ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

Will vote for Deerful, emil.y - in fact everyone should :)

Voted. Could only find 20 tracks that I really felt for, which means I probably have heard way too little k-pop, azonto, etc. Might have been a slightly happier 2016 if I had.

"Frankie Sinatra" veers perilously close to electroswing which is imo the worst genre in the history of music

oh I hate electroswing too but c'mon.

anyway, I'm also sad emil.y's not voting. sorry to hear it's not been going great. really hope things improve for you this yesr

Voted! As ever, the final cuts were very painful indeed.

i know it's kind of a dumb thing to do but what happens if you list something that wasn't nominated, does it just get ignored or does it break the rest of your ballot

For me, Frankie Sinatra reminds me more of Eminem's "Comedy" singles than Gorillaz or Electroswing, which is a sound I can do without. In particular, it reminds me of Obie Trice's "Got Some Teeth".

Kicking myself for not nominating a lot of stuff I figured would be accounted for. Definitely made the final ordering easier, but I didn't end up getting a full count as a result.

King, "The Greatest" doesn't seem to be on the tracks document. It is on the Spotify playlist

King, "The Greatest" doesn't seem to be on the tracks document. It is on the Spotify playlist

― ƒ©˙∆˚¬ (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, January 20, 2017 2:14 PM (fifteen seconds ago)

Oh no! So would have voted for it if it was, indeed, nominated. Was surprised to see it missing.

youre doing a real disservice to got some teeth there xps

Actually, I started looking through the lists and I might be able to put together top tens for both. Any more than that and I'd be entering into the realms of "in another year I probably would have given this a lot more time so let's just vote for it on principle", which is a stupid way of doing things.

I would have voted for "The Greatest"

"The Greatest" was on last year's list, fwiw. I didn't vote for it this time. But if we decided it's eligible two years in a row, hey, I have a new #1.

i know it's kind of a dumb thing to do but what happens if you list something that wasn't nominated, does it just get ignored or does it break the rest of your ballot

― marcos, Friday, January 20, 2017 4:47 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rather than be a dick i just followed the rules

okay, who was the idiot who forgot to nom dedekind cut?

The Greatest placed last year iirc so not eligible.

If you vote for something that wasn't nominated then either it just gets skipped and the rest of your votes are counted as normal or I add it to the noms list as a write-in - no guarantees though, especially for late ballots.

voted in two steps, first for albums than for tracks, i hope that was ok. seandalai et al. thanks for organising this poll. 2016 was quite a good year for music i thought. i had no problem to vote for 25 albums or tracks. i am intrigued for the results.

Any chance there will be an extension on this?

grrr, thraed of missing 3 wheel-ups

Okay, I voted. Not particularly inspired choices but glad I can rep for my faves.

\m/

We are finalising ours...

Voted.
Note: the track "Skin Tight" is incorrectly credited to "Mr. Eazi & Eugy", this should be "Mr. Eazi ft. Efya". If it finishes at #23 in the rollout (who's to say), it's only fair Efya receives fair credit.

Dammit, I always plan on listening to a snippet (at least) of all 1300+ tracks before voting, but I think I got through only 600 or so this year, and it didn't change my ballot much. As with past years, I'll console myself with the knowledge that like all polls its just a snapshot of demographics, and not an objective distillation.

good lord imago do you wait to the last minute in every poll?
Surely you formed your faves throughout the year? Im not sure hearing an album once in the last few weeks of a year can really be an album of the year.

oh i've long heard everything i'm dicing over. still 4.75 hours left brah

voted, but god i wish i'd got round to making some tracks noms

Any chance there will be an extension on this?

There's usually a soft extension that runs until seandalai wakes up Saturday.

*sniggers*

yeah there's a good eight hours in it still

K thx JF. That's all I need.

man, you can do some dramatic things to your ballot if you really listen to the music

mostly involving katie dey

Voted!

Voted!

Voted!

Voted!

The left-hand hierarchy is enjoined!

The remix is nominated, I voted for that. But his album was great, really sorta jarring and captivating sound-design. Almost harsh and beautiful at the same time, ultra close-up.

― MikoMcha, Friday, January 20, 2017 10:59 AM

Oops. Well, my tracks ballots here have not exactly been as well thought out as the album ballots. Blarggh Hope it places high

well, i've been pretty out of things here lately, so i'm glad i happened to look tonight and saw that the deadline was like right now and threw together a ballot. of course, i didn't participate in nominations, so i had to hunt through my top 40 tracks/albums to get enough to fill out the ballot, but i guess that just means i voted for some things other people voted for. glad i stopped by tonight, would've hated to break my streak of voting every year!

a little late because of a work crisis and a wine situation but I've submitted a ballot if it's not too late to consider

Boxedjoy indeed.

Ok we're closing up now

:(

Got mine in last night after midnight, hope it counts. (If not, no problem)

Impromptu stay over last night so didnt get my vote in lol. If Yodok III falls one vote short of winning the albums poll, thats on me.

Aww man I want to see Lamp's ballots

me too :(

i want to see his hot takes on what places