the 70s poll - rules, and nominations (¡FINAL VOTING ABOUT TO CLOSE

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Jesus, what an ordeal that was.

I weep at what we left out of the nominations.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

There were some strange track nominations ... when going through the list, I had several reactions of the "WTF? We nominated these Donna Summer tracks??" sort. It's not like it made much of a difference, though -- I found no shortage of flawless tracks to choose from.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

can i still vote?

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll actually count anything that arrives before I total this up - which is likely to be on sunday. So you have tomorrow to vote too.--hobart paving (the poll's mastermind)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Were there really no Pink Floyd songs nominated?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

No Spinners?! I'm almost positive some Spinners songs were on the list, at some point anyway. Did we lose them or did they all get switched to other songs? I sort of remember: Games People PLay, Then Came You and I'll Be Around. A 70s song list without anything by the Spinners feels so incomplete to me.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 5 March 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah - no Spinners! I would certainly have voted for 'It's A Shame' and maybe 'I'll Be Around'. Hmmm...

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 5 March 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

no spinners?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 5 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

They must have gone when we lost all those posts.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 5 March 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah :-(

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 5 March 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I wound up doing 36 albums and 34 tracks, but then the next day I listened to the first B-52's album and I totally regrtted not including "Rock Lobster," my #35 single. :(

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Where is 'Drums and Wires'???
One of the best albums of the era, miles better than 'White Music'...
I really don't understand that.

― zeus, Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Yea, the Drums n' Wires omissions in really bad. Same with Catch a Fire.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Well then you should've fucking nominated them, shouldn't you have?

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

You can probably still sneak a vote in...

hobart?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

did Tim Buckley's Starsailor disappear off the albums list or is it just me?

― dronez are not ours to eat, dronez are not ours to wear (smile), Sunday, 6 March 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The December ILX outage really damaged this poll. Nobody's fault, but there it is. Okay, I'll say it: maybe in a year or so, we should try it all over again and see if anything changes?

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

(People could have double-checked to make sure their nominations were in place.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, definitely. And shit on anybody who complains about omissions but didn't make any nominations.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

So this is closed now, right?

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I totally forgot to vote for Donna Summer!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

hobart paving, any update for us? I saw you post today on the Dylan covers thread...

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking about this poll yesterday! GIMME RESULTS!

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed.

― billstevejim, Friday, 15 April 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Mmmmmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I was told through email correspondence with poll runner h.p. that results were tentatively scheduled to begin TODAY

― jared, Friday, 15 April 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I got a similar message from him, but Friday isn't a good day to start a poll countdown ... better to hold off until Monday.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

But but but...what am I supposed to do this weekend, then?

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm pissed — I wanted to vote but it took forever to do so, so I gave up. Lame.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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the 70s poll - rules, and nominations (¡FINAL VOTING ABOUT TO CLOSE - LAST CHANCE TO "MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE"!)