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

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

someone once told me, and i will eating a black pudding is like eating a giant scab

never forgetting that comparison

still tasty

that eating*

Late to discussion re appeal of "Itgehane": I agree with characterizations such as "extremely warm and feel-good", "beautiful sparkling construction" etc, BUT would add that as well as being top bobbins it also works p well as an actual words-and-tune song. (The Orielles cover really brought this out for me.) This most likely broadened its appeal even more, I'd guess.

^^^ cosign. if you missed it, the peggy gou remix of "at night" was nominated and is similarly gorgeous and euphoric.

My weighted infinite antifuxxor tracks ballot:

bold: did not place, italic: sole voter

Starboy ft. Wizkid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza Milli - Soco (#61)
Starboy ft. Duncan Mighty & Wizkid - Fake Love (#152)
Prince Kaybee ft. Busiswa & TNS - Banomoya (#59)
GuiltyBeatz ft. Mr Eazi, Pappy Kojo & Patapaa - Akwaaba (#226)
Olamide - Logba Logba (#517)
Burna Boy - Gbona (#97)
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry (#5)
Olamide & Wizkid - Kana (#337)
Prince Kaybee ft. LaSoulmates, TNS & Zanda Zakuza - Club Controller (#196)
Lalo Ebratt - Mocca (+ Remix ft. J Balvin) (#622)
Wizkid - Fever (#143)
DJ Spinall ft. Kizz Daniel - Baba (#661)
Zinaro ft. JB of Thee Legacy & Dust - Dali Wami (#676)
Simmy - Umahlalela (#39)
Burna Boy - On the Low (#207)
DJ Spinall ft. Wizkid - Nowo (#840)
DJ Tunez ft. Reekado Banks & Wizkid - Turn Up (#868)
Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss (#147)
Idowest ft. Davido - Ji Masun (#921)
Mayorkun ft. Davido - Bobo (#940)
Aya Nakamura - Djadja (#392)
Saad Lamjarred - Ghazali (#965)
Rayvanny - Chombo (#979)
Eddy Kenzo - Your Value (Super Dopa) (#423)
DJ Snake ft. Ozuna, Cardi B & Selena Gomez - Taki Taki (#1002)

Tracks I nominated that got sole votes from others:

Rosalía - Di Mi Nombre (#517)
Dladla Mshunqisi ft. Nokwazi & Prince Kaybee - Wangibamba (#661) (yes!!!!)
Wande Coal - So Mi So (#882)

Special shout out to the other person who voted for Eddy Kenzo’s “Your Value (Super Dopa)”, as their #4 no less!

...and to my top neighbour, longneck (who’d have thought!)

Oh, and honorable mention for best discovery from the rollout: “2000 Elefanten” by Die Wilde Jagd.

Re: the Burna bloodbath: not surprised by the vote splitting, but the dismal showing of “Ye” is kind of shocking nonetheless. It does bode extremely well for the album poll though. Looks like we have at least 8 people who have Outside very high on their ballot.

Actually it was interesting to run through the list and think about which other languages were represented. I miss, but am too lazy to reproduce, lex's geographic breakdown that he'd always have ready right at the end

― rob, vrijdag 1 februari 2019 1:29 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I’m late to this thread, so I saw this post only now, but you're in luck: I posted a country breakdown in the rollout thread yesterday. Here it is, in a slightly tweaked version (cheers, Tuomas!):

I know you’ve all been waiting for this one, a valuable tradition started (afaik) by Lex, here it is, beter late than never...

YOUR *UPDATED* OFFICIAL COUNTRY BREAKDOWN:

AUSTRALIA (4): Hatchie, The Chats, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Laura Jean
CANADA (3): Marie Davidson, Peach, Drake
COLOMBIA (5⁄6): [Cardi B ft. Bad Bunny &] J Balvin (⅓), Kali Uchis (½)
DENMARK (1): Kasper Marott
FRANCE (1½): Christine and the Queens [ft. Dâm-Funk] (1½)
GERMANY (4⅓): Die Wilde Jagd, [Talaboman/] Superpitcher (⅓), Kim Petras, DJ Koze, Helena Hauff
HONDURAS (½): Empress Of (½)
IRELAND (2): Krystal Klear, Roísín Murphy
ITALY (1): Donato Dozzy
JAPAN (1): Mitski (2 x ½)
NEW ZEALAND (2): The Beths (2)
NIGERIA (1): Starboy ft. Wizkid, Terri, Spotless & Ceeza Milli
PUERTO RICO (⅓): [Cardi B ft.] Bad Bunny [& J Balvin] (⅓)
SOUTH AFRICA (3): Simmy (ft. Sun-El Musician) (2); Prince Kaybee ft. Busiswa & TNS
SOUTH KOREA (2): Peggy Gou, Red Velvet
SPAIN (2⅓): Rosalía (2), Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)
SWEDEN (1⅓): Robyn, Talaboman [/Superpitcher] (⅓)
UK (13): The 1975 (4), Ella Mai, Jessie Ware, Kero Kero Bonito, Tirzah, Tracey Thorn, Let’s Eat Grandma, Autechre, Jon Hopkins, Fabiana Palladino
USA (32 5⁄6): Lana Del Rey (2); Ariana Grande (2), Janelle Monáe, Mitski (2 x ½), Kacey Musgraves (2); Sheck Wes, Julia Holter, Pusha T, Empress Of (½), Eris Drew, Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J, [Christine and the Queens ft.] Dâm-Funk (½), Lizzo, Octo Octa, Khalid ft. 6LACK & Ty Dolla $ign, Valee ft. Jeremih, Doja Cat, Beach House, MGMT (2), Mr. Twin Sister (2); Natalie Prass, Hop Along, Cardi B [ft. Bad Bunny & J Balvin] (⅓), mewithoutyou, Toni Braxton, Soccer Mommy, Ravyn Lenae, Parquet Courts, Andrew W.K., Kali Uchis (½)

Of course, Drake cheated by crediting neither Big Freedia, nor 5th Ward Weebie, nor Lauryn Hill, and DJ Koze would have done well to credit Gladys Knight - but then again, US artists are overrepresented anyway \_(ツ)_/¯

Please report any mistakes or oversights to me, so I can do the whole damn thing over again. Thank U, next!

Re: the Burna bloodbath: not surprised by the vote splitting, but the dismal showing of “Ye” is kind of shocking nonetheless. It does bode extremely well for the album poll though. Looks like we have at least 8 people who have Outside very high on their ballot.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, February 2, 2019 9:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think I've voted for it. I only vote for real music on the albums poll, the singles here are just for kicks.
*checks, no I lie, I did vote for it.

I only vote for real music on the albums poll, the singles here are just for kicks.

haha this is my approach too

Albums are just singles with more extra tracks on them

Most of the time, yes. Anyway, cheers to rob, breastcrawl and everyone else keeping the afro-caribbean threads rolling. Wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you.

Spoilers: the albums poll has way more genre variety than the singles one and ilm delivers better results than most eoy lists

You're preaching to the choir :) I think that self-congratulation is probably exactly what gives us 1975 feasts though :P

this year's tracks poll just felt like there was barely any consensus at all so it was mostly just established ILM favourites doing well by default? at least compared to say the last two years which felt a little more unpredictable over the first few days

The albums poll is where it's at, though I'm pretty sure not a single one of my classical noms will place. Not that I did much in the way of campaigning, mind you.

My focus is totally on singles/individual tracks. Every year, there are at the very least 50 tracks that I could put on my tracks ballot with good conscience. Whereas with albums, there are only about a dozen that I’ve lived with enough throughout the year to confidently place them. This is purely a matter of priorities and time management. There’s many more albums that I know I like because I’ve listened to them once or twice (and I do fill up the rest of my ballot with those), or would/could like if I’d only make time for them, but first things first, you know, and the genres I (want and need to) listen to the most are heavily singles-focussed.

Amen.