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

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

?

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

http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/politicians-in-the-tuileries-gardens-louis-leopold-boilly.jpg

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

why not
xpost

ya but I mean given the convo in other threads I don't think it'd be like 50 ppl voting for Highway to Hell, I mean everyone was championing different songs! xpost

said it before and got the usual thoughtless withering put-down in three words from some daily posting lifers but...

"I love Polls" should be a separate board.

Don't know who first asked for it anyway or felt the function was needed but as overnight changes go it's been pretty effective at turning 1/3 of the board to shit overnight and lowering the quality here in general. I don't post much but visit & lurk from various places, having to login to hide them is tedium.

already been said

four years ago

so sod off

Srsly what sense does it make to have a board that's just polls, not even separated by topic

having to login to hide them is tedium

The devastating strain of logging in

I didn't agree that it's turned a third of the board to shit - they're just normal threads with a voting button afaics - but if a guy who doesn't post much thinks so then maybe I'd better reconsider

seriously, what is the f--in' bug in peoples' bonnets about polls? it's so optically straining to see and then ignore them? how about meditation to calm you down instead?

while we're on the subject, can all you hiphop guys stop posting threads please? they clog up my screen when i'm looking for best coast news and i find it hard not to go in and read every post anyway and this takes a lot of my time.

same goes for fans of -

boo radleys
bat for lashes
1960s arabian house

cheers

this is what happens when everyone walks around in their little "my world only please" bubble--thanks internetz!

thanks Neanderthal. valuable insight there, surely no other ilxors have ever expressed their opinions twice on relevant topics, what a freak I must be.

"to shit" a bit strong ok... but 1/3 "pretty unnecessary" more how it feels.

Srsly what sense does it make to have a board that's just polls, not even separated by topic

― why i am an anarcho-sandwich artist (Neanderthal),

I dunno, maybe try thinking about it for a second *shrug*

pretty sure this thread itself explains why poll threads are lame noise anyway?? meta-zzzzz

nice & sweeping there Iago btw.

Srsly what sense does it make to have board(s)

poll threads are lame noise

also sweeping.

an inner circle bad boys poll would be amazing

thanks Neanderthal. valuable insight there, surely no other ilxors have ever expressed their opinions twice on relevant topics, what a freak I must be.

― side splitting genital based username (fndgo), Saturday, June 18, 2011 1:32 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

i thought he was just giving you the "thoughtless withering put-down in three words" you were expecting?