!~!~!~!~!~BOOM BOOM ALBUMS N TRAX POLL 2009: NOMINATIONS due Dec 31~!~!~!~!~!

big ups to this nom thread for having nominated every album i was gonna nom (even robin thicke! good lookin johnny crunch)

so

albums

Trey Songz - Ready

songs

Cold Flamez - Miss Me Kiss Me Lick Me
Lil Cali ft. Young Dro & Mouse - Ric Flair
Fast Life Yungstaz - Swag Surfin
Roscoe Dash ft. Soulja Boy - All the Way Turnt Up
Q-Tip ft. Busta Rhymes, Raekwon & Lil Wayne - Renaissance Rap (remix)
Major Lazer ft. Ricky Blaze & Nina Sky - Keep it Goin Louder
Gucci Mane - First Day Out
Gucci Mane - Wonderful
Drake - Best I Ever Had
Free Energy - Dream City
New Boyz - You're a Jerk
Soulja Boy - Turn My Swag On
Serani - No Games
The-Dream - Sweat It Out

also re: "imma star", not even i remember why i hated it so much initially but when i listened to the album the other day i basically just kept thinking that everything ship said about the-dream circa love/hate is how i feel about jeremih, "birthday sex" aside

also i'm not kidding about the mtts album, it's really pretty good, will probably be in the 20-15 range on my ballot

album

giorgio tuma 'my vocalese fun fair'

whiney didn't nominate turn my swag on?(?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!?)

he...didn't nominate anything

anyway i'm gonna be away til early jan so just in case it turns out to be awesome:

ALBUMS

Jackie Chain - Instant Classic

hahaha

Track:

Omega - Merengue Electronico

okay, y'all have me sold, will check out e.red over the weekend and report back.

(Final) track:

Shiina Ringo - Shun

albums

Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Neil Young - Fork in the Road
New York Dolls - 'Cause I Sez So

album

Brother Ali- Us

yo dudes i'm as enthusiastic as any of you but you've collectively nominated 6 different love vs money tracks. can we consolidate efforts on one or two tracks so that he at least has a chance of charting on the songs list?

tbf the one i nom'd was actually a single

album nominations:

OB Buchana-It's My Time (Ecko)
Oumou Sangare-Seya
Rokia Traore-Tchamantche (o8 in Europe, 09 in US)
Amadou & Mariam-Welcome to Mali (09 in US)
Very Best-Warm heart of Africa
Wisin y Yandel-La Revolucion
Japandroids-Post-nothing
Electrik Red-How to be a Lady, Vol. 1

Very Best-Warm heart of Africa
Japandroids-Post-nothing
Electrik Red-How to be a Lady, Vol. 1

these three were already nom'd

Oops...

Tracks:

Trey Songz-"Say Aah"

can we consolidate efforts on one or two tracks so that he at least has a chance of charting on the songs list?

"right side of my brain" is my favorite song on the album, but i can get on board with some strategic voting. i wish i liked "walkin' on the moon" more, tbh. but "rockin' that shit" or "sweat it out" are good by me.

"rockin' that shit" or "sweat it out" are the two best singles proper, and i'll gladly throw either of them some votes, but there's no way fancy won't end up WAY high in my list. that is some next level shit, and head and shoulders above most things i heard this yr.

just FYI since i am on a mobile...tannenbaum (?) nommed more than 15 so unless he came back and amended his noms, which is entirely possible since i haven't been checking, his noms will not make the cut unless someone ELSE noms them. if someone can c&p that list everyone can give it a once-over to make sure there's nothing there you are expecting to see on the final list.

"rockin that shit" and "sweat it out," then? i'm down.

I'll bump this back onto the new answers page by kindly asking everyone to pop over to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE HERE for ILX METAL ALBUMS OF 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!!! (non-metal thread regulars welcome. Everyones welcome to vote, please join in!) Voting Ends Jan 17. and vote.
If you can manage a top 10 then email it! If you can make a full ballot of 30 then fantastic, but the top 10 lists are just as welcome. Vote for as many as you can up til 30 votes.
So please at least look at the list of nominations and see what you like there (might prove handy for nominating stuff on this thread too that has been forgotten)

Thanks.

Albums:
Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Tracks:
Keri Hilson - Knock You Down
Taylor Swift - Crazier
Chairlift - Bruises
Bob Dylan - I Feel A Change Comin' On
Amadou and Mariam - Sabali
Robin Thicke - Hard On My Love
Taylor Swift - White Horse
Tim Krekel - Bailout Blues
Floyd Taylor - Southern Soul Party
Lily Allen - Straight To Hell
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Britney Spears - If U seek amy
Asher Roth - I Love College

Tracks

Brad Paisley - Everybody's Here
Get Em Mamis - Cold Summer
Mark Mallman - Don't Spill the Bottle
Prince - Dance 4 Me
U2, The Cedars of Lebanon

Albums

Big Star - Keep an Eye on the Sky
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates
De La Soul - Are You In?
Drake - So Far Gone
Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
P.O.S. - Never Better
Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
Unknown Prophets - Le System D

Joakim - Milky Ways
The xx - The xx
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Cold Cave - Love comes close
Joris Voorn - Balance 14
Tama Sumo - Panarama Bar 2

Thank you for nominating Balance 14, which will def. get a vote from me!

However, all of the following have already been nominated by others before you:
* The xx - The xx

* Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

* Wild Beasts - Two Dancers

* Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II

* Memory Tapes - Seek Magic

* The Field - Yesterday and Today

* Cold Cave - Love comes close


I have 9 more spaces left (8 plus 1 that I double-nominated). Haven't seen these yet:

Tracks:

Chrisette Michele - Blame It On me
Gucci Mane - Lemonade
Girls - Hellhole Ratrace
The Drums - Let's Go Surfing
Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader
Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer
Amerie - Why R U
Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others

some albums that nobody has mentioned yet:

Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe (weird. did I miss this one?)
Flower-Corsano Duo - The Four Aims

A+ Aidy's Girl!

3 more noms
trax

Taio Cruz feat. Tinchy Stryder - Take Me Back
Natalia Lafourcade - Azul
Prietto Viaja al Cosmos con Mariano - La Carretera de los incendios

2000F & J Kamata - You Don't Know What Love Is
Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
Cooly G - Love Dub
OJ da Juiceman f/ Gucci Mane - Make tha Trap Say Aye

Blaq Poet - The Blaqprint
Geeneus - Volumes: One
Wiley - Race Against Time

err, first is TRACKS, then ALBUMS

Braxton
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
Land of Kush - Against the Day
Om - God is Good
Russian Circles - Geneva
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Circle - Triumph
Pitch Black - Rhythm, Sound and Movement
Jonsi and Alex - Riceboy Sleeps

er....ignore that first "Braxton"

My last 5

ALBUMS
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
The Bird and The Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
Holden - Fantomatisme
Dominique Leone - Abstract Expression

TRACK
Lily Allen - Who'd Have Known

musically, I'm re-doing my noms today. trawling through thread to avoid doubling up.

Two albums not on this list:

The Pastels & Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets
Arthur & Martha - Navigation

Also, does the new Position Normal count, as it's a cassette-only release?

just two albums

kylesa - static tensions
califone - all my friends are funeral singers

HAHAHA stalling for that extra five minutes on my decision has just given me an extra option! i was totally about to nominate the califone album too!

I don't see why Position Normal shouldn't count - if it was limited to an impossible number of copies maybe, but it isn't, also it's rad

Okay, then I have more nominations.

ALBUMS
Position Normal - Position Normal
Alasdair Roberts - Spoils

TRACKS
Hidden Cameras - In the NA

TRACKS

Lily Allen - Not Fair
Tanya Morgan - So Damn Down

I see no problem with cassette-only releases; lots of things were cassette-only at tone time. </old> (Well not "lots" maybe but some. See ROIR.)

TRACKS
Lonely Island - I'm on a Boat
Danananaykroyd - Black Wax
El Perro Del Mar - Change of Heart
Desire - Don't Call
Flight of the Conchords - Carol Brown

ALBUMS
Desire - II

Hahaha, I might have to vote for 'I'm on a Boat'.

Musically, resubmitted after checking upthread to avoid doubles

ALBUMS

Taken By Trees - East of Eden
Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Syria

TRACKS

Fuck Buttons - The Lisbon Maru
Nite Funk - Am I Gonna Make It
Curses! - The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Day School dub)
Omar Souleyman - Lansob Sherek (I Will Make A Trap)
DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central, Pt. I (Deep Into The Bowel Of House) (MCDE Bassline Dub)
Eddie C - Make It Better
Nina Kraviz - I'm Gonna Get You
Dam Funk - Hood Pass Intact
Junior Boys - Bits & Pieces
Major Lazer - When You Hear The Bassline
The Juan Maclean - One Day (Surkin mix)

...and here's mine! I expect bugger-all votes for any of these except SFA at a push.

Tracks

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Luna Park
Engineers - What Pushed Us Together
The Horrors - New Ice Age
The Horrors - Do You Remember
The Horrors - I Only Think Of You
Super Furry Animals - Cardiff In The Sun
Wild Beasts - Through The Iron Gate
Califone - Giving Away The Bride
White Denim - Say What You Want
St. Vincent - The Neighbors
Dominique Leone - I'm The Police

Albums

Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean
The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Are Sound

Now can someone please nominate Dominique Leone's 'Sometimes You've Got To Be Happy' because I had to choose between the two songs and I think I may have chosen wrongly. Well, they're both excellent, is what I'm saying. Dude's an ILXOR, shouldn't be the greatest sacrifice :P