NEUPÖLLN - ILM Artist Poll #14 - David Bowie (POLLS ARE CLOSED)

Oops! Yeah WmC, just leave the last one off, it probably (??) doesn't need my 12 points anyway.

dang! sent it to u via ILX mail a week or so back. will send another copy along when i get home (to where my .xlsses is hid). before cutoff in any event...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly30tbT4bP1qbgvpzo1_1327037858_cover.jpg

Bowie things I learned from ILM:

"Neukoln" is my fave Bowie ambient track and all-time fave Bowie track.
I greatly prefer the 1st half of "Warsawa" to the (vocal) 2nd half.

Lodger is much better than I gave it credit for (ta Sinker!) (still didn't make my Top 5 though "Red Sails" and "Look Back In Anger" made Top 20 cuts).

always love love loved it but seriously LOOK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbxp1hC8vts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXRoVEbD88&feature=fvsr

Cool! Did you vote?

yes (today) it's the one with "Neukoln" at the top plus "Red Sails", "Look Back In Anger" and "Queen Bitch" in the mix :)

Neukoln at the top?! I admire that! Can't we post our top five albums, sort of like opening one present on Xmas eve?

No! Go to bed or Santa will never come!

awwww rats...did we seriously beat pavement, tho?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6spL97lM8

Just to tide you over, a couple of lines with the Man...

As awesome as the Berlin-era stuff is, I sort of found my favorite songs were mostly inconsequential pastiches from the Hunk Dory/Ziggy/Alladin Sane years.

Experimental songwriting is great and all, but a guitar blast and "I'm an alligator!"....you can't really beat that.

Not that that song's a pastiche.

awwww rats...did we seriously beat pavement, tho?

― Iago Galdston, Monday, March 5, 2012 7:59 PM (13 minutes ago)

Definitely -- I looked back at the Pavement results thread and it says that 57 people voted. I don't know where the 70 number came from. Led Zeppelin had 66. Bowie is at 74 ballots with 3 hours 45 minutes to go.

Make that 75, thank you Adam!

holy shit, 75 ballots? that's amazing, people

i think the guy who wrote the 33 1/3 book on Low is even here voting, is that correct? If so, I've read like 15 of those and his is the only one I've really liked unreservedly. Such a great book.

xxxp the 70 number came from my memory. a dark and perverse place.

a guitar blast and "I'm an alligator!"....you can't really beat that.
OTM!!

I'm getting seriously excited for the poll results now. 75 ballots in, all that material to choose from, people choosing deep cuts from the lesser-appreciated years. This might end up being more interesting than I thought it would!

Can't believe I left off Moonage Daydream...

That was another one that I wanted to put in my ballot, but unfortunately got chopped. I think more than a few folks may have voted for it though!

174 different tracks have gotten votes. Actually more than 174; in some cases voters specified live versions or particular remixes that wound up getting combined for the purposes of the tabulating.

how much time do i have?

43 min as of now

I'm getting seriously excited for the poll results now. 75 ballots in, all that material to choose from, people choosing deep cuts from the lesser-appreciated years. This might end up being more interesting than I thought it would!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, March 5, 2012 10:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually in general the more people who vote, the more predictable the poll results will be. I'm a not-hardcore bowie fan who coulda come up w/ 25 tracks but I didn't vote for that reason.

BALLOT RESUBMITTED

lemme know if you didn't get it this time, WmC

i threw in a ballot of AOR staples and trolly weird picks

Ok mine is in.. I did it in 15 minutes.. I already regret voting for so many singles. sorry everyone :/

guys, it isn't the defiant obscurantist bowie poll... dude could write a pop song, it's cool.

i voted with my heart, will not apologize!

(ps i have a heart)

you need a heart to live

Ballots received: thewufs, billstevejim, contenderizer. Thanking U!

We're at 79 or 80.

Deadline is Eastern Standard Time, so there's an hour to go.

isn't midnight EST in about two minutes?

Oh shit, you're right! I forgot what time zone I'm in.

POLLS ARE CLOSED.

it's too late, to be late again

i voted for a lot of singles... maybe the man just knew how to pick singles. my #1 was a first single from an album, and for years i hated it, but a couple of months ago (after almost two decades of listening to it), it just got me. it's such a crazy song to release as a single. but really, my love for it must spring from the fact that it is the latest in a long line. think i'll listen to it now.

I listened to Young Americans three times tonight while I worked on entering this stuff.

listening to the nassau version of tvc15 right now. so good. i need to listen to that whole disc. never have for some reason.

61 ballots included album ranks. Tomorrow I'll count down the top 10; here's a teaser.

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11.
1. Outside (1995) - 14 points; 3 votes; 1 first-place vote)

I doff my bippity boppity hat to the person - mark s? - who gave Outside first place.

I guess not! I've sent emails to everyone as ballots came in, unless I acknowledged receipt in this thread. Hit me with it again.

So you didn't receive mine either? Sent it via ILXmail, didn't get any email confirmation. All that relistening to Bowie's best stuff for nothing! ;)

I got no confirmation either, also sent via ILXmail.

Can those of us whose ballots didn't arrive re-send them?

dorsalstop and Zora, I did get and include your ballots -- sorry!

Let me set up a couple of things here and we'll get started with results in a new thread.

Yay!

Just saw "Neupolln" and assumed this was about Neu! or something and missed it.

Yeah, having DAVID BOWIE in the thread title couldn't have helped or anything. ffs

Go here now!
The Man Who Polled the World, aka DAVID BOWIE POLL RESULTS