Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

NTI, are you volunteering for Bee Gees or hoping someone else steps forward?

I just did a bunch of edits and post deletions to make this thread a lot easier to scroll through in case anyone cares about rereading it. Where it was just the master list, I've deleted the post, and where there was other chat, I've edited the list out. I didn't start messing with it until posts from August, when the list started getting long and unwieldy.

NTI, are you volunteering for Bee Gees or hoping someone else steps forward?

i wouldn't have time to coordinate a bee gees poll, but somebody needs to do it.

also for dylan we should probably list the top 100, not top 50.

Ditto disco.

i wouldn't have time to coordinate a bee gees poll, but somebody needs to do it.

also for dylan we should probably list the top 100, not top 50.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:28 PM

I agree with this, and ditto Miles. I'll probably expand ballots to 30 tracks for him and results to 75-80.

i think that for the bee gees it'd be fun to allow gibb bros songs recorded by folks other than the BGs. for dylan that would become a mess really quickly, though.

and also Andy imo

can someone re-upload the spreadsheet template FFM made? the megaupload + sendspace links are both down.

Sure...I just emailed a copy to the DM ballot address in the meantime.

https://rapidshare.com/files/1571250807/track_poll.xls

I don't want to post the whole thing too often -- makes scrolling through it all obnoxious.

I might go under the hood one of these days and edit out the long list in posts more than a month old.

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:53 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Would it be OK to put the 'up-to-date list' on the first message? I know it's a bit 'naughty' but when the list goes into the 'Skipping' void, we end up either having to ask for the list to be reposted, or load 1000+ messages and scrolling through.

That's a thought...I'd rather not do it that way, but it's a thought. It's a bit more of a pain to edit posts than to submit them. I'll try to remember to keep an updated revised list on the outside of The Void, but if I forget and the list keeps dropping in, your suggestion is a good one.

(the list in progress)

Had a brief thought that a ballot poll of live albums might be interesting, but the results might be a little predictable. Whadda y'all think?

i don't think it'd be that predictable, actually, so long as the voting base is large enough that there's a diversity of opinion.

Five of the next six of these will be of extreme interest to me. Looking forward to a hot summer.

Whoa, Neil Young is going to be a tough row to hoe.

thankfully Bruce, Stax and Pink Floyd polls are spaced far enough apart so as not to kill me dead. But omg

http://carlosdev.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/high-fidelity.jpg

Music lists, movie lists, it's all good--the DNA of life.

manna

mannum

Enter this thread in a spirit of good will or not at all, Morbs. Or, you know, whatever.

or be tased

goodwill hunting?

A bad pun is close enough. What musical ballot poll would tempt you to vote, Herr Doktor?

Arcade Fire

I am inexpert on most bands' oeuvres, even the ones I like. Also, I don't care to spend the time. I might vote on HuDu if I, you know, stop reviewing films.

Still have never heard the Grammy-winning AF album.

I'd claim expertise on only one musical artist, and ain't no way in hell I'd start a ballot poll for him.

clue!

last name rhymes with FANILOW

first name rhymes with wank more like

Hank Canilow?

:-(

hank slapper iirc

Hearts can never be POLLed -- ILM Artist Poll # 18 -- Depeche Mode RESULTS THREAD

Donna Rouge, ABBA voting on Monday? Crüt said he's wrapping Depeche Mode results tomorrow.

My ballot is ready to roll. Their catalogue is quite like Led Zep's, oddly, at least in length and self-containedness. Same string sound on the late stuff too.

ABBA is an interesting one. i think the only songs i've ever heard by them (which are pretty much all fantastic) are on the Gold compilation. and i think that has roughly 20 songs?

can you change 51 (Steely Dan) to Bee [space] OK (like 37 New Order).

thanks

Kinda want to run a Beastie Boys poll and maybe cut in line (after ABBA) if no one objects?

pleasepleaseplease

Do it.

Co-sign. The field is yours.

That's a nice idea. Maybe even before Abba?

cool idea.

yes yes y'all

I was going to ask for someone to jump ahead--I can't start until school lets out at the end of June--so that would work out well for me.