Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

i will do nothing for a week in advance but "research" my ballot

11-12 weeks lamp tho you could probably trade up spots if you were crafty

honestly I think the lineup of polls we have now will take 6 months to go through

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have we had a Stones poll?

yes, stones--great idea (also kinks)

Stones and Kinks would both be good ones! Feel free to claim.

I'm having a little ballot fatigue, but every time I look at the list I get excited about the Producers poll.

i can't begin to get my head around the producers poll. maybe it'll make more sense to me once we do a nominations thread. feels like such an apples and oranges thing to compare how one producer works with these artists to how another works with other artists. maybe i'll throw up my hands and just vote for all my favorite hip hop beatmakers.

I think that one would go okay without a separate nominations thread -- just an extra long voting period and a lot of campaigning -- but that'll be Shakey Mo's call. I dunno, I can see the value in a noms thread as well.

I guess it would include engineers too...who was more important to the Beatles discography, George Martin or Geoff Emerick?

I'm totally stoked for the producers poll. Will claim the Stones though someone may have to remind me by the time it comes up!

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I think that one would go okay without a separate nominations thread -- just an extra long voting period and a lot of campaigning -- but that'll be Shakey Mo's call. I dunno, I can see the value in a noms thread as well.

I guess it would include engineers too...who was more important to the Beatles discography, George Martin or Geoff Emerick?

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think there'll almost HAVE to be a nominations thread just to hash out stuff like producers vs. engineers, artists who only produced themselves, people who are chiefly remixers, producers who've worked extensively as a team or individually, etc.

Still basically TS: George Martin vs Rick Rubin tho right?

vs. Phil Spector vs. Tom Dowd vs. Teo Macero -- it's not going to be as clear-cut as Martin/Rubin, I don't think!

Glen Ballard vs RZA

Tom Wilson, George Shadow Morton, David Briggs...That'll be a tough one to rein in to a manageable number.

I'll do the Kinks!

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That's a lot of old white men in a row, 16-19 -- if somebody signs up for Madonna or P-Funk or somesuch, there might be some schedule juggling for variety's sake, yeah?

Oh yes, Roger and C. Grisso! Thanks for doing those, can't wait

I will do a Depeche Mode poll.

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Ok, so I'm going to be unable to do the Kate Bush poll before September 10. Would someone from places 10/11/12/13 be so very kind to swap with me? Pretty please?

Bring 'producers' forward if possible imo, would be a nice break to a run of classic rock.

Excellent plan, if Shakey Mo agrees.

i volunteer to do either ABBA or the fall (whichever one people would find more interesting), am fine waiting until whenever

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i'm 13 so i can step in if nobody in line before me wants too -- Timbaland poll would serve the same function of throwing something different into the mix

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i don't know how involved you or anyone else is in setting the schedules for the specific things, but should i try to have the Timbaland poll start by/after or end by/after any particular dates? it seems like the voting widow for most of these is around a week but i'd love to open it to more like 2 weeks for people to sort through such a large and diffuse discography.

Your discretion. A longer polling period might work perfectly since Armond Ratfucker wants a window without one of these artist poll reveals where he can bring out the jazz album results.

ah good idea, i'll check w/ him to see what would work best

I would really love to run a Fleetwood Mac poll at some point.

Wow, that would be involved.

Indeed, but I love them enough to do it, and I think it would be a hugely participated-in and pretty heated one given the general level of love for them on the board...

the top 50 would really just be 3 albums w/ a few singles thrown in tho

I'd be willing to give a thorough listen to the pre-Lindsey/Stevie years, but I still can't guarantee that I wouldn't just send in my Tusk ranking. (j/k mostly) OK, you called it --

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Just a reminder that my sometime-in-2012 was meant to be July or August. I'm guessing you've pushed me back to 2013 by now.

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Here, have a prime number. I'm sure you'll be able to trade into a time slot that works for you.

someone do the Cure, please! i would but can't right now.

also New Order.

I'll do the Cure, whenever there's a slot.

Would somebody like to do Radiohead or The Chemical Brothers at some point?

Some dude, I kiss you! Thanks for helping out!

OO yes, someone do The Fall! and swap with Kate Bush / move up the queue!!!

i'm generally more intrigued by the idea of polling bands with lots of albums. i think the fall would work well in this regard, along with, say, sonic youth and possibly stereolab.

while i'm curious about a poll for the cure, they're one of those bands that at this stage i have really fixed views on, so i'd probably be less likely to be informed or enlightened by contrary viewpoints as to what their best songs might be.

I'm not objecting, but Led Zep? Do they have enough tracks?

I believe I counted 84-ish. The small discography will make it interesting, for sure!

ha, I was wondering for some time if there's a need for a RH poll! doing polls sure looks like fun, I might give it a try.

I'll have to trade with someone next summer. But it'll have to be with Paul Simon or the Kinks--I've got a prime number, and I do not plan on losing that.