mars
Starting Member
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 | | 07 Dec 2007 3:31 AM |
| | Hooray for Humans are great. Safekeeping is beautiful. They get my vote. | | | |
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floodzer
Busy Member
Posts:117
| | 07 Dec 2007 4:48 AM |
| | Ive only got Cathy Daveys and Future Kings, both good but Ive given my vote to Cathy | | | |
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rowanlisa
Starting Member
Posts:1
| | 07 Dec 2007 5:26 AM |
| | Jenny Lindfors when the night comes. Fantastic. | | | |
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dhoun
Starting Member
Posts:1
| | 07 Dec 2007 5:37 AM |
| | Hooray for Humans for me! It sounds fresh, has some terrific songs and great harmonies. | | | |
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eoghan
Busy Member
Posts:252
| | 07 Dec 2007 6:30 AM |
| | Welcome to all these brand new members whose first post is on this very thread. You will be hanging around and participating in other discussions, and not just voting in this poll, you will won't you?! | | | |
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rockchicklet
Getting Into It Member
Posts:41
| | 07 Dec 2007 11:52 AM |
| Posted By eoghan on 07 Dec 2007 6:30 AM
Welcome to all these brand new members whose first post is on this very thread. You will be hanging around and participating in other discussions, and not just voting in this poll, you will won't you?!
very good eoghan, very good!
I've noticed this on a few other polls for Best Irish album, especially with one particular album. Just a shame that the acts in question have to resort to this kind of thing. Down with this kind of thing! | | | |
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AlanH4H
Starting Member
Posts:3
| | 07 Dec 2007 3:41 PM |
| Er.. I'm assuming that's a reference to us and the fact that we're ahead in this poll.
I presume the only reason we're ahead is because we threw up a bulletin on myspace - so I'd imagine a few of our online friends registered so they could vote. I seriously doubt that if the likes of Cathy Davey or Delorentos did the same we'd be anywhere near 1st place in this poll.
We don't have any control over what people do online, funnily enough. So no, we haven't "resorted" to anything. | | | |
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rockchicklet
Getting Into It Member
Posts:41
| | 08 Dec 2007 2:57 AM |
| Posted By AlanH4H on 07 Dec 2007 3:41 PM
I seriously doubt that if the likes of Cathy Davey or Delorentos did the same we'd be anywhere near 1st place in this poll.
thing is, they don't need to - unlike H4H or Mumblin' Deaf Ro who seems to be leading a couple of other online polls too. | | | |
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AlanH4H
Starting Member
Posts:3
| | 08 Dec 2007 7:16 AM |
| Yes, that was my point. They don't need to.
When I saw the line-up I naturally assumed one of the bigger bands would run away with it. So I figured if we even get a few votes, we might make the top 5 and some people might check us out based on that. I didn't realise this was a poll where getting 9 votes would mean we had twice as many votes as anyone else.
The only reason I even knew we were in this poll was because Eoghan emailed me telling me we were. He also mentioned that we could feel free to tell our friends to register to vote. Which, strangely, he has neglected to mention here.
Do you want to tell me about the other polls we've "rigged"? Because that's a pretty serious accusation to be throwing around if you ask me.
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slowlyfizzy
Starting Member
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| | 08 Dec 2007 8:39 AM |
| Cathy Davey's album is sublime.  | | | |
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nathalie
Starting Member
Posts:1
| | 08 Dec 2007 2:32 PM |
| | Adrian Crowley's 'Long Distance Swimmer' is pretty special. | | | |
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admin
Busy Member
Posts:146
| | 09 Dec 2007 12:38 AM |
| Just to be clear there's no "rigging" going on in this poll. If I saw one act leading the poll with, say, 10 times the number of votes of the next best placed album I'd raise an eyebrow but that's not the case. The numbers of votes in so far are simply not enough to imply any sort of "rigging" by any act.
To be absolutely clear, shortly after the poll opened I started emailing acts whose album had made this poll and for whom I was able to dig up an email address. The email was to let them know their album was chosen and that they could feel free to spread the word as they saw fit. This was very deliberate on my part as these end of year polls have always been a way that CLUAS brought in new visitors, an ulterior motive being to hopefully turn these new visitors / voters into regulars 'round these parts and maybe even a contributor to the site (hence my previous comment above). Obviously I have therefore no problem with bands sending emails or putting announcements on their websites that they are in this, or any other, end of year poll.
While I'm at it, this very poll is also a bit of an experiment. We haven't done one like this on the discussion board before and, considering it has a barrier to voting (the need to be a registered member of the board to vote, the first time we have put such a 'barrier; in place) I am curious to see how many votes it receives compared to the other poll we are running in parallel to find the Best Album of 2007 (which does NOT require someone to be a registered member to vote). That other poll has already - no surprise - received way more votes (over 360 at the time of writing which saw voters express (a statistically significant) 1400 or so album prefererences).
eoghan
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cluasclarges
Starting Member
Posts:1
| | 09 Dec 2007 6:08 AM |
| | Just voted for Adrian Crowley's album Long Distance Swimmer. A late-comer in 2007, I think this one is going to be on my playlist favourites for sometime to come... | | | |
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rockchicklet
Getting Into It Member
Posts:41
| | 09 Dec 2007 12:52 PM |
| Posted By AlanH4H on 08 Dec 2007 7:16 AM
Do you want to tell me about the other polls we've "rigged"? Because that's a pretty serious accusation to be throwing around if you ask me.
Apoloigies. What I meant to say was "unlike H4H - or Mumblin' Deaf Ro who seems to be leading a couple of other online polls too"
Please note that I also never used the word "rigged".
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aidanm
Starting Member
Posts:1
| | 10 Dec 2007 4:30 AM |
| Nothing wrong with a bit of self-promotion!
(I'm not affiliated with any of the bands in the poll!) | | | |
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sandy
Starting Member
Posts:3
| | 10 Dec 2007 8:07 AM |
| | Definitely the best Irish Female album of the year. She played Campbells Tavern for the Galway Arts Festival in July, one of the best gigs I've seen all year.(in the best venue in the country!) | | | |
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sandy
Starting Member
Posts:3
| | 10 Dec 2007 8:08 AM |
| | To Hell or Barbados - Fantastic album, definitely best Irish male album of the year. | | | |
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PadraicD
Starting Member
Posts:1
| | 10 Dec 2007 11:11 AM |
| | Adrian Crowley...oh man - its just gorgeous. | | | |
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ladyluckann
Starting Member
Posts:1
| | 10 Dec 2007 11:21 AM |
| Posted By nathalie on 08 Dec 2007 2:32 PM
Adrian Crowley's 'Long Distance Swimmer' is pretty special.
absofrickinluteley! | | | |
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aidan
Very Busy Member
Posts:427
| | 11 Dec 2007 4:50 AM |
| Posted By carry_grant on 06 Dec 2007 11:26 AM
Um, is there an A.N. Other option?
You could always spoil your ballot by voting for Damien Dempsey ;D | | | |
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