Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

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 :-)

I'm already on the hook for one (GBV), but someone should really put together a Van Halen one. Honestly, I don't know why it took me so long to think of it.

I agree that a one-day reveal for U2 is too fast.

It's too short to fully enjoy the 360° roll-out

gonna jump the gun a little bit w/ the beach boys voting cause I'm not sure when I'll have access to a laptop tomorrow

/ this weekend

i wanna do a paul simon one of these how many long do i have 2 wate

omg yes paul simon poll!!!

i will do nothing for a week in advance but "research" my ballot

11-12 weeks lamp tho you could probably trade up spots if you were crafty

honestly I think the lineup of polls we have now will take 6 months to go through

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have we had a Stones poll?

yes, stones--great idea (also kinks)

Stones and Kinks would both be good ones! Feel free to claim.

I'm having a little ballot fatigue, but every time I look at the list I get excited about the Producers poll.

i can't begin to get my head around the producers poll. maybe it'll make more sense to me once we do a nominations thread. feels like such an apples and oranges thing to compare how one producer works with these artists to how another works with other artists. maybe i'll throw up my hands and just vote for all my favorite hip hop beatmakers.

I think that one would go okay without a separate nominations thread -- just an extra long voting period and a lot of campaigning -- but that'll be Shakey Mo's call. I dunno, I can see the value in a noms thread as well.

I guess it would include engineers too...who was more important to the Beatles discography, George Martin or Geoff Emerick?

I'm totally stoked for the producers poll. Will claim the Stones though someone may have to remind me by the time it comes up!

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I think that one would go okay without a separate nominations thread -- just an extra long voting period and a lot of campaigning -- but that'll be Shakey Mo's call. I dunno, I can see the value in a noms thread as well.

I guess it would include engineers too...who was more important to the Beatles discography, George Martin or Geoff Emerick?

― L.P. Hovercraft (WmC), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think there'll almost HAVE to be a nominations thread just to hash out stuff like producers vs. engineers, artists who only produced themselves, people who are chiefly remixers, producers who've worked extensively as a team or individually, etc.

Still basically TS: George Martin vs Rick Rubin tho right?

vs. Phil Spector vs. Tom Dowd vs. Teo Macero -- it's not going to be as clear-cut as Martin/Rubin, I don't think!

Glen Ballard vs RZA

Tom Wilson, George Shadow Morton, David Briggs...That'll be a tough one to rein in to a manageable number.

I'll do the Kinks!

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That's a lot of old white men in a row, 16-19 -- if somebody signs up for Madonna or P-Funk or somesuch, there might be some schedule juggling for variety's sake, yeah?

Oh yes, Roger and C. Grisso! Thanks for doing those, can't wait

I will do a Depeche Mode poll.

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Ok, so I'm going to be unable to do the Kate Bush poll before September 10. Would someone from places 10/11/12/13 be so very kind to swap with me? Pretty please?

Bring 'producers' forward if possible imo, would be a nice break to a run of classic rock.

Excellent plan, if Shakey Mo agrees.

i volunteer to do either ABBA or the fall (whichever one people would find more interesting), am fine waiting until whenever

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i'm 13 so i can step in if nobody in line before me wants too -- Timbaland poll would serve the same function of throwing something different into the mix

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i don't know how involved you or anyone else is in setting the schedules for the specific things, but should i try to have the Timbaland poll start by/after or end by/after any particular dates? it seems like the voting widow for most of these is around a week but i'd love to open it to more like 2 weeks for people to sort through such a large and diffuse discography.

Your discretion. A longer polling period might work perfectly since Armond Ratfucker wants a window without one of these artist poll reveals where he can bring out the jazz album results.

ah good idea, i'll check w/ him to see what would work best

I would really love to run a Fleetwood Mac poll at some point.

Wow, that would be involved.

Indeed, but I love them enough to do it, and I think it would be a hugely participated-in and pretty heated one given the general level of love for them on the board...

the top 50 would really just be 3 albums w/ a few singles thrown in tho

I'd be willing to give a thorough listen to the pre-Lindsey/Stevie years, but I still can't guarantee that I wouldn't just send in my Tusk ranking. (j/k mostly) OK, you called it --

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Just a reminder that my sometime-in-2012 was meant to be July or August. I'm guessing you've pushed me back to 2013 by now.

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Here, have a prime number. I'm sure you'll be able to trade into a time slot that works for you.

someone do the Cure, please! i would but can't right now.

also New Order.

I'll do the Cure, whenever there's a slot.