Surprise! POLL! Yeah, we just thought we'd drop in! - ILM Artist Poll #93 - The B-52’s (vote until November 10, 2018)

I like f. hazel's

(also not voting but looking forward to results)

that one's great too! lots of great options already. i'll go with the consensus, if one emerges.

sic you should vote! no big deal if it's only a partial ballot.

https://i.imgur.com/ZI3qSM6.jpg

coming soon!

Worth listening to for their comments from 1:59 for about eight minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTy3kSxyoo&t=4956s

hmm, broken link?

oops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTy3kSxyoo

oh, cool! i knew that lennon liked the b-52s from the rolling stone interview (Lennon remembered, “I was at a dance club one night in Bermuda” in June 1980. “Upstairs, they were playing disco, and downstairs, I suddenly heard ‘Rock Lobster’ by the B-52’s for the first time. Do you know it? It sounds just like Yoko’s music, so I said to meself, ‘It’s time to get out the old axe and wake the wife up!’ We wrote about twenty-five songs during those three weeks, and we’ve recorded enough for another album.”), but i hadn't heard his comments in the bbc interview.

it's funny, in the midst of that, for lennon to refer to the years when he and ono were separated as "not really separate for any real reason, just on a holiday"

Her uncomfortable giggle after that statement

getting my order together now, this is hard...

hey, i'm adding up the ballots and everything's good, except for one important issue:

on the albums side, there are several votes for Mesopotamia, and several votes for Party Mix/Mesopotamia. There are zero votes for Party Mix as a standalone EP. Should I combine all the votes for Mesopotamia and Party Mix/Mesopotamia, or leave them separate?

I didn't vote for that because I view it as a compilation and not an album, but if I can vote for it please put it at my #2 spot.

(I am really voting for Party Mix, maybe we should just count them both as separate albums?)

that sounds good, leaving them all as separate albums. when i do the rollout i'll include anything that got a vote. (and yep, i'll adjust your albums ballot so that Party Mix is #2)

ROLLOUT ON MONDAY, GET YR VOTE IN by the end of Saturday, whenever that might be for you

this is going to be so much fun. :D

i'm also going to send a quick email to everyone who voted for either mesopotamia, party mix, or mesopotamia/party mix and let them know that the votes will be split, in case that affects their decision.

this poll is totally valid and will stand up to legal scrutiny

*signs executive order*

good mourning!

where's the remix of Byrne's?

sic, you post in this thread, you have to send a ballot. those are david byrne's rules, i just follow them

and alfred, you've got t minus 26 hours to get your ballot in, or you're not a lord any more. or, you're not the president. whichever one of those punishments stings the most

just responded via email. I'm voting for the band mix of mesopotamia; the Party Mix/Mesopotamia release.
Not the Byrne mix.

I never knew the standalone CD of Mesopotamia was different from the versions on Party Mix! I knew about the longer demo versions of some songs making it onto the vinyl, but this is something else?

sic, you post in this thread, you have to send a ballot. those are david byrne's rules, i just follow them

tbh not being familiar with the differences between the Mesopotamia material is the main reason I feel unqualified to vote! but I'll try and give all those middle records a listen and send a bad ballot

hell yeah, thanks! your vote would put us at 25 ballots.

I'm 100% voting in this, and will be finalizing my ballot in the next couple hours

apologizing to the poll gods for re-ordering my ballot but jfc this has to be top 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo7vXBeTlJM

^ Very true.

Imagine being at that gig and hearing "Rock Lobster" for the first time.

wow, i just spent waaaaaaay too long illustrating the events of a certain song in a way that's faithful to the album art. no big deal, i'm just unemployed and running out of money!

friendly reminder: last day to vote! i'm expecting a couple more today, and if a couple more surprise ballots come in we can make up to 30. pretty good!

incentive to vote: the top 3 are very, very close, and there's another handful in the top ten that are also very close. so your vote will really make a difference. you can be like that tipping point guy in state where no one lives that decides an election

about to send

Voted!

i finally voted too.

i'm glad this was able to stay open for another week as this poll has a very nice turnout.

definitely! we're up to 31 now

and where the hell is BradNelson? a ballot from him should be one of the first but not yet?

Has he even posted?

He hasn't and I don't like calling people out. It just seems to be in his wheelhouse?

...

the b-52s are a very horny band

one final time: there's still time, if get yr vote in sometime tonight! tomorrow morning (t - 8 hours or so) i'm going to do the final tally and count the number of points, votes, #1s, etc. so if you get yr vote in before then, I'll be able to include it.

Rollout starts Monday. I'm thinking Albums + 40-31 on Monday, 30-16 on Tuesday, 15-1 on Wednesday.

don't let the chlorine in your eyes
blind you to the awful surprise
that's waitin' for you at
the bottom of the bottomless blue blue blue POLL

Whoops, only just saw yesterday's Mesopotamia email. That seems a wise decision. (I guess I've mostly heard Mesopotamia via that twofer, but all mixes are decent, and I rarely listen to Party Mix.)

it is happening!

♫ Before I talk, I should read a POLL! ♪ ILM Artist Poll #93 ♪ B-52’s ♫