ILM 2015 Tracks Poll Thread of Ballots, Statistics and Community-wide Anomie

Apparently voting for mostly indie/post-punk stuff will give you chamber pop as your Top Genre. What the fuck?

i think everyones genre is messed up, except for mine
i *clenches fist* frickin love indie r&b

Phoebe Ryan - Mine

― dyl

I almost voted for that but cut it at the last minute

DOG LATIN

weighted ballot
25 votes
In Top 77: 11
Hivemind: 236.96
Fuxxor: 0.05
Antifuxxor: 4,549.63
Populism: 0.58
Loneliness
0.20
Blood Sausage: 34.20
Hotness 0.14
Neighbour: Mercer Finn
Read: Gorilla vs Bear
Genre: Trap Music

1.Korede Bello - Godwin
2. Domenique Dumont - L'Esprit de L'Escalier
3. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
4. Future - Just Like Bruddas
5. Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems
6. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
7. AKA ft. Burna Boy, Da Les & Jr. - All Eyes On Me
8. Bicep - Just
9. Carly Rae Jepsen - Let's Get Lost
10. DJ Paypal - Slim Trak
11. Format:B - Chunky
12. Frazey Ford - September Fields
13. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
14. Ricky Blaze ft. Shaggy & Kranium - Overrated
15. Jack Ü ft. Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
16. Miami Horror - Wild Motion (Set It Free)
17. Fay-Ann Lyons - Drift
18. Skepta - Shutdown
19. Young Thug - With That
20. Future - March Madness
21. Stormzy - Know Me From
22. Major Lazer & DJ Snake ft. MØ - Lean On
23. Mumdance x Novelist - 1 Sec
24. Carly Rae Jepsen - Making the Most of the Night
25. Algiers - Irony. Utility. Pretext

Foster - AEIOU

cut this one from my ballot for no good reason

getting severe regretful pangs seeing other people vote for things i cut indefensibly from my ballot (apart from there being no songs i could plausibly cut from my actual ballot)

Angela Hunte & Machel Montano - Party Done
Anohni - 4 Degrees
Kiss Daniel - Good Time
Vybz Kartel ft. Konshens, Spice & Tussan - Dancehall (Remix)
Natalie La Rose ft. Jeremih - Somebody
Maliibu N Helene - Figure 8
Rush - Attention
Tekno - Duro
Spice - Needle Eye Pum Pum
DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell - Fresh
CamelPhat ft. A*M*E - Paradigm (Amtrac Temptation Mix)
Young Thug - Pacifier
Dexta Daps - 7Eleven
Selena Gomez - Good For You
Bobby Brackins ft. Zendaya & Jeremih - My Jam
Kalenna - Space and Time

can't believe i didn't vote for pacifier. what was i thinking?

Is it possible to get my ballot sent to me, poll gods?

my ballot

1. Stormzy - Know Me From
2. Colleen Green - TV
3. Beach Slang - Too Late To Die Young
4. Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
5. JME ft. Skepta, Shorty & Frisco - Don't @ Me
6. Carly Rae Jepsen - When I Needed You
7. Skepta - Shutdown
8. Stormzy - Shut Up
9. Destroyer - Times Square
10. The Mountain Goats - The Legend of Chavo Guerrero
11. Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
12. David Bowie - Blackstar
13. Miguel - Leaves
14. Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan
15. Years & Years - Shine
16. Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin
17. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
18. The 1975 – Love Me
19. Mumdance x Novelist - 1 Sec
20. Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?
21. Susanne Sundfør - Accelerate
22. CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace
23. Bill Baird - Ken Burns Says Jazz 3 Billion Times Actually 2.97 Bn In Under 3.5 Minutes
24. M.I.A. - Borders
25. Very Fresh - Clean Touch

my ballot 1-4 then unweighted

Skepta - Shutdown
Dizzee Rascal ft. Giggs - Nutcrackerz
Rae Sremmurd - This Could Be Us
Moony - Fire Man

Amber - Shake That Brass
Champion ft. Teresa - Red Light
DEV - Honey Dip
DJ S.K.T ft. Rae - Take Me Away
Etienne de Crecy ft. Madeline Follin -You (Todd Edwards Remix)
Gucci Mane ft. Young Thug,Khrome 1,Young A - Shotas & Rostas
Kehlani ft.Lexii Alijai - Jealous
Kero Kero Bonito - Picture This
Kid Ink ft. Trey Songz - About Mine
Lady Leshurr - Queen's Speech 4
Lucky Charmes ft. Wiley - Skank (Skank Out) (DJ Q Remix)
Mello Music Group ft. Open Mike Eagle and Exile - Dark Comedy Late Show
Red Velvet - Ice Cream Cake
Rich Homie Quan - Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)
Scales ft. Zack Knight - Green Eyes
Skeme - Red Carpet (Roll Out)
Tahiti - Phone Number
Tchami ft. AC Slater & Kaleem Taylor - Missing You
trc ft. princess nyah - butterflies (dj q remix)
Vince Staples ft. Snoh Aalegra - Jump Off The Roof
Young Thug - Mine

don't know who Voodle Nague is but I have no memory of voting in the tracks poll

all about Albums by Bands

Music

Mixed ballot. Bold = placed in Top 77.

Weighted:
Songhoy Blues – Soubour (107)
Kamasi Washington – Re Run Home (81)
Field Music – The Noisy Days Are Over (519, sole voter)
Jamie xx – Loud Places (ft Romy) (109)
Father John Misty – The Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apt. (578, sole voter)
Kendrick Lamar – King Kunta (3)
CHVRCHES – Clearest Blue (43)
Floating Points – Silhouettes (I, II & III) (74)
Holly Herndon – Morning Sun (272)
Insanlar – Kime Ne (Ricardo Villalobos Mix 1) (44)
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Sunday Candy (9)
Jenny Hval – That Battle Is Over (241)
CHVRCHES – Leave A Trace (Four Tet Remix) (25)
Thundercat – Them Changes (ft Flying Lotus & Kamasi Washington) (75)

Unweighted:
Simon Fisher Turner – Shishapangma (Sprinkles' Deeperama) (416)
Ashley Monroe – Bombshell (1022, sole voter)
Roisin Murphy – House of Glass (125)
Anneli Drecker – Circulating Light (1022, sole voter)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Necessary Evil (1022, sole voter)
Everything Everything – No Reptiles (1022, sole voter)
Julia Holter – Feel You (23)
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique – Love Is Free (615)
Ibeyi – Exhibit Diaz (1022, sole voter)
St Germain – Real Blues (710)
Mike Garry & Joe Duddell – St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson (1022, sole voter)

hoping the votes for various angel haze and abra trax here bode well for the albums poll

weighted

Dej Loaf ft. Big Sean - Back Up
Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
Future - Real Sisters
Drake - Back to Back
Miguel - Leaves
two-9 - did it
Post Malone - White Iverson
Lana Del Rey - Freak
Angel Haze - Moonrise Kingdom
Lil wayne - He's Dead
Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer
French Montana - body numb full of drugs
Future - News or Somethin
Juicy J ft. Wiz Khalifa - Whole Thang
Angel Haze - Bruises
sarah cracknel - hearts are for breaking
Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money
sarah cracknel ft. nicky wire - nothing left to talk about
Omarion ft. BJ the Kid - Game Over
Tate Kobang - Bank Rolls (Remix)
Freddie gibbs - white range
bobby raps & corbin - welcome to the hell zone
Little Boots - desire
Ellie Goulding - We can't move to this
Troy Ave - She Belong to the Game

Omarion ft. Chris Brown & Jhene Aiko - Post To Be
Olamide - Melo Melo
Kendrick Lamar - Alright
Got7 - Just Right
Lim Kim - Awoo
Sufjan Stevens- Should Have Known Better
Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
Big Bang - Loser
Olamide - Bobo
Braids - Miniskirt
grimes - butterfly
Miguel - Coffee
Ty Dolla $ign - Solid
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
OMI - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
Timaya ft. Destra - Sanko (Remix)
Fetty Wap ft. Monty - My Way
Arijit Singh ft. Aditi Singh Sharma - Sooraj Dooba Hain
DJ Kent - Don't Let Go
Grimes - Flesh without Blood
Patoranking ft. Wande Coal - My Woman, My Everything
Badshah ft. Aastha Gill - DJ Waley Babu
Drake - Hotline Bling
Post Malone - White Iverson
Young Thug ft. Birdman - Constantly Hating

Threw it together way too fast, and a lot of what I'd thought I'd vote for I ended up forgetting to nominate... I'm not good at guessing what's popular on here, thought for sure Post to Be would place, and that Bobo had a pretty good chance as well. Knew that Melo Melo had no chance.

you thought for sure a Chris Brown joint would place?

Hm... yeah I see you're point...

I wish Id voted for Post to Be...I kept hearing that 'groceries' line everywhere, with no idea that it was Jhene...

psssh rasheeda did the groceries line first and better

(i do like "post to be")

Tim F's ballot (hope it's ok to post it here):

Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
KING - The Greatest
The 1975 – Ugh!
Fetty Wap - Trap Queen
Kendrick Lamar - Alright
Hercules & Love Affair - Do You Feel The Same (Todd Terry Remix)
Demi Lovato – Cool for the Summer
Young Thug - Pacifier
Bicep - Celeste
J Hus - Dem Boy Paigon
Years & Years - King
Miguel - Coffee
Krystal Klear ft. Yasmin - One Night Only
Spice - Back Bend
Lauren Mason - Ghosts
Yemi Alade ft. Mugeez - Pose
Nicki Minaj ft. Beyonce - Feeling Myself
Red Velvet - Dumb Dumb
Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money
Vybz Kartel ft. Konshens, Spice & Tussan - Dancehall (Remix)
Skales - Je Kan Mo
Floating Points - Nuits Sonores
Lindstrøm & Grace Hall - Home Tonight
Ciara - Dance Like We're Making Love
Étienne de Crécy ft. Madeline Follin - You (Todd Edwards Remix)

Not that it wouldve affected a damn thing, but tracks I wish i'd thought about voting for:

Errorsmith & Mark Fell - Protogravity
Nick Hoppner - Come Closer

i limited myself to 20 tracks and did the same for albums; i certainly could've done more but I was wrapped up doing the collation of other lists and I didn't want to think too seriously on something that will shift a hundred times over the upcoming year as I listen to more from 2015... Lord knows, my revamped 2014 ballot would look totally different from what I sent in then!

TRACKS
D.R.A.M. - Cha Cha
3 Winan Brothers and The Clark Sisters - Dance (Louis Vega Dance Ritual Mix)
Fetty Wap - No Days Off
Future - Fuck Up Some Commas
LION BABE - Wonder Woman (Joel Compass Remix)
Miguel - Coffee
Missy Elliott ft. Pharrell Williams - WTF (Where They From)
Sevyn Streeter - 4th Street
iNSANLAR - Kime Ne
Erykah Badu and Andre 3000 - Hello
Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band - Landmarks (came out last year but impact for me in this one)
Busy Signal - #Text Message
YG - Twist My Fingaz
Rich Homie Quan - Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)
ilovememphis - Hit the Quan
Lim Kim - Awoo
Jack Ü ft. Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now
Jeremih - Pass Dat
Victor Manuelle - Que Suenen los Tambores
Jamie xx ft. Young Thug & Popcaan - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)

psst sean could you post my ballot too

thank u

speaking to the lex's album vs. singles concerns up thread: what constitutes a strong single in my mind is different than what constitutes a continuous album. For a single, I was condensed and overwhelming emotion that I can unleash in case of emergency; with an album i need sequencing and diversity and continuous answering of the "what's next?" question. I don't know that saying albums are more difficult/more inherently meaningful than singles is right... they're different goals. It's like comparing raising a child or starting a business; there's different levels of commitment and skills at play but they both take work and artistry.
Secondarily, there's so much music out there that if I allowed overlap of my album list to my singles, I would lose the ability to look at songs that really really impacted me (hit the quan or que suenen los tambores or kime ne or landmarks for examples) without context. I love getting blindsided by an isolated song and being caught up without any sense of background or oeuvre. It's not the ONLY way I can fully embrace a single song but it's certainly one of the more exhilarating.

this is all completely insane to me but fair enough

There is a simple solution to this:

1. list your top X songs that impacted you in isolation; BOOM there is your tracks ballot
2. list your top x albums that impacted you as discrete musical units; BOOM there is your albums ballot
3. if there's any overlap, shrug and send that shit in anyway

like, limiting myself to one slot per artist per ballot felt like an onerous sacrifice, limiting myself to one slot per artist in total would have been completely unthinkable

i don't need voting purity to appreciate individual songs more but then our listening habits are possibly very different

i just vote for my favourite tracks and my favourite albums. i dispute lex's claim that this approach produces similar results in the two polls any more than keeping the two separate would, at least assuming we have diverse tastes

it is possible to both listen to albums as albums and also pick out individual songs and listen to them as songs

dan otm basically

my ballot:

U.S. Girls - Sororal Feelings
Of Montreal - Empyrean Abbattoir
Oneohtrix Point Never - Sticky Drama
David Bowie - Blackstar
Death Grips - Why a Bitch Gotta Lie
Aphex Twin - diskhat1
Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
Destroyer - Times Square
Kendrick Lamar - Wesley’s Theory
Lana Del Rey - Terrance Loves You
Beck - Dreams
Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers

I always just kind of throw something together in 5 minutes and as usual looking back on my ballot realize that some weird choices were made. I stand by my top 4 though.

I had 4 Kendrick songs on my tracks ballot because I listened to them a ton independently of the album; I ranked them in the order of frequency that I listened to them. There was no way any of them were not going to be on my ballot; in fact, if I was doing it over I would probably put a few more Kendrick songs on it because I spent a lot of time popping into that album in random spots and grooving on isolated songs, almost as much as I did playing it front to back. (Aside from possibly the Marriages album, nothing else I listened to this past year came close to receiving the same number of spins.) Dumping those tracks in the name of showing off my breadth and diversity of taste would not be a true representation of the music I spent the last year digging and it always baffles me when I see people chime in during the tracks rollout with "oh I love this song, heard it so many times, played it constantly, I took it off my ballot so I could include this K-pop song I found out about last week"

I also stand by your top 4 xp

I almost don't listen to tracks outside of the context of an album so the point is kinda moot as far as I'm concerned, my favorite tracks are most likely on my favorite albums (also I didn't nominate any of my favorite tracks anyway, as I needed the noms for my albums, so I ended up voting for what others had nominated, which obviously is not going to be very representative of my own favs)

Bold = didn't place; * = I was the only voter

Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
Miguel - Coffee
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
Sevyn Streeter - 4th Street
Bjork - Stonemilker
*The Mountain Goats - Heel Turn 2
*Dar Williams - FM Radio
St. Vincent - Teenage Talk
Prince - Baltimore
Brandi Carlile - Murder in the City
Chvrches - The Clearest Blue
For Esme - Just Yet
Belle and Sebastian - Nobody's Empire
Richard Thompson - She Never Could Resist a Winding Road
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
*FIDLAR - 40oz on Repeat
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Jazmine Sullivan - Mascara
Sleater Kinney - A New Wave
*G.L.O.S.S. - Outcast Stomp
Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?
Jeremih ft. J Cole - Planes
*Beach Slang - Bad Art and Weirdo Ideas
*Kerbivore - Opportunity Costs
Dead Sara - Something Good

I just don't consume music as albums any more, but I like plenty of album tracks, my solution is just not to vote in the albums poll at all as I feel unqualified to have an overview of the year.

There is a simple solution to this:

1. list your top X songs that impacted you in isolation; BOOM there is your tracks ballot
2. list your top x albums that impacted you as discrete musical units; BOOM there is your albums ballot
3. if there's any overlap, shrug and send that shit in anyway

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, January 22, 2016 4:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this might get to the heart of it because that's not a simple solution! putting tracks in numerical order stops making sense to me after about three or four; thereafter i feel i'm comparing so many different things as to make it nonsensical. "big pop hit that sounded amazing at parties" vs "country ballad me and my bf both loved" vs "10 min dance instrumental that is compositionally incomparable to a pop song but that i loved for different reasons" vs "summer jam" vs "winter headphones song", it feels arbitrary

so excising album artists from my tracks ballot is not being dishonest or pretentious any more than any reason for cutting any other song is, more convenient and a way to make the exercise more fun/less predictable for myself

with that approach though lex you're effectively ruling out the artists who made the best albums from the tracks poll

...which feels counter-intuitive. for, let's say, dawn richard not to have representation in the tracks 77 feels plain wrong, in fact

I had no overlap w/ my singles and albums lists. Album tracks didn't really function as good singles for me this year

the only dawn tracks i considered voting for were "james dean" and "dance" bc they weren't on the album. my votes for all her amazing tracks were contained in my vote for her amazing album

tbh in terms of listening i usually end up listening in ep-length chunks? i mean listening to An Album All The Way Through is great and all if it merits it, but one's listening time doesn't always come in album-length sizes

how i do my ballot:

Whack the whole list into Excel
Go down the list, putting a cross in the right hand column of every song I know or recognise
Sort these into known/not known
Go through these and give each mark out of 9: 9 being undroppable, 1 being... well I don't bother with those.
I end up with a longest of tracks ranked between 9 and 6, which I then attempt to rank in order.
I think about it in these turns: Would I rather hear the track after this one on the list, or this one.
Bit of chopping and changing and I'm done.

That's probably more or less what everyone does.

also my albums was kind of boring and it seemed depressing to cut away their best parts

I like the Kendrick album and I voted for it, but King Kunta is the clear standout that I was putting on playlists for myself and others over the year.

There is a simple solution to this:

1. list your top X songs that impacted you in isolation; BOOM there is your tracks ballot
2. list your top x albums that impacted you as discrete musical units; BOOM there is your albums ballot
3. if there's any overlap, shrug and send that shit in anyway

― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, January 22, 2016 11:28 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this is what i did

i appreciate others' push for diversity in their lists to give support to the widest range of artists possible but i also want to be honest about what i actually listened to/dug the most, that said there were a few last minute discoveries i had from the nominations list that i snuck in and maybe in a week or two will regret but who cares really

(Xp to lex re: rasheeda , lol thanks, good looking out)

I basically just copied the list I'd posted on my blog a month previously, however much amendment it could have used. Weighted:

Björk - History of Touches
Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away
Girlpool - Chinatown
Young Guv - Kelly, I’m Not A Creep
Jazmine Sullivan - Let It Burn
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Sunday Candy
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Chromatics - Just Like You
Jenny Hval - Sabbath
Waxahatchee - La Loose
Hop Along - Powerful Man
Colleen Green - Wild One
Dawn Richard - Swim Free
Tinashe - Dreams Are Real
Beach House - PPP
Evans The Death - Expect Delays
Fetty Wap - Again
The Radio Dept. - This Repeated Sodomy
Miguel - Waves
Janet Jackson - Night

Field Music – The Noisy Days Are Over (519, sole voter)

Yeah! I'll be considering this one for 2016. Field Music great as ever.

lex / dan / lj: you're presenting it like it's a problem that I haven't solved. I'm perfectly happy with my methodology; it just doesn't jibe with the way you do it, which is fine.
important again as always imo to suggest that we maybe not take ourselves too seriously when discussing the intricacies of tabulating deep meaningful opinions from 130 or so music nerds. I mean _I'm_ listening of course, and the conversation is certainly worthwhile but suggesting there's a platonic "right way" to do it or to bemoan the lack of inclusion of an artist that we're all listening to already in our slambook is where you start to lose me.

Dumping those tracks in the name of showing off my breadth and diversity of taste would not be a true representation of the music I spent the last year digging and it always baffles me when I see people chime in during the tracks rollout with "oh I love this song, heard it so many times, played it constantly, I took it off my ballot so I could include this K-pop song I found out about last week"

do people have diverse lists to 'give support to the widest range of artists possible' (sorry to single out this quote, no better way to put it i think) or just because they just like diversity, seems like the latter?

each props up the other i suppose?

i guess you could think about it that way, maybe i'll give it a try