ILM's 2014 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

<nocollusion> which popcaan + mc bin laden tracks are getting the most attention? i like a few tracks for each but i don't have the ballot space.

"Popcaan - Everything Nice" for me

Michiru Aoyama - 暖かな季節 (Warm Season) will def‘ get a vote from me. Gorgeous meditative stuff that i worked to a lot this year

Can we go ahead and award "Have A Sad Cum" most hilarious song title of 2014?

SPOTIFY ALBUMS PLAYLIST:

http://open.spotify.com/user/sb0ut0n/playlist/0Px5twPcf7IoDACrD09jpp

(not quite complete b/c of the ridiculous flood of last minute album nominations today, I will try to catch up during the week)

crut, Orland Julius is on there now :)

thanks!!!

That Orlando Julius album is a cinch for top 5 on my ballot, maybe top 3. It's so great

14 ballots already! Results so far are...misleading.

xp with regards to popcaan, 'waiting so long' is my personal fav but can't imagine one track would be the collective pick
album should do okay tho

THE Popcaan track is 'The System', but there was some contention as to whether it's a 2014 track as it was released as a single some time before.

I'll probably pick 'waiting so long' too, though I think some of you (gr80?) might also like the non-WWCF track I nominated Fall in Love.

this is a good song, listed twice. idk which is right, id say just combine votes if each gets votes

Hit-Boy ft. HS87 - Grindin’ My Whole Life
HS87 - Grindin' My Whole Life

I doubt anyone else besides me is gonna vote for this freaky-ass Finnish bhangra rap tune by a hippie MC and her brother (especially since you won't understand the lyrics), but it was my jam for the whole year 2014, so I just had to put it as #1 in my ballot...

Yhdentekevää - Pyhä Lehmä anthem

I posted this at the end of the nomination thread but here it is again:

A shade over 1500 singles were nominated. Here's the complete listener's list to ILX's 2014 in singles:

On Spotify (1,230 songs):
http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/1w7KqvfFqnB3eplcxtDkW1

On YouTube (241 songs... Bear in mind that YouTube being YouTube, that playlist is likely to lose tracks over the next few months.)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcqiswAZfVPrX-KKTetdFgmiYxT6-AIrw

Not on Spotify or YouTube but Available Elsewhere (32):
18qm - Untitled A1 form Nontron C-38 - https://soundcloud.com/18qm/untitled-a1-from-nontron-c-38
aberrantkenosis - Mambo No. 5 (bike horn version) - https://aberrantkenosis.bandcamp.com/track/mambo-no-5-bike-horn-version
Bamnan - Visionary - https://soundcloud.com/bamnan/03-visionary?in=bamnan/sets/problems
Bludded Head - Pouring Rain - http://bluddedhead.bandcamp.com/track/pouring-rain
Blue Hawaii - Get Happy / Get Happier - https://soundcloud.com/bluehawaii/sets/get-happy-get-happier
Choi Sam - Answer - https://soundcloud.com/kawaiinene/choi-sam-answer
Cool Japan - Tokyo (Fuck Real Life) (featuring Lovely Summer Chan & Sarah Bonito) - https://soundcloud.com/c-ool-japan/tokyo-fuck-real-life
Dawn Richard - Physical - https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/physical
Dick Diver - New Name Blues - https://soundcloud.com/fruits-flowers/dick-diver-new-name-blues
Elizabeth Veldon - An Empty Room (Redux) - http://elizabethveldon.bandcamp.com/album/an-empty-room-redux
Fake Blood - 1 - https://fakeblood.bandcamp.com/track/1
Honey Cocaine - Icey Bitch (Syap Edit) - https://soundcloud.com/syap/honey-cocaine-icey-bitch-syap-edit
Hugo Massien - Better Let Her - https://soundcloud.com/hugomassien/hugo-massien-better-let-her
Jack N Danny - Heat - https://soundcloud.com/jackndanny/jack-n-danny-heat-mastered
Jane Weaver - Argent - https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/jane-weaver-argent
Jason Lescalleet - Autumn Leaves - https://soundcloud.com/glistening-labs/autumn-leaves-october-2014
Jason Lescalleet - Holiday in November - http://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/track/holiday-in-november
Jennifer Castle - Broken Vase - https://www.dropbox.com/s/g26w59t8bnx8rgi/09%20Broken%20Vase.mp3?dl=0
Jessie Ware - You & I (Forever) (Shift K3Y Remix) - https://soundcloud.com/shift-key/jessie-ware-you-i-forever
K15 - Bordeaux - https://soundcloud.com/wotnotmusic/k15-bordeaux-ep
Kacy Hill - Experience - https://soundcloud.com/kacyhill/experience
Katy Gately - Far - https://soundcloud.com/katiegately/far-1
KittiB - Wake Me Up - https://soundcloud.com/kittibitch/kittib-wake-me-up
Lesley Flanigan - Shattering - http://lesleyflanigan.bandcamp.com/track/shattering
lilangelboi - guilty - https://soundcloud.com/lilangelboi/guilty
Linden Jay with Sam Frank - Be Like You - http://vimeo.com/100951685
MATMOS - Weed World - https://soundcloud.com/adhocfm/matmos-weed-world
Mesa Ritual - Procession VIII -https://soundcloud.com/sige-1/procession-viii
Noni Wo - How Can I Plz U - https://soundcloud.com/noniwo/how-can-i-plz-u-1
ponibbi – HEARTSKIP - https://soundcloud.com/ponibbi/heartskip
Tef Poe - War Cry - https://soundcloud.com/tef-poe/war-cry-produced-by-dj-smitty-jay-nixon-diss-record
Thom Yorke - Nose Grows Some - http://vimeo.com/109478381 ….? I think?

Not Available For Streaming (6):
Bryan Eubanks - Enclosed Space Phenomena
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Cluster of Rainbows
Kevin Drumm / Jason Lescalleett - The Abyss
Melchior Productions LTD - Meditation 2
Theo Parrish - Helmut Lampshade

Taylor Swift (10):
Taylor Swift - I Wish You Would
Taylor Swift - New Romantics
Taylor Swift - Out of the Woods
Taylor Swift - Style
Taylor Swift - You Are In Love
Taylor Swift - Blank Space
Taylor Swift - Clean
Taylor Swift - All You Had to Do Was Stay
Taylor Swift - This Love
Taylor Swift - How You Get the Girl

SPOTIFY ALBUMS PLAYLIST:

http://open.spotify.com/user/sb0ut0n/playlist/0Px5twPcf7IoDACrD09jpp

now complete - 9,360 songs, 707 hours

every time I try to post the list of non-Spotify links I get an error, I'm off to the HTML Playground.

Imago, everyone, that Richard Dawson album is something else! Like a Geordie Aeroplane Over The Sea for Derek Bailey enthusiasts only infinitely better than that may sound.

imo it is nothing short of the finest pastoralia the north of england has produced, its folk stylings tempered with something utterly seaborne & untameable. 'nothing important' is a preternaturally brilliant folk-prog exegesis on mortality for god's sake, yet it also feels…slightly improvised?

glad to have you on board, i really think this stuff is the most interesting & emotionally affecting music coming out of this country at the moment

save for the odd bit of dance music, it feels like it's the only thing coming out of the UK i really give a shit about, or have done, in a long time.

it's like u guys have never listened to Tim Buckley or Bill Orcutt

Dawson record is pretty damn good, mind you, not gonna crack my top 25 though.

i couldn't listen to anymore new music from 2014 so i sent in my ballot

if anyone wants to check out a gorgeous single from "new African jazz" singer-songwriter Somi. it's so good i'd hate to be the only person who votes for it - youtube or spotify

it's like u guys have never listened to Tim Buckley or Bill Orcutt

Dawson record is pretty damn good, mind you, not gonna crack my top 25 though.

― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:02 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

These are quite disparate, superficial comparisons IMO. I see the similarities to some extent, but there's not that much in common. Orcutt, like Derek Bailey, is a lot more abstract than Dawson. Tim Buckley? Maybe, but I'll argue that the locational and historical differences place these two miles apart.

can we go 4 years in a row with a Miguel track in the top 10?

Santana - Indy ft. Miguel

Other than the IU track Brad linked to upthread, my other K-pop choice for the year is Orange Caramel - Catallena, an ABBA-inspired disco romp about a girl crush, with heavy New Order bass and a chorus lifted from a Punjabi folk song. Great video too.

Two tracks and an album for your consideration:

TEMPURA KIDZ vs Charisma.com - ミイラキラー: Party-rapping J-pop, so much fun
Quiltland - Forever: think Air France with added opera singers
Jorge Drexler - Bailar en la Cueva: omnivorous samba/cumbia/folk/pop/LatAmHipShit/etc album that I've been using to banish the winter gloom (title track)

Do people vote with their heart or more tactically?

Last year for instance, no one else voted for my #1 album so it was almost a wasted vote. If I'd have chosen one of the ilxor hivemind albums I liked instead it would have had more of an influence on that album's placing.

i vote with my <3 but that's just me

otoh your hivemind albums will place anyway, voting your less hivemindy places high increases the chance of them sneaking into the list

i vote for the albums i like in the order i like them most

the idea of a 'wasted vote' is specious nonsense obv

I will be wasting all of my votes

every artist u vote for will become 0.0087 % more popular

wait, are we voting for artists or tracks?

we're voting for ourselves rly

I look forward to the Delicate Features and Eleventeen Eston albums placing #382 and #425 on the chart then

It's hard to vote tactically when you don't see what others vote for.

voted selena #1 track a few years back not thinking it had a chance of placing and it ended up #77 kicking adele outta the countdown

I can only think of one other Ilxor who's into the whole Mungo's Hi-Fi / Prince Fatty axis of UK dub, but this tune ruled my world over the summer.

Mungo's HiFi ft. Sugar Minott - Scrub A Dub Style (Prince Fatty Mix)

I am very down and am seeing hollie cook tonight

I put the Hollie Cook album of last year very high in my ballot, because I enjoy her music a lot, but I can't claim that I'm very knowledgable of that scene in general.

i dont like to vote for things i nominated myself, which means so far i only have 2 things I'd consider voting for

Not voting for things you nominated yourself is a bit self-defeating isn't it?

I nominated a few things that won't make my ballot just because I've come across other, better albums since

As a policy, I mean.

Maybe they mean more that they don't like nominating, as if they're the only ones who think to nominate a thing then they'll probably be the only vote? Which makes way more sense than nominating stuff and then refusing to vote for it, but I don't really understand why people mind being the sole vote for something. To be honest, the last few years I've been annoyed that the presence of my boyfriend on ilx means that I stand no chance at being the top 'lonely voter'. I want to be the top something, damn it all.

for that reason, all my nominations were made up and don't exist.

I am voting for at least one of your nominations, dl. Which means yep, definitely doesn't exist. ^__^

vote w/ your <3, i always kinda like my random dance trax that ~2 other people vote for and mainstream country trax that no one else votes for

Strategic voting turns the list from "what did you listen to and like last year?" into "how can special snowflake music board ILM curate an end-of-year list that makes its posters seem like the coolest tastemakers?"

plus it would make ILM less of a special snowflake since, presumably, the records you guess are hivemind ones are because they've been hivemindy everywhere else

my #1 album is probably going to be the new Biota, which isn't on any streaming services so I doubt it will get any other votes

but really, if you can check it out, it's amazing!

Yeah I'll probably be fine in the end but I wonder what's the reasoning for not allowing the extra 10 right away? Seems to be less stressful and to give a chance to these 10 albums or tracks to be noticed before voting.

I've found that in the rush to get your favorites nominated early in the process, you always forget something key and then hope someone else likes it as much as you did. Alternately, you may find something between now and January 2nd that you want to nominate and, whoops, all your nominations are gone! The 11th hour bonus is a safety net for several reasons.

winnowing your favourites down is kind of the point above tallying, like, your 46th favourite track of the year just for the sake of it

― lex pretend, Wednesday, December 9, 2015 3:53 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^