ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

Making sure that folks have seen this: "Dear Ms. Power, please sound more like Adele" - Cat Power - Artist Poll #99 - VOTING THREAD

The time has come and probably passed for a yacht rock poll.

No, it's the perfect time!

Define "yacht rock"

it's anything that isn't ambient

lol

haha. see we're there already.

Seahawks is ambient yacht rock so there

Broadcast! Might there be enough interest in a Broadcast poll? Small discography perhaps, but not really that small.

We need Cat Power ballots! "Dear Ms. Power, please sound more like Adele" - Cat Power - Artist Poll #99 - VOTING THREAD

i hardly know broadcast but i like the idea of being forced to listen to them in order to produce a ballot for a poll.

^ I dig it! :)

The Replacements was another that came up elsewhere recently. I'd happily crunch numbers for that too if no one else has a burning desire to do so.

Wish I was in a better position to vote in the Cat Power one. Very interested to see how that turns out but not quite able to construct a well-informed ballot.

Would be very much up for a Broadcast poll.

i'll be happy to do the 00's poll over August/early September if we're keen? -- imago

So this is definitely next? I think I'll turn my mind to such matters in anticipation...

Is the 00’s poll albums or tracks?

Both!

I love love love Broadcast but yeah the catalog is too small to warrant it imo

At a quick count, 143 tracks in Broadcast discography, no problem putting together a top 50.

I mean, I can already see myself getting annoyed when 'Phantom' and 'Ritual / Looking In' don't make it.

yeah and like a quarter of those tracks are interstitial things that are around a minute long

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I mean fine, do whatever, I wouldn't feel compelled to vote in it

Smaller discographies don't necessarily warrant a "Top 50" unless the actual results demand it. For instance, when I ran the Sleater-Kinney poll (a discography which at the time was around 100 tracks), the spread was enough that I had a little more than 50 tracks with enough points=two #1's, which I had set as the floor for ranking.

Total points equivalent to two first-place votes? Oddly enough I now see I cut my last one off at almost exactly that same point (#60 in that case) without consciously applying such a criterion, so that seems intuitively 'right'. There were only ever going to be about 100 real contenders (from ~170) amongst Go-Betweens tracks, but it seemed to work okay.

I cut B&S at #60 as well, but I distinctly remember that being where the number of votes dropped below 10. That was apparently equivalent to ~4 #1s, as the number of votes was freakishly high!

As long as one can cobble together say... a top 30, using similar yardsticks, it may still be worthwhile. Besides, I secretly feel like polls are less about stats than the excuse to listen to and talk about a given artist far, far too much!

i did: POLL Will Tear Us Apart – ILM Artist Poll #86 - JOY DIVISION – New Order solo or other groups Poll (aka the Electronic poll) – a NEW ORDER (#37) supplement poll --- Results Thread

even tho there were a fair amount of votes, i don't think the poll was very successful. as far as how many should be counted down? i think it depends on the results, tho i also had set boundaries like at least five votes for most polls. i really couldn't do more than a Top 20 for Joy Division as number 25 only had two votes so i didn't expand.

Looking closer at the S-K thread, I see I actually used something above 90 points as the floor, with 50th place having 6 votes and 97 points.

You Have Seen Some UnbelievaPOLL Things - ILM Artist Poll #99 - Cat Power Results

Best albums (and tracks) of YOUR favourite albums (and tracks) of the ENTIRE NOUGHTIES: 2000-2009 Ballot Poll Nominations + Campaigning Thread

ILM Ballot Polls for 2020 and beyond -- the ordering, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

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see new thread, we have a new one for the new decade. this one will be locked:

ILM Ballot Polls for 2020 and beyond -- the ordering, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc