ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / VOTING THREAD

http://i.imgur.com/P4QgnAH.jpg

Ballot: http://goo.gl/forms/NslNEoxWlZUCjn7Q2

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 master list: http://pastebin.com/NaacanKt
Tracks master list: http://pastebin.com/seLnGhSz

Spotify albums: http://spoti.fi/2hqBCES
Spotify tracks: http://spoti.fi/2gHaKAm

Youtube albums: http://bit.ly/2h2nLrg
Youtube tracks: http://bit.ly/2hbblOi

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 20th, 2017.

Allez hop!

I've spotted a few doubles in the albums list:

Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
bent knee - say so
steve lehman - selebeyone

Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
Aurora Aksnes - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend

That's the only one that would throw off tabulation, I suspect. So y'all pick one and go with it.

In addition to the Spotify and YouTube lists, here's (I think everything?) else that was nominated that is NOT on those lists, with links so you can listen.

Singles:

Autechre - "Eastre"

https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/73326-autechre-elseq-3

Autechre - "Latentcall"
https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/73328-autechre-elseq-4

bodin & jacob - "Meena Gupta"
http://www.deejay.de/Bodin_%26_Jacob_Mahoney_Ep_TRAFFIC009_Vinyl__248426

Cavern of Anti-Matter - "Tardis Cymbals"
https://soundcloud.com/cavern-of-anti-matter/tardis-cymbals

Christian AB - "Oulton Road"
http://www.deejay.de/Rinaldo_Makaj_Josh_Tweek_John_Dimas_Christian_Ab_Giammarco_Orsini_To_The_Moon_Phase_I_ELM1005_Vinyl__225175

concretism - "Beneath the City Streets"

https://concretism-cis.bandcamp.com/album/beneath-the-city-streets

EDND - "Fields of Cabra"
https://soundcloud.com/labareda_label/ednd-fields-of-cabra

Fifth Harmony - "Big Bad Wolf"
https://soundcloud.com/727worldtour/big-bad-wolf-by-fifth-harmony

Freescha - "What in the Rad"

https://radcult.bandcamp.com/album/what-in-the-rad-bad-fuckin-times

High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees (album title on youtube playlist)
http://www.dragcity.com/products/here-come-the-rattling-trees

Hybrid Palms - "Pacific Image"

https://soundsofthedawn.bandcamp.com/album/pacific-image

Jute Gyte - "Funereal Like A Life In Wait"
https://soundcloud.com/blckhrzns/jute-gyte-funereal-like-a-life-in-wait

Lotic - "Formation (Election Anxiety/America Is Over Edit)

https://soundcloud.com/lotic/formation

Mesarthim - "Type III" 

https://mesarthim.bandcamp.com/album/type-iii-e-p

OPTO MYSTICS - "Jue Da"
https://soundcloud.com/bambamthe3rd/sets/opto-mystics-v-i-c-a-r-i

Orgullo Primitivo - "Copper Flavored Rendezvous"

http://placeholderforstuff.tumblr.com/post/155170793743/posting-this-for-a-couple-of-weeks-so-people-can

Papa M - "Walking on Coronado"

https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/papa-m-walking-on-coronado

Power Monster - "The Grid"

https://powermonster.bandcamp.com/releases

Risk Of Grounding - Twenty-Something
https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/risk-of-grounding-twenty-something

Scrap Brain - "BPD"

https://scrapbrainhc.bandcamp.com/track/bpd

Sea Nymphs - "Cut Yourself Kidding"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-sea-nymphs/id1177144334

The Silver Rider - "Charlie"

https://soundcloud.com/silverrider/a1-charlie

Supa Bwe - "No Napkins"
https://soundcloud.com/supabwe/fight-me-sunny-woodz-no-napkins

Elizabeth Veldon - "four painted benches at aubury boating pond with their backs to a blue hut"

https://elizabethveldon.bandcamp.com/track/four-painted-benches-at-aubury-boating-pond-with-their-backs-to-a-blue-hut-2

Albums: A to F

Rez Abbasi & Junction - Behind the Vibration
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-vibration

ABC - Lexicon of Love II (not available in US but added to spotify playlist for those of you non-murricans who can get it)
http://www.abcmartinfry.com/

Alla - #feedthedragon volume 3
https://soundcloud.com/feedthedragon/ftdvol3-11614

Ichiko Aoba - Mahoroboshiya
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VIJL-60179

Aphex Twin - Houston, TX 12.17.16 (full set added to the youtube playlist)
https://soundcloud.com/givigelashvili/sets/aphex-twin-houston-tx-121716

Jon Armstrong - Burnt Hibiscus
https://orendarecords.bandcamp.com/album/burnt-hibiscus

Autechre - elseq 2-5 (elseq 1 is on spotify)
https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/73330-autechre-elseq-15

Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Continuum
http://www.nikbaertsch.com/sound/?soundid=1619

Battle Trance - Blade of Love
https://battletrance.bandcamp.com/album/blade-of-love

Beaunoise - Pianoworks
https://beaunoise.bandcamp.com/album/pianoworks

Behold the Arctopus - Cognitive Emancipation
https://beholdthearctopus.bandcamp.com/album/cognitive-emancipation

Bent Knee - Say So
https://bentknee.bandcamp.com/album/say-so

Bergegas Mati - Pop Neraka
https://gerpfastkolektif.bandcamp.com/album/pop-neraka

Lea Bertucci - Axis/Atlas
https://clandestinecompositions.bandcamp.com/releases

Beyonce - Lemonade (I have most of the pertinent videos on YouTube, but not all)
http://www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/

Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Prince Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
http://www.dragcity.com/products/epic-jammers-and-fortunate-little-ditties

Olivia Block - Dissolution (sample on YouTube album playlist)
https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/dissolution

Blood Bears - Blood Bears
https://bloodbears.bandcamp.com/

Jakob Bro - Streams
http://player.ecmrecords.com/bro-2499

Bronze - Live in San Francisco
http://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/bronze-live-in-san-francisco

Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro - Alegria de Casa
http://anzicstore.com/album/alegria-da-casa

Joe Colley - No Way In
https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/no-way-in

Lourenço Crespo – Nove Canções
https://lourencocrespo.bandcamp.com/releases

Maxwell August Croy - Kaniza
https://psychictroublestapes.bandcamp.com/album/maxwell-august-croy-kaniza

Andrew Cyrille Quartet - Declaration of Musical Independence
http://player.ecmrecords.com/cyrille-2430

Kris Davis - Duopoly (several tracks on YouTube playlist)
https://krisdavis.bandcamp.com/releases

Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matthew Garrison - In Movement (two or three tracks on youtube)
https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1461051533

Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura - The Grand Celestial Purge
https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/album/the-grand-celestial-purge

Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux – Two Changes ("A Different River Once" on YouTube)
https://soundcloud.com/cvx/sets/two-changes

The Display Team - Shifts
https://thedisplayteam.bandcamp.com/album/shifts

Julius Eastman – Femenine
http://frozenreeds.com/?p=300

Eaves - Verloren
https://purpletapepedigree.bandcamp.com/album/verloren-ptp2001

Eternal Tapestry - Sleeping On A Dandelion
https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-on-a-dandelion

The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi
https://newatlantisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/espiritu-zombi

Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense - Moving Still
https://jonathanfinlayson.bandcamp.com/album/moving-still

Flaga - Book of Angels Vol . 27 (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8341

Flava D - FabricLive88 (youtube of Flava D at Fabric on the playlist tho')
https://www.fabriclondon.com/store/fabriclive-88.html

Albums: G to M

Gate - Saturday Night Fever (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://mie.limitedrun.com/products/565811-gate-saturday-night-fever

GLYPTOGLOSSIO - GLYPTOGL05510 (sample on YouTube album playlist)
https://glyptoglossio.bandcamp.com/releases

The Fred Hersch Trio - Sunday Night at Vanguard
https://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Night-Vanguard-Fred-Hersch/dp/B01GKQNODM

M. Geddas Gengras - Interior Architecture
https://intercoastalartists.bandcamp.com/album/interior-architecture

Howe Gelb - Future Standards
https://howegelbmusic.bandcamp.com/album/future-standards

Glass Hammer - Valkyrie
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/glasshammer13

Guayaba - Black Trash / White House
https://aguadeguayaba.bandcamp.com/album/black-trash-white-house

Guillermo Klein - Los Guacho V
http://sunnysidezone.com/album/los-guachos-v

Thomas P. Heckmann - Lost Tales Volume V
https://carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-tales-vol-v

Sarah Hennies - Gather and Release
https://sarahhennies.bandcamp.com/album/gather-release

Angela Hewitt - Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67613

High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees (album title on youtube playlist)
http://www.dragcity.com/products/here-come-the-rattling-trees

Michael Hurley - Bad Mr. Mike
http://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Michael_Hurley/release/Bad_Mr._Mike

Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith - Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
https://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1455090156

Keith Jarrett - A Multitude of Angels
https://www.amazon.com/Multitude-Angels-4-CD/dp/B01LZG46LB

Eyvind Kang + Tashi Dorji ‎– Mother Of All Saints (Puppet On A String)
https://tashidorji1.bandcamp.com/album/mother-of-all-saints-puppets-on-a-string-eyvind-kang-tashi-dorji

Karda Estra - Time & Stars
https://kardaestra.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-stars

Steve Lehman - Selebeyone
https://stevelehman.bandcamp.com/album/s-l-b-yone

Lenguas Largas - Abba Daddy
https://lenguaslargas.bandcamp.com/album/abba-daddy

LIZZ - BUCUR #003
https://www.mixcloud.com/algo_rhythm/bucur-003-lizz/

Will Long and DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
https://boomkat.com/products/purple-blue-long-trax-ep-1

Sarah Louise - VDSQ Acoustic Series 12
https://sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/album/vdsq-acoustic-series-volume-12

Male Gaze - King Leer
http://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/male-gaze-king-leer

Map 71 - Sado - Technical - Exercise (samples on YouTube album playlist)
https://map71.bandcamp.com/

Joe McPhee - Flowers
https://cipsela.bandcamp.com/album/flowers

Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - 25.7.12
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/joe-mcphee-chris-corsano-25712

Morgan & Dilloway - Live In A Basement To No One
https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-basement-to-no-one

Wolfgang Muthspiel - Rising Grace (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://player.ecmrecords.com/muthspiel-2515/home

Albums: N to Z

​Newagehillbilly - These Are Not The Final Days
https://newagehillbilly.bandcamp.com/releases

Nurse with Wound - Dark Fat
https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/dark-fat

Washington Phillips - Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams
http://www.dust-digital.com/washington-phillips/

Psychemagik Presents Ritual Chants (about 1/2 on YouTube)
http://www.eskimorecordings.com/newsdetail.php?idn=4867

Pulse Emitter - Through the Portal
https://pulseemitter.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-portal

Quttinirpaaq - Dead September
https://quttinirpaaq.bandcamp.com/album/dead-september

Rosali - Out of Love
https://rosali.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-love

Vanessa Rossetto - Adult Contemporary (samples on YouTube album playlist)
https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/adult-contemporary-c-40-nrr30

Vanessa Rossetto & Matthew Revert - Earnest Rubbish (samples on YouTube album playlist)
http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=21901

Sao Paulo Underground - Cantos Invisiveis (about half is on the youtube playlist)
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cantos-invisiveis

The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land
https://abc-mary.myshopify.com/products/the-sea-nymphs-on-the-dry-land-cd

Seiko Oomori - Tokyo Black Hole
http://oomoriseiko.info/

Sendelica - The Cromlech Chronicles
https://sendelica.bandcamp.com/album/the-cromlech-chronicles

Michael C. Sharp - Exagmination
https://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/exagmination

Michael C. Sharp - Living Delights
https://michaelcsharp.bandcamp.com/album/living-delights

Skyshaker - The Brogue Wars
https://soundcloud.com/non-records-1/skyshaker-the-brogue-wars

Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks (sample added to YouTube album playlist)
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/americas-national-parks

Tyshawn Sorey - The Inner Spectrum of Variables
https://tyshawn-sorey.bandcamp.com/album/the-inner-spectrum-of-variables

Space Camp 1991 - Space Camp 1991
https://aloecityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/space-camp-1991

Spain - Carolina
http://www.spaintheband.com/discography?id=11089

Spectrum Control - Hunters at Cyber Dawn
http://shop.fieldhymns.com/album/hunters-at-cyber-dawn

Staraya Derevnya - Kadita Sessions
https://weakiediscs.bandcamp.com/album/kadita-sessions

Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers
http://www.castlefacerecords.com/products/sunwatchers-sunwatchers

Thumbscrew - Convallaria
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/convallaria

Tommy Awards - Sessions II
https://soundcloud.com/origin-peoples/tommy-awards-side-a

Tropa Macaca – Vida
https://soundcloud.com/the-trilogy-tapes/sets/tropa-macaca-vida

V/A - Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae (some tracks added to YouTube)
https://efficientspace.bandcamp.com/album/sky-girl-compiled-by-julien-dechery-and-dj-sundae

V/A - Synth Love Affair vol. 1
https://future80s.bandcamp.com/album/synth-love-affair-vol-1

Mike Wexler - Syntropy
https://soundcloud.com/three-four-records/sets/mike-wexler-syntropy

Lucinda Williams - Ghosts of Highway 20
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Highway-20-Lucinda-Williams/dp/B018KAOVEW

Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family - Beginning of a Memory
https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Memory-Wilsons-Happy-Family/dp/B01DO5WOFQ

Zalys - Fragments of Live (title track on youtube playlist)
https://zalys.bandcamp.com/album/fragments-of-life

Zomes - Networks 3: Thresholds
https://soundcloud.com/zomes/sets/networks-3-thresholds

wanna take this opportunity to rep for the Sarah Louise album linked above, it's not on Spotify but u can stream it all on Bandcamp and it is one of my favorite solo guitar records of the year, and exceptionally strong and distinctive and fully formed for what I think is a debut

Just some quick metrics on wrapping up this king hell OCD project:

Spotify singles playlist is 1206 songs and 90 1/2 hours long; YouTube singles playlist is 103 songs; 21 loose singles available elsewhere.

Spotify album playlist is 9863 songs and 741+ hours long; YouTube album playlist is 474 songs; another 98 or so albums available elsewhere.

It's a brave new world.

And yes, we should use this thread for recommendation, stanning and general conversation!

Can this also be the thread where I admit that I forgot to nominate some of my favourite albums? I'm gutted that I had lots of nominations left and still forgot to nominate Corrine Bailey Rae. Same goes for the All Saints album.

I only ended up using 13 nominations myself, and I'm one of the runners.

I'm 100% tempted to vote for Quttinirpaaq again >:{D

there's a lot of stuff i want to recommend but i guess i should start with my favorite k-pop song of the year, "galaxy" by ladies' code https://youtu.be/hcgT1eq3CLM

Wait why is Wet - You're the Best and The Internet - Girl in the noms? These are mid 2015 and I loved them but I think I voted for that last year.

Also I thought I saw The Avalanches - I wish I was a folkstar in the noms and apparently it's not there... a shame I would have nommed it completely oversaw that one... best song in the album imho. Will have to pick another one.

I think this might be the third (fourth?) year in a row I see Shura - Touch on the noms. We keep trying to make it happen and it never gets anywhere... I think I put it in my top 3 last year... going for What's It Gonna Be? this year... maybe it does better.

i nominated "girl" because i first heard it in (spring) 2016 when it had a brief/modest run on r&b radio.

"year of impact" etc

Ah! I would have voted for it but it was hard enough as it is.... had to narrow down from 75 songs.

Ulysses, your list of tracks not in Spotify or Youtube doesn't include Thomas P. Heckmann's "Astraphobia", which I nominated... So here's a link to it:

https://thomaspheckmann.bandcamp.com/track/astraphobia

The tracks list also includes Nao's "Bad Blood", which I nominated for the 2015 poll... But I think that's okay according to the rules, cos it didn't place then? And it was included on Nao's album, which came out in 2016.

Also, Aphex Twin's "Houston, TX 12.17.16" is still included in the albums list, even though it was determined in the nomination thread that it's a 12-inch single.

it's in the tracks list as 'Aphex Twin - no stillson 6 cirk mix2'

Can this also be the thread where I admit that I forgot to nominate some of my favourite albums? I'm gutted that I had lots of nominations left and still forgot to nominate Corrine Bailey Rae. Same goes for the All Saints album.

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 4:13 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm amazed this album didn't get nommmed, thought it was an ilm favourite and assumed it was a lock. Should have checked as I'd have thrown it in too

wanna take this opportunity to rep for the Sarah Louise album linked above, it's not on Spotify but u can stream it all on Bandcamp and it is one of my favorite solo guitar records of the year, and exceptionally strong and distinctive and fully formed for what I think is a debut

it is a lovely one indeed

Acts with four or more tracks nominated fwiw:

12
Young Thug

10
Rihanna

8
A Tribe Called Quest
Kanye West

7
Frank Ocean
Rae Sremmurd

6
The 1975
The Avalanches
Britney Spears
Chance The Rapper
Jute Gyte
Mitski

5
Alkaline
ANOHNI
Beyoncé
Drake
Shura

4
Chairlift
Crying
Dawn Richard
Drive-By Truckers
Esperanza Spalding
K. Michelle
Katie Gately
Kero Kero Bonito
Kevin Gates
Miranda Lambert
Popcaan
Radiohead
Schoolboy Q
Underworld
White Lung

YG on 4 too

re: all saints
kinda felt like 'one strike' as a track vote > album by far for me

Also, Aphex Twin's "Houston, TX 12.17.16" is still included in the albums list, even though it was determined in the nomination thread that it's a 12-inch single.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:35 A

i nominated one of the tracks from this for the tracks poll, but by the tracks individual name

I didn't want the other track to be nominated only this one.

So y'all pick one and go with it.
I vote the former, i.e. just Aurora - but is it not possible to edit the list now?

I uploaded the txt files as an anonymous user, so I can't update them afaik. And if I upload a new one, the new link would be buried down in the middle of this thread anyway and nobody would ever click on it.

I'm sure moderators can change the link in the opening post if you ask them?

Fuuuuuuuuuuck I forgot to nominate the Rattle album fuck fuck fuck.

JF can you get the Pastebin links at the top of the thread changed to my ones from the voting form? I can update those.

These should work:

TRACK NOMINATIONS
On Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/seLnGhSz
On Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-iNq5d1fRVm_DN8Jcc_qaCf62n9oKc6knaDsJxZgJxk/edit?usp=sharing

ALBUM NOMINATIONS
On Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/NaacanKt
On Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DQnnvLAIbO6p1-tHSS07XlDLC-Vt-YO_cgq97Ux2yU0/edit?usp=sharing

(and they're up to date as of this morning)

I'm amazed this album didn't get nommmed, thought it was an ilm favourite and assumed it was a lock. Should have checked as I'd have thrown it in too

― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, January 4, 2017 8:41 AM (five hours ago)

Yeah, I was putting my album list together from the final list and just assumed it had been nominated. Two of the KING related songs were picked (one of them by me!) but the album was sadly overlooked. I would have definitely given it some votes. It's a lovely record.

there's going to be a separate campaigning thread right

??? what would we do here then?

just checking - is this the campaigning thread then

yes

oh another k-pop thing i'll rep for is my preferred shimmering reggae jam from this summer https://youtu.be/PYGODWJgR-c-

Unless I missed it, I didn't see any mention of the brilliant album by Cellars anywhere. The lead single, Nighttime Girl could well be my favourite song of the year. It's pure earworm and the harmonies on the wordless chorus are everything I love about pop music. https://youtu.be/yPCCioS75jY

oranssi pazuzu - vasemman käden hierarkia. the most kickass 17 minutes of music that one of music's most kickass years had to offer. LIYL psych, metal, doom, prog, space, being overwhelmed, terrifying vocal harmonies, riffs, drones, ambition, execution, consummation in fire

spotify link

Bombino - Timtar
A new discovery for the year. Psychedelic Tuareg goodness. Not dissimilar from Tinariwen, but with a fat, almost reggae-ish lope. Absolutely fantastic

Formerly of Calle 13: iLe - Rescatarme. Great singing and sometimes very good songwriting, but I pretty much give up.

Spotted another double in the tracks list:

Brita - Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Britta Phillips - Wrap Your Arms Around Me

Double Britney too ('Slumber Party' twice) which means I was wrong upthread and she only has a mere 5 tracks (yet somehow none of them are 'Clumsy' or 'Hard To Forget Ya' dam, best from her since 'Blackout' for sure)

voted, but god i wish i'd got round to making some tracks noms

Any chance there will be an extension on this?

There's usually a soft extension that runs until seandalai wakes up Saturday.

*sniggers*

yeah there's a good eight hours in it still

K thx JF. That's all I need.

man, you can do some dramatic things to your ballot if you really listen to the music

mostly involving katie dey

Voted!

Voted!

Voted!

Voted!

The left-hand hierarchy is enjoined!

The remix is nominated, I voted for that. But his album was great, really sorta jarring and captivating sound-design. Almost harsh and beautiful at the same time, ultra close-up.

― MikoMcha, Friday, January 20, 2017 10:59 AM

Oops. Well, my tracks ballots here have not exactly been as well thought out as the album ballots. Blarggh Hope it places high

well, i've been pretty out of things here lately, so i'm glad i happened to look tonight and saw that the deadline was like right now and threw together a ballot. of course, i didn't participate in nominations, so i had to hunt through my top 40 tracks/albums to get enough to fill out the ballot, but i guess that just means i voted for some things other people voted for. glad i stopped by tonight, would've hated to break my streak of voting every year!

a little late because of a work crisis and a wine situation but I've submitted a ballot if it's not too late to consider

Boxedjoy indeed.

Ok we're closing up now

:(

Got mine in last night after midnight, hope it counts. (If not, no problem)

Impromptu stay over last night so didnt get my vote in lol. If Yodok III falls one vote short of winning the albums poll, thats on me.

Aww man I want to see Lamp's ballots

me too :(

i want to see his hot takes on what places

speaking of which, we begin on monday right

gr80's doing tracks this year, but that's my understanding.

Impromptu stay over last night so didnt get my vote in lol. If Yodok III falls one vote short of winning the albums poll, thats on me.

damn I missed that one in the nominations list... might have voted for it

lol fuck I completely forgot to vote despite my earlier campaigning :/

these neverending rollouts mess with my sense of time

(blaming myself, purely)

How many ballots did you get?

144

fewer than previous years but not by much (record was 163)

last year had more because of the lol gaz coombes voters?

can't be ruled out

Sorry to be a humourless twat, but can someone please walk me through the Gaz Coombes joke? I've been vaguely puzzled at it for a year or so. Is it just "lolz indie music"?

"joke"?

I never understood it either.

No joke at all.

Noodle Vague was just a very big fan of Supergrass and he is the cousin of the singer - Gaz Coombes.

Sorry to be a humourless twat, but can someone please walk me through the Gaz Coombes joke? I've been vaguely puzzled at it for a year or so. Is it just "lolz indie music"?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:48 PM

Basically, yes.

"gaz coombes" is a funny name.

what is this year's funny thing then

thought it was Jute Gyte?

j/k

The 1975

never mentioned it but i voted as well!

Results rollout starts today, right?

yep today gr8080 time

Cool!

ILM's Top 777 Tracks of 2016

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p089rfmk

James Acaster tries to convince comedians that 2016 is the greatest year for music, ever.

hard to convince anyone that the year bowie, prince, and leonard cohen died is the best year for music ever, no matter how many great albums came out.