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

i am definitely definitely going to remember to do this

I mailed my ballot a few days ago, but might as well post it here since other people are doing that:

ALBUMS (not ordered):
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Parts & Labor - Receivers
Gaslight Anthem, The - The '59 Sound
Evangelista - Hello, Voyager
Robin Thicke - Something Else
Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux
Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild
Raconteurs, The - Consolers Of The Lonely

A.B.N. - It Is What It Is
Pink - Funhouse
Scarface - Emeritus
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter Iii
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Raheem Devaughn - Love Behind The Melody
Coldplay - Viva La Vida (Or Death And All His Friends)
Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of It All
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

TRAX (not ordered):
Ne-Yo - Closer
John Legend F/ Andre 3000 - Green Light
Young Jeezy - Circulate
Jordin Sparks And Chris Brown - No Air
Sara Bareilles - Love Song
Jazmine Sullivan - Need U Bad
Erykah Badu - Soldier
Nine Inch Nails - 1,000,000
Raphael Saadiq - Big Easy
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On

Pink - So What
Hot Stylz F/ Yung Joc - Lookin' Boy
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - Donk
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
Cherish - Killa (Feat. Yung Joc)
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent
Usher - Trading Places
Trina Ft. Killer Mike - Look Back At Me
Ryan Leslie - Addiction Remix (Ft/ Cassie And Fabolous)
Guns N' Roses - Better

no portishead?

Just sent in my ballot, thanks for doing this Mary!

I do dread the absence of these albums in the shortlist: Inca Ore – Birthday of Bless You / The Advisory Circle – Other Channels / Windy & Carl – Songs For The Broken Hearted / This Will Destroy You – This Will Destroy You. But then again I forgot to vote for them...

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Yeah, working on this now!

p.s. don't sleep, Cassie fans

TRACKS (ordered)

Lil Wayne - A Milli
M83 - Kim & Jessie
Young Jeezy Ft. Kanye West - Put On
Young Jeezy Feat. Nas - My President
T.I. F/ Swizz Beatz - Swing Ya Rag
Cut Copy - Far Away
Lil Wayne - Got Money
Ladytron - Runaway
T-Pain - Can't Believe It
T.I. Feat Ludacris - On Top Of The World
Jim Jones - Pop Champagne
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - Donk
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Flo Rida - Low
M83 - Graveyard Girl
Ariel Pink - Can't Hear My Eyes
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

ALBUMS (ordered)

Cloudland Canyon - Lie In Light
Duchess Says - Anthologie Des 3 Perchoirs
Lines, The - Memory Span
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Religious Knives - The Door
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter Iii
Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs
Magnetic Fields, The - Distortion
Belong - Colorloss
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Boris - Smile
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
Raveonettes, The - Lust Lust Lust
Marc Ribot's Ceramic - Party Intellectuals

Mine, tracks only (ordered):
Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me
MIA - Paper Planes
Estelle Feat. Kanye West - American Boy
Alphabeat -Boyfriend
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Coldplay - Violet Hill
Flo Rida - Low
Nu Brand Flexx - I Feel So Good
T2 - Heartbroken
Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Ne-Yo - Closer
Cassie - Official Girl
Sam Sparro - 21st Century Life
Rihanna - Please Don't Stop The Music (Wideboys Bassline Mix)
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Ting Tings, The - Shut Up And Let Me Go
H Two O Ft Platnum - What’s It Gonna Be
Whitest Boy Alive, The - Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
Sam Sparro - Black & Gold

Just in case anyone else is doing this as late as I am and feels tempted to splurge their load all over this thread:

not that i am seeing any big obvious trends or whatever but let's not post our ballots, i like keeping things a mystery

^^^

aah i am doing this NOW

GREAT MINDS, Lex. Great minds.

I might actually delete this thread temporarily after the ballot has closed, partly to preserve a bit of mystery but also to stop endless personal lists appearing.

xpost to Lex

(Although I think "doing our lists at the same time" is possibly the only way we'll be thinking alike on this one. Especially given the number of times the words "Animal" and "Collective" appear in close proximity in mine.)

I know that release dates are considered somwhat passe these days but wasn't the Animal Collective album only released last Monday?

ILM: always ahead of the curve.

TBH, I think it's a bit too late to worry about that at this stage.

i approve of animal collective votes being split across 2008 and 2009 - hopefully this means the disgusting thing won't appear in either.

mine's done!

ha, and there was an album on the original nominations list which still isn't actually out, glad to see it's been taken off.

Ha: mine are just submitted too. As always, the ordering's a little more tactical than I'd like, but hey ... isn't that what these things are about?

Now. Back to work. Shit.

Lex have you heard the Animal Collective? (I havent yet)

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you know why

"it's now or never..."

You know what I love? That it doesn't look like the Pazz + Jop #1 album is even going to appear on our top 10.

how can u tell?

i feel like that album was annointed elsewhere almost before anyone listened to it. like, this is gonna be the best album ever -- press play -- yeah, this IS awesome, No. 1!! it's good, but so dull and patchy and so not very special.

XP I'm just looking at people's ballots that have posted here and only one person even voted for it (and put it at the bottom of their list no less).

Sorry, it's little more than 1. Maybe 4-5? Still, nestled in the bottom of those lists. That's not enough to hit the top 10 (I don't think).

i think it'll do ok. the real question is: what will win?

the pessimist in me sez...Animal Collective.

It would be a shame, MPP's a 2009 album

yeah, did anyone actually vote for that? really?

xp to mordy: TVOTR will do fine. i'd be happier if P&J's #5 was nowhere to be seen ;)

I refused to vote AC as its a 2009 release. Will definitely put it in next year (assuming the year won't be so awesome that there are 20 better records released; although fingers crossed.)

phew, ballot sent

(no TVOTR or AC on it if you must know)

I've received 80 ballots so far...i have not yet started the tallying process but i promise to post cryptic notes over the weekend about the placements.

Mordy beware the lurkers. Some people wont admit to voting for certain albums simply because they know they will take abuse from some posters for being "corny indie fuxors".
Animal Collective is a 2009 release, but if it places this year it shouldn't be allowed in next years. Otherwise it will end up like that Annie album(which will probably still end up being in next years poll)

I know I moan like fuck about the NME/Kerrang polls, but on ILX ones I try to stay away from that. I might not agree with some of the albums voted for on the metal poll I'm running, but I'm not going to give abuse to people who took the time & trouble to compile a list and email it in. I appreciate the fact that ilxors take the time to do this. I don't think ilxors should be ridiculed for what they vote for which then makes them to scared to admit it publicly.

gonna rep for bohren un der club of gore here

I'd second that

Maelstrom: Hello. Let's please start by discussing the name of your wonderful band. I understand that "bohren" is German for "to bore" or "to drill." (although I'm sure some people might find the irony or the other mening of "bore" too great) Then you have this club of gore thing. What's up?

Morten Gass: The band name has no real meaning in the first place. It just happens the way a lot of band names had their origin from: we were drunk!!! But besides the fact that we had a few beers too many, we managed to put some important words in this name. "Gore / Bohren" stands for horror movies (especially the Italian stuff like Fulci, Bava, Argento, where you can find some pretty nice drilling scenes as well). Gore is also a secret hidden link to a genius Dutch instrumental band called Gore. The first two Gore albums had a big influence on us. "And the Club of" just means that we wanted to be a jazz band. Playing in smoky, dirty nightclubs, just like Sade. Well, as I said, we were drunk.....

TVotR is on my list. Obviously. Animal Collective, too: hell, if it's there, I'll vote for it. And I'll vote for it next year, too, because it is fucking awesome (am slightly drunk, on a bus, and listening to it, once again, this time after several pints' worth of reappraising Freud). Fuck iconoclasm in all its many forms.

I've received 85 emails...could i possibly get 15 more ballots tonight? i'm not sure but to have 100 participants would be nice.

xp To smash an idol, you have to consider it an idol first.

try posting on the metal poll and see if people there will post. plenty of people there who like more than just metal so would vote in this poll. Ask them nicely and see!
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Ask them nicely and see!

LEAVE US TO OUR DEPRAVED FEAST!!!!1

xp To smash an idol, you have to consider it an idol first.

haha, otm. my general boredom with tvotr is unrelated to their critical standing, which surprises me anew every time they end up on all these top 10 lists.

(not in a disgusted or teeth-gnashing way or anything, just sort of a, 'huh, really?')

my attitude towards animal collective isn't iconoclastic, it's just total contempt for them

I liked their old stuff a lot, not heard their new album, but I dont see why anyone would hate them so much. Esp when Kings Of Leon and Coldplay are around.

i'm not exactly fond of them either, but shit like animal collective really does make me realise that they're fundamentally tolerable and not worth hating on

i like some animal collective stuff, but i can definitely understand someone feeling outsized antipathy for them the same way i do for the flaming lips.

xp that was some air that really needed to be cleared there