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

^^

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

I wanted to do songs instead of albums because that’s how I take music in but it was actually daunting.

I'm gonna poll my 50 albums but the options will be 'Album 50', 'Album 49' etc. and you have to guess what they are either voting beore or after that possible reveal but I promise nothing.

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.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), T

I'll mix you a Negroni.

I just posted mine on FB, lol. Maybe in a week or so I can put it here, it was actually fun.

Weirdly I posted an 80s fave albums list on FB the other day

I'll mix you a Negroni.

well why didn't you put THAT in the title

POLLgroni

55 hamburgers, 55 hot dogs, 55 taters, 55 sodas, 55 favorite albums, 55 favorite albums, 55 favorite albums, 55 favorite albums, 55 favorite albums

WE’RE DOING SOMETHING HERE

WE’RE DOING SOMETHING HERE

Vote! Fgti’s favourite TV shows:

1. Golden Girls

Can we have a Second Thoughts 2 thread, this one suffers from its ungainly length

But for the record I was gonna do a poll of just label catalog numbers + how I acquired them

I’ll read all these threads later

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Can't believe nobody's mentioned the Insane Clown Posse