Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Agreed, the producers one sounds dope.

Eric says he's going to start Stevie voting any day now, but I'm already listening and making mental notes.

Stevie will open today, I hope.

I've got a long drive tomorrow, and am burning an mp3 cd from Where I'm Coming From through to Songs In The Key Of Life in anticipation. Time to find out what all the fuss is about.

can i grap 39 for motown singles. also can someone remember when 39 comes around to remind me i said this.

Master Blaster (Pollin'): ILM Artist Poll #9 -- Stevie Wonder (Closes: Oct. 10)

I'd extend beyond SITKOL, btw. At least bump Hotter Than July in there too.

I'll get on it, thanks

jaysus crust, 2.5 weeks for the Stevie voting?

Sorry, didn't know what the standard is. I'm fine if a mod wants to cut it down to just 2 weeks.

Most of the voting periods have been 7-10 days, but I'm loath to set any hard and fast rules on these. I'm just keeping the list.

Sorry, I just wanted to make sure I get at least 50 ballots.

Ok, if there's going to be a Motown poll there has got to be a Stax poll. I'll do it.

Love the idea of those happening back to back! (two years from now)

jaysus crust, 2.5 weeks for the Stevie voting?

Yes. Can we speed the voting up on these? 10 days sounds about right.

31. Miles Davis - WmC
32. Velvet Underground solo careers - iatee
33. Madonna - or something
34. The Fall - Mark G
35. PJ Harvey - Nasty, Brutish & Short
36. Cocteau Twins - Le Bateau Ivre
37. New Order - Bee OK
38. Sonic Youth - ArchCarrier
39. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy
40. Stax Singles - seandalai

actually this is an incredible sequence i am super excited about. maybe not the fall.

I'll put in a mod request to shorten the voting period to Oct. 3. But if I end up with 12 ballots, I'm cancelling the results.

people are pretty last minute w/ these things, w/ 2.5 weeks you'll just have a week where you get no ballots

Wow, that is an amazing list. That Sonic Youth poll is going to end up being harder than Led Zeppelin for me. Really looking forward to the results of those Motown and Stax polls too, imagine that there are some real gems in there that I haven't heard.

I don't know if you'll get 50, but you'll get enough to have a fun results rollout and some discussion/debate about consensus picks, and that's what these things are all about imo.

The dud polls (from my pov) are quite well spaced out to give me one-week-off-in-three type of thing, but I'm going to need extra stamina for this run:

12. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
13. James Brown - strongo
14. Jacksons - Jamie_ATP
15. David Bowie - chap
16. Paul Simon - Lamp
17. Rolling Stones - rogermexico

yeah, and for me that run also includes producers, Pulp and the Kinks. I will rest during Depeche Mode, ABBA and Fleetwood Mac

The only one I'm not looking forward to is the Neptunes poll; I couldn't bring myself to listen to a week of R&B for the Timbaland poll, and from what I know of them I expect Neptunes will be more of the same.

I only know the Cure and Sonic Youth discographies forward and back; the other artists more (GBV, Bowie) or less (Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, especially Miles), and I love these polls because of the systematic listening I really don't do often enough. (Hope I'm still as enthusiastic in 2013 as I am now, though...)

I love these polls because of the systematic listening I really don't do often enough.

Really, this. I'm giving a slightly better quality of attention to my listening these days, and listening outside my usual comfort-food zone.

yeah I like how this sorta became an 'ILM theme week'...also a good way for people to fill in mental gaps / learn more about an artist they're only sorta familiar with. I imagine the guided by voices poll results will be perfect for that.

Plus, it finally gives me the chance to actually use the headphones I got last year!

The only one I'm not looking forward to is the Neptunes poll; I couldn't bring myself to listen to a week of R&B for the Timbaland poll, and from what I know of them I expect Neptunes will be more of the same.

listen to this, you'll immediately get over it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG8o_9RliwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjhSnHxLVjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWLMrUcMZuo

As I said: more of the same :)

ugh @ you guys rushing the stevie poll

so I need to wait until the Stevie Wonder results start rolling out before I do the Producers one yes...?

someone should really step up and do XTC imho

getting pretty excited to talk about PULP! for two straight weeks!

Is there going to be a nominations thread for the producers or is straight into the voting? If the former then start the noms anytime now, otherwise wait until Eric starts rolling the results out.

a name i dont know enough about and would like to see maybe is tom waits

Is there going to be a nominations thread for the producers or is straight into the voting

straight into voting. of course, there will be a "voting" thread where people can discuss their nominations etc. unlike all the other polls, this will be the only one that is not genre-specific, so I'm hoping to get a fairly broad discussion going but eh who knows

maybe that wasn't clear - I am not planning on having everyone nominate a bunch of names and then restricting people's votes to that particular list. there will be a voting thread, where people can lobby for whatever they want and discuss who they will vote for. that thread will close and then there will be a results thread.

so I need to wait until the Stevie Wonder results start rolling out before I do the Producers one yes...?

Not necessarily -- I'd say fire up the balloting thread as soon as JF finishes the GBV results if you'd like to, especially since Producers is probably going to generate a good bit of chat and campaigning before the first ballots come in, and may need some extra time specifically for that campaigning. I think it would be cool to have two sets of polls open at any given time, as long as there aren't two sets of results rolling out at the same time.

this is kind of a separate-but-related question - how does one format embedded pics so they're all of a uniform size? cuz I will be needing to do a lot of GISing for the results, presumably.

(so pissed I can't find a copy of that photo of Phil Spector with a wad of bills in his mouth)

ahem

YESSSSS

GIS "Phil Spector eats money" returns some... unpleasant results

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/apr2009/8/9/image-4-for-phil-spector-s-wigs-gallery-365477275.jpg

this is kind of a separate-but-related question - how does one format embedded pics so they're all of a uniform size? cuz I will be needing to do a lot of GISing for the results, presumably.

How about restricting your GIS to 'exactly' a specific size?

Set up a new photobucket account/album, save all your pictures to there and then edit them? At least you know they're all going to show up properly then.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh, Can? This is ILM isn't it?

I mean, what's gone wrong here?

Everyone would send in the exact same ballot.

I really doubt that very much

Steely Dan?

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.

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shakey i'd like to reiterate that you are in for so many headaches if you don't clarify this stuff really carefully and maybe let people debate certain inclusions or exclusions a little bit before voting even starts.

Right, because I'm still not sure if we're voting for producers, or songs produced by certain producers, or all songs ever produced in the history of recorded music...