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I'm curious as to why that is.

The other poll I ran (on the Sound Opinions board) only has a fraction of the regular posters that this board has, but it had something like 25 more lists submitted than here.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

We all smoke da weed.

How many people did vote, anyway?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

not to clutter this thread further, i would be interested in seeing the SOMB list top 421 Albums Voted For. Any chance of sending this via e-mail, the Good Dr Bill, please?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

62 people voted in albums. A handful less in singles.

Sure, give me a second.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I was the only person to vote for Mastodon? I guess the metalheads don't vote in these things.

― thank god i ain't too cool for the safe belt (smile), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

it's all the blanket!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe that OF MONTREAL, of all people, got more votes than Joanna Newsom!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Interpol - stuck at 164, proves my analysis

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

as i said before i don't think end of year polls really work on ILM as the turnout is always too low - reasonably good results mind you...

I'm curious as to why that is.

I wonder if it's because so many of us are so invested in year-end stuff for blogs and print publications that the idea of an ILM poll seems like just another headache or obligation. (Of course, it need not be: I'd already determined my top 10s for Pazz & Jop, so I just quickly filled out the rest of the 20, and sent it off to Dr. Bill.) I mean, I don't really know what the demographic is at SOMB, but I'd wager that posters there may get more excited about sharing their best-of lists on the board, because they haven't already done it anywhere else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Two people voted for T.I. I'm one. Who was the other?

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I think me? I don't remember.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

(Continuing my last post ... I think one reason why the decades polls are so popular is that people get excited about formulating a list they may not have considered before. At least I did: "wow, what is my number one album of the 90s?" Or: "OMG, I totally forgot about that song! That totally should be on there!" Etc.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Re: I can't believe that OF MONTREAL, of all people, got more votes than Joanna Newsom!

The harpist got lots more press, but I don't find it inherently surprising that a fun, wildly catchy record beat out dungeons and dragons music.

― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that I like my ten favorite albums that finished below 400 on the poll better than I like my ten favorite albums that finished above 20 on the poll.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw, I thought for a moment that I'd been given the honour of blurbing the #1. Damn. Good work anyway!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

but I don't find it inherently surprising that a fun, wildly catchy record beat out dungeons and dragons music.

That's the worst description of Joanna Newsom I've ever heard.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Dr. Bill, if these complete lists are really everything everyone voted for, then my votes weren't included. Did you not get them, or did you just decide not to use them?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

(Not that they would likely have made a difference to the actual top 40 lists.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

TV On The Radio at #473 is pretty surprising. Disappointed in the lack of Mayer and Superpitcher in the Top 50 though, if only I'd voted.

I have still yet to knowingly hear a single note of College Dropout. I pride myself on this fact.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Dr. Bill, if these complete lists are really everything everyone voted for, then my votes weren't included. Did you not get them, or did you just decide not to use them?

I got no list from your e-mail address, for whatever reason.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay. I know I don't get about 25% of what people say they've sent to that address, so it's possible that some of what I send disappears as well.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Unclassics at 51 is tough.

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

blood brothers is in twice

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

it's THAT GOOD

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I should have given some to Phil Jeck. I didn't think 2 other people would vote for him. Who else voted for Oren Ambarchi and Pan Sonic, out of curiosity?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Unclassics at 51 is tough.

seconded.

i didn't vote cos i was polled out.

erlend oye dj kicks is this year's token dance pick if such a thing exists.

junior boys winning would have been nice. next to talkie walkie it's the album i listened to most last year. they both pretty much soundtracked my summer. (along with 8 trillion house and techno tracks)

xpost, i recently bought that philip jeck album and it's great.

― it's tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

'Unclassics at 51 is tough.
seconded.'

Annoyingly i only just got this, but love it and would certainly have put it pretty high up...

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Damn, I shoud have voted and gotten Stina in the top 50!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

My remorse for not voting is high indeed.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

blood brothers is in twice

I would have voted for it, if I'd gotten my shit together in time to vote in this thing.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Who else voted for Oren Ambarchi and Pan Sonic, out of curiosity?
Oren Ambarchi was my #4. I haven't heard the Pan Sonic album, strangely enough.
I can't believe two other people voted for Tim Hecker (#67, wow)! Sundar, I'm assuming you were one of them.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Only one other person voted for Ciara and Nancy Sinatra? ILM you sadden me. I assume Greg was the other Nancy voter, who else showed Ciara love?

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd like to thank those who voted for the Teedra Moses album. i hadn't heard it before and it's a really wonderful album. i love you guys. sniff.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I voted for Ciara, Lex, but not Nancy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

yay Martin! I couldn't believe that "Goodies" wasn't even the best track on it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I dont get the love for bloated/skit heavy hip hop on ILM. Outkast last year, Kanye this year..

― Juan, the Magic Don (jingleberries), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I voted for Oren Ambarchi. Only two of my top albums made the list. Tell me what the numbers mean again? Number of total votes?

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Tim Hecker was #8 on my ballot. Oren Ambarchi, surprisingly even to me, was #15. If I was to do the list now, he'd be top 4 easily. I guess it took that much more time to really get into and appreciate just *how* good it is.

Was I really the only person who voted for Prince? Shit. And not one vote for Destiny's Child!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got some top tunes I've never heard of off this list, but what's going on with Fennesz? Jesus wept. It's unlistenable noise. It sounds like an untuned radio with a mobile phone recieving a text next to it. Is it used as some sort of psychological torture in Abu Ghraib?

― Moston (Moston), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Wuss.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Speaking of, I just got Live in Japan recently and it's wonderful, a fine explanation of his process as you can hear it unfolding live. Venice is pretty cool, but I didn't vote for it.

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

First number is points
Second is number of votes
Third (if there) is number of #1 votes

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I voted for Oren Ambarchi too.

Here's my list:

Birchville Cat Motel – Beautiful Speck Triumph
Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles
Tim Hecker – Mirages
Ghost – Hypnotic Underworld
Michael Mayer – Touch
Kevin Drumm – Impish Tyrant
Mitch Akiyama – If Night is a Weed and Day Grows Less
Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
Sagan – Unseen Forces
Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori – Phantom Orchard
Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks
Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
Annie – Annimal
Oren Ambarchi – Grapes From the Estate
Skygreen Leopards – One Thousand Bird Ceremony
Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
Fennesz – Venice
Junior Boys – Last Exit
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
Phoenix – Alphabetical

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

so it was me the only one who voted for the beta band...
brilliant.

― zeus, Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Was it anything like The Three EPs?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it just me, or is it pretty pathetic that only 62 people voted for albums? Considering how many people read ILM...I guess this poll was really done at the worst time.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Sundar, I voted for Kesto.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Who other than me voted for the Yellow Swans? Holla!

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I dont get the love for bloated/skit heavy hip hop on ILM. Outkast last year, Kanye this year..

Maybe because, you know, there were great songs on the album too?

― deej., Friday, 21 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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