ALL-NEW FREEFORM (SORTA) 1990s ALBUMS POLL: THE BANNS -- ALL OVER BAR THE SUPPLICATING :)

No nominations. Just spell the goddamn acts/albums correctly.

Nothing that finished here: THE 1990s POLL RESULTS - THE ALBUMS is available for voting. The Prodigy album at #39 is Experience, so you can still vote for Fat Of The Land, if you so wish.

Rules:

-Everyone has 200 points to spend how they will
-One album must get more points than any other (no tied winners)
-I'm counting, so don't cheat

The rest is up to you. Email your ballots to me, lou15 dot j4gg3r at gm41l dot c0m, by the end of March.

This thread is henceforth for discussion, persuasion, and zings.

<3 y'all

nice!

point of order tho: nominations should be posted in-thread

oh, n/m I can't read

your post is confusing tho. and I like having things listed out, so I'm reminded of my options.

in some ways i like the idea of people voting a priori but if they want to big-up some acts they're voting for in this thread, that is totally cool

it's very simple, though: apportion 200 points across deserving records other than those already celebrated, and let 'er rip. if a load of you start handing out 200 points to nate dogg i will grow suspicious and ask you to resubmit* but it's your prerogative if you want to dish out loads of points to an album you hold dear.

*i will accept it if you can prove deep and abiding love for nate dogg to the extent where it occludes all the other music of the 90's

naw, the OG post is confusing cause it says to email my nominations to you

Y'all didn't vote for Slint last time?

It doesn't any more! xp

Ooh, Slint. Methinks we have a contender. But who's gonna give it any more than 15 points? Eh?

btw dudes, this is the one:

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/238/238451_1_f.jpg

how many records can we vote for? and is a singles one happening too?

nate dogg was in icp? xpost

Someone else can handle a tracks (not necc singles) poll. Unless you persuade me loads and loads. You can vote for up to 199 records.

also lj post the list we cant vote for here so we dont each have to go searching for it on that huage thread plzkthx

i'll do a singles one after if you guys want one

I permalinked the post on which they are listed!

Ah yeah, that'd be nice, young fresh Brit brigade representin'

wait actually... has ilx ever done a 'bestest records of all time' poll? i'd love to see our 101-200 more than that :)

200 points across an unspecified number of albums might BREAK MY BRAIN

it will break us all

suggested breakdown for the broken-down: 50, 40, 25, 20, 15, 15, 10, 10, 5, 5, 5

Theoretically, could one award the entire 200 points to a single album?

This has the potential to be a huge mess, but I WANT IN!

Yes. xp

so crazy that it just might work

btw, is your email address really in haX0r or are you just obfuscating?

come now

Ballot sent.

Sorry, you'll be wanting louis.jagger

everyone vote for 200 albums

Did it not come through? xp

lol it did, I replied! :P

pfunkboy under these rules the maximum is 199, to restate

ok everyone vote for 199 albums

hahaha i am imagining the possibilities for wackiness should lots of people vote for 199 albums / the potential for a few one album 200-pointers to bring the craziness

Though you should limit the maximum amount of votes for an album, otherwise people might give 200 points to one album or 100 points to 2 albums which would skew the poll completely.

also do you realise how much work this will be with no restrictions

there's a reason why most polls have a nomination process + limitations

:D the idea *is* to shake up the format a little bit!

everyone voting for 199 albums would be really funny

199 albums is a hell of a lot better than ppl voting for 1-20 albums. But 1 or 2 album ballots will spoil it completely.

The aim is that if people want to use up all their points on very few albums, or at least give one 150 and the rest 5, then that's their shout. It rewards albums that are intensely loved, which I think is an improvement over previous systems. I'll have no trouble with people giving lots of points to something. As long as they're happy with other albums not getting so many. It's a devilish gamble!

It's not so much work. I have a calculator! And I'm pretty good at mental arithmetic. I also expect most ballots to have fewer than 20 albums on them, many way fewer.

*should read 'really loved' ;)

Nothing that finished here: THE 1990s POLL RESULTS - THE ALBUMS is available for voting. The Prodigy album at #39 is Experience, so you can still vote for Fat Of The Land, if you so wish.

what is the rationale behind this stipulation

On the list I permalinked, the name of the album isn't supplied for #39, but Jilted comes in further down

but why would anyone vote for fat of the land?

'Climbatize' and 'Mindfields' and 'Narayan' are really not bad at all

you lost me at Narayan

Let me rephrase my question so that it's actually answered:

what is the rationale behind excluding albums that placed on the previous poll

Did you completely miss the alternate 70s poll?

so its not exactly kicking things up then if its been done already?

Because we did it for the 70's and 80's repolls and that worked out really nicely? Nobody wants to see Loveless wander home again. And fuck, Different Class? That's Pulp's worst post-80's record ffs

...but yeah, I think we'll get more interesting results that way.

DAMN THE CANON! It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Nominations Thread (Due by 11:59pm GMT, December 7th)
A POLL FOR ALL THE OTHERS: It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Voting Thread (Due by midnight GMT, January 3rd)
TURN THIS MUTHA OUT! It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Results Thread

started from a discussion on the 80s results poll iirc

We didn't do it for the 80s poll. We just renominated because the original 80s results were never posted.

I am now gonna go check what made that previous poll

oh wait, the 80's weren't repolled, really sorry

but yeah it worked for the 70's

I have no real problem with this method fwiw; I just haven't been quite as sharp as anyone would have liked. Next-day turnover isn't really necessary in the langorous world of ILX

I don't blame LJ. I do blame Pfunkboy and ilxor however.

IMO we should all chill and wait for the results to come pouring in later today (!!)

It's all good, I am chill. I am sure your hard work will be worth it!

and no-one at all will be surprised if the Cardiacs make a best of the 90s poll for the 1st time ever.

My ballot was one of the first in btw, so not my fault he left it to the end.

Also Pfunkboy I'm docking you one point from your 200 because XTRMNTR was a 00's album ffs

Didn't you redistribute point(s) other people mistakenly gave to ineligible albums?

he did

fine, I'll just tack it onto your #1

oh ilxor! BoC's MHTRTC was in the OG poll!

you silly people

imo if people can't be bothered to read the rules I don't see why you should bother reading their votes

submitted a short ballot with almost all points going to albums that will not win place or show, strategy guide needed

imo if people can't be bothered to read the rules I don't see why you should bother reading their votes

Yes, because mistakenly including one ineligible album from the previous '90s poll, out of nearly 200, is a fucking travesty and should result in all my votes being disqualified.

guyyyyys

nearly finished btw

as soon as I have done collating all extant ballots, voting is completely closed and no further votes counted

Quick! Someone send him another 200 album ballot!!

You've fucking included XTRMNTR as well you clot

AND His'N'Hers which was in the AAAARGH whatever

AND The Bends

I voted! This was fun.

Just in time!

Number of albums voted for by both Pfunkboy and ilxor but nobody else: 37

that's not a lot

surprised

there was one album voted for by you, him and me only. hazard a guess?

british band?

or dEUS

or fuzzy logic

Kula Shaker.

oh wait its Neurosis innit?

I cant see lj voting for the second coming

your final guess is correct

damn lj prolly shldnt hav used an abacus to tally the votes

this is closed btw. davek didn't send me an email so his ballot is disqualified. sorry to all the cardisacs fans out there! i'm just ascertaining what came where. so far, so awesomely wacky

"cardisacs"

what i sent you an e-mail literally this second

Please, let me in. I like to think I picked some good ones..

It's a very different ballot to your original and you've clearly spent a bit of time thinking about it. I'll give you that.

rock on

I just wish you hadn't posted your fucking first draft here, is all

gaaaah really sorry about that, honestly didn't mean to ruin that. Still <3 right?

whatever, do what you must...looking forward to seeing where my albums turn up.

'twould be a trifle 'arsh to have fannied around for two weeks only to deny young Mr Davek for a mere seven minutes

xp nah he let me in, I think. Also....*young* mr davek?!

Relatively speaking.

sorry, presumed the _00 was year of birth

looool

got burned today

fwiw ILX seemed a pretty vibrant place back when I was ten.