~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2013 - ALBUMS & TRACKS VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) )

I think that above vote may have taken us to 50, yeah

voted http://www.varunaholzapfel.de/wbblite/images/smilies/headbang.gif

that would mean nearly 40 votes in 3/4 days which is quite remarkable. Thanks ilm!

I told you, dude – people are lazy and wait until the last minute. It's human nature.

usually i start album countdown as soon as i get the results after (vote) closing time. But with this year us trying a tracks poll I dunno whether to do that first or just start albums tonight and start tracks on monday when everyones back to work (it wont be a particularly long rollout.

Also I was going to do it on just the one results thread but seanwayne thinks it would be better on its own thread.

Another thought was leave tracks poll to the last few days of albums rollout and count it down simultaneously with the albums.

so anyone got any thoughts on it?

j3ff might be right. Maybe polls should just have one week of voting in future. People could cram listening in during extended nominations instead.

I guess it depends on how many tracks ballots come in and how long that rollout would be, but it seems like a minor feature of the metal poll and could probably kick off the thread that would house both polls' results.

It may be tomorrow before I can get you the results btw.

oh and there will be no 150 200 300 etc albums rollout

xp

ahh ok seandalai np!

i think tracks rollout would be around the top 25 mark

I might start with the tracks rollout as jf suggests then whenever i get the results.
Just hope noone minds the tracks results being done over the weekend but if noone objects I will do it.

thinking about doing this thing. no one nommed wrekmeister harmonies, what's up with that?

go for it. And thanks for the shorter total rollout of tracks.

do it!

tracks poll was always just a wee bit of fun. Hoped that it might attract non-partisans who might be more willing to check out standout tracks, that might then lead to albums being checked out.

Hopefully those who will follow tracks poll will be able to real time comments on the songs and will then hang around for albums.

plus I love it when in previous polls emil.y and others live-blogged thoughts on songs they didnt know.

Plus it can prove to doubters than metal has songs that do stand out. (also got no idea what the top 25 will be like.)

last 3 hours to vote..

just voted in the albums poll

Still trying to listen through the tracks spotify playlist. I may have to give up and just submit an albums-only ballot, though I have discovered lots of cool stuff on the playlist (Oranssi Pazuzu and Stara Rzeka come to mind).

2 HOURS LEFT TO VOTE

it is done

haha i forgot there is 2 nick b's. one has voted for years in metal poll but we used to only take email addys not ilx names. So seandalai its 2 different people not a revote.

i think both nicks need to fight it out on dragons holding swords or something.

i am not very metal, i will be the one riding into battle on a duck

http://i.imgur.com/0lKrtzz.jpg

important question, can somebody help?

what is my ILE username? is it "Beatrix Kiddo" or "Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings)"?

preparing to submit my ballot, don't wanna mess this up

Beatrix Kiddo

but it hardly matters as its just so we know a real person is voting ie no socks or lady gaga fanclub

its not just the NSA who knows who you are!

Anyway late voters can make a huge difference not only voting albums into the countdown, or into the top 10 or changing the order of the top 20buy ALSO decide #1. One year j3ffs last min vote changed the top 3.

so with ONE HOUR LEFT TO GO PLEASE VOTE

After asking some friends/ilx lurkers to vote and all of you regular ilxors joining in I think we have 55 album voters. But time for more!
Not had a ballot from doran/phil or chuck yet!

or jjjusten or m@tt

Considering this:

i apologize in advance for not voting in this but no lie, i have not listened to a single new album this year

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, January 6, 2014 10:25 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wouldn't expect a ballot from him.

AG is nothing if not an optimist.

Hey, he got us to surpass the # of voters from last year!

Old management > New Management

Voting is closed, thanks for voting.

hurrah!

and thanks to seandalai for making this all possible! (and fnb for helping me)

and I'm going to post a few tracks results in a min or two..

~~~ 2014 ILM METAL POLL TRACKS & ALBUMS COUNTDOWN! ~~~ (Tracks top 30 first then Albums)