ILM Ballot Polls for 2014 and beyond -- order, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

The Eno / Ferry thing was settled a long time ago, was it not? Separate polls.

Put me down for They Might Be Giants. (would enough people care about a TMBG poll?)

In at 107

Where is the Classic Rock Canon poll? Having missed out on a lot of the history of this, I understand why we want to coordinate the timing so's not to have 6 million ballot polls flooding the board at once, but don't it seem like we could have one start at least every week?

There's a hiatus while the big EOY poll is happening...normal service will return at the start February I guess.

There's a break from these while the end-of-year polls run their course. The list should pick back up in February.

There's a pause during the big end-of-year polls, regular polls will begin again by February.

what they said, something something February

Any reason we can't do one a week starting February?

Most poll-runners have been leaving the voting open for 10-14 days to flog as many ballots as possible out of ILM. Some overlap is cool -- one poll open for voting while another one is rolling out its results -- but any efforts to put these polls on a timetable have been met with an unspoken "yes that's fine for everyone else but I'm going to run my poll this way." I'm not going to play the heavy -- that's the quickest way for these to grind to a screeching stop, imo.

Bah.

plus personally if there's too many polls just wham wham wham one after another I kinda get exhausted by the whole thing, even if it's bands I like

gotta let them breeeeeeeeeeeathe maaaaaan

Veg, are you volunteering for George Michael/WHAM! poll?

nope

i'm terrified enough that I volunteered for Pearl Jam in like, 2015...ain't no way I'm volunteering for anything else EVER until that's over & it hasn't killed me

It's really not too hard if you just throw all the ballots in your recycle bin and make up the results you want to see.

(Just kidding about that, btw. All my polls is legit.)

classic rock nomination/discussion thread coming very soon

― ol' Wrink P's thinkpiece (some dude), Wednesday, January 1, 2014 9:45 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still! it's gonna be a slow burner because it seems like the big genre-spanning polls seem to take longer for people to put together ballots for (as opposed to just looking at one band's discography and quickly being able to ID favorites). so i would say, don't mind my slow progress and just proceed with any single artist polls in the queue, and we can worry about whether results rollouts overlap or anything later if it looks likely.

as far as I'm concerned, you could start the discussion thread at any time & it'll be it's own board

i.e. I listened to the .38 Special greatest hits album today

lol I did the same a couple weeks ago.

we are twentieth century foxes

i don't wanna start the thread until i've finished the 'starting list' of a few hundred songs that we can then add to (or subtract from if there's any debatable inclusions).

I'm v excited for it

oooh that reminds me I need to wash the Trans Am....

lol you didn't win that from Diamond Joe Biden in a high-stakes poker game, did you?

Veg, are you volunteering for George Michael/WHAM! poll?

Ismael Klata traded out his front-man/front-women idea and change it to this:
94. George Michael - Ismael Klata

Oh, I thought it was the new WHAM! Lineup

Make it so

It's the role I feel I can do

i would be up for doing a No Wave poll, or is that too esoteric?

i feel like that would be fun, because it's an area i've always been curious about, and theoretically it's a narrow enough categorization that i could probably listen to all the nominated records as a crash course in no wave and be able to vote.

can we skip all the polls between the next poll and my poll?

super down for no wave

too esoteric? i mean we're doing a Sightings poll...

it's pretty cool that we should be hitting the Outkast poll right around the time they'll be touring. it's fun when the timing of the polls feels accidentally fortuitous, like when the Neptunes poll went down circa the Pharrell comeback last summer.

i am not sure that raymond understood what this thread was about btw cos shorly after he said he wanted to do a sightings poll he went ahead and did this:

Who needs a clever title for vicious industrial noise rock par excellence? The SIGHTINGS studio album poll

xp

oh wait, see the last post in that thread

I'd vote in No Wave. As with all genre polls someone is going to have to do border policing.

I still think a Sightings poll is too niche for this kind of thing. I mean, only 15 people voted in a simple one-thread albums poll.

xp - I'd probably go with what is covered in the Marc Masters book and limit it to a certain time period + reissues, but no Daydream Nation or Golden Palominos from the late 80s, for example

I'd vote in No Wave. JF otm re Sightings.

Just bumping for no good reason except to say CLASSIC ROCK FUCKYEAHHHHHHHH *barfs on shoes*

"CLASSIC ROCK FUCKYEAHHHHHHHH" from me too

i just found myself waiting for the laundry to finish and listening to 'Eye in the Sky' and realizing how creepy that song sounds when you actually sing it. In other words, bring on the classic rock!

In the meantime, I think the Roxy/Ferry poll should go forward along with the classic rock poll, since some dude is going to have a period of determining the pool of songs. Charlie H, ready to roll with that?

In the meantime, I think the Roxy/Ferry poll should go forward along with the classic rock poll, since some dude is going to have a period of determining the pool of songs. Charlie H, ready to roll with that?

― 330,003 Luftballons (WilliamC), Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:33 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Re: Roxy getting going now, yes please!

someone plz remind me when the steely dan poll starts

happy to kick off the Roxy poll, yeah. will put it up tomorrow morning, or possibly later this evening if i'm home.

I'd vote in a no wave poll.

Sorry if I've misunderstood how polls work. I'm a little nervous about my second sightings poll, actually - there doesn't seem to be much interest yet. Maybe I care about shit that's just too obscure for ILM?

"The Most Dangerous Band In America" - The SIGHTINGS tracks poll chatter, cajoling, and bar snacks thread

Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry is in progress, just in case there's anyone who hasn't seen it yet: Weary of the waltz and mashed POLLtato schmaltz: The Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry Ballot Poll Thread

responding pretty late, but I am big into a No Wave poll!

Perhaps this has been discussed before, but would be people interested in a DFA poll? If there is interest, I would volunteer for that.

No, it's the perfect time!

Define "yacht rock"

it's anything that isn't ambient

lol

haha. see we're there already.

Seahawks is ambient yacht rock so there

Broadcast! Might there be enough interest in a Broadcast poll? Small discography perhaps, but not really that small.

We need Cat Power ballots! "Dear Ms. Power, please sound more like Adele" - Cat Power - Artist Poll #99 - VOTING THREAD

i hardly know broadcast but i like the idea of being forced to listen to them in order to produce a ballot for a poll.

^ I dig it! :)

The Replacements was another that came up elsewhere recently. I'd happily crunch numbers for that too if no one else has a burning desire to do so.

Wish I was in a better position to vote in the Cat Power one. Very interested to see how that turns out but not quite able to construct a well-informed ballot.

Would be very much up for a Broadcast poll.

i'll be happy to do the 00's poll over August/early September if we're keen? -- imago

So this is definitely next? I think I'll turn my mind to such matters in anticipation...

Is the 00’s poll albums or tracks?

Both!

I love love love Broadcast but yeah the catalog is too small to warrant it imo

At a quick count, 143 tracks in Broadcast discography, no problem putting together a top 50.

I mean, I can already see myself getting annoyed when 'Phantom' and 'Ritual / Looking In' don't make it.

yeah and like a quarter of those tracks are interstitial things that are around a minute long

xp

I mean fine, do whatever, I wouldn't feel compelled to vote in it

Smaller discographies don't necessarily warrant a "Top 50" unless the actual results demand it. For instance, when I ran the Sleater-Kinney poll (a discography which at the time was around 100 tracks), the spread was enough that I had a little more than 50 tracks with enough points=two #1's, which I had set as the floor for ranking.

Total points equivalent to two first-place votes? Oddly enough I now see I cut my last one off at almost exactly that same point (#60 in that case) without consciously applying such a criterion, so that seems intuitively 'right'. There were only ever going to be about 100 real contenders (from ~170) amongst Go-Betweens tracks, but it seemed to work okay.

I cut B&S at #60 as well, but I distinctly remember that being where the number of votes dropped below 10. That was apparently equivalent to ~4 #1s, as the number of votes was freakishly high!

As long as one can cobble together say... a top 30, using similar yardsticks, it may still be worthwhile. Besides, I secretly feel like polls are less about stats than the excuse to listen to and talk about a given artist far, far too much!

i did: POLL Will Tear Us Apart – ILM Artist Poll #86 - JOY DIVISION – New Order solo or other groups Poll (aka the Electronic poll) – a NEW ORDER (#37) supplement poll --- Results Thread

even tho there were a fair amount of votes, i don't think the poll was very successful. as far as how many should be counted down? i think it depends on the results, tho i also had set boundaries like at least five votes for most polls. i really couldn't do more than a Top 20 for Joy Division as number 25 only had two votes so i didn't expand.

Looking closer at the S-K thread, I see I actually used something above 90 points as the floor, with 50th place having 6 votes and 97 points.

You Have Seen Some UnbelievaPOLL Things - ILM Artist Poll #99 - Cat Power Results

Best albums (and tracks) of YOUR favourite albums (and tracks) of the ENTIRE NOUGHTIES: 2000-2009 Ballot Poll Nominations + Campaigning Thread

ILM Ballot Polls for 2020 and beyond -- the ordering, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc

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see new thread, we have a new one for the new decade. this one will be locked:

ILM Ballot Polls for 2020 and beyond -- the ordering, timing, "I would have voted if I'd known about it," etc