!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I VOTED IN THE 2008 ILX ALBUMS & TRAX POLL AND I LIKED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (poll now CLOSED)

Man, I did not have my singles ears on at all last year. I easily found more than 20 albums to rep for

I actually have a theory about this. See, this year, I had plenty of singles worth listing and very few albums. And last year I had the same. But the year before I had tons of albums and not enough singles. I don't think it's that the year changes, or even that necessarily my listening habits change. I think it's more like one of those animated jpegs where you can see the dancer moving clockwise, or counterclockwise, but you can't see the dancer move both ways simultaneously. You can either remember albums, or remember singles primarily, but you can't primarily remember both. (Also, I suspect that the years that I can list mostly albums are years that I'm less picky about album filler, and years that I mostly remember singles are years where I want my few albums to be 100% perfect.)

doubt this is actually a problem, but the flying lotus record is listed twice

btw does this have to be all one email? i've got my 20 albums but im not sure about all the trax yet

Flying Lotus - Los Angeles is listed twice in Albums (no big deal, just two consecutive, identical listings)

btw thanks SO MUCH for organizing this, musically!

In the Albums list:

Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Mt. Erie - Lost Wisdom

4 yr consideration

sofia marikh "kelmet hobb"

That Cole Medina track is actually called Cole Loves Your Insides Out, and I'm voting for it.

I thought the rules said that there wouldn't be separate votes for remixes, but, for example, Blind and Paper Planes are listed alongside their remixes. I thought votes for all different mixes were meant to just go for the song. (I want to vote for the Club Mix, anyway!)

PIMPIN' TRAX:

wookie ft. ny - fallin' again

ciara - echo

perempay & dee ft. katie pearl - in the air

trina ft. killer mike - look back at me (ppl who love 'a milli' should definitely check this out)

wiley ft. blaze & triggz - if you're going out i'm going out too

teedra moses - so kool

joker - gully brook lane

ikonika - please

d-malice - gabryelle refix

i cant even think of 10 great albums this year maybe 8

Chris Brown - Forever
Ayumi Hamasaki - Part Of Me (Carl Craig Remix)
Lil Wayne - Got Money
Phil Collins - I'm Not Moving (Idjut Boys Remix)
Scarlett Johannson - Falling Down
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

Carlos Giffoni - Adult Life
Eric Copeland - Alien In A Garbage Dump
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter Iii
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
No Age - Nouns
Religious Knives - The Door
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Studio - Yearbook 2
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

lookin somethin like that after initial scan

btw does this have to be all one email? i've got my 20 albums but im not sure about all the trax yet

no, you can definitely split it up if you'd prefer.

i have received 10 ballots since i posted this last night...keep it up!

Voted albums and trax. Thanks Musically for running this.

Here's my albums list if anyone cares

Torche - Meanderthal
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Dear Up The Hill
Portishead - Third
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Bug, The - London Zoo
Lau Nau - Nukkuu
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Woods Family Creeps - Woods Family Creeps
Growing - All The Way
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled (Gnarled Forest)
James Blackshaw - Litany Of Echoes
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
Goslings - Occasion
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
Cave - Hunt Like Devil

wait, britney's circus isn't on the nom list?! not her greatest album sure, but bit of an ilm shock there.

glass candy track is 2007

i encourage further youtubes etc cause i kinda sat this year out

Cave - Hunt Like Devil

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:36 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OK, anyone else voting Cave? I put that on my ballot last year, but if it might place this year, I'll go ahead and rank it.

Cassie, "Official Girl"

It's on the metal poll list too
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METAL?

damn quiet village "pillow talk" is like from 2005/6 right?

The noms in question had to have had a fairly significant release (or re-release) in 2008.

fair enough

ilm rolling metal thread has a liberal interpretation of what is metal. Look at the noms list and see (voting ends in less than 24 hours btw)
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I am bummed that I missed the nominations - the lack of Je Suis Animal on the thread means I'm struggling for my 20th album. Bah.

This should definitely place on the singles list:

xp yeah a few albums i'd like to vote for arent there, but nothing i really loved loved loved so it's ok

(she's an alien, btw)

k3vin wheres your metal votes ;)

Jazmine Sullivan- "Dream Big"

Omar-S- "Psychotic Photosynthesis"

John Daly- "Solitaire" (prefer the B side but this is good too)

Oops--here's the last one:

my albums:

1 Nomo - Ghost Rock

2 Black Mountain - In the Future

3 Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Volume 8

4 Bottomless Pit - Congress EP

5 Freeway - Month of Madness mixtape

6 Blank Dogs - On Two Sides

7 Royce the 5-9 - Bar Exam 2

8 Bonnie Price Billy - Lie Down in the Light

9 Portishead - Third

10 Rank Strangers - Tucke Des Objekts, Die

11 Vampire Hands - Me and You Cherry Red

12 She & Him - Volume One

13 Crooked I - The Block Obama mixtape

14 Fucked Up - Chemistry of Common Life

15 Raveonettes - Beauty Dies

16 Bun B - II Trill

17 Torche - Meandrathal

18 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

19 Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto

20 Juan Maclean - Find a Way EP

Matt, what's that Raveonettes album you're voting for? Isn't it called Lust Lust Lust?

Also, if you replace Juan Maclean with Kathleen Edwards, I'll vote for Lust Lust Lust. (Cause I was debating voting for it anyway.)

Kleerup and Lykke Li - Until We Bleed (Mikael's Cello Version)

Matt, what's that Raveonettes album you're voting for? Isn't it called Lust Lust Lust?

i wanted to vote for lust lust lust, but itunes said it was 2007!

the one i voted for is an itunes only EP that came out about a month ago...they also did another one called "wishing you a rave christmas" that is great as well....

but basically beauty dies is great, def in the vein of lust lust lust if a little more cocteau twins-ish

btw here's nomo live, they didn't seem to get much love on ILM and i was suprised, awesome afrobeat type stuff....they are a little weirder/more krautrock on the album, live is much more of a party vibe like this:

My Albums:

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings And All
Dungen - 4
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Santogold - Santogold
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
Cool Kids, The - The Bake Sale Ep
El Guincho - Alegranza
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
Opeth - Watershed
Jenny Scheinman - Jenny Scheinman
Jenny Scheinman - Crossing The Field
Pete & The Pirates - Little Death
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too

Lust Lust Lust was released in the US in 2008.

And, most importantly, it's on the nominations list (and the EP ain't)

Albums I would have voted for had they been nominated (or would have nominated had I heard them before nominations closed):

Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune

oops well can i change my vote to lust lust lust then?

and i didn't know about the nominations list, so oopsy

ALBUMS (NO ORDER)

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Dolores
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
Boris - Smile
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Eluveitie - Slania
Firewater - The Golden Hour
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter Iii
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Mountain Goats, The - Heretic Pride
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Parts & Labor - Receivers
Presets, The - Apocalypso
Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983 - 2006 Retrospective
Wetnurse - Invisible City

ok, so digging that nomo clip, people should actually check out the whole mahjongg album

(buy a copy, please, it's greatttt)

and also my number one is the-dream's album, which is called 'love/hate' and is streamable on imeem.com: link
(btw, buy a copy, please, it's greatttt)

i'm a little annoyed that I discovered David Jordan - Set the Mood too late to nominate it but WOW it is terrific. If you liked Unklejam, Janelle Monae, electrosoul etc definitely check it out.

***I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO VOTE FOR THE SONG "START SOMETHING" BY MORTEN SORENSEN***

here's what RA had to say about it (and you know you love RA):

When he's done with his day job as one-half of the mega-successful dance act Groove Armada, Tom Findlay sits down and indulges his underground jones as Sugardaddy for Tirk Records. Here, on the mysterious Morten Sorensen's debut EP for the label, you can also hear his smooth hand behind the boards.

I say mysterious not simply because this is Sorensen’s (very) accomplished first 12-inch. But more because his bio reads like a ridiculous Maurice Fulton-esque joke. Chalk it up to my heightened sense of suspicion when it comes things like this, but see if you agree: "Hailing from a small mackerel fishing village in southern Norway, 22-year old Morten Sorensen enjoyed a ten year spell spent in New York whilst his dad worked for the UN’s international maritime commission developing a love of dusty old NY disco that was to irrevocably shape his future."

Bottom line, though? The music's good. The EP's title track rescues a Chic sample from the shelf of almost any disco lover and throws a shriek, synth and bassline underneath. Deep and epic, the track is a seamless cut-and-paste.

[...]

YOU MAY LISTEN TO THIS GREAT SONG HERE: http://www.zshare.net/audio/54195765d1f2fb1e/

Goddamn illiteracy! I somehow missed Fucked Up and Nomo on the nom list (they woulda easily bumped the last two albums—Grails and Mae Shi—from my list).

That Nomo album is the third solid one from them, but I wish they didn't seem so conservative on their records. They're fucking awesome live, and skronk out a lot more. I mean, I give 'em points for making a third album that's just, like, good-to-great the whole way through, but I wants more!

And seriously, that Vampire Hands album is pretty damn fine. I really want more people to hear it. I found it through Hegelson up there, and have been loving it nearly the whole year now.

***IN A SIMILAR VEIN, AND ON THE SAME LABEL, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO VOTYE FOR CHAZ JANKEL'S SONG "GET YOURSELF TOGETHER"***

this song is dope too check it out: http://www.divshare.com/download/5247610-b95

dance nerds and poptimists alike should check this out if they slept on it^^

THANK YOU

omg, that "oh my god" song, that is fucking fantastic!

who knew that a voice exactly between Nico, Courtney Love, and Bjork was what I was waiting for?

The Ida Maria song?

Come on ILX we can make it to 100. Still 7 hours left!!

Musically you should try asking on the metal poll thread. More chance of them listening to you than me :)

I imagine they'll listen to you, you certainly have the metal cred that I lack...

sent

lol @ the thought of me having metal cred

Oh fuck! I forgot to send in my ballot. Is there time left?

yes there is, midnight PST is when I will stop taking ballots. not that i'll be up then locking my email but still try to get it in my then at least.

Cool. I didn't know which time zone.

Oh, also, I can send in less than 20 votes, correct?

aaaaaand sent!

correct

sent!

okay, so about an hour left...if you are up late and have nothing better to do, consider sending in a ballot.

I suck at deadlines. Huge sorries to musically, but can you please include my two minute late entry?

yeah, no prob, i was asleep at midnight so it's all good.

anyway, as it's 7 hours and 18 minutes past midnight for me, i am closing the poll. thanks to everyone who participated. i'll post little updates over the weekend, and hopefully if everything goes according to schedule i'll start the trax results on monday.

I asked a few people who post/lurk on ilx to vote yesterday and they said they would. Sadly not enough to get to 100 ballots, but I tried.

If people can't wait to see results, then head over to ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS the top 10 is being announced today. Will be interesting to see if (m)any of them crossover to musically's poll.

BALLS. Not only did I miss the noms, but I wasn't online at all on thursday, and barely any yesterday, so I completely missed this. I somehow doubt that a ballot quite this late would be accepted. BALLS BALLS and thrice BALLS.

noms started in December, so that must have been a long vacation

Hmph. Well, that's quite clearly sarcastic (especially seeing as I have already posted to this thread), but I will clarify: I was offline throughout most of the nomination period due to the utter shiteness of Virgin, and thus missed that round of voting entirely. I have been compiling my list, and was intending to get it in on Wednesday or Thursday, but due to unforseen circumstances I couldn't get online on those days either, so have completely fucked it up.

The only thing that I really care about is that people add 20 extra points to El Guincho and 19 extra to the Chap.

I've made a "controversial decision".

I wish someone had pointed out that Merriweather Post Pavilion was a 2009 album earlier. It really has no place in the poll so I am taking it out. For those of you who voted for it, I will sent you an email and if you respond by tonight you can swap something else in for it. Otherwise, I am going to finish this today so I can start tomorrow.

can u tell us where it would have placed had you not axed it?

that is a very good controversial decision imo

When I run down the results I will include a little placeholder for it. I don't have anything against telling you now but I'm not quite there yet in the tallying process.

I'm very in favor of that controversial decision.

yay!

yea mostly because the album sucks and deserves no placing.

i am saying nothing

Musically, I applaud you for that decision!

It'll be top five placement for 2009, regardless.

well exactly. top 1, i predict.

and yet it will still suck more than anything else released in 09

Lex, speaking as a fellow Animal Collective/Panda Bear hater, I gotta say; You should give Merriweather another chance. Cause it's either great, or I somehow became brainwashed enough to like it.

Yeah, I'm on board with stripping it from the 2008 poll. I'm also on board with loving it, despite hating all the other Animal Collective records.

i gave it one chance and it made me feel nauseous, maybe even worse than that gross panda bear solo record, which i didn't think was possible

I listened to "My Girls" and I like the synth arpeggios and stuff, cause you know, that's totally my thing when done right, but then they ruin it with Beach Boys vocals, which always make me want to curl into the fetal position. Nauseous is absolutely right.

that is a very good controversial decision imo

― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters),

yeah, but that's cause it's a horrid psych BB imitation.

xp

the vocals are probably the biggest turn-off for me but i don't know how people can take the shoddy basic-photoshop-filter production, the queasy infantilism or the meandering, aimless, pointless remedial melodies, repeated inanely as though any of them were hooks you needed to hear more than once.

but yeah, his voice. dude cannot sing, like not at all, and it's painful to listen to. and i don't think i've ever seen anyone defend it, which means that even AC fans know deep down how shitty it is.

So you don't like it, Lex? Weird, you've not mentioned it before ;)

Just FYI, since the new thread title isn't as obnoxiously long as this one and you might not notice it:

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