Interactive poll team

Snicolette wrote: Logan wrote: This has been an amazingly successful series. For ages I have wanted threads where we would listen to and comment on each other's musical choices which would facilitate discovery, broadening our horizons, and getting to understand each other's tastes better, but I felt that I never found a method that really worked satisfactorily. Kudos on this series.   This has been one of the best things about it, and I think why we are drawn to it over other kinds of polls (where the emphasis is on "winning," rather than sharing).  Sorry I don't know your real life name, JamesBaldwin, but your writing is very eloquent, I so enjoyed what you wrote about the Einaudi piece.  You obviously understood the technical aspect behind the piece, yet also described so well the feeling of it.  And this is where the real heart of music lies (at least for me and perhaps because I am too dense to completely "get" theory).  There has been nothing in these polls that I've felt to dismiss out of hand.  Right now in the Latin American one, I have 9 to re-evaluate from my initial impressions, as what I've called "contenders." So thank you and echoing Logan's kudos to you.

Cristi wrote: catchy non-prog in two weeks, there are a couple of other polls before mine. Catchy prog - only 2 users gave me the ok. So I don't know if people want it or not.

Cristi wrote: Lewian wrote: Cristi wrote: TCat wrote:  One a week is perfect! Not quite sure whether you mean one a week overall or one non-prog plus one prog every week. I meant the former... one poll/one week

Logan wrote: This has been an amazingly successful series. For ages I have wanted threads where we would listen to and comment on each other's musical choices which would facilitate discovery, broadening our horizons, and getting to understand each other's tastes better, but I felt that I never found a method that really worked satisfactorily. Kudos on this series.

  This has been one of the best things about it, and I think why we are drawn to it over other kinds of polls (where the emphasis is on "winning," rather than sharing).  Sorry I don't know your real life name, JamesBaldwin, but your writing is very eloquent, I so enjoyed what you wrote about the Einaudi piece.  You obviously understood the technical aspect behind the piece, yet also described so well the feeling of it.  And this is where the real heart of music lies (at least for me and perhaps because I am too dense to completely "get" theory).  There has been nothing in these polls that I've felt to dismiss out of hand.  Right now in the Latin American one, I have 9 to re-evaluate from my initial impressions, as what I've called "contenders." So thank you and echoing Logan's kudos to you.

Edited by Snicolette - June 25 2020 at 20:43

I had also wanted to do one. Originally it was to be an instrumental, but as that was then done, I want to do one that focuses on soundtrack/ library music.

I like the idea of one a week.

This has been an amazingly successful series. For ages I have wanted threads where we would listen to and comment on each other's musical choices which would facilitate discovery, broadening our horizons, and getting to understand each other's tastes better, but I felt that I never found a method that really worked satisfactorily. Kudos on this series.

I haven't put the effort into commenting on other people's choices rather than just listing my picks as I wish I had in the one that I've participated in. I always like topics that have conversational/ dialectic qualities, and polls where people do more than just mention their picks but say something about them. I'm not adept at reviewing or saying much about music. I was better when on the Eclectic team as I tried to share my thoughts on the suggestions. It's a challenge.

By the way, I do like having a set rule that we don't vote for our own choices. I'd rather vote for just two than cast a vote for my own choice, but that can be left up to the discretion of each topic starter I suppose.

Edited by Logan - June 25 2020 at 10:57

TCat wrote:  One a week is perfect!

Ok let's keep things as they are!

Edited by jamesbaldwin - June 25 2020 at 04:43

I'm enjoying both prog and non-prog polls (with the non-prog ones somewhat more fun) but as I've written before, I wouldn't complain about a slower pace. However micky really has a point there... things can become over-organised and that may take the fun out of things. If people want to do these polls at the pace of two a week, so be it, and I may give the odd one a miss. I mean, if I were the boss of everything, we'd have one a week, maybe mostly non-prog with the odd prog one thrown in once in a while, but then I'm not, and I have no ambitions to become the boss. I also think we don't need an official team for opening polls. I'd surely be up to do another one, but as far as I'm concerned, anyone who wants can do one and doesn't need to be member of an official team. Anyway, none of these opinions is particularly strong , so if things go in a different direction, I'll just accept it and won't complain.


Edited by Lewian - June 25 2020 at 04:14

I just don't want those who want to join in feeling like they can't because they have obligations in life.  I am learning so much from all of you, which I so appreciate.  I like the lesser-known artists in prog getting attention.  I like the other genres getting attention from ears that are open through the artery of progressive music.  I really love the conversations, the critiques, the different viewpoints.  That's where I stand, as long as it stays interesting and no one is put out by not "winning."  We are all winners for hearing such a wide variety of music, from people who love it.

Edited by Snicolette - June 24 2020 at 22:39

I'm in agreement about keeping it as it. The prog version should be its own entity and could evolve to have its own "core" of diehards, or it could fizzle. Hard to say after one but I wasn't really into it.