ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

A shame he would need to wait 3 years then

Anyway Im bored of arguing about this so no more on this from me. Polls already off anyway. Classic rock poll is starting soon so invest your energies in that instead of arguing over rules and other shit.

someone w/ coding skills cld create a permanent, fluid ilx top 100/500/1k albums which users cld submit/edit ballots towards to give you an ever-changing manifestation of ilx's collective tastes, tho it wld lack the declarative finality of a roll-out & wld be trickier to feel proprietorial about

this is a good idea ^^^^^^^^^, with something to allow those who've already voted to swap albums in-and-out, but not cast multiple votes.

Yeah that actually feels like an interesting idea

ILX's very own RYM account.

there's this magazine called sight & sound, right, and every 10 years they do a list of the best films OF ALL TIME, it's silly and useful and interesting and pointless and whatever, but they manage to do it despite such an exercise being impossibly "byzantine". Although I'm sure every time it almost gets derailed by some critics going "but we're already doing a feature on the top 10 italian horror movies this year wtf".

Anyway I don't see why this couldn't be something like that, it would be crazy and fun and I'd enjoy reading lists of people's favourite records ever and why they love them. I wouldn't be devastated if it didn't happen, but I hope it does and it does seem like a different kind of thing to the narrower-focus polls. That is my important opinion.

idgif tbh. if it had kicked off parallel to an artist poll it probably would have been nbd but the "classic rock" poll has been coming for a long time and has a similar gonzo hodgepodge vibe (at least in theory).

anyway I'm looking forward to the opportunity to vote for head east and duke jupiter in something

basically Doctor Casino otm on all points. "all albums ever" and "all classic rock hits ever" are too big (and in that sense similar) to run at the same time. a few months between them is reasonable. so, is the classic rock poll happening? (sorry if I missed something)

yeah it is

http://m.quickmeme.com/img/57/57edc1349db42b32d2baf3642ea8f050930186de9387b0a118caa92567ac678d.jpg

lol VG

idgi ._.

bill magill's gonna freak

there was no devo poll?

I honestly thought viceroy had done one. Mustve been a standard ilx poll

POLLing and turning, how can I sleep?: The Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry Results Thread

can i get a spot at the end of the line for a misfits/samhain/danzig poll? or would nobody care about that..?

Grady, can I go out and poll tonight?

Gonna post a new full list with 107/They Might Be Giants/Johnny Fever and gr8080's request, but first I want to check -- Sarahell, were you officially putting yourself on the list for No Wave or just gauging interest? And Van Horn Street, ditto for DFA.

i will volunteer to run DFA instead of danzig if VHS doesn't want to

paging sarahell, also paging some dude (or paging Elvis Telecom if you're too busy)

Actually, if Classic Rock is going to have a lengthy nominations period before voting, Floyd could run concurrently.

I will run the DFA poll.

put me down for misfits/samhain/danzig then!

YES

and you have to title it

Grady, can I go out and poll tonight?

is there any way that Floyd could possibly *not* run concurrently with classic rock?

personal request, idk if anyone else feels the same way but the thought of participating in both at the same time is daunting to say the least

I'm totally cool with there not being a poll in process for a few days until Classic Rock gets off the ground. Go outside. Smell a flower. Kick a ball.

a flower? on feb 21? not here.

smell a melting pile of slush in a corner of the parking lot

smell a freshly roiling floe of dog urine

i'm constantly, like, a day away from being caught up enough w/ my professional writing obligations that i don't feel terribly irresponsible spending some time getting the Classic Rock poll setup, so i mean, it'll happen when it happens. maybe even tomorrow (no, really!). if Elvis Telecom wants to coordinate w/ me so we're not running stuff at the same time, that's fine by me, i can wait or i can get mine done before his.

i don't really care, i'm just pissy because there are no flowers to smell around here for a good long while and i heard "dust in the wind" on the radio yesterday.

yeah, I will run a No Wave poll

OK! That gives us this:

A. Pavement - Johnny Fever (finished)
B. Manic Street Preachers - Jamie_ATP (finished)
C. Blur - Nasty, Brutish & Short (finished)
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 (finished)
22. Fleetwood Mac - Clarke B. (finished)
23. The Cure - nate woolls (finished)
24. Kate Bush - Ismael Klata (finished)
25. The Who - Tarfumes the Escape Goat (finished)
26. Joni Mitchell - Mordy (finished)
27. The Neptunes - V79/some dude (finished)
28. Saint Etienne - Billy Dods (finished)
29. Hüsker Dü - Pleasant Plains (finished)
30. Bruce Springsteen - Jamie_ATP (finished)
31. Madonna - Johnny Fever (finished)
32. Miles Davis - WmC (finished)
33. The Fall - Mark G (finished)
34. PJ Harvey - Nasty, Brutish & Short (finished)
35. Cocteau Twins - Le Bateau Ivre/LeRooLeRoo (finished)
36. Sonic Youth - ArchCarrier (finished)
37. New Order - Bee OK (finished)
37B. The Doors - Ismael Klata (finished)
38. The Clash - Gukbe (finished)
39. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy (finished)
40. Jay-Z - some dude (finished)
41. Elton John - Johnny Fever (finished)
42. Stax - seandalai (finished)
43. Disco - Tuomas (finished)
44. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope (finished)
45. Tom Waits - chap (finished)
45B. Velvet Underground and Solo Careers (finished)
46. The “Classic Rock” Canon - some dude (COMING SOON)
47. Elvis Costello - kornrulez (finished)
48. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry - charlie h (finished)
49. Pink Floyd - Elvis Telecom
50. Steely Dan - Bee OK
51. Bob Dylan - tipsy mothra
52. Sleater-Kinney + offshoots - C.Grisso/McCain
53. Outkast - The Reverend
54. Autechre - Leee
55. Brian Eno - WmC
56. Chic Organization - Donna Rouge
57. Spaceman 3 (& descendants) - Elvis Telecom
58. Radiohead - nate woolls
59. Yo La Tengo/Dump - clemenza
60. P-Funk - Shakey Mo Collier
61. Stooges/Iggy Pop - flopson
62. The Boo Radleys - Bee OK
63. XTC - Shakey Mo Collier
64. Italo - daavid
65. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy
66. Creedence Clearwater Revival - crüt
67. “Epics” (non-classical division) - Leee
68. Hard Rock/Hair Metal - how’s life
69. Extreme Metal - Viceroy
70. Stephin Merritt - Gukbe
71. Pixies - Johnny Fever
72. Metallica - Pleasant Plains
73. Spoon - Bee OK
74. Nirvana - Gavin, Leeds
75. Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods
76. Queen - charlie h
77. Dinosaur Jr. - Z S
78. Tom Petty - rogermexico
79. Ramones - tipsy mothra
80. Jimi Hendrix - WmC
81. Sightings - Raymond Cummings
82. John Coltrane - Tarfumes the Escape Goat
83. Stereolab - Moka
84. Bauhaus/Tones on Tail-Love and Rockets/Peter Murphy - Bee OK
85. Genesis + solo - NickB
86. The Smiths - nate woolls
87. Pearl Jam - VegemiteGrrl
88. The Burt Bacharach songbook - WilliamC
89. Dead C - Raymond Cummings
90. Royal Trux + side projects - Drugs A. Money
91. John Fahey - Naive Teen Idol?
92. Rush - Matt #2
93. Oasis - darraghmac
94. George Michael - Ismael Klata
95. Talking Heads - Bee OK
96. Gamble & Huff/Philly International Records - jetfan
97. Van Halen - Johnny Fever
98. Billy Joel - Doctor Casino
99. Low - aldo
100. Nine Inch Nails - chap
101. REM - rogermexico.
102. Bjork - Eric H.
103. Wu-Tang Clan - ― Spottie
104. Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Post-rock (Albums and EPs)
105. Covers - kornrulez6969
106. New Pornographers/AC Newman - staggerlee
107. They Might Be Giants - Johnny Fever
108. No Wave - sarahell
109. DFA - Van Horn Street
110. Misfits/Samhain/Danzig - gr8080

can I turn my Extreme Metal poll into a Black Metal poll?

no prob

you can, but you must first murder one (1) bandmember and drink their blood

Would there be interest in a Gainsbourg poll?

I'd be interested, but seeing as I pretty much always fail to vote in artist-specific polls maybe that doesn't mean much.

l'Histoire de Emil.y Pollshun

A French pop poll would be great! Or a non-English language European one!

I don't know what I'm so excited about btw!

A larger French language poll would interest me, but a concentration on Gainsbourg alone would be out of my depth.

Of course, now that I think about it, my ballot in a broader French language poll would still be fairly small.

French pop/French language/non-Anglophone poll would be right up my alley.

Would be keeen as moutarde on a Gainsbourg or French pop poll!

i'm constantly, like, a day away from being caught up enough w/ my professional writing obligations that i don't feel terribly irresponsible spending some time getting the Classic Rock poll setup, so i mean, it'll happen when it happens. maybe even tomorrow (no, really!). if Elvis Telecom wants to coordinate w/ me so we're not running stuff at the same time, that's fine by me, i can wait or i can get mine done before his.

SD, feel free to go ahead with the Classic Rock poll now. I can wait on the taxiway a little bit longer.

super excited for the Floyd, Dan, Dylan, S-K run.

can't believe we haven't done Steely Dan yet.

Or Floyd!