Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Any chance we could move either the Beatles or the Beach Boys back a bit? It's getting so canonical white dudes that there'll be minimal interest in doing anything else after we've trawled through everyone in Q magazine.
--Matt DC

yeah you can move me to 9 or something

A Motown poll would be neato keen-o.

You can put me in to run Prince if you like - having fun doing the Manics one.

I guess Neil Young and Dylan are other ones that would be good due to the huge discogs, but i do agree on the less rock white dudes quota. Think a Jacksons one would be good - so Michael, Janet, Jackson 5, any family member.

I'd love to see a Stax or Motown poll. The problem with genre polls like "disco" is that they descend into a flamewar about what does or does not belong to the genre.

hmmm should I do a P-Funk poll

I dunno if I have the spreadsheetery skills/will to do this tbh

I was toying with doing a Disco one. Keep those wide open is the best way I say, and let the voters decide whether they're happy with a track as disco. It worked fine on the showcasing poll, except that The Cure sneaked into the top 5.

Oh man, my job is Excel-based so now I imagining formatting possibilities and vlookup potential.. but I'm only good for Belle & Sebastian, Pulp or Modest Mouse, I'm not nearly enough of a completist for most other bands now that Blur's been done.

Alright, I made an excel file that should be useful, hopefully.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZQBPGXI6

Basically it's got a sheet where you dump in the songs and their ranks, and a formula that compares rank to point value which is listed on a separate sheet. Then there are suggestions and examples for making a pivot table to corral the data, or a suggestion for doing it manually.

I hope it's useful! /nerd

^^if I didn't make it clear.. I'm really hoping someone will find it useful. This is why I chose computers over English ;)

I'll do Pulp at #4 if no one else objects? Understand if too close to Pulp/Manics/Boos. Mostly I just want to play with my Excel file now.

I hope it's useful! /nerd

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:11 AM (6 minutes ago)

I'll say! I was dreading doing all that ciphering manually. Thank you!

No problem. I've got this thread bookmarked so if there are any glitches, let me know!

Neeto!

I love a good excel file. Been so jealous of jaymc.xls for so long!

:-)

Ok, I thought about this long and hard, and I really want to host a Kate Bush songs poll. Put me down. I'm down.

1. pet shop boys - billy dods
2. Beatles - Mark G
3. ________________
4. Pulp - Finefinemusic
5. Led Zeppelin - WmC
6. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever
7. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
8. _________________
9. beach boys - iatee

a Pet Shop Boys Poll! My brain is already hurting.

excited about the zep/GBV/KB succession. i think i could really get behind all three of those.

Oh shit wait. What is the timing of this? Because I'm getting married aug 20 and I feel like poll #4 will be mid august; I gotta swap out for a later spot, don't need added activities!!

You must delay the marriage!

congratulations, finefinemusic!

These shouldn't take more than a week per, imo. Depends on whether you think late July will be stressful enough already.

It might be; month end at work and tying up loose ends (I'm not getting a lot of help planning this stuff, haha) but I can happily do a poll after September 20 (late honeymoon).

Thanks for the good vibes!

HEY! HEY!!! Put me down for Prince ;-)

Pet Shop Boys are go!

OK, after reading the Madonna: Classic or Dud thread, I totally want to do Madonna.

(OK, I've totally wanted to do Madonna for a while, but what I mean is, I want to run the Madonna poll. So long as I don't get SB'd off the board first.)

someone do Aphex pls - I don't think I have time, much as I'd like to.

I can't do both Madonna *and* Aphex, much as I would love to.

Don't make me choose. I still never voted in that taking sides poll.

OK, I'll do Aphex, if someone else takes Madonna.

Because although I'm probably more *familiar* with (most of) Aphex's (released) (acknowledged) work, I'm actually more *curious* about the hidden bits of Madonna's work that I don't know.

.. which would make you a better Madonna host.

Judjing by the "Alphabet Faves" thread, there's a lot of Aphex fans. Unless it's just because no-one could think of another A Artist.

Yeah, but I think the Aphex poll would be easier to run. Lots of list-making nerds who will probably number and bulletpoint things so easily I don't have to do any work. While on the other hand, trying to squeeze a spreadsheet out of, fr'instance, the Lex is gonna be like pulling hen's teeth.

1. pet shop boys - billy dods
2. Beatles - Mark G
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP
4. ______________
5. Led Zeppelin - WmC
6. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever
7. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
8. _________________
9. beach boys - iatee
10. Pulp - Finefinemusic

Jamie, are you OK with Prince after the Beatles?

KDT, do you want spot #4 or #8 for whichever choice you make?

Thanks for adding me WmC!

Any approx idea when I the KB poll will commence? September?

Pls slot Madonna in for No. 4

Please can Aphex Twin go in at No. 8 because after his last interview, we know he's just dying to be underneath Kate Bush. FnarGiggleSnort.

Ha! Can we read that somewhere?

1. pet shop boys - billy dods
2. Beatles - Mark G
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP
4. Madonna - Karen D Tregaskin
5. Led Zeppelin - WmC
6. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever
7. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
8. Aphex Twin - Karen D Tregaskin
9. beach boys - iatee
10. Pulp - Finefinemusic

Any approx idea when I the KB poll will commence? September?

Dunno really, we'll have a better idea after the first couple have come and gone. My guess would be the 2nd half of August, but that's a very rough guess.

Shit, I revived a thread for ya, LBI but turns out it's on ILE:

I dreamed of kate bush

yay, thanks WmC! That seems much less stressful for me. :)

ty Kate :-)

yep up for that

1. pet shop boys - billy dods (Now in progress, voting closes July 2nd)
2. Beatles - Mark G
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP
4. Madonna - Karen D Tregaskin
5. Led Zeppelin - WmC
6. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever
7. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
8. Aphex Twin - Karen D Tregaskin
9. beach boys - iatee
10. Pulp - Finefinemusic

My own inclination for Zep was to allow 3 days for voting and 2 days for the reveal. Billy's 10-day vote window for PSB seems too long, but is my time frame too short?

You suggested 3 days right? I think that's too short. Needs to be a week, I think.

I was originally going to go for a week, but that would mean finishing on a Thursday/Friday and I didn't want to roll out the results over the weekend, hence my extending it a few days. I agree with LBI I think 3 days is too short.

Yeah, I'm coming around on that, 3 days is too short. Agreed on the weekday reveal as well. Obv everybody will wing it as needed for each ballot.

maybe it should be up to the person in charge of the poll...people have different schedules...but 1 week max?

I'm happy w/ how organized this ended up

imo long voting period (although more than a week isn't necessary) and brief reveal period is the way to go

^ Ignore this dude and his quest to rid the world of the unnecessary

eh if we're gonna do these i do think there are better and worse ways to execute them