Poor Hard Rock/Hair Metal has been waiting at the top since 2015.
― jmm, Monday, 26 November 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
Okay, if there are no objections in the next few hours I'll start a thread.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 26 November 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link
Yes! Ideal band for a poll. This is gonna be good.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 26 November 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link
POLLercoaster Ride - ILM Artist Poll #94 - Belle and Sebastian - Discussion/Campaigning Thread
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
realizing that we've never done Mark E. Smith and your granny on bongos, ie THE FALL surely this must be remedied
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
er wait I take that back looks like Mark G did it? huh couldn't find it in the search results
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
People get ready, strip down your houses because it's the FALL TRACKS BALLOT ROLL- OUT! - PART TWO The Tracks (Pre-wray)
grabbed it from here btw, one of ilx's top 10 threads for utility
The ILX List of Lists
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
ah! thx
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
Could we please be objective cause the other POLLS are queuing up behind us - Artist Poll #94 - Belle & Sebastian - RESULTS
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD
― seandalai, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
So how should we kick off 2019? Anybody feel like running a poll?
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
AM Radio Gold - Jeff WPower Ballads - rogermexicoSongs Under 2 Minutes - Leee
Feeling one of these three ^^^^^
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
Songs Under 2 Minutes could be very inteeresting!
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
seconded
― imago, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
ILX Compilation v4: Tiny Music (Deadline/Submissions/etc!!)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
that does sound really fun. it would depend on a really good nomination process, but at least there's already threads dedicated to the topic that would get us started
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
i thought imago was gonna run a decade poll at some pt
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
A good way to kick off 2020
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
I'm going to do the 2000-10 albums and tracks poll but I thought maybe this summer would be a nicer time for it. Maybe spring though!
― imago, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
Sorry, I mean 2000-09
― imago, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
I would like to do a Serge Gainsbourg poll at some point, not immediately.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Quick scan of my files, and I've got so many great under-two-minute songs--another vote for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INVKNhOpYhs
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
It'd also be a bookend for the long-song poll from a few years ago.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
as a bonus, it would be a lot more practical to listen to the playlist of the short song countdown than it was to listen to the long song countdown.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
i would stan hard for wire in the short song poll
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
yeah short songs is a great idea. Let's do it.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
I was just marvelling at how great Dinosaur L's "#2 (No, Thank You)" was merely minutes ago!
― kraudive, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
leee if it ends up happening and you want any assistance just let me know
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
Short songs sounds fun. It's hard to guess what the consensus favourites would even be. "Outdoor Miner"?
― jmm, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
No because the best version of Outdoor Miner is over 2 minutes
― imago, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
"Velocity Girl" and "What You do to Me" spring to mind
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
pay to cum, minor threat, some other hardcore song
― sun-kil moonsician (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
anyway, i am very down
Some great rock n' roll classics come in under two minutes: Great Balls of Fire, All Shook Up, Surrender, Hit the Road Jack, Rave On, Yakety Yak, I Wanna Be Your Man, He's So Fine.... This will be a hell of difficult ballad to decide.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
Big question, two minutes or under two minutes? And Your Bird Can Sing is 2'00 according to spotify.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
Some other great ones that are exactly two minutes:
"Jamboree," Beat Happening"Satin Slipper," Blades of Grass"Your Love Keeps Me Going," Denise Scott & the Soundsmen"Aerosol Burns," Essential Logic"Pregnant Again," Knight School"Look of Love," Lesley Gore"Never Let Me Go," Monique"Tighter," Paul Revere & the Raiders"The Queen of Eyes," Soft Boys
So yes, big question.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
i guess it will be to the discretion of the pollrunner if those songs are smol enough
― sun-kil moonsician (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
is electronica included?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
I still think On a Good Day is potentially my favorite track from Have One On Me.Titans from Dawn Richard is 2:07. I'd like to be able to vote for such a wonderful track.Could we consider going up to 2:30 ? Or does that open things up way too much because of certain genres (but who truly cares about punk right).Or wait, even better idea, do two categories: one for lightning-quick songs up to 1:30 (for all Wire fans etc), and a second for 1:30-2:30 that are more like errr actual songs.I don't really care, 2 minutes is fine, I have On a Good Day.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
Outro With Bees by Neko Case is a perfect miniature. Great Cop.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
if anything i'd be in favor of going in the other direction: a 90 seconds poll would eliminate a lot of 1:59 stuff that i think is less interesting than the "miniatures". i don't want to poll a bunch of chuck berry and early rock N roll
i'm thinking stuff like "her majesty" or "naked, if i want to" or "field day for the sundays" or "till the morning comes"
in other words, two minutes is TOO LONG
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
tbh 2:00 is too long; 2:30 would be just 'vote for your favorite short-ish song'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
1:45 seems like a decent compromise
― sun-kil moonsician (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
the epics poll was 10 mins+, though, so the spiritual companion would mean a poll of songs 1 minute or less
― sun-kil moonsician (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
100% down for 1 minute or less
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to arguments about the true lenght of Here She Comes Now.
Let's do it!!
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
bold move but i'm gonna call "pnoom" by can the winner
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
90 seconds with leniency of a few seconds seems acceptable to me. (Yes, I have a 1:33 candidate.)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
I vote for the original 2:00. Historically, songs under 2:00 stood apart; if you were to comb old reviews, I'm positive that that would be the benchmark that warranted comment (e.g., the first Ramones album--six songs under 2:00). And if you dropped it to 1:30 or 1:00, you'd lose so many great songs. But if you raised it to 2:30, the field would be way too large, and there's nothing especially significant about a song that runs 2:25. I understand it's a completely arbitrary call, but 2:00 is a nice round number--like 10:00--that splits the difference well, I'd say.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
I also suspect that dropping to 1:30 or 1:00 would lead to a disproportionate number of punk songs (which would certainly account for part of my own list, but there's a lot of great doo-wop, for instance, that falls in the 1:30-2:00 range--it'd be hard to find a great doo-wop song under 1:30).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link