Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Looove the idea of a SP3 and related poll... And I'd like to do an Iron Maiden one at some point down the line.

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I'd been tempted to throw together a Stone Roses micropoll to celebrate their comeback gigs - but I hadn't realised they were only next weekend. Their discography is tiny though, and clemenza's deadline is quite far ahead, so it might just work.

would vote in S3 poll

OK I'm in... Put me down for the Spacemen 3 & descendents poll.

I predict "Bikeage" will win.

OK Elvis, #62 and S3 are yours. Will include in the next update.

Even though I'm quite nervous about my upcoming Cure poll and I've done no prep work for it at all - can I do a Radiohead poll?

Any enthusiasm for a quickfire Stone Roses poll, or is this a silly idea? I'm thinking voting 'til Thursday, then a very short countdown on Friday before the big gig.

can I do a Radiohead poll?

I say 'yes'. I think I was down to do one, then let someone else take it over, and then they switched to another group/artist altogether and I ended up about twenty places further down the list with a PJ Harvey one.

Any enthusiasm for a quickfire Stone Roses poll, or is this a silly idea?

I'll vote if you do it. You might want to restrict people to just voting for their top 10 if you want people to vote without much thinking time.

ballot poll seems a bit much for a band w/ 2 albums, wouldn't an automated poll thread work better?

I can't help feeling we've had this discussion before

The Best Stone Roses Single

yeah guys w/ two albums getting a ballot poll is p silly. lets have nominations! oh look we nominated everything! lets have 20 vote ballots! oh you all voted for everything! fun!

I'm not planning on clogging up people's time with this. It'd be seven-vote ballots, and the rundown would be a top ten only.

I'm curious to see how the ultrashort format plays, and it's just a throwaway for a special occasion anyway. If it doesn't work it doesn't work, no big deal.

are we still doing the overlapping method? this seems to be taking even more forever than i thought it would

should be a countdown every week imo.

Yeah, or every other week at least. People complain often about laboring over ballots (I've done it too), but in the end it's pretty easy to sit down and knock one out in less than an hour while listening to the artist's tracks. The thing I liked about these polls in the beginning was how off-the-cuff and fun they were. Now, everyone treats them like homework.

I agree with that 100%. I understand that for some voters, these are a springboard to explore someone's entire catalog. Detached from everything else, that's a good thing. But to me, you don't need a poll for that--that can be done any time you want. For these polls, just make a list of whatever your favourites are already. Knock it off quickly. If you want to YouTube a a handful of old favourites you haven't heard in a while, great. If you can only make it to 10 songs, send in a list of 10. If the poll turns up a song you'd never before heard and absolutely would have voted for if you had, that's a good thing. You haven't let anyone down--least of all the Rolling Stones or Abba or James Brown.

Yeah, a lot of heavy discog research/listening makes it awfully close to work. It would be good when the results thread for an artist gets going, for the voting for the next poll to start. TBH, the Bee Gees poll with 2 pushed-back deadlines threw a wrench into everything, no offense intended toward Bee Gees fans. Clarke's house-moving was an unforeseen circumstance...but I think (hope) we can get going faster now.

after the pause in artist polls because of the board being down/year-end polls/the James Brown snafu/etc., we've had results for 10 different polls run in the space of a little over 4 months. i think every 2 weeks or so is a pretty good rate but i realize there are people who will just DIE if we don't run an Autechre poll in the next 12 months.

Ahem.

for some voters, these are a springboard to explore someone's entire catalog

See, I love this. I'll throw out a ballot in no time if I know the catalogue - I did Zep in twenty minutes while walking round the shops - but for a major artist I don't really know, exploring a catalogue I never otherwise would is totally what I get out of it. It's all about the discussion thread too, outside the top tens I don't much care about results.

Saint Et soon come?

Now, I wonder which song I shall place newly at no 1, hmmm...

We need a poll for the worst late 80s / early 90s graduation songs.
Nominees:

"Right Here, Right Now" Jesus Jones
"End of the Road" Boyz II Men
"These Are Days" 10,000 Maniacs
"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" Boyz II Men

Any others?

"We will always remember, oh god what was it?" The Beach Boys

That was a Four Freshmen cover iirc

"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" Boyz II Men - only one i can stomach/enjoy in 2012

Yeah I like that song

1. Pet Shop Boys - Billy Dods (finished)

2. Beatles - Mark G (finished)

3. Prince - Jamie_ATP (finished)

4. U2 - Ismael Klata (finished)

5. Beach Boys - iatee (finished)

6. Led Zeppelin - WmC (finished)

7. Timbaland - some dude (finished)

8. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever (finished)

9. Stevie Wonder - Eric H. (finished)

10. "Producers" - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)

11. Pulp - Finefinemusic (finished)

12. James Brown - strongo/Shakey Mo Collier
 (finished)
13. Jacksons - Jamie_ATP
 (finished)
14. David Bowie - WmC (finished)
15. Paul Simon - Lamp
 (finished)
16. Rolling Stones - rogermexico (finished)

17. The Kinks - C. Grisso/McCain (finished)

18. Depeche Mode - crüt (finished)
19. Beastie Boys - Johnny Fever (finished)
20. ABBA - donna rouge (finished)
20B. Bee Gees - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
21. Neil Young - clemenza (LAST COUPLE OF DAYS TO VOTE, I CAN FEEL IT GETTING DOWN TO THE WIRE)
22. Fleetwood Mac - Clarke B.
23. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
24. The Cure - nate woolls

25. The Who - Tarfumes the Escape Goat

26. Joni Mitchell - Mordy

27. The Neptunes - V79
28. Saint Etienne - Billy Dods

29. Kraftwerk - jon via chi

30. Hüsker Dü - Pleasant Plains

31. Bruce Springsteen - Jamie_ATP

32. Miles Davis - WmC

33. Velvet Underground solo careers - iatee

34. Madonna - or something

35. The Fall - Mark G

36. PJ Harvey - Nasty, Brutish & Short

37. Cocteau Twins - Le Bateau Ivre

38. New Order - Bee OK

39. Sonic Youth - ArchCarrier

40. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy

41. Stax - seandalai

42. Disco - Tuomas

43. Jay-Z - some dude

44. The Clash - Gukbe
45. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope
46. Tom Waits - chap
47. The "Classic Rock" Canon - Doctor Casino
48. Elvis Costello - kornrulez
49. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry - charlie h
50. Pink Floyd - Elvis Telecom
51. Ween - WmC
52. Steely Dan - Bee OK
53. Bob Dylan - tipsy mothra
54. Sleater-Kinney + offshoots - C.Grisso/McCain
55. Replacements/Westerberg/et al - Johnny Fever
56. Outkast - The Reverend
57. US Indie Singles of the 1980s - NickB
58. Autechre - Leee
59. Brian Eno - WmC
60. Wire - Z S
61. Chic Organization - Donna Rouge
62. Spaceman 3 (& descendants) - Elvis Telecom
63. Radiohead - nate woolls

Is a Clarke B. lurking around here anywhere?

I'd still like to have a go at testing out a shortform poll btw, in case Clarke doesn't show and there's a gap needs filled. Not The Stone Roses though, their star has shone. I was thinking maybe Sophistipop.

I'm alive! The Fleetwood Mac poll will be up by later on today...

Hurrah!

to nate woolls
, i hope you go BIG with the Cure poll. meaning i hope we can pick more than 20 songs. they have such a huge catalog that i know i could easily do a Top 50 and still hate that i would have to leave off some of my favorites. plus being ILM, where there are a bunch of Cure heads, this poll is going to be classic, at least i hope...

When is The Cure poll likely to be? I fear I may be on holiday. (not enough to cancel the holiday)

I'd guess early August. If Nate Woolls has voting details in mind -- like if he knows it's going to be the standard 20-spot -- no reason he couldn't post that here and you could vote early. (For that matter, I know Ween is going to be a standard 20, so anyone can vote now if they're planning on taking a year off from ILX.)

I think 50 songs may be slightly too many but 20 is definitely too few, so I'm going to make an executive decision and say 40 songs. So go ahead and make your lists, I need to start doing some prep work.

Ha! I've been stuck on 21 songs for the last 3 weeks for the Cure poll since I decided to get my shit together early for a change. That'll learn me!

Therefore both 'Accuracy' and 'Shake Dog Shake' survive!

I would seriously be honored and thrilled to run a poll down the road on either Iron Maiden or Judas Priest... I think both of them are great candidates!

pleeeeease do that

YEAH, 40 Cure songs. thanks nate!

Absentee balloting -- not just for college kids and shut-ins anymore!

Exhausting, rewarding. Please add me to the queue for Yo La Tengo/Dump in the summer of...2014?

gonna bite the bullet and say put me down to run XTC and P-Funk polls. I don't expect more than a dozen votes for either tbh but we'll see...

Would there be interest in a Low one if I did it? 9 albums proper, a pile of eps - that's enough of a career I think.

I assume YLT will include Condo Fucks and YLT + Jad Fair, etc.

Haven't heard that stuff myself--I love a bunch of Dump songs--but yes, I like polls that include anything tangentially related.