ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

hahaha omar while those are all v v good tracks, my 3 faves (other than DUCKWORTH) are still unaccounted for! we're gonna have to nominate the whole album aren't we

let me help the process along

TRACK

Kendrick Lamar - LUST

25/30

Annnnd...in other 'you nominated the wrong track!' news:

TRACK

Drab Majesty - Dot In The Sky

26/30

TRACKS

Thumpermonkey - Woadscrivened
Couch Slut - Won't Come
Paul Draper - Friends Make The Worst Enemies

29/30

Speaking of wrong tracks being nominated (and in the spirit of not fearing vote-splitting). . .

TRACKS

Wolf Alice - Planet Hunter

19/30

TRACKS

Julien Baker - Appointments

ALBUMS

bvdub - Heartless
Ben Lukas Boysen & Sebastian Plano - Everything
Emilía - Down to the Sadness River

21/30

(there really are no droners on ilm, are there?)

jesus christ don’t nominate the whole kendrick album

LUST is, like, one of the best songs of 2017. I couldn't not nominate it. sorry

it’s ok i guess, it’s your vote-splitting funeral

Kendrick has survived vote splitting every year. I'd be surprised if anything besides DNA and HUMBLE crack the top 77.

HUMBLE hasn't been nominated yet - it's p clearly one of the album's weaker tracks!

Huh, you're right. Well, it wouldn't be ILM if we didn't buck trends.

I think it's the strongest track on the album, though, but what do I know

Humble for me is indeed the weakest track on the record tbh

I've been so isolated/insulated from what's actually popular in 2017 that I'm going to have no idea what the top 77 will look like until seandalai emails me the results. There's a lot of good music on the playlists, but I genuinely have no idea what things a consensus will form around. 2017 is/was fucking weird.

Same. There's no Realiti (demo) type consensus this year iirc. Doesn't bode well, as it could probably lead to Bodak Yellow running away with it (and I like Cardi B, that song though, not so much).

This is the year of Hailing Drums

my sense of ILX's take on Bodak is that it's a good song, not a great one with occasional spikes on either side of the scale. i'd be shocked if it got into the top ten and equally shocked if it wasn't in the top 25.

I trust ILM knows it's the year of Bicep's 'Glue'

xxp lol

'Sorority Noise - You’re not As ___ As You Think'

Sorry this should be on the albums, not tracks, spreadsheet

Albums

Cecile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers
Gabriel Garzòn-Montano - Jardin
Prince - Purple Rain Deluxe
Stokley - Introducing Stokley

4/30

Prince - Purple Rain Deluxe

Traditionally, this would be ineligible, because it's a reissue of an album previously released (regardless of bonuses). Comps and retrospectives and collections as stand-alones are basically the only way old material is allowed—in albums, at least...previously unreleased tracks are fair game, regardless of when recorded.

So can I nominate the previously commercially unreleased parts of Purple Rain as a new album? I don't really care too much one way or the other tbh but there's a full album worth of material there!

Sorry you're in this pickle, but if these tracks had all come out compiled in something like a "Vault" box set or whatever, the whole thing would be eligible, but albums are reissued with bonuses by the dozens of dozens every year and those have always been dq'ed. Nominate whatever individual tracks you want, though, provided they've never been commercially released before 2017.

ALBUMS

Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy

27/30

I listened to this album a couple times earlier in the year, but on xmas morning it's really super clicking for me and HOLY WOW is it fucking cool

howzabout a bootleg collection like Blast from the Past 4.0? Eligible?
https://www.discogs.com/Prince-Blast-From-The-Past-40/release/10605546

Sure

all reet. will do so.

ALBUMS
Prince - Blast from the Past 4.0

4/30

also!

TRACKS
Prince - The Dance Electric
Prince - We Can Fuck

6/30

ALBUMS
Oh Sees - Orc

TRACKS
Oh Sees - The Static God
John Maus - Find Out

12/30

Allowing music recorded in the 80s... why bother dqing anything if you're going to do that? Really can't find enough quality music recorded in 16/17?

Bodak yellow will be #1

lol at the suggestion that I haven't found enough "quality music recorded in 2017," I have a playlist for you

Bodak yellow will be #1

― brimstead, Monday, December 25, 2017 1:04 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what, can’t find enough quality music recorded in 2017?

lol snap

bodak yellow will not be #1 considering that few ppl here are admitting to actually liking it + ppl here are acting like the fact that it might top pazz + jop is symptomatic of trump's america

TRACKS

Jex Opolis - First Stomp (NYC Dub)
Tapan - Europa
Pender Street Steppers - Raining Again
Pessoas Que Eu Conheço - V
Bless This Mess - Day-O (Past Fire Edit)
Koehler - Azuma Glide (Commercial Zone Mix)
Ancient Methods - Born Of Ashes
Cosmo Vitelli - The Cemetery Of Unsigned House Tracks
One Day In Metropia - The Unknown Soldier
Oktoberklubben - Un Universo Para Los Dos
Black Merlin - Tanksport
Bullion - LCD Anna
Rebolledo ‎– Discotico Desertico (Paulor Remix)
Jex Opolis - Human Emotion (TV Dub)

ALBUMS

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
Satoshi & Makoto - CZ-5000 Sounds & Sequences
Scott Gilmore - Subtle Vertigo
Various Artists - Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983-2017)
The Swan and The Lake - Clouds
Farbror Resande Mac - Farbror Resande Mac
Various Artists - Tropical Drums Of Deutschland
Broken English Club - The English Beach

22/30

TRACKS

Ninos du Brasil - Vagalumes Piralampos (feat. Arto Lindsay)

23/30

The Swan and The Lake - Clouds

Just came here to nominate this! I've been listening to it all day in between turkey.

yes, it’s a good one. There was brief talk on the balearic thread and I believe people were a little cool on it, but I find myself drawn back to it more than their previous LP, which I found brutally sad at times

lol at the suggestion that I haven't found enough "quality music recorded in 2017," I have a playlist for you

Bodak yellow will be #1

― brimstead, Monday, December 25, 2017 1:04 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what, can’t find enough quality music recorded in 2017?

xp, if i had been able to nominate the album, which was the original intent, i likely woulda just let it pass because it's the whole of the album that moved me more than anything else. But those two individual tracks (and those Blasts from the Past albums ; thanks forever Captaine Jay Vee!) were as close to a kaddish for prince as i got this year. they elevated me and my life and i think that's worth a nod in a silly internet talent show. besides which as you point out, i am also conserving silly internet talent show nom nom noms but i don't think the prince contingent was gonna show on those picks in any case so better to play cards early.

Bodak Yellow is fine

the "Cardi B / you know where I'm at / you know where I be" part vaguely reminds me of "Gorilla Pimp" lol

I have no idea why previously unreleased bonus tracks would be dqed if you're gonna let collections of prev unreleased old stuff in..

Using Purple Rain as an example, it was an album released in 1984, therefore it is ineligible for a 2017 poll in any iteration. "We Can Fuck," a bonus track on the latest reissue, was recorded in 1984, but never heard by anybody nor commercially released, so it is an eligible track. Compilation albums like the Numero Group volumes or whatever, despite consisting of old material, are new creations and are therefore eligible in the albums category, but since most/all of the tracks that comprise them are previously commercially released—even if they were small 7" runs of 200—would be ineligible for the tracks poll if they came out in, say, 1971.

Hopefully that's not too confusing/convoluted.

MISSING FROM THE SPREADSHEET:

Dauwd – Theory of Colours

(An album nomination.)

Not anymore

This is sailing above my wee head

sorry it was a cheap shot over a song i’m lukewarm about

Not anymore

Thanks for fixing that. Good album.