THE 2012 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ is open for nominations! (ends Sunday January 6)

oh if "Paper Planes" did it then "Somebody" should def be eligible!

We have learned from the mistakes of our past.

I want to put "Paper Planes" on my ballot now in protest

ALBUMS

School Of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Circle of Ouroborus - The Loast Enterance of the Just
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Sigh - In Somniphobia
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You
Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine
Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-65
Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
Baroness - Yellow & Green
VCMG - Ssss
JK Flesh - Posthuman

TRACKS

School of Seven Bells - When You Sing
Schoolboy Q feat Kendrick Lamar - Blessed
Machinedrum - SXLND
Orbital feat Lady Leshurr - Wonky
Farrah Abraham - Searching For Closure
The xx - Missing
The Presets - Ghosts
The Mountain Goats - White Cedar
Lone - Crystal Caverns 1991
Killer Mike - Reagan
Creep feat Tricky & Alejandra de la Deheza - Call Her
VCMG - Windup Robot

13/15

ALBUM

Trust - TRST

ALBUMS

Passion Pit - Gossamer
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - Black is Beautiful
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
TNGHT - TNGHT
Sky Architects - The Promise of Tomorrow
Crystal Shipsss - Yay
Synd & Skam - Blafret Ør af Kjoler
Alcest - Les Voyages des l'Âme

9/15

TRACKS

Kesi - Ku Godt
Olu Maintain - Nawti
G-Dragon - One of a Kind
Purity Ring - Fineshrine
Andy Stott - Hatch the Plan
Passion Pit - Carried Away
Keche - Aluguntugui
Fang Island - Asunder

8/15

xp oops nvm already nomd

TRACKS

Black Eyed Peas - "Boom Boom Pow"

Good song that.

oh if "Paper Planes" did it then "Somebody" should def be eligible!

My heart breaks for Gotye. Not really, though. He still managed to place #39 out of 1200+ nominated songs.

yeah it's nbd i'm just saying M.I.A. as usual gets unfair priveleges and truffle fries

ALBUMS

DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol. 1 - Welcome to the Chi
Go-Kart Moazrt - On the Hot Dog Streets
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Nas - Life Is Good
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing
Jeremiah Jae - Raw Money Raps
Tim Burgess - Oh No I Love You
Maria Minerva - Will Happiness Find Me?
Diplo - Express Yourself EP
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales
Dean Blunt - The Narcissist II

Lotta previously nommed albums in there, mr. raffles.

Crap. Didn't check the rules. Damn work distracting me!
Sorry!

Well, it's not so much a rule as it is an opportunity for you to nominate more things that haven't already been nominated.

A lot of my favs already nommed. Will think more on it, but for now:

ALBUMS

Wild Nothing - Nocturne

1/15

albums

raime - quarter turns over a living line
daphni - jiaolong
majeure - solar maximum
DIIV - oshin

tracks

saint etienne - last days of disco
saint etienne - seventeen
voices from the lake feat. donato dozzy & neel - S.T. (Vftl Rework)

that voices from the lake track is going to be my #1 probably, so simple but incredibly effective

albums

chelsea wolfe - unknown rooms

I'd like "blessed" so much more if it didn't sound like Kendrick needed a bowl of lozenges to get through it

that voices from the lake track is going to be my #1 probably, so simple but incredibly effective

It's a great album, probably one of the greatest of this year for me. Listening to it reminded me of hearing Music For 18 Musicians for the first time, it felt like a journey. I know that sounds like bollocks!

Tracks:

Leonard Cohen - Show Me the Place
The Shins - Simple Song
Susanna Hoffs - Picture Me
The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio
Asia - Face on the Bridge
Of Montreal - Dour Percentage
Lee Ranaldo - Waiting on a Dream
Home Blitz - Perpetual Night

Albums:

Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Susanna Hoffs - Someday

Forgot - two more tracks:

Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle
Chairlift - Take It Out on Me

ALBUMS

Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
Hammock - Departure Songs
Zombie Zombie - Rituels d'un Nouveau Monde
Vatican Shadow - Ghosts of Chechnya
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Dawn Richard - Whiteout EP
The Presets - Pacifica
Beak> - >>
Rye Rye - Go! Pop! Bang!

11/15

i'm not entirely sure how that Lone record became the 'token' idm record for this year but i haven't actually kept up with much else so its good enough for me

TRACKS

Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal

9/15

Tracks

Scott Walker - Epizootics!
M.I.A. - Bad Girls

Johnny Fever, I already nominated the Blood Diamonds & Grimes track.

Tracks

When Saints Go Machine - Mannequin

29/30

Oh cool, I missed that (and, really, wasn't expecting anyone else to even have repped for it).

Had no idea Susanna Hoffs released a record this year.

Also, "Cartoons and Cereal" not making the album proper (and "Compton" being on there) will probably be the very thing that keeps Kendrick outta my own top 10.

ALBUMS

Dev - The Night The Sun Came Up
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
Ichicuts - Filthy First Year
Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

9/15

TRACKS

2 Chainz - I'm Different
Flo Rida featuring Sia - Wild Ones
Eli Young Band - Even If It Breaks Your Heart
Keyshia Cole featuring Lil Wayne - Enough Of No Love
The Gaslight Anthem - 45

10/15

album noms:

lissy trullie - s/t
now, now - threads
harry howard & the nde - near death experience
the megaphonic thrift - s/t
the laurels - plains
horrid red - celestial joy
peter daltrey & the asteroid #4 - the journey
raveonettes - observator
toy - s/t
lorelei - enterprising sidewalks
dignan porch - nothing bad will ever happen
ultrasound - play for today
by the sea - s/t

singles noms:
fear of men - mosaic
paws - sore tummy
by the sea - eveline
savoir adore - dreamers
beat connection - further out
mining boom - pda
nun - solvents

couple more singles noms:

the presets - promises
the history of apple pie - do it wrong
the tenfivesixty - do this for me
sulk - flowers
shrag - devastating bones

"Yours Truly Cellophane Noise"

nice to see i'm not the only one who read this wrong (it's "nose")

peter daltrey & the asteroid #4 - the journey

!

Immediately put this on on Spotify. Thanks for the tip.

it rules

TRACKS

London Grammar - Hey Now
Haerts - Wings

9/15

Three tracks, more later:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Driftin' Back
Drake & Rihanna - Take Care
Imperial Teen - Don't Know How You Do It

Speaking of which, anyone want to start compiling Spotify playlists?

ALBUMS

T-ara - Funky Town
Miss $ - Miss Us?
Serebro - Mama Lover

TRACKS

Orange Caramel - Lipstick
Trouble Maker - Trouble Maker
Cassie - King Of Hearts

6/30

ALBUMS

Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional
Crystal Castles - (III)
Beach House - Myth
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Florrie - Late
Gossip - A Joyful Noise
Icky Blossoms - Icky Blossoms
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Lescop - La Forêt
Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion
Rebecca & Fiona - I Love You, Man
The xx - Coexist
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

14/30

Okay, with nominations closing on January 6, that's about three and a half weeks for nominations. I had originally planned to open voting on Monday the 7th and close it on Friday the 18th (which is two 5-day work weeks and one weekend for voting), but is that enough time for voting? Should the nominations period be short and voting longer? However we split it up, voting needs to end on the 18th. Let us know.

Nominations period might sound long, but a lot of people are going to be busy over the holidays. And people can always think about what they're going to vote for during noms. So I'd keep it as you have it, myself.

i think shorter nom period and longer voting period is prob a good idea. a lot of what people want nominated will get taken care of well before the 6th but it's good to have a decent-sized window for voting imo. xpost

Fight!

agree with some dude here

I only ask because seandalai informed me that he'll be too busy to do any data crunching come February (which won't be a problem, because this has always happened, at least in the post-musically era, the last two weeks of January). Last year, nominations were open for a month and voting lasted two weeks and we got plenty of participation. The year before, we had three weeks of noms and three weeks of voting with only a negligible uptick in ballots. Perhaps I should've opened the thread earlier for nominations, but I'm still thinking 3.5 weeks of noms and then 12 days for voting sounds reasonable. As emily pointed out, a lot of people are going to be busy over the holidays, so the longer nominations period makes more sense.

Anyway, it's still early enough to resplit the timeframe in one way or the other. I just wanted to refresh everyone's memory on how it's gone down the last two years.

Just noticed that LeRooLeRoo nominated Beach House - Myth under albums, but that's the name of the first track, not the name of the album

Oh, hm...I wonder that was an intended vote for the album or for the track.