Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Looking forward to the massive definition arguments the extreme metal poll will generate.

Can't wait to vote for Vitalic in that poll.

Think Enter Sandman will be my top vote.

More Than Words ftw

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if you can whistle the chorus, it's not Extreme Metal

Stax voting is going to finish for reals on Sunday - I've been away but will sort everything out over the weekend. I should get a mod to change the title.

if you can whistle the chorus, it's not Extreme Metal

― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague)

Dunno, a couple of Enslaved choruses are pretty whilstelable.

What's he POLLing in there? The Tom Waits ballot poll

would be great if as part of the updated list of polls there were links to all the old results threads... come on, some lovely person do that.

Stax results this evening...probably.

Woo-hoo!

would be great if as part of the updated list of polls there were links to all the old results threads... come on, some lovely person do that

There's a dedicated thread for this (hasn't been updated since March though*):

ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads

*I may do this tomorrow if someone else doesn't step in first

POLLSVILLE USA: The Stax Records Ballot Poll Results Thread

I posted that on ILE by mistake (again). Please use this one instead:

POLLSVILLE, U.S.A.: The Stax Records Ballot Poll Results Thread

Stax poll is all wrapped up (results here).

disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco DISCO!

otm

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yeah i can't wait

that animated gif is too much

Where is Tuomas?

Bee OK, you can put me up for Nine Inch Nails if you're still accepting offers (yeah I know I'm in the middle of doing one, but it won't come around for at least a year).

no problem, will update when a new results thread opens.

so Spottie_Ottie_Dope what are your thought on opening R. Kelly? do you have time to run that poll next?

also Tuomas i think you can start Disco whenever ready as well.

Way down in a POLL: ILM's top 50 Tom Waits tracks

Disco for god's sake, DISCO!

someone blow the disco whistle

TUOMAS GIVE ME DISCO!

Yeah, I'll try and give Kellz a go here this week. Not sure it will garner enough interest but we'll see.

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can i throw a nom in here for REM? i know we tried that poll of polls back in the day but the current thread revive makes me think a proper poll would be The Right Thing To Do. happy to run it.

Oh sorry, for some reason I thought the Stax poll wasn't finished yet... Did I miss the results thread altogether? I'll start the disco poll this week.

please hold the discopoll till February so I can play

Sorry, it's already been delayed a lot, and people seem to want it now. What stops you from participating?

the REM poll that already happened was about as 'proper' as most of the ones since this thread was started, or at least got as many voters and was as thoroughly organized.

Wasn't the REM poll based on a shortlist of possible songs? Something seemed different about it and the results were strange.

Yeah I just checked and you could only vote from a list of 48 songs selected based on album polls.

Was it called "It's the end of this poll as we know it" ?

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Tuomas - not rly serious, though I was hopeful about delays. Backpacking around Europe is less conducive to campaigning for recommendations / listening to all unfamiliar nominations than being at work.

I've said since the end of that REM poll that the experiment of the shortlist was a failure for reasons that should have been obvious to me at the time. Kinda cool results but not really ILM's favorite tracks. I always wanted to do it over as a standard ballot poll after five years or something, but it'd also be fair to pass the torch since I already had my shot and bungled it so thoroughly!

some dude, the consideration set was weird and the 30-track rollout proceeded in fits and starts over the course of ten months (November 2009-September 2010). interesting and fun but not nearly comparable to today's state of the art.

doctor casino, no offense intended by raising the question. the poll of polls was a fun experiment. fwiw by the time we get to it would be about 5 years!

Yeah, it was by no means "proper!"

I do stand by the slow rollout. Ten months was, uh, a little long - - - but the standard pace around here flies by so fast, you can miss a really lively discussion about your favorite song just because you had to, like, go to work.

The "poll of polls" was just a bad idea through and through. I should have just finished all the album polls and then encouraged people to review those threads in making ballots - - - the nice thing about doing all those album polls is that it got all the songs back in people's heads, drew attention to oft-overlooked tracks ("Circus Envy" for example).

I think some version of that could almost work if the radio-button polls let you vote for 3-5 picks instead of 1. Way too many beloved songs that are just people's second-choice got lost in the shuffle. But really, there's no need to do nominations or a limited list for a single artist poll.

imo it was a great idea. some things you can't know until you test them.

aw, well thanks man. I do like the totally wacky results, especially the really unlikely consensus #1. I still think it makes a really great double-disc intro to the band...

(What really needs a re-do at the appropriate time is the Video Games poll, where you could only nominate one game per decade. Bizarre!)

STRONGEST EMOTION, THE DISCO EXPLOSION: It's the Grand ILM Disco Poll nomination thread (nomination time ends on Friday, November 1st)

Excellent thread title.