the 70s poll - rules, and nominations (¡FINAL VOTING ABOUT TO CLOSE

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Just got mine in. Have doubts about the specific placement, but shouldn't make that much of a difference.
Looking forward to it as well

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 3 March 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

In retrospect, I wish I'd put at least one of the Big Star albums in my final ballot, but the three of them cancelled each other out. I couldn't bring myself to pick between them, but any one of them would have been in my top 10. Major fuckup.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i think it took me a lot longer than it should have, like, three hours. it was fun, though, and I went back and listened to a lot of albums I hadn't in a while... i realized today that i left out Blood on the Tracks and that Maggot Brain should have been about, ohhhhhh, TWENTY spots higher than I placed it. What the hell was I thinking?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

ok, i just saw this. i guess i missed the nomination process. i'll get my vote in tonight ok?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurray! That's much better everyone. At least we won't have a #1 album with three points now.

Poortheatre, if you sent your vote in within the last couple of days there's time to change it, if you want to. I won't have counted anything since monday.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll get mine in later today. The ordering of my top four tracks is a near toss-up right now and I'll need to sleep on it.

Also, how many tracks/albums are people sending in? I'm sending in 45/30. My tracks shortlist was a lot bigger than my albums shortlist. I know the mathematics of the situation but when it came right down to it I cared more deeply about the items on my tracks list than those on my albums list.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Hang on, I can't do 45/30, that's 75 picks, not 70. Oh damn ...

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I did 45 tracks and 25 albums.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's probably what I'll do, or maybe a weird 43/27 sort of thing, depending on what I absolutely positively can't see myself leaving out.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I was the same. Ended up split 50/20 tracks/albums. It also surprised me what I ended up putting in the top 10, and what I didn't.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I did 53 tracks and 17 albums.

Doing this has confirmed the 1970s as my favourite decade for music.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

One thing is really missing from this poll:

http://www.lwvofnassaucounty.org/catt1490.jpg

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Who is that?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

The Arcade Fire.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt
Founder of the League of Women Voters

Apparently.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Holy shit, I'd almost forgot about this! I'll send in my vote immediately!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll actually count anything that arrives before I total this up - which is likely to be on sunday. So you have tomorrow to vote too.

Also, anyone who wants to do blurbs, that'd be good. I'll be asking you in the next couple of days.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I guess I'm willing to blurb any of my favourites. I did 40-30 I think, 40 tracks. I put favourites in order in both classes, then started counting, then started comparing, and ended up deciding that that represented how much I loved the items there reasonably accurately.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I did 30 albums/40 tracks as well - mainly just because I was familiar with a much higher percentage of the tracks than of the full albums.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Jesus, what an ordeal that was.

I weep at what we left out of the nominations.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

There were some strange track nominations ... when going through the list, I had several reactions of the "WTF? We nominated these Donna Summer tracks??" sort. It's not like it made much of a difference, though -- I found no shortage of flawless tracks to choose from.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

can i still vote?

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll actually count anything that arrives before I total this up - which is likely to be on sunday. So you have tomorrow to vote too.--hobart paving (the poll's mastermind)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Were there really no Pink Floyd songs nominated?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

No Spinners?! I'm almost positive some Spinners songs were on the list, at some point anyway. Did we lose them or did they all get switched to other songs? I sort of remember: Games People PLay, Then Came You and I'll Be Around. A 70s song list without anything by the Spinners feels so incomplete to me.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 5 March 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah - no Spinners! I would certainly have voted for 'It's A Shame' and maybe 'I'll Be Around'. Hmmm...

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 5 March 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

no spinners?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 5 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

They must have gone when we lost all those posts.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 5 March 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah :-(

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 5 March 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I wound up doing 36 albums and 34 tracks, but then the next day I listened to the first B-52's album and I totally regrtted not including "Rock Lobster," my #35 single. :(

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Where is 'Drums and Wires'???
One of the best albums of the era, miles better than 'White Music'...
I really don't understand that.

― zeus, Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Yea, the Drums n' Wires omissions in really bad. Same with Catch a Fire.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Well then you should've fucking nominated them, shouldn't you have?

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

You can probably still sneak a vote in...

hobart?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

did Tim Buckley's Starsailor disappear off the albums list or is it just me?

― dronez are not ours to eat, dronez are not ours to wear (smile), Sunday, 6 March 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The December ILX outage really damaged this poll. Nobody's fault, but there it is. Okay, I'll say it: maybe in a year or so, we should try it all over again and see if anything changes?

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link

(People could have double-checked to make sure their nominations were in place.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, definitely. And shit on anybody who complains about omissions but didn't make any nominations.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 6 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

So this is closed now, right?

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I totally forgot to vote for Donna Summer!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

hobart paving, any update for us? I saw you post today on the Dylan covers thread...

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking about this poll yesterday! GIMME RESULTS!

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed.

― billstevejim, Friday, 15 April 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Mmmmmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I was told through email correspondence with poll runner h.p. that results were tentatively scheduled to begin TODAY

― jared, Friday, 15 April 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I got a similar message from him, but Friday isn't a good day to start a poll countdown ... better to hold off until Monday.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

But but but...what am I supposed to do this weekend, then?

― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm pissed — I wanted to vote but it took forever to do so, so I gave up. Lame.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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