POLL Lotta Love: ILM Artist poll #1 songs part 1

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This should be fun. What is your favorite song from the first 35 ILM artist polls? Year end lists don't count. This ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads">thread is the reference.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Cure - A Forest	6
Stevie Wonder - Superstition	6
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You (50s poll)	5
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This	5
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (Jacksons)	4
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter	4
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows	4
Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You	4
Pavement - Summer Babe	4
Neil Young - Powderfinger	3
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill	3
The Who - Substitute	3
Pulp - Common People	3
Saint Etienne - Avenue	3
Husker Du - Eight Miles High	2
The Beatles - A Day In the Life	2
The Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump	2
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset	2
Prince - When U Were Mine	2
Paul Simon - Graceland	2
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks	2
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again	1
Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On (Timbaland poll)	1
The Bee Gees - To Love Somebody	1
Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks	1
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams	1
REM - Harborcoat	1
Ol' Dirty Bastard ft Kelis - Got Your Money (Neptunes poll)	0
ABBA - SOS	0
David Bowie - Life On Mars	0
James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	0
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name	0
Blur - This Is a Low	0
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness	0
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road	0

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link

This thread is the reference

ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link

Wow, when clumped together this looks like a list of really arbitrary picks by a bunch of acts I think are all pretty good.

It's got to be the Flamingoes for that reason.

― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link

The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (Jacksons)
Still don't love that this won.

Prince - When U Were Mine
Love that this won even if I don't love the song.

Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Love the song, love that it won, ran the poll. Voting this.

― Eric H., Monday, 5 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link

does not include the artist polls I've run (XTC, P-Funk etc.) ergo FUCK THIS

― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link

missing Velvets results too

― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

This is part 1, man. Part 2 will follow. Please unfuck this.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

Wow @ Harborcoat

Must have just been hardcore fans voting in that one.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link

Superstition > Papa's Got a Brand New Bag > Gimme Shelter > I Want You Back > Dreams > SOS

― example (crüt), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link

Summer Babe really won the Pavement poll? Summer Babe? That's got to have been some 'I was there first' elitist trolling at work, surely?

Also, everyone knows 'Being Boring' is the best PSB single.

― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link

I voted for Summer Babe on the Pavement poll, and this one too.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link

And 'Never Let Me Down Again' - it's an okay song but it's not THAT good really, is it? Not when you've got 'Everything Counts' and 'Enjoy the Silence' doing their things.

― this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link

Really? Summer Babe seems like one of the obvious consensus choices in the Pavement catalog. xp

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link

yeah, I'd long been thinking of running this same poll, but for the most surprising poll winner rather than best/favorite song. Still might do it after part 2 is polled....

― Lee626, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link

have we never done a Sly poll? that seems kinda crazy

― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link

Objection: there has as yet been no REM artist poll as such

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link

Prince vs Jacksons vs Mac vs Missy

― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link

xpost--

I just followed the list. There was a pretty small REM poll early on.
\///\/// It's the ILX SUPER SUMMER R.E.M. POLL OF POLLS RESULTS THREAD \///\///

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link

yes - really just a footnote. the format was different than any other artist poll and turnout was low due to some organizational blips. it's a fine poll, just not an artist poll as such which is why we'll be doing it again for real in like 2017.

i don't see "harborcoat" having a big impact in this poll of polls but if it does more power to it

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link

btw link is broken but i see that's addressed in the "where to find" thread along with Pavement, Manics and Blur.

ILM Ballot Polls: where to find the results threads

so, er, carry on then :)

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link

otm johnny fever

― campreverb, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link

Funny, it was only today I got round to putting my minidisc copy of the top 101 tracks off the 50s pollballot onto cdr.

― Mark G, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link

Yes, wow @ Harborcoat winning the REM poll, although the correct answer is Feeling Gravity's Pull

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 5 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link

'Avenue' would have been my vote regardless, but I just wanted to take this opportunity to say how much I like this gif from the Saint Etienne poll

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i329/yorkshiresky/avenue1.gif

― soref, Monday, 5 January 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link

Waterloo Sunset just ahead of Substitute

These polls do produce some unexpected winners (sometimes).

― the magnetic pope has sparked (WilliamC), Monday, 5 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link

1. "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"
2. "Substitute"
3. "Eight Miles High"
4. "I Want You Back"

― clemenza, Monday, 5 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link

Hate to do it, but...

'A Day In The Life'

― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 5 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link

"A Forest"

― Bee OK, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link

Hate to do it, but...

'A Day In The Life'

If I'd voted in the Beatles poll, this probably would have been my #2, but if I'd voted in the Rolling Stones poll, "Gimme Shelter" would have been my #1, so that.

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link

Lots of great songs here, please vote

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 9 January 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link

Torn between Fleetwood Mac and Kate Bush.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 9 January 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 15 January 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link

voted "A Forest"

― Dan S, Thursday, 15 January 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link

~~Summer Babe~~ Nail Clinic really won the Pavement poll? ~~Summer Babe~~ Nail Clinic? That's got to have been some 'I was there first' elitist trolling at work, surely?

In other words, damned if we did damned if we didn't.

― pplains, Thursday, 15 January 2015 04:32 (nine years ago) link

i want u back easy

― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 15 January 2015 04:52 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 16 January 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link

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