ILX 2007 ALBUMS & TRAX POLL ::::::::::::::::nominations due by 01/01/08:::::::::::::::::

Off the top of my head, some of my noms are:

Miko Miko— 666 EP
Von Sudenfed— Tromatic Reflexxions
Black Strobe— Burn Your Own Church
Pissed Jeans—Hope For Men
The Bad Trips— s/t
Home Blitz— s/t
Working for a Nuclear Free City— Businessmen and Ghosts
MIA— Kala
Rhianna— Good Girl Gone Bad
v/a— Night Drive
A Place To Bury Strangers— s/t
Goon Moon— Licker's Last Leg
Japanther— Skuffed up my Huffy
No Age— Weirdo Rippers
Wooden Shjips— s/t
Om— Pilgrimage
Tuxedomoon— Vapours
Robert Wyatt— Comicopera
Six Organs of Admittance— Shelter from the Ash
Matthew Dear— Asa Breed
v/a— Johnny Greenwood is the Controller
Glass Candy— After Dark
Chromatics— In Shining Violence

Then the High On Fire, Pelican, Times New Viking and Percee P albums that I can't remember the names of off the top of my head.

Oh, yeah, only 15. Sorry about that.

Pissed Jeans—Hope For Men
The Bad Trips— s/t
Goon Moon— Licker's Last Leg
Working for a Nuclear Free City— Businessmen and Ghosts
MIA— Kala
Rhianna— Good Girl Gone Bad
No Age— Weirdo Rippers
Wooden Shjips— s/t
Om— Pilgrimage
Robert Wyatt— Comicopera
Six Organs of Admittance— Shelter from the Ash
Matthew Dear— Asa Breed
High On Fire— Death is this Communion
Studio— West Coast (does this count? I'm not sure...)
Pelican— City of Echoes

angels of light, we are him
om, pilgrimage
original silence, first original silence
fennesz sakamoto, cendre
shellac, excellent italian greyhound
panda bear, person pitch
merzbow + carlos giffoni, synth destruction

i find myself struggling to even gather up the 2007 releases I bought

I forgot to mention this before, but please label your noms as "albums" and/or "tracks"...I'll definitely mess it up if you don't.

reminder of 2007 album releases:

Top 1000 Albums of 2007 - Rate Your Music

howling hex - xi
blues control - puff
blues control - s/t
psychedelic horseshit - magic flowers droned
times new viking - presents the paisley reich
king khan and BBQ show - whats for dinner?
mark sultan - the sultanic verses
demons claws - satan's little pet pig
eric copeland - hermaphrodite
dinosaur jr - beyond
group inerane
group doueh
lipa kodi ya city council
sapat - mortise and tenon
jay reatard - night of broken glass EP

Albums

Future of the Left - Curses
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Baroness - Red Album
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...
1900s - Cold & Kind
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Ted Leo - Living With the Living
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
Parts and Labor - Mapmaker
Low - Drums and Guns
Iron & Wine - The Shepard's Dog
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works

angels of light, we are him
om, pilgrimage
original silence, first original silence
fennesz sakamoto, cendre
shellac, excellent italian greyhound
panda bear, person pitch
merzbow + carlos giffoni, synth destruction

sorry, all these are albums.

Albums:

Gogol Bordello, Super Taranta
Robert Plant & Alison Kraus, Raising Sand
Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Balkan Beat Box, Nu Med
Kanye West, Graduation
Britney Spears, Blackout
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible

album nominations:

Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe
The Horrors - Strange House
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - s/t
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Field Music - Tones of Town
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
The Hives - The Black And White Album
The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs

Hmmm. The earlier I submit this, the less reading I have to do to see if something has already been nominated...

Albums (This list goes to 11):
Aly + AJ - Insomniatic
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
Against Me! - New Wave
The Noisettes - What's the Time, Mr Wolf?
OST - Grey Gardens
OST - Spring Awakening
Taylor Swift - S|T
Paula Cole - Courage
Britney Spears - Blackout
Dashboard Confessional - The Shade of Poison Trees
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere In the Between

Singles to come!

So...after this thread, there'll be a list of nominations from which to vote? It's not just going to be an easily sabotaged poll thread, is it?

next: nominations list then ballots sent via a special email not posted to thread ... therefore NO sabotage

Tracks:
Neil Young: Ordinary People
Jason Isbell: Dress Blues
Les Savy Fav: The Equestrian
The Moving Oos: Romancer
The Good The Bad and The Queen: The Good The Bad and The Queen
Bruce Springsteen: Long Walk Home
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Please Read The Letter
Of Montreal: Voltaic Crusher/Undrum To Muted Da

Albums
Mendoza Line: 30 Year Low
Jason Isbell: Sirens Of The Ditch
The Apples In Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder
LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
The National: Boxer
Wussy: Left For Dead
Bruce Springsteen: Magic

Mine were all albums.

yeah mine too!

12 Albums

Wu-Tang Clan, 8 Diagrams
Lucky Soul, The Great Unwanted
Eluvium, Copia
Phosphorescent, Pride
Prince, Planet Earth
Joe Ely, Silver City
Sleeping States, There the Open Spaces
Jason Anderson, Tonight
Tullycraft, Every Scene Needs a Center
Vic Chesnutt, North Star Deserter
Kelly Willis, Translated From Love
The Caribbean, Populations

3 tracks
Prince, "The One You Wanna C"
Jens Lekman, "The Opposite of Hallelujah"
Wu-Tang Clan, "Sunlight"

ALBUMS (11):
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Apparat - Walls
Eluvium - Copia
Low - Drums and Guns
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera

and uh

TRACKS (4):
Freeway - "Walk Wit Me" (feat Busta Rhymes and Jadakiss)
UGK - "Int'l Players Anthem" (feat Outkast)
Burial - "Archangel"
Grinderman - "No Pussy Blues"

I'm gonna wait as late as possible to see how many albums I really want to nominate, and hopefully use most of my nominations on tracks, because the way things are going so far, the tracks nominees list is going to be fucking paltry.

as alex said, please dont make this a poll.

ciderpress, just to clarify once an album has been nominated in a thread, it's taken - therefore you need to select other albums. Many of your selections have already been nominated.

Singles (More than 15, but I'm Stealing Other People's Slots Who Didn't Use Them):

Fall Out Boy - This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race
Rihanna - Umbrella
Lil' Mama - Lipgloss
Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
R. Kelly - I'm a Flirt
Britney Spears - Piece of Me
Christine Ebersole - Revolutionary Costume of the Day
My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
DJ Khalid - We Takin' Over
Mark Ronson - Stop Me
Rihanna - Shut Up and Drive
Streetlight Manifesto - Down, Down, Down To Mephisto's Cafe
Mickey Avalon - Jane Fonda
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
The National - Fake Empire
Feist - 1,2,3,4
Natasha Bedingfield - Babies!
The Stooges - Trollin'

classic and cheeky ? Vs a maverick dud guidelines breaker ? re: "I'm Stealing Other People's Slots Who Didn't Use Them"

Albums:

Melchior Productions Ltd.: No Disco Future
Efdemin: Efdemin
Onur Ozer: Kasmir
Donnacha Costello: Colorseries
Grand Cru 2007: Various Artists
Agnes: Dumbles Debuts
Kathy Diamond: Miss Diamond to You

Tracks:

Jurgen Paape: "Fruity Loops #2"
Nightcats: "Inside"
Kelley Polar: "Chrysanthemum"
Lawrence: "Pond"
Dusty Kid: "Kore"
Motiivi: Tuntematon: "I Don't Feel Good (When You're Not Around)"
Mathew Jonson: "Stop"
Tracey Thorn: "It's All True"

albums :

flykkiller - experiments in violent light
soulsavers - its not how far you fall, its how you land
prince fatty - survival of the fattest
girls aloud - tangled up
kylie - x
justice - justice
the go! team - proof of youth
kid acne - romance aint dead
unkle - war stories
pole - steingarten
the polyphonic spree - the fragile army
shape of broad minds- craft of the lost art
map of africa - map of africa
micronauts - damaging consent
qotsa - era vulgaris

whoa, 15 albums and/or tracks! You're welcome to plead the cases for the ones you lop off your list though.

haha - just add eight of Mordechai's tracks to my total (7 albums, 8 tracks). BTW, I already nominated the Britney album, dude.

xp to Mordechai.

I will be doing my nomination selections late December.

so psyched!

xp to JN$OT:

Yay! I can fill the Britney spot with a new album then:

Joni Mitchell - Shine

you can nominate up to 15 albums AND/OR 15 tracks

Fixed.

Tell me ILX isn't actually making me submit less choices than I did to J+P and the poll formerly known as Jackin' Pop.

re: Tell me ILX isn't actually making me submit less choices...

Solution: listen to some more albums

I adjusted it based on the participation in last year's poll...too many choices with too few voters spreads things too thin.

I participated last year. So lemmi have some more slots.

Ten Albums:

Rumskib - Rumskib
Burial - Untrue
False - 2007
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
Klute - The Emperor's New Clothes
Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime

(I assume there's no point in listing things that have already been mentioned.)

yeah are you counting nominations as votes or are you gonna make another voting thread after this?

There's another voting thread after the nomination process. You're nomming things to be voted upon.

re: yeah are you counting nominations as votes or are you gonna make another voting thread after this?

this is just the initial nominations process not actual voting. That happens in the next stage in the new year.

I'd just like to nom one:

Voice of the Seven Woods - s/t (Twisted Nerve)

the others will probably get nommed anyway, so that's all.

re: (I assume there's no point in listing things that have already been mentioned.)

absolutely correct ! once nominated - it's in.

OM NOM NOM NOM

re: I adjusted it based on the participation in last year's poll...too many choices with too few voters spreads things too thin.

Disagree there were albums that were begging to be included last year, and i made the case for a wild card sweep-up at the end. Which sadly wasn't implemented, some late stragglers said they would have voted for those albums.

xpost

Now until 2008: nominations. Every album and track that receives a single nomination is put on a list, and when voting time comes around, only items on the list are eligible to be voted for. This isn't the actual voting, but just a way of creating a common pool of candidates for the sake of having a decent poll that, like I was saying above, isn't spread too thin.

An album or song only needs one nomination to be placed on the ballot. Obviously, if something has been nominated already there's no point in nominating it again.

First couple weeks of Jan: voting. I'll compile a list of all eligible nominees, post it in the voting thread, and then have everyone email me directly with their votes. I'll post detailed info about the voting process when the time comes.

Thanks for doing this, seems like a lot of work to collect nominees and votes.

er ... nominations and votes

There are always going to be albums and tracks that miss getting a nomination, and people who pop up in the end who manage to miss the thread (even though it was bumped consistently for two weeks)...but based on the work I did adding up all the votes, I thought scaling things down a bit would make the poll more effective overall. Perhaps since this poll is a bit more timely than the last, there will be more nominees and voters, and the issue of having obvious candidates not included will be lessened this time around.

Okay, I think I omitted a ton of stuff. I'll post an updated, hopefully complete draft in an hour or so. Meanwhile, you all can still point out any misspellings or non-2007 tracks if you see any.

Musically, the list should have the regular version of Feist "1,2,3,4" too.

Actually, I was right to not include it on the short list but wrong when I didn't post it earlier on Mordechai's list of tracks that didn't make the cut. I will add it to the final list though since it was my mistake.

I'm not sure how Amy Winehouse's Back To Black and Lily Allen's Alright Still count as 2007 albums. I would vote for them if this was a 2006 poll.

Jarvis, Lily and Amy are all 2006 releases in my mind but all had 2007 US releases - so let the Americans vote for them. Robyn's album was released way back in 2005 and it still counts.

What I'm confused about is "Justice - Justice"

yeah late-as-hell American releases means some albums get to take up precious list slots over and over! there's too much at stake for these shenanigans to continue. i shall vote for Robyn again not out of hypocrisy but rather to put these iniquities into stark relief.

now somebody say 'godspeed'.

Justice - Cross
Justice - Justice

Surely these are the same album? (I.e the untitled one with a big cross on the cover.)

Danzig, what's the confusion about the Justice album?

Oh yeah, the Justice album is just one album, sometimes referred to as "Cross", "Justice", "self-titled", and most accurately as "†"

bloody hell, though, musically: enormous respect. this is some task you've set yerself.

he did it last year iirc. give it up.

give it up for him, I mean.

I thought musically was a she.

oh sorry

somehow i totally missed this whole thing last year. mind, i can't remember what i liked in 2006 anyway, so perhaps it doesn't matter and i'd have had nothing to bring to the table anyway.

Shit I missed this. Anyway, FWIW here's what I would have submitted (unless it's not too late...) -

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Future of the Left - Curses
4. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
5. Battles - Mirrored
6. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
7. !!! - Myth Takes
8. No Age - Weirdo Rippers
9. Burial - Untrue
10. Apparat - Walls
11. M.I.A. - Kala
12. Justice - Cross
13. Chrome Hoof - Pre-Emptive False Rapture
14. Digitalism - Idealism
15. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America
16. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
17. Yeasayer - All Hours Cymbals
18. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
19. Interpol - Our Love To Admire
20. Liars - s/t
21. Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
22. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
23. Mice Parade - s/t
24. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
25. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
26. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
27. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
28. Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated
29. Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If....
30. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

I am a she, but I accept all props directed my way, regardless of pronoun used.

Okay, I see where I went wrong last time around, SO...*********************http://ilx2007poll.googlepages.com/home********************* has the new list. Please name and shame if you see any more mistakes.

xpost Chris in Belfast, you are late but the good news is that just about every single thing you nominated has already been nominated. But if you can find any that weren't (see above link for reference) I'll sneak them on.

You guys complaining about Winehouse's inclusion DO realize that the album is making MOST major American critics top ten lists? I understand you got it first, but our part of the world is just now grokking; it's 2007 to us.

i'm still amazed how popular she is over there

Here I was all ready to lay into Chris in Belfast as a straight-up indie hipster with a Pitchfork fetish and an NME subscription when I noticed he's the only other guy on ILM who appears to have heard (and thus loved) the new Chrome Hoof record. For that and that alone I take it all back. :D

Haha er....thanks. I don't spend much time on ILM as you may be able to tell. I did very much enjoy all those albums though, so sue me.

And thanks musically.

u dodged a bullet bro

It's OK; I don't really mind what a single someone else likes or dislikes! Besides, you've got FOTL in at 3 which I also heartily approve of.

Can I just say to musically that WFANFC is in fact Working For A Nuclear Free City? I don't want to cause any confusion, not that I expect anyone to vote for it. Thanks!

bump...I'll kick off voting tomorrow, so if there any other corrections I need to make, please say so!

This may be nitpicking, but Pharoahe Monch is written with an "oa", not "Pharaohe". The name is written correctly in the album nominations, but incorrectly in the track noms.

musically, you forgot my nominations:

Sally Shapiro - Skating in the Moonshine
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
Saint Etienne & Annie - This Is Tomorrow
Girls Aloud - Black Jacks
New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream
Roisin Murphy - You Know Me Better (don´t know it it qualifies, it might be a single in '08)
Glasvegas - Daddy´s Gone
Club 8 - Whatever You Want

-- daavid, Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:46 (1 week ago) Link

The most correct title for the Justice album is †.

A few small corrections on my nominations:

Atavist's album is called: "II (Ruined)"

...and further down:

Moonsorrow's album: "Viides luku - Hävitetty"

Sorry about the weird title formats of these two albums!

Enormous respect from me for doing this, too. Quite an undertaking.

daavid, refer to the amended list which is linked to a few posts above yours. I believe it has all your noms included.

Lindstrom's The Contemporary Fix is definitely 2006, as a single and album track. I don't even think there's a US rerelease to make it qualify!

One more correction/potential confusion-

Those Map of Africa tracks are two separate tracks
Map of Africa AND Ely Cathedral

And good job, by the way, thanks.

Are you going to get the people who nominated stuff to do little blurbs for those that chart? I thought that was a nice idea when they/we did that in some of the other polls.

Yeah, that's what I miss about the old polls, plus revealing the top records one at a time. Hope you will do this old-scholl ILX style...

And now ... to try and listen to all the stuff I haven't heard!

Bird And Bee

I think that's a bowlderisation too far, musically. Voters may not recognise artist! I can see point in excluding unnecessary definite articles, but could you put at least one of them back? Thanks.

surely there are going to be so many nominations in this forthcoming poll that the results are going to be fairly meaningless. there will be a smattering of votes for the usual suspects (in rainbows, kala, sound of silver etc...) and a load of individual votes for the likes of alasdair roberts (from me!).

and anyway, 2007 lists are so last year.

In Rainbows is gonna win

I think that's a bowlderisation too far, musically. Voters may not recognise artist! I can see point in excluding unnecessary definite articles, but could you put at least one of them back? Thanks.

I do a search and replace to get rid of leading "The"s, so once in a while a necessary one might be removed and not replaced manually by me.

only Jeff and I will vote for The Bird And The Bee anyway

Last-minute add-in:

The Fall - Reformation Post TLC

Even if everyone else hates it, it is the album I've listened to most from '07. BLACK RIVER! FALL MOTEL! CHEESE STEAKS! LAMP! GOLDFISH BOWL!

Oops... misread 08 as meaning Jan 08... never mind then mumble mumble

you know, I love that Apples In Stereo album, but I could swear it came out in December 2006... I mean it's cool, whatever. An album that comes out in December (whether I am correct about this or not) arguably deserves the carry-over.

Per amazon it came out Feb 6 2007 in the US.

Are we doing this???

...or did I miss it?

No, you haven't missed it...I will try to get the voting set up tomorrow.

Good, good, I was spooked.

per Amazon

lol

Albums from 2007 that I listened to most in 2007:

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Flight of the Conchords - Chaki's comp
The Format - Dog Problems (Did Atlantic bury this record? I LOVE this album)
Society of Rockets - Our Paths Related (so sue me)
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Justice - Justice (Not every track is great, but more than a few, so I'll just go with the album)
Once - OST
Spiritualized - Live at Boston MFA

I love "per" 'cause it makes you sound like a prick.