what artist, if any, is worth doing an ILM tracks poll?

nate dogg

such a female-heavy list!

The Beatles, The Cure, Bowie, GBV, Zeppelin, Radiohead, VU. Voted for The Beatles.

The Ramones??

off this list, Prince or The Cure easily

what female artist would even get a decent voter turnout though -- maybe Kate Bush?

MADONNA.

Also, FUCK YOU.

Taylor Swift has 3 albums now, i guess she's ready

ok Madonna was a dumb omission -- i meant to put her in there and forgot

fwiw i am speaking in terms of ILM's enthusiasm for female artists, not my own

I would vote in most of these and enjoy all of them. polling producers seems like a great idea. voted Timbaland

Lee Perry? Phil Spector? is anyone else big enough for this? Marley Mar? Teddy Riley? Thom Bell? Holland–Dozier–Holland?

other, beach boys

A PJ Harvey poll I'd def. vote in.

You could probably get a decent turnout for a Janet Jackson poll, too.

Bjork has the catalog but I'm not sure as many ppl are invested in her.

Also maybe Sade and PJ Harvey, or a Kathleen Hanna poll (maybe cheating?)

Voted kast, after that prob prince or jay -- we've already had enough Beatles polls

i'd love a beach boys poll.

also, i love these polls - great excuse to trawl through and discuss bands a lot of people like.

Sade? on ILM? that's reaching.

I was actually thinking of a timbo ballot poll the other day -- they kinda thing would prob be more fun

i'd vote in all these radiohead and talking heads polls too. and boo radleys, obv.

Probably wouldn't vote in it but would definitely follow a Joni poll.

yeah a producer is stretching the 'single artist' concept but would totally be more fun, especially Timbo. or maybe Eno, i should've put him in there too.

seriously, radiohead would really suit a poll - plenty of material spanning several years and styles. lots of b-sides and obscurities for people to geek over. no consensus album (really).

Joni Mitchell another possibility

Destiny's Child would get a big turnout, even bigger if you included the solo careers and the juggernaut that is ILM's feelings about Beyonce.

another write-in = aphex, obv.

frankly I think these things are pretty unnecessary

where's the harm?

hey before the flood can we make a rule that only one of these can go on at once

seeing all the polls done so far my reaction has been part eye-roll, part relief that i don't have to invest any time in them

there are only a few artists on this list i'd change that for tbh (jay-z, neptunes, timbaland)

after watching a Pavement poll get more voters than a poll of the entire genre of hip hop, attempting a Beyonce/DC poll would just be depressing tbh

seeing all the polls done so far my reaction has been part eye-roll, part relief that i don't have to invest any time in them

Kinda with lex on that one. Don't like the idea of the polls, even for artists I like.

joni mitchell and kate bush seem obvious choices. pj harvey too, but it always feels a bit odd doing massive retrospective projects when the artist is still so active (and still at their creative peak, so to speak, unlike eg timbaland).

jay and kast would be super fun. and peej/bush/madonna/joni as people have mentioned. wu maybe too discussed already on ilm. coltrane/prince would be the nuts. dr. dre only has two albums and i don't know if he has enough production classics to really do this... maybe an nwa members poll. just don't seem to care about the indie or canon rock choices - maybe bowie.

overall though, on a learning and interest basis - stevie.

my choice from who is missing from the poll: GIL SCOTT HERON

after watching a Pavement poll get more voters than a poll of the entire genre of hip hop, attempting a Beyonce/DC poll would just be depressing tbh

― Mr. John Scatman (some dude), Thursday, 16 June 2011 15:05 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

man wut? sb ilm.

There was a Pavement poll? Ugh.

But point taken. Thing is, the posters who love the stuff I'd love to see a top 50 of are precisely the ppl who would never participate in such a boring fanboy exercise as writing out ballots and spreadsheets.

I like the idea of all these fine. I didn't engage in the pavement poll but found it neat to see the final list. I suggest someone else start all these polls at once and deliver me the stats forthwith

frankly I think these things are pretty unnecessary

where's the harm?

― i love the smell of facepalm in the morning (ledge), Thursday, June 16, 2011 10:04 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

no harm obviously, but -- and i've said this before so excuse me repeating myself -- a lot of these artists you could pretty easily whittle down to a regular poll thread of their 50 most beloved songs without all the fanfare. also elevating some indie band that was only together for a decade to the level of oh we need to rank half their catalog is just kinda ridic.

after watching a Pavement poll get more voters than a poll of the entire genre of hip hop, attempting a Beyonce/DC poll would just be depressing tbh

ughhhh ilm :(

Prince or Timbo would probably be the most fun -- i'd probably get the most personal enjoyment out of a Sonic Youth one but as i've said it'd be nice to depart from the indie canon

where's the harm?

too many at one time, predictable results, bit depressing seeing new answers topped by threads reinforcing ILM's indie-centricity (based on the bands that get this treatment first)

lex you never voted! still :( about that - would have loved to have seen you get involved

I've actually been hoping you wd do a Sonic Youth one, sd, but hopefully it would get less ballots than the hip hop poll

i just got too busy and then the deadline passed and then i couldn't face clicking on (1500 new answers)

xp

ILX goes through these phases of liking certain kinds of discourse WWAAAAAYYYY too much for a period and then forgetting all about it.

I mean, I certainly prefer these kinds of polls, which tend to keep to 2 maybe 3 threads, easily ignored, to that weird hockey league thing it went through a couple of years back where you couldn't even load new answers for the 200 threads about, like, what was the best kind of sandwich. :-/

what's wrong with letting people have fun the way they want? since when has ilm been "indie-centric"?

i still don't know the results of the hip-hop poll - obv i am assuming shawnna won

a lot of these artists you could pretty easily whittle down to a regular poll thread of their 50 most beloved songs without all the fanfare

the fanfare is all the fun - it's about the process, not the result, an excuse to get reacquainted with an old favourite that you might not have thought too much about recently, to share the craic with some like-minded people.

also complaining about a preponderance (hardly) of threads you have no interest in seems like the weakest first-world problem imaginable (speaking as someone who thought the plethora of rolling metal threads was RIDICULOUS)

why are people surprised that a poll that required a knowledge of like 100 songs got more votes than a poll for an entire genre. I wouldn't be shocked if the Pavement poll would have more votes than an ALL-TIME INDIE ROCK poll, which sounds like a more frustrating list to compile

I partially didn't vote in the hip-hop poll because I didn't have time, but a large proportion of it was that I felt like my choices would be belittled and my voice dismissed by the group of regulars who dominate that genre on this board. So I'm not that surprised that the Pavement poll was more popular. Didn't vote in that one either, mind you, but I'm not a fan of the single-artist old-style polls.

It would most likely be won by those wonderful C'mon Kids singles b-sides.

i don't think anybody who isn't already a fan of the artist being voted up reads ballot poll results

voted upon

The only way a Beatles poll would be fun is it no one took it seriously and didn't vote for their favorites.

Absolutely.

It's a chance to vote for stuff people like *right now*, so I don't anticipate a flood of votes for "Hey Jude" for example.

I won't say too much more about specific songs, but as I will no doubt say in the preamble when the Petshopboys one is done, did for gold and we will all be rewarded...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I wish any of you guys liked Phish because I would be so down for polling Phish at this moment in time.

that you can recognize that your personal favorite wouldn't necessarily drum up enough interest to justify a poll makes you smarter than the majority of people in this thread, though

Oh yeah, that shit just wouldn't fly.

I enjoy the format of these polls, even when I don't participate - the slow run-down of results, with images or youtubes and plenty of room for discussion. I think they are more likely to unearth an obscure gem a casual listener was unaware of than a standard ILM poll.

It's really not that hard to ignore them if you don't like them.

Too many at once would imo lead to lower participation levels and they'd die out of their own accord - I see no reason to moderate the numbers (esp on the whim of one moderator going "I think I might enforce this").

I was surprised at the mileage the Blur and Manics polls got. I thought doing a Mary Chain one might be fun but changed my mind as there probably isn't the breadth or depth there. Cure, Kate Bush, Prince & Madonna would all be worthwhile imo. I'd also enjoy reading through the results of a few others mentioned here even if I didn't feel qualified to take part - I treat them as recommendation threads.

"hey most of us who'd be enthusiastic about a Prince poll sure as hell don't own every Prince album (although i'd definitely be taking tips from the obsessives who can recommend the good stuff from his later periods)"

cosign. also i'd be totality down for a bowie poll, i just read a biography of him listened to a bunch of his albums i hadn't heard yet/in a while, + he's got an long awesome career with loads of different phases, highlights, awesome-but-obscure album tracks etc

Nick Cave

― President Keyes, Thursday, 16 June 2011 16:25

cosign

Not sure how successful the manics one is going to be xp - there are only about a dozen posters on that thread (i.e. vote, and help a brother out). That said, Pavement getting 40 ballots amazed me, especially when the whole of hip hop didn't.

Pavement one got 60 votes, didn't it?

ok 57 to be exact

Well I'm astonished. Not complaining, note - I figured it wasn't for me & let it pass me by.

was kind of hilarious, i thought, given that people complained / lolbrits at the blur poll, that anyone thought the correct next thing to do was ... pavement

i know right!

was kind of hilarious, i thought, given that people complained / lolbrits at the blur poll, that anyone thought the correct next thing to do was ... pavement

the essence of the American spirit right there

Malkmus complained that when Pavement was doing press for a UK tour (97? 98?) all they were asked about was their opinion on Blur.

pretty sure johnny fever explicitly said that he picked pavement because they were sorta the u.s. equivalent of blur. just sayin

and the people complaining about lolbrits polls are the same people complaining about any old ballot poll, right?

I couldn't find this thread when I posted in the thread where we suggest/plan which polls should go in which order, but I posted an .xls which should make this polling business easier for anyone who wants to play. Yay!!

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

lol

"nothing" defeated 82-19 by my count.

In that case we need to have a "something" poll

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lol, zilch for the Stones

i feel vindicated

I'll start a Stevie Wonder poll regardless of these results.

Some year.

Richard Thompson

or Sandy Denny. Her oeuvre is a sprawling mess filled with side projects, appearances on others' records, one-shot bands, incomplete works, etc., and that's before we even get to her scopious role in Fairport Convention's heyday. Which of course makes for a great ballot poll.

Yardbirds, anyone? Not around for long, but as with the recently-polled Beach Boys alot of their best stuff is obscurities unknown to casual fans. Also, there have been about 25 different best-of compilations and not one is all-inclusive or well chosen IMO.

Ke$ha i think

i think a yardbirds one would be great

Sisqo poll would own all polls for life

^^^ OTM Sisqo poll now IMO

that would be kind of funny, when "Thong Song" got all the votes and everything else got bageled

#1 Wild Wild West

like I said

Really surprised Jimi Hendrix's name hasn't come up on this or the order/timing thread.

well, if people thought even Zep had almost too small a catalog to poll...

we need Madonna and Roxy Music in that there poll.

Pulling together all the posthumously released stuff, Hendrix's catalog gets a lot bigger, but yeah, point taken. Still, it would be interesting to see what the top 10 or 15 looked like.

the Madonna poll is cursed. don't even speak of it.

it really will be kind of momentous and cathartic whenever it finally happens

surely there's been a stones poll already

Not a ballot poll. These things are a fairly recent development on ILM iirc.