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

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.

Richard Thompson

or Sandy Denny. Her oeuvre is a sprawling mess filled with side projects, appearances on others' records, one-shot bands, incomplete works, etc., and that's before we even get to her scopious role in Fairport Convention's heyday. Which of course makes for a great ballot poll.

Yardbirds, anyone? Not around for long, but as with the recently-polled Beach Boys alot of their best stuff is obscurities unknown to casual fans. Also, there have been about 25 different best-of compilations and not one is all-inclusive or well chosen IMO.

Ke$ha i think

i think a yardbirds one would be great

Sisqo poll would own all polls for life

^^^ OTM Sisqo poll now IMO

that would be kind of funny, when "Thong Song" got all the votes and everything else got bageled

#1 Wild Wild West

like I said

Really surprised Jimi Hendrix's name hasn't come up on this or the order/timing thread.

well, if people thought even Zep had almost too small a catalog to poll...

we need Madonna and Roxy Music in that there poll.

Pulling together all the posthumously released stuff, Hendrix's catalog gets a lot bigger, but yeah, point taken. Still, it would be interesting to see what the top 10 or 15 looked like.

the Madonna poll is cursed. don't even speak of it.

it really will be kind of momentous and cathartic whenever it finally happens

surely there's been a stones poll already

Not a ballot poll. These things are a fairly recent development on ILM iirc.