anyone interesting in going? i think anyone who has time can go ahead and run a poll.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
I could do another one if you'd like... these are the ones I'm up for if you are... I could also nominate polls from artists that are not yet there like...: Captain Beefheart, Arthur Russell, Belle & Sebastian, The Zombies, Animal Collective, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Massive Attack, Kanye West...
Jimi Hendrix - some dudeTalking Heads - Bee OKBjork - Eric H.Wu-Tang Clan - SpottieErykah Badu - Eric H.Aphex Twin - Stevie DElvis Presley - EulerStooges/Iggy Pop - Smashing Pumpkins - Bee OK
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
Kanye seems like the most "I can't believe we haven't already done this!" choice.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
Maybe it's because he's still releasing new albums and singles every year or two? Well, you can add me up to that one and I can skip everyone else in line if noone cares.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
I was going to say I was amazed that there's never been a Janet Jackson ballot poll, but then I realised there was this tracks poll for all the Jackson siblings:
The Jacksons Tracks - Smooth CrimiPOLL results1!!1!!!!
not enough Janet in the top 10 imo
― soref, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
Wu-Tang would be interesting, such a gigantic catalog
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
By that reckoning, Acid Mothers Temple would be intersting too.
― write sed fread (Leee), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
Definitely Elvis. Most people would benifit from delving into that discography.
― simmel, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
I don't know if NickB is still wanting to do the "Genesis + solo" poll at some point? I was hoping that "solo" would encompass literally *everything* any of them did, so you could vote for, say, The Knife and Sussudio and Over My Shoulder on the same ballot.
― soref, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
i think you should go ahead and run Stooges/Iggy Pop Moka as it is the only one without a name attached to it. it also got bumped down the line as flopson bailed on it. some dude is going to do Hendrix, i will do Talking Heads but not until February of 2017. flappy bird is doing Animal Collective he just doesn't know it yet. i'm also going to probably drop Blondie and do The Jesus and Mary Chain instead. If MBV goes then Joy Division should also get a poll. what fun we can have...
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
Ismael Klata reached out to me about doing George Michael. i think he should go ahead and open up that poll!
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
I could start the wu one as early as next week
― Spottie, Thursday, 8 September 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I'd love to do the Stooges/Iggy Pop one. I go on a Stooges and Cramps binge every year when the summer dies.
Oooh we don't have a Cramps poll in line either!? How? Sign me up for that one too. I don't know if there's enough interest in ILM for them but I love them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 8 September 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
I love The Cramps, but mostly the first handful of years rather than all the later years. My ballot would be boring.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 September 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
I've been summoned. I'll put the George Michael poll up later today. I've got a short window where this is possible, so let's get on with it.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 September 2016 09:28 (seven years ago) link
Good grief
― Ireland's Industry (that is what we are) (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 8 September 2016 11:34 (seven years ago) link
Well, exactly.
Wham! It's the GEORGE MICHAEL TRACKS POLL voting thread (voting ends Saturday 17 September)
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 September 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
Testing for the stooges poll. Stealing the look from Jarmusch's documentary because I like how it looks:
http://i.imgur.com/sE0cb6i.jpg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 9 September 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
looks great.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 9 September 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
Seconded this would be fun
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Friday, 9 September 2016 05:47 (seven years ago) link
Elvis is long due. Should've been one of the first polls, him and chuck berry are the first musicians I think of when trying to define an 'American' sound.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 9 September 2016 09:43 (seven years ago) link
Chuck Berry also doesn't have a poll in line it seems! How in the hell did we get a Timbaland poll before an Elvis and Chuck Berry poll!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 9 September 2016 09:47 (seven years ago) link
I don't know if NickB is still wanting to do the "Genesis + solo" poll at some point? I was hoping that "solo" would encompass literally *everything* any of them did, so you could vote for, say, The Knife and Sussudio and Over My Shoulder on the same ballot.― soref, Wednesday, September 7, 2016 11:42 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― soref, Wednesday, September 7, 2016 11:42 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
forgot about this and too busy to do it for the next couple of months. if anyone else wants to run with it in the meantime then go for it. but yes, had hoped to include everything from 'watcher of the skies' to 'easy lover' to 'don't give up' etc
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Friday, 9 September 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
my only wish is that if you want to run the poll, you need to call the voting thread 'get 'em in by friday'
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Friday, 9 September 2016 09:58 (seven years ago) link
How in the hell did we get a Timbaland poll before an Elvis and Chuck Berry poll!?
this is ILX; the legacy of popist iconoclasm persists even through this consolidatory canon-building phase
― ogmor, Friday, 9 September 2016 10:24 (seven years ago) link
Also, most of us aren't 60 years old.
― Tuomas, Friday, 9 September 2016 11:15 (seven years ago) link
Also, ilx has a small but dedicated hiking community.
― how's life, Friday, 9 September 2016 11:32 (seven years ago) link
Somewhere upthread I mused that Chuck, and this might apply to Elvis also, may not really be ideal for the format/board, since their important work is primarily singles-based so you're really just ranking the greatest hits. The "Great Twenty-Eight" radio button thread is pretty good!
But there is something to RANKING the hits rather than just doing an OPO, and maybe some folks would take the opportunity to dig into the albums, or lesser-known singles. Finally, "The Broken Arrow" gets its due! Ahhh, fuck it, put Chuck in the queue - I'd be down to run that poll, Moka, unless you want it.
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Friday, 9 September 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
Incase anybody is interested this is your last day to vote in the lifetime of ilm heavy rock & metal pollhttp://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=104302#unread
― LAST DAY to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll! (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 9 September 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Lawdy Miss Clawdy it's time for an Elvis Presley poll.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 9 September 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
Why do you have to be 60 to like rock n roll?
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
Im sure it helps though
― LAST DAY to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll! (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
How?Just interested. I don't see age as a prohibitive factor in appreciating music. I was about 8 when I first heard Elvis and 10 when way down came out and he literally went way on down.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
i agree, i was just joking. An Elvis poll would be good so I could learn about all the early elvis on Sun Records. I only really know the big hits
― LAST DAY to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll! (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Portishead, Massive Attack
It might make more sense to do a 'Bristol Sound' poll than do these acts separately (especially considering their relatively thin discographies).
― chap, Friday, 9 September 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
that would be fun
― LAST DAY to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll! (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
I'd be up for running it, probably.
― chap, Friday, 9 September 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
do it!
― LAST DAY to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll! (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 9 September 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Who'd be in, who'd be out though? Are we including the Third Eye Foundation/Crescent/Flying Saucer Attack/Amp/Movietone Bristol scene? I think you have to.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 September 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Not sure I see those bands necessarily being connected to Massive Attack other than geographically, could make a stronger argument for including Neneh, Smith & Mighty, Fresh Four, Krust, Roni Size, Kosheen etc
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Friday, 9 September 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
Don't get me wrong I love Timbaland but I still feel Elvis is... well, he's Elvis. You don't have to be 60 years old to love the man. Also if the argument for not having an Elvis poll is because it's 'old people' music then I don't know how half of these polls got made. You're old ILMz
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 9 September 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
Also the 'timbaland' signature sound started in 1996. Assuming you were 20 in 1996 you're 40 now so Timbaland is also old, dad music.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 9 September 2016 19:40 (seven years ago) link
We need a Wire poll. I will be more than happy to run that.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 10 September 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 September 2016 16:02 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB)
I dunno, if I were to do it I might keep it simple and limited to Portishead, Massive Attack and Tricky if that sounds at all justifiable? Maybe Wild Bunch as well?
― chap, Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
This is the reason an Elvis poll should be of the whole catalogue not just "the hits". Lots of gems tucked away.
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link
3 P albums, 3 MA albums, 2-3 Tricky (counting Nearly God), over which there are about 100 songs? Sounds doable.
― write sed fread (Leee), Thursday, 15 September 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
There are 5 MA albums!
― chap, Thursday, 15 September 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
far more than 2-3 tricky albums, too
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 15 September 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I mean ones that would realistically get a significant number of votes!
― write sed fread (Leee), Thursday, 15 September 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
I think a few songs off Heligoland could do alright.
― chap, Thursday, 15 September 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link