To Poll Somebody - The Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL (voting thread) - FINAL DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, JUNE 15, NO FOOLIN'

Mine is still forthcoming.

I've just submitted an undersized ballot - I figure anything is better than nothing given the poor response so far

4 days to go, get them ballots in

Poor Shakey Mo is going to get an avalanche of 50 ballots on Friday.

Bee Gee Polling Disaster 2012

Don't make poor Robin (in heaven) cry ILX!

apropos of nothing ... 2 Years On is better than I remember it, but it does seem to lack any real standout tracks

Well, other than "Lonely Days" (which, fwiw, won't make my ballot).

I like the title track -- particularly the "Only you/Can see me" part.
I also came to "The 1st Mistake I Made" via a cover version by Phil Seymour of The Dwight Twilley Band for some tribute. For the longest time I couldn't figure out what album it was from because Seymour's version was called "The First Mistake I Ever Made." But I think that's one of Barry's better country ballads.

Weekend listening to the 60s stuff made me fall for this great little pop song of Robin's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDBdn9Frgc

yeah the harmonies on Indian Gin are great

I'm trying to cram as much listening in before I submit my ballot. Was hoping to unearth some great obscurities but don't have time to check out 1000 songs now so will stick mostly to their own releases and a few well-known songs performed by others (didn't realize there were so many).

This will probably be my #20, because I have a soft spot for wildly misleading first singles that don't even hint at the musical direction the band later takes. This doesn't sound even remotely like the late-60s balladeers that first became popular (at least outside of Australia), much less the '70s disco superstars they would later become...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TdqIyRd51k

was that their very first single? Their early Aussie stuff is like some weird mirror image of the American 60s folk scene

According to wiki, yes. Cracked the top 100 in their homeland.

can we talk for a second about what a funny/bizarre/compelling oddity Maurice's "Lay it on me" from 2 Years On is, especially in light of his age/alcoholism at the time...

Don't you drink with me 'cos you know that I'm a loser
And I'm proud of that fact as you can plainly see
Never did what people said, I should've
I'm just a low down critter who never did any good
I'm just a low down critter who never did any good

I spend my life working up a sweat to be a bad boy
Getting girls into trouble every day
Going from town to town, now I tell you I've been around
I'm just a low down critter who never did any good
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/b/bee-gees-lyrics/lay-it-on-me-lyrics.html]
I'm just a low down critter who never did any good

Lay it on me
Yeah

Don't you drink with me 'cos I tell you that I'm a loser
And I'm proud of that fact as you can plainly see
Going from town to town, now I tell you I've been around
I'm just a low down critter who never did any good
I'm just a low down critter who never did any good

votey vote vote vote

this is depressing

Don't panic. I said I'd vote 'n I will. I finally located my copy of To Whom It may Concern this morning.

I'm still not in yet either. I've narrowed it to 34 songs!

8 ballots in

*crickets*

Will vote a bit later today. My ballot will just list song titles though, since it seems daft to try and distinguish between different artist versions in most cases. Hope that's acceptable, Shakey.

In the meantime, I just stumbled across this exhaustive commentary on all things Gibb:
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/version2.html

Narrative starts here and then you can click through year by year:
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/62.html

The web 1.0 was such a wonderful place.

Sorry I can't vote in these ballots unless I really immerse myself in the artists, and I've just done the ABBA immersion thing and am still coming up for air. Need to be spaced out more for me to contribute.

Then get spaced out, man

Best bit of advice I've had this year.

Finally sitting down and working on this. Hard to go deep when there are so many hits, but hard to concentrate on hits when the catalogue is so fucking deep!

Really feeling "Nobody's Someone" the last couple days. It was a leftover from Odessa (a leftover!). All class, this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziso7sQyyFs

I repped hard for Paradise upthread, but one more from Living Eyes is going to make my ballot: Cryin' Every Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S4_bJlamT0

okay voted. How many does that make now?

bumping for more votes. I don't want this poll to die prematurely.

sorry I've been absent today, been home sick.

I got 3 ballots today, so that brings the total to 10

you started a poll which started the whole board yawning

Not yawning, it's just that an unexpected poll of a 1000-song discography didn't leave me much time to explore the deep cuts. I'll get a ballot in b4 midnite PST.

ballot sent.

ABBA did okay with 19, so maybe just leave the deadline open until you get somewhere close to that?

rly disappointed in ILM right now.

buncha jerks

Did you get the 30 vote ballot I sent? I emailed you a few times -- but don't want to keep spamming you.

VOTE BABY VOTE (unless Shakey Mo is no longer accepting ballots, that is)!

so 13 ballots received so far (m@ttw3iner that includes yrs, but I was unable to send a confirmation e-mail for some reason)

I'll keep balloting open if more people are going to actually vote and just haven't had time to compile a ballot yet

i think maybe people respond to deadlines, though? like if you set a new date and put it in the subject line, people will know how much time they have and work on it. i know that at least for me, personally, i'm not gonna take the time if there's a good chance that the poll is just going to randomly close at any minute before i'm ready.

are you referring to yrself? cuz so far people have not responded to deadlines, but maybe the ABBA poll was distracting people or something

I mean if there's another pool of voters out there I'm fine with setting a new deadline, but if there aren't then I'm not going to bother

Is there anyone upthread who's said "I plan to vote, honest" but hasn't pulled their finger out yet?

i'm speaking broadly, if you extend the deadline without updating the thread title or saying what the new deadline is, a lot of people will just assume the poll closed already or they won't have time. if you care about maximizing the # of late ballots you get at this point.

yeah yeah I know, I can't update the thread title myself so I was asking if there are actually any other people who want to vote before I set a new deadline is all

(m@ttw3iner that includes yrs, but I was unable to send a confirmation e-mail for some reason)

Great. Kickback was probably bc I was emailing my ballot from my Evernote account. I just wanted to make sure my full 30 vote ballot made it in -- after all, cutting those masterpieces from High Civilization and Magnet were hard enough!

I'm not hearing much from prospective voters aside from some dude... sooooo, let's extend the deadline to this Friday, the 15th and that'll be it.

Can a mod put the deadline in the thread title plz? thx

If you don't start voting soon, people, I'm going to post sequential photos of me disrobing. NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT, BELIEVE ME!

this makes me v sad

Deadline added.

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