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

I'm a couple years away from my next poll but I will be happy to take one over.

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Spoon is coming...

All at the same time? Gross.

http://www.skysaxonseeds.com/images/uploads/seeds-full-spoon-seedy-blues.jpg

Will we ever get to the Dead C thread before ilm 'dies'?

Can we still adds poll to the (long) list? If yes, I'd like to propose a france/francophone music poll.

Would songs from the Singles soundtrack be counted?

― pplains, Thursday, 9 July 2015 23:01 (4 days ago) Permalink

heh

Can we still adds poll to the (long) list? If yes, I'd like to propose a france/francophone music poll.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, July 12, 2015 3:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is a great idea as well, a French language poll would be awesome. Also, I would fully support a Dancehall poll. I prefer genre polls to artist polls I guess.

I would definitely commit to doing a soundtracks poll, to be a little more focused is a good idea.

I'll stick francophone on the end of the list, check back in 3 years :)

So.... Spoon is next?

Viceroy hasn't posted in almost a year and a half.

he is frobisher for the last year and a half

getting Spoon together and will put it up tomorrow. a bit lost on the side-polls for this band, any suggestions for side-polls before it put this up?

albums obv

Album covers, maybe.

I'll stick francophone on the end of the list, check back in 3 years :)

― Οὖτις, Monday, July 13, 2015 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mille mercis!

Side poll for Spoon: "Aw, yeah" vs "c'mon" vs "well alright!"

Are there any Spoon side projects other than the Divine Fits?

i like the idea of a non-a-sides & non-album-tracks canon, although a strict compilation of noms might get tricky as album tracks in one country might not be in another, etc.

I think i have this history right, looking at this ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads and going over some recent polls.

A. Pavement - Johnny Fever (finished)
B. Manic Street Preachers - Jamie_ATP (finished)
C. Blur - Nasty, Brutish & Short (finished)
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/LeRooLeRoo (finished)
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 (finished)
42. Stax - seandalai (finished)
43. Disco - Tuomas (finished)
44. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope (finished)
45. Tom Waits - chap (finished)
45B. Velvet Underground and Solo Careers - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
46. The “Classic Rock” Canon - some dude (finished)
47. Elvis Costello - kornrulez (finished)
48. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry - charlie h (finished)
49. Pink Floyd - Elvis Telecom (finished)
50. Steely Dan - Bee OK (finished)
51. Bob Dylan - tipsy mothra (finished)
52. Sleater-Kinney + offshoots - C.Grisso/McCain (finished)
53. Outkast - Spottie (finished)
54. Autechre - Leee (finished)
55. Brian Eno - WmC (finished)
56. Radiohead - nate woolls (finished)
57. Spaceman 3 (& descendants) - Elvis Telecom (finished)
58. "Epics" - Leee (finished)
59. XTC - Οὖτις (finished)
60. The Boo Radleys - Bee OK (finished)
61. Yo La Tengo - Van Horn Street/clemenza (finished)
62. Creedence Clearwater Revival - crüt (finished)
63. Ramones - tipsy mothra (finished) *was originally 79 but fits here with the other no number polls
64. Italo - daavid (finished)
65. P-Funk - Οὖτις (finished)
66. Metallica - pplains (finished)

69. Pixies - Johnny Fever (finished)

Side poll for Spoon: "Aw, yeah" vs "c'mon" vs "well alright!"

Ha! I might cast a ballot if this is an actual side poll.

Right now I know no other time, Right now I know no other poll - SPOON (ILM artist poll #67) --- Voting open until Friday July 24, 2015

Poll Poll Poll Poll Poll - SPOON (ILM artist poll #67) --- The results thread

Who's up?

Gukbe w stephen merritt

someone needs to start a new Poll.

looking i see i'm doing Bauhaus/Love and Rockets next before the Big one for me, Talking Heads.

Just curious, is the ILM 2010-2014 Albums thread scheduled to happen this year?

I need to talk to seandalai and gr80 and see what we're gonna do. It's supposed to get underway this month.

Cool. I'm really looking forward to revisiting a lot of old favorites if this happens.

remember polls, they were fun.

can someone please step up and open up poll number 68? i would email people but i'm not running this thread any longer. i could open up the Bauhaus/Love and Rockets poll. not really, way too busy at work at the moment.

calling Gavin, Leeds

here are the next seven:

Extreme Metal - Viceroy
Stephin Merritt - Gukbe - "hey guys if we can push the Merritt thing back (if there's any interest) a month or two that'd be great. ~work stuff~"
Nirvana - Gavin, Leeds
Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods
Queen - charlie h
Can - Z S
Tom Petty - rogermexico

Just curious, is the ILM 2010-2014 Albums thread scheduled to happen this year?

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, August 8, 2015 5:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I need to talk to seandalai and gr80 and see what we're gonna do. It's supposed to get underway this month.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, August 8, 2015 5:24 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

After some sorting of schedules and whatnot, it looks like the nominating process for this is going to get underway a week from tomorrow (Friday). Three weeks for that. Two weeks for voting. Then the rollouts will start at the beginning of October. In the meantime, you all can bicker about whether or not it should be a 2000-15 poll to celebrate ILM's 15th anniversary or just a 2010-14 poll which would be less interesting and more redundant. ;)

2010-2014 imo, I think it'd be MORE interesting. 15 yr span is nicely symbolic and all but obv way tougher to assemble a meaningful ballot and just functionally much more unwieldy in several ways

Bump. What's the latest news with dese pollz?

everybody that's up next is awol, basically

summer's ending, seems like a good time for Fairport?

Let's do it. Is that solo careers too?

if one of you wants to run that one it's fine with me, I'll move it up the list

seems so

Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods

yeah I can't run it right now (skool's in)

I'd be all for whoever wants to run one right now, wherever on the list, getting moved up

Covers is my next poll, 30+ away. That'll be sometime under President Trump. I'm more than happy to move that up and do it now, or I can take over an abandoned one.

take yr pick, it's a buyers' market

Covers sounds more fun to me than Fairport.

agreed on that point

covers seems like a complicated nomination process which might not run well alongside the big 2000-2014 poll? but I dunno. obv maximizing fun is the point

I'm not into the 2000-2014 poll idea but that's just me

I'm into whatever will generate fun and/or interesting discussion & I think a retrospective poll will do that

I mean, we can talk about pitchfork's polls, or our own. the latter seems way more fun to me

I'll wait untill the 15 year poll is done.

Covers will be relatively simple: any version of a song that's been previously released on record. So Elvis Presely singing Lieber and Stoller's Jailhouse Rock doesn't count, but Hound Dog would because that had been previously done by Big Mama Thornton.

I'd probably eliminate jazz and classical because that would get really complex, especially since technically classical recording is a cover.

also the demo version of Beethoven's 5th is unfuckwithable

obv maximizing fun is the point

That's the main reason I left it to debate as to whether or not we do 2010-14 or 2000-14, because if nobody wants to do a 15 year retrospective then it won't be much fun. We (me, seandalai and gr80) are cool with going either way.

I'd vote for the 21st century poll instead of the last 5 years, which have kinda sucked for rockists like me

15 years makes more sense to me as a sort of 'faves of the century so far' sort of deal. I think it would have more scope and possibly more variety. I reckon putting the focus on too narrow and recent a time span would mean that the poll would be dominated by stuff that people absolutely love right now that they will have forgotten in a year or two. There's always the EOY polls for that kind for thing.