Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

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

also everyone knows James Brown's best album is "The Payback"

You could specify the ballot to be top 20 (or whatever) tracks and top 5 (or whatever) albums, and the countdown could run down one then the other, sort of 2 polls for the price of one.

yeah i will give it some thought. if it's too unwieldy i'll just go straight tracks.

No one's doing Bowie yet?

What you see is what we got. You wanna enlist?

Surprised there's no Cure poll planned.

At three weeks a poll, I think your list now takes you into next summer. I'd be happy to sign up for either Neil Young or Yo La Tengo then--can't remember if they turned up in the suggestions thread or not. (My preference would be for Neil.)

These aren't taking three weeks per!

Okay...time slows down to a crawl when you're off. If your list grows to a point that leads into next summer (20? 25?), please put me down for a big Neil Young poll (like Prince, anything he ever wrote).

a week for voting and a week for results works fine i think

I'm doing my results in a day hopefully. Maybe have a week off before getting the next one running if this is a concern?

What you see is what we got. You wanna enlist?

― time to put it in hi geir (WmC), Tuesday, August 2, 2011 8:10 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

Not really practical at the moment, but if no one's done it in a couple of months when I have the time I'd be glad to.

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We definitely have more than a couple of months' worth lined up, so I went ahead and penciled you in.

I'm doing my results in a day hopefully.

^ not my poll, but I think that is way too fast! You need to leave nice big gaps in there for discussion, which imo is a lot more interesting than the results table at the end.

he means tabulating?

Voting closes for VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD FOR ILM POST 1945 BEST JAZZ ALBUMS POLL (Voting closes August 27) in just under 4 weeks. Would whoever is doing the following weeks poll mind waiting a week so it doesn't clash? if not then i suppose we will need to work round it somehow. Don't want to step on anyones shoes.

Oh right, phew! xp

I know it's just polling for the sake of polling, but I was thinking about an SST tracks poll. Think you'd need a billion people to participate to get enough overlap though.

ideally seandalai & i would like to roll out the results mon 29th August-thursday 1st sept.

xp

macdara & i would vote in an SST poll for sure. Albums and/or tracks.

the ones we ran a few years back did really well

way too fast!

Maybe ... but we've had excellent discussion on the voting thread already, and voting's only a week so it doesn't need dragging out imo. I'm only planning a top 20 or 30 anyway, if once I've added them up it looks like I should go higher then I'll maybe reconsider.

Would definitely vote in an SST poll.

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 :)

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, August 2, 2011 8:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Oh I will! And it's very much appreciated! :-)

Basically, having never done a poll before, I will try the .xls first. If my lack of knowledge of how to work it does me in can always resort to pencil and paper :-)