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

Q: how many R's in the word 'Jamaica'?

A: none.

For a while I thought maybe it was about

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The band X?

Still not sure how to say "Bron-Yr-Aur" either, but that song never gets played on the radio anyway.

"I really like DIE ER MAKE ER."

That was me, from the time it came out until--well, I think I still instinctively say it that way the one time every five years I have cause to say it, even though I did learn about the pun somewhere along the way.

I always said it in my head as "Do Ya Make Her" which I thought was pretty punny and kinda made sense until I realized that it was Jamaica. I am not voting in this poll btw, clearly just too over my head.

I'll pay attention to the results thread though.

That shouldn't discourage you from voting -- Zeppelin's a bit over my head too since I'm far from being a completist, but I still went through a Zeppelin phase just like everyone else, which is why I'm not surprised that the participation in this poll is so high (60 or so ballots received, about 2x more than the average artist poll).

drugs a money awesome post about going to california

i was thinking about that section of the song yesterday, it's such a weird chilling counterpoint to the pastoral hippieism

Another example of Plant being a very strong member of the band. He makes that song completely.

I always said it in my head as "Do Ya Make Her" which I thought was pretty punny and kinda made sense

^^^ this. Never realized the Jamaica pun until just now. Thx ILM!

I realized it when (years ago) some old fogey was arguing that by that time Zep had so perfectly mastered their ouevre that they just resorted to doing parodies of other genres - D'Yer Mak'er is reggae, Trampled Underfoot is disco, Fool in the Rain is... samba? I don't remember. Dude also insisted that 75% of their catalog was acoustic

can I vote for "D'yer Maker" as 'most-hated' three times?

Hmmm, may have done that myself ...

lol, no (xpost)

Voting is closed on albums and dislikes! Give me a little while to do the final ciphering on those (and also deal with some stuff with my paying job) -- results will start in a little while.

I chose not to do any hatin' but if I had d'yer maker would have been it.

Bron-Yr-Aur pronounced "brawner-uhr" or "brawn-ruhr" (sort of)

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Just a little cottage in Wales as seen above. Apparently most of the people who stay there nowadays are Zep fans making a pilgramage to their significant haunts.

When's the countdown going to start again? Super excited for this. And, its weird, I haven't been enthused enough to give a shit about Zep since How the West Was Won came out.

Dislikes within an hour, albums after that. Tracks start tomorrow, 3-day countdown.

Awesome. Thanks again for all this.

yay!

Yeah, this is gonna be fun. Great turnout already, with perhaps some last minute ballots still to come.

As in dislikes/album ballots need to be in within an hour, or they start within hour after poll closes tonite (midnite US EDT, which is I think 8pm UK, 3AM Wed in west coast US?)

Are dislikes going to be published before the last track ballot is going to be submitted? I don't want my hate songs to influence some poor sap to include his favorite playground song at No. 1 just because it got dissed.

Dislikes and albums voting is closed. Yeah, the reveal for dislikes will be finished before the tracks deadline ends. Chaos! But I'll recognize ballot box stuffing if I see it, and throw the whole thing out, and we can start over.

Argh -- Lee, ok, I counted your albums/dislikes. Luckily it didn't affect the countdown.

Albums were given these points: 10 for #1, 7 for #2, 5 for #3, 3 for #4, 1 for #5.

Hate points were handed out 5, 3, 1.

How many tracks will be in the dislike poll?

With hated tracks at 5, 3, and 1 I guess until you get to tracks with 1 point.

I totally missed this.

there's always one!

You can still vote for your top 20 tracks though!

OK sry abt that - will get my main ballot out in a few minutes then - I'm deciding which of my last 21 songs has to go.

Top 20 ballot on the way....

You won't believe what was the last song to be cut

Cool, must be over 60 ballots now I think.

Yeah, we're well over 60.

abanana, you have 9 hours to do a tracks ballot!

I like "D'yer Ma'ker." I'm not one of those Zep cod reggae haters, I guess.

what was the last song to be cut Lee? i want to believe it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAM1MKi7bNU

The pun xps is part of an old British joke btw:

"My wife's just gone to the Caribbean"
"Jamaica?"
"No, she went of her own accord"

I'm here all week folks.

I heard that joke in some old British movie on TCM about POWs set in a castle during WWII. Can't think of the title at the moment.

I really wish I wasn't so hasty with my picks.
I can't believe I ranked 'Battle of Evermore' so highly and forgot to give 'Houses of the Holy' any love

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Two hours left to vote!

Sent my ballot in last night. It was a great excuse to re-listen to tracks I hadn't heard since high school & to find out how ingrained they were almost, ahem, 30 years later. Reflecting old listening habits nearly all my selections were from I through Houses. I burned out on Zeppelin before getting too far into PG or the later ones.

― that's not my post, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:04 AM (18 hours ago)

Just in case you're reading this, tnmp, I don't think this ever arrived!

Voting is closed -- final ballot count is 65!

PAVEMENT RULES!!

Now the the polls are closed, I'm going to lock this one. Results are rolling out at
ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD

xpost lol