ILM 2013 Tracks Poll: Murmuration of Stats, Ballots and Real Punks

to boldly bold where no man has bolded before

that tricot record is the best

Charisma.com - Hate

Love this. Would've voted for it if I thought there was a chance in hell it would place.

emil.y and craigo are like my neighbors down the block or something

So the only track on my ballot for which I was the sole voter was Brad Paisley's "Southern Comfort Zone." What happened, some dude?

Hopefully not the annoying neighbours you hate. xp

Main things I'm kicking myself for: dropping 'Wenu Wenu' for some weird reason, not listening to 'Q.U.E.E.N.' before voting ended.

So the only track on my ballot for which I was the sole voter was Brad Paisley's "Southern Comfort Zone." What happened, some dude?

― jaymc, Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:55 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha it was a last minute cut in favor of more popular stuff like "#Beautiful"

xp - neighbors I'd want to hang with, like back in the outloud days! I think there were a half dozen things on your ballot that were in my last round of cuts.

weighted

The Mole - Lockdown Party (DJ Sprinkles Crossfaderama)
The Knife - Full of Fire
Mariah Carey ft. Miguel - #Beautiful
Quadron - Hey Love
Angel Haze - Same Love
Duke Dumont - Need U (100%)
Herbert - It's Only (DJ Koze Remix)
Blood Orange ft. Caroline Polachek - Chamakay
Girl Unit - Double Take Part 2
Ciara - Body Party
Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
Fantasia - Without Me
Sevyn Streeter - It Won't Stop
Ace Hood - Bugatti
Disclosure ft. AlunaGeorge - White Noise
Shuanise - Mercy
Drums of Death ft. Yasmin - True
Paul Woolford - Untitled
Kanye West - New Slaves
Rich Homie Quan - Type of Way
Glass Candy - Warm In The Winter
Julia Holter - Maxim's I
Sophie - Bipp
Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness (Toyboy & Robin Remix)
Classixx - All You're Waiting For

Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Moebius, Plank, Thompson - Farmer Gabriel (Edwards Desert Remix)
BLANCHE BLANCHE BLANCHE - TED Talks
Die Antwoord - Cookie Thumper
The Knife - Full of Fire
Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life
Britney Spears - Work Bitch
Melt Banana - The Hive
TOP - Doom Dada
M.I.A. - Matangi
Agent Sasco - Tell Unuh
Selma Oxor - Mecsicko
Y.N. Rich Kidz - Khaki Pants
Lady Saw - Bun Fi Bun
Orchestra of Spheres - Mind Over Might
Joanna Wang - Coins
Death Grips - Birds
French Montana ft. Nicki Minaj - Freaks
Meek Mill - Dreams and Nightmares
RP Boo - There U'Go Boi
Tim Hecker - Live Room
Cavern of Anti-Matter - You're An Art Soul (Version)
The Fall - Hittite Man
Helen - Dying All the Time
Matmos - Very Large Green Triangles

i like how pretty much every ballot, even if it's full of stuff i don't know or pointedly don't like, has at least one or two songs that make me go "oh, this person's awesome, i love them, i'm so glad they voted!"

ILM poll is really just a big group hug.

weighted

Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
John Wizards - Lukasa by Night
Francis and the Lights - Like a Dream
The Necks - Open
Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip ft. Kanye West and Lil Wayne - Thank You
Todd Terje - Strandbar
Disclosure - When a Fire Starts to Burn
Young Galaxy - Pretty Boy
Miley Cyrus - Adore You
Chance The Rapper - Pusha Man
Bruno Mars - Treasure
The Juan Maclean - Feel Like Movin'
Classixx - Holding On
Connan Mockasin - I'm The Man, That Will Find You
Lone - Airglow Fires
Holy Ghost - Dumb Disco Ideas
Haim - Days Are Gone
Lindstrøm & Todd Terje - Lanzarote
Paramore - Still Into You
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
Ace Hood - Bugatti
Mariah Carey ft. Miguel - #Beautiful
Lorde - Royals
Chvrches - The Mother We Share
Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance

weighted

Paramore - Daydreaming
Haim - The Wire
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Disclosure - When a Fire Starts to Burn
Brandy Clark - What'll Keep Me Out Of Heaven
Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go Round
Kacey Musgraves - Keep It to Yourself
Ashley Monroe - Two Weeks Late
Luke Bryan - That's My Kind of Night
The 1975 - Chocolate
Kanye West - New Slaves
Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness (Toyboy & Robin Remix)
Taylor Swift - 22
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
Katy Perry - Roar
Justin Timberlake - Mirrors
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
Toyboy & Robin - Jaded
Miranda Lambert - Mama's Broken Heart
The Band Perry - Better Dig Two
Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel
Dawn Richard - In Your Eyes
Toby Keith - Drinks After Work

Kinda sucks that I wasn't able to keep up with the countdown this year, but here's my list. Two of my top four were single-vote! I should have stumped for them more on ILM (although one was a late discovery)

Migos - Versace
Ciara - Body Party
TT the Artist - Pussy Ate
Young Thug - Stoner
Kingdom ft. Kelela - Bank Head
Katie Got Bandz ft. King Louie - Pop Out
Mariah Carey ft. Miguel - #Beautiful
yg ft. jeezy, rich homie quan - my nigga
Fantasia - Without Me
A$AP Ferg - Shabba
2 Chainz - I'm Different
Rihanna - Pour It Up

Kelly Rowland - Kisses Down Low
Prince - Breakfast Can Wait
Problem ft. Bad Lucc - Like Whaaat
Ariana Grande - Baby I
August Alsina - I Luv This Shit
Friends - The Way
Meek Mill - Dreams and Nightmares
Droop-E ft. Nite Jewel & J. Stalin - N the Traffic
Rich Homie Quan - Type of Way
DJ Rashad - Rollin
Future - Sh!t
Jessie Ware - Imagine It Was Us
Young Jeezy ft. 2 Chainz - R.I.P.

srsly tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIixe31lMK0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-0kZ_jeIHI

I wasn't really able to do a lot of digging on my own this year so like half my list is just rap songs I heard in clubs a lot but it was a pretty good year for that.

Weighted, bolds DNP

1. Chvrches – “The Mother We Share”
2. Amel Larrieux – “I Do Take”
3. Eleanor Friedberger – “Stare At The Sun”
4. Pet Shop Boys – “Love is a Bourgeois Construct”
5. Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Parrell – “Blurred Lines”
6. Dawn Richard – “86″
7. Chris Malinchak – “So Good To Me”
8. Mariah Carey ft. Miguel – “#Beautiful”
9. Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams – “Get Lucky”
10. Titica – “Don’t Touch Me”
11. Petula Clark – “Cut Copy Me”
12. Glass Candy – “Warm In The Winter”
13. Shad – “Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins)”
14. Fleetwood Mac – “Sad Angel”
15. Sharaya J – “Smash Up The Place”
16. Louise Burns – “Emeralds Shatter”
17. B*Witched – “Love and Money”
18. Tanya Donelly – “Mass Ave”
19. M.I.A. – “Come Walk With Me”
20. Direct Hit! – “The World Is Ending (No One Cares)”
21. ASAP Rocky ft. Skrillex – “Wild for the Night”
22. Justin Timberlake ft. Jay-Z – “Suit & Tie”
23. Jacques Greene ft. How To Dress Well – “On Your Side”
24. The National – “Demons”
25. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Despair”

def would have voted for 'stoner' or 'danny glover' had i heard them before like yesterday...so incredible

i don't remember what i voted for, the same as p&j but with some stuff thrown in, mainly i voted for kacey musgraves, so i was disappointed that there wasn't more kacey musgraves, but i guess that's the way it goes

otoh i expect good things in the album results

One of my favourite things about the individual ballots is seeing how stuff that I only quite like is vitally important to others, it's a good reminder that there's always more to whatever you're listening to than merely what you hear in it.

didn't know you were checking for TT The Artist, rev! never totally got into her stuff.

rev, i think if "stoner" had come out three months ago instead of right at nominations time it would have done much better

glad to see your ballot btw!

Given how many songs we all hear and kind-of-like in a given year, Top 25 is a pretty strict cutoff.

That TT track has been my secret DJ weapon this year! Girls go fucking nuts when you put that on.

Q: would permitting a larger ballot flatten out the results or would it make them more esoteric?

Would depend on how voters reacted, I guess. Also, "flatten" could mean different things. More homogeneous wrt genres, artists,...?

Personally I think 25 works well.

it depends on the voters rather than the amount on ballot. In previous years I would have said esoteric (and argued thus)
but now? A larger ballot would work on albums but I dont think tracks.

How about giving the #1 more points tho?

You could give a "#1 bonus", then you'd have to decide what to do with unweighted ballots and how to minimise fractional scores.

The voting system is fine, guys.

seandalai how different from metal poll is the points here?

The voting system is fine, guys.

Agree. I was just curious what the effect would be on the results with a larger ballot, and I think the answer is "who knows".

I'm impressed that 3 other people voted for Paramore's "last hope"! That was my number 1. Didn't really expert it to get any votes.

only change to voting I would make is to not allow ballots from people who have never posted

Metal albums poll had weighted ballots only, 50 votes per ballot, points go 50,49,...,1.

There are some names I don't recognise but I think the vast majority of voters are legit and I'm not really interested in policing who can and cannot vote.

so I am the top blood sausage voter that did a full 25 ballot, i deserve some prize for that

Glad to see some tricot tracks showing up, threw my main weight behind the album, will maybe get enough votes to go top 100.

Love the two people who chose Glacier and Omanko as their #1s

ILM poll is really just a big group hug.

― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:07 PM (36 minutes ago)

gr80 and I shared a #1 vote ... but nothing else

Voting system is good - it's the taste of youse lot we need to work on. ^__^

Love the two people who chose Glacier and Omanko as their #1s

sky ferreira - omanko
william onyeabor - good name
brandy clark - what'll keep me out of heaven
pusha t - numbers on the board
ashley monroe - two weeks late
lorde - royals
disclosure - when a fire starts to burn
william onyeabor - atomic bomb
robert pollard - i killed a man who looks like you
daft punk - get lucky
goldfrapp - annabel
kacey musgraves - it is what it is
william tyler - country of illusion
toby keith - drinks after work
sky ferreira - nobody asked me if (i was okay)

Metal albums poll had weighted ballots only, 50 votes per ballot, points go 50,49,...,1.

― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:31 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There are some names I don't recognise but I think the vast majority of voters are legit and I'm not really interested in policing who can and cannot vote.

― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai),

I thought some years we gave the #1 more weight?

and re real users - in metal poll there's tons of names I dunno yet they've been voting year in year out since glenn and i started it and they had to email in ballots back then.
I do wish Cronos Smith would identify himself tho!

actually a few lurkers did de-lurk this year on ilm and the poll thread.

there's never any block voting either to suggest its fake ballots. I think ilxors are too grown up to bother with that shit.

the top artists not to make the countdown is kind of interesting:

1. M.I.A.
2. The 1975
3. Chance the Rapper
4. Ariana Grande
5. Young Thug
6. 2 Chainz
7. The Juan Maclean
8. Boards of Canada
9. Kidnap Kid
10. David Bowie

xp to imago, I didnt save my ballot, its p slapdash

my ballot, weighted (with rival dealer no. 1).

Burial -- Rival Dealer
Vatican Shadow -- Enter Paradise
Movement -- Us
Porches -- Franklin the Flirt
Paul St. Hilaire -- Nah Ina It
Low -- Just Make It Stop
My Bloody Valentine -- Only Tomorrow
The Knife -- Without You My Life Would Be Boring
Darkside -- Paper Trails
Burial -- Hiders
Burial -- Come Down To Us
Ben Khan -- Drive, Part I
FKA Twigs -- Water Me
Dopplereffekt -- Tetrahymena
Machinedrum -- Gunshotta
Disclosure -- When a Fire Starts to Burn
Omar Souleyman -- Wenu Wenu
Neneh Cherry -- Blank Project
Special Request -- Broken Dreams
Beyonce -- Drunk In Love
Manic Street Preachers and Richard Hawley -- Rewind the Film
Bill Callahan -- Javelin Unlanding

precious few made the ilx final list, but that's 'saright.

awww I liked the Vatican Shadow and the Neneh Cherry quite a bit!

i love vatican shadow. single was amazing; album was kind of disappointing.

xp Great list cuz

So many good songs this year. It's a strong run well into the 100s.

didn't hear the album, song was as good as the Tim Hecker I did vote for