"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
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Nick Cave― President Keyes, Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:25
― President Keyes, Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:25
cosign
― some greenzo (onimo), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
Pavement one got 60 votes, didn't it?
― cr?m margera (some dude), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
ok 57 to be exact
― cr?m margera (some dude), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Well I'm astonished. Not complaining, note - I figured it wasn't for me & let it pass me by.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
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
― thomp, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
i know right!
― cr?m margera (some dude), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
the essence of the American spirit right there
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
Malkmus complained that when Pavement was doing press for a UK tour (97? 98?) all they were asked about was their opinion on Blur.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure johnny fever explicitly said that he picked pavement because they were sorta the u.s. equivalent of blur. just sayin
― so confused (blank), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
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!!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― blueski, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
"nothing" defeated 82-19 by my count.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
In that case we need to have a "something" poll
― i wanna be yr rhizome (seandalai), Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://a4.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/32/63cf1c95856048c6a85d2ec0da864a46/l.jpg
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol, zilch for the Stones
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:08 (twelve years ago) link
i feel vindicated
― cr?m margera (some dude), Thursday, 23 June 2011 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'll start a Stevie Wonder poll regardless of these results.
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Some year.
Richard Thompson
― the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lee547 (Lee626), Monday, 29 August 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lee547 (Lee626), Monday, 29 August 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
Ke$ha i think
― prego, Monday, 29 August 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
i think a yardbirds one would be great
― jesus & ramona (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 1 September 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
Sisqo poll would own all polls for life
― billstevejim, Thursday, 1 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ OTM Sisqo poll now IMO
― billstevejim, Thursday, 1 September 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
that would be kind of funny, when "Thong Song" got all the votes and everything else got bageled
― beemer, I mean BIMMER douchebag (DJP), Thursday, 1 September 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
#1 Wild Wild West
― billstevejim, Thursday, 1 September 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
like I said
― beemer, I mean BIMMER douchebag (DJP), Thursday, 1 September 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Really surprised Jimi Hendrix's name hasn't come up on this or the order/timing thread.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
well, if people thought even Zep had almost too small a catalog to poll...
― some dude, Monday, 19 September 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
we need Madonna and Roxy Music in that there poll.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
the Madonna poll is cursed. don't even speak of it.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
it really will be kind of momentous and cathartic whenever it finally happens
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
surely there's been a stones poll already
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Not a ballot poll. These things are a fairly recent development on ILM iirc.
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link