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Vote on topics for Bonus Video - January

🕑 Added 2025-01-18 23:35:55 +0000 UTC

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Brendan J. Smith

I maintain that SMiLE is the greatest artistic loss in history. It breaks my heart just thinking about it. I’ve listened to The Smile Sessions more times than any human reasonably should. I really hope you can make a video about it someday.

Lou Watson

I missed the vote but I'm glad Wings won. My 2nd choice would have been Klaatu.

Patrick Farris

Holy shit it’s happening

Jon Reynoso

I have a topic idea -- a look into rock artists composing soundtracks to films like Pink Floyd's More or George Harrison's Wonderwall Music. Would be a fascinating video.

Aaron Weiss

We need more Beach Boys and more info on SMiLE. I've been studying it for years and even I'm confused by its history. A clear Youtube video and timeline would be so helpful!

Connor Lammas

Maybe split polling into two phases. After topic submitters submit, people in the topic-submitter tier and up get to vote amongst all the submissions to narrow it down. The top 3-5 from that first round then get passed to the rest of the Patreon to vote on. Basically you add an extra bonus to the topic submission tier where we get to do an initial voting round just among ourselves.

Gaby G

I almost voted for the Klaatu video, since they fascinate me, but I had to stay loyal to the Wings video until we finally get it 😂

Rocky Road

I think limited options would make your life easier! Then you can save the extras for later in the year, or when a topic consistently is at the bottom, you can replace it.

JCS

In response to your question about having so many topics, I agree we need a mechanism for narrowing the field (mostly because we now how a large group of voters). Thus, I too recommend limiting the poll to about five topics, but I also think you could do something else, such as: (1) have a sccond poll of only the top X options, or (2) send a request that we change our vote to the X most popular topics at about the 2-day mark since by thenb most of us appear to have voted. X = the number of strong contenders for that month. That would actually boost early voting.

Zainab Hassan

The Klaatu option is a very nice surprise!!

Justin Ciner

These are all super interesting topics, I hope you get to all of these eventually someday!!

Guitar Beatle

PLEASE GUYS ITS EITHER SMiLE, BEATLES ROCK BAND, DAVID BOWIE, OR THE WINGS ONE, ill be a very happy person!

thisguy

Ah I see, thanks for the clarification! The story’s just kinda “this 70s band sounds Beatlesesque so they must actually be the Beatles secret reunion. actually wait, no just kidding but they’re still pretty decent” so I wasn’t sure how much more there really was to it lol thanks again!

Elliot Roberts

I'll be transparent, I actually don't know much about them and haven't seen that video. This was submitted by a Patron and so it went in the poll. It would mean I'd be researching them on my own terms, so vote with that in mind I suppose!

thisguy

Just a curious question about Klaatu (it’s definitely an interesting topic to make a video about), how much would really be different from Polyphonic’s video on the same topic? Just curious as to how much more to the story there really is

Hannah Moran

I would amend the Bowie option to just be an exploration of his personas instead of a ranking, simply because everyone’s idea of David Bowie is so different, and people can get very nitpicky. This was a VERY tough choice, though, because all of the ideas sound great!! I’ll be happy with whatever wins ☺️☮️