Thanks
@HomerJAU for sorting this out - it looks great.
The idea for this list came about from a discussion in the mod forum about adding more polls to this section. In looking around here, I discovered that there's something like 439 total poll threads, but only 154 of them have reached the 6 vote threshold to appear in the
Quad LP and Tape Surround Polls, meaning that there are about 285 other polls that are languishing in obscurity in this forum, many of them with no votes at all.
As a result, the problem becomes that the more new poll threads get created, the further down the list the older, less visible poll threads get pushed - and since they don't show up in the Surround Polls chart, it's like a vicious circle where they're penalized with further obscurity by being obscure in the first place. Case in point, the very last post in this forum is a poll for
Al Green's Greatest Hits Q8/QR - hardly an obscure one (in terms of brand-name recognition) but it only has three (!) votes, and the last activity on the thread is circa 2005, some 15 years ago.
So my hope with the alphabetical list of polls is that it'll encourage people to get more involved with this section, without the bias of poll thread creation date and/or low visibility hiding some of these lesser-known titles in the bowels of QQ. I think the poll section here is one of QQ's greatest assets - not just for us to exchange information and find great mixes, but also to fly the flag for all of this stuff, and remind the major labels that own the rights to it that there still is interest in it. I'm not saying that casting a "10" vote is going to immediately result in your favourite major label or boutique quad ressiue label putting out a Blu-Ray or SACD of the title you voted for, but you never know who's watching, especially since when you Google for any album title + quadraphonic you're guaranteed to get something from QQ in the first page of search results. So if you're reading this (
freaky if you got this far to quote a disgruntled Van Morrison) please have a click of
the link in the first post and show some love to some of the poll threads, especially the ones with 0-5 votes - I just gave my favourite soft-rock masterpiece, David Gates's
First, a 10.
To that end, I'd like to nominate a few of my QQ friends, knowledgable posters, and one bitter enemy (you'll never know which is which, muahaha) to vote on some of these polls - say 5 or 10, or however many interest you, this should be fun and not work. After you've voted, I'd then ask that you inturn nominate one or two people to do the same.
@fredblue @sjcorne @J. PUPSTER @humprof @Q-Eight @ArmyOfQuad @JonUrban @Clement @skherbeck @rawmacias
)! if the @humprof fix works, please keep me in mind. During deez Rona daze, i'm basically in a fetal tuck in the ol' sweet spot hoping music will rescue me sick muse. And although some of my biological, psychological, and spiritual systems are shutting down, i can still listen and write . . . for now. Thanks for all you all do. Peace
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