ILM Top 77 Tracks of 2018 Poll Afterparty: Ballots, Recrimination, Statistics and Damned Lies

I'll be sure to check out your neglectorinos, saer. I've an anal quibble, however: Mihai Pol's 'Sfârșit' appears to be from 2015.

weighted, bold dnp:

Christine & The Queens ft. Dam-Funk - Girlfriend
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Barker – Look How Hard I’ve Tried
Donato Dozzy - Cleo
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Peach - Silky
Nathan Micay - First Casualty
The 1975 – TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME
Wednesday Campanella - The Bamboo Princess
Vendredi sur Mer - Ecoute Cherie
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
Ariana Grande – God Is a Woman
Holy Ghost – Anxious (A Tom Moulton Mix)
Fabiana Palladino - Shimmer
Octo Octa - Beam Me Up (To the Goddess Mix)
Panama Keys - Panamarama (Joeĺ Clausell's Harvest Remix)
James Blake - If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead
Joe Armon-Jones - Almost Went Too Far
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Gang Gang Dance - Lotus
Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss
Delicate Features - Attached
DJ Koze with Roisin Murphy – Illumination
Ghost - Danse Macabre (Carpenter Brut Remix)

Ffs bolded Ella Mai instead of Barker

Tuomas, first off: I don't think I knew you were married! Mazel! I've been on this board too long; still think of everybody as being in the same state in their twenties that they were when i first came on board.

Second, I don't argue with any of your points there; my designations of genre there follow the radio standards of the early aughts moreso than my own listening tastes and were intended at least partially as didactic enough to incite just the sort of comments you made. Certainly part of what makes Rosalía's work so interesting is how it takes an out-of-the-pop-sphere style and infuses it with the contemporary... but I don't think it would get pop radio airplay stateside. Influx of Bad Bunny and BTS and a bunch of other things may be changing that now tho'!

And yes, "global" is increasingly unhelpful as a demarcation of style, if it ever was. Classifiers gotta classify!

Mixed:

Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Carly Rae Jepsen - Party For One
Mr Twin Sister - Echo Arms
Mr Twin Sister - Power of Two
Rae Morris - Dancing With Character
charlie puth ft. kehlani - done for me
Simmy - Umahlalela
Raveena - Honey
Georgia - Started Out
Datarock - Feathers and Wax
Pale Waves - One More Time

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan - 1999
Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance
Peach - Silky
Man Power - Barranquila Trife (Ruf Dug Zouk Mix)
The Regrettes - Helpless
Omar-S - Games That We Play
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Sade – Flower of the Universe
Farao - Marry Me
The Orielles - I Only Bought It For The Bottle
The Aces - Volcanic Love
mewithoutyou - Julia
Jimothy Lacoste - Subway System

Poor old Jimothy Lacoste. Same number of votes as Robyn & Julia Holter yet finishes way down in 108th place

Sauti Sol - Short and Sweet
Moses Sumney - Rank & File
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
Janelle Monáe - Americans
Kanye West - Ghost Town
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
BTS - Idol
Daphne & Celeste - BB
Dirty Projectors - Break-Thru
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Naira Marley - Issa Goal
Naza - Putain de merde
EXO - Tempo
Yves Tumor - Noid
Migos - Stir Fry
Simmy - Umahlalela
Rosalía - Pienso en tu mirá
Cardi B ft. Chance the Rapper – Best Life
Aya Nakamura - Djadja
Oneohtrix Point Never - Black Snow
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness
Post Malone - Sunflower
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan - 1999
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide

I don't quite get what happened here. How did something like Idol not place? I'm getting old :(

My favourite song in the Top 177 that I hadn't heard before was 'Dancing With Character' by Rae Morris.

"Idol" not placing is just the usual kpop problem of 'too niche and too much vote splitting between the few fans here'. even though BTS have had actual US chart success and even some radio play now i get the impression that's more from just having a huge cult fanbase rather than truly having made it into the mainstream as anything more than a fringe presence

I was taking some agents round a private school residence a few months ago, and judging from the posters everywhere, BTS are the biggest group in the world right now (or possibly there were a load of Korean girls staying there)

I have very faint hopes that the Rae Morris album might place next week.

My favourite song in the Top 177 that I hadn't heard before was 'Dancing With Character' by Rae Morris.

Was hoping that would place.

Will be surprised if the album doesn't sneak into the 77

My unweighted ballot; bold = dnp, bold italic = sole voter

A Certain Ratio ft. Barry Adamson & Tony Wilson - Dirty Boy
Aly & AJ - With You
Axolotes Mexicanos - Doble Check
Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown
Calibro 35 - SuperStudio
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Mannequin Metric
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Such a Remarkable Day
cupcakKe - Duck Duck Goose
Dawn Richard & Mumdance - Guardian Angel
DJ Koze - The Love Truck
Emerson Kitamura - Rock Your Baby
GIRLI - Day Month Second
Kali Uchis - In My Dreams
Le SuperHomard - Paper Girl
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Nao - Drive and Disconnect
Neneh Cherry - Natural Skin Deep
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Raveena - Honey
Red Velvet - Bad Boy
Rhye - Song For You
Riton ft. Kah-Lo - Ginger
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
TWICE - Sweet Talker
ZHU and Tame Impala - My Life

Bonus content - nominated songs that I voted for in the Freaky Trigger EOY poll but not in this one:

Christine and the Queens ft. Dâm-Funk - Girlfriend
Tove Styrke - On the Low
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
Kacey Musgraves - Slow Burn
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity
Mariah Carey - A No No
Let’s Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2

Bold didn't place, mixed ballot.

Christine & The Queens - 5 Dollars
Tracey Thorn - Queen
Underworld and Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Will Find a Home
Marie Davidson - Work It
Neko Case - Halls of Sarah
Neneh Cherry - Fallen Leaves
Nightmares on Wax - Citizen Kane
Janelle Monáe - I Like That
St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
Tracey Thorn - Dancefloor
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Juliana Hatfield - Physical
Kali Uchis - In My Dreams

Christine & The Queens ft. Dam-Funk - Girlfriend
Hayley Hendericks - Oom Sha La La
Talaboman - Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Lizzo - Boys
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Ravyn Lenae - Sticky
Richard Hawley & Corinne Bailey Rae - I Still Want You

Ha, just realised I voted for #1 and #77, very pleasing.

ha well, i srsly think i only started two threads on ilm this year: one was for peggy gou, the other was for kali uchis!

Ha, just realised I voted for #1 and #77, very pleasing.
Snap!

I could easily have voted for many things on your ballot, actually.

And yet the algorithm sez you are not my nearest neighbour *shrug emoji*

weighted

Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Yves Tumor - Noid
Mitski - Why Didn't You Stop Me?
Wye Oak - It Was Not Natural
Yo La Tengo - What Chance Have I Got
Low - Always Trying to Work It Out
The Breeders - All Nerve
Yves Tumor - Lifetime
Miss Information - Theme
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry
Spellling - Hard to Please
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Middle America
serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart
Yves Tumor ft. James K - Licking an Orchid
Robyn - Because It's in the Music
Toni Braxton - Long As I Live
Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Frankie Cosmos - Caramelize
Neneh Cherry - Kong
Kali Uchis - Tomorrow
Tirzah - Holding On
Natalie Prass - Hot for the Mountain
Daphne & Celeste - Alarms
The Spook School - Still Alive
Smokescreens - Someone New

Voters topping the charts

Most lonely: saer :(
Top blood sausage m8: toby
The fuxxoriest fuxxor: Indexed
The infinite antifuxxors: imago, breastcrawl, MarkoP, Dinsdale, kruezer2, tangenttangent, daavid, Odysseus, peepee, saer
Hivemind queen: Murgatroid

― seandalai, Friday, 1 February 2019 01:43 (fourteen hours ago) Permalink

Curious to know how I got the highest fuxxor but matched to Spin. There were a handful songs I wanted to vote for that no one nominated...my own damn fault.

Could you please post my ballot?

another try.

ranked, bold didn't place:

Low - Fly
Die Nerven – Niemals
Lump - Curse of the Contemporary
Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2
okkervil river - famous tracheotomies
Snail Mail - Speaking Terms
Hollydays – L’odeur des joints
The Breeders - MetaGoth
Beliu – Win Everyday
J Mascis - See You at the Movies
Meshell Ndegeocello - Waterfalls
Malakoff Kowalski - My First Piano
The Beths - Little Death
Grouper - Parking Lot
Tropical Fuck Storm – Rubber Bullies
Melody's Echo Chamber - Shirim
Parquet Courts - Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience
The Nels Cline 4 - Imperfect 10
Tocotronic – Bis uns das Licht vertreibt
Richard Thompson - The Storm Won't Come
Aimee Mann - Drive
jimothy lacoste - subway system
Element of Crime – Am ersten Sonntag nach dem Weltuntergang
Johnny Marr – Hi Hello
Tracey Thorn - Smoke

house and techno bobbins 2018 ranked

Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Mandar - String Theory
Kettenkarussel - Maybe
Eris Drew - Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
Helena Hauff - Hyper-Intelligent Genetically Enriched Cyborg
DJ Koze - Pick Up
TRP - Things Won't Change
Baba Stiltz - Serve
Shakedown - At Night (Peggy Gou's Acid Journey Remix)
Finn - Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough
Marie Davidson - Work It
Jimpster - Curve
Kettama - B O D Y
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake (Danny Krivit Re-Edit)
Gene On Earth - Crimbo 16
Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Helium
Lone - Pulsar
Panama Keys - Panamarama (Joe Clausell's Harvest Remix)
Talaboman - Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)
Monolithic - Time
Ross from Friends - John Cage
Nathan Micay - First Casualty
River Yarra ft. Elen Huynth - Respiration Alternée
Kornel Kovacs - Metropolis
Butch – Countach

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out Childish Gambino
and 78’d my #1 vote as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of music’s austere and lonely prejudices?

― budo jeru, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Gene On Earth - Crimbo 16
Ludwig A.F. Röhrscheid - Helium

― davey, Friday, 1 February 2019 17:05 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

🍻🍻 - another starry eyed docker on shore leave has appeared

eh these are the sad ones - each had 50 points / 1 voter:

Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises
Chief Keef - Bestie
Christine & The Queens - 5 Dollars
Django Django - Champagne
Fisher - Losing It
Julia Jacklin - Head Alone
Kacey Musgraves - Love Is A Wild Thing
Kidd Kenn - Slide Remix
Little Big - Skibidi
Low - Fly
Luckison - Mysticbanana
Noga Erez ft. Sammus - Cash Out
Sauti Sol - Short and Sweet
Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Shreya Ghoshal & Swaroop Khan - Ghoomar
They Might Be Giants - Last Wave (Demo)
Tirzah - Guilty

― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Love Is A Wild Thing was my #1 -- i have no problem w/the other two Kacey songs that placed but I think it's pretty insane I was the only one to vote for this!

cheers to you, saer!

my magical music moment of the year: when low played fly in the festsaal kreuzberg. for me this is the song of the rise of lazarus, unbelievably uplifting.

eh these are the sad ones - each had 50 points / 1 voter:
Anatomy - Anatomy Theme
Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises
Chief Keef - Bestie
Christine & The Queens - 5 Dollars
Django Django - Champagne
Fisher - Losing It
Julia Jacklin - Head Alone
Kacey Musgraves - Love Is A Wild Thing
Kidd Kenn - Slide Remix
Little Big - Skibidi
Low - Fly
Luckison - Mysticbanana
Noga Erez ft. Sammus - Cash Out
Sauti Sol - Short and Sweet
Sharda ft. Shanique Marie - Wanna Know
Shreya Ghoshal & Swaroop Khan - Ghoomar
They Might Be Giants - Last Wave (Demo)
Tirzah - Guilty

― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, January 31, 2019 11:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sigh. I feared this would happen :( Come on people, isn't this the nicest thing ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SciUYMSnBs

As a complete ilm noob, pretty please, what's a fuxxor and antifuxxor, and a blood sausage ?

wait, someone put the demo version of "Last Wave" as #1 !? that's kind of amazing

I did not get around to voting this year but this would have been my ballot:

Vince Staples and Yugen Blakrok ft. Kendrick Lamar - Opp
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Orbital - P.H.U.K.
Let's Eat Grandma – Hot Pink
Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel
Post Malone - Sunflower
Janelle Monáe - Screwed
Drake - Nice For What
Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
Underworld and Ø [Phase] - Dexters Chalk
Meshell Ndegeocello - Waterfalls
Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future, James Blake - King's Dead
Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All the Stars
Let's Eat Grandma - It's Not Just Me
serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart
Let's Eat Grandma - Donnie Darko
Low – Disarray
Let’s Eat Grandma- Snakes & Ladders

I also would have tried to write in "Skylarking" by FACS, "THE BLUES" by Tobe Nwigwe, "Before the Sun Goes Down" by The New Respects, and "Ocean" by Goldfrapp/Dave Gahan

oh, and "Skibidi"

Little Big - Skibidi

This was my entire tracks ballot.

I left you out to dry ;_;

*sigh*

As a complete ilm noob, pretty please, what's a fuxxor and antifuxxor, and a blood sausage ?

― Nabozo, Friday, 1 February 2019 21:04 (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

titles in the peerage of ilmovia

Some further explanation here: ILM 2015 Tracks Poll Thread of Ballots, Statistics and Community-wide Anomie

Why does Christine & The Queens appear twice in the artists results (41 & 50)?

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 1 February 2019 07:46 (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehh...because I had a bug in the code. Fixed now! Thanks for spotting.

Ballot of Indexed

Robyn - Honey
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Chance The Rapper - 65th & Ingleside
Travis Scott - Sicko Mode

MGMT - when you die
Adrianne Lenker - symbol
Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician - Ubala
Patawawa - Patagonia
now, now – knowme
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Valee – Vlone
Christine & The Queens - Doesn't Matter (Voleur de soleil)
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Troye Sivan – My! My! My!
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Snail Mail – Pristine
Pusha T - If You Know You Know
U.S. Girls - M.A.H
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

Nabozo:

Fuxxor Quotient = the proportion of tracks on your ballot that were in Pitchfork's top 100. I believe the term derives from 'corny indie fuXXor', which is a very old ILM in-joke / term of abuse / badge of honour. (Search old threads for 'corny indie' for examples.)

Antifuxxor Ratio = your ILM Hivemind score divided by your Fuxxor Quotient. A high ratio means your taste is much closer to that of ILM than to that of Pitchfork. Infinite antifuxxor ratio = supposedly a good thing.

Blood Sausage Index = The average points total for tracks that didn't appear on the most well known online/critics' EOY lists. Essentially, whether you love songs that nobody outside of ILM cares or knows about. I can't remember why 'blood sausage' though.

xxxp

Thx seandalai, those stats are fun. I guess 6.5 anti-p4k and 68-ilmonly is not bad for a first poll here :P Longneck is my best pal.. and I DO read The Guardian v_v

Oh thanks Jeff for the additional explanations, I like those obscure names.

I remember "blood sausage" morphed into an ILM/ILX in-joke but I don't remember how

wow i finally know what blood sausage index is

blood sausage = only the british like it? lots of Manic Street Preachers and the like?

Thank you, seandalai!

Bolded didn't place. Underlined are ones I believe I discovered on the nominations list.

Robyn - Honey
Empress Of - When I'm With Him
Kacey Musgraves – High Horse
Janelle Monáe ft. Grimes - Pynk
The 1975 – Love it if we made it
Chance The Rapper - 65th & Ingleside
Travis Scott - Sicko Mode

MGMT - when you die
Adrianne Lenker - symbol
Simmy ft. Sun-EL Musician - Ubala
Patawawa - Patagonia
now, now – knowme
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight
Kasper Marrot - Keflavik
Valee – Vlone
Christine & The Queens - Doesn't Matter (Voleur de soleil)
Ella Mai – Boo'd Up
Troye Sivan – My! My! My!
Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
Snail Mail – Pristine
Pusha T - If You Know You Know
U.S. Girls - M.A.H
Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - Fair Annie
Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J - Powerglide
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

Singles I would have voted for had they been nominated:

Ashley McBryde - Girl Goin Nowhere
boygenius - Me & My Dog
Foxing - Nearer My God
Charlie Puth - Boy
Whitey Morgan & The 78s - Around Here
Belle Plaine - For All Those Who I Loved

it was whiney related xp

Search 'pippa's arse'

Alexa, what's the newsy wewsies?

british for blood sausage is black pudding xps

/tests out random tracks
more than half of this list is just dance club music