Let's go!
The procedure is simple: enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 25 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields. Use the form located here: https://forms.gle/5FEXdcBsXZu2tpLMAM. Please copy each line directly from the nominations list; do not number your ballot.
You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:
(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 50 points, the second receives 48 points, and so on, until the 25th item receives 2 points.
(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 26 points.
(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 50 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 26 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 25 items will allocate a total of exactly 650 points).
TRACK NOMINATIONS On Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XAB83zR9T_vM63JWk-BL59MbFaD_l_UIliAhQUuF4T8/
ALBUM NOMINATIONSOn Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/JBkv6jCROn Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mBgjDtpVECv9Hvd9B0kgXm_KlQlgx0otkI0OROLQAvk/
PLAYLISTSTracks: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3pvB14oQVKaNUwNViZAv00Albums: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2bgWh3JqBlruDUwip7zp3S
Voting ends at MIDNIGHT PST on Friday, January 22nd, 2021.
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 3 January 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
(Pastebin wouldn't allow me to add the track noms as a public document because the track titles are too offensive)
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 3 January 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
Am I being dense or are you missing the link to the voting form?
― emil.y, Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
we vote with our cyber implants now
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
anyway i had to nominate my favorite song of the year (grimes "delete forever") on the last day of nominations, so i'm hoping last year's silent "violence" majority are gonna help carry it through
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
i was also annoyed about having to nominate a great usher single ("bad habits")
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
I felt this way about no nominations for Kesha until yesterday.
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
"End of Daze" by Spillage Village is on the nominations list twice.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
I made a thread for Keleketla!, you can check it out.Rose Rouge is a song that keeps climbing on my ballot, gorgeous cause it's Jorja Smith, full of relaxed vibes because of the jazz bass - horns, grand because of the broad sound and all those flourishes.
Since it was nominated, I'm thinking of claiming year of impact going for Where I'm Coming From instead of I Spy / Stars Align. I might joint the person who said Mango for Sevana. Finally, I nominated 24K because it's a-ma-zing but Shook is clearly the hit. In the songs discovered through the nomination process, I'm tempted most by Damn Daniel, that's how you do a fun novelty pop hit. Spots are expensive but I might have Wizkid up to three times on my tracks ballot.
Still no idea what Jessie Ware or Dua Lipa track I'm voting for, just not Remember where you are (slow and lush and melancholic and crescendos with choirs no thank you).
For albums, I'll just say please include EPs and some jazz in your votes my good people ! And check that Keleketla! thread.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
Oops! Can a mod add the voting link to the first post? https://forms.gle/5FEXdcBsXZu2tpLMA
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
Thanks emil.y!
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 3 January 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
Hope that edit's okay, let me know if you want anything changing.
― emil.y, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
lol I missed the entire noms thread, oh well
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
At this point I mostly just want Pharaoh Overlord to make it.
I've already done a big tracks booster post, which you might want to consider: The Pre-Poll Lobby - Tracks You Want People to Consider for ILM's Top 77 of 2020
― imago, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
There's a duplicate on the TRACKS spreadsheetDisclosure - Mali MaliDisclosure ft. Fatoumata Diawara - Douha (Mali Mali)are exactly the same and not different versions.
― danzig, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
Please dont forget 2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)
― Oor Neechy, Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
Sleeve you haven't missed those nominations.... yet ')
fixed
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 3 January 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
^^^ please do call out any duplicates you spot - I've removed all the easy ones but when the titles are different I can't catch them automatically
Okay, the track playlist is as complete as I can make it and closed. Let me know if there's something available that I missed?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
1280 tracks seems actually LOW for any given year but maybe we went harder on albums this go round. I'm personally about 1/4 of the way through listening to the whole thing; hoping I can make it at least to the halfway mark before voting ends.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
I was wondering how the numbers stacked up against other years, I kind of assumed they would be lower. I am hoping for some good enthusiastic participation, I need a bit of fun to counteract the bleak hellscape.
― emil.y, Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
There were 1,260 track nominations and 1,070 album nominations last year, about the same #'s as this year. I've no doubt those numbers were much higher back when the board was more active though.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
Just like last year, I made two Spotify playlists for all the (*very* broadly defined) African “pop” that has been nominated:one for all the South African stuff: first the 47+1 nominated tracks and after that the 16 albums that were nominated (I counted the Keleketla! album Nabozo is championing as South African), 273 tracks in total, a lot more than last year. that’s 25 (!) hours of music to get lost in: lots of amapiano, some Limpopo house, a bit of gqom and of course several representatives of the House of Sun-El.link: ILM 2020 EOY🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICAN NOMS...and one for all the non-SA African stuff, 62 tracks and 18 albums, 279 tracks in total, about 16 hours of music, similar to last year.I stretched “pop” to include Nyege Nyege, Tony Allen & Masekela (counted this one towards the non-SA side) and “African” to include Afro-Portuguese (by way of the UK and France) batida-makers DJ Danifox and Nídia. Oh, and Moroccan-French band Bab L’Bluz is there as well, because I like ‘em.link: ILM 2020 EOY🔷AFROPOP NOMSPlease let me know if you think I forgot or overlooked something!
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
forks, looks like a batch of tracks were added twice on the playlist from CRJ's Stay Away to Kesha's High Road. Also the entire Canshaker Pi album is on there (but don't know if that's because someone nominated every track)
― groovypanda, Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
voted
― dyl, Sunday, 3 January 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
what good will do all of our campaigning do now?
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
Albums ballot submitted. I'll get working on tracks later this week.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
I dunno, but I had no idea until I looked at the albums master list that Mimi Goese released a new album this year and decided to vote for it AS I was listening to it for the first time lol
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
xp
i pay attention to campaigning and tend to discover numerous things i like thru it but frankly nothing introduced to me this late in the game is likely to displace the songs i've been enjoying for a large portion of the year already from my ballot xp
― dyl, Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
forks, looks like a batch of tracks were added twice on the playlist from CRJ's Stay Away to Kesha's High Road.
Also the entire Canshaker Pi album is on there (but don't know if that's because someone nominated every track)
― groovypanda, Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:55 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
idk they sound like some pretty good duplicates to me
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
like, there's already an entire ballot-sized collection of songs that i thought would be shoo-ins that i'm sad about having to exclude b/c 25 songs is not a lot, it's highly doubtful something i learned about after new year's day is making its way in
― dyl, Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
albums would be another story b/c i'm not sure if i've even enjoyed as many albums as a lot of ppl here nominate every single year and consequently tend to leave my albums ballot blank, as i did again this year
― dyl, Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
I'm also about a 1/4 through listening to the playlist (phenomenal work as always, forks) and wanted to mention that silverfish's noms have been a high point so far. I saved like four tracks of those I didn't know (which was most).
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
silverfish is an Established Ally
― imago, Sunday, 3 January 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
Voting now.
Wow - no one was into that Jeff Tweedy record, huh?
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 3 January 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
There were 1,260 track nominations and 1,070 album nominations last year, about the same #'s as this year. I've no doubt those numbers were much higher back when the board was more active though.― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:35 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:35 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Looking back, the nomination counts are pretty stable over time. Even in "big" years like 2013 - where the number of voters was (conservatively) 50% more than we'll get this year - the number of nominations wasn't that much higher (1510 tracks, 1060 albums). Though in 2013 the limit per person was 30, the "surprise" extra 10 towards the end of nominating was introduced by JF the following year.
― timber euros (seandalai), Monday, 4 January 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
Ballot submitted!
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 January 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
wow am I glad I have 2+ weeks for this, I haven't even started to engage w/the ILX noms after putting my own list together (40 new, 20 archival/reissue)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Monday, 4 January 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
I can't believe "Delete Forever" wasn't nominated until the final day. There goes my prediction that it would win the poll.
I'll cross-reference my post in the Aya Nakamura / French rap thread and encourage people to listen to and vote for Lous and the Yakuza - Gore, which is the debut album by the Belgian-Congolese rapper, produced by El Guincho (known for his own work, as well as that with Rosalía). Dour and heavy, but inventive and thrilling at the same time, and the accompanying videos are wonderful.
Also on the album front, Carla J Easton - WEIRDO is more or less Carly Rae Jepsen (even the names have a similar cadence!) x CHVRCHES with the faintest traces of the Charly Bliss debut, so I'm surprised there isn't a 1000 page thread for it on here. A delightful record.
Without getting carried away and posting my whole ballot, I'll also gently encourage users to vote for:
Princesa Alba - Ya No Quieres Querereme, which is fabulous Chilean discopop that wouldn't have sounded out of place on Future Nostalgia;
Javiera Mena - Corazón astral, which, well, speaking of fabulous Chilean discopop...;
Pauline Chagne - Orange Sanguine, which is frothy fun in a Vendredi Sur Mer-vein;
NIKI - Switchblade, which is poised R&B from Indonesia;
RAYE - Love Of Your Life, which is, in a long string of singles from her over several years, perhaps the most faultless; and
Jayda G - Both Of Us, which I could see as a surprise winner in the vein of "Itgehane", so if that happens I just want to be on the record as being in the "it's a fucking banger" camp.
― monotony, Monday, 4 January 2021 00:46 (three years ago) link
It's safe to say I no longer have my finger on the ilm pulse, but does the larger ilm populace even fuck with Grimes anymore?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 January 2021 04:12 (three years ago) link
"violence" placed in the top twenty last year and a few of us liked her record this year yeah
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 January 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
i don't really check for her but i didn't know she put anything out this year
don't worry i'm sure she'll place, i had no idea about her music last year either
― dyl, Monday, 4 January 2021 04:18 (three years ago) link
"violence" did quite well last year despite being a complete nothing of a song and there was still some decent enthusiasm for miss anthropocene as an album despite all her antics overshadowing it, though nowhere near that for art angels and visions. i was one of the ones who was very disappointed by it
the album will surely place but probably like in the 20s?
― ufo, Monday, 4 January 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link
I was totally out of the loop this year, and it will be the first time in as long as I've been around here that I have no idea what anyone likes, where anything will place, and how many people are likely to vote and who they are. lol
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 4 January 2021 04:29 (three years ago) link
she sucks but the record is good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 January 2021 04:47 (three years ago) link
I don’t fuck with Grimes anymore. I think Elon Musk is disgusting and she has become unpalatable by association.
Even if I separate art from artist I don’t hear too much I like in this album in particular. The mixing sounds off for me. Delete Forever is probably my favorite of the album but I just can’t get into it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 January 2021 05:02 (three years ago) link
ok let's not repeat the grims discourse in the campaign thread, some ppl do not like it when their records sound like the inside of a vacuum cleaner, i get it, however i do
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 4 January 2021 05:06 (three years ago) link
lol that really does sum it up
― ufo, Monday, 4 January 2021 05:16 (three years ago) link
my favorite discovery from today however was daliwonga's "my boo". i'm starting to become a purist who's like "if i didn't have a moment with this song in 2020 should it really be on my ballot????" but... in this case....
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2021 01:12 (three years ago) link
let's say 12 hours to go now
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 01:17 (three years ago) link
there’s also this little song called “Jerusalema” by Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode that everyone should vote for― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, January 22, 2021 5:32 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkheard this today and it's fantastique
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 January 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
i'm about to submit my ballots and i feel pretty good about them!!!! doesn't happen every time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
Voted! So many good tracks nommed this year, well done all.
― Twelves, Saturday, 23 January 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
Voted! My tracks album is awesome
― brimstead, Saturday, 23 January 2021 02:06 (three years ago) link
track ballot lol. it’s been a week.
― brimstead, Saturday, 23 January 2021 02:07 (three years ago) link
voted!!!!!!!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
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― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Saturday, 23 January 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
I voted!
Springsteen album title is wrong on the list, but I used what was there.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 23 January 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
voted, what a weird year
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Saturday, 23 January 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link
This is the first year, maybe ever, I didn't max out my tracks ballot. Only did 20 out of 25. Surprised my albums ballot got all the way to 25 tbh.
Anyway, they're both in now. EOY team gonna roll out the best music poll on the internet as usual. Thanks in advance!
(p.s. seandalai, can you email me my albums ballot? I forgot to save a copy when I submitted it.)
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 23 January 2021 05:05 (three years ago) link
scratch that request...I found it!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 23 January 2021 05:06 (three years ago) link
I voted
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 January 2021 06:31 (three years ago) link
I had a hard time cutting albums from 50-70 down to 25. Let's just say no album out of South Africa made my list and that's insane given the releases.
― octobeard, Saturday, 23 January 2021 06:53 (three years ago) link
Heck, I typically missed voting, so I’m gonna pour one out for Sleaford Mods’ Mork and Mindy and cross my fingers for We Live Here to go all the way
― Morley Timmons, Saturday, 23 January 2021 09:05 (three years ago) link
voting is open until seandalai says it's shut iirc. think you still have time
― mage uluk (NickB), Saturday, 23 January 2021 09:10 (three years ago) link
I've just submitted my ballot :)
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 23 January 2021 09:26 (three years ago) link
yep, still a bit of time to vote
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
any stragglers should get a move on though
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 10:00 (three years ago) link
Will have mine in before 11gmt
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 23 January 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
Done!
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 23 January 2021 10:50 (three years ago) link
I'm weighing up a last-minute tracks ballot change-up...
― imago, Saturday, 23 January 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
Oh but it would involve dropping one thing 6 points though and if that takes it out of the 77 I can never forgive myself
― imago, Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:10 (three years ago) link
going to shut it down in about 10 minutes - anyone who still wants to submit speak now
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
I have resubmitted with one change. If that change (and removal of 6 points from my erstwhile #1) results in said song departing the 77, PLEASE DISREGARD lol
― imago, Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:24 (three years ago) link
lmao
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link
I'm serious :D
― imago, Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link
ok we're done here - tracks results will roll out next week
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:49 (three years ago) link
Awesome. Can't wait. And many thanks
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
Yeah super work as ever seandalai!
― imago, Saturday, 23 January 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
Got a late request from gaudio - I've reopened the voting form but make it quick!
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
gaudete more like
― imago, Saturday, 23 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
thanks seandalai!!! voted
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Saturday, 23 January 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
Hey seandalai I forgot to vote too! will csat my ballot very quickly!!
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
voted.
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
ballots received - proceedings are closed for real now
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
ah okay! dang
― budo jeru, Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
ok ok go ahead
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
:)
i also forgot to nominate anything so i put all my write-ins on the bottom half of a mixed ballot -- if it's easier just to chop em off that's totally fine. so sorry about inconvenience !!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
got it and counted (except for the write-ins, sorry - too late for that)
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
thanks so much seandalai - i owe you one
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
Phew, crut et al, under the wire!
I feel like I've got a fair idea of what will be high in albums but no clue about tracks (unless it's all the Tyl0r Sw4ft tracks DJP nominated). Hmm hmm.
― emil.y, Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
ty seandalai!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 23 January 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
kicking myself for totally spacing on this. been a rough week.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Sunday, 24 January 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
Okay, we're live!ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 January 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
whaatt?
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Sunday, 24 January 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
thought we’d be starting on Monday?
we are. clearing the runway.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
...easing back into Sunday afternoon mood...
― get down, get down, get down / why piano wenza so? (breastcrawl), Sunday, 24 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link