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

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.

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.

-- djmartian, Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

yeah i understand, the other people all posted while i was still making my list whoops

just assume i nominated all the ones that hadn't been nominated yet and that'll be my full list, in other words these:

Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Apparat - Walls
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls

albums (7)
studio- west coast
parts & labor- mapmaker
animal collective- strawberry jam
ugk- underground kingz
gowns- red state
freeway- free at last
lil wayne- da drought 3

singles (8)
t-pain- buy u a drank
the dream- shawty is a ten
parts & labor- the gold we're digging
paramore- misery business
rich boy- throw some d's
ugk/outkast- int'l players anthem
gorilla zoe- hood nigga
britney spears- radar

J0rdan S.,

these 2 albums:

parts & labor - already nominated
studio - already nominated

...as was the UGK track.

re: parts & labor - ha, Whiney Weingarten of Paper Thin Walls is going to pleased with the street team !

i scrolled through but didnt see them. subsitute:

the field- from here we go sublime
t-pain- epiphany

timbaland- the way i are

albums:
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Caribou - Andorra
A Mountain of One - Collected Works
Italians Do It Better label - After Dark
Andy Palacio - Watina
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From the Ocean to the River

tracks:
A Mountain of One - "People Without Love"
Of Montreal - "No Conclusion"
Deerhoof - "+ 81"
Lindstrøm - "The Contemporary Fix"

albums:
voice of the seven woods - s/t
kubichek! - not enough night
to my boy - messages
the sun blindness - like pearly clouds
the resonars - nonetheless blue
new estate - is it real?
misty's big adventure - funny times
maps - we can create
magic bullets - a child but in life yet a doctor in love
the lodger - grown ups
japancakes - loveless
ifwhen - we will gently destroy you
hand hell - phonography
george washington brown - on the night plain
field music - tones of town
electro group - good technology
apartment - the dreamer evasive
the affair - yes yes to you
airiel - the battle of sealand
lucky soul - the great unwanted
prinzhorn dance school - s/t
shocking pinks - s/t
trembling blue stars - the last holy writer
windmill - puddle city racing lights
voxtrot - s/t

singles:
the young knives - terra firma
kubichek! - method acting
kubichek! - stutter
arms - whirring
assembly now - graphs, maps and trees
the brother kite - moonlit race ep
cut off your hands - still fond
daggers - money / magazine
camera obscura - tears for affairs
the dears - you and i are a gang of losers
deep cut - commodity
the domino state - iron mask
pris_ - come undone
fanfarlo - fire escape
fanfarlo - you are one of the few outsiders who really understands us
grammatics - the shipping forecast
iliketrains - spencer perceval
john smith - the bird and the worm / no one knows
the kbc - not anymore
the lea shores - guillotine
lonelady - early the haste comes
men-an-tol - men-an-tol ep
the moths - games
muscles - one inch badge pin
muscles - ice cream
my sad captains - bad decisions
my luminaries - the outsider steps inside
neatpeople - carry you upward
pull tiger tail - let's lightning
quad riot - johnny negro
ra ra riot - each year
sky larkin - one of two
sky larkin - molten
starless & bible black - up with the orcadian tide
the steers - rewind, repeat
stopstarts - mentor / diamondless
stylofone - nighttime
taken by trees - lost and found
wombats - kill the director / metro song
wry - whales and sharks ep
the yellow moon band - entangled

haha whoops i didn't check the limits. oh well, i'll whittle down a list later

albums:
feist - the reminder
roisin murphy - overpowered
bat for lashes - fur and gold

tracks:
justice - d.a.n.c.e.
mia - boyz
britney spears - get naked (i got a plan)
feist - intuition
mia - $20 / 20 dollar
audio club - sumthin' serious
lcd soundsystem - someone great
feist - 1234 (van she technologic mix)
commix - be true
roisin murphy - overpowered (seamus haji mix)
britney spears - gimme more
cortney tidwell - don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson's objects in space mix)

I haven't heard much this year, but this is what I came up with:

Albums:
Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora
Tokyo Jihen - Variety

Tracks:
Anthony Cuz - Empecer a Llorar
Wisin y Yandel - Sexy Movimiento
Daddy Yankee - En Sus Marcas Listos Fuera
Daddy Yankee - Ella me Levanto
Gallgeo - Imaginate
Gallego - Pegao, Pegao
Nejo y Dalmata - Algo Musical
Tokyo Jihen - OSCA
Tokyo Jihen - Metro
Tokyo Jihen - Kaban no Nakami

Albums
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Liars - Liars
Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests
Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Cheeseburger - Cheeseburger
Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Get Him Eat Him - Arms Down
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
The Haints - Battle of Wounded Heart
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab

Tracks
The Haints - Carly Simon
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Melt Me
Akron/Family - Ed Is A Portal
1990's - See You At the Lights
Fiery Furnaces - Philadelphia Grand Jury
Liars - Protection
Studio - Outside
Jay-Z f/ Nas - Success
Mary Weiss - Cry About the Radio
Jens Lekman - Postcard to Nina
Animal Collective - For Reverend Green
The National - Mistaken For Strangers
Prinzhorn Dance School - Black Bunker
Phosphorescent - Cocaine Lights
White Rabbits - The Plot

Studio - Out There, I meant

only 15 total, duuuuuude

oh, say word

Albums
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Liars - Liars
Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
The Haints - Battle of Wounded Heart
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab

Tracks
Studio - Out There
Jay-Z f/ Nas - Success
Mary Weiss - Cry About the Radio
Animal Collective - For Reverend Green

Been looking for a place to drop this:

ALBUMS:

Top 10:
Equatorial - Alex Alvear
The Return of the Magnificent - DJ Jazzy Jeff et. al.
Mr. Softy - Ethan Lipton
Double Up - R. Kelly
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Desire - Pharoahe Monch
Heartbeat - Kodo
The Reminder - Feist
Epiphany - T. Pain
Hoots and Hellmouth - Hoots and Hellmouth

Next 10:
Rich Boy - Rich Boy
The Solution - Beanie Sigel
Introducing Kenge Kenge - Kenge Kenge
Cherryholmes II - Cherryholmes
Hated on Mostly - Crime Mob
Venus on Earth - Dengue Fever
The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
The Wagonmaster - Porter Wagoner
Hishou - The Yoshida Brothers
Virgin Forest - Lionel Loueke
Outstanding:
Waitin' 2 Exhale - Devin the Dude
In Our Nature - Jose Gonzales
Blackout - Britney Spears
Spare Clips - David Banner et. al.
UGK - UGK
Alash - Alash
Class of 3000 Soundtrack - Andre 3K
Block Ice and Propane - Erik Friedlander
Obligatory Villagers - Nellie McKay
Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind - Carolina Chocolate Drops
DJ Kicks - Hot Chip
100 Days / 100 Nights - Sharon Jones
Beauty and Crime - Suzanne Vega
Shock Value - Timbaland
John Work III
Last of the Breed - Willie Nelson, Ray Price and Merle Haggard
Vieux Farka Toure - Vieux Farka Toure
Songs of Icon - Lekan Babalola
Unsatisfecho - Contramano
Southern Comfort - Anthony Hamilton

SINGLES:

Top 10:
Umbrella (Lil' Mama Remix) - Rhianna with Lil' Mama
I'm A Flirt - R. Kelly with T-Pain and T.I.
International Players Anthem - UGK with Outkast
Roc Boys - Jay Z
Kiss Kiss - Chris Brown with T-Pain
Watch My Feet - Dude 'N Nem
Chocolate Rain - Tay Zonday
Black and White - Cherryholmes
Down the Line - Jose Gonzales
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

Next 10:
Peguche - Alex Alvear
The Girl From the Renaissance Faire - Ethan Lipton
Circles - Crime Mob
What A Job This Is - Devin the Dude with Snoop Dogg and Andre 3K
Buy You a Drank (Shawty Snappin') - T-Pain with Yung Joc
The Game Belongs to Me - UGK
Practice - DJ Jazzy Jeff with J. Live
Same Girl - R. Kelly with Usher
West of Where the Sun Comes Down - Hoots and Hellmouth
Desire - Pharoahe Monch
Outstanding:
Piece of Me - Britney Spears
Bout That - Beanie Sigel
I'm So Hood Remix - DJ Khaled with T-Pain, Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Lil Wayne, Fat Joe, Birdman and Rick Ross
Roc-A-Fella Billionaires - Freeway with Jay-Z
Lip Gloss - Lil' Mama
Low - Flo Rida
Rehab - Amy Winehouse
Pro Nails - Kid Sister with Kanye West
Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy
Zombie - Nellie McKay
Desire - Pharoah Monch
Hot Wired - Porter Wagoner
Coffee Shop - Yung Joc with Gorilla Zoe
Shake It Off - Wilco
Crayola - Kristen Andreassen
Magnolia's Room - Anthony Hamilton
Do You Feel Me - Anthony Hamilton
Sober Driver - Dengue Fever
Tiger Phone Card - Dengue Fever
The Garden - DJ Jazzy Jeff with Big Daddy Kane
Girl You Know - Scarface with Trey Songz
Sea Lion Woman - Feist
The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
D.A.N.C.E. - Justice
Nitemoves - Grovesnor

just take the 15 off the top if you need to.

can i please add sir richard bishop's "while my guitar violently bleeds" to my list of nominations? this album is incredible.

That one "Gallgeo" should obviously be "Gallego."

Important note: for those of you who nominated more than 15 items total, make sure to specify what your final cut is ASAP so that the albums and tracks you dropped are freed up to be nominated by others. You may be doing a disservice to some of the rejected items on your initial list if someone who would have nominated them skipped over them because they were on your list.

And once I start posting running lists of nominees, if I have a list of noms exceeding 15 I'll just take the first 15 albums on the list, or the first 7 albums and 8 tracks, etc. Or maybe just the ones I like. It will be a surprise!

(Also "Emepecer a Llorar" should be "Empece a Llorar," although I don't think that will be getting more than one vote.)

ok my restricted nominations:
albums:
kubichek! - not enough night
field music - tones of town
hand hell - phonography
apartment - the dreamer evasive
lucky soul - the great unwanted

singles:
the young knives - terra firma
kubichek! - method acting
kubichek! - stutter
arms - whirring
the dears - you and i are a gang of losers
cut off your hands - still fond
stopstarts - mentor / diamondless
stylofone - nighttime
pull tiger tail - let's lightning
the lea shores - guillotine

TRACKS

Young Jeezy - Go Getta
A-kon - Don't Matter
Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat

(2007: the year doctor casino spent 90% of his time in grad school and lost track completely of contemporary music. i went back through the 2006 list and was amazed to find that half of the stuff I was going to put on this ballot was actually from last year!)

Albums:

Jesu - Conqueror
Grinderman - s/t

Tracks:

Caribou - "Melody Day"
Jesu - "Storm Comin' In"
The Black Lips - "Katrina"
Of Montreal - "The Past is a Grotesque Animal"

9 albums...

Massonix - Subtracks
Alasdair Roberts - The Amber Gatherers
Trim - Soulfood Vol 1
The Black Dog - The Book of Dogma
Pole - Steindgarten
Loco Dice - Timewarp Mix
Strategy - Future Rock
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
Digitaline - Anticlockwise

Albums:

Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Bubonic Plague - Instant Coma
Johan Ess - Govern Yourself Accordingly

Tracks:

T.I. - "Big Shit Poppin (Do It)"
Feeding Fingers - "Fireflies Make Us Sick"
A Place To Bury Strangers - "To Fix the Gash in Your Head"

Out of the ones not mentioned yet, you can add on

Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey EP (Cryptograms already mentioned, but this is miles ahead of that)
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday
The Tuss - Rushup Edge

Fine, revamped for gestapo rules, minus the already nominated and whittled to fifteen (I don't need your rules MAAANNNNNN):

ALBUMS:
Equatorial - Alex Alvear
The Return of the Magnificent - DJ Jazzy Jeff et. al.
Mr. Softy - Ethan Lipton
Double Up - R. Kelly
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Hoots and Hellmouth - Hoots and Hellmouth
Introducing Kenge Kenge - Kenge Kenge
Cherryholmes II - Cherryholmes
The Shepherd's Dog - Iron and Wine
The Wagonmaster - Porter Wagoner

SINGLES:
Umbrella (Lil' Mama Remix) - Rhianna with Lil' Mama
International Players Anthem - UGK with Outkast
Kiss Kiss - Chris Brown with T-Pain
Watch My Feet - Dude 'N Nem
Chocolate Rain - Tay Zonday

If any of you future nommers want to be nice, formatting your noms as Artist - Title, without quotes or any extra punctuation, as below, would be very much appreciated.

Here are the nominees so far...please let me know if anything was omitted, is wrong, etc. I can only correct what I know.

ALBUMS

1900s - Cold & Kind
A Mountain Of One - Collected Works
A Place To Bury Strangers - S/T
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Against Me! - New Wave
Agnes - Dumbles Debuts
Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
Alasdair Roberts - The Amber Gatherers
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Alex Alvear - Equatorial
Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs
Aly + AJ - Insomniatic
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Andy Palacio - Watina
Angels Of Light - We Are Him
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Apartment - The Dreamer Evasive
Apparat - Walls
Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Bad Trips - S/T
Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med
Baroness - Red Album
Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
Black Dog - The Book Of Dogma
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Blues Control - Puff
Blues Control - S/T
Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
Britney Spears - Blackout
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Bubonic Plague - Instant Coma
Burial - Untrue
Caribbean - Populations
Caribou - Andorra
Cherryholmes - Cherryholmes II
Clientele - God Save The Clientele
Dashboard Confessional - The Shade Of Poison Trees
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey EP
Demons Claws - Satan's Little Pet Pig
Digitaline - Anticlockwise
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
Dj Jazzy Jeff Et. Al. - The Return Of The Magnificent
Donnacha Costello - Colorseries
Efdemin - Efdemin
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Eluvium - Copia
Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite
Ethan Lipton - Mr. Softy
Ewan Pearson - Piece Work
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
False - 2007
Feist - The Reminder
Fennesz Sakamoto - Cendre
Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Field Music - Tones Of Town
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
Flykkiller - Experiments In Violent Light
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake - From The Ocean To The River
Freeway - Free At Last
Future Of The Left - Curses
Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
Good, The Bad & The Queen - S/T
Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg
Gowns - Red State
Grinderman - S/T
Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Haints - Battle Of Wounded Heart
Hand Hell - Phonography
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Hives - The Black And White Album
Hoots And Hellmouth - Hoots And Hellmouth
Horrors - Strange House
Howling Hex - XI
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Iron And Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Italians Do It Better Label - After Dark
Jason Anderson - Tonight
Jason Isbell - Sirens Of The Ditch
Jay Reatard - Night Of Broken Glass EP
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Jesu - Conqueror
Joe Ely - Silver City
Johan Ess - Govern Yourself Accordingly
Justice - Justice
Kanye West - Graduation
Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You
Kelly Willis - Translated From Love
Kenge Kenge - Introducing Kenge Kenge
Kid Acne - Romance Ain't Dead
King Khan And BBQ Show - What's For Dinner?
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
Klute - The Emperor's New Clothes
Kubichek! - Not Enough Night
Kylie - X
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Liars - Liars
Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
Loco Dice - Timewarp Mix
Low - Drums And Guns
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
M.I.A. - Kala
Map Of Africa - Map Of Africa
Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses
Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm
Massonix - Subtracks
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Melchior Productions Ltd. - No Disco Future
Mendoza Line - 30 Year Low
Menomena - Friend And Foe
Merzbow + Carlos Giffoni - Synth Destruction
Micronauts - Damaging Consent
Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday
National - Boxer
Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora
New Pornographers - Challengers
No Age - Weirdo Rippers
Noisettes - What's The Time, Mr Wolf?
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Om - Pilgrimage
Onur Ozer - Kasmir
Original Silence - First Original Silence
OST - Grey Gardens
OST - Spring Awakening
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
Parts And Labor - Mapmaker
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Paula Cole - Courage
Pelican - City Of Echoes
Pharoahe Monch - Desire
Phosphorescent - Pride
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
Pole - Steingarten
Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
Porter Wagoner - The Wagonmaster
Prince - Planet Earth
Prince Fatty - Survival Of The Fattest
Psychedelic Horseshit - Magic Flowers Droned
Qotsa - Era Vulgaris
R. Kelly - Double Up
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Robert Plant & Alison Kraus - Raising Sand
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Rumskib - Rumskib
Sapat - Mortise And Tenon
Sean Price - Jesus Price Superstar
Shape Of Broad Minds - Craft Of The Lost Art
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
Sleeping States - There The Open Spaces
Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's How You Land
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Strategy - Future Rock
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere In The Between
Studio - West Coast
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus
Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime
Taylor Swift - S/T
Ted Leo - Living With The Living
Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan
Times New Viking - Presents The Paisley Reich
Tokyo Jihen - Variety
Tough Alliance - A New Chance
T-Pain - Epiphany
Trim - Soulfood Vol 1
Tullycraft - Every Scene Needs A Center
Tuss - Rushup Edge
UGK - Underground Kingz
Unkle - War Stories
Various Artists - Grand Cru 2007
Various Artists - Lipa Kodi Ya City Council
Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter
Voice Of The Seven Woods - S/T
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
Wooden Shjips - S/T
Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen And Ghosts
Wussy - Left For Dead
Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams

TRAX

A Mountain Of One - People Without Love
A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix The Gash In Your Head
Akon - Don't Matter
Animal Collective - For Reverend Green
Anthony Cuz - Empece A Llorar
Arms - Whirring
Audio Club - Sumthin' Serious
Black Lips - Katrina
Britney Spears - Radar
Britney Spears - Get Naked (I Got A Plan)
Britney Spears - Gimme More
Britney Spears - Piece Of Me
Bruce Springsteen - Long Walk Home
Burial - Archangel
Caribou - Melody Day
Chris Brown With T-Pain - Kiss Kiss
Christine Ebersole - Revolutionary Costume Of The Day
Commix - Be True
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson's Objects In Space Mix)
Cut Off Your Hands - Still Fond
Daddy Yankee - En Sus Marcas Listos Fuera
Daddy Yankee - Ella Me Levanto
Dears - You And I Are A Gang Of Losers
Deerhoof - +81
DJ Khalid - We Takin' Over
Dream - Shawty Is A Ten
Dude 'N Nem - Watch My Feet
Dusty Kid - Kore
Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
Feeding Fingers - Fireflies Make Us Sick
Feist - Intuition
Feist - 1234 (Van She Technologic Mix)
Freeway - Walk Wit Me (Feat Busta Rhymes And Jadakiss)
Gallego - Imaginate
Gallego - Pegao, Pegao
Good, The Bad And The Queen - The Good, The Bad And The Queen
Gorilla Zoe - Hood Nigga
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
Jason Isbell - Dress Blues
Jay-Z F/ Nas - Success
Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah
Jesu - Storm Comin' In
Jurgen Paape - Fruity Loops #2
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Kelley Polar - Chrysanthemum
Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
Kubichek! - Method Acting
Kubichek! - Stutter
Lawrence - Pond
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Lea Shores - Guillotine
Les Savy Fav - The Equestrian
Lil' Mama - Lip Gloss
Lindstrøm - The Contemporary Fix
M.I.A. - Boyz
M.I.A. - $20 / 20 Dollar
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Mark Ronson - Stop Me
Mary Weiss - Cry About The Radio
Mathew Jonson - Stop
Modest Mouse - Missed The Boat
Motiivi Tuntematon - I Don't Feel Good (When You're Not Around)
Moving Oos - Romancer
My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
Neil Young - Ordinary People
Nejo Y Dalmata - Algo Musical
Nightcats - Inside
Of Montreal - Voltaic Crusher/Undrum To Muted Da
Of Montreal - No Conclusion
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
Paramore - Misery Business
Parts & Labor - The Gold We're Digging
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
Prince - The One You Wanna C
Pull Tiger Tail - Let's Lightning
R. Kelly - I'm A Flirt
Rich Boy - Throw Some D's
Rihanna - Umbrella (Lil' Mama Remix)
Rihanna - Umbrella
Rihanna - Shut Up And Drive
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Please Read The Letter
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (Seamus Haji Mix)
Stopstarts - Mentor / Diamondless
Studio - Out There
Stylofone - Nighttime
T.I. - Big Shit Poppin (Do It)
Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain
Timbaland - The Way I Are
Tokyo Jihen - Osca
Tokyo Jihen - Metro
Tokyo Jihen - Kaban No Nakami
T-Pain - Buy U A Drank
Tracey Thorn - It's All True
UGK - International Players Anthem (Feat Outkast)
Wisin Y Yandel - Sexy Movimiento
Wu-Tang Clan - Sunlight
Young Jeezy - Go Getta
Young Knives - Terra Firma

Mordechai, I omitting the following tracks of yours...if you want to switch one of your noms let me know.

Streetlight Manifesto - Down, Down, Down To Mephisto's Cafe
Mickey Avalon - Jane Fonda
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
The National - Fake Empire
Natasha Bedingfield - Babies!
The Stooges - Trollin'

Hrm. That's fine. Let someone else nominate Rehab and Fake Empire.

People, can we please nominate some more obscure techno and dance music please?

Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not
Hannah Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68 (released last year in Norway I believe, but this year in the UK.)
Cloudland Canyon - Silvertongued Sisyphus
Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's Embrace
William Basinski - El Camino Real

I don't even understand the point of the nominations process, besides forcing more consensus by not allowing people to vote for anything they might want to. It has to mean more work for the organizers, not less, right?

Prodigy feat. Alchemist & Un Pacino - "White America"

N.O.R.E. - "Cocaine Cowboys"

Just about all my noms are dance, although not obscure at all since I listen to a US dance radio station.

ALBUMS

Freemasons - Shakedown
Sugababes - Change
September - Dancing Shoes
Robyn - s/t

TRACKS

Mason vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)
Freemasons - Rain Down Love
Kanye West - Stronger
Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
UnkleJam - What Am I Fighting For?
Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya
Fedde Le Grand v Ida Corr - Let Me Think About It
Aly & AJ - Potential Breakup Song

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.