The POLL’S Gone Out: Rank your Dark Entries - ILM artist poll #73 - Bauhaus - Love and Rockets...Voting open until Sunday March 20, 2016
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
YEAAAAAAHHHH!
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 04:39 (eight years ago) link
what happened to the dino jr poll?
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
The person who was running it decided to sub it out for someone else.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
who's next - CAN? Stereolab?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
Bauhaus is up
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
will someone call me when it's can o'clock?
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
it's always can o'clock somewhere
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
well technically there's several things in the queue ahead of Bauhaus (including CAN) but the people who volunteered to run those polls are AWOL
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
Any reason why whoever was running the polls then ignored this?ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
is Gaukbe, gr8080 or someone else on the top of that list ready to go? i know some dude could do Hendrix in February. if anything i can do Bauhaus at anytime now.― Bee OK, Tuesday, February 9, 201
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
When can I start the Stereolab poll!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 07:47 (eight years ago) link
Could someone be kind enough to pm me when I can start the threads?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 07:48 (eight years ago) link
I'll ping you when the Bauhaus poll is done
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Excellent. The following is a test for browser/mobile size of the albums images don't mind me.
http://i.imgur.com/9TzYU30.jpg008 Transient Random-Noise Bursts (Mfg. Date: 08/10/1993)152 points | 08 votes | 03 first place votes
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
V excited for Stereolab, even more now after seeing that.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
omg so excited
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
i've been thinking of a stereolab list since this summer. i'm ready.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
I wish you'd start it now so there was a poll going on that I'm interested in, but I guess that wouldn't be cool.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
ouch, sorry i'm doing Bauhaus.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 10 March 2016 02:52 (eight years ago) link
Hey, I didn't vote but I really like Bauhaus and I'm following the poll!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 10 March 2016 05:35 (eight years ago) link
Moka is my ilxor graphics crush. <3
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 10 March 2016 05:42 (eight years ago) link
<3
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 10 March 2016 06:45 (eight years ago) link
Someone was asking for this in another thread and I could find it. 2012 poll that was partly organized by late great and then completed by me, I'm sure we have an archive somewhere of every link of every collective poll that has been done but I couldn't find it. Posting here for future reference:
RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 10 March 2016 06:58 (eight years ago) link
*couldn't
ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads
A lot of the results links on these messages
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 March 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
And here's a thread that tries to list all of ILX's ballot poll result threads:
The ILX List of Lists
― Tuomas, Thursday, 10 March 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
Yes those are the ones! I couldn't find them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 10 March 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
Guys/gals need your opinion, which one of these do you like better:
http://i.imgur.com/Y5fFqjf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9pymRKi.jpg
In my opinion: First option without the album cover is cleaner and the only reference to the album covers will be the color palette below the song title which will be based on the album/ep/single's palette. Problem is that a thread with 50+ of these with subtle variations could be boring and I don't have the time to design a radically different banner for each song (would love to). Option 2 adds the cover but I'm not sure if it's too much.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 March 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
I like #2
― Yoshimi P-We's Playhouse (WilliamC), Saturday, 19 March 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
those both look pretty stylish! i am not a stereolab diehard, so take this with a grain of salt - i would say it's always neat to have the album cover, though i agree that the one without it is a tauter design. the text on the "points" line in the album-cover version seems pretty small though. maybe only the "credit" line wants to be that small? but i know these things are tricky to work out.
also, something about the font, gray background, and the gradient color sampler makes me think of Centrum brand vitamins but that is almost certainly just me.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 19 March 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
Yeah the idea was to make these look like vintage pharma products so Centrum is not a bad reference. Also don't mind the font weights on #2 I still haven't adapted them, just looking at proportions.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
I agree that the design without sleeves is neater and nicer, but the second design has greater functionality, so I'd probably opt for that if pushed.
― emil.y, Saturday, 19 March 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
Both are excellent, though, and either would be awesome to see on a poll.
― emil.y, Saturday, 19 March 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
I prefer the second option, as well.
― Austin, Saturday, 19 March 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
I prefer the first for its cleanliness, but what do I know ("Like hey, maybe you could do a cool gradient overlay with the album cover!").
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Sunday, 20 March 2016 00:42 (eight years ago) link
Could we see a couple more looks? More of a cool palette perhaps? And a pointier typeface?
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 20 March 2016 03:58 (eight years ago) link
Just kidding
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 20 March 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
I actually have two very different looks that I'm trying. I was thinking of doing 50 different designs but again not enough time :/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 20 March 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
Well I think both are fantastic and it's got me super excited for Stereoloab.
― Austin, Sunday, 20 March 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
Here's another copied from Julian House (Stereolab's designer):
http://i.imgur.com/xfWu5fA.jpg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 20 March 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
That was the initial sketch, then I thought maybe it could be cool doing several Julian House inspired/copied designs but again, too much time to do individual designs even if they're copied.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Lol, one reason (of several) I bailed out of doing polls is because everybody has raised the rollout images game so much, and I felt unworthy with my text-only results.
― Yoshimi P-We's Playhouse (WilliamC), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:13 (eight years ago) link
You could always ask for help! I wss going to help Nate with the Smiths poll but JF helped instead. I'm sure there are a couple of us who would be willing to do some quick designs.
Even better would be to have a template exclusive of ILM artist polls that we could all use and edit easily, something simple that could fit in every poll.
All said and done I don't mind one bit text only results.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
I like that last one.
― Mark G, Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:38 (eight years ago) link
I totally leaned on ledge's images for the Autechre poll! Otherwise I just post some hueg pictures with some Impact font on it.
― Sorry To Be The Bearer Of Bad Poos (Leee), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
I prefer yesterday but they are probably more work.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 21 March 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link
I drifted off of this thread due to lack of time but I am glad to see that Drugs A. Money has apparently taken on the Royal Trux poll, which I am still excited for but would definitely run with like text-only results
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 21 March 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link
Ok, now that the Nomination/voting thread for Bauhaus is over can I start the Stereolab voting thread so I can rollout results as soon as the Bauhaus results are over? Or how does it work?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 21 March 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Also I see the usual is top 20 songs and top 5 albums. The scoring that mostly every poll has used for songs is as follows:
Scoring [1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12 ]
but what about the top 5 albums? is it: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 21 March 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link