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

he's probably just busy playing God of War right now ;)

I won't have such aspersions cast about me!

I wasn't really planning on running any polls (though kind of musing about voting in a Cat Power one), but if the people want one, who am I to argue? I also don't want to lay sole claim to running a shorties poll, so if anyone has a burning desire, I'm happy to give them the responsibility. If not, I can still run it, though would welcome help with graphics.

Bumping for the US day crowd.

2 min and below sounds good to me.

Agree

1:59 and below

^^^

yes

fine by moi

I just want to be able to vote hard for "Over Fire Island".

A few good Young Marble Giants options too, hmmm

Hey leee, this is weird but I guess I have a burning desire to do it. I enjoy the process and I’ve never ran an entire one myself!

Hey leee, this is weird but I suppose I have a burning desire to do it. I enjoy the process and I’ve never ran an entire one myself!

Hey Leee! Whoops, lol

Notice I changed “guess” to “suppose”

It’s hard out here on ILX

Kool Karl! Giving you the krown. I'm not too picky about < 2:00 or <= 2:00.

Also, two computers ago I had a collating/point totaling script, I might try to rewrite it if you need it.

And let me know if you need help with anything else!

Will do, thanks!

To everyone else - I will set up a nominations thread this week, probably within the next couple days. Now that I have the ultimate power, I am going to use it to declare that the poll will be for songs that are less than two minutes long. 2:00 is unacceptable. 1:59.99999 is not only acceptable, it's recommended.

maybe run a side poll for songs that are exactly 2 minutes long, too. if anyone has any other ideas for fun side polls, lemme know and i'll include it in the authoritative OP for the nominations thread

great poll idea, i am looking forward to it! less than 120 seconds is perfect.

Finally, the Minutemen/Naked City/Conet Project ballot I've always wanted to cast.

I'm going to make it my mission to bombard Karl Malone with provocative questions that require difficult, potentially controversial decisions.

What is the final say on a song's length? Buddy Holly's "Looking for Someone to Love" is 1:56 on Wikipedia, 1:57/1:58/2:00 on Spotify (not sure if all three are the same version), 1:59 on two of my media players and 2:00 on the other (same file for all three). In or out?

i am tempted to resort to the answers provided by my manual of absolute power and corruption, vol 3, page 159, "Disputed Song Lengths", which reads:

"yea, if at least one authoritative source that is never wrong, such as wikipedia, lists the official time as less than 2:00, the song is deemed "pretty short, arguably" and is thus eligible for the poll. but in general, let it be known that it is not cool to "game the system" or "be a jerk about things" by pointing to some outlier bogus source just to get a song to qualify in an internet poll. please, please, don't do that."

however: 1) we should save this discussion for the nominations thread, where it's going to happen again no matter what happens here, and 2) if someone has a great idea for how to resolve this issue in the least complicated way, i'm all ears.

yay, on board with another Karl Malone poll. so looking forward to this.

and Hi, fellow SF Giants fan Leee. haven't seen you in the same thread that i seem to be posting on.

thanks bee! and yeah, it should be fun. i'll hold off on the nominations thread until this weekend so as to not interfere with the 2018 metal n' heavy rock voting deadline

hell yeah km this gonna be fun and edifying

how are we doing karl, i'm ready to salute some minuscule masterpieces

You'll probably have to issue many deadline reminders, continually re-explain the rules, etc.--everyone participating will have very short attention spans.

i'm gonna post the nominations thread tonight! i will drunkenly remind everyone every 00:01:59 or less

Las Vegas has installed There's a Riot Going On by Sly as the favorite at 20:1

♫ Your NOMINATIONS for the best songs under 2 minutes poll ♫

the 2 minute songs poll and the jazz album poll revive made me wonder whether there had ever been a motown albums poll. like motown / tamla / gordy etc.

just throwing the idea out there.

listened to the supremes’ “we remember sam cooke” today and boy did it sound good

have we ever done a duets poll? i think that would be cool

made me wonder whether there had ever been a motown albums poll. like motown / tamla / gordy etc.

Albums, no. Singles/tracks, yes.

C. Grisso, would you object if I asked for the Bacharach Songbook poll back? I'd like to see that one happen.

love that WilliamC is getting back into the game.

XP. Yeah, go ahead. It's seems like any time I get open to do something with it, another poll is already in full swing, or something else comes up at home.

Cool, thanks. Is anything coming up after Karl's >2:00 poll?

Would there be interest in a Gordon Lightfoot poll? I would be happy to run one at some point if so, not sure what the order of things is right now.

Has Scott Walker never been done? Sorry, can't search on Flagging app.

Nope, was suggested but never followed up.

I only got into Gord last year, so I can't say I'm familiar enough with his entire discography to participate in a poll. I spent almost my whole life just thinking he was an unremarkable one-hit wonder who sang about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Would vote for Gord. But I’m guessing single-digit returns.

yeah, probably not worth it for a small return, maybe I'll start a thread to listen thru his discography instead.

Would participate. Song by song would be rad, but album by album is probably more realistic. I am just about to embark on a chronological Gord listening binge, so nice timing!

I'd totally listen along myself. Been forever meaning to get beyond my scratchy old Best Of LP.

After < 2 minutes finishes, I propose the final installment of the triad: BEST SONGS BETWEEN 3 AND 5 MINUTES.

nah we gotta do songs between 8 and 10 mins

I would totally Gord out with yall

xp I'd be up for that. I'm still REELING from finding the +10-minute not-epic thread and getting cross with all the tracks that almost made my playlist but not quite.

Gord Out W/Us I'm Not Sayin' it's the Gordon Lightfoot listening thread (but it is)...new album every Thursday