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

Someone was asking for this in another thread and I could find it. 2012 poll that was partly organized by late great and then completed by me, I'm sure we have an archive somewhere of every link of every collective poll that has been done but I couldn't find it. Posting here for future reference:

RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

*couldn't

ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads

A lot of the results links on these messages

And here's a thread that tries to list all of ILX's ballot poll result threads:

The ILX List of Lists

Yes those are the ones! I couldn't find them.

Guys/gals need your opinion, which one of these do you like better:

http://i.imgur.com/Y5fFqjf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9pymRKi.jpg

In my opinion: First option without the album cover is cleaner and the only reference to the album covers will be the color palette below the song title which will be based on the album/ep/single's palette. Problem is that a thread with 50+ of these with subtle variations could be boring and I don't have the time to design a radically different banner for each song (would love to). Option 2 adds the cover but I'm not sure if it's too much.

I like #2

those both look pretty stylish! i am not a stereolab diehard, so take this with a grain of salt - i would say it's always neat to have the album cover, though i agree that the one without it is a tauter design. the text on the "points" line in the album-cover version seems pretty small though. maybe only the "credit" line wants to be that small? but i know these things are tricky to work out.

also, something about the font, gray background, and the gradient color sampler makes me think of Centrum brand vitamins but that is almost certainly just me.

Yeah the idea was to make these look like vintage pharma products so Centrum is not a bad reference. Also don't mind the font weights on #2 I still haven't adapted them, just looking at proportions.

I agree that the design without sleeves is neater and nicer, but the second design has greater functionality, so I'd probably opt for that if pushed.

Both are excellent, though, and either would be awesome to see on a poll.

I prefer the second option, as well.

I prefer the first for its cleanliness, but what do I know ("Like hey, maybe you could do a cool gradient overlay with the album cover!").

Could we see a couple more looks? More of a cool palette perhaps? And a pointier typeface?

Just kidding

I actually have two very different looks that I'm trying. I was thinking of doing 50 different designs but again not enough time :/

Well I think both are fantastic and it's got me super excited for Stereoloab.

Here's another copied from Julian House (Stereolab's designer):

http://i.imgur.com/xfWu5fA.jpg

That was the initial sketch, then I thought maybe it could be cool doing several Julian House inspired/copied designs but again, too much time to do individual designs even if they're copied.

Lol, one reason (of several) I bailed out of doing polls is because everybody has raised the rollout images game so much, and I felt unworthy with my text-only results.

You could always ask for help! I wss going to help Nate with the Smiths poll but JF helped instead. I'm sure there are a couple of us who would be willing to do some quick designs.

Even better would be to have a template exclusive of ILM artist polls that we could all use and edit easily, something simple that could fit in every poll.

All said and done I don't mind one bit text only results.

I like that last one.

I totally leaned on ledge's images for the Autechre poll! Otherwise I just post some hueg pictures with some Impact font on it.

I prefer yesterday but they are probably more work.

I drifted off of this thread due to lack of time but I am glad to see that Drugs A. Money has apparently taken on the Royal Trux poll, which I am still excited for but would definitely run with like text-only results

Ok, now that the Nomination/voting thread for Bauhaus is over can I start the Stereolab voting thread so I can rollout results as soon as the Bauhaus results are over? Or how does it work?

Also I see the usual is top 20 songs and top 5 albums. The scoring that mostly every poll has used for songs is as follows:

Scoring [1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12 ]

but what about the top 5 albums? is it: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28?

You get to choose

I've used the same scores for the top 5 albums as the top five songs in the past. There's a link to my Smiths spreadsheet near the end of the Smiths results thread, feel free to use that if you like.

Thanks nate!

We POLL Our Audience: You, The Night and The Music - BAUHAUS - Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, Peter Murphy etcetera - ILM artist poll number 73 - results thread

Who is up next?

Hendrix or Can would be great!

70s lite rock going from the enemy to ironic "yacht rock" to essential.

― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:16 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's a good one.

― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:17 PM (6 minutes ago)

I'd love to see AM Gold as a companion to some dude's classic rock poll.

That's gonna be a sweet poll, but isn't it a little ways down in the queue?

Ha, I didn't even realize somebody had already gotten in line for that.

It was floated somewhere in the midst of the some dude classic rock ballot/rollout period. Man, what a summer that was.

So Stereolab poll is almost over, who's next?

The queue is basically just a suggestion at this point. If no one steps up in the next day or two, I might get Van Halen underway.

Well, it'd still be appropriate to try and bug whoever's actually next - gr8080 for hard rock/hair metal, Gukbe for Stephen Merritt, or Billy Dods for Fairport, unless I missed those. If they're in the weeds or out to sea, it'd be Z S for Can, some dude for Hendrix, NickB for Genesis, or Veg for Pearl Jam.

Well, like I said, I'm not gonna muscle anyone out of my way, but if no one ahead of me is ready to go, I'm actually in a good spot to run one over the next 2-3 weeks.

people put their names on this list so long ago, it's really hard rounding them up/reminding them tbh

can u take me off the list? i don't have much free time these days

sure no problem, here's how it stands now:

Hard Rock/Hair Metal - gr8080
Stephin Merritt - Gukbe
Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods
Can - Z S
Jimi Hendrix - some dude
Bauhaus/Tones on Tail-Love and Rockets/Peter Murphy - Bee OK
Genesis + solo - NickB
The Burt Bacharach songbook - C. Grisso/McCain
Dead C - Raymond Cummings
Royal Trux + side projects - sleeve
John Fahey - Naive Teen Idol?
Rush - Matt #2
Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one
George Michael - Ismael Klata
Talking Heads - Bee OK
Gamble & Huff/Philly International Records - jetfan
Van Halen - Johnny Fever
Billy Joel - Doctor Casino
Low - aldo
Nine Inch Nails - chap
REM - rogermexico.
Bjork - Eric H.
Wu-Tang Clan - Spottie
Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Post-rock (Albums and EPs) - Bee OK
Covers - kornrulez6969
New Pornographers/AC Newman - staggerlee
They Might Be Giants - Johnny Fever
No Wave - sarahell
DFA - Van Horn Street
Misfits/Samhain/Danzig - gr8080
Beatles solo careers - Οὖτις
Erykah Badu - Eric H.
Nick Cave/Bad Seeds/Birthday Party/et al - charlie h
Herbie Hancock - crüt
Aphex Twin - Stevie D
Blondie - Bee OK
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - Spottie
Siouxsie & the Banshees/The Creatures - LeRooLeRoo
AM Radio Gold - Jeff W
Eurovision - nxd
Steve Albini - nate woolls
Yellow Magic Orchestra - frogbs
Elvis Presley - Euler
Byrds + offshoots - kornrulez6969
Cardiacs + affiliated - imago
Tropicalia/MPB - Frederik B
Chic Organization -
Stooges/Iggy Pop -
French/Francophone - Van Horn Street
Smashing Pumpkins - Bee OK

I'll be very busy in the next month because it's again national fair month and the bar/club I open in the zone is very time consuming this month, but I'll be open afterwards to run the hendrix or can poll if ZS and somedude don't jump in :)

The Bauhaus poll is over.

Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one

I don't even like Oasis but I'm kind of eager to see this one happen

is the Cars/Ric Ocasek poll still happening?

oh right yeah scratch the Bauhaus/L&R/ToT poll thx for the catch

Polls I'd be up to running mid-May onwards if the original poll runners are away or missing in action:

Can -
Jimi Hendrix -
Bjork -
Erykah Badu -
Aphex Twin -
Stooges/Iggy Pop -