Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

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.

i'm guessing when it came time to actually make my ballot that it might end up being all 70s stuff but there's definitely some post-76 stuff in the running.

Would definitely throw a few votes to the bigger 80s/90s Elton songs. Thanks to emilys I have had "If love was just a circus YOU'D BE A CLOWN BY NOW" stuck in my head for the past six months. Also: Elton John, "Circle of Life" - Classic Or Dud?

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

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 6:07 PM (39 minutes ago)

Consider yourself added -- it'll show up on the next full list. Christmas 2014 might be optimistic!

The folder named "images for PF poll" has over 400 pics in it. Going somewhat overboard on this...

i feel confident that your poll will RULE

If I may break up this sausagefest, can we get a poke of the aptly named Nasty, Brutish & Short for the PJ poll?

To Bring You My POLL

Hi, I've been ill and away from computers for a bit - is it time to set up a voting thread?

I say go for it, because The Fall voting deadline was extended for a crazy long time and I don't care about it and I want to care about PJ Harvey!

The Fall deadline was amended to April 14, so it's not as crazy long as it was.

That's still crazy long. 10 days from now. Most voting spans are 10 days in total.

I'll sort something out, but make the deadline after the Fall deadline.

dunno why the voting deadlines would need to be uniformly short tbh

Because a billion polls are waiting.

NB&S, you should definitely start your thread when it feels right, but I get irritated when one of these polls takes an extraordinarily long amount of time and gums up the works.

i could see having concurrent polls if one is an artist w/ a huge, daunting discog - miles, dylan, the fall - and the other is an artist w/ more digestible discog eg pj harvey. i can see why someone would need weeks to put together a ballot for the former (or months even really) vs being able to throw something together in a couple of days for the latter. i think as long as the rollouts don't happen at the same time and threaten to overshadow each other it should work out fine.

the whole endeavor of people coordinating their polls here is pretty cool and i think in a weird way one of the more successful attempts at treating ILM as an actual community, and i get that it can be a little annoying when the trains don't run on time, but i don't really see the bum's rush as necessary. most of us have been here for 5-10 years, probably will be here for a while, i'm looking forward to running and/or participating in a lot of the planned polls but it honestly makes zero difference to me if we do any one of them next week or next year or in 2018.

some dude otm

speak for yourself, I ain't waiting til no 2018 for my goddamn pink floyd poll

:D

haha

some dude otm

pink floyd blue balls

JF, balls, some dude all otm to varying extents (/politician). Esp balls regarding the particular cases of concurrent Fall/PJH polls.

was there ever going to be a 'musical/music films poll' or did i dream that?

the current 'Top 100 music movies of all time' cover feature in MOJO has me kinda psyched.

That'd be a good one, shift it across to ILE, some of the film crew are looking for a poll to take part in.

That would def be preferable to top romances.

Tho obv Spinal Tap wins over, say, The Band Wagon.

yeah I like that idea

The clusterfuck and screaming at the thought of musicals with storylines being polled together with concert films is appealing.

I think the two things fit together fairly naturally, but I'm not a film crew'er.

yeah potential for shitfits is amazing

It's possible I'm just imagining Morbs' "I'm not voting in this bullshit" response.

he's a fan of certain musicals iirc

Would this be limited to concerts and musicals, or would music-based documentaries also be eligible?

1776 4 lyfe

man if you poll concert films and rock docs w/ actual musicals i will totally loudly be in the morbs camp. the thought of spinal tap winning that thing is reason enough to scuttle the idea imo.

Spinal Tap is a bad example. That movie is as consciously crafted as Singin in the Rain.

I say, throw 'em all together, but maybe with the one restriction that the film should have had a theatrical run (e.g., no home-video-only concerts/docs).

yeah i'd buy it as 'a musical' more than rattle and hum (or even purple rain) but still gimme a break. setting a rule of 'narrative based' and 'music composed specifically for this narrative whether originating on stage or screen' would eliminate some dude managing to get that cameron crowe pearl jam doc in the top ten but would also eliminate singin in the rain and all that jazz among many others.

How about 'dramatic narrative with music' as a definition. I for one would definitely want to be voting for Spinal Tap and Ladies & Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains as well as more traditional musicals. It wouldn't be as much fun without a certain amount of mixture, but I'm not down with documentaries being in there too.