ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

big ups to my mans Morton Feldman

with BT in 3rd place

oh wait nm no classical

jfc just let everyone vote for whatever they want and see what happens. that will make for the most interesting set of results anyway.

does terry riley count as 'classical'?

of course

if its just a poll on unusually long tracks then perhaps it should be 20+ mins

Is there a top limit? (asked The Flaming Lips...)

the minimum & maximum is 4:20

Uh, do live versions count?

the higher the maximum the more chance jam bands will be the dominant rock form! Phish and Grateful Dead are finally taking over ilx!

You bastards, I'm just going to poll 4'33" now.

first ten to fifteen seconds >>> middle four minutes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> last ten to fifteen seconds

you guys aren't still discussing epics poll, are you

discussion of epics poll must be limited to 15 minutes

the length of an epic should be polled first

FYI, the Italo poll is officially done.

So, this is kinda gay but has ILM ever done a divas poll?

which poster is the biggest diva on ilm poll? Can just imagine the fun on that nomination thread.

lex

Hey guys I'm sorry but I won't be able to run the Extreme Metal poll, school is just to intense right now. Maybe lex wants to run it? ;)

Of course, pfunkboy and scik mouthy are free to take my spot and do their all-time poll if they want! If that works with everyone...

Who decides what metal is "Extreme"? Does Ozzy count? How about Slayer? We are going to need to discuss this at length.

we need to poll whether we should discuss that at length

Epic Extreme Metal

THIS IS NOT AN EPICS POLL: The 10+ minute long nominations thread, ILM Ballot Poll #58

Somewhere in our hearts, results won't be the same (Spacemen 3 & etc. ballot results - ILM poll #57)

THIS IS NOT AN EPICS POLL -- classical nomination supplemental thread (ILM Ballot Poll #58)
^^ Accepting classical ("classical") nominations now.

so you guys had a whole thread to argue about what was being polled and that turned out so badly you had to make a second one?

It was fine mostly, I just want to get rid of one sticking point and don't have mod privileges to change the top most and this was the most visible way to let people know.

The no classical rule was there mostly because I didn't want to listen or deal with Xenakis. Sigh.

Have we ever had a ballot with more than 20 entries? How are the points distributed for, say, a 50-item ballot?

it's not complicated you just adjust the points scale (no. 1 gets 50 points, no. 50 gets 1 point, etc.)

this is why you lay out how you're going to assign points at the outset, and how long a ballot you will accept

here's a dropbox link to the spreadsheet template I use.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wtyvbozifqfrtvn/ballot%20poll.xlsx?dl=0

SORRY, DAD.

To answer your first question - yes we have, though not often. Justified in this case IMO. Epics poll => epic length ballots. I'd also welcome a stupidly epic points assignment, e.g. 999 points for your #1, 500 for #2, 250, 200, 150, 145, 140 etc. (or something)

SORRY, DAD.

yr welcome. now go to your room

I used a floating Pazz & Jop-type point system for Neil Young--how many points you had to work with depended upon how large your ballot was--with ballots of up to 50 songs. It was quite needlessly complicated.

It was my Blur poll that resulted in this never-ending list being drawn up a few years ago. That poll had 22 spots on the ballot and some of the subsequent ones did too, but it's been tidied up to 20 in most of them.

More than a month later and the "epics" poll hasn't even started and the s3 results rollout is proceeding at the rate of one a day. Lol @ this being preceded by the discussion about keeping things moving along at the rate of one poll every couple of weeks.

Right? The plot is entirely lost.

The no classical rule was there mostly because I didn't want to listen or deal with Xenakis. Sigh.

― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Thursday, 5 March 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The truth comes out ;-)

someone could just start the next poll then!

bring on CCR

the next poll on the list is actually Yo La Tengo/Dump (Clemenza). I would happily tell him to get started if I didn't think people would complain about too many polls going on at once. The "epics" thing has turned into a clusterfuck (just as I predicted) and yet people seem to be enjoying arguing about it and it's not like I can shut it down (much as I would like to), nor can I make Elvis Telecom roll out his results any faster. But at this rate things are gonna be bogged down for awhile.

Oh yes! (xp)

eh I say let's start another. ILM seems very low on chat lately; polls at least present a reason to talk. and I'm not into the current polls for one reason or another

also dunno where Leee's getting his poll numbering from - the epics poll is no. 64 (Spacemen 3 is no. 63).

current list:
63. Spacemen 3 and related acts - Elvis Telecom (link: Everybody I know can be POLLED here: The Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, and descendants poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #57))
64. “Epics” - Leee (link: THIS IS NOT AN EPICS POLL: The 10+ minute long nominations thread, ILM Ballot Poll #58)
65. Yo La Tengo/Dump - Clemenza
66. The Boo Radleys - Bee OK
67. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy
68. Creedence Clearwater Revival - crüt
69. Hard Rock/Hair Metal - how’s life
70. Extreme Metal - Viceroy
71. Stephin Merritt - Gukbe
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. Can - Z S
78. Tom Petty - rogermexico
79. Ramones - tipsy mothra (finished)
80. Jimi Hendrix - some dude
81. Stereolab - Moka
82. Bauhaus/Tones on Tail-Love and Rockets/Peter Murphy - Bee OK
83. Genesis + solo - NickB
84. The Smiths - nate woolls
85. Pearl Jam - VegemiteGrrl
86. The Burt Bacharach songbook - C. Grisso/McCain
87. Dead C - Raymond Cummings
88. Royal Trux + side projects - sleeve
89. John Fahey - Naive Teen Idol?
90. Rush - Matt #2
91. Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one
92. George Michael - Ismael Klata
93. Talking Heads - Bee OK
94. Gamble & Huff/Philly International Records - jetfan
95. Van Halen - Johnny Fever
96. Billy Joel - Doctor Casino
97. Low - aldo
98. Nine Inch Nails - chap
99. REM - rogermexico.
100. Bjork - Eric H.
101. Wu-Tang Clan - Spottie
102. Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Post-rock (Albums and EPs) - Bee OK
103. Covers - kornrulez6969
104. New Pornographers/AC Newman - staggerlee
105. They Might Be Giants - Johnny Fever
106. No Wave - sarahell
107. DFA - Van Horn Street
108. Misfits/Samhain/Danzig - gr8080
109. Beatles solo careers - Οὖτις
110. Erykah Badu - Eric H.
111. Nick Cave/Bad Seeds/Birthday Party/et al - charlie h
112. Herbie Hancock - crüt
113. Aphex Twin - Stevie D
114. Blondie - Bee OK
115. Electroclash - soref
116. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - Spottie
117. Siouxsie & the Banshees/The Creatures - LeRooLeRoo
118. AM Radio Gold - Jeff W
119. Eurovision - nxd
120. Steve Albini - nate woolls
121. Yellow Magic Orchestra - frogbs
122. Elvis Presley - Euler
123. Byrds + offshoots - kornrulez6969
124. Cardiacs + affiliated - imago
125. Tropicalia/MPB - Frederik B
126. Chic Organization -
127. Stooges/Iggy Pop -

The "epics" thing has turned into a clusterfuck

Not even close.

I have no problem with the next poll going, as I'm going to give an extended amount of time for people to figure out their ballots.