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

I guess I'm on the list for Bardo Pond, but I also threw out a Cat Power poll. I'm up for either if that's something people want!

Add me at the back of the list for a Wussy poll. I'll be dead and Wussy will be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by then, at which point someone else can take it over.

I for one would be interested to see the results of a Cat Power poll.

I've found it pretty hard to gauge the likely turnout from responses on this thread. There seem to be few contenders right at this instant, so Leee, if you're in a position to start immediately you may as well just try it and see.

(IMHO. Certainly not speaking with any authority, obviously.)

someone should really run an Underworld poll sometime considering all the love for them here, but I'd want to wait until after Drift finishes up of course

count me in concerning cat power. i haven't really listened to her in ages.

Co-sign on the Underworld poll, despite my lack of enthusiasm over the Drift glut.

I always ask this, but anyone have the Google sheet? At the very least I'd like to refresh my memory about the points scheme to use.

nm, found it! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-6UZjUc-eioPify1wTOMXe_dSsjOQ6pBu0ZjT0I7CCQ/edit#gid=1

And: "Dear Ms. Power, please sound more like Adele" - Cat Power - Artist Poll #99 - VOTING THREAD

i'll be happy to do the 00's poll over August/early September if we're keen?

Are any of these ever likely to happen?

Jimi Hendrix - some dude
REM - rogermexico.
Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Post-rock (Albums and EPs) - Bee OK
Aphex Twin - Stevie D
Bristol trip-hop - chap

rem has already been done

\///\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \///\///

No, that's the REM poll that happened, but not the one that was proposed. I can't remember the details now because it was more than 10 years ago (but someone could look into it, if anyone is remotely bothered), but I think that poll was based on people voting from a limited selection of REM tunes that had been selected from an album-by-album series of traditional ILM polls (i.e. where you can only make one vote for one track). Then I copied the idea and did a Blur poll where people could vote for any track by Blur and then it kickstarted this whole neverending list of artist polls and at some point somebody said 'ah, we should do REM again, but this time you can vote for any track by them'. I think.

XP That REM poll wasn't really a standard ballot poll tho.

I can take over Hendrix.

oh okay

yes, REM needs to be redone because NBS pretty much nailed the reason and that is why they were added to this list.

the Shoegaze/Dream Pop/ Post-rock (Akbums and EPs) will be done but i'm also willing to let someone take over that one if wanted. to tell the truth, i will do New Wave before that one anyways, so i would love it if someone took it over that way it will be done sooner rather than later as i can't see me doing it for at least two years.

Hendrix is yours C. Grisso/McCain

image, ballot poll #100 for the 00's poll just sounds perfect. you are on deck.

doesnt hendrix have a really small catalog?

Kind of, but we've done bands with small-ish discographies before (Nirvana, Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin etc.).

true. dunno how accurate this is but it says 174 tracks, which a ton are live and/or posthumous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Jimi_Hendrix

oh Erykah Badu might be good to do sometime too

I’m happy to move that poll up in the standings, for sure.

i'll look forward to it!

I’m slammed at work for at least the next couple of weeks but what with the new book and all the timing seems good for REM soon-ish

Hendrix song list is missing Slow Walkin' Talk, a demo he recorded with Robert Wyatt, so doesn't look like it's complete.

Making sure that folks have seen this: "Dear Ms. Power, please sound more like Adele" - Cat Power - Artist Poll #99 - VOTING THREAD

The time has come and probably passed for a yacht rock poll.

No, it's the perfect time!

Define "yacht rock"

it's anything that isn't ambient

lol

haha. see we're there already.

Seahawks is ambient yacht rock so there

Broadcast! Might there be enough interest in a Broadcast poll? Small discography perhaps, but not really that small.

We need Cat Power ballots! "Dear Ms. Power, please sound more like Adele" - Cat Power - Artist Poll #99 - VOTING THREAD

i hardly know broadcast but i like the idea of being forced to listen to them in order to produce a ballot for a poll.

^ I dig it! :)

The Replacements was another that came up elsewhere recently. I'd happily crunch numbers for that too if no one else has a burning desire to do so.

Wish I was in a better position to vote in the Cat Power one. Very interested to see how that turns out but not quite able to construct a well-informed ballot.

Would be very much up for a Broadcast poll.

i'll be happy to do the 00's poll over August/early September if we're keen? -- imago

So this is definitely next? I think I'll turn my mind to such matters in anticipation...

Is the 00’s poll albums or tracks?

Both!

I love love love Broadcast but yeah the catalog is too small to warrant it imo

At a quick count, 143 tracks in Broadcast discography, no problem putting together a top 50.

I mean, I can already see myself getting annoyed when 'Phantom' and 'Ritual / Looking In' don't make it.

yeah and like a quarter of those tracks are interstitial things that are around a minute long

xp

I mean fine, do whatever, I wouldn't feel compelled to vote in it

Smaller discographies don't necessarily warrant a "Top 50" unless the actual results demand it. For instance, when I ran the Sleater-Kinney poll (a discography which at the time was around 100 tracks), the spread was enough that I had a little more than 50 tracks with enough points=two #1's, which I had set as the floor for ranking.

Total points equivalent to two first-place votes? Oddly enough I now see I cut my last one off at almost exactly that same point (#60 in that case) without consciously applying such a criterion, so that seems intuitively 'right'. There were only ever going to be about 100 real contenders (from ~170) amongst Go-Betweens tracks, but it seemed to work okay.

I cut B&S at #60 as well, but I distinctly remember that being where the number of votes dropped below 10. That was apparently equivalent to ~4 #1s, as the number of votes was freakishly high!

As long as one can cobble together say... a top 30, using similar yardsticks, it may still be worthwhile. Besides, I secretly feel like polls are less about stats than the excuse to listen to and talk about a given artist far, far too much!

i did: POLL Will Tear Us Apart – ILM Artist Poll #86 - JOY DIVISION – New Order solo or other groups Poll (aka the Electronic poll) – a NEW ORDER (#37) supplement poll --- Results Thread

even tho there were a fair amount of votes, i don't think the poll was very successful. as far as how many should be counted down? i think it depends on the results, tho i also had set boundaries like at least five votes for most polls. i really couldn't do more than a Top 20 for Joy Division as number 25 only had two votes so i didn't expand.

Looking closer at the S-K thread, I see I actually used something above 90 points as the floor, with 50th place having 6 votes and 97 points.

You Have Seen Some UnbelievaPOLL Things - ILM Artist Poll #99 - Cat Power Results

Best albums (and tracks) of YOUR favourite albums (and tracks) of the ENTIRE NOUGHTIES: 2000-2009 Ballot Poll Nominations + Campaigning Thread