Is it okay if I just send a top ten? I don't have much time to go through stuff but it'd be nice to take part.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:04 (nine years ago) link
top 20 minimum. c'mon you can freestyle that in like 2 minutes!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
my advice would be, think about the songs that you'd be angry to see miss the top 100. because right now, having tabulated more than half the ballots, i still have no idea how this is really gonna end up. a lot of huge songs are not safe at the moment. there are bands with tons of hits that have nothing guaranteed in the top 100 yet.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
how many ballots do you have?
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
Okay, I scanned my longlist and threw together a top... 26? It's not a particularly interesting ballot but at least I'm throwing some love at a few favourites.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
*opens photoshop* *cracks knuckles*
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure you guys have some awesome stuff planned for rollout, but I think a podcast where you do a radio countdown with DJ banter in between songs would be perfection
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
I'd be willing to chip in to enlist Steven Wright for that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
yessss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mto3YoSIEM
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
You've reminded me that K Billy was more of a K-Tel/AM Gold kind of guy--though he does get in a "keep on truckin'", and has an excellent way of saying "The Behemoth."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
I heard my four-year-old absent-mindedly singing Abracadrabra to himself as he wandered the floor this morning otherwise doing his four-year-old stuff
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
current total is 58 ballots but I am still accepting votes from my fellow workaholics and procrastinators! bring em on!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
can we do worst first?
― campreverb, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
yes, subpolls will roll out first
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
Carson City Fairgrounds
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
FREE HOT DOGS! FIFTY CENT BUD LIGHT DRAFTS!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i still plan on doing this but can't finalize til tonight.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
tonight is good! do it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
ok then
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Can I still vote on this then? Just got internet set up at the new place.
― Yoga Knives (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Yes! There is still time, please vote! If both you send me ballots that will put us over the line to 60!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
VOTER SIXTY GETS TO TICKETS TO SUPERTRAMP!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
I've been dialing since 8am, line is permanently jammed wtf I WANT SUPERTRAMP TICKETS GODDAMMIT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQgP1I64AE4
1:28 forward
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I am sad the Rock Legends Cruise is sold out.
http://rocklegendscruise.com/
Featuring:
The Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers,.38 Special, The Marshall Tucker Band, Don Felder, WAR, Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Rik Emmett, The Edgar Winter Band, Ten Years After, Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Pat Travers Band, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Melvin Seals & JGB, The Artimus Pyle Band, Swamp Da Wamp, Steve Rodgers, The Blue Lords, Citizens Band Radio
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
wow
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Al, did I read correctly that we can still send you lists today?
― thomasinskeep, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Do it, Thomas!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Yes, go for it!
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Doing it, Paul.
― thomasinskeep, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, Foreplay/Longtime you guys.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
^ ad-libs on the coda to my no.17
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
This song is so unruly.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Shoulda included WAY more Boston on my ballot.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
I am a big, big fan of foreplay. I mean "Foreplay." Well, yeah.
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Won't be able to rank the whole thing. Top 20 or 25 maybe.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
But that's the most difficult part to rank! I've got like twenty viable no.1s up top.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
The number of points your #25 song is getting is still pretty high, just list 'em and they'll all get a nice boost
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
lol @ Swamp Da Wamp
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
Top 50: sent! Can't wait to see this poll. Al, you're a giant for compiling it.
― thomasinskeep, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
Have been having ridiculous computer trouble - it doesn't wantto cut & paste 100 lines. Think I've sorted through it now & am sending ballot. Pologies for lateness.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
I won the Supertramp tickets!
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
Haha wow just got 3 ballots in the space of 20 minutes! Any more stragglers? I'll give you Thursday too, lotta counting left to do.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
letting the deadline slide is so classic rock
wait was five man electrical band's (or tesla's ffs) 'signs' nominated?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
cover was post-86 and nobody nommed the original.
I let the deadline slide on all my polls, usually because i'm anxious for more voters, in this case because the turnout was so huge that it just seems fair to give people an extra window of opportunity while I'm counting.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
tbh that entire post was rhetorical
<3 some dude, thanks for running the show that never ends. it's guaranteed to blow our heads apart
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
btw I should just you guys the gist now, the top 100 will probably run mon-fri the week AFTER next, starting July 28. thread will kick off with subpolls sometime next week I reckon. all tentatively, obviously gr80 have our work cut out for us and doing it right is more important that doing it quickly.
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
rocktaugust
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
so that would be oxt week.
http://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5901883/oxt-new-word-weekend
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
I call for a literal, month-long Rocktaugust, just because more than five songs a day is hard to have a proper drunken argument about.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link