Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

You have to make sure you order by song name regularly to avoid vote splitting due to spelling/punctuation errors.

^^^ yes yes

Once all the ballots are in and entered, sort by song to see your total number of points. I never figured out how to use a pivot table, so at that point I transferred the song list to a new spreadsheet that included Album and Year columns, which would be the spreadsheet that everybody got a link to post-voting for datamining and such. Once that was all set up, sort by Points and there's your winning order.

Has there been a Smiths poll? Can anyone point me to it. Thanks.

"How soon is now" won, okthxbye

Would anyone be up for a Talking Heads + associated acts poll?

And you don't need to worry about resizing, ilx does it for you.

Depends on the stylesheet you're using. I use kenan_style.css and it doesn't seem to resize anything.

Hm, in that case sorry.

Would anyone be up for a Talking Heads + associated acts poll?

i was going to do Talking Heads but decided to do The Boo Radleys instead. i know less people will vote for in it but should be a blast to do...

I would vote in Talking Heads if anyone ran it. IMO it would be more interesting if it included solo albums, Tom Tom Club, etc.

On another matter at hand, Mordy's inclination (as best I can divine it) in the Joni Mitchell poll was for results not to roll out until approximately Oct. 10th. Any objection to getting the Neptunes poll rolling to run concurrently, if V79's schedule permits?

yeah if Talking Heads can play "Genius Of Love" and The Catherine Wheel songs in their concerts then that stuff might as well be eligible in a TH poll. we could even ::stifles smile:: make room for No Talking, Just Head ::loses composure, bursts into laughter::

I've been on a mini-PJH kick lately, very advanced prep-work for the poll, it seems!

Talking Heads has to happen sooner or later. I kind of assume it'll run itself somehow even if nobody volunteers.

There can't be too much overlap between Joni and The Neptunes, I'd guess they'd be fine to run concurrently.

Just to remind anyone who may be interested that voting closes for 1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers) on THURSDAY.

Thanks.

I've emailed V79 about the Neptunes poll, but his last ILX post was the one upthread a month ago, so I dunno.

does anyone want to do a YMO one??

I'm struggling a little bit to get the spreadsheet working. I'm able to input all the titles and everything, but I'm using Numbers (not Office) and can't figure out how to sort the columns alphabetically. Does anyone know how to do that in Numbers?

I've never used Numbers -- I was using OpenOffice until I discovered Google Docs was a million times easier. Are there contextual menus? Right-click on the column header bringing up Sort options?

No... I've hunted around and even googled for answers. Maybe I'll download OpenOffice this week and copy the ballots over.

I recommend Googledocs! Here's a copy of the basic poll .xls, just Save a Copy and go to town on it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmhW_PgsyKKodGZkUi14NV9mYUZ2bUhyV29QU3hBV3c

(thx WmC for your email!)

been away from ILX again lately, but of course I'll gladly run the Neptunes poll for everyone's pleasure (there *are* people waiting for it, I guess?). If I could only ask for about 24 more hours for preparation? my poll knowledge needs a bit of dusting off, it's been a while for me (sadly)

No problem! This was short notice.

I see aero's voodoo curse is taking effect.

Did rock n roll die?

Apparently so.

Can we just skip ahead to Wang Chung?

Counting down Joni Mitchell poll here:
Oh I Wish I Had a POLL, I Could Skate Away On: The Joni Mitchell Tracks/Albums Results Thread (ILM ARTIST POLL #26)

Albums today, tracks over the rest of the week.

have been pretty excited about the Neptunes poll! V79 lemme know if you want any help or advice i can offer from my experience running the Timbaland poll. i was thinking i might start putting together a Neptunes discog playlist on Spotify. i'm really hoping you a) do a 'worst' sub-poll and b) include Pharrell and Chad solo productions.

scott walker poll would be nice too, especially maybe a month after bish bosch comes out.

someone do blue oyster cult svp

I emailed V79 again. Hope he's up for this even with sparse ILXing.

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I would vote in a Scott Walker

Got an email from V79 last night -- his internet access is spotty, but he's planning on getting the Neptunes poll started this afternoon/evening.

can i call dibbs on a tv theme tune quicky poll?

Ooh! Hawaii Five-O, Grange Hill, Channel 4 Tour de France theme ... so many choices

Oh hell yes, great idea!

Might as well!

perfect strangers will crush the competition

or knight rider

http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/

thank you for being a friend

1. "Barney Miller" (10,478 points, 253 first-place votes)

good thing the thread got bumped, because - sorry for the delay, but I'm starting my Neptunes poll right now, hope everything goes well on this one

The Barney Miller thread

It'll be my 894th birthday by the time the Pink Floyd poll gets here *sigh*
But Bruce Springsteen on the horizon :D

I would vote for The Greatest American Hero theme song imo

well you still have the rest of the day to enjoy the 80s poll, vg

There's an 80s poll?

AG you and I both know that I will be almost completely mystified by the top 10 lol :)

a hoy hoy, I think tv themes could go ahead anytime and coexist with Neptunes outside this thread's list without any conflict or ballot fatigue issues.

V79, thanks for getting the Neptunes rolling!

It'll be my 894th birthday by the time the Pink Floyd poll gets here *sigh*
But Bruce Springsteen on the horizon :D

Would you go so far as to describe The Boss as a "distant ship's smoke" then?