Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

It's so much fun to dive into the discography of an unfamiliar artist! So far, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen have been the biggest eyeopeners for me (and I didn't even vote in the Bruce poll!) Just try it out some day, for example with the Sonic Youth poll - or are you a fan already? :)

leee adores Sonic Youth :)

ILM's Now For Something Completely Different... 70s Album Poll Results! Top 100 Countdown! (Part 2) finishes today.
Just started the Top 20.

AG keeps a spreadsheet too, apparently. (PS he's being sarcastic.)

ArchCarrier, I'll switch 36/37 next time I post the list.

It seemed like a good and lolworthy idea at the time, but I think I'm going to bow out of the Ween poll. If anybody wants to run it and keep it in the lineup at that spot, you can claim it, or I can condense the list by one.

1. Pet Shop Boys - Billy Dods (finished)
2. Beatles - Mark G (finished)
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP (finished)
4. U2 - Ismael Klata (finished)
5. Beach Boys - iatee (finished)
6. Led Zeppelin - WmC (finished)
7. Timbaland - some dude (finished)
8. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever (finished)
9. Stevie Wonder - Eric H. (finished)
10. “Producers” - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
11. Pulp - Finefinemusic (finished)
12. James Brown - strongo/Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
13. Jacksons - Jamie_ATP (finished)
14. David Bowie - WmC (finished)
15. Paul Simon - Lamp (finished)
16. Rolling Stones - rogermexico (finished)
17. The Kinks - C. Grisso/McCain (finished)
18. Depeche Mode - crüt (finished)
19. Beastie Boys - Johnny Fever (finished)
20. ABBA - donna rouge (finished)
20B. Bee Gees - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
21. Neil Young - clemenza (finished)
22. Fleetwood Mac - Clarke B. (finished)
23. The Cure - nate woolls (finished)
24. Kate Bush - Ismael Klata (finished)
25. The Who - Tarfumes the Escape Goat (finished)
26. Joni Mitchell - Mordy (finished)
27. The Neptunes - V79 (seriously, who the fuck knows)
28. Saint Etienne - Billy Dods (finished)
29. Hüsker Dü - Pleasant Plains (finished)
30. Bruce Springsteen - Jamie_ATP (finished)
31. Madonna - Johnny Fever (finished)
32. Miles Davis - WmC (finished)
33. The Fall - Mark G (VOTING IS OPEN NOW)
34. PJ Harvey - Nasty, Brutish & Short
35. Cocteau Twins - Le Bateau Ivre
36. Sonic Youth - ArchCarrier
37. New Order - Bee OK
38. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy
39. Stax - seandalai
40. Disco - Tuomas
41. Jay-Z - some dude
42. The Clash - Gukbe
43. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope
44. Tom Waits - chap
45. The “Classic Rock” Canon - some dude (tentative)
46. Elvis Costello - kornrulez
47. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry - charlie h
48. Pink Floyd - Elvis Telecom
49. Steely Dan - Bee OK
50. Bob Dylan - tipsy mothra
51. Sleater-Kinney + offshoots - C.Grisso/McCain
52. Outkast - The Reverend
53. Autechre - Leee
54. Brian Eno - WmC
55. Chic Organization - Donna Rouge
56. Spaceman 3 (& descendants) - Elvis Telecom
57. Radiohead - nate woolls
58. Yo La Tengo/Dump - clemenza
59. P-Funk - Shakey Mo Collier
60. Iggy Pop, incl. Stooges - flopson
61. Boo Radleys - Bee OK
62. XTC - Shakey Mo Collier
63. Italo - daavid
64. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy
65. Creedence Clearwater Revival - crüt
66. “Epics” (non-classical division) - Leee
67. The Doors - Ismael Klata
68. Hard Rock/Hair Metal - how’s life
69. Extreme Metal - Viceroy
70. Stephin Merritt - Gukbe
71. Pixies - Johnny Fever
72. Metallica - Pleasant Plains
73. Spoon - Bee OK
74. Nirvana - Gavin, Leeds
75. Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods
76. Queen - charlie h
77. Dinosaur Jr. - Z S
78. Tom Petty - rogermexico

omg pink floyd is getting closer! :D :D :D

I would like to float the idea of a Hendrix poll, but with not me running it because I haven't the faintest idea how.

It's pretty easy, but you do have to take an eight-week online course beforehand.

lol

have we seriously not done a hendrix poll yet? what the hell is wrong with ilm?

EXACTLY

Look I think we've got better things to poll than Jimi, like for example another Autechre poll.

trollololol :)

Jimi poll would definitely be fun but given the size of the catalog (and how much of it is posthumous stuff in a hundred different versions of varying quality) it's not as much of a no-brainer as a lot of others. might need some kind of unique format.

ya i agree

oh also a hoy hoy doesn't post anymore but someone should definitely still do motown singles

i just assumed hoy was taking a break as sometimes seems to, has he flat out stopt? that's a shame, good dude

oh idk, just hasn't posted in a few months

whoa. costello/roxyferry/floyd/dan/dylan run is going to be way too many hours on ilm for me.

I'm already doing my homework for the Motown one.

Yeah I really hope someone can pick it up if AHH can't run it.

Wait, there's a chance it might not happen? Not that I mind listening to all this stuff, of course, but it is A LOT of material.

Somebody will pick that one up if AHH can't do it, I'm sure.

In the direst of circumstances I could run a Stax vs Motown face-off.

Missing:
Billy Joel
Leonard Cohen

I floated a Billy Joel poll idea a while ago on some thread, couldn't tell if there'd be enough interest. The radio button poll of Greatest Hits I & II produced a great discussion tho.

Would vote in a Joel poll.

me too!

I could swear you guys just did a Billy Joel poll.

Oh nevermind, I was thinking of the Boss.

zing!

not a zing! they're both in my blind spots though.

like, boring old man music i couldn't pay attention to if you paid me.

The weird thing is I've always felt this way about Bruce but adore Joel. And I recognize that conventional wisdom would insist that that is completely backwards. But I grew up on Joel and no apologizing.

a radio-button poll might be a good indicator

if not, it'll just be a party of two poll again, Doc <3

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and VG's radio button poll got... 81 votes actually! hmmm.

a proud day

and a great thread! Say Goodbye To POLLywood - Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, THE POLL

billy joel and elton john are both missing. maybe that could/should be combined somehow.

That's piano racist!

I'd be tempted to conduct an Elton poll, but it's so far off into the future now that I'm not in a rush to claim it.

hey, it's not like i proposed a billy joel/warren zevon poll. that would be piano racist!

elton poll would be amazing imo and jf should def own it ;-)

WE NEED YOU JF

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Would def vote in an Elton poll, though my ballot sold contain nothing post '76 or so.

*would

would also vote in an elton poll

Put me down for Elton John at #79, then!

FEVER! FEVER! FEVER!

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Why has no one signed up for an Elton John poll?

― Johnny Fever, Friday, February 22, 2013 4:23 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why haven't you? ;)

― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, February 22, 2013 4:24 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xpost -- that is a little surprising! It would be like the Bowie poll for me -- can anything crack the great 70s run?

― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Friday, February 22, 2013 4:33 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Our long national nightmare (of 7 weeks) is over!

Wait, that's not even 7 weeks, is it? More like 5.

Of course, now it's not even going to happen until xmas 2014.