Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Wait. Research? What research? Don't you just announce the poll thread and let the votes come in?

No, really. I thought the onus to do the research was on the voters, not on the poll-runner. The poll-runner just needs to commit to tabulation and to a few days of near-constant posting for a few hours each day at results time.

However much or little you know about the artist is definitely a minor variable. Or maybe it just feels that way. I've been super psyched to run the polls I've run (Pavement, GBV, Beasties, Madonna) because I was already crazy into them in the first place. If it had fallen on me to run the Neptunes poll, for example, it wouldn't have been as much fun since, though I like their productions alright, I haven't devoted large parts of my life to listening to them over and over.

Yeah, running one of these is generally a case of "my enthusiasms...let me show you it." Running one as a way to learn about an artist is a novel idea, though, and I wouldn't discourage it.

Indeed, I once ran an insane series of tournament-style polls on a theater board to learn about 1990's Broadway musicals. It was an awesome learning experience - you pay much more attention to the posts if you're nominally in charge of the whole endeavor. So yeah, that's my poll-running background.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

uhh okay I'm going to throw my hat into the ring finally -- I would like to put my name down to run a Pearl Jam poll in the year 2018

ie please add my name to the end of the list

hooray!

"Jeremy POLLED in class today..."

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/some dude (finished)
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 (finished)
34. PJ Harvey - Nasty, Brutish & Short (finished)
35. Cocteau Twins - Le Bateau Ivre (cancelled)
36. Sonic Youth - ArchCarrier (finished)
37. New Order - Bee OK (finished)
37B. The Doors - Ismael Klata (finished)
38. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy (RESULTS SHORTLY)
39. Stax - seandalai
40. Disco - Tuomas
41. Jay-Z - some dude (VOTING IS OPEN)
42. The Clash - Gukbe (finished)
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. Hard Rock/Hair Metal - how’s life
68. Extreme Metal - Viceroy
69. Stephin Merritt - Gukbe
70. Pixies - Johnny Fever
71. Metallica - Pleasant Plains
72. Spoon - Bee OK
73. Nirvana - Gavin, Leeds
74. Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods
75. Queen - charlie h
76. Dinosaur Jr. - Z S
77. Tom Petty - rogermexico
78. Elton John - Johnny Fever
79. Ramones - tipsy mothra (tentative)
80. Jimi Hendrix - WmC
81. Sightings - Raymond Cummings
82. John Coltrane - Tarfumes the Escape Goat
83. Stereolab - Moka
84. Bauhaus/Love and Rockets-Tones on Tail/Peter Murphy - Bee OK
85. Genesis + solo - NickB
86. The Smiths - nate woolls
87. Pearl Jam - VegemiteGrrl
88. The Burt Bacharach songbook - WilliamC

I need to get my Sightings poll off soon

Jay-Z deadline is this weekend, no more major postponements on that, although i won't rollout results until the Motown poll has run its course and will probably keep accepting 'late' ballots til then.

Am I gonna get enough interest in R Kellz?

...and also two years to learn basic things like "how to embed an image into a post" and "how to use Photoshop."

― Emerson, Hendricks, and Nash (SlimAndSlam), Friday, July 19, 2013 2:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol I was thinking this and then I was all "oh shit I gotta roll this out in two days"

Spottie, I wonder about that too. Rap, hip-hop and R&B just don't seem to be drawing many voters for whatever reason. But as far as single artist polls go, that one's up next, so feel free to crank it up whenever you're ready.

I dunno if it would be better to start that one after the Jay-Z results start rolling or not.

I'm headed on vacation for a bit so I can swap with Tom Waits.

Burt is going to be dead by the time we get to him, isn't he

"Jeremy POLLED in class today..."

― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like POLLate I have a dog
I POLLed the covers overhead, should have POLLed the alarm
Got a bomb in my temPOLL and it's gonna explode
Glorified version of a POLLet gun
I got memories, I got shit, so much it don't POLLLLLLL

for the die hards, y'understand

Eats meat, release, POLL drivin's harder on your head than on your feet

If I knew where it was, I would POLL you there

And the barrel shakes, aimed directly at my POLL, oh help me, help me from myself

Oh please let it POLL today

Up on the window, little red mosquiPOLL

i feel I have the necessary qualifications to run this poll :D

hahaha i almost did "little red POLLsquito"

i'll never suck satan's POLL

One two three four five against POLL

Okay, which of these do you think would generate the most interest:

Hank Williams
Frank Zappa
The Jam/The Style Council/Paul Weller
the Cole Porter songbook
songs from Disney movies/cartoons/TV shows/other properties
VU/Lou Reed/John Cale

I guess I should have run that post as a separate poll thread, but that would have destroyed the whole purpose of *this* thread...

Velvets are being done i think, I'd enjoy Cole Porter the most, Disney etc is the best idea, Weller will attract the most interest.

Do what you feel though. And don't fret about acquiring expertise, you're just there as ringmaster (though you'll probably enjoy it more if its something you like). Fwiw I took on U2 because I wanted to get into U2.

iatee was on the queue for a while to do a poll of ONLY solo careers of velvets members, but he decided not to do it and withdrew. so doing a proper VU poll (or VU + solo careers, which i think would be best) is still up for grabs.

knowing ilm, i think the interest would flow like VU > Jam > Disney > Zappa > Porter > Williams, roughly. all seem worth doing, though.

man alive, it's going to be a long time before we get to the Ramones. : (

It's okay. They aren't waiting for us or anything.

Burt is going to be dead by the time we get to him, isn't he

i am looking fwd to tom waits

I'd like to do a Dead C poll.

I'd enjoy that, they're a band I'd love to know more about.

Will add you at 89 to the next full list, Raymond.

...I got two years to back out, right? Go ahead and put me down for a Royal Trux + side-projects poll

The Miles Davis poll has me inspired. Anybody up for doing John Fahey?

I'd vote in it.

Lookin' fwd to the Fairport/related poll but we're talking seriously daunting catalogue breadth here....

28 Fairport studio albums
18 Richard Thompson solo albums, and 6 more with Linda (including soundtracks, but not live sets}
12 Sandy Denny albums, 5 solo, 7 with various side projects like Fotheringay
if Iain Matthews is included, get ready for 30 more....
misc non-album singles and guest appearances
good times

...and then if you think about the stuff that Ashley Hutchings has been an integral part of you have Steeleye Span and the Albion Band, and Dave Swarbrick made a bunch of albums with Martin Carthy, and Dave Mattacks played drums on Bryter Later and a whole bunch of other stuff and ... well, it's not my poll but I reckon you might as well say fuck it and just do a UK folk rock genre poll instead.

Dave Mattacks also played with the Chills and Kajagoogoo. Who knew?

stoked for fairport poll on it's own but an electric eden type brit folk rock poll would be fantastic and also a way to bump that poll up the calendar winkwink

are you joking? i would die!

I think an artist poll should start. Spottie or Chap...?

Hmm, would there be any interest in a Rush poll?

YES

Fahey artist poll momentum building on the "Why Is John Fahey So Boring" thread...

Go for it! You'll have a couple of years to change your mind.

43. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope
44. Tom Waits - chap

With Motown done and Jay-Z results about to roll out, time to get one of these rolling, yeah?

Yeah start up Tom Waits, I'm gonna wait one or two slots while Jay Z goes and such.

Bummed about abandoned vu solo poll :(