Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

Only one way to find out! “20” – U2 TRACKS POLL (voting closes midday, Thursday 4 August) is now up and running.

lol at my typo -- I meant to say "the Beach Boys' top 10"

I want to run a Timbaland poll, so please put me in that running order.

1. Pet Shop Boys - Billy Dods (finished)
2. Beatles - Mark G (finished)
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP (results currently rolling out)
4. U2 - Ismael Klata (NOW VOTING, deadline Thursday)
5. Beach Boys - iatee
6. Led Zeppelin - WmC
7. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
8. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever
9. Pulp - Finefinemusic
10. "Producers" - Shakey Mo Collier
11. Joni Mitchell - Mordy
12. Stevie Wonder - Eric H.
13. Timbaland - some dude

Stevie Wonder's going to be a big-ass fun-ass argument.

really? i feel like there's not much controversy about his best/not best material compared to a lot of these other artists.

ah, maybe not. Most voters are probably not going to favor the work of one era as much as I'll favor the 60s singles.

come on, someone do madonna. is guided by voices week a joke?

having just heard arthur for the first time, and weeping with joy that i have such things left to discover, i nominate the kinks for a future poll--isn't 99% of their catalogue, at least the first ten years, like all buried treasure?

is guided by voices week a joke?

eff you. I know there are some people around here that are as serious about GBV as I am. I just hope they vote.

Kinks would be a great poll and a fun time.

Oh I'll defo vote in the GBV poll, JF, rest assured!

I'm going to doctor the results of the Stevie poll so that "Summer Soft" makes the top 10, so don't worry that there won't be controversy.

some dude, Eric H - switchsies? These ballots are going along quickly and my poll looks like it'll fall before September 17th, when I won't be available! (Wedding Aug 20 - honeymoon Sept 10-17!) :( I tried to push for as late as possible but it seems we are enthusiastically quick!

premature e-tabulation

Somebody sign up to do a Madonna poll at #9!

I can switch, sure.

Thank you Eric! If anyone else wants my slot for Madonna, that's cool too. I just got too much stuff to do in the next 5 weeks!

1. Pet Shop Boys - Billy Dods (finished)
2. Beatles - Mark G (finished)
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP (results currently rolling out)
4. U2 - Ismael Klata (NOW VOTING, deadline Thursday)
5. Beach Boys - iatee
6. Led Zeppelin - WmC
7. Kate Bush - Le Bateau Ivre
8. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever
9. Stevie Wonder - Eric H.
10. "Producers" - Shakey Mo Collier
11. Joni Mitchell - Mordy
12. Pulp - Finefinemusic
13. Timbaland - some dude

thanks WmC, Eric :)

and note that 'NOW VOTING', folks

Ismael, are you using the .xls posted up-thread to gather and process votes? I still need to figure out what the best way of doing that is, for my KB poll.

Hm, I dunno - I might just do it by hand, that worked fine on the football poll. I'm setting myself a quick turnaround target too, so learning a new system may not be wise.

I see, thanks. I can see myself doing it by hand too tbh.

is guided by voices week a joke?

eff you. I know there are some people around here that are as serious about GBV as I am. I just hope they vote.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, August 1, 2011 7:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Let me know when this is happening! I've got your back. Dang.

I encourage people giving the .xls a try! I tried my best to set it up so you just have to drag & drop a formula in one column :)

If the Zep poll goes smoothly, I'm going to sign on for Bob Dylan.

Do these have to be artist-centric? I wouldn't mind doing a grand, overall dance music poll somewhere down the line.

That would probably bring in a lot more ballots than a Stevie Wonder poll, too.

I'd love for someone to do a "Motown" poll or some other interesting label (Warp? Sub Pop? Stax?).

has anyone claimed james brown yet? if not, i would like to throw in for the godfather.

i also talked about doing a jungle/dnb poll on the idm thread and got some positive responses, but that might be enough of a niche thing that we don't need to include it in this running order? if so, though, let me know.

Do these have to be artist-centric? I wouldn't mind doing a grand, overall dance music poll somewhere down the line.

there was that all-time heavy metal poll, and the rap poll...

I think (but y'all correct me if I'm misreading this) that huge overarching themes/genres like dance music are free to tackle outside this lineup of smaller polls. For example, Armond Ratfucker is currently doing post-WWII jazz albums outside this thread's chronology. "Dance Music" sounds like a huge enough thing that it would need a period of nominations before the voting.

There was last year's dance/electronic poll that just died.

(the list in progress)

Motown would be a great one.

I think i'll do a Jacksons one after James Brown - Michael, Janet, Jermaine, Jackson 5, Jacksons, any track by any configuration/family member - think it could be fun.

oh yeah, that'd be a good one.

Agreed. I'd like to try to set up another dance music poll, but I'll save that for some other time and stick with Stevie now.

(the list in progress)

I'd quite like to go in the other direction and try doing a write-in for one album. Imagine the complaints. It'd need to be a hell of an album to pull it off though.

yeah get that U2 thing over with already, iatee has more important business to attend to!

Oh yeah bold now, I like that.

mulling the jb poll. along with singles, i wonder if it might be interesting to also open it up to a.) albums and b.) tracks featuring jb samples? b.) might be pushing it.

if i do open it to albums, star time is officially excluded.

Ismael, not sure what the "one album" post refers to--?

mulling the jb poll. along with singles, i wonder if it might be interesting to also open it up to a.) albums and b.) tracks featuring jb samples? b.) might be pushing it.

why would you want to restrict a James Brown poll to just the singles? that's crazy.

including sample-based songs is def crazy

haha well i meant "tracks," not "singles" per se. and because all the other polls have been limited to tracks!

may do a sub-poll of top five jb-sampling tracks.

xps I mean instead of polling a band, polling Exile On Main Street or Tusk or something. Ballots of five. NB I am NOT volunteering for this.

I don't understand how a poll would include both best album AND best single, like why would you mix those two results together