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
Adore both the Abra album and the Angel Haze mixtape but both feel like releases it would feel very odd to pull individual songs out of, both are so coherent full statements or at least I experience them that way.
― Tim F, Saturday, 23 January 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
I voted for Abra in tracks not albums because I'm young and I'll waste you away.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:15 (eight years ago) link
I voted for Abra in tracks and Angel Haze in albums, because I have a diversified portfolio.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:54 (eight years ago) link
I don't generally expect that many of my selections will place, but the non-placer I was most surprised by was ANOHNI - as well as being amazing it also stands out by sounding completely unlike the rest of the competition. Thought it was well-received on ILM too.― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Thursday, January 21, 2016 5:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Thursday, January 21, 2016 5:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This was my #1 (after being my #4 and realizing after tabulation that my top three weren't nominated) and would chalk it up to the song being released really late in the year, early Dec. iirc.
― ヽ(´ー`)┌ (CompuPost), Saturday, 23 January 2016 06:38 (eight years ago) link
didn't allot enough time to really listen to ANOHNI when I was voting. looking forward to the album
― Dan S, Saturday, 23 January 2016 07:47 (eight years ago) link
I think it is because my top five make sense as coherent units rather than a bunch of standout songs put together.-emil.y
TY for the Spook School etc ... went down a rabbit hole of "Burn Masculinity", Martha, twowhitecranes blog posts etc from this. I chickened out from putting i hate sex / G.L.O.S.S. & regional DIY on my singles list after DJing on NYE and deciding on a dancefloor focus as winnowing tool, eh.
― etc, Saturday, 23 January 2016 08:21 (eight years ago) link
― The Reverend, sábado 23 de enero de 2016 2:05 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
HAHAHAHAHAHA
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 08:44 (eight years ago) link
Heh
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 08:45 (eight years ago) link
And yet 1975 placed way higher than ST so enjoy this world.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 January 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link
my weighted ballot, for whatever it's worth. I think the only times I posted last year were to complain about streaming services.
Colleen Green - Deeper Than Love (94)Bicep - Just (26)Korallreven - Here In Iowa (221)Grimes - Kill V. Maim (17)Tove Styrke - Ego (18)Lim Kim - Awoo (32)Iglooghost ft. cuushe - Gold Coat (187)Abra - Roses (126)M.I.A. - Borders (163)The Radio Dept - Occupied (185)Molly Nilsson - 1995 (417)Empress Of - How Do You Do It (184)Lindstrøm & Grace Hall - Home Tonight (140)Shura - 2Shy (34)Chromatics - I Can Never Be Myself When You\'re Around (253)DEV - Honey Dip (567)Yumi Zouma - Song for Zoe & Gwen (311)Makthaverskan - Witness (300)Dawn Richard - Calypso (154)Perfume - Pick Me Up (544)Susanne Sundfør - Delirious (14)Georgia - Move Systems (899)US Girls - Damn That Valley (1076)Daphne & Celeste - You and I Alone (45)Kiiara - Gold (372)
― fffv, Saturday, 23 January 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link
Way cool.
― Peaking Lights covers One More Time (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 23 January 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
― etc, Saturday, January 23, 2016 8:21 AM (8 hours ago)
Oh, that's awesome. I always assume my indie/DIY votes are basically thrown away and of no interest to ilx0rs, but use EoY lists as a tool to remind myself what I actually liked in the past year, so would be dishonest to exclude them.
― emil.y, Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
I like that I hate sex song but my family almost turfed me out of the car on the a27 when I tried it out on them :(
― seb mooczag (NickB), Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
i hate sex is the fucking best, thank u for nominating them etc
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
lol, Nick. Have you tried G.L.O.S.S.?
― emil.y, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
A+ discoveries from the nominations list that i didn't find a place for on the ballot:
MarriagesJennie AbrahamsonPalehound
― nomar, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
actually palehound only received an album nomination but anyway
― nomar, Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
I love G.L.O.S.S. but they didn't make either of my ballots. Tbh I probably could have made a whole nother albums ballot with completely different albums and been happy with it. So much awesome amazing stuff I didn't get to vote for.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 23 January 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link