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

Dumblonde - Dreamsicle

oh yeah, this was one i was hoping would place, lol

Disappointed in the poor placing of the afropop tracks. I had expected more tracks to cloud over the Top 77, like a blessed rain about to pour down. Still hoping the niches will be un-niched some time soon.

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songs for which i was the only voter:
Calvin Harris ft. HAIM - Pray To God
Leggy - Peach
Old - Dude
John Grant ft. Tracey Thorn - Disappointing
Weaves - Tick
Big Quiet - Maura & Dana
Trudy - Behave
VARSITY - So Sad, So Sad
Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

a lot of them are super-twee

(not just talking about my own choices, but about afropop/afrobeats in general. same story as for dancehall and soca, I guess, as discussed elsewhere)

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shout out to whoever else voted for peaness!

p surprised i was the sole vote for real sisters :/

I hope to see at least one footwork track place in 2016. surprised no jlin but maybe she'll get into the albums poll. 'slim trak' by PayPal came up fairly high which was nice.

who else out there voted for julien baker aka J U _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E R aka julia hitler aka jute gybe (her)?

varsity was on my shortlist

i had literally no idea you were talking about julien baker, that's hilarious

i think she'll do well in the albums poll maybe?

hope so! something was just such a high spot for me (or low spot if you wanna talk about how emotionally devastating it is) that i thought it might get a little more shine.

Isolée - Favouride

this is such a great track - i think your whole ballot is really tight tbh

sad i missed the voting window for this :/

btw yay Moodles for voting "Stranger than Earth"; that song was interspersed throughout all of my Kendrick obsessing and also my kids do an incredibly cute freakout to it whenever the beat kicks in

Shout out to the other two voting for Zara Larsson Lush Life. Superior Swede in this setting.

Isolée - Favouride

this is such a great track - i think your whole ballot is really tight tbh

sad i missed the voting window for this :/

― -san (Lamp), Friday, January 22, 2016 2:28 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would've liked to see your ballot, lamp. best experience with favouride was playing it suuuuper late on halloween night and seeing a bunch of costumed friends high af vibing to it bathed in red light.

erykah badu - hotline bling (remix)
janelle monae & wondaland records - hell you talmbout
steve cobby & trudie dawn smith - we start over
simon peter - arc of lark
kendrick lamarr - alright
koosh - mouth full of gold teeth
isolee - favouride
pepe bradock - homo sandwichus
max skiba - shanghouse 12”
laksa - baded
fetty wap - 679
bryson tiller - dont
morgan geist - darkstar
nef the pharoah - big tymin'
vangeliss k - enigma (young marco remix)
rich homie quan - flex
i heartmemphis - i heart the quan
antenes - the track of the storm
fit siegel - carmine

order is kind of arbitrary/unconsidered since i just pulled this from a google doc. could probably get a full list of 25 if i thought more about it

My ballot technique this year was to vote for the song I hated the most because my god do most of you take this way too fucking seriously.

(hundreds of x-posts) thank u seandalai!

unweighted, bold didn't place

Beach House - Levitation
Dauwd - Jupiter George
DJ Koze - XTC
Domenique Dumont - L'Esprit de L'Escalier
Kelela - Rewind
Kero Kero Bonito - Picture This
Korallreven - Here In Iowa
LA Priest - Learning to Love
Lower Dens - I Am The Earth
Majical Cloudz - Downtown
Neon Indian- Slumlord
Petite Noir - MDR
Red Axes ft. Zidan - Hope
Rex The Dog - Sicko
Shamir - Call It Off
Sleater Kinney – A New Wave
Sophie - Vyzee
Suzanne Sundfør - Memorial
Tamaryn - Last
The 1975 – Love Me

BradNelson this is your ballot:

Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me
Miguel - Coffee
The 1975 – Ugh!
Shura - 2Shy
Janet Jackson - No Sleeep
Jeremih - Oui
Dumblonde - Dreamsicle
Heavy-K ft. Nokwazi - Sweetie
Krystal Klear ft. Yasmin - One Night Only
Tamia - Stuck With Me
Mikael Seifu - Brass
Fetty Wap - 679
Fit Siegel - Carmine
Eric Prydz - Opus (Four Tet Remix)
Dbn Nyts ft. Zinhle Ngidi & Trademark - Shumaya
Selena Gomez - Hands To Myself
Little Big Town - Girl Crush
Pitbull ft. Chris Brown - Fun
Frankey & Sandrino - Acamar
Róisín Murphy - House of Glass (Maurice Fulton Remix)
Years & Years - Shine
Lim Kim - Awoo
SKY-HI - Limo
Harry Dennis - No Matter What (DGL Mix)

yep that is definitely my ballot. thank you!

i voted for nothing but jute gyte tracks.

the zeitgyte

i didn't vote but here's a pathetic first draft. probably at least half of these would get knocked off had i heard more songs on the nom list.

adele - hello
creta kano - skyway motel
dauwd - jupiter george
earl sweatshirt - mantra
fetty wap - trap queen
kelela - rewind
mark barrott - bush society
mark barrott - saviours or savages?
roman fluegel - black towers
tamaryn - cranekiss
warm brew - bringing me home

BradNelson this is your ballot:

whats going on there? did someone vote for one of my nominations?

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― art baengels (monotony)
― puppy enforcer (cajunsunday),
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai)
― davey
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson)

^Voted for 1975.

http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aq2m1mY_700b.jpg

Are you saying I voted for the 1975? Because I've never heard the 1975.

I've been posting other people's ballots though.

When they ask me to.

i fucking love the 1975 moka, step down

in all seriousness what was the worst thing in the 77

(let's not do this)

in all seriousness what was the worst thing in the 77

(let's not do this)

― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago)

1975 vs. Bran Flowers

tame impala, not bc it's unbelievably awful but no one even owned up to voting for it

i fucking love the 1975 moka, step down

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson)

Your other votes are great so you are forgiven.

Seriously though for a minute people, I think what actually examining the individual ballots demonstrates is that all the tribalistic narc of some dude bs is unwarranted - people who voted for your most hated also voted for your fave, the stuff you can't fathom anyone in the world liking happily sits alongside the stuff that feels like it was created especially for you.

So maybe the answer is that your own private idiosyncratic rules for good and bad aren't really that important or even meaningful beyond yrself.

But in all seriousness 1975 is bad for your ears.

The 1975 are one of those bands where you might be initially repulsed beyond belief (I was) but if you actually try to engage with them, like even a little bit, you'll end up finding something nice to say about them, which is more than can be said about some bands. This is what is known as Tim F1nney Stockholm Syndrome tho so pinch of salt ;)

Obv it's a lot just that I like them but I also think the majority of haters here who think this is the worst band ever have a very confined notion of what the band is premised on the songs in this year's poll and maybe like "Girls" and "Sex" and "Chocolate", whereas if they listened to "Me" or "fallingforyou" or "Undo" or "Intro/Set 3" or "Haunt//Bed" or "Menswear" would be very surprised.

And if you get into the band through the latter sort of material it totally shapes and changes the way you perceive of a song like "Love Me".

Hey hey I never said they were the worst band ever, just the worst band in this poll. I can think of worst.

But I'm also baiting. I honestly don't mind if you like them.

First listen in the noms list, I dismissed the 1975. Then gr80 described them to me as like if the Jonas Brothers did drugs, lol, and I saw the video and vibed on that and thought hey why not throw them a vote.

I didn't think v hard about this poll.

Weighted, bold items placed in the top 77:

Roman Flügel - Black Towers
Shura - 2Shy
Tunde Olaniran - Namesake
Cam - Burning house - rarely expect my votes to place, but this was a disappointing no-show...
Jamie Woon - Sharpness
J Hus - Lean & Bop (Extended Mix)
Young Galaxy - Factory Flaws
Format:B - Chunky
Julien Baker - Something
Daphne & Celeste - You and I Alone
Julio Bashmore ft. Bixby - Let Me Be Your Weakness
Ariana Grande - One Last Time
Allie X - Never Enough
Kiss Daniel - Woju
Kelela - Rewind
Georgia - Heart Wrecking Animals
Hudson Mohawke & Jhene Aiko - Resistance
Krystal Klear ft. Yasmin - One Night Only
AFX - umil 25-01
School Of Seven Bells - Open Your Eyes
Fadda Fox - Ducking
Hayden James - Something About You (ODESZA Remix)
Demi Lovato – Cool for the Summer
Lockah - Heate Legend
µ-ziq - xt

I don't understand a world in which the 1975 is considered worse than Sufjan Stevens.

To quote E-40, "it's all bad"

I made made a preliminary list to serve as a time capsule of this year in my listening, then went through everything nominated by a half dozen ILMers with sympatico tastes, and sampled maybe 40% of the Spotify list. Guilty pleasure Fleur East, and a "new Grace Jones", V V Brown, slipped in this way (wish someone had nominated the album Glitch). Then its just prune till I'm pretty sure everything left will stand up to repeated listens, and still sparks pleasure when I hear it's opening.

I mentioned this in the voting thread, but V V Brown's "Shift" is p much a RnB/dance music masterpiece that I found out about from Alfred blogging about TSJ. Exactly the kind of otherwise-overlooked classic that I expect to discover in the ILX tracks poll when we're not succumbing to millenial schmindie-ism or doubling/tripling up on pet albums. But thats in me as much as anybody, least of all for forgetting to nominate it.

https://youtu.be/NTup_VZXuWY

^^^^ good track