THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT! It's the Grand ILM Disco Poll voting thread (voting ends on Sunday, December 1st)

The nominations are done, and now you can vote in the Grandest of Polls, the Official ILM Disco Poll!

Here's the list of nominated tunes:

DISCO TRACKS

And here are the voting rules:

1) You can vote for 50 tracks. If that's too much, you can also send a ballot with less than 50. You can only vote for tracks that are on the nomination list, write-in votes are not allowed.

2) When you vote, number the ballot so that the highest voted track is number 1, the second highest is number 2, and so on.

3) The points for the tracks in your ballot will be counted like this:

1) ARTIST A - TRACK B 60 points
2) ARTIST C - TRACK D 59 points
3) ARTIST E - TRACK F 58 points
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49) ARTIST W - TRACK X 12 points
50) ARTIST Y - TRACK Z 11 points

So the highest ranked track gets 60 points and the lowest 11 points (if you vote for full 50 tracks).

4) If there's a draw, the track with most votes wins. If it's still draw, the one with most #1 votes wins.

5) Every track on the nomination list counts as an separate entry in the poll, I will not collate the votes for a tune and its remixes. So if you want to vote, say, for both the original "Love Is the Message" and for the later Tom Moulton remix of it, you need to include both in your ballot.

6) Send you ballots to tuomast {dot} alho {at} gmail {dot} com. (Yes, it's "tuomast", not "tuomas".) Put the words ILM Disco Poll in the email subject line. Please also include your ILX username in the message, so I know it's not a fake ballot.

7) Voting ends on Sunday, December 1st, at 12PM (GMT).

I hate myself for missing the nominations.

If you want to campaign for your favourite disco tunes, don't jam this thread with Youtube embeds, use this other for that instead:

ILM Disco Poll campaigning thread

there won't be an albums subpoll?

heh good luck with that

These results will be the sweetest Christmas present of all.

Spotify playlist is here btw: http://open.spotify.com/user/arosner/playlist/3ev5BHoqKXb3MEmLYuJwd1

no one nominated loose joints' 'tell you (today)'? noooooooo.

sic nominated 'tell you (today)'! STRONGEST EMOTION, THE DISCO EXPLOSION: It's the Grand ILM Disco Poll nomination thread (nomination time ends on Friday, November 1st) fix the list tuomas stop cheating!!!!

Just realized nobody nominated Peter Brown's "Dance With Me".

Also Bell & James's "Livin' It Up". Along with the Peter Brown would have made my Top 50.

i gave the bell & james an honorary mention

A producer subpoll would be interesting, given how crutial production is to this genre

I added the missing Loose Joints tune to the list. Somehow I'd missed another of Sic's nominations, Carly Simon's "Why", that's on the list too now.

Is this the place to point out where certain mixes on the Spotify playlist differ from the original or preferred mix of the song?

For example, the "After Dark" by Pattie Brooks on the Spotify playlist is a remix that's radically different from the original (the original is found on the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack).

The Spotify version of "Darling" by Baccara is a re-recording that has a somewhat different vibe from the original.

Is this the place to point out that I don't quite "get" voting for Baccara?

xp I've corrected a couple of items in the playlist where the correct/original version was also on Spotify. If the correct version isn't there and you think it makes a difference, maybe post a YouTube link in the campaigning thread?

Cool, thanks

The original "After Dark" is on Spotify - it's the one that's 3:54

The original "Darling" is on Spotify also - it's the one that's 5:27 on the album The Collection

Anyone can add to/delete from the playlist btw.

I've counted three ballots already, hopefully I'll get plenty more.

I have a ballot ready to send but it feels premature when there's potentially a whole month of disco discovery ahead of me.

I cast my ballot first so I'd have no temptation to vote strategically after having seen what others have voted for, but this also means there wasn't any new discoveries in my ballot... OTOH, my initial shortlist had 300 tunes, and cutting it down to 50 was already painful enough, I'm not sure if there'd been room for recent discoveries anyway.

Bump!

Received a couple more ballots, already some tunes are starting to gain a lead.

OTOH, my initial shortlist had 300 tunes, and cutting it down to 50 was already painful enough, I'm not sure if there'd been room for recent discoveries anyway.

Yeah, just made a playlist in iTunes based on what I've got from the nomination list on there, included a lot of tracks I couldn't quite recall but I think I'll end up filling my ballot just picking out the ones I already know I love.

Bump.

Ain't gonna bump no more (with no big fat woman).

did a jam packed disco set on my radio show the other night, 23 tracks in 1 hr incl lots of stuff in the noms list of this poll

http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20131105.03.00-04.00.mp3

Voted! Cutting it down to just 50 was not easy, even after I arbitrarily decided to limit myself to one track per artist. Honestly have no idea what the results are going to look like...

I will probably not vote for 50 tracks. I suspect more like 25 killers. Unless people want to really bust it on the lobbying thread.

Thanks for the ballot, Seandalai and everyone else who's already voted. Like I said, some tracks already seem to have gained a bit of a lead in the poll; a few of them are the usual suspects, but there's also more unexpected ones. Only 6 ballots have been cast so far, though, so obviously anything can still happen. Keep them ballots coming!

Argh, why didn't I nominate B.T. Express's "Energy Level"?

will try to compile my ballot during my shift today heh

Bump.

No new ballots today. :(

I'm working through the Spotify playlist, trying to give everything a fair shot. Have definitely heard for the first time some fantastic records that may get votes out of me. I used to think there were about 20 disco records that I REALLY loved, but apparently it's more like 200.

the version of fox the fox's "precious little diamond" on the spotify playlist is a terrible 00's remix, the only version of the original on spotify (in the US at least) is on a mix by LaRoux (with a few seconds of the previous track overlapping at the start):

http://open.spotify.com/track/07A3edlfz0wKrG6NucsRGE

but c'mon don't vote for that song-- its one of the best songs ever but doesn't belong on a disco poll

ditto for the john paul young "love is in the air" on the spotify playlist

the orig isn't on spotify at all (in the US)

here's a youtube

Bump.

Didn't have any time to even think about nominating, so pleased and relieved that everyone else seems to have nommed the things I would have. Will certainly vote but not til nearer the deadline.

Kinda bummed no Ganymed got nommed

How did only one Stephanie Mills song get nominated?

How am I ever going to narrow down which Shalamar tracks to support?

"I Need Your Lovin" wasn't nominated?!

Guys, half my ballot is going to have to be reserved for Prelude Records.

"Be Thankful For What You Got" is one of the GOAT songs, but I'm just not voting for it in a disco poll, sorry about it.

ditto for "float on"

and "glamour profession"

Yes x 2 + "Superstition"

pls vote for magic number though

how did a vengaboys track get on the spotify playlist

Okay, I got your ballot now.

right on! (to use the proper vernacular of the time)

so what's our ballot total?

to help get us all in the mood:

http://img1.123tagged.com/en/DiscoBalls/14.gif

The total is 40 ballots, I think.

OK, so this was nominated but I only discovered it on a Disco Discharge compilation over the weekend and bloody hell now I wish I'd put it in my Top 20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyqkePY6FKY

It's an awesome tune indeed. I think it might've suffered from the fact that it hasn't been easily available until recently, when Patrick Cowley remix first appeared on the Deep Disco Culture 2 compilation, and then the original version on that Disco Discharge comp. (Apparently there was a reissue single released by Unidisc in 1993 that had both the original version and the Cowley mix, but that one seems to have been a quite limited release.) Thankfully Harmless put out a 2CD comp this year which includes pretty much all the original Tantra releases, plus the best remixes. I highly recommend that one, Tantra had more cool tunes than just "Hills of Katmandu".

I nominated Cher's "Take Me Home" but it didn't show up on either the spreadsheet or the Spotify playlist. Not disco enough, maybe....

All sorts of great stuff I realized I forgot to nominate as i was putting together my ballot.

Some of the Disco Discharge comps are patchy but European Connection is unstoppably good.

tuomas did you get my ballot

40 ballots, wow! usually the broader polls that draw from some really huge genre or category of music get a smaller voter turnout because people are daunted by the task or something, so it's cool to hear this one is bucking that trend.

aint no stoppin us now

oh nm tuomas just saw your email

I didn't get an email back, but am presuming that my ballot was received.

And, yeah, 40 is a nice chunk.

I know "I Feel Love" is an undying masterpiece and all, but I would be delighted to see something else deserving come out on top. Phyllis Hyman, for instance.

ftr tuomas emailed me because i had a song on my ballot twice

I've now sent a reply to each email I got. If you haven't received a mail from me, then I haven't gotten your ballot.

And Lee626, I'm sorry about the Cher omission: it wasn't intentional, seems that I just missed that tune while compiling the list. It's too late to add it now, I'm sorry.

I was too huungover ;_;

I haven't quite finished counting the votes, so if you send a ballot today, I can still sneak it in.

Apparently I'd saved it in draft mode, Tuomas. I emailed it about ten minutes ago.

I haven't received an email from you, Alfred... Did you send it to the right address?

Resent. I misspelled the address.

Okay, I got it now.

I haven't quite finished counting the votes, so if you send a ballot today, I can still sneak it in.

― Tuomas, Monday, December 2, 2013 2:15 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agh! Maybe! Let me see if my list is workable. Thanks!

lol music polls but i am legit excited for these results- no safe bets at all imo (aside from a ton of great tracks)

Sent. Incredibly messy, both in the ordering and that I'm sure I've missed a whole load of stuff out, but at least it's done.

I know "I Feel Love" is an undying masterpiece and all, but I would be delighted to see something else deserving come out on top. Phyllis Hyman, for instance.

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, December 2, 2013 8:12 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love Phyllis Hyman but both of her nominated tracks fell just short of my top 50. It's really her post-disco stuff like "Living All Alone" i like best.

No prob Tuomas for leaving out "Take Me Home", i'm more bummed at all the great disco songs i forgot to nominate at all that i remembered as i was compiling my ballot.

am I the only one who doesn't include i feel love?

I didn't. But it was at least in part willful.

In the end I convinced myself there are >50 disco tracks I really do prefer over IFL, but even if I hadn't I probably would have decided that it doesn't need my help.

For me voting for the Patrick Cowley remix satisfied the demands of willfulness.

Man, I will laugh so hard if the Cowley remix slots above the original.

I purposely voted for another Donna Sumemr track.

i forgot to vote for it

I voted for two Donna songs that are both very much lost causes.

r.i.p. donna summer

i really have just never liked "I Feel Love" that much, especially compared to her other hits. never even had any perception of the song as being considered noteworthy or especially great before ILM.

it's pretty boring. bad girls >>>>> i feel love

never forget

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e128/ilxalbums/howtomakeifeellove.jpg

Yeah, don't get carried away here hombres.

To me, "I Feel Love" is like a Work of Art, and not a record I want to hear in a dance club. No vote from me, even though I put another Donna Moroder record at #1.

It'd be nice if you wouldn't discuss your specific votes yet, so there'll be no spoilers regarding the results. Save the discussion for the traditional "post your ballots here" thread that comes after the results have been rolled out.

with 40-something voters it's pretty impossible to spoil the results unless like a dozen people start doing it. but yeah i guess it's nice to preserve the mystery as much as possible.

Suffice it to say, then, "I love disco!" until the results start to roll out.

SMH @ the 'I Feel Love' haters.

they feel hate

I don't hate it - it's beautiful, I have enjoyed it, and maybe not voting for it is absurd in a way but I just went with my gut, like probably many other people in this poll did with their voting.

damn it tuomas you're supposed to link in this thread when you start a results thread

...AND THE BEAT GOES ON! The GRAND ILM DISCO POLL results are revealed!

While this is revived and for not wanting to derail the results page, thought I'd link to this (rather groovy IMO) disco-reggae mix I made a few years back with the help and suggestions of ILMers http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/steady-operator-disco-reggae-sounds/