what artist, if any, is worth doing an ILM tracks poll?

"one at a time" partisans, can we at least agree that once the reveal starts for X, the voting can start for Y?

this seems like a good schedule

how much time per results thread?

I'll do a Beach Boys poll but will probably wait a bit

too late bro I claimed the boys

omg I can't wait for the multiple threads of trying to coordinate this "one poll at a time idea"

yeah I don't see why there has to be a schedule? if I don't want to see a thread I just don't click that link?

Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

too late bro I claimed the boys

― iatee,

*hats off*

yeah I don't see why there has to be a schedule? if I don't want to see a thread I just don't click that link?

this seems to be a really hard concept for people to grasp

Is that coördinating thread just for single artists, or for all polls. Because I quite fancy trying a disco one.

Yeah but a load of polls on the front page at once makes it harder to see the rest, and causes niche interest threads to drop off New Answers more quickly. Also, the more polls there are going on at once the less likely they are to get wide participation and comment.

Kinda amazed the first post on that thread wasn't someone immediately going I CLAIM INSANE CLOWN POSSE.

no way am I running one of these polls

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I guess we were waiting for Dan to step up to the plate.

"one at a time" partisans, can we at least agree that once the reveal starts for X, the voting can start for Y?

Well, there is that point where the voting date End has passed.

Do not be beholdern on the results thread starting, as it could happen that the results never happen! (remember that 80s poll?)

Things these polls do:
1. Take two threads each, one for announcing the voting itself and another for the results.
2. Spur discussion about a band some people love, some people like, and some people are simply curious about. As noted upthread, the scheduled rollout may artificially prolong the discussion, but it's prolonged nonetheless.
3. Crown a winner! Yippee! But as also noted upthread, finding out what wins isn't the fun part. The journey is.

Things these polls DON'T do:
1. Clutter up the board if done one at a time. See previous item #1.
2. Force anyone to participate.
3. Proclaim superiority of one style over another. For example, just because I organized a poll for "Pavement" doesn't mean you can't organize a poll for "Destiny's Child/members thereof". I'll be interested in that one even if you aren't interested in mine.

Tbh, I can't believe how concerned people are about "cluttering up the board". We already have so many damned threads, its hardly to make THAT big of a difference.

I might end up turning my 1970 Album Openers thread into a poll...

I'm livid about this one topping SNA tbh

sorry

predictably, I voted for Zeppelin

― censored my own brad whitford joke (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:28 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

same

some dude, did you put the ramones on this as a joke

I voted for this poll. pretty unnecessary.

ha Ramones was just thrown in there at the last minute as a "hmmm who is beloved on ILM that had a lengthy career" but yeah i guess it's not a very realistic one

LCD Soundsystem

imho you gotta get the fanboys/girls out in #s otherwise it's just another boring low-participation poll.

what ilm really needs is a PAVEMENT vs SONIC YOUTH ilx system-run poll

the loser gets their name autoreplaced with whogivesashit.jpg from now until the sun burns out

neither sonic youth nor pavement posts here though

keep working

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Track polls I would like to see/would participate in:

Saint Etienne (huge amount of great B-sides and fanclub-only tracks)
Pet Shop Boys
New Order
Pulp
Morrissey

Brian Eno
Creation Records
Roxy Music
Exile On Main Street
U2

Best song on Exile On Main Street

Not an artist, and I don't know that we have the expertise to carry it off right, but what would be really incredible would be a 'The Caribbean' poll.

Steely Dan--I guess only hardcore fans turn out to vote in these things, but I love how passionate the Pavement one got, I bet SD would be the same, albeit for a different ILM demo (maybe?)

I like how each one of these might involve different numbers of votes per ballot, different numbers on the reveal, different point distributions, depending on the person running it. The Pavement voting structure was weird, but at least it was weird for everyone.

Creation Records

Would support this and other record label polls, or at least those with a well defined aesthetic, Motown, Factory, Warp etc

Tbh, I can't believe how concerned people are about "cluttering up the board". We already have so many damned threads, its hardly to make THAT big of a difference.

naw but man whenever there's a new thing like POX or "best album by" or whatever ILM new answers becomes this really offputting TWENTY NEW THREADS OF THE NEW IDEA thing...it's just sloppy and ugly. Always a head-smackin bummer when this happens

thread strip malls

aerosmith otm

Would support this and other record label polls, or at least those with a well defined aesthetic, Motown, Factory, Warp etc

Tzadik...
...naaaah.

i love these polls, this thread is hysterical

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Voted Bowie here. Of course The Beatles are central and all for me, but I feel there are too many White Album-loving non-fans here for its own good, so Bowie would fit better than The Beatles.

i am just here to say

MADONNA.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:55 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also, FUCK YOU.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:55 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

lol

did geir send in a list? how did that go over?

I didn't in the rap poll, but probably could have constructed some ballot consisting of largely G-funk, "The Message", "Planet Rock" and a couple of Outkast tracks.

sell-out

I love all the drive-by bitterness and snark these polls are generating...let's do more!!

yeah see geir's vote probably would've improved the poll w/ more west coast shit!

i would get involved in maybe half of these. elvis costello would be fun tbh. but the key is def to just spread em out and not have them on top of each other.

Putting aside personal feelings, and cutting slack for "Well, I don't know their music at all, but I suppose they have a devoted following," the two names on that list where I must be completely out to lunch are the Boredoms and the Boo Radleys.

really think AC/DC should have a trax poll. I mean this is one rock band where fans get uber excited over individual songs and the range of opinion is so varied.

Anyway, the one where I'd have the most to say would be a Neil Young poll (especially as I have a few eccentric favourites).

nothing, big organized polls shouldn't be for just one artist

really think AC/DC should have a trax poll. I mean this is one rock band where fans get uber excited over individual songs and the range of opinion is so varied.

― why i am an anarcho-sandwich artist (Neanderthal), Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i don't think the range of opinion is THAT varied -- they're a very popular singles band and there'd be a small minority championing albums tracks, but mostly it would just be a mildly unpredictable battle of Bon Scott era vs. Back In Black