Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

we literally JUST got back on track with the first couple after the sandbox/year-end-lists hiatus so "seems" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in k3v's post

tbf i am v strong

can one of y'all make sure to email me personally when the neptunes are up thx

we'll all be banned by then anyway

miss that meme

flagellated

Is there special correlating software, or is it just a spreadsheet? If it's relatively simple, I'd run a Cover Version poll

I used notepad & pencil, I don't think there's a set format.

someone has an xls upthread, if you have basic knowledge of excel it shouldn't be too hard

yeah, here's finefinemusic's xls template from upthread -- Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

last year someone asked about doing a cover songs poll and i really have no idea how it would work: Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Put me down for Elvis Costello

sweet, that'll be a fun one

looking forward to this classic rock poll! in the UK we never had rock radio like you guys get so there's no radio overkill on a lot of these songs

bummed that we gotta wait so long for sonic youth :/

btw finefinemusics template was on megaupload....

;_;

damnit! where can I upload a file without creating an account? I think I still have it kicking about..

http://www.sendspace.com

Right.. I forgot about that one. Tried mediafire, gave up. However it turns out I do not have a copy on my computer here anymore! Anyone else still got theirs?

Yeah, I have one. Uploading...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4qloj6

Thanks guy!

yay, i'm stoked to do the classic rock canon! I think I can probably stick to a more reasonable timeline now that I really know what I'm in for...I also moved from the US to India and back during the course of the REM poll, so there was a lot going on.

somedude, would definitely love to see the 500 spreadsheet - donutdisturbed AT hotmail DOT etc. Thanks!!

(the list in progress)

and updated quick links to results:
Precursors to the numbered list:
1950s Tracks: Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—THE TOP 101 RESULTS THREAD
Postwar Jazz Albums: JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)
Pavement: PAVEMENT • TRAX • POLL rEsULtS!!!
Manic Street Preachers: Manic Street Preachers Destructive Alienating Cultural and Despair Filled Tracks POLL RESULTS
Blur: Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread
REM: \///\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \///\///

1. Pet Shop Boys: Revelation - Official ILX Pet Shop Boys tracks poll results
2. Beatles: Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results
3. Prince: If Tracks Are Good, Let's Get 2 Pollin - PRINCE TRACKS POLL RESULTS
4. U2: "It's a musical journey" - U2 POLL RESULTS
5. Beach Boys: It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results
6. Led Zeppelin: ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD
7. Timbaland: generation timbo: TIMBALAND TRACKS POLL RESULTS
8. Guided by Voices: POLLSTAL BLOWFISH - ILM Artist Poll #8 - Guided By Voices - ReSuLtS!!!
9. Stevie Wonder: POLLTIME PARADISE: ILM Artist Poll #9 Results -- Stevie Wonder
10. Producers: Producers, Recording Engineers and Studio Wizards: POLL RESULTS
11. Pulp: Do You Remember The First Poll? - ILM Artist Poll #11 - PULP - Results Thread!
12. James Brown: THE POLLBACK: James Brown Tracks Poll Results Thread
13: The Jacksons: The Jacksons Tracks - Smooth CrimiPOLL results1!!1!!!!

nice work william

Johnny Fever - I really like the jpegs you used on your Pavement poll and want to do something similar for my Cure poll. I don't want to screw up any sizings on my very first post though - what were the dimensions/dpi for your jpegs?

Johnny Fever's Pavement poll graphics are one of the great contributions to ILM--so fantastic

I'm pretty sure they were all 72dpi, but I don't remember the dimensions. I basically created a template in photoshop, altering the text for each entry and dropping a different image so they were all uniform (same for the 2011 eoy tracks poll).

somebody should put every single ilx poll result in some xls one day

not it

Lamp -- a heads-up for timing your Paul Simon poll -- I plan to bring out Bowie results all in two days and be done Wednesday afternoon/evening.

For anyone who uses this thread to keep up with these things and hasn't seen the Bowie voting thread -- there's still just over two days to get your ballot in if you're interested. NEUPÖLLN - ILM Artist Poll #14 - David Bowie (voting deadline MONDAY MARCH 5TH)

seems we're crying out for some roxy music/ bryan ferry.

omg paul simes poll got to get ready

Whoever picks up the Roxy one should run a mini 'sleeve art' poll alongside.

^^ exactly

I think it's a good idea to start the voting thread for the next poll while the results for the other are rolling... It's not hard to follow both threads, and some of them probaby don't even that much voter overlap. This way it doesn't take two years to finish all these polls.

I do try to vote in most of them and I don't like the overlap so much - I end up researching Paul Simon instead of spending time with everyone else, digging Bowie.

think there will be some great disco made in the next two years fwiw

it's weird to me that people care so much whether we rush through all these polls in the next six months or if it takes TWO WHOLE YEARS GOSH

like, you'll just fucking die if you don't know ILM's favorite Tom Waits songs by November, oh no

world ends in 9 months bro

We should be so lucky. (/morbs)

Is anyone gonna do a Roxy poll, then?

it's weird to me that people care so much whether we rush through all these polls in the next six months or if it takes TWO WHOLE YEARS GOSH

a lot of people's ilx contracts run out this year and will not be spending time posting thereafter

charlie h, were you volunteering to do Roxy Music?

This is a strange question, but I was wondering if I could try a poll for a band outside of the list, just to practice.

I've got a band in mind that no one in their right mind would ever want to volunteer for. More for fun than for realz.

I just don't want to hit the Hüsker Dü poll as my first one and fuck everything up.

I guess? My only worry would be poll fatigue if a lot of people were working on Paul Simon (or the Stones) and comedy films and your poll all at the same time. But I'm just the list updater, not the permission giver.

If you want, I could send you the Zeppelin ballots so you could get comfortable with the data entry process.

It's easy enough to do with just pen & paper if you don't want to complicate things