~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2013 - ALBUMS & TRACKS VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) )

(though to be fair, I def could've noticed its absence before now so)

too much drugs

I realize jmm's earlier comment may have been in jest, but I'm so tired of seeing "Deafheaven" and "hipster" in the same sentence. I'm an old-school metal head who's been listening to heavy music for 25 years (nothing hipster about me) -- and I LOVE Deafheaven. Is it just because the singer's handsome? Is it because they seem to have a sense of humor in their personal lives? Or do folks still perhaps equate popularity with lack of integrity/lack of chops? If you don't like them, whatever, but for God's sake let's all stop with the term "hipster."

Love Bolzer and In Solitude too btw!

I think its the fact they appeared on so many non-metal lists as well as metal lists, aren't on a metal label, dont look like metallers as much as they dont like the music after all theres plenty of music people dont like but never talk about.

You never hear anyone slagging off the death metal band Farting Dudes In Sweatpants and they're really bad.

Yeah don't worry, I was just kidding. I'd never use that term seriously.

Updated the metal poll tracks nominations playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/5h0uxOzYvaafpBbe6Sve2J

you have 25 hours left to vote in metal albums and/or tracks poll!

ah shite, got into the Yellow Eyes late and did not nominate :(

Yeah, the Yellow Eyes is great. Borderline hipster? ;-)

Detov I

Not heard of the yellow eyes

anyway only 23 hours and 18 mins left to vote!

xp

ah yes they are a Brooklyn band huh; well I do have Deafheaven on both ballots so...

i dont see your ballot unless you used a different name to anonanon

I think we have 36 ballots now and a few people who have promised to get them dony by tomorrow so we should reach 40, which is still down on last year but quite a relief after only having 12 2 days ago.

I do wonder if perhaps next year a metal poll should start by december and rundown last week before xmas. Less chance of poll fatigue maybe?

yeah, they're not in yet but on the way

ahh, ok! I like to check these things. I still feel guilty about a missing billy dods ballot years ago!

ok, voted!

I really think it was the tracks thing, and the google password thing to see the spread sheet that threw people off.. And I guess there were some that didn't want to do both (tracks and albums) and for a time there were no option to do only one.. Just an observation, I could be wrong

we got more votes after the brief time it required both in the ballot than before hahaha .
Nobody else has mentioned google password plus that was irrelevant as the noms are at the top of this thread.

Probably the fact most people were not back to work this week was why it was slow and plus clearly a lot of ilxors have quit over the years too.

Next year either the voting date gets pushed back a week to give 2 weeks of voting (not possible if big ilm poll keeps the same dates) while everyones at work or we start voting early in december and rollout the results the mon-fri before xmas hols.

voted!

what does the big poll have to do with the metal poll? I'm curious?

Nothing other than we should take that shit over with metal!

or we start voting early in december and rollout the results the mon-fri before xmas hols.

Hails! Voted!

thanks!

voted.

voted.

Voted! (albums, at least)

thanks guys!

Think we might reach last years total so thank you everybody its much appreciated!

We might clear 50? Awesome!

Voted

I think that above vote may have taken us to 50, yeah

voted http://www.varunaholzapfel.de/wbblite/images/smilies/headbang.gif

that would mean nearly 40 votes in 3/4 days which is quite remarkable. Thanks ilm!

I told you, dude – people are lazy and wait until the last minute. It's human nature.

usually i start album countdown as soon as i get the results after (vote) closing time. But with this year us trying a tracks poll I dunno whether to do that first or just start albums tonight and start tracks on monday when everyones back to work (it wont be a particularly long rollout.

Also I was going to do it on just the one results thread but seanwayne thinks it would be better on its own thread.

Another thought was leave tracks poll to the last few days of albums rollout and count it down simultaneously with the albums.

so anyone got any thoughts on it?

j3ff might be right. Maybe polls should just have one week of voting in future. People could cram listening in during extended nominations instead.

I guess it depends on how many tracks ballots come in and how long that rollout would be, but it seems like a minor feature of the metal poll and could probably kick off the thread that would house both polls' results.

It may be tomorrow before I can get you the results btw.

oh and there will be no 150 200 300 etc albums rollout

xp

ahh ok seandalai np!

i think tracks rollout would be around the top 25 mark

I might start with the tracks rollout as jf suggests then whenever i get the results.
Just hope noone minds the tracks results being done over the weekend but if noone objects I will do it.

thinking about doing this thing. no one nommed wrekmeister harmonies, what's up with that?

go for it. And thanks for the shorter total rollout of tracks.

do it!

tracks poll was always just a wee bit of fun. Hoped that it might attract non-partisans who might be more willing to check out standout tracks, that might then lead to albums being checked out.

Hopefully those who will follow tracks poll will be able to real time comments on the songs and will then hang around for albums.

plus I love it when in previous polls emil.y and others live-blogged thoughts on songs they didnt know.

Plus it can prove to doubters than metal has songs that do stand out. (also got no idea what the top 25 will be like.)

last 3 hours to vote..

just voted in the albums poll