Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Any objections to moving P-Funk to JF's vacated #55 spot, or would y'all rather I just moved everything up one notch?

I have no idea what Italo is but will add it after Boo Radleys.

I'm doing a general disco poll, so the Italo one will probably have some overlap with it, but I've no problem with that.

We Become Panoramic - THE KATE BUSH RESULTS THREAD (ilm artist poll #24)

New results thread means new voting thread! Tarfumes, are you ready for Maximum R&B?

wait I thought it was The Who next?

PLEASE TELL ME THE WHO IS NEXT

lol insert Who's Next joke here

"Maximum R&B" = The Who

aw man I feel so dumb

it's okay, i've been kind of anticipating the Who poll too, it's been a minute since we've polled an artist i've had any particular passion for

Yeah, this is going to be one of the rare polls where 20 might put a cramp in my ballot.

I was getting poll-weary so I've been stockpiling my enthusiasm for The Who

I am cool with the P-Funk poll being moved to wherever, not in a rush

Shall I roll out the voting thread? Or give the Kate Bush results another day or so?

Open polls tomorrow morning maybe? I don't think small amounts of overlap is a problem.

ILM Ballot Poll Synergy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJvXpvH2-Hk

Before I get POLLED: the WHO voting and nominations thread (ilm artist poll #25: deadline Friday, September 7)

Everyone is welcome to vote here!

FORGET THE ROLLING STONE CANON HERE IS ILM'S HARD STICK OF 1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers)

All registered ILXors please vote in the Who poll! With your help it can reach 2482 ballots tonight!

LET'S ROCK THIS SHIT OUT

Anyone ever thought of doing a poll for EP's? Or would the arguments get too heated over what constitutes an EP?

Or would the arguments get too heated over what constitutes an EP?

Pretty easy to tell the difference between singles and eps on vinyl, but with cds and mp3s it's a tougher line of demarcation.

ex: if a record has one song on the a-side and one or more on the b-side, it's a single. if a record has more than one song on both of its sides, it's an ep (until it becomes an lp based on total time).

(also, some prog/classical/etc albums have a single song on a side, but those are pretty easy to distinguish as lps when they come up.)

# of songs + release length, crossing musical genres, doesn't seem like an interesting enough hook for a poll. Lots of apples/oranges wrangling, no useful consensus. Why not poll "best song longer than 5:41 but shorter than 6:03"?

it was just a thought,never mind

Not saying no, just offering my opinion.

Why not poll "best song longer than 5:41 but shorter than 6:03"?

Maybe that's a little to specific, but I could see some fun being had with a "best songs less than 3 mins" poll. I don't want to run it, but I think that's a good idea.

under 2 minutes would be specific enough to be fun imo

i don't feel like it would be that hard to decide what's an EP and what isn't. most of them are clearly marked or marketed as EPs, or follow Johnny's guidelines.

are ppl writing their own voting rules /standards or have we standardized them at all? can someone point me to a good poll to borrow rules/language from?

ex: if a record has one song on the a-side and one or more on the b-side, it's a single. if a record has more than one song on both of its sides, it's an ep (until it becomes an lp based on total time).

if it's too long to fit on a 7" at 45rpm, but will at 33rpm, it's an EP.

For Zep, I borrowed the OP language and the scoring system from one (several) of the previous polls, but pulled the scoring system for albums/least faves out a hat. The 40/36/33/30/etc scoring for a 20-song ballot has been pretty well standardized by this point. Here's Billy Dods' PSB poll: Revelation - Official ILX Pet Shop Boys tracks poll results

Also, should I wait for The Who results to finish b4 starting my poll? Will someone give me the go ahead or

Go for it! We've had a bit of overlap the last few polls and it helps keep things moving right along.

It's up btw - ILXers Get Out Your Polls And I'll Put On Some Joni Mitchell Voting and Nominations #26

Also, I'm jumping the gun a little but how do people do those nice results jpegs? Do they resize images they find elsewhere? Is there a really easy way to do it w/out having particularly sharp photoshop skillz?

If you have MS Paint, you can resize images easily.

Or download GIMP, which is free and more powerful.

Gimp is terrific, it's basically a free photoshop. And you don't need to worry about resizing, ilx does it for you.

I did Neil Young on Microsoft Paint--very easy. (I resized all images on the Microsoft Picture viewer first.) I'd forgotten I had Gimp, though, which is good too.

could someone please send me that spreadsheet for calculating the results? i heard there's a super easy one to use.

Sent, to the poll address.

Thanks!

WmC, could you add the Italo one at the end of the list? thx

Can mods edit individual posts? So that the first post can have a link to the spreadsheet?

daavid, thanks for the reminder -- I've edited Italo onto the end of the updated list a few posts upthread.

Leee, the spreadsheet has been uploaded to various fileshare sites several times, but the DL links eventually expire, so I've just been emailing the .xls to folks as needed. I don't have a domain where I can park it permanently. Would Dropbox work for a permanent hosting spot? I see it used for images.

google docs?

Hmm, yeah, why not.

Here's Finefinemusic's spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmhW_PgsyKKodGZkUi14NV9mYUZ2bUhyV29QU3hBV3c

I made it visible to anyone with the link, but not editable. I think whoever is doing a poll can Make A Copy/Save As and their copy would be editable.

I might edit the link into the OP after I've had more coffee.

56. US Indie Singles of the 1980s - NickB

I don't know quite what I was thinking of when I proposed this, but it's a daft idea, especially with those other 80s polls going on right now, so please can you delete me from the list WmC? Thanks!

Awwwww, I'm sorry Nick! By the time it comes round everyone will have forgotten the 80s poll.

with a bit of luck

:(