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tracy	Date: June 20, 2007 @ 6:56 PM Any ideas for the sitewide poll in the community section?
billrhynes	Date: June 20, 2007 @ 9:56 PM hottest Dbabe???
moam	Date: June 20, 2007 @ 9:58 PM best idea for a "miserable death"
Tattoomom	Date: June 20, 2007 @ 11:01 PM death by Dbabe?????
leedsquietman	Date: June 20, 2007 @ 11:07 PM Hottest bra in a Dmusic members studio
tsand20175	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 12:12 AM boxers or briefs? just for the record, briefs for me
ShadowMom	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 5:11 PM I started to say something about summer tours or guitars... but I'm just gonna leave now. I don't wear either, Tim.
billrhynes	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 5:13 PM this was a pretty cool idea
ShadowMom	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 6:23 PM Wrong pole again!
hantu	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 6:58 PM If you could click a magic button that would change DMusic's design back to the old one, would you? a. Most definately this place stinks like my auntie Frank b. No way this new design touches me in ways the old one could never c. I don't know, i like them both in their own way. I think my mind's going to blow will i be able to change back and forth? i want it all, i'm a greedy shit d. I don't give a toss, this poll is dumb... Ok - maybe not that exactly lol
ShadowMom	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 7:14 PM At least you're thinking. That's scary enough.
Distilled1	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 7:38 PM would you consider yourself a_____ artist 1. pro 2. almost pro 3. intermediate 4. getting there 5. a beginner 6. what am I doing here? I have no idea? 7. a fan of music
hantu	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 7:51 PM Is ShadowMom a pain in your butt? a. Is this a joke? of course she is, you silly poll b. Only on the weekend c. I don't have a butt On 21st Jun 2008, ShadowMom said: At least you're thinking. That's scary enough.
tracy	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 8:09 PM how about which musician/band would you most want to see? (all dead) i.e. jimi hendrix, janis, 2pak, some more dead people...
hantu	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 8:15 PM That's a good one, what did you need us for? oh i'd like to see the results of Distilled1's poll.
hate9wicket	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 8:22 PM DMusic Charts: Yes or No? A) Yes, but only by genre, no more overall B) No, self streamers ruin it for everyone C) We have Charts? D) Yes, Leave it alone, the bugs will be worked out eventually. E) No, this isn't a competition. F) Yes. I visit the Library, all my friends and family, and at every opportunity stream every single song of mine 20 times or more every chance I get every day, even though I haven't logged in for 3 years and haven't uploaded anything for 5. G) No, I can check my stats to see how many partial listens I have, I know how much love is in the hizzouze. did I spell that right?
ShadowMom	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 8:23 PM Don't forget none of the above. I don't want to see dead people. Tracy, I'll be serious now.
hantu	Date: June 21, 2007 @ 8:26 PM haha... i'll answer now F) Yes. I visit the Library, all my friends and family, and at every opportunity stream every single song of mine 20 times or more every chance I get every day, even though I haven't logged in for 3 years and haven't uploaded anything for 5. On 21st Jun 2008, hate9wicket said: DMusic Charts: Yes or No? A) Yes, but only by genre, no more overall B) No, self streamers ruin it for everyone C) We have Charts? D) Yes, Leave it alone, the bugs will be worked out eventually. E) No, this isn't a competition. F) Yes. I visit the Library, all my friends and family, and at every opportunity stream every single song of mine 20 times or more every chance I get every day, even though I haven't logged in for 3 years and haven't uploaded anything for 5. G) No, I can check my stats to see how many partial listens I have, I know how much love is in the hizzouze. did I spell that right?
johnnygnote	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 1:02 PM I have one, has Dmusic sunk to the depths's of Hell? Or maybe, Has Dmusic changed in the last 5 Years? And if so How?
billrhynes	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 1:42 PM how about... "do you find it annoying that you have to wade through piles crappy renditions of "Eruption" or 10 second takes of a metallica riffs before you find a real song to listen to when browsing the metal category?" Yes No
ShadowMom	Date: June 22, 2007 @ 2:22 PM Mwahahaha... better you than me!
evansorchid	Date: June 23, 2007 @ 11:56 AM On 22nd Jun 2008, billrhynes said: how about... "do you find it annoying that you have to wade through piles crappy renditions of "Eruption" or 10 second takes of a metallica riffs before you find a real song to listen to when browsing the metal category?" Yes No I didn't know Van Halen was considered Metal.
leedsquietman	Date: June 23, 2007 @ 12:01 PM I'm with you Hatewicket, the charts are still an achilles heel here at Dmusic...
ChillinBuzz	Date: June 23, 2007 @ 4:56 PM Which late artist would you want to meet in the afterlife? Sham's poll suggestion would no doubt cause yet another pointless argument or ten, although I like the idea. How about "What part of the site do you consider the weakest?" with an option for "All of it" for the few that can't stand the new design but still visit. But anyway, a poll on a list of suggestions to either expand or improve the site would be cool. On the subject of the chart music, loosely: If I hear too many more people lamely covering Metallica or going on about how great they are (especially from musicians who have no idea this is the same band who gave Napster a f*cking over... If they know what Napster was for that matter too) then I am gonna scream. Metallica, compared to the driving force that I grew up on, are a pile of crap now. I'd bow down to Dave Mustaine for trying to feel his way back into the old styles but the daft sod swallowed a bible somewhere along the way. If this is what money does to you, I feel much safer knowing there's 3000 miles of ocean in the way, for now.
hantu	Date: June 23, 2007 @ 9:59 PM Dem last two words be chillin
leedsquietman	Date: June 23, 2007 @ 10:15 PM Some good points there Chillin, but I was born and raised in the UK where I lived for 29 years and know there are plenty of loonies there too !!
hantu	Date: June 24, 2007 @ 2:33 AM No they aren't, UK mans be perfect... perfectly unloony! Back to the polls... In regards to making music (obviously) which do you prefer? - Working with people - Working on your own More options could probably be added to this without getting too carried away, like maybe "Remixing", but i not really know see now.
hantu	Date: June 24, 2007 @ 3:20 AM I wonder, can the polls be incorporated into the forums? They would probably get a bit more attention if they were here, wouldn't they? At leat they would by me anyway, and it does already have a comments section which from the outside looks just like the forums, only with smaller font and the poll at the top. How about an option on all Polls created to not vote and just go straight to the results? I'm sure there will be times when polls won't really be valid for some people, so this will prevent the votes gettin messed up, by having a dud vote.
billrhynes	Date: June 26, 2007 @ 10:19 PM On 23rd Jun 2008, evansorchid said: [QUOTE info=billrhynes,June 22, 2007 @ 1:42 PM] how about... "do you find it annoying that you have to wade through piles crappy renditions of "Eruption" or 10 second takes of a metallica riffs before you find a real song to listen to when browsing the metal category?" Yes No I didn't know Van Halen was considered Metal. [/QUOTE] Van Halen was heavy metal from the start...the fact that they turned into some kind of pussy-fried top 40 act is simply sympomatic of the industry. Heavy metal has gone thru many changes and mutations thru the years...but in 1979 if you had ten Marshall stacks and were louder than god that pretty much qualified you. Don't get me into a semantics...people call L.A Guns and Poison heavy metal...my classification might be a tad more discriminating. What a lot of people call "Heavy Metal" many of us call "Butt Rock". here's an example of my classifications... BUTT ROCK: White Snake (post "Slide It In") Faster Pussy Cat Warrant Europe Poison Mr. Big David Lee Roth (solo band) Real Metal: Slayer Kreator Pantera Megadeth Metal Church Destruction Metallica (before they were rich) my point is, every body's classification is going to be different and there are many other examples I could add, but in 1979 really made it huge, our choices for metal were a little more limited. Zep, Nugent, Alice Cooper, Sabbath, Priest, Montrose and AC-DC and Nazareth and Rush were about it... It's about your perspective on time I guess, and for me (being older than dirt) I remember what it was like for us headbangers. Motorhead and Scorpions were just getting big. So Yeah...Van Halen was very heavy Metal...insane guitar, louder than fuck and just plain amazing compared to anything else at the time. Not trying to be rude, smart ass or anything else...but yeah, they WERE heavy metal by the standards of the time. Now they just suck ass.
billrhynes	Date: June 26, 2007 @ 10:22 PM sorry, I got off topic...
zedsalt	Date: June 27, 2007 @ 10:44 AM Hey, look, Bill's going off-topic; I think I'll follow... In my Senior Issue in high school, under "Favorite Band" I answered "Anything METAL". What I loved about Heavy Metal was the diverse influences the acts drew from, the lack of a "formula". Very soon after that, people driven by greed came up with a formula, formed cookie cutter clone bands that all sounded alike, and a ridiculous system sprouted up whereby if a band played the right clubs in Los Angeles, they could get the best gigs in England, and if they got the right gigs in England, they automatically moved up the ladder in the U.S. Suddenly, I found Kerrang-style articles in Circus, and many of the albums I'd paid overinflated import prices for were showing up on the racks at KMart and WalMart (this was back when there was still a healthy, consumer-friendly competition between those two). Burying that great stuff was, of course, what Bill refers to as "Butt Rock", what I've always called "Hair Band" music. If there were only some way I could get a hold of every one of those Senior Issues that were printed, that I might explain myself...
ChillinBuzz	Date: June 30, 2007 @ 12:50 AM Don't burst my bubble, leedsquietman! I was starting to feel safe for a moment then. Guess you could always have a "craziest country" poll but I wouldn't want to bet on the winner of that one.
Alwex	Date: June 30, 2007 @ 6:26 PM I must say that Distilled1's idea was pretty intresting, would love to see the result of that one.
tracy	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 9:22 AM post new poll ideas here
jack	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 9:30 AM What feature would you like to see next at DMusic? * Video * Artist Page Customization * (Working) Charts
NosmoKing	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 9:32 AM Would like to see the old things working then consider new ones!
Tattoomom	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 9:38 AM Dmusician you would most like to work with?
Distilled1	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 10:30 AM **user accounts the ability to snag a song (from a DMusic artist)and add it to their page with some candy to the page to make it their own. without going insane myspace crazy...Something for them to have when they are here a reason to be here! Video *** Artist Page Customization and a short one that doesn't blow the page so long I hate scrolling to get to the shut-up box
billrhynes	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 4:12 PM I kinda thought it was cool (remember when...) somebody was on your page, it told you they were looking at your page...of course there were "ghost" issues...but so what...
Tattoomom	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 4:13 PM Kind of negates the "hey I'm looking at your page but I don't want you to know about it" idea....dosn't it?
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 19, 2008 @ 5:51 PM On 19th Feb 2008, tracy said: post new poll ideas here I got one. "Who broke the server?"
tracy	Date: May 18, 2008 @ 5:47 AM post the poll and some choices, and i'll post it
tracy	Date: May 20, 2008 @ 4:33 AM any poll ideas for right now?
ShadowMom	Date: May 20, 2008 @ 4:53 AM In keeping with the Beatles theme, best Beatles album maybe?
BOWILLIE	Date: May 20, 2008 @ 4:56 AM thats a good one kathy i bet i can predict the outcome on that one. pepper or the white album. or abbey road...
ShadowMom	Date: May 20, 2008 @ 6:36 AM Or the summer movies-- I enjoyed the poll last year, and there are some real blockbusters coming out this year. Iron Man seems to be a huge hit, the new Indiana Jones, Batman, and more-- not that I WATCH movies, but the poll was interesting! And yes, I KNOW it has nothing to do directly with music, but they make some killer soundtracks these days!
leflaw	Date: May 20, 2008 @ 1:57 PM Best Beatles cover?
ShadowMom	Date: May 20, 2008 @ 3:12 PM You mean by other artists than the ones you're collecting? Nominations, anyone?
tracy	Date: May 21, 2008 @ 9:22 AM ok------- http://www.dmusic.com/polls
zedsalt	Date: May 22, 2008 @ 3:31 AM I assumed two things before I looked at the list- One, my favorite Beatle song wouldn't be there, and B., someone would complain about that particular omission sometime before I took the opportunity to look at the list. Tomorrow may not know, but some things are safe/easy enough to assume about tomorrow. How about this one: which movie is the most accurate portrayal of the music business- "The Phantom of the Paradise" "This is Spinal Tap" or "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"? I ask this fully expecting at least one person to respond, "No, _________(insert movie title here) is more accurate than any of those".
perkie1973	Date: May 24, 2008 @ 6:24 PM On 22nd May 2008, zedsalt said: I assumed two things before I looked at the list- One, my favorite Beatle song wouldn't be there, and B., someone would complain about that particular omission sometime before I took the opportunity to look at the list. Tomorrow may not know, but some things are safe/easy enough to assume about tomorrow. How about this one: which movie is the most accurate portrayal of the music business-
perkie1973	Date: May 24, 2008 @ 6:30 PM The Phantom of the Paradise
GTOriginal	Date: June 4, 2008 @ 8:13 AM Should the ability to remove comments be available only to subscribers? - Of course! Artists should pay for control of their pages. - Yes, but exceptions can be made for certain nonsubs at the discretion of management. - It really makes no difference. No! It is a deterrent to potential subscribers.
evansorchid	Date: June 7, 2008 @ 3:47 AM How about a poll that asks folks their favorite song from the greatest rock/pop act ever and then only list a tiny sampling of their catalog.
zedsalt	Date: June 8, 2008 @ 3:11 AM I read that when EMI (I hope I got the label right; I'm pretty sure it was EMI) was putting together their "Essential Alternatives" album, they asked their then-current acts to pick out tunes from the label's old catalog to cover. One band (I'm sorry; my memory just isn't functioning this a.m.) decided to do the worst song they could think of from the best band that had ever been on the label. They settled on the Beatles' "Martha My Dear".
Tattoomom	Date: July 13, 2008 @ 4:09 PM
tsand20175	Date: July 13, 2008 @ 4:25 PM
Tattoomom	Date: July 13, 2008 @ 4:26 PM aw c'mon! Bill put up that girlie one! (where's the icon for sticking my lip out)?
zedsalt	Date: July 14, 2008 @ 3:26 AM By the looks of that fella's outfit, I'd probably use the word "girlier".