Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2017

Ok this is a top 25 in no order... I might do a top 50 because I felt there’s many left behind. Top 10 would likely be: big thief, laurel halo, sassy009, men i trust, shabazz palaces, slowdive, selena gomez, tornado wallace, tops, us girls.

BIG THIEF - haley
DRAKE - passionfruit
EVERYTHING IS RECORDED - close but not quite
FEVER RAY - mustn’t hurry
FUTURE - mask off
HAND HABITS - all the while
JENS LEKMAN - whats that perfume that you wear?
JULIEN BAKER - funeral pyre
KNOX FORTUNE - lil thing
LAUREL HALO - moontalk
LUYAS - fed to the lions
MEN I TRUST - tailwhip
MOUNT KIMBIE - marilyn
NILUFER YANYA - golden cage
SACRED PAWS - everyday
SANDY ALEX G - sportstar
SASSY 009 - are you leaving
SELENA GOMEZ - bad liar
SHABAZZ PALACES - shine a light
SLOWDIVE - sugar for the pill
SUDAN ARCHIVES - come meh way
TEI SHI - justify
TOPS - cutlass cruiser
TORNADO WALLACE - today
US GIRLS - mad as hell

That definitely looks like it's in order to me

Ok this is a top 25 in no order... I might do a top 50 because I felt there’s many left behind. Top 10 would likely be: big thief, laurel halo, sassy009, men i trust, shabazz palaces, slowdive, selena gomez, tornado wallace, tops, us girls.

BIG THIEF - haley
DRAKE - passionfruit
EVERYTHING IS RECORDED - close but not quite
FEVER RAY - mustn’t hurry
FUTURE - mask off
HAND HABITS - all the while
JENS LEKMAN - whats that perfume that you wear?
JULIEN BAKER - funeral pyre
KNOX FORTUNE - lil thing
LAUREL HALO - moontalk
LUYAS - fed to the lions
MEN I TRUST - tailwhip
MOUNT KIMBIE - marilyn
NILUFER YANYA - golden cage
SACRED PAWS - everyday
SANDY ALEX G - sportstar
SASSY 009 - are you leaving
SELENA GOMEZ - bad liar
SHABAZZ PALACES - shine a light
SLOWDIVE - sugar for the pill
SUDAN ARCHIVES - come meh way
TEI SHI - justify
TOPS - cutlass cruiser
TORNADO WALLACE - today
US GIRLS - mad as hell

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In anticipation of the ILM poll (starting shortly!), this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Favorite Thread Spotify Playlist

moka, not sure why you'd place Today over voices if it's down to what's best, but YMMV

I’m still unsure about many of these not my final list. Almost every artist in there has another song or two which I can gladly replace. I have my own stupid rule of only one song per artist though... I might end changing some of these in the following qeeks.

admire yer commitment Moka, tho

one song per artist is not stupid tbh

I wish the 77 had that rule tbh

Didn't know there was a new Errorsmith album, thanks for the tip DL

I wish the 77 had that rule tbh

I do too, actually. At least as far as the rollout goes (highest voted song by the artist is their de facto single appearance), but people would riot.

Especially since I'm guessing the # of nominated tracks and albums goes up every year with the hyperavailability offered by streaming services

I wrote in some other thread the same proposal. 77 songs, no repeating artists and maybe acknowledge the next two most voted songs from artists with more than one song in the real top 77. when the rollout is over post the 'real' top 77 with repeating artists. In 2014 we had like 5 Taylor Swift songs and in 2015 4 CRJ and 3 Grimes songs. This year I think will be a tad more surprising but we'll still get 3 or more Kendrick songs in there.

I see the problem about changing the rollout and I don't really see it happening but you can't deny it would be a bit more interesting. After all the real surprises are always in the lower numbers.

I propose that every year and get shouted down but imo we should take an actual vote or something

I'm in but someone else should do the writeup about the proposal in a poll. I suck at explaining things convincingly, specially in english.

If we get two more posters in who like the idea I could draft it.

As ever, strongly disagree

Bring on all the Kendrick

include it as a question on the voting form this year, with it taking effect the following year with a majority vote

Why wait a year? If it passes (which, tbh, I don't think it would), I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to adjust the rollout.

that works too, I just think wrapping it into the actual process is the only way to ensure that everyone who cares sees it in time

Yeah, I think that's a good approach.

I am not in favor of the change fwiw, especially since it opens up a lot of grey areas wrt collabs and guest appearances

OK, so no repeat appearances according to top billing. How many tracks have popular artists sharing equal billing?

Guys, this change ain't gonna happen. It's one of the flaws of a consensus poll. If a person votes for a song, that vote should count.

the vote would count, on the "pure points" 77.

Trust me, I'm in favor of a more diverse rollout, but it is what it is.

i also support this move, the nay-sayers have no argument

Trust me, I'm in favor of a more diverse rollout, but it is what it is.

lol wtf kind of argument is this? if it's a flawed system let's fix it! we don't have to lobby fucking congress.

ha, you're talking to the guy who runs the system!

lol I'm bad at paying attention to who does what, but still, "this is how we've always done it" doesn't cut it for me idk

I'd always assumed people would get mad if their third favorite Young Thug feature didn't show up in the 77, but if that's not the case, it's something everyone can decide on before the 2018 poll. Too late for this one.

Is it actually prohibitively difficult to add a two-option poll to the eventual tracks ballot (assuming there's sufficient interest beyond....*counts*...five posters)? Or is it just annoying? (That's not me being petty, it would be a completely fair reason, since I can extrapolate how much work running this poll would be from running a relatively piddly single-artist one.)

The thing is the second, third, fourth song do appear as if in the real top 77 but they’re hidden until the top song appears in the rollout.

Example:

3. KENDRICK LAMAR - DNA (1827 points, 34 N1 votes)
[13. HUMBLE (1762 points), 24. ELEMENT (1365 points) 45. FEAR (678 points)]

The benefit of doing it in that way is that you get to discuss 77 different artists and songs and when an artist with several songs in the top 77 appears you get to discuss all those in the context of album. And now we’re not only discussing the top 77 songs were discussing at least 10 more.

I know there’s a rollout with everything else below in the end but once the rollout is over people stop paying attention...

Far shot and in the end it’s your call JF since you’re the real ceremony master in here, just a suggestion of what it could be.

Either way, you know I love your effort and the top 77 is always fun and one of my favorite EOY polls if only because of how varied the voters personal tastes are.

The main reason I'm pushing any changes to 2018 is because I'm 99% sure this is the last year I'm gonna be part of the team putting the poll together, and I wanna go out on an easy breezy high note. :)

Wait What? why?

save us

lol this will be my eighth year. It's just time.

Here's my albums list. I may do a tracks one, but I may not (I usually don't). https://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-cox/end-user-2017/10154932095861237/

i also support this move, the nay-sayers have no argument

― ogmor, Saturday, 16 December 2017 02:10 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has been bugging me, but it now occurs that the solution is beautifully simple: this is a tracks poll, not an artists poll

With apologies to ulysses when he's already juggling multiple other playlists, here's my November and December tracks picks. Just for completeness, you understand.

Shystie - "Bluka"
Denise Johnson - "I’m Not In Love"
Pye Corner Audio - "Greenpoint Hangover"
The Bongolian - "I’m a Bigger Badder Bro than any Game of Thrones"
Lee Ann Womack - "He Called Me Baby"
Avalon Emerson - "One More Fluorescent Rush"; "Finally Some Common Ground"
Willow - "And Contentment"
Charlotte Gainsbourg - "Sylvia Says"; "Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)"
Omar Souleyman - "Tensana"
Björk - "saint"
Björk & serpentwithfeet - "Blissing Me" (version)
Prins Thomas - "Here comes the band"
Kelly Lee Owens - "CBM"
Gazelle Twin - "The Suburbs"
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Romance Apocalypse"; "Flashback"
Nilüfer Yanya - "Baby Luv"
Green Gartside & Alexis Taylor - "Repair Man" (Green Gartside version / Blended Mix)
Pye Corner Audio - "Mainframe"
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "I Will Make Room For You (Four Tet Remix)"
Bicep - "Glue"
Maggie Lindemann - "Pretty Girl (Cheat Codes X CADE Remix)"
Portugal. The Man - "Feel It Still"
Tyler, The Creator - "Enjoy Right Now, Today"
Addictive TV - "Beachcoma"
Little Tornados feat. Caroline Says - "I Disappear"
La Féline feat. Laetitia Sadier - “À La Divinité (The Belief Song)”
FEMM - "Sotsugyo"
Red Velvet - "Attaboy"
Suzanne Ciani - "Help, Help, The Globolinks!" (Part One & Two)
yaeji - "after that"
Miles From Kinshasa - "FIREWORKS"
Taylor Swift - "Delicate"
Sinkane - "Telephone" (original / Roosevelt Remix)
K. Michelle - "God, Love, Sex and Drugs"; "Fuck Your Man - Interlude"
Confidence Man - "Better Sit Down Boy"
Hyuna - "Lip & Hip"
HAIM - "Walking Away (Mura Masa Remix)"
Jadu Heart and Mura Masa - "U Never Call Me"
Isolée - "Pisco"
Tomaga - "Memory in Vivo Exposure Pt. 1 & 2"
Moses Sumney - "Quarrel"
Laurent Garnier - "1-4 Doctor C'est Chouette"
Billie Eilish with Vince Staples - "&burn"
Tove Styrke - "liability (demo)"
Aly & AJ - "I Know"; "Promises"; "The Distance"

lol, it's good; i'm curious what everyone's listening to or else i wouldn't do it!

immediately, thanks for that first avalon emerson track and for giving me the song i needed to really want to crack open that K. Michelle album in earnest

Girls In Airports are one of the most underrated bands int he world today and they released a fantastic live album this year

Probably not going to nominate this for our poll, but Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca, and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh's Lekhfa is worth a listen. Arab indie. I think I'm missing a lot in this case by not being able to understand the words.

recent heavy rotation

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The French Press EP
Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
Joe Henry - Thrum
Rips - Rips
Neil Young - Hitchiker
Wooden Wand - Clipper Ship
Bardo Pond - Under the Pines
Balmorhea - Clear Language
Michael Chapman - 50