Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

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.

thx WmC - I don't necessarily need to do XTC and P-Funk back-to-back, would be cool with some other polls coming between those two fwiw

Make P-Funk the first imo.

I figured you wouldn't want to do them consecutively, but there's plenty of time to work out the solution. Someone might want or need to trade their spot down to yours, or I can place the next few between XTC and P-Funk. In which case, which do you prefer to be higher?

P-Funk I guess - thx for dealing!

mod edit deployed

Le Bateau Ivre and Kate Bush voters, prepare thyselfs!

Bump for LBI -- ready to go with KB?

Sent LBI an email.

Email bounced because his inbox was too full.

Nate, if LBI doesn't show up, would you be ready to go with The Cure?

Got a college assignment due in on Tuesday but after that I'd be good to go.

Pretty much all you'd have to do is start the balloting thread, give a closing date, number of spots on the ballot and an email address and you'd be done for at least a week. Would be good to get the next one moving this week if possible. Sorry to be a nudzh, I just keep seeing a list with 66 names on it.

That's a good point, yeah I'll start it whenever you want me to.

Sounds good to me (for purely selfish reasons as I don't want to miss the Cure one by being on holiday)

Thing is, thanks to Mod Powers I can see that Le Bateau Ivre has accessed ILX today. But email bounces and I can't reach through the ether and make him see this thread, and the last time he posted in it was 8 months ago.

I emailed LBI and he asked me to pass on his apologies but he's not able to run it just now. He did say that I could step into his shoes, which I can do but it'd actually work better for me if Nate went first.

So shall we do it that way? It also gives LBI a couple of weeks in case he changes his mind.

Yeah I'm going to go for it now.

Actually, Fleetwood Mac hasn't finished yet. Should I wait or go now? Is there usually a bit of an overlap?

FM finishes tomorrow. Go whenever you like, it won't spoil any party.

Hey guys, been away from ilx for a long time, apart from a post or two. In no way did I intend to screw up the poll order here, I had completely forgotten about this. Massive props to Ismael for contacting me about this. Apologies but I can't do the poll, it's up for grabs. Make it a bloody good one!

Le Bateau Ivre!

welcome back! stay!

Oh cool, this all worked out while I was having my post-meal coma. LBI, hope all's well and that the reason you can't do the poll is because you have too much good stuff going on.

Ismael, do you want the Kate Bush poll to go right after the Cure, or do you want to bump down more spots on the list?

Thanks Zach! Trying...

You keep on giffing up the world into a better place!

@WmC, yeah, "good stuff" would be nice, thanks man.

I'll go right after The Cure, please

Could I get a check-in from Tarfumes, Mordy, V79 and Billy Dods confirming their polls coming up? V79 hasn't posted in this thread in several months and hasn't posted on ILX in a few weeks. There should be more warning of lineup changes, and I appreciate Nate's willingness to jump in with the Cure on zero notice.

I'm good to go, expecting to get it started sometime in October depending how quickly the others roll by.

Yup, all set. I'm guessing, what, late August/early Sept?

:D

Yeah, that sounds right. xp

absolutely stoked for The Cure and Kate Bush. i'm going to have a field day with both those.

Yeah, I can imagine what that field day's going to look like.

http://unrighteousfury.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/goths_group4491.jpg

haha yeah kinda. except i should be so lucky to have an entourage like that :(

I'm confirming! I'm going to need some hand-holding running the thing (I heard there's a spreadsheet or something to make the tabulation easier? I am terrible at using Excel however), if someone doesn't mind helping me?

I'm excited that, after The Cure, I get to take a lengthy break from these. Y'all have fun with your polls I care very little about! I'll be back for The Boss.