NEUPÖLLN - ILM Artist Poll #14 - David Bowie (POLLS ARE CLOSED)

We're over 60, so it could happen.

It would be fitting if we topped out at 65.

I'm thinking about blasting through the results in two days -- all of the albums and part of the tracks on Tuesday, then the rest of the tracks on Wednesday. Fooey on long reveals.

Not my poll but TOO FAST!

Will do my ballot a bit later.

Can we have the results rolled out a bit slower please? I get the feeling that people in Europe are going to miss out on talking about individual tracks without awkwardly having to preface their posts with (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxp)

just sent my ballot!

Got it, thanks!

Yeah, I think three days to roll it all out would be better after all. Albums and a few teaser tracks on day 1, the bulk of the tracks on days 2 and 3. There have only been a couple of "most hated" ballots, so that won't be happening.

mine is kinda boring i guess, except for my big station to station boosting (but that might be boring in and of itself on ILM)

too many great songs!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6x7zn7Ih1r2gpaao1_r1_500.jpg

hahaha!

Appreciate the slower rollout, thanks WmC

thanks WmC

ballot sent!

listening to scary monsters atm

i maybe should have put this on my albums list

I always forget just how much I love 'Up The Hill Backwards' until I put it on to listen to.

^^^

And then afterwards I have the "it's got nothing to do with you/if one can grasp it" lyric going 'round my brain for weeks until it eventually dies off and I start the whole cycle again.

Bump. Let's get the total ballots into the 70s.

Figure there's going to be a lot of people sending theirs in at the last minute.

i just noticed bowie says "fuck me pumps" in "we are the dead", i wonder how old that expression is???

^^that one was one of the last to be crossed off the list. I always thought it was/sang it like "juicy pumps". Listening now I wonder why?! Maybe I was prone to protect myself from filthy language...

I've sent mine. - Never knowingly ahead of the last minute.

There's been barely a mention onthread of any of my top fifteen, no idea where or if they're going to place. I'm getting *extremely* curious to see the results now.

scent

Scrabbled together some kind of list and sent it in

Yours is ballot #73.

haHA!
take that, pavement

aaaaah left space oddity off my ballot /dumb

Wowie Zowie

Attention Willem! Your ballot has 21 tracks -- you have two #15s. Want me to just chop the last track off?

in the name of paranoias, you, uh, got my ballot, rite?

I guess not! I've sent emails to everyone as ballots came in, unless I acknowledged receipt in this thread. Hit me with it again.

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Attention Brad C! Your ballot has 21 spots. Same as willem, I'll just knock the 21st track off unless I hear otherwise.

Oops! Yeah WmC, just leave the last one off, it probably (??) doesn't need my 12 points anyway.

dang! sent it to u via ILX mail a week or so back. will send another copy along when i get home (to where my .xlsses is hid). before cutoff in any event...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly30tbT4bP1qbgvpzo1_1327037858_cover.jpg

Bowie things I learned from ILM:

"Neukoln" is my fave Bowie ambient track and all-time fave Bowie track.
I greatly prefer the 1st half of "Warsawa" to the (vocal) 2nd half.

Lodger is much better than I gave it credit for (ta Sinker!) (still didn't make my Top 5 though "Red Sails" and "Look Back In Anger" made Top 20 cuts).

always love love loved it but seriously LOOK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbxp1hC8vts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXRoVEbD88&feature=fvsr

Cool! Did you vote?

yes (today) it's the one with "Neukoln" at the top plus "Red Sails", "Look Back In Anger" and "Queen Bitch" in the mix :)

Neukoln at the top?! I admire that! Can't we post our top five albums, sort of like opening one present on Xmas eve?

No! Go to bed or Santa will never come!

awwww rats...did we seriously beat pavement, tho?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6spL97lM8

Just to tide you over, a couple of lines with the Man...

As awesome as the Berlin-era stuff is, I sort of found my favorite songs were mostly inconsequential pastiches from the Hunk Dory/Ziggy/Alladin Sane years.

Experimental songwriting is great and all, but a guitar blast and "I'm an alligator!"....you can't really beat that.

Not that that song's a pastiche.

awwww rats...did we seriously beat pavement, tho?

― Iago Galdston, Monday, March 5, 2012 7:59 PM (13 minutes ago)

Definitely -- I looked back at the Pavement results thread and it says that 57 people voted. I don't know where the 70 number came from. Led Zeppelin had 66. Bowie is at 74 ballots with 3 hours 45 minutes to go.

Make that 75, thank you Adam!

holy shit, 75 ballots? that's amazing, people

i think the guy who wrote the 33 1/3 book on Low is even here voting, is that correct? If so, I've read like 15 of those and his is the only one I've really liked unreservedly. Such a great book.

xxxp the 70 number came from my memory. a dark and perverse place.

a guitar blast and "I'm an alligator!"....you can't really beat that.
OTM!!

I'm getting seriously excited for the poll results now. 75 ballots in, all that material to choose from, people choosing deep cuts from the lesser-appreciated years. This might end up being more interesting than I thought it would!