Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

book one would be very cool.

lol Sakey

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1. Pet Shop Boys - Billy Dods (finished)
2. Beatles - Mark G (finished)
3. Prince - Jamie_ATP (finished)
4. U2 - Ismael Klata (finished)
5. Beach Boys - iatee (finished)
6. Led Zeppelin - WmC (finished)
7. Timbaland - some dude (finished)
8. Guided By Voices - Johnny Fever (finished)
9. Stevie Wonder - Eric H. (finished)
10. "Producers" - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
11. Pulp - Finefinemusic (finished)
12. James Brown - strongo/Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
13. Jacksons - Jamie_ATP (finished)
14. David Bowie - WmC (finished)
15. Paul Simon - Lamp (finished)
16. Rolling Stones - rogermexico (finished)
17. The Kinks - C. Grisso/McCain (finished)
18. Depeche Mode - crüt (finished)
19. Beastie Boys - Johnny Fever (finished)
20. ABBA - donna rouge (finished)
20B. Bee Gees - Shakey Mo Collier (finished)
21. Neil Young - clemenza (finished)
22. Fleetwood Mac - Clarke B. (finished)
23. The Cure - nate woolls (finished)
24. Kate Bush - Ismael Klata (finished)
25. The Who - Tarfumes the Escape Goat (finished)
26. Joni Mitchell - Mordy (just finished)
27. The Neptunes - V79 (voting now open for Neptunes, no picture ID required, no voter suppression in effect, please vote)
28. Saint Etienne - Billy Dods
29. Kraftwerk - jon via chi
30. Hüsker Dü - Pleasant Plains
31. Bruce Springsteen - Jamie_ATP
32. Miles Davis - WmC
33. Madonna - or something
34. The Fall - Mark G
35. PJ Harvey - Nasty, Brutish & Short
36. Cocteau Twins - Le Bateau Ivre
37. New Order - Bee OK
38. Sonic Youth - ArchCarrier
39. Motown Singles - a hoy hoy
40. Stax - seandalai
41. Disco - Tuomas
42. Jay-Z - some dude
43. The Clash - Gukbe
44. R. Kelly - Spottie_Ottie_Dope
45. Tom Waits - chap
46. The "Classic Rock" Canon - Doctor Casino
47. Elvis Costello - kornrulez
48. Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry - charlie h
49. Pink Floyd - Elvis Telecom
50. Ween - WmC
51. Steely Dan - Bee OK
52. Bob Dylan - tipsy mothra
53. Sleater-Kinney + offshoots - C.Grisso/McCain
54. Outkast - The Reverend
55. US Indie Singles of the 1980s - NickB
56. Autechre - Leee
57. Brian Eno - WmC
58. Wire - Z S
59. Chic Organization - Donna Rouge
60. Spaceman 3 (& descendants) - Elvis Telecom
61. Radiohead - nate woolls
62. Yo La Tengo/Dump - clemenza
63. P-Funk - Shakey Mo Collier
64. Iggy Pop, incl. Stooges - flopson
65. Boo Radleys - Bee OK
66. XTC - Shakey Mo Collier
67. Italo - daavid
68. Emo/Screamo/Mallcore/(post)Hardcore - Mordy

Dropped iatee's VU Solo and added Mordy's next one -- did I miss anything?

I would like to apply to do Creedence Clearwater Revival

the application process is pretty simple, you just have to throw eggs at underrated aero's house

ok so there are FOUR polls on the go atm? i'm going to let my tv themes one slide for now, this is ridic.

Sucks, because the tv themes one is the only one I give two shits about (no offense, Neptunes!)

it's lame that some people doing polls that aren't for single artist discographies think the whole queue idea doesn't apply to them but oh well, what are ya gonna do

plus aren't people a bit RAWKed out after the last poll? do they really need two more str8 after?

well, if algerian goalkeeper doesn't post at least 60 poll results a week dennis hopper will detonate him

hahaha

I count Neptunes and the latest two AG "hey let's all talk about my taste in music" polls ongoing...what's the 4th?

oh, Tuomas' electronic music poll

Dropped iatee's VU Solo

:(

had my ballot all ready to go for this one

hi wmc, please can you delete me from the list? thanks!

Fight fire with fire, a hoy hoy - simultaneous US and UK tv theme polls, then a radio one, then some threads discussion whether DVD box sets count as tv or not.

Seriously, don't drop tv themes, it was a great idea

im not dropping it, i'm just waiting two weeks

I also bailed on "classic rock canon," does someone else want to take it?

i'd be willing to take it on, although i may be inclined to bail on it as well depending on if the results of balls's '70s rawk tracks poll render it somewhat redundant

Actually wmc you're wrong with your (usual) snidey remarks (towards me) here.

latest two AG "hey let's all talk about my taste in music" polls ongoing..

The 70s polls are balls idea. I'm doing the albums one with him and he's doing the tracks poll. Others are helping out too.

Shakey you should join in nominating as I managed to persuade the others to allow the more guitar-y end of funk in. I think you would enjoy it. We can be a bit looser with definitions w/r/t to funk so it doesn't all have to sound like early funkadelic.

Guys I am so swamped at work for the next few months that I'm going to have to either bail on the Kraftwerk one or push it way down the list.

To be incorporated into the next full list:

CCR - crüt
drop US Indie Singles of the 80s
Classic Rock Canon changes from Dr Casino to some dude (tentative)
Move Kraftwerk down to spot after CCR

The last two can be dropped at any time if needed. JVC, if someone else wanted to run the Kraftwerk poll after Saint Etienne as scheduled, would you be OK with that, or would you like to hang on to it, just later?

If someone really wants to step up and take it, I'm fine with that. I just can't possibly make the time for a worthwhile poll to happen in the next few months. I don't want to half-ass it and if someone else can run it, great.

is there a new film one planned? the comedy/action/ horror polls were the best ilx threads of all time imo.

i'd takeover us80sindie because its a genre i rlly like but i think i'd need a moderator type for the nominations because its also a genre i dont know so well and i'd be open to trolling

I revived the horror results thread to ask about that a while back since the animation results apparently aren't going to happen. Crickets.

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xp - I wonder if NickB wanted to drop that because the recent 80s tracks poll made it mostly redundant.

oh fair enough.

is there a new film one planned? the comedy/action/ horror polls were the best ilx threads of all time imo.

I'm up for doing a Brit films poll, but I've the St Etienne poll on my horizon so would be a month or two before I'd run it.

xp - I wonder if NickB wanted to drop that because the recent 80s tracks poll made it mostly redundant.

yeah partly. was going to enforce a strict independent labels only rule but include everything from metal and hardcore through to jangly college rock, and also was going for singles instead of tracks so that a handful of bands wouldn't dominate, so it wouldn't have been an exact match, but it does feel like it's too close to go through it all again. but also, i couldn't commit the time. never mind, AGs poll was fun anyway and probably turned out a lot better

in fact he gave me the excuse to ditch it!

mm Brit films poll..

A heads-up -- I think some dude alluded to this recently on this thread or another poll thread, but these numbered polls pretty much went on hiatus during December and January last year for best-of-2011 voting and results. Seems reasonable to plan for the same hiatus this year, yeah?

xp -- thanks Nick, reasonable points. I hope everybody who signed up for one of these and who is now thinking "oh shit, what have I gotten myself into" will speak up! The rocket fuel these things run on is enthusiasm, and if the tank's empty, no worries!

Agreed with hiatus, and re rocket fuel. Four going on at once is too much right now, and I really don't want the artist ones to suffer because they're excellent fun, dead interesting, hugely educational, blah blah blah

(ps you're doing a great job being THE ENFORCER yourself btw. Just in case you were worried that we *all* think you're being a monster)

you're a lovely monster, WmC

Thanks IK and VG. As I've said before, just keeping the list is the easy part, and the heavy lifting is being done by the poll-runners and voters!

ha, I think I can't thank you enough for keeping reminding me about my poll!

Jesus, this waiting for the disco poll is killing me.

Disco and the Motown/Stax polls are what I'm looking forward to the most.

Madonna and Springsteen too, but not as much.

kraftwerk and husker du for me

Eric, I'd estimate disco around May/June-ish, barring delays and whether we get through Springsteen before the hiatus.

V79, I'm glad the reminders were welcome -- the last thing I want to be is a nag.

Neptunes, Miles and Motown - no real idea how I'm gonna handle these
Springsteen, Roxy - will be really interesting for me; it's make-or-break time for these two artists
Disco - straight-up salivating

british films will be great, but you need to have a way of defining what a british film actually is

foreign language films would be a good one too one day

foreign language = non-english, plz pardon the anglocentricity

It may take me until May or June to just pare my list of candidates down to 50.

I really do think I'm going to post Miles results #21-60 at random before doing the top 20 in order. Although that would probably work better for a John Cage poll.

While we're talking Miles, where should I start my research? From time to time I hear chatter about how good the box sets are, but I've never been able to identify what ones they are. It would mean my Christmas sorted, potentially.