what artist, if any, is worth doing an ILM tracks poll?

do any Britishes know where I can buy some will to live at this time on a Sunday?

Shouldn't you be thumbing through MC Tunes ballots?

Doesn't seem to be any ABBA option here. An ABBA poll might have been interesting.

another hat in the ring for Velvets

E-mail polls could hasten the death of radio button polls on ilm. Wishful thinking, perhaps.

xxxp

can't believe the number of ballots for the Tunes poll. Gonna be some interesting results.

VU + solo would be awesome

Fleetwood Mac?

wow, talk about different eras. how badly would pre 1975 work be undervoted?

The extended reveal of ballot/email polls brings a whole nother social dynamic and depth to the discussion that radio button polls can't touch. The difference between a laundry-room quickie and an all-night tantric mind-melt. Even the Beatles, who have been polled to death, will probably bring some fresh discussion to the board.

― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:51 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fyi saying things like this makes me hate these polls more, not less

Let's have the Sting's rubbed raw sex with Trudie of Beatles polls!

Yeah, I overcooked that hyperbole a little.

Seriously, aside from the Fall, Fleetwood Mac (and solo albums) probably meet the guidelines better than anyone. Just make it a requirement that anyone voting has heard the pre-LB/SN stuff, or THEY WILL BE KILLED.

We should have the loveless sex in a two star hotel, 15-year wedding anniversary sex where she cries afterwards of Beatles polls and Ringo Starr's Stop And Smell The Roses might win.

We should have the first time past second base, spray your own boxers sex and immediately be filled full of self-loathing of Beatles polls and Hey Jude would win.

stereolab otm

Would be more interested in a solo Beatles poll than a Beatles poll at this moment in time.

The Cure (no surprises) , with New Order being second and The Boo Radleys third. i want The Boo Radleys to happen more so to turn people on to their wonderful music (totally selfish).

It would most likely be won by those wonderful C'mon Kids singles b-sides.

i don't think anybody who isn't already a fan of the artist being voted up reads ballot poll results

voted upon

The only way a Beatles poll would be fun is it no one took it seriously and didn't vote for their favorites.

Absolutely.

It's a chance to vote for stuff people like *right now*, so I don't anticipate a flood of votes for "Hey Jude" for example.

I won't say too much more about specific songs, but as I will no doubt say in the preamble when the Petshopboys one is done, did for gold and we will all be rewarded...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I wish any of you guys liked Phish because I would be so down for polling Phish at this moment in time.

that you can recognize that your personal favorite wouldn't necessarily drum up enough interest to justify a poll makes you smarter than the majority of people in this thread, though

Oh yeah, that shit just wouldn't fly.

I enjoy the format of these polls, even when I don't participate - the slow run-down of results, with images or youtubes and plenty of room for discussion. I think they are more likely to unearth an obscure gem a casual listener was unaware of than a standard ILM poll.

It's really not that hard to ignore them if you don't like them.

Too many at once would imo lead to lower participation levels and they'd die out of their own accord - I see no reason to moderate the numbers (esp on the whim of one moderator going "I think I might enforce this").

I was surprised at the mileage the Blur and Manics polls got. I thought doing a Mary Chain one might be fun but changed my mind as there probably isn't the breadth or depth there. Cure, Kate Bush, Prince & Madonna would all be worthwhile imo. I'd also enjoy reading through the results of a few others mentioned here even if I didn't feel qualified to take part - I treat them as recommendation threads.

"hey most of us who'd be enthusiastic about a Prince poll sure as hell don't own every Prince album (although i'd definitely be taking tips from the obsessives who can recommend the good stuff from his later periods)"

cosign. also i'd be totality down for a bowie poll, i just read a biography of him listened to a bunch of his albums i hadn't heard yet/in a while, + he's got an long awesome career with loads of different phases, highlights, awesome-but-obscure album tracks etc

Nick Cave

― President Keyes, Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:25

cosign

Not sure how successful the manics one is going to be xp - there are only about a dozen posters on that thread (i.e. vote, and help a brother out). That said, Pavement getting 40 ballots amazed me, especially when the whole of hip hop didn't.

Pavement one got 60 votes, didn't it?

ok 57 to be exact

Well I'm astonished. Not complaining, note - I figured it wasn't for me & let it pass me by.

was kind of hilarious, i thought, given that people complained / lolbrits at the blur poll, that anyone thought the correct next thing to do was ... pavement

i know right!

was kind of hilarious, i thought, given that people complained / lolbrits at the blur poll, that anyone thought the correct next thing to do was ... pavement

the essence of the American spirit right there

Malkmus complained that when Pavement was doing press for a UK tour (97? 98?) all they were asked about was their opinion on Blur.

pretty sure johnny fever explicitly said that he picked pavement because they were sorta the u.s. equivalent of blur. just sayin

and the people complaining about lolbrits polls are the same people complaining about any old ballot poll, right?

I couldn't find this thread when I posted in the thread where we suggest/plan which polls should go in which order, but I posted an .xls which should make this polling business easier for anyone who wants to play. Yay!!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol

"nothing" defeated 82-19 by my count.

In that case we need to have a "something" poll

http://a4.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/32/63cf1c95856048c6a85d2ec0da864a46/l.jpg

lol, zilch for the Stones

i feel vindicated

I'll start a Stevie Wonder poll regardless of these results.

Some year.