Thread for coordinating the order and timing of ILM ballot polls

leee is checking the length of his fave amt and going by that

please remove me from the list completely, thanks

No! I don't wanna be no.69

tee hee

Ismaels summer of 69

Noooo I was so looking forward to Kraftwerk!!!

Number 69 should be a 69 Love Songs poll.

I'd run a Merritt poll if were interested.

Would vote in a Merritt poll. Especially if it were a top 69.

Same here! 69 Love Songs has been done though, iirc.

And someone please do Kraftwerk!

Could also just do a poll of top 69 love songs, though that could get unwieldy.

well i'd want to include all the mag fields + other merritt bands and i guess side projects (i haven't heard things like the opera or whatever that was)

Well, I don't think any those opera tracks have much of a chance to chart, TBH.

It should definitely be everything Merritt has done though. Some great 6ths and Future Bible Heroes stuff out there.

well go ahead and put me down for the Merritt poll. unless of course I totally bungle the Clash one.

xp Definitely, and let's not forget the Gothic Archies! The "Series of Unfortunate Events" tracks were mostly disposable but the first (an only) EP is classic.

some great gothic archies stuff, and just him under his solo name had "maria maria maria" and "one april day"

leee is checking the length of his fave amt and going by that

More like my favorite Katy Perry song.

I had a thought earlier today that "60s/70s singer-songwriters" might have been a better poll than Joni Mitchell solo...it would be interesting to see how that canon shakes out, "At Seventeen" vs "Fire and Rain" vs "Help Me" etc

still, Mitchell turned out good I thought

It was nice going through a thread about Joni Mitchell without having to read about Carly Simon.

i know that it's silly to be discussing it so far in advance but i've been wondering about instead of an emo poll it might be cooler to do a new pornographers and solo albums poll. any thoughts? (i could do both too at different times...)

a folk poll would be good

btw nominations end today for the 70s poll
If anyone would like to take part that would be great 1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! Nominations ! (ends Oct 17 you slack bastards - jjjusten edit)

William and Shakey i think might enjoy it. Please have a look everybody as you're all welcome!

I don't see that in the queue

well it's not part of this series of polls,true, neither were the 00s or 90s electronic polls or the 80s rock poll, but everyone is welcome to join in them all.

Ah, I can never stay mad at you AG

EK posse never can!

A little update on The Neptunes poll: the deadline was supposed to be this midnight, but since I'm not really able to start the results thread until around Wednesday, I'm pushing it down to the end of the weekend. Can I have the thread's title corrected? Also, what whas the average ballot count for previous polls? I've received 10 ballots, seems kind of low.

Somewhere in the high twenties is about average I'd guess. Neptunes' demographic is largely a non-voting demographic though - iirc there was a hiphop poll that really struggled - so I guess you'll probably have to make do with fewer. Just shorten the countdown, nbd.

That's a shame, but unfortunately I its not something I could vote on. Perhaps you could post on a few relevant threads and ask people to vote?

just don't try it on twitter

i'm not gonna be able to do the madonna poll i'm afraid, work stuff is gonna get in the way. apologies. can anyone help a brother out and take it up for me? it remains a poll i'd like to vote in.

That's a shame, but unfortunately I its not something I could vote on. Perhaps you could post on a few relevant threads and ask people to vote?

Fixed.

Put me down for Madonna then, I guess. I was originally going to do that before I switched to Guided By Voices.

I've been thinking about a modern r&b poll. like post-soul/disco. what do people think? i was thinking if i do it next year and start it from 1983+ then it could be a best r&b albums of the past 30 years or something.

how many did the timbo poll get? neptunes should get similar. it is way more of a pop/r&b poll than the overall hiphop one.

I'd love it, but I reckon it'd need, if not the full nominations process, then at least to clear the decks while it runs. It's the most significant genre poll you could run for the recent era imo and shouldn't risk getting lost in the crowd.

I've posted a link to the The Official ILM THE NEPTUNES Poll (#27 In Series) - Voting & Campaigning Thread (Voting Deadline - October 19th) poll asking people to vote in my 1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll!- VOTING THREAD!- Closes Nov 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME poll. Hope it helps.

i got 36 ballots for the Timbo poll

I'm surprised it was so high, that's really good.

Two tips for improving turnout:
- make it as easy as possible to vote. Ballots of twenty can be done without having to go away and write things down; ballots of thirty-plus probably can't
- bump the voting thread a lot, make it an interesting discussion. I don't think long deadlines draw many more people in, but getting engaged with the process might

Other than that, I'm guessing that easily-defined catalogues/themes will more easily attract voters. To my mind Neptunes are (still) pretty nebulous, so it's natural that they'll be on the low side.

But twenty ballots is certainly enough to make for a decent top twenty or thirty countdown (Manics got by with 16 iirc); Neptunes should end up pretty close to that.

So what's currently happening here.

Good question. Unfortunately I missed the request to change the deadline in the Neptunes thread title before I quit modding, but I don't know that it would have changed the number of ballots anyway. I'll bump the Neptunes thread and try to roust V79.

Of all times to turn in your badge.

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You should stay mod for this thread only

The deadline extension did get a few people to vote. I'm way behind on my regional thug/r&b rolling thread listenings and don't want to lose my bookmarks - maybe a good place for someone to kerr about votes?

Could we get away with a Mountain Goats poll? They are a band ilx loves and have a massive back catalogue but otoh

Put me down for Madonna then, I guess. I was originally going to do that before I switched to Guided By Voices.

― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:19 (4 days ago) Permalink

cheers johnny.

I'm actually kinda excited about it, but it's still a while before it happens.

You should stay mod for this thread only
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:23 AM

WmC's been doing a great job keeping these polls coordinated.

Thanks! The only real mod-advantage is being able to delete old versions of the ongoing list so the thread stays more easily scrollable. I might sneak into my mod account every few months to clean this thread up if stet doesn't delete it.

a hoy hoy, I think the "but otoh" would take precedence re: a MtGoats poll, enthusiasm and catalogue size notwithstanding. It would feel a little weird, I think.