ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

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Ballot: http://goo.gl/forms/Rtq48gEISQ

The procedure is simple: enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 25 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields below. Please copy each line directly from the nominations lists; do not number your ballot. You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:

(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 50 points, the second receives 48 points, and so on, until the 25th item receives 2 points.

(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 26 points.

(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 50 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 26 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 25 items will allocate a total of exactly 650 points).

Albums list: http://pastebin.com/haqdC3bh
Tracks list: http://pastebin.com/N0yHjMjV

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 15th, 2016.

Allez hop!

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Also, our good buddy forksclovetofu has graciously (and diligently!) maintained Spotify playlists for both nominated Albums and Tracks. Buy him a drink!

I'm not worried about repping for my #1 favorite album. It will get EOY love on ILM without a doubt, but I'm gonna do a bit of campaigning for my #2 because it's been criminally overlooked in 2015. Listen to OSHUN's Asase Yaa. It's not on Spotify (which is an additional roadblock), so stream or download it on DatPiff (http://www.datpiff.com/OSHUN-Asase-Yaa-mixtape.704680.html). It's soooo fucking brilliantly good that I almost can't believe it even exists.

I really gotta remember to get all up in the nominating process next year.

Anyway, ballot's off!

hi everyone, vote for ngaiire pls, thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvKkYrMd_vU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVM-TLkkNDE
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=19166

Let's keep this thread light on the embeds...campaigning is cool though!

i have a lot to campaign for and i desperately want to embed it all

desperately

I'd like a thread not for campaigning, but for everyone's favorite new discoveries from the Spotify playlists.

can't it be both

Speaking of which:

ILM's 2015 Best of the Year Track Nominations Spotify Playlist: 1,250+ tracks... missing about 250 or so nominated tracks, more or less an 83% hit rate which seems about the same for albums.
ILM'S 2015 Best of the Year Album Nominations Sampler Spotify Playlist: 2,000+ tracks.
ILM's 2015 Best of the Year Album Nominations Spotify Playlist: Complete albums, right around 10k tracks.

everyone's favorite new discoveries from the Spotify playlists.

My latest favorite discovery is Pantalon by Kornél Kovács.

sorry for the embeds, i have images/videos turned off so i'd forgotten how annoying that is

voted!

Let's do this

most nominated artists on the singles front (6 or more songs):

Ashley Monroe: 6
Dawn Richard: 6
Susanne Sundfør: 6
Grimes: 6
Miguel: 7
Drake both with and without Future: 9 (but only 5 as a solo artist)
Kendrick Lamar: 10
Future : 11 (15 if you count the duets with Drake)
Young Thug: 11
Carly Rae Jepsen: 12

hey did we not accept Aphex's Soundcloud data dump as an album? I voted for it that way in P&J.

Is it "AFx - Sc"? I don't know what that is.

If that is it, can it be a little clearer?
I submitted like so originally to the voice
Aphex Twin / User18081971- SoundCloud Data Dump ( https://soundcloud.com/user18081971 )

Yeah that's it:

Is it OK to nominate the Aphex Twin soundcloud dump as one album? I've organised it and listen to it as such on iTunes.

If so, would suggest:

AFx - Sc

as the descriptor, since that's how a number of the uploaded tracks were labelled by RDJ (albeit a minority)

1/30 (pending)

― Jeff W, Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:27 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

okeydoke

I've changed it to "AFx - Sc (aka Aphex Twin Soundcloud Dump)" on the nominations list

So basically that whole Carly Rae Jepsen album got nominated?

Shocking "Warm Blood" was not nominated being as it is one of the best songs on there.

Voted!

Would like to make it clear that my vote for D.R.A.M.'s "Cha Cha" is for the OG Koji Kondo version and not whatever the hell it became after it got chewed up by the market (and Drake, butthatsnoneofmybusinesskermit.gif)

(i am pleased that at least three people on this board will understand what all the above means and that's why i hang out here)

Just so it's clear, I can submit my tracks ballot tonight and classify my albums ballot as "Missing" and then submit that later when it's ready, right?

Damn, none of us nominated Meek Mill's "Monster"?

good point, tremendous song

Ok I voted

I've half-voted. I need to listen to some more of these albums, though, because I didn't bother nominating some of what was on my personal list due to the slim chance of any of them placing.

I goofed on one of the 20 songs I just submitted--thought it had been nominated as a song but it was as an album. And two of the 20 I just added myself. Obviously, feel free to ignore those three votes; it's not like they're going to matter.

Voted!

Would like to make it clear that my vote for D.R.A.M.'s "Cha Cha" is for the OG Koji Kondo version and not whatever the hell it became after it got chewed up by the market (and Drake, butthatsnoneofmybusinesskermit.gif)

by sample clearance

Now's probably a good time to remind people to save a copy of your ballots so 60 people don't all ask for them at once when the rollouts begin.

i'm still livid that that happened to "cha cha"

Damn, none of us nominated Meek Mill's "Monster"?

that and the Todd Terje mix of Jaga Jazzist were the most surprising omissions

Everybody listen to Turzi before compiling your albums ballot. Rad French shoegaze/kosmiche, with the first few tracks sounding like a krautrock Myrkur/Dead Can Dance:

http://turzi.bandcamp.com/album/c

the Physics album that I nominated is on Spotify but didn't make forks' playlist. you can listen to it here: https://ctatsu.bandcamp.com/album/only-forever

voted! several of mine are 2014 carryovers that i was unaware of or not particularly enamored by until this year, but i'm being true to my "year of impact" etc.

voting already is criminal

every day i find new stuff on the playlists that i want to add to my ballot

I intend to at least manually skip past every single track on the Spotify List.

gonna rep for a few things that are not on spotify to counter its monopoly over ilm's listening habits, and a reminder that there is so much good stuff that for whatever reason isn't on that platform

flava d is a garage/grime producer and associate of ppl like dj q; her debut album more love seemed a bit obvious at first in that it's basically garage refixes of (mostly) well-known r&b songs but it was sooooo listenable and after all garage refixes of r&b are still the best music ever regardless of how original they sound. i ended up listening to this a loooot over the summer. i see that she made it a free download on her bandcamp at the end of the year! i recommend it!

(fyi: t q d, nominated on the trax poll = royal-t, dj q and flava d. "day & night" is a fucking banger, both day mix and night mix)

couldn't figure out why sasha go hard's latest mixtape got so little love this year; maybe a sense that she'd missed her moment after taking time off to have a baby? but that feels like the reason it's her hardest, hungriest tape yet. "as long as i'm eating my daughter won't starve / she the main reason that i'm goin hard" she says it herself

dbn nyts' "shumaya" was one of the most joyous afrobeats bangers of the year, this was magnified by a peak ON A BOAT video

fatima yamaha's "what's a girl to do" was one of the most ubiquitous club tracks of the year, though it was originally released in 2004, and it definitely takes me back to a lot of the electrohouse being made around that time (esp ada's blondie but also feels perfectly right for now. "timeless", if that wasn't such a wanky adjective. i nominated the dj haus edit (not much of a change) as it was actually new in 2015 but the original, which is in fact on spotify, would certainly work in terms of year of impact. his migration-themed album imaginary lines is also excellent. if more of ilm went clubbing regularly "what's a girl to do" would prob be a dead cert for top 20.

miley cyrus's "1 sun" was the one keeper off that thing she did this year, earnest environmental electro-ballads aren't very common or usually very good but here we are, she sounds like this is the thing she most cares about in the world

pvc's "levitate". BASS SO HEAVY IT'S A PISSTAKE / BASS SO HEAVY MAKE THE RAVE SHAKE

lol how is rush's "attention" not even on youtube or soundcloud. one of (nigerian superproducer) young john's finest works imo, the way those fluttering synths spiral in on themselves halfway through!

(nb afrobeats comprised a massive part of my listening in 2015, endless amazing bangers and still the sense that i barely scratch the surface of it, if i continued i'd be here all day oh go on then you all need to hear sunkanmi's "singale", heavy-k's "givemeluv" (check them balearic guitars!) and dj kent's "don't let go" at least)

a few underrated things that are on the spotify playlists and are toooo gooooood to be overlooked

geko "baba" - afrobeats vibe via manchester kid of libyan heritage singing about the tribulations of interracial relationships in 2015 britain. indelible hook

honey cocaine's gift rap ep - sugarsweet x hardass rnbass by a cambodian-canadian female mc who calls herself that? so in my wheelhouse. "i'm feeling amazing / this is a rare occasion / young beautiful asian" <33333 "what kind of man got a heart as small as his dick?" <333333333 i am very attached to every song on the ep, i think they're all better than the actual big rnbass hits this year

janet jackson's album was mostly whatever for me (sadly) but "promise of you" is just spellbindingly good. it was a bonus track! they opted to put a truncated 58sec version of it on the actual album! i cannot fathom that logic.

thus ends my transmission from Avoiding Doing My Tax Return

Damn, none of us nominated Meek Mill's "Monster"?

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, January 3, 2016 3:27 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good point, tremendous song

― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Sunday, January 3, 2016 3:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i shortlisted this song in each of my three tranches of nominations and cut it every time. it is a v good song but it's not as if i'd have voted for it oh well. side-eye to everyone who chose to nominate 15 million young thug/future songs or every single kendrick lamar album track instead, i guess

first heard "what's a girl to do" in 2013 (?) so i can't bring myself to vote for it here but it is still so so wonderful

I got spotify working on a neighbours pc while i was looking after their cat, as far as I can tell none of my nominations are available, but you can recreate one or two of them if you just imagine yourself in a reverie

:D

first heard "what's a girl to do" in 2013 (?) so i can't bring myself to vote for it here but it is still so so wonderful

yeah i first heard it a while ago (2014 i think) and i'm normally p rigorous with "year of release" for my own ballots but it feels pretty great in this particular short-attention-span era that a song can slowly and gradually gain more and more fans over an -eleven year period- before hitting critical mass and exploding

if more of ilm went clubbing regularly "what's a girl to do" would prob be a dead cert for top 20.

Heh, I currently make most of my income as a DJ and go clubbing regularly besides and I've never heard it before. I don't really play music like that and rarely go to nights that play music like that tho. It feels so far removed from my clubbing context.

the song i wanna rep so hard for this year is krystal klear feat. yasmin, "one night only." i heard like five awesome kinda/sorta freestyle songs this year but this is the one imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIptDYUm7zo

oh damn i def meant to make that a link and didn't ugh. anyway long campaign list forcoming

- the heavy-k song lex mentioned is amazing and i'm probably voting for it too but my favorite production of his this year is "sweetie"; when those gentle post-disco guitars come in omfg

- i yelled about shura's "2shy" in the nominations thread as a really late discovery; the youtube comments compare it to a prince-written ballad which is the kind of stretch i'm super responsive to. vulnerability and phosphorescent synths that i'm here for forever, etc.

- another discovery from the nominations thread was mikael seifu's "brass" which is a pretty captivating vortex

- the tamia track that was mainly focused on in the rolling r&b thread was "sandwich and a soda," which is great, but i way prefer "stuck with me" as a single, just a perfect, shapeshifting ballad a la "i do take"

- the 1975's "ugh!" bc it's their scritti politti-est ode to surfaces so far

- a lot of k-pop worth voting for this year so i'm going for wonder girls flawless '80s pastiche "i feel you" but it could easily be lim kim's kinda delightfully fractured "awoo" or the gentle, absorbing swell of f(x)'s "4 walls"

Voted! Promoted a Dawn Richard song 5 places in the final seconds because I listened to it again thinking it might be disposable, but this had the opposite effect in fact

Voted!

tracks ballot sent, thank all the gods for the "mixed" ballot option

Voted!

I've added these to my local copy of the nominations:

Beauty Pill - Ann The Word

You're gonna hate me, but...you know there are two songs by this name on the album, right?

Ugh, been travelling and only just managed to get access to a computer - hurriedly throwing together something but I'm already an hour past the deadline. Fingers crossed ...

I've still got about 2 hours, right? *just woke up*

Until seandalai posts to say "STOP!" you can still vote.

I'm on it!

GO GO ILX

Well fuck, so not going to happen

Working on it now but let's be fair, it's not going to be catastrophic if I don't hit the deadline

Shut up and compile, you have plenty of time!

Voted! Heading out again & couldn't figure out how to order so did a eyes-closed top five then left the rest unweighted.

Albums done, tracks? Sure I think I like tracks probably

Voted. Albums were a breeze, tracks are the real hand-wringers, as always.

Done

Romeo Dunn

Mixed ballots are always the way to go for me!

did the thing

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Felt a bit silly putting 3 modern classical records at the top of my albums ballot, because they have a snowball's chance in hell making it to the top 77... Well, at least my tracks ballot was fairly popist.

I have 3 modern classical albums on my ballot, so mayb... yeah probably not.

Thanks for voting everyone, in the end I didn't need to worry about turnout. We got 146 albums ballots and 137 tracks ballots.

Woo! Great turnout.

Felt a bit silly putting 3 modern classical records at the top of my albums ballot, because they have a snowball's chance in hell making it to the top 77... Well, at least my tracks ballot was fairly popist.

― Tuomas, Saturday, January 16, 2016 1:04 PM (1 hour ago)

My top 3 albums this year will definitely all make it, but most years my favourites are things that don't have a hope. No point in voting against your heart. My top 2 tracks probably won't get in, nor will a lot of other stuff.

I woke up this morning with a sore head and the vague sense that I forgot to vote for sons of kemet and maybe also for kendrick(!) so it's fair to say that my ballot was not the most accurate representation of my listening year. If I hadn't been so busy lately I'd have dug in a bit more but tbh I don't know the names of a couple of the tracks I've loved the most this year, and there was an artist that according to spotify was in my top 3 most listened in 2015 and I literally didn't recognise the name at all, like I'd never heard of them

Always love the rollout in any case & loving listening to the nominations, thx forks

it's okay wins kendrick will win no matter what prob and I put in a vote for sons of kemet

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i forgot to vote can i still vote

Felt a bit silly putting 3 modern classical records at the top of my albums ballot, because they have a snowball's chance in hell making it to the top 77... Well, at least my tracks ballot was fairly popist.

I can see the motivation to vote strategically in a political election, even though it's usually not my preference. Why even consider voting strategically for a message board poll about music, though?

(Also, I'm eager to find out which modern classical records!)

How many tracks/albums per day are being rolled out?

I chose a weighted ballot as there wasnt anywhere near enough to fill a whole ballot

How many tracks/albums per day are being rolled out?

Better make it one per day for the sake of saer's blood pressure.

Why even consider voting strategically for a message board poll about music, though?

I can see why. You can give a lot of points to records you love that most likely won't place or give these points to records you like a lot that actually have a shot at making it to the final list (meaning more people are likely to listen to them).

just realized i left a lot of stuff off my albums ballot (dirty sprite 2, blahdahdah), ah well

full disclosure it's single digit weather here- feel like this album has too much

How many tracks/albums per day are being rolled out?

17 on Monday, 20 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Tracks next week & albums the filling week.

following*

let jordan vote

sorry, the wheels are already turning :(

let wins vote for sons of kemet

"let wins vote for sons of kemet" - cosign

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^ He's ready

sounds like wins was insufficiently KEMETed to voting for them

I voted but I forgot to nominate so my tracks ballot doesn't contain the three songs I actually listened to most this year :(

Thanks to everyone involved for running this, it is always a highlight.

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Oh, I forgot to vote. I could have given Dawn Richard and Jazmine Sullivan, and Mbongwana Star and Ashley Monroe and some others (C. Barnett, Royal Headache) extra votes (and the only votes for some southern soul and afropop)

What afropop would/might you have voted for?

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ILM's TOP 77 TRACKS of 2015