Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

lol, i did enjoy that :)

same!

i can't figure out if the saturday / sunday puns are the most 420 afternoon thought of all time, really good, or both

Feel like the following should be appended as option 51 on each of these top 50 polls.

oh hi bitch. your special snowflake taste . . . and acting like you're scandalized or shocked about the results of this poll is just another performance of your tiresome and intensely egotistical shtick of having oh-so-uncategorizable music taste.

I'm always fascinated by what people choose to put on their lists. It does take a certain amount of courage to put yourself out there, even (or maybe especially) in a small community like this one.

i think it's a good sign when people want to share, in general. small groups and communities are ideal places to share. i think it's a bad sign when people are worried about getting criticized or looked down upon by their peers for sharing. at the same time, it's very natural to worry about stuff like that, and on the flip side, when people worry about getting criticized it's often because they really respect the taste/opinions of others in the community and they want to live up to what they see as a standard

has whiney fallen into a coma?

I'd like to see Whiney's top 50 John Zorn albums.

I'm not opposed to people polling, and not criticizing those who do it, I just find shooting the breeze about music more fun than polling, like the Guns n' Roses thread has been great the past week. (I know that poll threads spark discussion too, but I'm just very reluctant to open those for my own personal ideological reasons so I know I may miss good discussion and/or a good clusterfuck).

Top 50 John Zorn albums released in 2023

idly wondering if that clip PBKR reposted was originally aimed at me lol

has whiney fallen into a coma?

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 12:02 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I like people posting their individual lists! The poll option is really just a delivery function.

oh it wasn't lol

save Johnny Fever, us!

Top 50 Buckethead albums released August-October 2015

I'm currently dicing over whether to award Sextant (which I listened to 3 times in a row earlier) a 9 or a 10 out of 10. The latter would mean my 10/10s swell to an unpollable 77 albums. The holy ILX number. Maybe it needs to be done

honestly would really like that Zorn overview, there's so much out there and it's not always easy to access, which makes it hard to know what to chase down

^^

what I find very useful are career overviews like the Wire's consumers' guides taht don;t rank, just take representative samplings and do good write ups on them.

We should revive those ILx0r artist overview compilations we used to make for each other. I did one for Dagmar Krause, must have been almost a decade ago now? Maybe not that long, hmm, can't remember.

remember the listening clubs?

I did a top 25 zorn list, I’ll dig it out

I was daydreaming about doing a John Zorn Listening Guide/Album Review/Critical History type book or zine. Maybe I’ll pick that thread up once I’m employed again

https://x.com/1000timesyes/status/1288520996203290624?s=46&t=LkULCUwuLTAsty1ngklSDw

The poll option is really just a delivery function.

Agreed, 100%. I'm really interested in what other people like, and, tbh, what they like (or don't like) about my own beloved records.

I was daydreaming about doing a John Zorn Listening Guide/Album Review/Critical History type book or zine. Maybe I’ll pick that thread up once I’m employed again

― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 9:42 AM (nineteen minutes ago)

there's some kind of 70th Zorn something idk happening here in a month or so ... thus there is "relevance" to this project ... not as exciting to me personally as "Hipster Puppies" but I'm not really into John Zorn, even though it's something that people would think I'd be into ... I don't totally hate him ... he put out a good record for Jewlia Eisenberg (RIP) and a few others that don't involve his own music, which I will give him props for

if there is such a thing as neurotypicality then rating and ranking and classifying is absolutely *central* to that project despite impressive levels of projection to the contrary

Creating a poll or two
That's what the Hell I do
You don't like how I'm polling?
Well fuck you!

I'm still Pollmaker C, bitch, so what the fuck is up?
Putting album polls on ilx cos I've got big shelves

I’m the Diamond ILXor, duchess of all polls
My 50 stay tighter and wetter than all y’all’s

god defend me i just had to talk myself out of polling these polls

only God can poll me

I've got as far as "Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain" by Dogbowl, just another 49 to go...

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:47 (two hours ago) link

I would vote for this! And not just because it might be the only thing on your list at the moment

sad that none of these lists have had a write-in option. let us crowdsource your list

tbf they're already being polled. number of posters to engage on your thread other than yourself is the scoring system. a good title is essential but existing clout probably necessary. however you can win favour with Bold and Interesting Choices. the game's afoot!

furthermore, each album may be assigned between 2 and 50 points for ranked lists, or 25 for unranked or alphabetical lists, and combined into a rollout, or perhaps the top fifty will simply be presented once again on a summary button poll

sad that none of these lists have had a write-in option. let us crowdsource your list

― earosmith (Neanderthal), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 1:54 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dammit I was going to include this option in the one I was maybe going to make, tell me now how am I going to be self-deprecating about my tastes

gonna combine a few de rigueur ranking obsessions into one hideous behemoth and tierlist everyone's 50 on their thread until i get banned

Evan, make an "all of these albums are terrible" option

That's kind of heavy handed... was thinking something a little more playful than a direct go-fuck-yourself button

It's OK I bailed my first attempt to compile. Too broad, too many choices; got exhausting. Considering a more niche filter/theme

the market is definitely overcrowded

You could say this entire website is… taking the L

its the busiest ive seen ILM be in over a decade

I want a sticker that says “I Voted! - 25 Times!!”

I've got as far as "Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain" by Dogbowl, just another 49 to go...

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:47 (two hours ago) link

I would vote for this! And not just because it might be the only thing on your list at the moment

― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan)

i have to know, was daryl dragon _really_ involved heavily in the making of that album?

He's credited with guitar and additional vocals: Dogbowl himself is just a strummer and the vocal arrangements are pretty good, so maybe!

Having said that, he was a keyboard player wasn't he?

its the busiest ive seen ILM be in over a decade

Right?

i mean, cool to see ILM be much more active than usual, but it's too much to keep up with all the conversations in the different polls.

I gave in and did one too but I dont expect much convo as good as that would be.

Yours is really interesting. It reads like the spines of my dad's record collection, which is a good thing.

I figured there was no point polling a bunch of albums everyone else had