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

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 merritt
nine inch nails
r.e.m.
erykah badu
yellow magic orchestra
super furry animals
kylie minogue
the 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 sylvian
kraftwerk
parliament/funkadelic
destroyer
everything but the girl
fiona apple

I'm still happy to run the Erykah Badu one whenever it happens

P-Funk was Poll #65: You and Your POLL, Me and My POLL: The P-Funk Results Poll

oh lol i vaguely remembered it had been done before but couldn't find it at all, that explains it

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

I am out for the next couple weeks, but could definitely begin one in October

rem has also been done

\///\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \///\///

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?

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.

I've also long said Prince is due for a redux

would be happy to help with a prince redo as well

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!

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

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.

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.

We have an ILX EOY nominations thread: ILM's 2023 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

It would be strange if "Canadian songs" were the end of the line for the genre/artist polls.

It's EOY voting time: ILM's 2023 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

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.

I would come out of poll retirement to do a Frank Zappa poll if there was enough interest.

Anyone interested in participating in a Taylor Swift draft (xp) in the second half of this year?

Head Like A POLL: ILM Artist Poll #119 - Nine Inch Nails