Hope That I Get Polled Before I Die: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 1982-2002 POLL - Voting, Campaigning, Discussing

yeah i fucked up with the REM poll by using the album poll thread results as the basis for a short list of eligible songs. it was kinda early in the days of these things, but not really early enough that i should have thought that was a good idea. the countdown is still a pretty dope REM playlist tho imho.

even Lincoln, which probably contains some of their highest highs, contains more than a few tracks I just didn't want to sit through at all nowadays

haha yeah I now have "Cage and Aquarium" stuck in my head and I really dislike that song.

this is the dawning of the

i think apollo 18 might be their most consistent album, but it doesn't quite reach the same heights as the previous ones

Flood is definitely most consistent for me, even the totally throwaway songs are great

finalizing a ballot now. ranking is hard.

he ended up sad!

finalizing a ballot now. ranking is hard.

I've got 70-some selected and not sure where anything goes after #1

sent a 40+ track ballot

oh shit this is today

Back in 2001, I didn't have enough hard drive space to keep more than a couple of months of TMBG Unlimited, so I shared my login with another They-listener who burnt the 128kbps files as audio CDs. After finding a torrent last week, it took almost as long to work out which songs were still exclusive to the service, tag them and make Live and Studio playlists as it did to listen through everything.

Currently listening to State Songs for the first time ever. Doubt that I'm going to listen closely enough to the McSweeney's album or People Are Wrong! to add any of their pieces to my ballot.

the McSweeny's disc has some pretty good parts - lots of tasty instrumental bits and experimental stuff. "I Am 40" really feels like one of those great demos that should've become a proper single but somehow didn't. I also like the Doughty song a lot. not exactly something I wanna listen to in full anymore but every TMBG fan should hear it once at least

Sent in my ballot! 99 songs! This has been a hectic week with work stuff and getting a cold so I didn't give it my normal obsessive combing-over... but I feel like the stuff I like more is definitely towards the top and it's a great lineup of material, with room for some more oddball tracks that would never have even made it into my Excel sheet if I'd known I was going to be working towards a 20- or 40-track ballot. Woo!

also surprised myself to realize that i rank apollo 18 below factory showroom. kinda figured the first four would be an untouchable bloc but looking at the tracklist, there's an awful lot i've never really gone for, like "the guitar" and "she's actual size" and "if i wasn't shy." maybe the moment in which the Flans I Dislike emerges. "space suit" and "i palindrome i" are fucking masterpieces though.

i like the guitar

the lower reaches of my bracket are packed with some of the most novel of their novelties

You got mine, right sic?

almost done with my ballot, it should be somewhere around 40 songs i think. definitely surprised by how well Factory Showroom ended up in mine

Wish I could say I'd managed to listen to every single eligible song in time -- I didn't -- and to be honest I didn't end up listing any new-to-me true obscurities. But I did put on some songs from Mink Car, an album I didn't like at all when it came out and forgot about, only to find now on relisten that there are some tunes on there I've been humming in my head for years without knowing where they were from.

I'll start compiling ballots before midnight but if any drift in over the weekend, that's fine. Especially from the Antipodean contingent!

I think only two ppl have ranked albums so far, so I might do a full 20 myself just to make it interesting.

(got yours eephus!)

Ballot sent!

My #s 1 through 10 are pretty solid, after that is chaos.

Turns out I really don't like "Factory Showroom"--not one song made my 75-song ballot.

I came to like quite a bit of Factory Showroom myself, and voted for a couple of tracks. I'd given it only scant attention previously. Meanwhile John Henry remained quite impenetrable on this zillionth attempt to come to terms with it.

I take it frogbs is the voter who probably wouldn't use that email address for a job application?

I have straight up not had time to order/send mine and wont for a day or 2. Am I too late?

lmao how'd you know

I’m holding on in the hope that you and AA can get ‘em in soon!

xpost 2 Trayce

xpost 2 Trayce

BUMP for Australians and any other stragglers

how many ballots do we have?

15.

can't check r/n but was this hyped up in existing tmbg threads? feel like there have to be at least a few other fans on ILM who might have missed the call.

I did my part, and I pretty much never even post!

I was delighted to see your ballot!

I only plugged on the most-recently-active TMBG thread, I'll throw a link on the catch-all-iest one.

If anyone has AA on sosh mēds, can they nudge him? I ILXmailed on the weekend but that may have been dead for years iirc

/pfunkboy

Just threw together and sent in a ballot, if you can use it!

got it

ballot sent

send another seven songs, Shakey!

I trust you received one from me about a week ago?

Yep 👍🏼

fuck sorry

c'mon Melbourne

the list is there (30+) but i legit have not had time to put it in order

done genuflect.jpg

dead set i thought you had given up on me in the intervening centuries

Trayce, you still have a day to get it in because I'm going to Canada tomorrow to see An Evening With They Might Be Giants.

i have asked sic if i can start start a new artist poll. see, i have a very short window where i can run a poll right now but i have to open for voting now too. i don't want to just open a new poll with this poll still open and have asked sic if it's all right to open a new poll? i will ask him again here, this poll has been open for over a month already.

posting from the intermission at the TMBG show:

Bee - go for it

Trayce - number yr top ten, send me the lot & I’ll randomise the rest