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

time for an old fashion update:

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)
67. Spoon - Bee OK (finished)
68. Queen - charlie h (finished)
69B. Pixies - Johnny Fever (finished)
69. Nirvana - Gavin, Leeds (finished)
70. Extreme Metal - Viceroy (finished)
71. Tom Petty - rogermexico. (finished)
72. The Smiths - nate woolls (finished0
73. Bauhaus/Tones on Tail-Love and Rockets/Peter Murphy - Bee OK (finished)
74. Stereolab - Moka (finished)
75. Van Halen - Johnny Fever (finished)

76. Devo - soref - voting has been extened: ilm DEVO BALLOT POLL aka unconPOLLable urge (voting closes 10 July)

77. Can - Z S Moka
78. Oasis - pollrunner needed for this one Bee OK

Hard Rock/Hair Metal - gr8080
Stephin Merritt - Gukbe
Fairport Convention et al (R Thompson, S Denny) - Billy Dods
Jimi Hendrix - some dude
Genesis + solo - NickB
The Burt Bacharach songbook - C. Grisso/McCain
Dead C - Raymond Cummings
Royal Trux + side projects - sleeve
John Fahey - Naive Teen Idol?
Rush - Matt #2
George Michael - Ismael Klata
Talking Heads - Bee OK
Gamble & Huff/Philly International Records - jetfan
Van Halen - Johnny Fever
Billy Joel - Doctor Casino
Low - aldo
Nine Inch Nails - chap
REM - rogermexico.
Bjork - Eric H.
Wu-Tang Clan - Spottie
Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Post-rock (Albums and EPs) - Bee OK
Covers - kornrulez6969
New Pornographers/AC Newman - staggerlee
They Might Be Giants - Johnny Fever
No Wave - sarahell
DFA - Van Horn Street
Misfits/Samhain/Danzig - gr8080
Beatles solo careers - Οὖτις
Erykah Badu - Eric H.
Nick Cave/Bad Seeds/Birthday Party/et al - charlie h
Herbie Hancock - crüt
Aphex Twin - Stevie D
Blondie - Bee OK
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - Spottie
Siouxsie & the Banshees/The Creatures - LeRooLeRoo
AM Radio Gold - Jeff W
Eurovision - nxd
Steve Albini - nate woolls
Yellow Magic Orchestra - frogbs
Elvis Presley - Euler
Byrds + offshoots - kornrulez6969
Cardiacs + affiliated - imago
Tropicalia/MPB - Frederik B
Chic Organization -
Stooges/Iggy Pop -
French/Francophone - Van Horn Street
Smashing Pumpkins - Bee OK

I'll start the Can voting poll next week when the Devo thread is over. So Devo can roll results while I do the vote count. How many weeks for voting do you guys feel is ok? Two weeks?

usually it is a 10 day window but two weeks should be fine.

Need more time to savor those sweet sweet Can epics...

Since it looks like the Can poll is covered, one other suggestion I could run is Tim Buckley if people think there's an appetite for that. Short career but nine albums' worth of material.

results for the Devo poll happening now

in the past this information has been suppressed, but now it can be POLLED - Devo ballot poll results thread

I will do Van Morrison. Please me on the list for that.

ILM Artist Poll No. 77 · CAN · Results Thread

Your music's shite it keeps me Polling all night: OASIS (ILM artist poll 78) --- Voting open until Sunday August 14, 2016

I would love a French-language / Francophone music poll.

I think that would be great too. I don't know if there are enough francophones/francophiles on this board though? It's also pretty vast as a category, but I would be willing to run it if there is an interest.

POLL With It - OASIS (ILM artist poll #78) --- The results thread

who's next?

who's up?

anyone interesting in going? i think anyone who has time can go ahead and run a poll.

I could do another one if you'd like... these are the ones I'm up for if you are... I could also nominate polls from artists that are not yet there like...: Captain Beefheart, Arthur Russell, Belle & Sebastian, The Zombies, Animal Collective, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Massive Attack, Kanye West...

Jimi Hendrix - some dude
Talking Heads - Bee OK
Bjork - Eric H.
Wu-Tang Clan - Spottie
Erykah Badu - Eric H.
Aphex Twin - Stevie D
Elvis Presley - Euler
Stooges/Iggy Pop -
Smashing Pumpkins - Bee OK

Kanye seems like the most "I can't believe we haven't already done this!" choice.

Maybe it's because he's still releasing new albums and singles every year or two? Well, you can add me up to that one and I can skip everyone else in line if noone cares.

I was going to say I was amazed that there's never been a Janet Jackson ballot poll, but then I realised there was this tracks poll for all the Jackson siblings:

The Jacksons Tracks - Smooth CrimiPOLL results1!!1!!!!

not enough Janet in the top 10 imo

Wu-Tang would be interesting, such a gigantic catalog

By that reckoning, Acid Mothers Temple would be intersting too.

Definitely Elvis. Most people would benifit from delving into that discography.

I don't know if NickB is still wanting to do the "Genesis + solo" poll at some point? I was hoping that "solo" would encompass literally *everything* any of them did, so you could vote for, say, The Knife and Sussudio and Over My Shoulder on the same ballot.

i think you should go ahead and run Stooges/Iggy Pop Moka as it is the only one without a name attached to it. it also got bumped down the line as flopson bailed on it. some dude is going to do Hendrix, i will do Talking Heads but not until February of 2017. flappy bird is doing Animal Collective he just doesn't know it yet. i'm also going to probably drop Blondie and do The Jesus and Mary Chain instead. If MBV goes then Joy Division should also get a poll. what fun we can have...

Ismael Klata reached out to me about doing George Michael. i think he should go ahead and open up that poll!

I could start the wu one as early as next week

Yeah I'd love to do the Stooges/Iggy Pop one. I go on a Stooges and Cramps binge every year when the summer dies.

Oooh we don't have a Cramps poll in line either!? How? Sign me up for that one too. I don't know if there's enough interest in ILM for them but I love them.

I love The Cramps, but mostly the first handful of years rather than all the later years. My ballot would be boring.

I've been summoned. I'll put the George Michael poll up later today. I've got a short window where this is possible, so let's get on with it.

Good grief

Well, exactly.

Wham! It's the GEORGE MICHAEL TRACKS POLL voting thread (voting ends Saturday 17 September)

Testing for the stooges poll. Stealing the look from Jarmusch's documentary because I like how it looks:

http://i.imgur.com/sE0cb6i.jpg

looks great.

Definitely Elvis. Most people would benifit from delving into that discography.

Seconded this would be fun

Elvis is long due. Should've been one of the first polls, him and chuck berry are the first musicians I think of when trying to define an 'American' sound.

Chuck Berry also doesn't have a poll in line it seems! How in the hell did we get a Timbaland poll before an Elvis and Chuck Berry poll!?

I don't know if NickB is still wanting to do the "Genesis + solo" poll at some point? I was hoping that "solo" would encompass literally *everything* any of them did, so you could vote for, say, The Knife and Sussudio and Over My Shoulder on the same ballot.

― soref, Wednesday, September 7, 2016 11:42 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

forgot about this and too busy to do it for the next couple of months. if anyone else wants to run with it in the meantime then go for it. but yes, had hoped to include everything from 'watcher of the skies' to 'easy lover' to 'don't give up' etc

my only wish is that if you want to run the poll, you need to call the voting thread 'get 'em in by friday'

How in the hell did we get a Timbaland poll before an Elvis and Chuck Berry poll!?

this is ILX; the legacy of popist iconoclasm persists even through this consolidatory canon-building phase

Also, most of us aren't 60 years old.

Also, ilx has a small but dedicated hiking community.

Somewhere upthread I mused that Chuck, and this might apply to Elvis also, may not really be ideal for the format/board, since their important work is primarily singles-based so you're really just ranking the greatest hits. The "Great Twenty-Eight" radio button thread is pretty good!

But there is something to RANKING the hits rather than just doing an OPO, and maybe some folks would take the opportunity to dig into the albums, or lesser-known singles. Finally, "The Broken Arrow" gets its due! Ahhh, fuck it, put Chuck in the queue - I'd be down to run that poll, Moka, unless you want it.

Incase anybody is interested this is your last day to vote in the lifetime of ilm heavy rock & metal poll
http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=104302#unread

Lawdy Miss Clawdy it's time for an Elvis Presley poll.

Also, most of us aren't 60 years old.

Why do you have to be 60 to like rock n roll?

Im sure it helps though

Im sure it helps though

How?
Just interested. I don't see age as a prohibitive factor in appreciating music. I was about 8 when I first heard Elvis and 10 when way down came out and he literally went way on down.

i agree, i was just joking. An Elvis poll would be good so I could learn about all the early elvis on Sun Records. I only really know the big hits

Portishead, Massive Attack

It might make more sense to do a 'Bristol Sound' poll than do these acts separately (especially considering their relatively thin discographies).

that would be fun