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

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!

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

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, February 21, 2014 9:46 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm only halfway through typing/formatting the (huge) preliminary noms list so i'm not going to advise you to bother waiting for me

is hocus pocus by focus on it

it is now

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Will roll out Floyd now then...

cool! that'll buy me some time to get my ducks in a row

awesome. Floyd!

RULES
RULES
RULES

update... starting Floyd tomorrow.

RULES

And we're go!

All in all you're just another vote in the POLL! The Pink Floyd ballot poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #49)

I can't remember any of the arguments against a poll of Beatles solo careers, so I think I'll put myself on the list to do that one in however many years.

Cool. I hope there won't be zero living Beatles by that time.

Assuming Bee OK is on for Steely Dan, I'm thinking the Dylan poll will kick off mid-to-late Aprilish?

Just trying to plan...

If no single artist poll is going to run concurrently with Classic Rock, I guess that sounds about right.

so i have been thinking about timing for Steely Dan. i should be able to go right after Pink Floyd. i need to ask for a couple of days off to run this thing properly. if i do this right this could happen the first week of baseball which would be amazing, i can watch MLB Extra Innings and post the results during the first week of the season. baseball does have 162 games in 180 days so if the timing doesn't work it really is not that big of a deal. but i'm thinking since "Classic Rock" and Steely Dan overlap somewhat then they probably shouldn't run at the same time. so this can be delayed if Some Dude is going to run that poll here in the near future. thoughts?

hi

i'm working like 70 hours this week and i don't know when my life is going to go back to normal so don't make any plans around me, i'll do Classic Rock someday, but do your thing whenever you want to do it and in the unlikely event that i may overlap i'll consult w/ you.

70 hour work weeks, don't envy that at all. so now we know why "Classic Rock" has not started yet. and thanks SD.

on deck: Steely Dan

doing some research now.

Big critics band in the '70s, had a few hit singles too. Songs were often allusive, cryptic, and vaguely sinister; others were extremely buoyant, though. Didn't really sound like anybody else.

The poll can start now.

Floyd results in progress: Come in Poll #49, your results are up (Pink Floyd ballot poll results)

BTW, if any poll-runners are set-up with FileMaker I can send you a database I put together that makes poll tabulation super easy and instantaneous.

For Eno, one of the side polls will be Favorite Production/Co-Production Credit. What would be one or two other good side polls?

Favorite Oblique Strategy?

otm

lol

BTW, if any poll-runners are set-up with FileMaker I can send you a database I put together that makes poll tabulation super easy and instantaneous.

yes please, can you send it to: neworderpoll at gmail.

thanks

Reelin' in the Poll: STEELY DAN - ILM Artist poll #50 (voting ends Sunday March 30 at Midnight Pacific)

do we need a Pogues/MacGowan poll?

I still think there should be a Leonard Cohen poll.

Also maybe a kylie poll?