

is flopson around to do his?

really really excited for YLT poll, them being my favorite band and whatnot

Yeah, my enthusiasm's low on Hendrix (for running the poll, not for voting). Thanks for taking that one.

Oops at those line breaks. I'll fix it in the next full list.

Looks like flopson had himself banned in February. We can put Iggy/Stooges on hold on the assumption he'll be back someday, or someone else can take that one. Or if anyone knows him IRL, tell him all is forgiven please come home.

why would anyone be banned on this lovely message board?

ban flopson

hi can i please be banned from ilx? sent a couple discrete e-mails to mods yesterday to no avail. my life is just way too stupid right now to be spending as many hours as i have reading debates on the legitimate order of music polls.

this is not a joke though please ban my ass

thx <3

WC: going to set my alarm just to be sure. Later, I'll grill.

Shoot, where's the link to the .xls?

idg why someone would ask to be banned, have they no self-control

To answer my own question, it's a Google doc now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdDhKV1NraFUtWXptd25nbEZ0cGxYeXc#gid=0

Leee, I can email you the original .xls as a standalone file if you want, but I think you can also Save-As that google doc to your computer.

Yeah, I was going to do a Save As once I get home.

god bless the cloud

Turns out I don't know how to use shot pivot table, so I wrote up a Perl script to handle these things. I can share it if anyone else is programmatically inclined.

Οὖτις, ready to roll XTC out?

Would there be much interest in a Steve Albini band poll?

I'm not knowledgable enough for that one. Albini production jobs would be a great side poll though.

Yeah I was thinking the same. Add me to the list!

Please.

Οὖτις, ready to roll XTC out?

sure

I looked at the autechre thread to see if it was done but it was all gibberish

autecheperanto

Nah it's just LJ going on. ;)

Senses Working Poll-vertime: The XTC Poll Nominations and Discussions thread

Can I do a Yellow Magic Orchestra one?? Please???

YMO plus solo / collaboration tracks would a good one, although maybe a bit overwhelming.

but YMO alone is only like 7 albums and 70 tracks, plus of the 100+ solo albums there's only like 10 or so that I would imagine more than one or two balloters would know of...I think it's all fair game though

I would vote in a YMO poll. Provided I was aware of it in time, I do miss a lot of these.

Do you use Site New Answers or ILM New Answers?

SNA, sometimes clicking over to a particular board. I'm often not interested/able to participate in the single artist ballot polls (my listening tends to the broad over the deep), so it's more that I glaze over the thread titles, rather than them not actually appearing when I'm online.

same tbh

another problem is that a lot of the polls I'd enjoy simply don't have an existing fanbase. I could run the world's greatest Cardiacs & Affiliated poll, but it'd have 6 voters, so there's no point. The Autechre and XTC polls are extreme rarities in that they're ILX-popular AND I am quite a fan of both. /self-indulgent moan

just be happy I'm not in your polls shitting them up with my blather ;)

Albini and YMO to be added to the next full list.

I'd run an Elvis Presley poll sometime.

Cool, you're added.

Who will run Iggy/Stooges? Step right up.

We should really do a Scott Walker / Walker Brothers poll, right? I'm not sure I have the knowledge or wherewithal to do it.

Elvis is a great idea

That'd be really interesting: no idea if the winner would be a Sun single, an early RCA single, or a late-'60s comeback single.

"Elvis Talks To The Audience" ftw

What's going to happen after XTC? Chic Org with a volunteer showrunner, Iggy/Stooges with a volunteer showrunner, or Boo OK and the Bee Radleys?

I think we need another Autechre poll.

someone really needs to step up and do Stooges/Iggy. i only know the Stooges and none of the solo stuff so i'm out.

I'll do a Byrds and offshoots poll which includes CSN, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, And others I can't recall right now.

I'd like to see an Underworld one too. That would be a fun band to poll.

That poll would be everything, everything.

"Why don't you POLL me I feel like flying into.."

I'd like to see a tropicalia/mpb poll, but I'm unsure if anybody would vote.

I'd vote!

Shakey is burning through these XTC results with great haste. Whose poll is nominating next?