Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

ILXmailed Clarke B

VU with solo careers is a great idea because the band's catalog is relatively small and the solo offshoots are kind of part of the same canon and it'd be interesting to see where they rank with the VU songs. just a Reed poll would be one thing, Reed/Cale/Nico etc. with no VU is just weird to me.

I'm alive! It's been a crazy month so far (I'm moving next week, for the first time in seven years--and definitely having some remorse about the amount of vinyl I've accumulated...), so I haven't been as present on ILM--apologies for the unresponsiveness. I'm pumped to do this poll, though, and I will design the parameters today and get everything set up and ready for launch. I honestly have no clue as to how I'm going to narrow down my own choices, and I have a good feeling this will be a lively, high-participation poll. (Speaking of which, shall I wait for the green light to post the poll itself?)

If you're planning on whetting the appetite with one of those best-album-type polls, can I suggest running a 'favourite member' mini-poll?

I'm looking forward to it! I don't know if the Bee Gees even has a sustainable amount of ballots yet to make a rollout happen.

if you've extended the deadline and want people to keep voting you should bump the thread and update the title so that people know, I just assumed I missed the window but may try to put together a ballot this week if there's still time

Sorry about the Bee Gees! I could certainly get my girlfriend to submit a ballot there. Ismael, I like that idea... But it's already happened:

Favourite Member Of Fleetwood Mac

Shakey Mo's last update said he had but a mere ten ballots.

Low turnout for Bee Gees is a bummer, but it would be good to get things moving again.

Shall I wait until there's an official closing date for the Bee Gees, or should I just go ahead and roll out the Fleetwood Mac poll?

I'm trying to ascertain if there are other potential Bee Gees voters who just haven't been able to yet, or if I should just call it a day and go forward with the results from the 13 ballots I have so far.

ok, gonna keep the Bee Gees poll open until Friday in the hopes that it'll top 20 ballots

the ABBA poll had 19 ballots fwiw

yes well ABBA sucks

lol

I could vote in Bee Gees but I'm on the road for a long time & have no way to do any concentrated listening; do you want a top of the head ballot which will be slanted toward hits? I feel the view that the pollz are for headz & I'm def not one for los BGs but I know enough jams; don't really know the convention around here anymore

you can just c+p my ballot if that makes it any easier

but seriously I'm for any and all votes. Don't care how long, exhaustive, or informed they are.

plenty of youtubes in the noms thread if you want a playlist for an hour or so

just vote for some songs, mang

not after that ABBA slander i won't

jk i'm not voting because i only really know the 'saturday night fever' stuff

That's OK. It's their best stuff anyway.

I think last Friday's Bee Gees deadline was the last one, so Clarke, I think you could go ahead and start the Mac while SMC is rolling out results.

Bump for Clarke - sorry to catch you right when you're moving house, but it sounded like you had the poll pretty much ready to push down the hill.

bump

Precursors to the numbered list:
1950s Tracks: Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—THE TOP 101 RESULTS THREAD
Postwar Jazz Albums: JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)
Pavement: PAVEMENT • TRAX • POLL rEsULtS!!!
Manic Street Preachers: Manic Street Preachers Destructive Alienating Cultural and Despair Filled Tracks POLL RESULTS
Blur: Blur tracks poll - the RESULTS thread
REM: \///\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \///\///

1. Pet Shop Boys: Revelation - Official ILX Pet Shop Boys tracks poll results
2. Beatles: Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results
3. Prince: If Tracks Are Good, Let's Get 2 Pollin - PRINCE TRACKS POLL RESULTS
4. U2: "It's a musical journey" - U2 POLL RESULTS
5. Beach Boys: It's About Time: Beach Boys Poll Results
6. Led Zeppelin: ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD
7. Timbaland: generation timbo: TIMBALAND TRACKS POLL RESULTS
8. Guided by Voices: POLLSTAL BLOWFISH - ILM Artist Poll #8 - Guided By Voices - ReSuLtS!!!
9. Stevie Wonder: POLLTIME PARADISE: ILM Artist Poll #9 Results -- Stevie Wonder
10. Producers: Producers, Recording Engineers and Studio Wizards: POLL RESULTS
11. Pulp: Do You Remember The First Poll? - ILM Artist Poll #11 - PULP - Results Thread!
12. James Brown: THE POLLBACK: James Brown Tracks Poll Results Thread
13: The Jacksons: The Jacksons Tracks - Smooth CrimiPOLL results1!!1!!!!
14. David Bowie: The Man Who Polled the World, aka DAVID BOWIE POLL RESULTS
15. Paul Simon: PAUL SIMON POLL RESULTS THREAD AND DISCUSSION
16. Rolling Stones: MAD POLL, LOST YER WAY – ILM Artist Poll #16 – The Rolling Stones RESULTS THREAD
17. The Kinks: "I go to BlackPOLL for my holidays,"-- ILM Artist Poll #17 -- The Kinks RESULTS THREAD
18. Depeche Mode: Hearts can never be POLLed -- ILM Artist Poll # 18 -- Depeche Mode RESULTS THREAD
19. Beastie Boys: (THIS) POLL REVERE(S) — ILM Artist Poll #19 — Beastie Boys RESULTS
20. ABBA: You can POLL, you can jive, having the time of your life -- ILM Artist Poll #20 -- ABBA (RESULTS THREAD)
20B. Bee Gees: How Can You Poll a Broken Heart - the Robin Gibb Memorial BEE GEES TRACKS POLL RESULTS

Yo Clarke!

ILXmailed Clarke again yesterday. I know he mentioned moving house...tempting to bump Neil Young & Clemenza up a spot so we can get moving again. Y/N?

Skip straight to disco.

yeah it's been too long since we had a poll with any disco in it

ding-dong-ding Ah-haa! poll it

It's my last week till vacation, so I can start Neil Young whenever. My posting would be mostly at night until June 29, but it would just be the voting thread anyway. Let me know when you want me to go ahead.

It'd be nice to get something going. OK, executive decision -- switch F. Mac and N. Young. Clarke, carry on with house moving and don't worry about polling on top of other stuff. Clemenza, you may fire when ready.

*cues up Neil playlist*

yippee

finally, the push I need to listen to Trans

tbh I'm super-psyched for The Who (getting close!)

Pink Floyd feels so far away ;_;

Great, I'll get a thread up when I get home. Is it locked in that you use the standard scoring? I'd kind of like to do a Pazz & Jop variation, but I don't know if that starts to feel like work when you compile your ballot. If it does, I'll stick with the usual.

Dealer's choice. If you have a scoring method you want to use, go for it.

Can't remember if you've previously ruled on this, but will it include CSNY and Buffalo Springfield?

it really should.

It'll include everything. Even Nicolette Larson.

i am super pumped about the neil young poll, clemenza!

teachers gonna flip the fuck out for neil young

uncle neil gonna get some love itt

WmC, that was a great call... Thanks for the mercy bump. I was anticipating being able to start the Fleetwood Mac poll before the move actually happened, but with the timing of the Bee Gees poll it worked out to be really tough. Sorry for not jumping on this, but I will be a much better and more active poll-leader once I'm unpacked and somewhat settled. (And once I've found the Mac among the 28 boxes of LPs I just moved...)

No prob, have fun unpacking!

Pink Floyd feels so far away ;_;

Yah. I would like to run a Spacemen 3/Spiritualized/Spectrum/E.A.R./Darkside/Rugby drone-rock all-stars poll but it probably won't come up in the queue until 2016. On the other hand, the new Spectrum album may come out before then.

Looove the idea of a SP3 and related poll... And I'd like to do an Iron Maiden one at some point down the line.

MAIDEN

<3

I'd been tempted to throw together a Stone Roses micropoll to celebrate their comeback gigs - but I hadn't realised they were only next weekend. Their discography is tiny though, and clemenza's deadline is quite far ahead, so it might just work.