I'm burning up, burning up for your VOTES! — ILM Artist Poll #31 is Madonna

"Sorry sir breast pieces cost extra."

"Dining in, or to go?"

is there someplace for me to go to figure out exactly how to do this ballot

like is this just best to worst:
1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12

or something? rly feeling like an idiot here

Yep, your #1 vote gets 40 points etc.

Number them 1 through 20, and after each song title give the points value so Johnny Fever can tally them up.

You're not an idiot! There's a first time for everything :)

oh wow

ok

thanks!

yes

basically it's [rank]:[number of points], so the top song on your list will get 40 points, #2 will get 36, etc etc etc

JF asked us to include the point totals on ballots because... well I'm not sure why but he says it will make it easier for him

cool whatever JF needs

JF asked us to include the point totals on ballots because... well I'm not sure why but he says it will make it easier for him

After adding in that many ballots in one go, your memory of what placement gets what amount of points combined with adding them to a figure that's already there and so on and so forth creates an opportunity for mistakes. If the points are right there by the song, I at least know exactly how many points I'm giving it without having to count down your ballot trying to figure out.

You could use spreadsheet trickery for this; add forumlae to cells on one sheet to generate the correct point totals and plug the song name in (after normalization for spell checking, I guess), creating sums for those songs on a linked page that you can then sort by total. Then you wouldn't have to hand-add anything.

of course the remix poll would then become a nightmare

Yeah, the generic poll spreadsheet that finefinemusic made up early on has those formulae. Huge timesaver for me on the polls I've run, but I assumed JF had his reasons for doing Madonna by hand (fnarrr).

Oh shit, I didn't include points totals on my ballot. I'm sorry.

xpost tee hee

I'm picturing Johnny Fever surrounded by abacuses (abacii?), wearing one of those green plastic accountant's visors

I assumed JF had his reasons

Those reasons include me being largely Excel illiterate.

I am too, but the instructions on the .xls walked me through the process painlessly.

I'll figure it out before my next poll comes around.

Oh shit, I didn't include points totals on my ballot. I'm sorry.

― how's life, Friday, March 1, 2013 3:51 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

same here... any instructions that weren't in the top post, i totally missed/forgot about. can resend with points if it helps.

Ballot submitted!

Most people did. No need to resubmit a ballot if you didn't. I'll muddle through!

JF, I know you said you were gonna send out confirmation emails once you saw all the ballots, but is there a point after which, if I haven't heard from you, I should be checking in?

Submitted!

I send out a confirmation reply when I add a ballot into the spreadsheet. I'm taking my time with that, but definitely if you haven't heard something back from me by Sunday morning, you should check up.

sorry about no points i didn't realise!

submitted. amazed at some of the tracks i left off.

I'm amazed by the tracks I put in

yes yes alfred you're wonderful we know :P

you're just jealous cuz you can't be me!

on the topic of producers doing their best work with Madonna: the exception is Patrick Leonard, no? Last year he assembled the Leonard Cohen record and did a damn fine job.

that leonard cohen record was great (best since the future imo) but his best work is still w/ madonna

i'm sure i'm forgetting something but fave non-madonna production by a madonna producer i can think of off the top of my head is jellybean doing whitney's 'love will save the day'.

and even there (w/ that definitely in my top 5 whitney, in the running for #1) i'm still taking the madonna productions w/o question.

well, there's also Stephen Bray and Dan Gilroy's "Right on Track" for The Breakfast Club.

Breakfast Club - "Right On Track"

^^^^^ THIS WINS EVERYTHING

I almost voted for Dan Gilroy in the boyfriends poll *solely* because of Right On Track.

I should have. I'm a jerk.

I liked "Show Me The Place" better than anything else on tht Cohen record, but still < Leonard's work with Madonna.

Submitted. I have talked abt Madonna so much on this board; I better get a damn pull quote or two.

true story, Patrick Leonard had been wanting to work with Cohen much earlier but LC rejected the demo of "Who's That Girl"

there's a mix of Cohen singing "Frozen" someplace.

I suppose voting is closed now, but if you squeak a ballot in between now and the time I wake up tomorrow, I'll count it.

We're currently at 57 (wow!).

damn, nice turnout.

never woulda guessed this poll would match the Pavement poll's turnout

This has been a pretty busy thread by voting/hype thread standards too. Over 1500 posts.

yeah felt like a really rare confluence of an artist that EVERYBODY has an opinion about but hasn't really been discussed to death on ilm in the past

I'm glad I ended up getting to do this one. I was originally going to do her (lol!) at #8, but switched to Guided By Voices. Then there was some kind of kerfuffle between parties who will go unmentioned, a rogue poll, an abandonment, and a re-opening. The drama befits a Madonna poll, imo.

lol

i will say that at the time all i really knew was some cabal had decided polls had to be authorized (ag has gotten past this thru sheer maniacal will, emphasis on maniacal) and that the first authorized one was the beatles so my first reaction was disgust on two levels ie. fuck the beatles - MADONNA! that i ended up trolling a certain party was "regrettable". have to admit top down administration of poll rollouts has worked out fairly well, sometimes think maybe two polls could be going at once, more often don't really have time to engage w/ one poll (eg i'm gonna have to skip miles poll despite him probably being the musician i've listened to most in my life cuz daunting catalogue and irl business).

Regrettable is the best parody Madonna album title possible.

Also, Madonna covering Vic Chesnutt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i852nyVxTtU

Can't decided if I'm more excited for the results, or to see the individual ballots.

*decide