POLL LOTTA LOVE - ILM Artist Poll #6 - Led Zeppelin

Got it -- thanks!

I wonder if "Thank You" is going to do surprisingly well in this poll.

It made my top 20, but very low.

It seems like the kinda song that could make a whole lotta ballots, low yeah but there aren't that many songs here & prolly songs from the first five albums are gonna dominate. "Thank You" used to be a classic rock/AOR staple. It's the one song for which my experience mirrors those who've had a hard time placing song names with songs; for years I didn't even identify the song with Zeppelin.

Hmmm, will be interesting to see. There are LZ ballads I rate much higher, but it is a pretty personal thing. Definitely a good song. Oddly, one of the few songs I didn't relisten to in preparing my ballot.

Haha I kinda prefer the Posies' rip "Flood of Sunshine" to the original "Thank You."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpOYFDHvwbM

Also, I did not find that "there aren't that many songs here"! I had about 45 on my list, and none of them were "Thank You", so yeah, this poll should be interesting. I am not sure that my ballot will be very representative, but we'll see. I imagine that my top 5 probably only has 1 song that is likely to place in it, but I am really happy with it.

"Flood of Sunshine" is great (love the solo, the Posies lift off!) & I'd never thought of it as a "Thank You" rip but I can see what you mean.

whew, voted

YOU HAVE 24 HOURS LEFT TO VOTE.

How many ballots so far?

Ratfucker's makes 42.

Very cool! Which of these big artist polls has had the best turnout so far? Anyone know offhand?

That's a decent turnout.

U2 got 45, so that's quite enough LZ ballots now imo. (Pavement got nearly sixty iirc).

I can't remember about the others, but the turnout here has been very gratifying. Several promised ballots still out there, I think -- jon via chi, DJP, Shakey Mo, CAD. Would love to hit 50.

Yeah, Pavement had 57 which still seems insane.

Ballot sent.

djp and shakey always promise to vote but forget, so good luck with that!

btw shakey get that jazz vote in!

DJP sent me one after the poll had been open 29 mins

Seems like 50 will be reached to me. That should make for a pretty interesting spread I think.

Really curious to see where my #1 places.

I'm sad, but not entirely surprised, that there haven't been any female voters yet.

Oh, I'm sure "Going to California" will still pick up plenty of points.

Hah! Imagine that my LZ IV tracks are not going to place very high in relation to others, but we'll see.

Ratfucker's makes 42.

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Monday, August 22, 2011 12:04 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

Sentences like this are why I love ILX.

I voted for two LZ IV tracks. Neither of them are called "Stairway to Heaven," but both should place pretty well, I think. Actually my breakdown was:

LZ I - 4
LZ II - 3
LZ III - 1
LZ IV - 2
Houses - 3
Graffiti - 3
Presence - 1
Out Door - 2
Coda - 1

should get my ballot in today, had to load a bunch of stuff onto my iPod

djp and shakey always promise to vote but forget, so good luck with that!

btw shakey get that jazz vote in!

hey c'mon now I voted in the Prince poll and the Beach Boys poll, and the Beatles one too. I dunno if I'll do the jazz one, it's so broad I don't even know where to start

I can do this Zep one tho

I'm sad, but not entirely surprised, that there haven't been any female voters yet.

I can have my wife make my ballot if it'll make you feel better

Ballot sent.

LZ I - 0
LZ II - 1
LZ III - 5
LZ IV - 3
Houses - 3
Graffiti - 3
Presence - 2
Out Door - 3
Coda - 0

I can't remember about the others, but the turnout here has been very gratifying. Several promised ballots still out there, I think -- jon via chi, DJP, Shakey Mo, CAD. Would love to hit 50.

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Monday, August 22, 2011 12:11 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think i need tomorrow morning's drive to work to finish but i will get it to u on time.

shakey just make a jazz ballot, you know you can do it, and it might stop you complaining that such and such album didn't get a vote etc

oh come on now nothing stops me complaining

hahaha

just vote! prove to me you can!

you dont need to rank them, that should make it easier. You can do an unranked,ranked or split ranked/unranked. See thread for details.

god this is impossible

Right?

i really don't HATE that many zep songs was hard to get 3

ranking my 20 sucks, hard to make cuts

i couldnt do a hate ballot. the tracks ballot was very very hard

man i need more time

Well, the albums and hates are getting revealed tomorrow, so if more Tracks ballots come in between noon and, say, 10 p.m. Eastern, I'll count 'em. Deadline is still noon for parts 2 and 3.

I'm sad, but not entirely surprised, that there haven't been any female voters yet.

I would vote were it not for the fact that up until around three years ago I totally and completely hated LZ. I don't anymore. In fact, once I realized just how wrong I was I realized that I sort of love them but it's a new found love and that's still being cultivated and I don't feel comfortable choosing favorites just yet.

If you have favorites, no reason not to stand up and be counted! Even if it's a top 5 or whatever.

Ditto to Shakey's wife!

Eep - when are they due?

WMC I was going to vote but you told me on outloud that I shouldn't because I am an admitted LZ dilettante!!
I can submit the list of songs I like if you insist, though ;)

Favorite songs: tomorrow by 10 p.m. Eastern. Tomorrow by noon if you want to do the favorite albums/least favorite songs parts.

LL, I remember saying something stupid like that. Please feel free to disregard that mess and send a ballot!

Okay I know this is opening a whole can of worms here but, screw it, I wanna toss this out there. Out of morbid curiousity, I listened to one of the Black Country Communion (supergroup with Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Bonham's kid, and Derek Sherinian) albums on Spotify. I have to say, I kind of feel like these guys do a pretty good job of hitting some of the same sweet spots as Zeppelin. Some pretty great drumming and heavy riffs mixed (oft times awkwardly, but, then again, I often felt the same wrt Zep's incorporating of "Middle Eastern" themes and ideas) with lots of keyboards and some interesting twists and turns. The biggest stumbling block being that Hughes will never ever be as powerful as Plant was, so you end of up kind focused on the instrumental work which can be a little guitar store dude wanky at times. Anyway, not claiming these guys to be "the next Zep" or even a band really worth spending a lot of time on, but a quick listen revealed them to be surprisingly closer to the spirit of Zeppelin than I expected.

xps I'd laugh if it turned out your two ballots didn't overlap at all with the other 43

xpost -- enthusiasm is not worm-can-opening! I might give it a listen while I tally votes.

I guess I'm just hesitant to raise people's expectations too high here.