ban flopson
hi can i please be banned from ilx? sent a couple discrete e-mails to mods yesterday to no avail. my life is just way too stupid right now to be spending as many hours as i have reading debates on the legitimate order of music polls.
this is not a joke though please ban my ass
thx <3
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Thursday, 11 September 2014 03:20 (nine years ago) link
WC: going to set my alarm just to be sure. Later, I'll grill.
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 September 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
Shoot, where's the link to the .xls?
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
idg why someone would ask to be banned, have they no self-control
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
To answer my own question, it's a Google doc now: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdDhKV1NraFUtWXptd25nbEZ0cGxYeXc#gid=0
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Leee, I can email you the original .xls as a standalone file if you want, but I think you can also Save-As that google doc to your computer.
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I was going to do a Save As once I get home.
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
god bless the cloud
― Malibu Stasi (WilliamC), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Turns out I don't know how to use shot pivot table, so I wrote up a Perl script to handle these things. I can share it if anyone else is programmatically inclined.
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Monday, 22 September 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
Οὖτις, ready to roll XTC out?
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Monday, 29 September 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
Would there be much interest in a Steve Albini band poll?
― nate woolls, Monday, 29 September 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm not knowledgable enough for that one. Albini production jobs would be a great side poll though.
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Monday, 29 September 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I was thinking the same. Add me to the list!
― nate woolls, Monday, 29 September 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Please.
― nate woolls, Monday, 29 September 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
sure
I looked at the autechre thread to see if it was done but it was all gibberish
― Οὖτις, Monday, 29 September 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
autecheperanto
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Nah it's just LJ going on. ;)
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Senses Working Poll-vertime: The XTC Poll Nominations and Discussions thread
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
Can I do a Yellow Magic Orchestra one?? Please???
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
YMO plus solo / collaboration tracks would a good one, although maybe a bit overwhelming.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
but YMO alone is only like 7 albums and 70 tracks, plus of the 100+ solo albums there's only like 10 or so that I would imagine more than one or two balloters would know of...I think it's all fair game though
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
I would vote in a YMO poll. Provided I was aware of it in time, I do miss a lot of these.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Do you use Site New Answers or ILM New Answers?
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Thursday, 2 October 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
SNA, sometimes clicking over to a particular board. I'm often not interested/able to participate in the single artist ballot polls (my listening tends to the broad over the deep), so it's more that I glaze over the thread titles, rather than them not actually appearing when I'm online.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
same tbh
another problem is that a lot of the polls I'd enjoy simply don't have an existing fanbase. I could run the world's greatest Cardiacs & Affiliated poll, but it'd have 6 voters, so there's no point. The Autechre and XTC polls are extreme rarities in that they're ILX-popular AND I am quite a fan of both. /self-indulgent moan
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
just be happy I'm not in your polls shitting them up with my blather ;)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Friday, 3 October 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Albini and YMO to be added to the next full list.
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
I'd run an Elvis Presley poll sometime.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Cool, you're added.
Who will run Iggy/Stooges? Step right up.
― it's taco science, but it works like taco magic (WilliamC), Friday, 3 October 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
We should really do a Scott Walker / Walker Brothers poll, right? I'm not sure I have the knowledge or wherewithal to do it.
― Shepard Toney Album (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 10:50 (nine years ago) link
Elvis is a great idea
― g simmel, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
That'd be really interesting: no idea if the winner would be a Sun single, an early RCA single, or a late-'60s comeback single.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
"Elvis Talks To The Audience" ftw
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
What's going to happen after XTC? Chic Org with a volunteer showrunner, Iggy/Stooges with a volunteer showrunner, or Boo OK and the Bee Radleys?
― warning, #4 can't be unseen (WilliamC), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
I think we need another Autechre poll.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
someone really needs to step up and do Stooges/Iggy. i only know the Stooges and none of the solo stuff so i'm out.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
I'll do a Byrds and offshoots poll which includes CSN, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, And others I can't recall right now.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 9 October 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
I'd like to see an Underworld one too. That would be a fun band to poll.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
That poll would be everything, everything.
― Eric H., Thursday, 9 October 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
"Why don't you POLL me I feel like flying into.."
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
I'd like to see a tropicalia/mpb poll, but I'm unsure if anybody would vote.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 9 October 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
I'd vote!
― sweet lids of the stars (seandalai), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Shakey is burning through these XTC results with great haste. Whose poll is nominating next?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
Maybe you can get an answer out of somebody, I've gone all invisible.
― warning, #4 can't be unseen (WilliamC), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Will someone send me a mail when it's time for me to start the Stereolab poll? Or any estimate dates?
― Moka, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
If no one steps in, I'm gonna slide my Pixies poll up.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Spacemen? Chic? Spacemen Chic?
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
JF, no objection from me.
Leee, will your epics poll need a definitions/nominations thread? I wonder if that's something that could or should start now-ish or soonish so it's ready to go when the voting opens.
― warning, #4 can't be unseen (WilliamC), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
WC, yeah, the parameters of the epics poll need to be hashed out and I wouldn't be averse to opening that up for debate. However, I'd like a maybe another few weeks before I go through the process of curating another poll.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
i can't do The Boo Radleys right now because of work. so i think that will be coming around February of 2015 after we do all the end of the year stuff.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 16 October 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link