Interactive Lightning Round Poll: Loved Songs

nice idea, i hope i can come up with a song. i'm writing with my phone,my laptop broke this morning,took it to be repaired. i don't know how to post videos with the phone. i'll see what i can do

^ thanks for your help, i'll think of a song soon and post the artist - song name

Edited by Cristi - September 13 2021 at 11:54

Trying to come up with one that hits the criteria, just a crazy busy day.  Great idea though, Greg!

The track I would have nominated is "Starless" by King Crimson.  Two problems with that:  It's too long for this poll and (see above).  

Edited by TCat - September 17 2021 at 15:52

Edited by Lewian - September 13 2021 at 14:42

Edited by suitkees - September 13 2021 at 15:38

I prophesy disaster wrote: This is difficult because there are so many possibilities for different reasons. For example, a track that I posted very recently in the A-Z thread, Peter Hammill - Stranger Still, speaks to me in a personal way, and I even changed my signature to a lyric from that track. Van der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, my all time favourite track, is probably too long for this poll. Van der Graaf Generator - Lost or Van der Graaf Generator - Pioneers Over C are my next favourite shorter tracks. Peter Hammill - Mr X (Gets Tense) is my favourite Peter Hammill track from a musical perspective. Or I could go for the most important track in my musical life:   King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including "Mirrors")

Good idea, less rushy!

Snicolette wrote: Good idea, less rushy!

The whole kind of conception (idea) of this was to put it together in an easy way that it could be rushy, but two days to nominate and two days to vote was more rushy than would have been ideal and when I saw the message about delaying your poll, then I thought it would make sense to extend it (I was thinking maybe by Thursday at the time cause nomination is the very easy part, at least for me -- when I see a new poll, ideas come to my mind immediately). I did rather want to see how well a lightning round could work as a stopgap when there are delays between polls (even if few people participate in a lightning round, it could still be fun).

My preference would be more than one every two weeks of the Interactive Polls -- maybe with each poll lasting two weeks, but an overlap so that when one is doing the nomination round another is doing the voting round and I liked the one a week as it started (then they went to two weeks, two and a half weeks or even three weeks sometimes), but I realise this is hard on people such as yourself who take the time to do write-ups of the selections, and for those who need lots of time to listen to suggestions multiple times. I come up with suggestion ideas very quickly even in the harder polls, and with this being based on one's favourites that are meaningful to you while not worrying about knownness the task becomes easier still to come up with one. My general memory might be poor now, but I still have a good memory when it comes to remembering music.

With this running longer, I would have approached this differently but I am happy for it to have little more time to breathe if it isn't putting you out.
By the way, I had meant to exclude Prog, but failed to express that or maybe I was just thinking all that matters is that it is meaningful to you. I put this poll together as fast as my fingers can go and had some conflicting ideas. What matters is that the music matters to people, Prog or not, well-known or not. I definitely am more interested in seeing what people have as favourite songs rather than how the votes go. Since the nomination round is lasting a couple of days longer, I won't put the nominations up in the list as people mention them (I had planned to do that). Also, I was thinking to make this just vote for one or two, but now we can probably make it three again. Well, assuming enough people participate. Might be weird then if no one else contributes.

Note if this post is overly rambly and badly expressed or thought out (been trying to keep the rambles to a minimum), I recently got woken up out of sleep after one hour, and then I can't get back to sleep when that happens. Excuses, excuses. ;)

^ Your embed had worked for me, Lorenzo, and so does that as labeled "Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello - The ghost of Tom Joad (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2009)" youtube link for me.