Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

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.

(the list in progress)

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.

Would somebody like to do Radiohead or The Chemical Brothers at some point?

Some dude, I kiss you! Thanks for helping out!

OO yes, someone do The Fall! and swap with Kate Bush / move up the queue!!!

i'm generally more intrigued by the idea of polling bands with lots of albums. i think the fall would work well in this regard, along with, say, sonic youth and possibly stereolab.

while i'm curious about a poll for the cure, they're one of those bands that at this stage i have really fixed views on, so i'd probably be less likely to be informed or enlightened by contrary viewpoints as to what their best songs might be.

I'm not objecting, but Led Zep? Do they have enough tracks?

I believe I counted 84-ish. The small discography will make it interesting, for sure!

ha, I was wondering for some time if there's a need for a RH poll! doing polls sure looks like fun, I might give it a try.

I'll have to trade with someone next summer. But it'll have to be with Paul Simon or the Kinks--I've got a prime number, and I do not plan on losing that.

Considering quitting ILX, so I should bow out of doing this to be safe.

;_;

eric, no!

i think i will do ABBA, just bcz they have a less, uh, unwieldy discography and the variation in results might be more interesting (assuming people vote for non-single tracks which they SHOULD)

I would hereby like to lay claim to a Who songs poll. And I even have a title: "Hope I die before I get POLLED."

So this would be in...about a year?

When I get to Neil, I'm taking a solemn oath here and now not to call it "Heart of Polled." (The Who title really works, though.)

Not quite a year, I'd say. xp

Will somebody step in to do the Stevie Wonder poll at its current position?

"Hope I die before I get POLLED."

*slow clap*

Does that mean mine'll have to be Common PeoPOLL?

also New Order.

― Bee OK, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:36 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

I would love to see a New Order + Joy Division + side projects all covered in a single poll (i.e. NO + JD + The Other Two + Electronic + Revenge + Monaco + etc). I'm worried that my spreadsheet skills aren't up to snuff or else I'd volunteer to conduct the poll ...

was thinking an XTC one would be good, but maybe not enough voters to warrant it?

no one cares about P-Funk, obviously

Some dude, I kiss you! Thanks for helping out!

― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:54 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

no prob!

Anyone else here already mentally dreaming up the cleverest pun on the word "POLL" for each band on the list?

("Hope I Die Before I Get Polled" is awesome BTW !!)

Gallows Poll
This poll World
Polled Me

I'd vote in an XTC poll!

Census Polling Over Time!

(I win!)

are we not doing a Steely Dan poll then?

everyone knows all the tracks, sure, but it would be interesting to see how they placed

People are going to volunteer to do polls now based entirely on the quality of the title pun. I suddenly want to start polling Kennedy assassination theories ("Behind the Grassy Poll") and Hemingway novels ("For Whom the Bell Polls"), even though I think I've only read one of them.

You could always start a Metallica poll with that last one, though "Master of Polling", "Le Poll Messiah" and "(Anesthesia) Polling Teeth" would also be acceptable.

I too would vote in an XTC poll. Might I suggest: "Train Running Low On Soul Poll"?

(multiple xposts)

I figure the advantages to an XTC poll are that the catalog is REALLY broad and deep plus we could finally settle which is better, early punk XTC or late period pastoral XTC

I'd be up for doing a Kraftwerk one if there was enough interest, but it'd have to be tacked on to the end of the list far off into next year.

Ah, stick me down for Chemical Brothers at some point in the distant future.

Do Kraftwerk and Chemical Bros. have large enough discographies?

(the list in progress)

if there are enough tracks for a Led Zeppelin poll, there are enough tracks for a Chemical Brothers poll

I haven't totalled them up, but I'd guess Kraftwerk has about an equal number of songs to Led Zep, particularly if you include the three pre-fame albums (which I certainly intend to do). But, yeah, if there isn't enough interest I won't do one. I just thought they were an ILM beloved band that could produce some interesting results.

I initially thought of three bands I'd like to run polls for, but Neil Young and Guided by VOices were already taken. The third was Smashing Pumpkins, but a) I'm not sure that there would be enough voters and b) it would quickly be overrun with shit-talking haters.

i would vote in a kraftwerk poll

i would work in a pollkraft

Kanye's verse was edited out of the version played on Boston pop stations, I have no doubt this was true in other markets as well

― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:41 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

this fuckin guy

if there are enough tracks for a Led Zeppelin poll, there are enough tracks for a Chemical Brothers poll

― DALEKS OF GOD (DJP), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:04 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha THIS is the post i meant to c&p, i was going to say something in response to that other post on another thread but i forgot

jussst like over the moon @ the idea that uve got this notepad doc open where you keep other ppl's ilx posts yr brewin up a response to

whereas classic worthwhile posts like:

i would work in a pollkraft

― Monstrous TumTum (Lamp), Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

just fukken pop out unfiltered onto ilx w/ hesitation

i don't, it was just the last thing i ctrl+c'd and i must have not hit the right key when i tried to ctrl+c'd the one after that. but keep on finding really inane little things about me hilaaarious in that condescending way you do, it's totally not douchey at all.

^ couldve used some time to percolate on the notepad

its not douchey at all

(i did not actually think you keep a notepad open of ilx posts btw it was just a 'hilaaarious' vision i had after that post and had no idea you would be so sensitive about it esp considering it was mostly an excuse to self-zing myself? xp)

i keep an actual notepad of ilx quotes and when i finally see my chance to strike with the zing i get all steelyeyed and cross out your posts with one strong red line

i have a notepad but its mainly got like to do lists and things in it

i keep mine next to the copy of my high school yearbook with the faces of all the popular kids exed out