Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

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.

paging donna rouge

lol just came to say a beastie poll is needed

but also it means i need to re-listen to those last two records so :/

i give my blessing to doing a beasties poll first

Cool, thanks! I'll start a thread when crut is done with the DM countdown.

donna rouge, you still up for the ABBA poll after BB?

Thanks donna rouge and everybody else. I'll start a Beasties poll thread later this afternoon. :D

(THIS) POLL REVERE(S) — ILM Artist Poll #19 — Beastie Boys VOTING THREAD

New Order at 37 seemed to be the perfect number, now it all feels discombobulated to me...

Okay, so I would like to be the fool who runs a US Indie Singles of the 1980s poll

Sign me up for Autechre.

i have a request: a (wmc?)-curated thread that contains nothing but the results to each poll and perhaps a link. cause they can be hard to find in a 5k-post results thread.

Mookie, thanks for the reminder -- I do keep the list up, but forget to post it very often. Would it be worth a separate thread?

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!
12. James Brown: THE POLLBACK: James Brown Tracks Poll Results Thread
13: The Jacksons: The Jacksons Tracks - Smooth CrimiPOLL results1!!1!!!!
14. David Bowie: The Man Who Polled the World, aka DAVID BOWIE POLL RESULTS
15. Paul Simon: PAUL SIMON POLL RESULTS THREAD AND DISCUSSION
16. Rolling Stones: MAD POLL, LOST YER WAY – ILM Artist Poll #16 – The Rolling Stones RESULTS THREAD
17. The Kinks: "I go to BlackPOLL for my holidays,"-- ILM Artist Poll #17 -- The Kinks RESULTS THREAD
18. Depeche Mode: Hearts can never be POLLed -- ILM Artist Poll # 18 -- Depeche Mode RESULTS THREAD

Yes: a thread with the final results of all the polls only (and no other comments) is a great idea. I look forward to somebody else making it. :-)