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50 polls otoh ;)

see now this is interesting because I suspect there is some POSTURING going on in these lists. show me your iTunes play counts folks lets see what you're really listening to

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"hide polls", a box that i've never checked and never will, but might be an option for some people

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we should poll these obtions tbh

How do you weirdos even rank albums it just seems very…neurodivergent. I just like stuff without worrying if it’s above or below another album by a completely different artist.

― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland)

i'm neurodivergent and ranking albums makes no sense to me, albums are just albums, the album i like most is whatever album i'm listening to, why would i be listening to an album and like another album better?

I'm trying to make a point of listening to stuff that people have included that I have never heard. I thought that was kind of the point, or at least one of the points.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

jimbeaux i have good news and bad news

the bad news is that i'm not sure you're going to actually be able to find some of the albums on my list. there's some real obscure ones, like _five leaves left_ by this obscure cult folksinger named "nick drake".

Mmmmkay? Really not sure what to say to that.

i read "folkswinger" for a second there and now i have new thread ideas

who the fuck is nick drake

Mmmmkay? Really not sure what to say to that.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

nah it's 10 albums people have heard of like _five leaves left_ and 40 albums of what the fuck /mu/ fake hipster bullshit

imago will either love it or rank on it because there's one album on there that's in The List of 10,000 albums he really fucking hates

rusho I know you like loads of shit that I like too lol

who the fuck is nick drake

― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 8:05 AM (three minutes ago)

that's the guy in the meme right?

just want to state for the record that i love nick drake <3. i haven't taken a look at these polls yet but i am going to find that one and vote for him :)

xp i may regret this, but i do want to see the nick drake memes

idk maybe i'm more ashamed about this than i should be, i was in my mental health group yesterday and the question of the day is like "what's something you've discovered recently" and i have to either lie or else figure out how to explain "Brain 17" to people

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xp

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dammit

Polls you had second thought about fronting on and decided not to front on - front on them here

the internet has rejected nick drake meme

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just a lifetime of "that sounds stupid and weird, why would anybody be interested in that?"

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

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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