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

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?

Yeah! Wow! Great single.

here are my slapped together lists

My lists are ordered.

ALBUMS
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
Dream, The - Love/Hate
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
T-Pain - Thr33 Ringz
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08
Deerhunter - Microcastle
G-Side - Starshipz And Rocketz
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux
Hercules & Love Affair - S/T
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
Scarface - Emeritus
Alex Moulton - Exodus
Air France - No Way Down
Gucci Mane - Back To The Traphouse
A.B.N. - It Is What It Is
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science

TRAX
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On
Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
Grind Mode - I'm So High
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Lil Wayne - A Milli
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
Hood Headlinaz F/ Jackie Chain & Jhi-Ali - Rollin'
Chris Brown - Forever
Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists

Kanye West - Love Lockdown
T-Pain Ft. Chris Brown - Freeze
Wiley - If You're Going Out I'm Going Out Too
Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
Ne-Yo - Closer
T-Pain - Chopped N Skrewed
Young Jeezy - Circulate
T-Pain - Can't Believe It
Ciara - Echo
Jazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad

I remember listening to Lust Lust Lust in an apartment I moved out of in Nov2007 if that helps

here's what i sent in...

ALBUMS (not ordered)

Betty Botox - Mmm… Betty
Blank Dogs - On Two Sides
Eric Copeland - Alien In A Garbage Dump
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Gas - Nah Und Fern
Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego - The Sinking Of The Titanic
Hercules & Love Affair - S/T
Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!
John Maus - Love Is Real
Lau Nau - Nukkuu
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
Rod Modell - Incense & Black Light
Studio - Yearbook 2
Syclops - I’ve Got My Eye On You
Toumani Diabaté - The Mande Variations
U.S. Girls - Introducing…
Va - Nigeria '70: Lagos Jump: Original Heavyweight Afrobeat, Highlife & Afro-Funk
Va - Computer Incarnations For World Peace Ii
Zomby - Where Were U In 92?

TRACKS (not ordered)
Aeroplane – Whispers
Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
Cole Medina - Love You Inside Out (The Pinches Mix)
Friendly Fires - Paris (Feat. Au Revoir Simone)(Aeroplane Remix)
Ghost Note - Pissed And Passed Out
Grace Jones - Williams' Blood
Grackle - Jungle (T. Keeler And Capablanca Mix)
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
Jacques Renault - Bad Skinned
Juan Maclean, The - Happy House
Kuniyuki Takahashi - Dear African Sky (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
Lovelock - Don’t Turn Away (From My Love)
Maelstrom - The Duke (Maelstrom Edit)
Mari Boine Vs. Mungolian Jetset - It Ain’t Necessarily Evil
Omar-S - Psychotic Photosynthesis
Phil Collins - I'm Not Moving (Idjut Boys Remix)
Plastique De Rêve - Lost In The City (Feat. Ghostape)
Quiet Village - Pillow Talk
Williams - Love On A Real Train (Original)

albums list has been sent in!

albums (ORDERED)

Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Pavement - Brighten The Corners (Nicene Creedence Edition)
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Walkmen, The - You & Me
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Beyoncé - I Am...Sasha Fierce
No Age - Nouns
Air France - No Way Down
Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Solange - Sol Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08
David Byrne/Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Part of the fun of these polls is the slow reveal of the results, and if everyone posts their ballots, some OCD internerds will do the maths and work out what has won, killing the suspense (this has happened before). Why not keep this thread for PIMPIN' TRAX, and people can post their ballots when the results are in, should they wish?

Also, Get Myself Together is indeed great, and there's a nice Todd Terje edit of Glad To Know You on the B-side (which bizarrely I heard playing in Dudley's Pancake House near Finsbury Park - is it on a comp or something?). I'll check out that MORTEN SORENSEN song, too.

I like that his dad worked for the UN’s international maritime commission developing a love of dusty old NY disco . Cool job.

yeah 'get myself together' is great, had inexplicably forgotten about it! the herc & love affair rmx is excellent too.

Albums (not ordered):

Amplive - Rainy Dayz (In Rainbows Remixes)
Black Milk – Tronic
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Deerhunter – Microcastle
El Guincho – Alegranza
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Fucked Up - Chemistry Of Common Life
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter Iii
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Santogold - Santogold
Santogold & Diplo - Top Ranking
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Sebastien Tellier – Sexuality
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Very Best, The - Esau Mwamwaya And Radioclit Are The Very Best
Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls

Traxx (not ordered):

Young Jeezy Feat. Nas - My President
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On
Very Best Feat. MIA And Santogold, The - Get It Up
TV On The Radio - Family Tree
TV On The Radio - Golden Age
T-Pain - Chopped N Skrewed
Sigur Rós – Gobbledigook
Santogold - You'll Find A Way (Switch And Sinden Remix)
Playaz Circle Feat. Lil Wayne - Duffel Bag Boy
MGMT - Electric Feel
MIA - Paper Planes
Lykke Li - Little Bit
Lil Wayne Feat. Static Major – Lollipop
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
El Guincho - Palmitos Park
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Estelle Feat. Kanye West - American Boy
Cut Copy - Lights & Music
Lindstrom - The Long Way Home

Late pimping for the Zoot Woman single "We Won't Break", which otherwise might be lost given it is a free digital-only teaser from an album which has been delayed two years.

I'd absolutely love this decade of music if this was in fact the sound of today.

Also, I'm feeling old. Given that I've spent the year exploring ethnic and modern academic music, I've only heard 24 of the nominated albums, and only 12 of which I'd be excited to see on a year-end best of. I'm just sending in a list of those, and forgoing additional votes that would say more about my corner of ILM's demographics than exceptional music of the day.

Runaway - Brooklyn Club Jam (I think I like the Brennan Green version better, has a pretty piano line)

http://hypem.com/track/665924/Runaway-Brooklyn+Club+Jam+(Brennan+Green%27s+Version)

Loving Hand remix of Lykke Li - Little Bit. I've never heard the original, but this is beautiful.

http://hypem.com/search/lykke%20li%20loving%20hand/1/

Trax (Not Ordered)

Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
Air France - June Evenings
Air France - No Excuses
Annie - Songs Remind Me Of You
Ariel Pink - Can't Hear My Eyes
Department Of Eagles - No One Does It
El Guincho - Palmitos Park
Embassy, The - State'08
Empire Of The Sun - Waking On A Dream
Fan Death - Veronica's Veil
Friendly Fires - Paris (Feat. Au Revoir Simone)(Aeroplane Remix)
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns
Larkin Grimm - Blond And Golden Johns
Lindstrom - The Long Way Home
Low Motion Disco -Love Love Love (Aeroplane Mix)
Of Montreal - Id Engager
Paavoharju - Uskallan
Walkmen, The - On The Water
Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants

Albums (not ordered)
Air France - No Way Down
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
Dungen - 4
El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Dear Up The Hill
James Blackshaw - Litany Of Echoes
Johann Johannson - Fordlandia
John Maus - Love Is Real
Lau Nau - Nukkuu
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Moto Boy - S/T
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
Studio - Yearbook 2
Walkmen, The - You & Me

Gah!

Part of the fun of these polls is the slow reveal of the results, and if everyone posts their ballots, some OCD internerds will do the maths and work out what has won, killing the suspense (this has happened before). Why not keep this thread for PIMPIN' TRAX, and people can post their ballots when the results are in, should they wish?

Send your ballots to seattleDOTmaryATgmailDOTcom

in case anyone missed it, here's mine

albums list has been sent in!

albums (ORDERED)

Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Pavement - Brighten The Corners (Nicene Creedence Edition)
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Walkmen, The - You & Me
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Beyoncé - I Am...Sasha Fierce
No Age - Nouns
Air France - No Way Down
Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Solange - Sol Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08
David Byrne/Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

:D

the people not posting their ballots here will probably have entirely different votes and i doubt anybody on ilx would do what jamie said anyway. ILX isn't that bad.

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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