Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

I can't remember what I do, but imo if you can only vote for a few tracks you should sacrifice your top five or so slots.

Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and get the Elton John voting thread ready in the next little bit. If anyone has an objection, speak now etc etc.

For when you're choosing your countdown colours:

garish
gaudy

That didn't work out so well.

Thinking about images of bulldogs that resemble Elton for the results graphics.

>:(

Just kidding.

you're on notice

I DON'T WANT TO POLL ON WITH YOU LIKE THAT: The Elton John ballot poll voting thread!

Woohoo!

~I can see that argument. What bothers me is in ordered voting, if you only vote for 5 you get to assign huge amounts of points to just a few songs.
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You get to assign the same no of points to yr top five as everyone else. To propose anything else is to promote false votes for an insincere bottom 40 or w/e imo

dmac, do you want to sign on to poll Oasis, or have you not finished shaking your head yet?

Has anyone successfully used ffm's pivot table with Excel Starter? It doesn't seem to have pivot table functionality on the surface, but perhaps I'm missing something.

Aw crumbs. Microsoft faq tell me no.

I have excel starter, so I had to be really careful cutting and pasting stuff.

lol i'll sign on i guess, but i refuse to acknowledge ilm in any way besides except by scorning it if you don't mind. poll obv ties in with that.

minimum 50 picks btw

I think I've figured out just enough about pivot tables to make a huge mess and do nothing productive. Haven't lost any data yet, thank fuck.

I just agreed on a Cocteau thread to pick up the abandoned poll. You can add me to the list!

Is Stereoab taken yet?

My main criterion for volunteering as poll runner is a conceptual idea for the graphics, thought y'all should know.

Yeah, Moka has that one at 83 or so.

Oh right!

leee could do bardo pond

And by the time it rolled around, it might get 10 people voting in it!

Want to do graphics for the Spacemen 3, etc. poll?

(I'm currently spending more time on Floyd poll graphics than I am on looking for more work)

:D :D :D

Elvis, are you asking me? I'm strictly an amateur!

graphics? spreadsheets? what?

You can't back out now; what's you've signed up, you've signed up for life.

I'm sorry guys, I've been mostly away from the internet for the last month or so. I'm still gonna run the disco poll, but if Seandalai is gonna run the Stax poll first, that's cool.

I've been compiling a list of disco classics people can vote from, besides everyone's personal nominations, and doing that was slower than I thought, so I didn't get to finish it before my summer vacation. So I'll finish the list that and start the disco poll after the Stax poll is over, if that's okay with everyone? Has the Stax poll started already?

Stax should start sometime soon iirc. I'm not sure what transpired (busy people, me speaking up?) that led to the Elton John poll being bumped up to now from #78, but that will be completed by the end of next week.

eh yeah Stax will happen very soon but I have two job interviews this week so things are getting in the way

(busy people, me speaking up?)

Both of those, plus maybe I'm doing too much reading between the lines but sometimes I get a whiff of "wait a minute, running a poll is going to actually involve me doing some work, isn't it?"

That reminds me, you haven't posted the list for a while

Just kidding, but I do think there's a benefit to seeing & anticipating what's coming up. It felt a bit like JF was volunteering onto a blank slate there.

Yeah, let me gather the updates and new additions and will post in a few minutes.

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. The Clash - Gukbe (finished)
39. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy (finished)
40. Jay-Z - some dude (finished)
41. Elton John - Johnny Fever (VOTING NOW OPEN)
42. Stax - seandalai (coming soon)
43. Disco - Tuomas
44. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope
45. Tom Waits - chap
46. The “Classic Rock” Canon - some dude (tentative)
47. Elvis Costello - kornrulez
48. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry - charlie h
49. Pink Floyd - Elvis Telecom
50. Steely Dan - Bee OK
51. Bob Dylan - tipsy mothra
52. Sleater-Kinney + offshoots - C.Grisso/McCain
53. Outkast - The Reverend
54. Autechre - Leee
55. Brian Eno - WmC
56. Chic Organization - Donna Rouge
57. Spaceman 3 (& descendants) - Elvis Telecom
58. Radiohead - nate woolls
59. Yo La Tengo/Dump - clemenza
60. P-Funk - Shakey Mo Collier
61. Iggy Pop, incl. Stooges - flopson
62. Boo Radleys - Bee OK
63. XTC - Shakey Mo Collier
64. Italo - daavid
65. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy
66. Creedence Clearwater Revival - crüt
67. “Epics” (non-classical division) - Leee
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
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
89. Dead C - Raymond Cummings
90. Royal Trux + side projects - Drugs A. Money
91. John Fahey - Naive Teen Idol?
92. Rush - Matt #2
93. Velvet Underground + solo careers - Shakey Mo Collier
94. Oasis - darraghmac

Fiddled with the ordering and numbering to try to get things more or less back into chronological order.

hey William, LeRoLe Roo has agreed to do the Cocteau Twins poll that was cancelled.

I just agreed on a Cocteau thread to pick up the abandoned poll. You can add me to the list!

― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 12:38 AM (5 days ago)

Oh yeah, will add that back at #95 next time.

Lol mea culpa wmc, mea culpa. I promise to do my poll regardless of shoddiness of result, ok? Dont get twitchy on me every time i moan.

I am actually thinking abt withdrawing the RTX one and just button polling all their albums in the next few months. But if someone else wanted to still run it, then obv I'd refrain

Just wanted to say that the Elton John thread has been great, and that if anyone's intimidated/on the fence, it has been rife with recommendations for deep cuts/albums to help you navigate past the hits.

yeah, has really been a great thread, i hope more people feel free to dip in and throw together a ballot this weekend

Naive Teen Idol, were you volunteering a Byrds poll upthread, couple of times?

I have major anxiety about running a poll thread. I feel like I barely have time to participate in poll threads much less maintain one. For all of the same reasons -- family/kids/work.

That said, I recognize that I've been the main voice advocating for Byrds and Fahey polls. I kind of feel like ILM has to poll these guys at some point. They just have such huge catalogues and influence I have to imagine they would make fascinating polls.

So, with that said, I'm still anxious about committing to them, but would consider it if absolutely no one else volunteers.

I'd definitely vote in a Byrds poll (not Fahey, tho...sorry).

Sightings poll is done. I may do a Sightings tracks poll though, if that's cool.

isn't that what you signed up to do?