ILM'S TOP 77 ALBUMS of 2010 (NOW COUNTING DOWN THE TOP TEN)

only 1 more poll needs to be done between now and next jan tbh and that is the last decade (the oooooos).

didn't we just do a 06-10 less than a year ago though? maybe get a bit of distance from that first

err '05-'09 i mean

I really really want to do an alternate '00-'04 poll, where none of the albums/songs that placed in the 2004 poll are eligible. I might start making moves to do that after there's some breathing room from this one.

I might poll the 50 best biscuits.

I mean re-running a list for a period ILM has already covered is a bit Q magazine.

bourbon ftw

Only poll I'm really keen to see is a pre-1960 (1950?)tracks poll, though I suspect that may be a niche opinion.

More or less happy with the current voting set up, though would prefer a weighted/unweighted ballot as an option next year.

would love a jazz poll tbh. I doubt glenn would be interested in helping me with that tho. If he agrees to set needle up though I'd totally be up for it

I really really want to do an alternate '00-'04 poll, where none of the albums/songs that placed in the 2004 poll are eligible.

i suggest looking at the albums/songs that placed in the 101-200 range --pretty good list of alternates to the top 100

my 2012 resolution is to vote next year

I'd like to see that Electronic albums/tracks poll happen. Seemed to peter out back in Oct.

iirc that one broke down over infighting about what was and wasn't eligible genre-wise, i think the poll creator had a mnml/idm/ambient-type poll in mind and a bunch of people were nominating synthpop and new wave type ilm-love stuff and getting mad when they were shot down

i unveiled the results, you may have missed it because it was in this thread

YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

haha

I really really want to do an alternate '00-'04 poll, where none of the albums/songs that placed in the 2004 poll are eligible.

i suggest looking at the albums/songs that placed in the 101-200 range --pretty good list of alternates to the top 100

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, February 4, 2011 12:40 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, lot of good stuff there but not remotely all of the good records that missed the top 100 that people would probably vote for now.

I've never understood the point of doing nominations in the first place. What's wrong with having everyone just send in a list with their top 25 albums and singles? With 15 noms/person x 100-odd people making nominations, most people's favourites end up on the nominations list anyway.

More importantly: it cuts down on the time needed to run the poll because you can cut out the ~ 3 wk nomination period and publish the poll results in January.

i thought the point was in large part to standardize the name, spelling, format of each nominated item.

I guess nominations are good for ironing out the "which year did this come out" difficulties and they remind people of stuff, but otherwise, yeah.

If it's a 70's or 80's or "all-time genre" poll, I can understand wanting to remind people of stuff, but not for a year-end poll for a year that just ended. Standardizing the formats is obviously a huge help to the people running the poll and doing the coding, which I know nothing about so I won't comment on how big of a headache it might be to not have that in place.

w/r/t the delay - i think that's a positive. albums are still released well into december - some of them placed this year! which wouldn't nec be the case if the poll was done a few weeks earlier. and doing it in the dog days of january never exactly hurts enthusiasm.

nominations are useful for me for reminding me of albums I wanted to check out but ended up forgetting about, and also for albums I did listen to and love but might forget to put on my list

^ yeah, this. nominations thread assists the process in a number of ways, not just in the standardization of ballots. i personally appreciate the memory-jogging and heads-upping, along with the extra time it provides for (re)evaluation before ballots are officially cast.

Veil Veil Vanish - Change in the Neon Light
Engineers - In Praise of More
the Prids - Chronosynclastic

i like these ones trayce! in fact the prids was in my top 5 on my ballot iirc

in the shoegazing poll, half of my ballot at least was made up of stuff I checked out from the nominations thread, stuff I never would've heard of w/o it (Skywave, Joy Formidables, you are the coolest)--of course this meant my ballot favored heavily on stuff that got nominated in the thread's first two days, but still, it was v useful...

also, some dude I like your idea of doing another '00-'04 poll but let's not do an alternate one, let's just an updated nu-ILX one. I don't want to deal with any constrictions on what you can &/or can't vote, esp. since we aren't doing a whole decade poll for the forseeable future...

Having done an 00-04 poll and an 05-09 poll already, the next time we even touch the first decade of this century should either be an all-in thing or a genre poll of some kind. That said, I'm not advocating anyone start anything of the sort in the near future.