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

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I don't really get why putting the poll number in the thread title is important, given how arbitrary they are and how things move around.

anyway, updated list (I bumped YLT to come after the Boo Radleys and Emo/Screamo polls, hopefully those will take about a month):
63. Spacemen 3 and related acts - Elvis Telecom (link: Somewhere in our hearts, results won't be the same (Spacemen 3 & etc. ballot results - ILM poll #57))
64. “Epics” - Leee (link: STILL NOT AN EPICS POLL - VOTING THREAD, ENDS MARCH 28)
65. The Boo Radleys - Bee OK
66. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy
67. Yo La Tengo/Dump - Clemenza
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. Jimi Hendrix - some dude
80. Stereolab - Moka
81. Bauhaus/Tones on Tail-Love and Rockets/Peter Murphy - Bee OK
82. Genesis + solo - NickB
83. The Smiths - nate woolls
84. Pearl Jam - VegemiteGrrl
85. The Burt Bacharach songbook - C. Grisso/McCain
86. Dead C - Raymond Cummings
87. Royal Trux + side projects - sleeve
88. John Fahey - Naive Teen Idol?
89. Rush - Matt #2
90. Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one
91. George Michael - Ismael Klata
92. Talking Heads - Bee OK
93. Gamble & Huff/Philly International Records - jetfan
94. Van Halen - Johnny Fever
95. Billy Joel - Doctor Casino
96. Low - aldo
97. Nine Inch Nails - chap
98. REM - rogermexico.
99. Bjork - Eric H.
100. Wu-Tang Clan - Spottie
101. Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Post-rock (Albums and EPs) - Bee OK
102. Covers - kornrulez6969
103. New Pornographers/AC Newman - staggerlee
104. They Might Be Giants - Johnny Fever
105. No Wave - sarahell
106. DFA - Van Horn Street
107. Misfits/Samhain/Danzig - gr8080
108. Beatles solo careers - Οὖτις
109. Erykah Badu - Eric H.
110. Nick Cave/Bad Seeds/Birthday Party/et al - charlie h
111. Herbie Hancock - crüt
112. Aphex Twin - Stevie D
113. Blondie - Bee OK
114. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - Spottie
115. Siouxsie & the Banshees/The Creatures - LeRooLeRoo
116. AM Radio Gold - Jeff W
117. Eurovision - nxd
118. Steve Albini - nate woolls
119. Yellow Magic Orchestra - frogbs
120. Elvis Presley - Euler
121. Byrds + offshoots - kornrulez6969
122. Cardiacs + affiliated - imago
123. Tropicalia/MPB - Frederik B
124. Chic Organization -
125. Stooges/Iggy Pop -

boo radleys poll on it's way! whoop!

its

Wonder how many tracks Aphex will have in the public domain by the time his poll comes around?

Because I can't draw out a poll long enough, I'm volunteering to do another one. This time for The Church...

so S3 is done, is this Boo Radleys one gonna happen now or what

I'm going to have to bow out of the Hair Metal poll (again). I'm cutting down my ilx usage for the near future, mainly by not posting/reading from work, and really won't have the time to run a poll/do the roll-out. Sorry y'all.

Booo that was one I was actually looking forward to

I'll remove it unless someone else is gonna offer to run it

when does it look like it might be up?

making those kinds of predictions is a fool's game

My Fool's guess is...sometime this summer?

just in time:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/iconic-decline-of-western-civilization-films-finally-get-official-release-20150324

FINALLY

Great news

i'm opening the Boo Radleys poll when the voting for Epics is done, so later on this week. so yes good news Euler, it is coming.

ok pencil me in for hair metal

rawk

ok gr8080 I put you down for the hair metal

i'm on holiday till next wednesday - will there be time to vote in the boos poll?

i'm on holiday till next wednesday - will there be time to vote in the boos poll?

you'll be fine.

so we should probably do the national huh

Hey I'm King of The World, You Oughta Hear My Song, Come On & Measure Me, THESE ARE AT LEAST 10 MINUTES LONG - RESULTS ILM BALLOT POLL #58

Twenty-five, don't recall a time I felt this alive, so Wake Up Poll, there's so many things for us to do - The Boo Radleys (ILM artist poll #60) --- Voting open until Friday April 17, 2015

sorry if the voting was open for a little while, i had to have it open for an extra week because of work. i also asked for a lot in the Boo Radleys poll with four categories.

Just a simple song but God I love it Embedded in me, so bittersweet I’m addicted, I’m a melancholic Sing it again, I’ll be your Poll forever: THE BOO RADLEYS - ILM artist poll #60 or new numbering #65

So, what's next?

If mookieproof and van horn street are ready to look after the threads (I'll do the images), I'm okay for Yo La Tengo...although #66(6) is ahead of us.

yes 66. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy is next

although idk if Mordy is aware of this

Hey plz remove me from the queue- I don't have time to run a poll atm and when I do I think I'll run something outernationally not mallcore.

Mookieproof? VHS?

Very excited about the prospect of a Yo La Tengo poll.

ok - YLT is next then unless someone says otherwise. Removing mordy's screamo/mallcore poll from the list.

looking foward to ylt. they used to be my fave band.

so can we get YLT going or what...

I'll e-mail those guys. If they're busy, I'll just open up a voting thread; hopefully they'll be ready to count down in a couple of weeks.

cool sounds good

Excited for CCR. . .

I can start the YLT poll on monday :)

Very cool!

Suggested thread title: Tell Yo La Tengo to Fuck Off.

sorry, v. busy at work and without internet at home atm but can maybe help?

i will refuse to accept a #1 that isn't i heard you looking or blue line swinger tho

i'll ready the thread later tonight

Tell Yo La Tengo to Fuck Off - (ILM artist poll #61). Voting open until Monday May 18, 2015

damn, i was really looking forward to emo/screamo/mallcore -- can someone else take it up? brad? dayo?

Back when these artist polls were cranking up (4+ years ago, christ), it never occurred to me that voters would want long voting periods to study a discography. My own method is/was to take a day at most to refamiliarize myself with the work and do a quick 'n dirty ballot based on my opinion at the time, not to discover new opinions. I've tried the intensive study method for a few polls, and only enjoyed the experience once (Bowie). In his case, I came away with a much deeper appreciation for the artist and discovered a ton of great music. For Beach Boys, Motown, etc., it was too much like work.

One of the reasons I bailed on keeping up the list (thanks again, Shakey) is because I hate how long these things are taking now. Are we even managing one a month now?

no

we're in a stretch of pretty niche acts for ILM with appeal to niche groups of posters who are probably not super active on ILM and so things get dragged out.

Speeding things up wouldn't hurt. But in defense of long time periods, by far the 2 most revelatory polls for me--The Kinks and P-Funk-- benefitted from long voting periods where I was able to fully grasp both acts genius for the first time. I'm not sure that would be the case with a more truncated approach.

We could just make sure to launch a new one every 2 weeks, regardless of voting deadlines. There would be multiple polls going at the same time, but at least it would move faster.

well Creedence is next if Crut wants to get started - they have a relatively small discography and a wide fanbase, no reason that couldn't go quickly.