Come On Let's POLL - ILM Artist Poll #114 - BROADCAST (Polling and Lobbying Thread)

'get TO play', rather

ballot sent, apologies for weird formatting in my email

*thumbs-up emoji*

^ You have space and time for it, should the oversight become unbearable!

I seem to have a knack for misreading you, matttkkkk! Sorry. I now see I somehow took your post as a followup from Neue Jesse Schule.

This is likely my very last excruciating 'hurry up' post. :) If anyone else was planning to submit, the next 3 hours would be great.

I’m happy with your interpretations N!N!N! and I’m fine with my flawed ballot …

I think that's it for nominations, NNN do you have any more in the inbox?

votes not nominations gah

Nope. So the present contents of the spreadsheet are basically it.

Just submitted a ballot, hope it's not too late. No worries if it is tho!

Yep. I'm about 10 minutes from my proper computer, so I'll rush home and enter it, CaAL!

ok with me

Thanks! Apologies for the last-minuteness

That concludes the data collection, by the way. Stay tuned for the rollout.

And thanks for voting, voters! I expected a faaairly lean turnout, and hesitated for years, given the conspicuously chilly reception to the idea in the poll coordinating thread. I think it's likely I would have just let it rest indefinitely without Camaraderie at Arms Length occasionally agitating for it over there!

24 ballots is healthier than I dared to expect. A whisker short of, say, a Prefab Sprout. :)

Look there has been plenty of time for everyone to discover Broadcast, so if 24 is the most we can muster, I am actually forming a judgement of ILXors on this matter.

Haha. 24 is not really a suuuper-low turnout by ILX 2022 standards. eg. Daft Punk apparently attracted 30 participants last month and they surely shifted some serious units and made news bulletins when they disbanded!

Something that came up repeatedly (starting years ago) is the "I love them but the discography is too tiny for this" thing. I guess there aren't many ostensibly 'pop' acts who are actually NOT really that at all for half of their discography.* For some, a lot of the vocal-free stuff and messy later stuff may be almost sub-consciously dismissed at the outset. I think I get how one might end up with a pre-shrunk pool of plausible candidates.

*obligatory Stereolab comparison: I feel like they more reliably retained hummable wordless vocal melodies and driving rhythms when meandering away from the land of lyrics.

. Daft Punk apparently attracted 30 participants last month...

What do you mean apparently? No, THEY did get 30 ballots when all was said and done.

I simply meant "I just went and found a source that told me that's what happened". If I gave the impression I doubted this claim, it was not intentional. It'd be pretty peculiar thing to dispute tbh!

No harm no foul. It just stuck me as weird to put "apparently" in that sentence as if I made up some ballots or something. All is well...

Oh god, no! Nothing like that!

I'd be prepared to believe that my word choices are odd. Like, quite often. Language processing is legit a bit of a mess for me nowadays, lol.

My apologies, I should've brought it up.

Good luck with this poll, it sounds like they have a dedicated fan base. Which should make for a great poll.

Twas a fair query!

Something just occurred me: two consecutive polls for artists with an early release on Duophonic, sort of.

Camaraderie at Arms Length is busily preparing for the rollout!

I've a question in the meantime.

A voter mentioned, when submitting their ballot, that that original second section of "Where Youth and Laughter Goes" (or the interlude after it, if you prefer) was likely kept off The Future Crayon because of an uncleared sample. Anyone know what they might have sampled?

I feel like I've alluded to it a comically large number of times in this thread but perhaps not linked to it directly. THIS BIT :)

CaAL has advised that a rolllout thread will be initiated around Sunday, with the rollout proper likely being Mon-Fri.

I know all the things, but I'm no less excited lol.

Very excited for this rollout!

Here's another unacknowledged borrowed melody. (Mostly in the final 30s.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtqDsZ8skNk

Apologies for radio silence over here, frantically making images when I can find time between busy work week, my wife's visa documents, my mix for 1942, etc. (No worries, I've cleared next week almost entirely)

(If anyone has any images they would like to suggest, feel free to post them here, no promises on using of course, but good to have a decent stock to work from)

Results thread here:

TEARS IN THE TYPING POLL: ILM Artist Poll #114 - BROADCAST (Results Thread)

all very well linking from that thread to here but it's this one that people have bookmarked