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

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!

the 5 most rated gbv songs via youtube:
1.game of pricks
2.i am a scientist
3.hold on hope
4.my valuable hunting knife
5. glad girls

most viewd:
1.a am a scientist
2.teenage fbi
3.hunting knife
4.hold on hope
5.glad girls

"Girl Named Captain" was in my Top 20 till I decided to ditch any solo stuff and go 100% GBV

If these artist poll deadlines are gonna be treated as stringently as work deadlines then I bow out of the remaining ones as well.

man I love the logic of this. "woah, woah, woah, announced deadlines will be HELD TO? Fuck you guys, I'm out of here."

Never go to a meeting you can't loudly saunter into late I guess

Yeah, I don't really see how 10 days isn't enough time to type a list of your 20 favorites. I think it took me just about 20 minutes, then I let it sit for a day, then I sent it. It's not in the spirit of GBV to agonize over something to the point where it doesn't get done.

I want to frame that last sentence and put it up somewhere LL <3

(although I could regret that when I do the Kate Bush poll in a couple of weeks ~ who does agonize over things ;) )

My computer's trackpad became totally inoperable yesterday afternoon so I missed the deadline...my list was shaping up to be pretty PROP-BT-AL heavy anyways

LORAX'S VOTE CONCEALMENT WAS AN INSIDE JOB.

Can't wait for the countdown today.

Watched the DVD of the "final" show in Chicago 2004...really enjoyable. As stated above, that man can drink. Was surprised by the lukewarm reception for Tobin Sprout's appaearance unless there's some kind of backstory there. Also, what gives with RP's constant refrain of how all the bands got "jealous" of GBV--can someone fill us in briefly on the intraband tensions?

Every person running one of these polls will have different ideas about deadline strictness, so "if these artist poll deadlines are gonna be treated as stringently as work deadlines..." is whiny bullshit and a very big "IF". Obviously some dude didn't get the hard-deadline memo because he held things open for another day on Timbaland iirc.

I invested too much time into this poll to see it all go to waste.

Then post your ballot and quit putting a run in ILX's stockings.

btw, POLLSTAL BLOWFISH - ILM Artist Poll #8 - Guided By Voices - ReSuLtS!!!

It's not in the spirit of GBV to agonize over something to the point where it doesn't get done.

― some lady (La Lechera)

Yeah but I think GBV would of sacrificed a few guitar picks for their fans even if it wasn't on schedule.

Maybe I'm wrong about this. Maybe GBV and their biggest fans are more Type-A than I can possibly imagine.

I'm really sorry that I made such a stink about this. I'll shut the fuck up now. I probably deserve to be excluded from this poll because I made a big deal about the way I feel. If I had rushed my results 10 minutes earlier I could of avoided hurt feelings all together. And it's my fault that I'm the type of person that lets drawn out perfectionist behavior leak into my list making.

Sorry Johnny

Let it go Lorax. Johnny is running the poll. He set a deadline, probably linked to his personal schedule of work and obligations and trying to free time to do this for us. Holding a grudge for the initiator of this poll sticking to his own deadline is not a good look.

I probably deserve to be excluded from this poll because I made a big deal about the way I feel.

You don't deserve to be excluded because of your feelings, you are excluded because you were too late.

If I had rushed my results 10 minutes earlier I could of avoided hurt feelings all together.

Yes.

And it's my fault that I'm the type of person that lets drawn out perfectionist behavior leak into my list making.

If you started your drawn out perfectionist behavior 11 minutes earlier this wouldn't have happened.

Let it go.

I said I was sorry. I'm trying to let it go. You're not helping

A perfect way to let it go would be to follow the results thread and not keep rehashing the past here in this one.

will gladly lock this one if you want, JF