Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

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I ILXmailed him a couple of hours ago, and he's posted this morning on another thread. Maybe it's time for Lamp with the Paul Simon poll.

Nah, let the James Brown one play out first I think - my listening has felt a lot like homework over the past month or so and it'd be nice to have a break.

(trying hard to resist the urge to volunteer for a minor artist quickfire poll)

Autechre!

Great to have that list, but should the "Fifties" music ballot be rendered also?

Mainly because the result (and the Spotify Playlist) are damn fine!

Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—THE TOP 101 RESULTS THREAD

Good call -- added that one and also the postwar jazz albums poll.

Precursors to the numbered list:
1950s Tracks: Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—THE TOP 101 RESULTS THREAD
Postwar Jazz Albums: JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)
Pavement: PAVEMENT • TRAX • POLL rEsULtS!!!
Manic Street Preachers: Manic Street Preachers Destructive Alienating Cultural and Despair Filled Tracks POLL RESULTS
Blur: Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread
REM: \///\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \///\///

1. Pet Shop Boys: Revelation - Official ILX Pet Shop Boys tracks poll results
2. Beatles: Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results
3. Prince: If Tracks Are Good, Let's Get 2 Pollin - PRINCE TRACKS POLL RESULTS
4. U2: "It's a musical journey" - U2 POLL RESULTS
5. Beach Boys: It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results
6. Led Zeppelin: ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD
7. Timbaland: generation timbo: TIMBALAND TRACKS POLL RESULTS
8. Guided by Voices: POLLSTAL BLOWFISH - ILM Artist Poll #8 - Guided By Voices - ReSuLtS!!!
9. Stevie Wonder: POLLTIME PARADISE: ILM Artist Poll #9 Results -- Stevie Wonder
10. Producers: Producers, Recording Engineers and Studio Wizards: POLL RESULTS
11. Pulp: Do You Remember The First Poll? - ILM Artist Poll #11 - PULP - Results Thread!

Hopefully someone else can take over the Kraftwerk poll for me when it comes up. Was looking forward to it, but not enough to put up with the bullshit harrassment I've been getting on this board.

harassment about the Kraftwerk poll?

I'm not an expert on them (Only really know Autobahn and after), but I'd take over for you if you don't want to do it when the time comes. Again, this and the Clash poll is sort of dependent on somebody sending me an e-mail about the particulars of how it's all done closer to the date.

harrassment? wth?

Well, it'll be ages yet (until the Kraftwerk one)

Eh, see the 2011 year end list making thread if you are that curious. Tbh, Im just generally put off by the current tone of ilx. That other thread is making it pretty clear that the unspoken rule is "don't be offended by insults", when imho, it should be "just don't insult other posters".

can the jay-z poll be moved up in its place?

"just don't insult other posters"

What kind of utopian message board world did you reside in before arriving at ILX?

It doesn't mean he has to like it.

lol were you actually harrassed or was it just ilx?

okay i'm good to start the Jacksons poll later this week.

Maybe wait until after the EOY polls?

hmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah good point. let's do that.

I know this is a little presumptuous given that I haven't held a poll myself...

But should we try doing Spotify playlists of the final polls? Or is that already happening?

people were already doing that, but the ILX crash appears to have killed these polls dead

They're not dead, just resting. The James Brown results have gone awol, and voting for the next one is supposed to start once the 2012 poll is done with.

what he/she said ^

Ah, good to know that the artist's polls are coming back - I've been missing them. So the Jacksons are next? Is it only going to be about the Jackson 5 / Jacksons music, or also Michael / Janet / LaToya / etc. solo records?

everything. all of em. 3T if you like.

Looking forward to the resumption of the artist polls. I'm guessing these may fall into a February through November timetable, leaving December and January for EOY voting and results?

probably good to think of it that way, yeah

Jamie, if you wanted to open the polls for the Jacksons, I don't think it would interfere with JFever's 2011 albums rollout.

Will it interfere with the James Brown results though?

Sadly, Ismael, I don't think we're ever going to find out if you helped Living In America on its way to victory.

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Correction, J0rdan S.'s albums rollout. Paging Jamie?

yep will get this open in a bit, just got a heap of work thrown my way

Sadly, Ismael, I don't think we're ever going to find out if you helped Living In America on its way to victory.

:(

okay Jackson tracks is on

has anyone got a link to the 2011 album poll? maybe i'm being dense but i cant see it on SNA.

ILM's Top 77 ALBUMS of 2011

I would love to do a disco singles poll, add me to the list.

I was going to switch R Kelly for disco, Tuomas, you can have my slot

*SPOILER* I Feel Love wins that poll

I was going to switch R Kelly for disco, Tuomas, you can have my slot

Okay, thanks!

Ha xp, 'disco ex I Feel Love' is maybe the poll to do, it's true

Yeah, I think I might go for that, to keep the poll more exciting.

Thought about this before, it will be lots of fun but how on earth are you going to separate disco from non-disco? Do you mean disco-as-musical-genre or "music played in dance clubs 1973-80"? Does James Brown count? Do Kraftwerk count?

I would vote in a disco poll! I don't do these single-artist polls, really, mainly b/c I'm breadth over depth, partly b/c of poll fatigue, but I like the wider polls.

Actually, I've just noticed VU solo careers on the list, that sounds kind of tempting too.

Thought about this before, it will be lots of fun but how on earth are you going to separate disco from non-disco? Do you mean disco-as-musical-genre or "music played in dance clubs 1973-80"? Does James Brown count? Do Kraftwerk count?

I specifically want it to be about classic disco (as a genre) released on 12" singles, so no proto-disco, or disco-influenced later genres such as hi-NRG, 80s house, filter house, etc. No James Brown (except for the few disco singles he released - check out "Original Disco Man"), no Kraftwerk, no Daft Punk. I'll probably allow early 80s boogie and italo to be included, because they're so close to classic disco, but IMO other disco-related stuff should be excluded.

Good luck :) So we're not including anything released pre-1975 (or pre-1976 if it's restricted to commercially available 12-inches)? And no album tracks?

I'm not trying to be negative btw, I would definitely vote in a disco poll!

Hmm, now that I think of it, I'm not sure if it should be 12 inch singles only... There are some mid-70s tracks (some of which predate 1975) which weren't released as 12"s, but which count as disco. So I guess I should just trust people are able to distinguish between disco and non-disco, even if it can be hard sometimes.

And on that thought, I guess album tracks should be allowed, since the tracks that predate the 12" era often had their definite, long versions on albums.

I'll vote in that, but my ballot will probably have a lot of boogie.