ILM ballot polls is, um, 47: what is our most pleasing champion?

heh i was waiting until we got to 50 single artists polls to do a "which winner is so clearly not the act's best song?" poll, so don't take that from me

Meh, no Blur, no credibility

Normally in any poll with the Who as an option, I would choose the Who. But, as much as I love "Substitute," it didn't make my top 10, and I was a little surprised to see it top the poll. So I'm gonna go with Marvin Gaye, because "Grapevine" has three drummers playing more sparsely than one, but one drummer couldn't have played it.

What?! How does that work?

i will prob vote for "When The Levee Breaks." one of those polls where lots of songs could've been a suitable winner but when that one came out on top it just seemed right.

Shake Your Rump for me, for pretty much that reason - never for a moment would've thought it to be their consensus no.1, then when when it was I was all *slaps forehead*

Powderfinger

Zep for me.

I dunno, I like almost all of these. Gimme Shelter for today.

God Only Knows, Gimme Shelter, Waterloo Sunset, Shhh/Peaceful, White Man In Hammersmith Palais, The Crystal Ship

Those were the ones where I thought "that could have been my #1 -- I wonder if it was." It would be funny if any of the others actually were #1s on my ballots and I don't remember them. I think I'll vote Clash just barely ahead of the Stones.

Ahh, so you didn't feel the need to include the TV Theme Poll.

I'd've included that and MC Tunes were I not limited to 50 options

"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" because, in the six polls I've participated in thus far, it is the only time when my #1 was also the consensus #1.

my #1 is pretty frequently the actual #1, esp when it's a 'surprise' winner for some reason - depeche mode, neil young, elvis costello. several others where i don't think it was as much a surprise as well - new order, pj harvey, the who, i think it's cuz i send in at least 19 ballots. haha i was so happy w/ 'deeper and deeper' doing surprisingly well in the madonna poll (it was my #1) that in my memory it had somehow actually won the thing instead of coming in at #3. voting beach boys as it's the only spotify playlist here i still follow.

Cant quite decide yet between Zep & Neil but after those two I rank em : Mac, Marvin, Doors, Beatles, Stones, ABBA, Prince, Madonna, Sam & Dave, Who.

Phil Spector

I've voted in like 30 of these and the #1 has never been my #1 although plenty of times i've voted for the winner -- if there are a few songs that could be my #1, i usually go with the one least likely to win the poll or be anyone else's #1

closest i came was "Superstition" at #2, and that's pretty unfuckwithable.

Miles

Looked back at my ballots and my #1 wound up as the winnah twice -- Stones and Jacksons. Usually I have a song in mind that means a lot to me but is pretty far from consensus-best ("That's All For Everyone," "Rene & Georgette Magritte").

Levee, Dreams, and Crystal Ship were all #1s on my ballots

what happened to pavement?

went for the clash because i don't agree with the majority of these.

I don't like Pavement

oh no

Only dirt roads for that guy!

Only a terrible awful person would disregard the Pavement poll after I worked so hard on the images: http://bit.ly/1czxJHn

Aw that's lovely, but Trigger Cut was robbed

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Beasties, Madonna and Miles were the ones where the poll #1 was also my #1. Of those, I'll vote Miles. (Lots of these I didn't vote in, but I don't think there are many others where the winner would have been my personal #1.)

all of these

Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
The Who - Substitute
Madonna - Into The Groove
PJ Harvey - Dress
New Order - Temptation
The Doors - The Crystal Ship
Motown Singles - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
Stax - Hold On, I'm Comin' (Sam & Dave)
Velvet Underground - What Goes On
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief

some that were underwhellming as number ones: A Day In The Life, God Only Knows, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, I Want You Back, Life On Mars?, White Man In Hammersmith Palais, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), Totally Wired

There have only been four where my #1 was the poll #1 (GBV, Paul Simon, Kate Bush and Jay-Z) but I'm fine with at least half of these. I think the Costello one is the most surprising and the Beastie Boys was the most *pleasantly* surprising (Ismael otm upthread in other words).

"Get Ur Freak On is not even the best Missy song and that wasn't even a Missy poll" vs Temptation vs What Goes On vs "WTF how could that come out tops in the Madonna poll?"

And I actually think that the ur-What Goes On has been improved on and done better by other bands, so although the Velvets were seminal (LOL) I don't have that "the best thing in the entire world" feeling about it, even though it is my favourite Velvets song.

Temptation... I can't even decide what the best New Order song is, so I've no idea how that came out top (I'd have thought that Blue Monday was canonical, but Temptation is in point of fact a better *song* than Blue Monday by a tiny, tiny margin) but yeah, ILX polls of yore made me realise that I do actually consider New Order to be the best band in the world, in that I struggle to think of any band better than them that I would select over them in a poll.

I mean, yeah, there are loads of tracks on here that if they came on, I would get up and dance, but I don't have the complicated ~feels~ about the artist that I have about New Order. So Nothing that feels "personal favourite" on the level that a bunch of scruffs from Macclesfield do.

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I would have voted Gimme Shelter because it's the poll I had the most fun participating in :D

oh this is a poll of songs i thought it was a poll of polls

I made it both becuase rules are for squares maaaan
(also my reading comprehension is terrible)

The Fall's "Totally Wired" winning was the one that shocked me the most.

Until the final ballot came in, "The Classical" was the front-runner all the way along. That final ballot (prepared well before) was mine. And Totally Wired was my number one, and it took the tape by one point or something like it.

I was sorely tempted to revise or sack my vote. But, hey..

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