Disappointed in the poor placing of the afropop tracks. I had expected more tracks to cloud over the Top 77, like a blessed rain about to pour down. Still hoping the niches will be un-niched some time soon.
xp
― breastcrawl, Friday, 22 January 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
songs for which i was the only voter:Calvin Harris ft. HAIM - Pray To GodLeggy - PeachOld - DudeJohn Grant ft. Tracey Thorn - DisappointingWeaves - TickBig Quiet - Maura & DanaTrudy - BehaveVARSITY - So Sad, So SadJess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
a lot of them are super-twee
― maura, Friday, 22 January 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
(not just talking about my own choices, but about afropop/afrobeats in general. same story as for dancehall and soca, I guess, as discussed elsewhere)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 22 January 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
shout out to whoever else voted for peaness!
― maura, Friday, 22 January 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
p surprised i was the sole vote for real sisters :/
― johnny crunch, Friday, 22 January 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link
I hope to see at least one footwork track place in 2016. surprised no jlin but maybe she'll get into the albums poll. 'slim trak' by PayPal came up fairly high which was nice.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, 22 January 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
who else out there voted for julien baker aka J U _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E R aka julia hitler aka jute gybe (her)?
― Will v. Maim (Will M.), Friday, 22 January 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link
varsity was on my shortlist
― nomar, Friday, 22 January 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
i had literally no idea you were talking about julien baker, that's hilarious
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 22 January 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
i think she'll do well in the albums poll maybe?
hope so! something was just such a high spot for me (or low spot if you wanna talk about how emotionally devastating it is) that i thought it might get a little more shine.
― Will v. Maim (Will M.), Friday, 22 January 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
Isolée - Favouride
this is such a great track - i think your whole ballot is really tight tbh
sad i missed the voting window for this :/
― -san (Lamp), Friday, 22 January 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
btw yay Moodles for voting "Stranger than Earth"; that song was interspersed throughout all of my Kendrick obsessing and also my kids do an incredibly cute freakout to it whenever the beat kicks in
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 22 January 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
Shout out to the other two voting for Zara Larsson Lush Life. Superior Swede in this setting.
― abcfsk, Friday, 22 January 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
― -san (Lamp), Friday, January 22, 2016 2:28 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i would've liked to see your ballot, lamp. best experience with favouride was playing it suuuuper late on halloween night and seeing a bunch of costumed friends high af vibing to it bathed in red light.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 22 January 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
erykah badu - hotline bling (remix)janelle monae & wondaland records - hell you talmboutsteve cobby & trudie dawn smith - we start over simon peter - arc of lark kendrick lamarr - alright koosh - mouth full of gold teethisolee - favouride pepe bradock - homo sandwichus max skiba - shanghouse 12” laksa - baded fetty wap - 679bryson tiller - dont morgan geist - darkstar nef the pharoah - big tymin' vangeliss k - enigma (young marco remix) rich homie quan - flex i heartmemphis - i heart the quan antenes - the track of the storm fit siegel - carmine
order is kind of arbitrary/unconsidered since i just pulled this from a google doc. could probably get a full list of 25 if i thought more about it
― -san (Lamp), Friday, 22 January 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
My ballot technique this year was to vote for the song I hated the most because my god do most of you take this way too fucking seriously.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 22 January 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
(hundreds of x-posts) thank u seandalai!
― Tim F, Friday, 22 January 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
unweighted, bold didn't place
Beach House - LevitationDauwd - Jupiter GeorgeDJ Koze - XTCDomenique Dumont - L'Esprit de L'EscalierKelela - RewindKero Kero Bonito - Picture ThisKorallreven - Here In IowaLA Priest - Learning to LoveLower Dens - I Am The EarthMajical Cloudz - DowntownNeon Indian- SlumlordPetite Noir - MDRRed Axes ft. Zidan - HopeRex The Dog - SickoShamir - Call It OffSleater Kinney – A New WaveSophie - VyzeeSuzanne Sundfør - MemorialTamaryn - LastThe 1975 – Love Me
― davey, Friday, 22 January 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
BradNelson this is your ballot:
Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With MeJason Derulo - Want To Want MeMiguel - CoffeeThe 1975 – Ugh!Shura - 2ShyJanet Jackson - No SleeepJeremih - OuiDumblonde - DreamsicleHeavy-K ft. Nokwazi - SweetieKrystal Klear ft. Yasmin - One Night OnlyTamia - Stuck With MeMikael Seifu - BrassFetty Wap - 679Fit Siegel - CarmineEric Prydz - Opus (Four Tet Remix)Dbn Nyts ft. Zinhle Ngidi & Trademark - ShumayaSelena Gomez - Hands To MyselfLittle Big Town - Girl CrushPitbull ft. Chris Brown - FunFrankey & Sandrino - AcamarRóisín Murphy - House of Glass (Maurice Fulton Remix)Years & Years - ShineLim Kim - AwooSKY-HI - LimoHarry Dennis - No Matter What (DGL Mix)
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Friday, 22 January 2016 22:55 (eight years ago) link
yep that is definitely my ballot. thank you!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 22 January 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
i voted for nothing but jute gyte tracks.
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Friday, 22 January 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link
the zeitgyte
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 22 January 2016 23:34 (eight years ago) link
i didn't vote but here's a pathetic first draft. probably at least half of these would get knocked off had i heard more songs on the nom list.
adele - hellocreta kano - skyway moteldauwd - jupiter georgeearl sweatshirt - mantrafetty wap - trap queenkelela - rewindmark barrott - bush societymark barrott - saviours or savages?roman fluegel - black towerstamaryn - cranekisswarm brew - bringing me home
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 22 January 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
whats going on there? did someone vote for one of my nominations?
― saer, Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
?
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
― art baengels (monotony)― puppy enforcer (cajunsunday),― conditional random jepsen (seandalai)― davey― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson)
^Voted for 1975.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aq2m1mY_700b.jpg
Are you saying I voted for the 1975? Because I've never heard the 1975.
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link
I've been posting other people's ballots though.
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
When they ask me to.
i fucking love the 1975 moka, step down
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
in all seriousness what was the worst thing in the 77
(let's not do this)
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago)
1975 vs. Bran Flowers
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
tame impala, not bc it's unbelievably awful but no one even owned up to voting for it
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:43 (eight years ago) link
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson)
Your other votes are great so you are forgiven.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link
Seriously though for a minute people, I think what actually examining the individual ballots demonstrates is that all the tribalistic narc of some dude bs is unwarranted - people who voted for your most hated also voted for your fave, the stuff you can't fathom anyone in the world liking happily sits alongside the stuff that feels like it was created especially for you.
So maybe the answer is that your own private idiosyncratic rules for good and bad aren't really that important or even meaningful beyond yrself.
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link
But in all seriousness 1975 is bad for your ears.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
The 1975 are one of those bands where you might be initially repulsed beyond belief (I was) but if you actually try to engage with them, like even a little bit, you'll end up finding something nice to say about them, which is more than can be said about some bands. This is what is known as Tim F1nney Stockholm Syndrome tho so pinch of salt ;)
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago), Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link
Obv it's a lot just that I like them but I also think the majority of haters here who think this is the worst band ever have a very confined notion of what the band is premised on the songs in this year's poll and maybe like "Girls" and "Sex" and "Chocolate", whereas if they listened to "Me" or "fallingforyou" or "Undo" or "Intro/Set 3" or "Haunt//Bed" or "Menswear" would be very surprised.
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 January 2016 00:53 (eight years ago) link
And if you get into the band through the latter sort of material it totally shapes and changes the way you perceive of a song like "Love Me".
Hey hey I never said they were the worst band ever, just the worst band in this poll. I can think of worst.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
But I'm also baiting. I honestly don't mind if you like them.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
First listen in the noms list, I dismissed the 1975. Then gr80 described them to me as like if the Jonas Brothers did drugs, lol, and I saw the video and vibed on that and thought hey why not throw them a vote.
I didn't think v hard about this poll.
― davey, Saturday, 23 January 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
Weighted, bold items placed in the top 77:
Roman Flügel - Black TowersShura - 2ShyTunde Olaniran - NamesakeCam - Burning house - rarely expect my votes to place, but this was a disappointing no-show...Jamie Woon - SharpnessJ Hus - Lean & Bop (Extended Mix)Young Galaxy - Factory FlawsFormat:B - ChunkyJulien Baker - SomethingDaphne & Celeste - You and I AloneJulio Bashmore ft. Bixby - Let Me Be Your WeaknessAriana Grande - One Last TimeAllie X - Never EnoughKiss Daniel - WojuKelela - RewindGeorgia - Heart Wrecking AnimalsHudson Mohawke & Jhene Aiko - ResistanceKrystal Klear ft. Yasmin - One Night OnlyAFX - umil 25-01School Of Seven Bells - Open Your EyesFadda Fox - DuckingHayden James - Something About You (ODESZA Remix)Demi Lovato – Cool for the SummerLockah - Heate Legendµ-ziq - xt
― fka styx (paul santa cruz), Saturday, 23 January 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link
I don't understand a world in which the 1975 is considered worse than Sufjan Stevens.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 23 January 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
To quote E-40, "it's all bad"
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 23 January 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
I made made a preliminary list to serve as a time capsule of this year in my listening, then went through everything nominated by a half dozen ILMers with sympatico tastes, and sampled maybe 40% of the Spotify list. Guilty pleasure Fleur East, and a "new Grace Jones", V V Brown, slipped in this way (wish someone had nominated the album Glitch). Then its just prune till I'm pretty sure everything left will stand up to repeated listens, and still sparks pleasure when I hear it's opening.
I mentioned this in the voting thread, but V V Brown's "Shift" is p much a RnB/dance music masterpiece that I found out about from Alfred blogging about TSJ. Exactly the kind of otherwise-overlooked classic that I expect to discover in the ILX tracks poll when we're not succumbing to millenial schmindie-ism or doubling/tripling up on pet albums. But thats in me as much as anybody, least of all for forgetting to nominate it.
https://youtu.be/NTup_VZXuWY
― Peaking Lights covers One More Time (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 23 January 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
^^^^ good track
― davey, Saturday, 23 January 2016 03:02 (eight years ago) link
hoping the votes for various angel haze and abra trax here bode well for the albums poll
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, January 22, 2016 12:04 PM (Yesterday)
Yeah, I went with your tactic of not voting for songs off the albums I was voting for, so I would be surprised (and basically burn the entire message board down) if Angel Haze doesn't make albums. I have mixed feelings about the varying tactics - it felt quite refreshing this year but I think it is because my top five make sense as coherent units rather than a bunch of standout songs put together. Though actually my #2 might have been too tempting if they hadn't released the standouts in 2014.
― emil.y, Saturday, 23 January 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link