POLLSTAL BLOWFISH - ILM Artist Poll #8 - Guided By Voices

What's wrong with Hold on Hope? If it was a one off then yes, maybe awful. But it was Pollard. shit Johnny just realised i need to rank them. Doing it now.Right now. apologies. I can't even do simple instructions

So it's okay with you then if I don't use your re-ranked list? Because your first ballot was already tallied into the spreadsheet.

38 ballots now, y'all. About 19 hours left to vote.

Johnny. As I said it's fine. Thank you

For me "most hated" does not equal "worst" at all -- just that I am either tired of or generally not fond of those songs. Not the same! I would never have voted for "worst".

Johnny. Just had another look. Hand on heart, my original was pretty damn close. Just had a re - listen or with a couple of cold ones, to one or two of the strategic tracks

my external hd with all my music just died so i will now construct a last-minute ballot from memory without listening to the songs

I'm poorly but want to try and construct a last-minute ballot as well

sent mine now

just sent my ballot too, there's no point in sitting over it for too long. it's heavily AL-loaded and (I guess) challop-free

sent to your gmail

wowee! 45 ballots now (and counting?)

loving 'redmen and their wives' so much today. what a song!

This song will never ever chart, but I still think it's pretty far out and a decent 5 minute jam for a bunch of 1987 nobodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7qkymXU30g

oh, I placed just the next track ("Dog's Out" is next, right?) on my pre-elimination ballot, tho it got pushed out of the top 20

"3 year old man" (which is kind of forgettable) is next, then "dog's out"

Just sent my ballot. Was really busy this week so I didn't get to delve in as much as I'd hoped to, but my favorites remain pretty consistent with these guys. Can't wait to see results!

we have come to drag days
we escape them sometimes
and the feeling is different, more intensified

totally voted for "drag days" <3 "fidgety hearts"

we will turn aroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuund

Hope my ballot made it. Can't be online much to see. Really looking forward to the results!

Neil Bacharackers

Carlos Santana Moss

lol, sorry, wrong thread

haha

okay everybody...voting closes in about 3.5 hours. Currently we have 49 ballots (which far exceeds my original expectations, so thank you!)

just voted

here's two honorable mentions that didn't make it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwCemSQMbM

^^^^ best Pollard side project track, imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIC2mqWerR0

^^^^ b-side on the I Am a Scientist 7"

100 minutes left to vote.

sent

been meaning to do this for 10 days and have failed

i'll be the guy saying 'oh man if i had voted, 'i am a(n) _____' would totally have won'

You've still got a little over an hour. Go fer it!

it's on the way, give me til 12:20 and I'll make sure I'll listen to all the youtubes and #1 picks on this thread

POLLS ARE CLOSED!

Got 52 ballots in the end. I'll be doing the top 10 albums/releases tomorrow and starting the tracks countdown on Tuesday.

The "most hated/least favorite" tracks thing kind of fell apart, because there's no discernible consensus on what those tracks might be. Worked great for Zeppelin, but not so much here.

xp Soz dude, I'm gonna be a hardnose on this one.

polls closed? I've been listening to hundreds of GBV songs all week

sent. missing 3 tracks

I've been listening to hundreds of GBV songs all week

Well then you'll be really primed to follow the countdown. Unfortunately, 52 people found some time to set aside within the 10 days that voting was open and actually submit their ballots.

sorry dude. i only made it to 15 tracks. are you serious you are closed now? remember that the miles davis poll has 3 months of voting...

I guess I just didn't think you'd be such a dick about this?

I know that I've taken a lot of heat on ILX lately because of my stance on a particular issue
and I know that my picks are almost all Bee1000 and Alien Lanes - which probably seems appalling to a hxc GBV fan
but it's your poll Johnny Fever and if you want to be a real dick about the time than it's your call

and I'm sorry if I write how I feel

I don't know about your stance on a particular issue (?), but I really truly closed the voting at midnight so I could work on the actual behind-the-scenes stuff involved in rolling out a countdown and still maybe get a little sleep tonight before work tomorrow. If I went back in and added a couple ballots now (sorry Mr. Shasta), I'd have to stay up later and be sleepier at work. So yeah, voting closed at midnight edt.

I'd of thought you'd just start the counting tomorrow so you could get some sleep tonight

bah, I give up on these polls. I guess I'm lucky to have caught the LZ one in time. I think I'm gonna bow out of the remaining ones. Too much work and life interfering with my interwebz.

It's my fault that my list came in 10 minutes late but I'd never be the kind of person that would turn down a few dedicated ILXors if they were a tiny bit late. ILX is supposed to be a vacation away from work

If these artist poll deadlines are gonna be treated as stringently as work deadlines then I bow out of the remaining ones as well. I invested too much time into this poll to see it all go to waste

What's the big deal guys? A deadline is a deadline and there's really no point in setting one if the person running the poll isn't going to stick to it. I am thankful to Johnny for taking the time to do this and am looking forward to tomorrow's results.

What's the big deal about adding a few numbers to a running tally? Its elementary school math

I believe in leeway for bros. Especially since I put quite an effort into listening to all the GBV albums. But apparently Johnny Fever has a strict anti-bro policy because there is no way that those extra 10 minutes are going to throw off the start of a results countdown because the countdown doesn't have an exact start time. If the results started ten minutes later no one would notice

I'm not gonna argue about this anymore. It's my fault that it's late and JF has the right to be a stickler. But never in a million years would I cut off people for sending in their ballots within one hour past the deadline. It just seems like a real low-bro move. I couldn't do that someone

Weeping salt tears for Lorax here

shut the fuck up lorax

you vote for this one, cap'n?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxlYWXjn9Q

surely you mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fhnHu6d6I

i'm partial to this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK2F1NdAxp4

Lorax, stop complaining. A deadline is a deadline. Looking forward to the countdown!