ILM's Now For Something Completely Different... 70s Album Poll Results! Top 100 Countdown! (Part 2)

Tracks not albums. I'm not Spotify so all of this is lost on me.

well I agree, tracks polls are insane. but this is an albums poll, so go complain on the tracks poll.

, but I'm surprised ohio players didn't rack up more. I guess all of their albums placed pretty low. I retract my complaining.

― wk,

and so you should.

Ohio Players are awesome.

I wasn't really keeping up with the number of women placing during the roll-out, but that artist rankings list is INCREDIBLY male heavy.

says there's no need for the poll as its been done twice already (with those albums he mentioned)

What "Kill City" was in there? I don't remember those polls anyway!

you should have nominated it!

Awesome Seandalai, I was tempted to try to tabulate artist rankings from a text file, thanks for saving me from that! That's a really handy guide for those who want a snapshot of one aspect of the poll.

xp I saw Tom's clarification on JD after I posted.

After a short break, I was planning to start a thread on Psych-Prog 1968-69. I've discovered a lot of stuff from those years lately from research inspired by the poll. It could also be useful as a pre-poll campaigning thread. I do NOT volunteer to co-run a 60s poll though!

I'm gonna check emil.y's ballot to see if she was mad sexist with all those male bands in it! ;)

the poll couldnt be done without you fnb

This is also true, as well as my pro-melange feeling. But if you feel like LL and worry it might be *too* messy, you could consider a "second half of the 20th century" limitation or something like that.

Agree with this.

you helped make the 70s poll such a success

Speech! Speech!

By my count, 31 of my 100 albums have at least one female member playing on them. Which is not, in itself, great. However, unless I am mistaken, I count three women in the entirety of the top 50 bands by band-rank.

Another good reason for the longer rollout then!

A longer roll-out doesn't change the weighting of band rankings.

tbh there's loads of bands in the list that I have no idea whether there's female band members or not. There is bound to be more than we think.

and so you should.

Ohio Players are awesome.

yeah, I like them alright and was kind of annoyed when somebody upthread claimed that I hated them. I just thought it was funny for a while there when so many of their albums were placing close together. they don't seem to have been hurt by vote splitting as much as some other albums. It seems like there were about 16 Ohio Players fans who put all of the albums on their ballots.

Nothing sexist about this poll, Stacia in Hawkwind, there's a woman doing a great job in a rock band

no different to the fans of other bands who put all their albums on their ballots. Its just noticeable because Ohio Players dont generally make these polls.

Nothing sexist about this poll, Stacia in Hawkwind, there's a woman doing a great job in a rock band

― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Friday, March 29, 2013 5:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Loooool.

I actually refused to count Hawkwind as having a female member, on my ballot as well as on the main list.

Spotify playlist of results compiled by moodles
http://open.spotify.com/user/olken2000/playlist/5sdu93N2DjKkDk0NMe6sFH
spotify:user:olken2000:playlist:5sdu93N2DjKkDk0NMe6sFH

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 29 March 2013 17:07 (10 minutes ago)

Hey yeah thanks for this - but i'm already on that. I meant an aggregate list of ALL the spotify playlists made for all of these running ilm artist polls. Any thread like that?

the women in this poll are all on the ohio players album covers

there was a totally incomplete nominations list
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/1rFbtUwZlcYHBD6gcemMeK
spotify:user:pfunkboy:playlist:1rFbtUwZlcYHBD6gcemMeK

men wearing dresses or naming themselves things like "Junie" took all of the jobs

That reminds me, where's the Alice Cooper at?

The general Spotify playlist thread has some but not all poll playlists: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41

Oops My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

plus this isnt part of the series of artist polls. its a standalone poll (well, its kinda series as we had an 80s rock poll and theres gonna be a 60s and 90s poll at some point probably)

I dont know if the artist polls have playlists. you would need to ask william and I dont think hes been on this thread

Alright, I mean I guess ultimately it's not really my place to say -- I'm not running or suggesting these polls because I don't really operate that way. I just felt compelled to add my 2¢ about non-Western music of all time because that is an insane amount of time and ground to cover :)

I dont envy mordy running that non-western poll!

I just started one for poll results playlists, without seeing that there are others. Bugger.

What is ilx listening to? (a spotify playlist thread)

Im still surprised mordy went off his original idea of a soft rock/folk/soul/electronic 70s poll (ie stuff not included in this poll). It would compliment this poll and get a lot of participation. Probably a lot easier to manage too!

I don't even use spotify, I was just trying to be helpful. Never again. *shrugs*

a soft rock/folk/soul/electronic 70s poll

No. Silly.

I find it very helpful, emil.y!

xp

tom d you wont take part in any of them what do you care? you think all polls are silly!

I just felt compelled to add my 2¢ about non-Western music of all time because that is an insane amount of time and ground to cover :)

yeah, but in reality how much pre-1950 stuff would get nominated anyway? it just seems like there are going to be some people with a really in-depth knowledge of '70s reggae, someone who's really into '60s ethiopian stuff, someone who knows about some really interesting early middle eastern '78s, etc. and it seems pointless to leave anybody out.

stopping at 1999 makes sense though.

tom d you wont take part in any of them what do you care? you think all polls are silly!

No I don't I've told you which ones I might take part in! I did the Beach Boys and ABBA, unlikely to take part in the Blodwyn Pig/ Tucky Buzzard one tho.

xps I assume that crossover/Western-influenced music would dominate because that's what most people know, but it would be a fun discovery exercise imo.

would latin america be included, or is that too european? can't really include music like salsa for example without allowing in a lot of records made in the US.

tom d you mentioned you found an old 70s ballot you never sent in. Please post it here so we can see it!

the geographical/cultural boundaries of such a poll seem way harder to pin down than the timeframe
xp

i think latin american would definitely be included.

pre-emptively subscribing to the all-time non-western trax spotify playlist

yeah, but in reality how much pre-1950 stuff would get nominated anyway?
exactly! that is exactly my point.

would latin america be included, or is that too european?
why not? there is a lot about latin america that is not remotely european, don't see why not

tom d you mentioned you found an old 70s ballot you never sent in. Please post it here so we can see it!

Nah it was full of holes, lots of albums I'd obv. forgotten to put in. "Soon Over Babaluma" won it but probably wouldn't again... and "Not Available" by the Residents was in the Top 5... ummmm Beefheart did well, can't remember much else.

why not? there is a lot about latin america that is not remotely european, don't see why not

made in latin america though right? so no fania records for example.

oh go on tom! You got to pick over our results!

tom will you take part in mordy's poll?

Stop badgering the poor guy, AG!

xp - yes! jesus. por ejemplo, get one discos fuentes and call me in the morning.