ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

also, refusing to vote for tracks by an artist you've voted for in the albums poll is insanity imo

I use the lex/Alfred rule as a way to cut down my tracks ballot, but I always end up making a couple of exceptions

I have too much love to give to spend it all on under 48 or so artists

(And now I’m playing “2000 Elefanten” again. Very cool track. Will check out the album)

ya i vote for my favorite things and sometimes my favorite big things have favorite little things in them

i mean, i did tbf cut tropical fuck storm and daphne & celeste out of my tracks ballot because i'm more invested in the album as a whole, but there were some artists where i just could not avoid voting for them in both polls and to do so would have defied my year in music

would've been weird if DNA placed last yea, but not Humble

*year

If you're voting for 10 tracks by the same artist, may I interest you in the albums poll?

I'll start a poll once both rollouts are done. let's reconvene on the subject then

this mgmt song is pretty good

maybe i'll check out the album

album is solid! I always like when seemingly flash-in-the-pan acts turn out to have some longevity

I never vote for tracks that appear on albums I vote for, but that's me.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 29, 2019 1:34 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc, the Lex was a stickler for this, too

― jaymc, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 1:37 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people who do this are just scrubs smh

breastcrawl otm
Most of the artists I root for these days release tons of great singles but v few albums.

If only the highest song places and the others are disqualified I don't see how it resolves vote-splitting.
If there's no consensus that's it. Placing several songs is actually a good sign.
+1 at not voting for album tracks being madness.
Every time I come back to this thread and press on "skipping...", I automatically land on Andrew WK giving me thumbs up :s

Hop Along was my #2, super happy to see it place

I think the only way to artificially reduce track possibilities is through nominations: don't give 40 nominations per user, force them to be disciplined.

It doesn't seem to be on Youtube, can I listen to it anywhere without having to sign up for a streaming service?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can go to a nearby factory and sit near an industrial fan

― my tweet portal is whack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A++

top three for today is something like (having not heard Autechre but I can tell what kind of thing it is and it'll be a fine from me n' all):

46: Mr. Twin Sister – “Jaipur”
54: Talaboman – “Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix)”
60: Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin – “I Like It”

Worst had to be Smoko. Sounded like lj was responsible for this?

would have still made the 77 without my 6 points

I like that Hop Along song but voted for "Somewhere a Judge" instead.

I would definitely support curtailing nominations to max of 20 overall or fewer.

If an album has 5+ nominations, you could do a short poll to narrow it down to 1 or 2.

I’m opposed to this curating/curtailing of nominations. Let a thousand flowers bloom (or wither, whatever the case may be).

Reducing individual nominations won't reduce vote-splitting. It will make it a lot harder for people like me, who can't rely on anyone else to nominate things they like.

lol yeah this is gonna be the 4th year in the row where either 0 or 1 of my song choices make it :)

just because it's a particularly inspired image, i am compelled to shout out Moka again for the consistently excellent graphics

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses)

:) thank you

It will make it a lot harder for people like me, who can't rely on anyone else to nominate things they like.
― emil.y, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 9:33 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think you have a different problem than vote-splitting.

Do ya?

kudos again to the images moka, fantastic work

let a thousand flowers bloom

I think you have a different problem than vote-splitting.

― Nabozo, Tuesday, January 29, 2019 8:39 PM (thirteen minutes ago)

I mean, yeah, it is tough having better taste than the majority of ilx0rs, but why should I be punished for that?

Nominations threads will come in handy when it is time for the cull.xp

lol

gotta say, while there was more stuff i liked today, there was also more stuff i outright disliked. naming no names here but sheesh isn't it wonderful how diverse all our tastes are

Even in that context it makes sense: there’s only 77 left when everything is said and done.

xps

name names, vague passive-aggression doesn't really add to discussion xp

Sund4r also otm

I know I nominated Baby Shark but promise I didn't actually vote for it, pls don't cull me I have a wife two kids and a podcast to support.

podcasters are first against the wall iirc

sweet

I also liked y'day's lineup more than today's, just personal taste...

idk that my taste really adds to the conversation but there was a lot that failed to move me today. everything i liked i had already heard and p much everything i hadn't heard was rly boring to me. as i say, diff't strokes. all good. my music taste is completely fucked-up on instant melodic gratification and overstimulated progge antics so i find a lot of things boring that might be accurately described by others as 'a jam'

mind you wtf were the kim petras and autechre songs doing here lol

might end up using this year's results as an excuse to kickstart an actual poll on instituting a one-track-per-artist limit as opposed to just whining about it again

― resident hack (Simon H.)

I think I also chipped in a similar idea in some thread I don’t remember. The point was to get 77 different main artists on the countdown (feature credits get a pass) and only the most voted song per artist makes it, you can still vote for whichever song of the artist you like but only one gets represented... This to get a more varied poll.

So per example in 2014, a year with 5 Taylor Swift singles in the top 77 you get:

6. TAYLOR SWIFT - Style (620 points, 19 votes)

And maybe either post the real top 77 at the end in text form with repeat artists as it is right now or if you want to discuss all songs on the top 77 in the moment add them as a secondary info inside the main winner from the artist as a mini ranking of their songs inside the top 77 like say:

6. TAYLOR SWIFT - Style (620 points, 19 votes)
- Blank Space (515 points, 15 votes)
- Out of the Woods (469 points, 12 votes)
- Shake it Off (345 points, 11 votes)
- Bad Blood (322 points, 8 votes

Something like that...

I didn't vote but I've been listening to the playlist; I hope everyone who voted for Die Wilde Jagd also checked out FACS last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Km1_Bd017Q

Otherwise you have to make the cut since the nom phase and that just seems like too much trouble. I’d leave the current system as is and just present the results differently...

if you want 77 artists on a poll, then like why not just... nominate/vote for artist(s) of the year

I also think that artificially culling results so you limit each artist to one appearance undermines the entire idea of doing a poll and at that point we should just pick a random poster to curate a listening experience and deem that the best-of list instead of asking everyone to contribute time and energy into deciding what their favorite songs of the year were and then jettisoning 30% of them because a couple of well-known/well-loved artists released a bunch of stuff that the voters like.

i strongly dislike 1 track per artist limit. feel like there has to be a more nuanced solution if it's even a problem

FACS was pretty cool!

DJP otm