I realize the movie polls don't follow back-to-back like the artist ones do, but it would be nice if there were some place where we could float ideas about movie polls and gauge interest (and let folks know they're going on). There's one I've been thinking about for a while, and it will be some time before I can even entertain the idea, but I wouldn't currently know how I would even go about seeing if people would be into it.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 February 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
Great idea--start a thread. Anyone with an idea can test it out there--hopefully limited to whether there's interest or not, saving the this-belongs-no-it-doesn't arguments for the actual poll. I think a cumulative results thread would be useful too; some of those movie threads, like the comedy and horror, are really hard to load when you want to check something.
― clemenza, Friday, 7 February 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
Pitch your ideas for possible film polls here
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 February 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
"New Rose" shuffled up on my phone today and after I was through shouting along I thought a punk rock tracks poll would be fun. Limit it to the period 1974 (Ramones formation) to 1984 (Zen Arcade/Let It Be/Double Nickels).
― Miami weisse (WmC), Friday, 7 February 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
Would definitely participate in classic punk poll.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 February 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
Can't wait for the "is this punk or is this new wave?" arguing.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 February 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
yes lol
― Dan S, Friday, 7 February 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
We definitely need an Underworld poll
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 February 2020 07:57 (four years ago) link
one thing with the underworld poll though would be figuring out where to draw the line with remixes etc., like "dark train" should probably be counted as a separate track to "dark & long" but does that work for all of them, and how do you handle something like "rez/cowgirl"?
― ufo, Friday, 7 February 2020 08:05 (four years ago) link
if it were me, I'd exclude outside remixes, and combine votes for different versions / recordings / mixes / arrangements, but note votes for specific versions in the results. and probably make an eligibility chart so folks don't split votes from themselves.
Rez and Cowgirl I'd be inclined to list separately since they were such distinct recordings, made over a year apart, but roll together in results if voters demand.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 7 February 2020 08:33 (four years ago) link
i mean the "rez/cowgirl" mashup that's been a live staple and was on everything, everything. obviously you list "rez" and "cowgirl" separately but then do you allow votes for "rez/cowgirl" as a separate entity or not or combine the votes in some way?
i agree about excluding outside remixes and combining votes for the cases that are more directly alternate versions/recordings/mixes/arrangements of the same track, the edge case is the remixes they did themselves that are basically entirely separate works to the original (most prominently "dark train" but i think there's a few others out there too)
― ufo, Friday, 7 February 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
yeah there are five or so fully different Dark & Long "versions" that are sometimes listed as discrete songs / sometimes versions, and most of the dubno singles, plus Pearl's Girl and Born Slippy, have the same casual approach to taxonomy. The Born Slippys are as different as Dark Train from Dark & Long, while the Dirty x-s generally sound like separate recordings of the same song, and so do some of the other Darks. And some of the versions even have different mixes!
The band labelled them all as Song (Version) on the super-deluxe reissues, which is probably a tip worth taking.
C21st Underworld instead seemed to do all the rethinking and reworking off-record, playing some things live for years but waiting until they decided on a definitive version to release one (eg You Do Scribble). Drift finally went back to that early-'90s direction, what with the Necks and no-Necks Appleshines, remixing and re-arranging and re-editing things between single and EP and album, the different Soniamodes and Brilliants...
seeing how the voters prefer to think of Rez and Cowgirl is part of the fun!
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 7 February 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
i think one of the other dark & long "remixes" is actually a remix of one of the other dubnobass tracks even
― ufo, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link
See also Rowla and Cherry Pie
― nashwan, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
I'd still like to do a jungle/dnb poll, as listed above. Not sure if there's enough interest in it though.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
I'd follow it, definitely, but I probs wouldn't be able to contribute a whole bunch
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 7 February 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
I'd join in a d&b poll for sure.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 February 2020 10:54 (four years ago) link
I feel like there was one a few years back. Maybe that was 90s Dance in general. Definitely one I'm more likely to participate in or even help run.
― nashwan, Friday, 7 February 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
Prefab Sprout poll, thanks.
― triggercut, Friday, 7 February 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
^ YES. Do it! If only so I can be annoyingly "Swoon is *so* underrated, geez" and stuff.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 7 February 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
― ufo, Friday, February 7, 2020 9:14 PM (thirty minutes ago)
― nashwan, Friday, February 7, 2020 9:40 PM (four minutes ago)
my lineball instinct was to separate them like Rez and Cowgirl, but they really are exactly the same piece in different arrangements (and also reminiscent of when they'd do a Soft Mix and a Hard Mix on work-for-hire remix gigs around this time). I guess the only conclusion is not to do an Underworld poll
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
Just checked: counting the album and 7" version, I have 1 hour 55 minutes and 16 seconds of Dark whatevers. Let's just make them the ballot poll.
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
― triggercut, Friday, February 7, 2020 7:22 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes please
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
would also love to see that SFA poll happen at some point now that Guerilla is finally on NA spotify?
put me down as poll runner for super furry animals, i'm not sure what interest there is (probably only around 5 current posters on the main thread), but they can't be pollrunnerless
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
staggerlee hasn't posted since 2014. If no one objects (or if they just changed usernames), I'd like to step up for the Newpies poll.
Also: I was thinking about doing the Hendrix poll this September, in recognition of the 50th (not 51st) anniversary of his passing.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
we haven't done Hendrix yet...?
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
We didn't, but your mom did!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
I'll show myself out...
I was kind of musing about a PSYCHEDELIC ROCK poll but have the feeling that's too hairy a beast to properly corral.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
Also, post-rock can/should be its own poll distinct from dream pop/shoegaze.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
As far as timing is concerned, keep in mind that the 2019 metal poll is still underway, so maybe wait until it's over? Otherwise these all sound like great ideas.
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
would love a prefab sprout poll
― ufo, Friday, 7 February 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
thanks for taking over SFA for me wtev. i got mad that there weren't on Spotify and was not going to run it until that got corrected. i see now that everything is on there but RATW and PP. those other reissues have all their earlier B-sides on-line so that is a huge plus. can't wait for the Super Furry Animals poll!
― Bee OK, Friday, 7 February 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
BTW, this one is still open: 2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 21st of February)
― Bee OK, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
Most excited about "New Wave (just can’t get enough) Albums and Singles" and SFA will be such a fun poll.
― the future is now, Saturday, 8 February 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
Is anyone in a position to start something soon? Cat Power was almost 6 months ago now.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 8 February 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link
I'm thinking of offering my services to do the graphics for the eventual R.E.M. poll (it's 14th on the upcoming poll list)--that is, if rogermexico doesn't want to do them himself.
But here's the gimmick. I would ask all ILM'ers to send me random pictures in an R.E.M. aesthetic (whatever that is). Inscrutable objects, blurry photos you haven't deleted yet, chalk marks on a truck tire, a link to a drawing of some adzes, an old shopping list with a penguin scrawled on it. Or take a picture to illustrate a specific song--but don't tell me the song. I'll slap these bits together haphazardly, paste a wonky font on top and reap the acclaim.
If I do it, I'll probably have to start working on it now to get it done for the reveal sometime next year.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/History_of_Inventions_USNM_15_Adz.png/640px-History_of_Inventions_USNM_15_Adz.png
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 8 February 2020 09:21 (four years ago) link
Now that sounds promising.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
― frogbs, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
hmmm not sure why it just made a new post but here's my thought - all those 'remixes' should be treated as a distinct track, since they're basically distinct tracks with almost nothing to do with the originals. if you combine votes then you wouldn't be able to put, say, "Dark Train" along with "Thing in a Book", nor "Tin There" with "Pearl's Girl", even though these tracks are very different from each other. as for "Rez/Cowgirl", idk how you'd want to handle it but I'd lean towards just not allowing it
― frogbs, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
i'm thinking about running either the Shoegaze poll or the New Wave poll this summer, which should i do?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 15 February 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
Shoegaze! Shoegaze!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 15 February 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link
Here's a bold, bold suggestion while we're seemingly experiencing a lack of "I'm ready to go" bids...
I'd be happy to run a Prefab Sprout poll ASAP seeing there's some interest! (Assuming triggercut wasn't actually offering to run it, of course. I couldn't tell for sure.) I've favoured a quick turnaround on polls in the past and could again get it all done within a few weeks. I could even start immediately, but am mindful of the EOY metal poll still needing some space.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 15 February 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
I'd definitely be interested in a Prefab Sprout poll.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 15 February 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
:)
No-one wants to veto the suggestion? triggercut? Okay, how does a rollout around the Monday March 9rd sound? (~3 weeks.) I'm guessing that would be well after the metal poll. I'll create a thread shortly if there's still no objections. (A thread with regular reminders to vote in the metal poll as first priority. LOL, I really want to see a Venn diagram now.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 February 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
^ March 9th, obviously. No prizes for guessing what date I changed that from.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 16 February 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
Metal poll rollout will be next week unless disaster befalls seandalai so no reason why you guys cant start a poll as soon as its done.
Thanks for considering us btw. Appreciated.
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 16 February 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
well, when i say next week i do mean in a weeks time it starts!
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 16 February 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
Word. I'll revisit when metal voting period closes.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 17 February 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
i'm thinking about running either the Shoegaze poll or the New Wave poll this summer, which should i do?Shoegaze! Shoegaze!
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
Wait, no, a proper noms thread would be a bridge too far… but whyn’t we take Canadian pre-noms discussion over here: ILM's Top 100 Canadian Albums
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 26 February 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link
Any objections to me getting a Canadian poll thread set up over the weekend?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
no objection, but count me in for a vote in that one!
― Will (kruezer2), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
nice try, no voting twice!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 19:35 (one year ago) link
Going to do some clean up:
POLL Miner's Daughter - ILM Artists Poll #117 - Women of Country Music - Results Thread
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
#118 has started, for you bookmarkers:
ILM Ballot Poll #118: I Been Hangin' Around Grain Elevators: The ILM Canadian Pop Music Poll (Nominating/Voting Thread)
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 21:52 (one year ago) link
Now that I have figured out formatting, I'm going to over time, going to go back an update all my polls that I have run on this board. This will take some time but going to work my way backwards. Don't need to fix the Police poll as that is how I finally figured out how I want everything to look.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2022: 17th Anniversary EditionILM 2022 Tracks Poll: The Battle of Ballads: Verse Your Ballot and Join the Rhyme-Fueled Debate!
ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2022 - 21st Anniversary EditionILM 2022 Album Poll Ballots: What's it gonna taaaaeeeeeee
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 March 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
Motion to move up Ivy's Kylie Minogue poll to capitalize on her current cultural moment
― omar little, Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:12 (eight months ago) link
Seconded - from the 'pending' list this is the one I'm most eagerly anticipating
― technopolis, Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:25 (eight months ago) link
thirded.
― vashti funyuns (sic), Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:00 (eight months ago) link
I would 100% vote in a Kylie poll
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
What is the state of the current queue?
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 7 September 2023 19:08 (eight months ago) link
Based on our current progress we would probably get to Kylie sometime during the second term of the hunter Biden administration
― omar little, Thursday, 7 September 2023 22:02 (eight months ago) link
the state of it is no one's run anything in months and it's been free-for-all with no meaningful queue for years. if anyone wants to run something then they can
― ufo, Friday, 8 September 2023 00:39 (eight months ago) link
i'm happy to help with a kylie poll though
― ufo, Friday, 8 September 2023 00:43 (eight months ago) link
i would help but my schedule just wouldn't really allow for it. :/
― omar little, Friday, 8 September 2023 18:45 (eight months ago) link
polls that are on the list that i'd be quite interested in & happy to do any of tabulate/images/bbcode for if necessary:
magnetic fields/stephin merrittnine inch nailsr.e.m.erykah baduyellow magic orchestrasuper furry animalskylie minoguethe microphones/mount eerie/phil elverum
i think everyone who signed up to do those is at least somewhat active still except gukbe?
i'm not very willing to do much of the rollouts though because trying to post when the board is active destroys my sleep schedule unfortunately
some other artists not already taken that i'd be open to running if someone will help with the rollout:david sylviankraftwerkparliament/funkadelicdestroyereverything but the girlfiona apple
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:58 (seven months ago) link
I'm still happy to run the Erykah Badu one whenever it happens
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:01 (seven months ago) link
P-Funk was Poll #65: You and Your POLL, Me and My POLL: The P-Funk Results Poll
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:03 (seven months ago) link
oh lol i vaguely remembered it had been done before but couldn't find it at all, that explains it
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:04 (seven months ago) link
there hasn't been a poll in a while so if you want to run the erykah badu poll eric, you can whenever you want. i'll look forward to it
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:05 (seven months ago) link
I am out for the next couple weeks, but could definitely begin one in October
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:07 (seven months ago) link
rem has also been done
\///\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \///\///
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:07 (seven months ago) link
xp sounds good then!
r.e.m. has been listed again forever because the methodology for that one (which kickstarted all these polls iirc) was kinda weird or something?
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:10 (seven months ago) link
Yah I ran the R.E.M. poll in a wonky experimental manner, and have long endorsed rogermexico's plan for a do-over. There's probably some discussion on the previous edition of this thread.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:35 (seven months ago) link
I've also long said Prince is due for a redux
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:44 (seven months ago) link
would be happy to help with a prince redo as well
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:44 (seven months ago) link
I volunteered for Stephin Merritt et al (in gukbe's absence) at a time when I was trying to properly absorb his 21st century output, but I didn't really manage that. I for one certainly wouldn't be dismayed if someone more enthusiastic endeavored to get it done with a bit more haste!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 22:59 (seven months ago) link
trying to post when the board is active destroys my sleep schedule unfortunately
Feeling this. Handing the rollout component of 'my' last poll to a big fan in a timezone offset some 10 hours from own was pretty much the best thing ever lol
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 23:24 (seven months ago) link
A while ago i was thinking a Morricone poll might be illuminating cause there's a ton of stuff then i thought "any song ever composed for a film" would be better (idk anymore) but with October approaching a horror movie themes poll would be the best kind. i don't have time to even follow it really but I def wanna listen to a bunch of horror soundtracks next month so idk maybe there are threads i could bump.
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 14 September 2023 01:09 (seven months ago) link
Morricone would be cool! Or maybe a looooong listening thread or something, given relatively few have heard more than a fraction of his output. Vigorous thumnbs-up to *any* soundtrack content.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:26 (seven months ago) link
We have an ILX EOY nominations thread: ILM's 2023 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 11 December 2023 18:23 (four months ago) link
It would be strange if "Canadian songs" were the end of the line for the genre/artist polls.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 11 December 2023 19:10 (four months ago) link
It's EOY voting time: ILM's 2023 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 19:36 (four months ago) link
Would anyone be interested in trying to do a digital "draft"? Have heard a number of these done on podcasts in recent years and thought it could be fun to try here. Here's how I think it could work (and I'm open to suggestions):
- Draft-runner would pick a topic and create a thread -- year(s), genre, artist, scene- First ~10-12 people to express interest would be included as participants but everyone could post if they want (could go larger but it could take too long to be fun...see below)- Draft-runner would select ~5 categories -- Best Album, Best Song, Best Artist, Best Music Video, Best Industrial Metal EP (you can get as specific as you want, you get the idea)- Draft participants would be assigned an order and would be "on the clock" to make a selection from the category of their choice by posting in the thread (suggest that each participant has 24 hours from the last participant's post to make their selection, otherwise this could in theory take months)- Once all participants have made a selection from every category, the draft is over and we would then run a POLL to let ILM decide who had the best draft
We could also in theory run the actual draft over email, in a google doc, etc. if people think it would be more fun to keep the results a surprise until the poll/anonymize things.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 15:57 (three months ago) link
I would come out of poll retirement to do a Frank Zappa poll if there was enough interest.
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:09 (three months ago) link
Anyone interested in participating in a Taylor Swift draft (xp) in the second half of this year?
― Indexed, Monday, 11 March 2024 15:23 (one month ago) link
Head Like A POLL: ILM Artist Poll #119 - Nine Inch Nails
― ufo, Friday, 29 March 2024 03:20 (one month ago) link