ILM's 2010s Tracks & Albums Decade Poll / VOTING THREAD

Voting is open until 11:59pm GMT on the 5th of August.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/Tb5gHJj3qzqZZvtM6

Enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 50 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields. Please copy each line directly from the nominations lists; do not number your ballot.

Write-ins (for anything missing from the nominations list) are allowed, though not really encouraged.

You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:

(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 100 points, the second receives 98 points, and so on, until the 50th item receives 2 points.

(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 51 points.

(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 100 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 51 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 50 items will allocate a total of exactly 2550 points).

TRACK NOMINATIONS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Iq25p-DgcR7lhMnb2VxNJukNmQSg5ol9lje5VkH1uo/edit?usp=sharing

ALBUM NOMINATIONS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OWPlQBdnR2KaEicZqx7JNrJ2NWNV_gSHbBoj8lhc3kY/edit?usp=sharing

TRACKS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ytIZcEQDRIKcFHtciSTu4

ALBUMS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (one track per album)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/69y8p8m8HG9LIrcbeXQfyV

TRACKS YOUTUBE PLAYLIST (for tracks not available on spotify)
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWLJazbXOanjkY9fxQdQYj1z-jsoDuJJ

CAMPAIGNING THREAD is here: ILM's 2010s Tracks & Albums Decade Poll / CAMPAIGNING THREAD

stoked 4 the madness, ty for getting this sorted

Love that there are album links for virtually everything, Spotify or otherwise. Nice work.

there's still a few that were impossible to meaningfully track down & some that are only partially on youtube etc.

holy shit I didn't see the extent of providing links for everything

So, uh, none of my nominations made it to the list? Three albums were nominated by other posters, but these five just weren't added

Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You
Autre ne Veut - Autre ne Veut
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer
John Luther Adams - Become Ocean

sorry about that, if i have missed any more (which i'm sure there's a handful i have) please let me know

voted

great job ufo

Amazing work already ufo. Thanks for all your efforts.

No idea how I'm going to get a list ready for this. Albums shouldn't be too hard, but tracks is going to be impossible.

This is awesome. Thank you so much

Thanks ufo - really looking fwd to this.

Typo in the tracks spreadsheet: Modern Kosmology - 'C'est Le Vent' should be by Modern Cosmology - my error when nominating, sorry.

I thought that Broken Flowers by Danny L Harle had been nommed as a track but apparently this was an album! Possibly will manage to find 50 other tracks to vote for despite this major setback

broken flowers is a great ep if you haven't checked the rest out!

there's a track FROM that EP nominated too, just saying ;)

(that is in fact a (fairly radical) remix of BF the song!)

Wow! Amazing. Thank you for doing this!

Yeah, echoing the thanks for doing this.

I'll definitely try and get a ballot in, although seems quite daunting (especially for tracks) but very much looking forward to the rollout.

I did a quick scan of songs I wanted to shortlist from the noms and it came up to over 200 tracks... this is gonna be tough!

sorry about that, if i have missed any more (which i'm sure there's a handful i have) please let me know

― ufo, 13. juli 2022 14:07 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks for adding them! And thanks for doing this! :)

I did a quick scan of songs I wanted to shortlist from the noms and it came up to over 200 tracks... this is gonna be tough!

― Roz,

Yeah, I've given up for now on tracks. I was already up to a hundred plus and I wasn't even half way through the alphabet.

thanks so much for the playlists, ufo <3

i made a list at the tail end of 2019, which i'm prob just gonna stick with.

maybe in another decade i'll switch it up lol

I voted!

ufo, these two batches of track nominations are on the spreadsheet, but I don't see them in the Spotify playlist:

TRACKS
Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
Runtown - Mad Over You
Sha Sha ft. DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small - Tender Love
(40/70)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), zondag 10 juli 2022 20:17

TRACKS
AlunaGeorge - Just A Touch
Blaq Jee ft. Joe B - Grugye
Bra Qwequ ft. Ball J & Gigg - Fraud Money
Character ft. Clap & Danger - Night Rider
D’banj - Oliver Twist
DJ Somebody ft. Tira, Thebe & Emza – Ayepyep
Dladla Mshunqisi ft. Nokwazi - Wangibamba
Duncan Mighty - Obianuju
Fireboy DML - Jealous
Flavour ft. Phyno - Loose Guard
Flavour ft. Phyno & Zoro - Gbo Gan Gbom (Uno Soul)
GuiltyBeatz ft. Mr Eazi, Pappy Kojo & Patapaa - Akwaaba
Joey B ft. Sarkodie - Tonga
KayGee DaKing & Bizizi ft. Killer Kau - Kokota
Keche - Aluguntugui (Life Is Tasty)
Khuli Chana - Mahamba Yedwa
Kiss [=Kizz] Daniel - Yeba
Kwesta ft. Cassper Nyovest - Ngud’
Kwiish SA ft. C’Buda, Macfowlen & Vukani - Iskhathi (Gong Gong) (Vocal Mix)
Lulu James - Closer
Malumz on Decks ft. Gino Brown & Mr Vince - Shay’inumber
Manqonqo ft. Airic & DJ Tira - Ngibambe
Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode - Jerusalema
MFR Souls ft. TallArseTee - Bamb’ikhanda
Olamide - Bobo
Olu Maintain - Nawti
Os Santiegos ft. Nerú Americano - Sem Maldades
Patoranking ft. Wande Coal - My Woman, My Everything
Shado M - Inthliziyo Yami Ithi Hey
Skales - Shake Body
7️⃣0️⃣
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), maandag 11 juli 2022 1:34

(also, ugh, I made a mistake: it’s DJ Sumbody ft. Tira, Thebe & Emza – Ayepyep)

very sorry for the inconvenience - I'm aware that it's an incredible lot of work you've taken on, and it's hugely appreciated!

^ I don't think those have been overlooked as such. Just that the final few days of nominations are yet to be added to playlists. I suspect ufo just needs a spare moment.

yeah the last lot of tracks haven't been added to the playlist yet, getting to that soon now that it's the weekend

apologies for jumping the gun there, ufo. it should have occurred to me that you simply hadn’t gotten to it yet.

it's fine, i'd been slow at getting around to that last bit, but it's done now

6 ballots so far

thank you!

one more request: could you please add the video for Olu Maintain’s “Nawti” to the YouTube playlist? the “Nawti” that’s on Spotify is an instrumental remix, the actual song is not on there (although there is a “Nawti - Instrumental” that is the actual instrumental track without any unnecessary sax embellishments)

done!

✨

i have voted~

down to 250 potential votes ffs

I thought albums would be my easy ballot, but I scrolled through the big list last night and just gave up. I'm glad the voting period is so lengthy, because I'm going to need it. I haven't even looked at tracks yet.

Interesting that there's some tracks missing from the noms which made it into our top 10s in the past.

Will be interesting to see in the final results if we end up with tracks which didn't appear at all in the top 77 of their respective years.

Daily reminder to vote

VOTE

I’d be cool if ilxor allowed sticky posts at the top for the current “big” polls

we have 9 ballots so far

I def plan on getting to it before the deadline, but appreciate the reminders (as it’s not top of mind when I sit down to work)

i voted a few days ago but didn't announce it in here. excited for this. I feel like I was on the front lines for this decade

hello ufo, many thanks for the time and energy you have put into this. i voted just now but had to add in my #2 album which although nominated does not appear on the spreadsheet. i hope this does not cause you any problems and the album in question is unlikely to trouble the top 200 so it's not a big deal.

it looks like this nominated album is missing from the nominations list:

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU

I voted. What a ridiculous endeavor this was. It was a fun exercise to spend time listening to a bunch of stuff I put on my year end lists throughout the decade.

I'm trying to get through the Spotify playlist, even with skips it's going to be a close thing.

Culled my singles ballot (which is to say, my sole ballot) down to 70 titles.

write-ins are fine and i will add anything nominated missing to the nominations list if you let me know that i missed it

Got my tracks ballot worked out but still have albums yet to go. I think that one is gonna be a bit harder

updated the spreadsheet with the missing nominations pointed out

Vote!

I've narrowed both down to 50-odd each, somehow. Now I have to put them in order.

Dull realisation: I've been an album kinda person for the last 25 years, to the point where I often struggle to put a tracks ballot together; this poll has made me realise I've gone back to my teen self, ie much more tracks focused. Fascinating, I know.

Hi

Hi

I just voted! Like Chinaski, I am mostly an album listener but albums WAS hard to get to 50, because there's only about 40 I love and know well and maybe another 100 I liked but don't remember too well. Thought about doing some major relistening or even just capping it at those 40, but in the end, I went with my vague memories to pick the final 10. Tracks was easier because they're all songs I know well. Overall, I'm satisfied with my ballot

It's Sunday.

A good day to vote.

I'm down to 63 albums and 73 tracks. I was determined to vote by the end of today but it doesn't seem likely.

I'm tempted to be more strict when it comes to overlaps in my two lists, but I just can't bring myself to cut some of my favourite artists. I don't know how people manage to do that.

I usually hate sending in unweighted ballots but after trying to rank my tracks ballot, I had to come to terms with the fact that there was no single song that was clearly my favorite of the entire decade. Any given decade I could probably make a case for at least half the songs on my list.

I did weight my albums ballot. I think there are 2 albums in my top ten that will appear on a lot of other folks' ballots, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was alone, or nearly alone, in the other 8.

Vote plz thx

voted!

will vote this weekend but not for the weeknd

approx one week left

voted. painful amount of decision making.

The deed is done. Torture never felt so good.

btw I don't see these nominations of mine in the tracks playlist

Blood Orange - E.V.P.
Childish Gambino - Redbone
Glasser - Mirrorage
Hatchie - Sugar And Spice
Hudson Mohawke - All Your Love
Khruangbin - Evan Finds The Third Room

Is it still work in progress?

(also, ugh, I made a mistake: it’s DJ *Sumbody* ft. Tira, Thebe & Emza – Ayepyep)

both of those are fixed now

thanks!

didn't vote for anything I didn't already know but after the results will probably post an alternative ballot ft only tracks I didn't know until getting through the playlist

thanx ufo!

btw, just noticed that DJ Lycox - Parabéns Moh Baba, which only has a Bandcamp link on the spreadsheet, is on Spotify as "Parabens Mo Baba"

looks like it was just not available in my region

Voted! I know I'm going to have some regrets later on, but for now it feels good to have it done.

XP: arggh, the disappearance from Spotify of seemingly *everything* Príncipe was likely a regional thing too then. Worst region ever, etc, etc.

voted. basically just inserted the lists i made in december 2019 lol.

this is hard.

nashwan please check your email btw

Voted

apologies if my formatting made it harder to total
had to do it on my phone

just checking that you meant to only vote for a single track?

yes, thank you

all good

formatting wasn't an issue at all

thanks - if i do get a chance to complete a 50 tracks ballot (quite unlikely this week) - i'll post an update assuming that's ok

yeah, that's fine

posting to let you all know i am quite close to finalising my ballots

extremely important announcement over

got you covered!

folx, imago would also like to present a single track ballot:

Bad Bunny - Otra noche en Miami

I could only manage an unweighted albums-only ballot but I voted.

i finally got the track list done. making up my mind about the top-5 was tough. deciding on #s 49 & 50 was impossible.
hopefully can submit ballot tomorrow.

shit. just realized i forgot to nominate on of my fav's (Revival by Deerhunter). it's high enough for me that I guess I'm doing a write-in for it. (sorry!)

I noticed that nobody had nominated Desire Lines, which I thought odd, as I'd have probably thrown it some points. Ah well!

i was certain someone else had nominated it (Revival) but looks like it was a difference track.

Just wanted to point out that Ke$ha - TiK ToK is a 2009 song. Is that a "year of impact" thing?

yeah it first hit #1 in the US in 2010 & stayed there for a while, there's a pretty clear argument there

it was also the first #1 of the decade

ok, those are good arguments. I moved right at the turn of the decade, and distinctly remember first hearing tiktok at "the old house". but it definitely grew and grew in popularity.

yeah it had a slow build to #1 in november/december 2009, finally hitting it at the start of 2010 and staying there for 9 weeks

folx, imago would also like to present a single track ballot:

Bad Bunny - Otra noche en Miami

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl)

Lol

Great choice imago

Tiktok being a 2010s song makes me feel ancient

Fuck I nommed that Bad Bunny track and just realized I didn’t vote for it because I thought noone else would have it in their ballots. I failed you imago.

It's funny, I also moved in 2010, and def. associate "Tik Tok" with the "new house" (tho I wasn't super plugged in, who knows when I finally heard it)

I strongly associate "Tik Tok" with "According To You" by Orianthi.

How many ballots have been received so far? Trying to decide if going the full 50 on each of mine would make a difference or not, and also hoping that the deadline creeps toward the end of the weekend rather than the beginning.

xxp also, ignore me, I'm thinking of "Til the World Ends" - which is not only 2011, but also a Britney song that I always think of as a Kesha song, b/c I'm an idiot.

How many ballots have been received so far? Trying to decide if going the full 50 on each of mine would make a difference or not, and also hoping that the deadline creeps toward the end of the weekend rather than the beginning.

only 31 so far, individual ballots are still having a fairly large impact, but i'm expecting a significant portion will come in the last few days because that's usually how it is

& i'll extend the deadline to 11:59pm GMT on Monday 8th August

Thanks!

Depending on the number of ballots the rollout will be a top 100. I’d say at least 40 ballots will give the push to not have a bunch of ties in the low end.

i'd be pretty disappointed if we didn't get enough votes for a top 100 (without being pretty silly anyway) but i think we'll get there

there's also at least one album i'm completely baffled hasn't gotten a single vote yet

& i'll extend the deadline to 11:59pm GMT on Monday 8th August

thank goodness. like a month feels like not long enough to weigh in on a decade... but perfect is the enemy of good

album I nominated that is missing from the nominations doc:

Matthew Shipp - I've Been To Many Places

fixed, sorry about that

it looks like i was pretty terrible at catching nominations that were only a few at a time

Voted - somehow I was able to power through this tonight.

there's also at least one album i'm completely baffled hasn't gotten a single vote yet

― ufo

I'm guessing Daft Punk or Big Boi for this.

Lana del Rey or Joanna Newsom is my guess

Big Boi is a good guess tho. That album seemed adored when it came out several top 3 rankings everywhere that eoy and it lost loads of impact on end of decade.

Maybe one of the cancelled 2010s artists like Kanye or Grimes.

grimes has to be one of the favorites to win the tracks poll haha

I'm absolutely sick to fucking death of Grimes, but she's still on both of my ballots (not yet submitted though)

I can see it being Lana's NFR. Feel like other albums of hers might get more support, especially Ultraviolence.

My Bloody Valentine is another one I wouldn't be surprised it was ignored/forgotten.

Nah MBV is gonna eat

A source close to this poster can also confirm NFR will receive at least one vote.

I am two thirds of the way down the playlist now, can I wrap it up by end of Monday? hm.

i'll say that no one's named the one i'm thinking of so far

Grimes and Kanye sort of followed the same wavelength:

They both started the decade being loved by everyone. Dated and had kids with POS billionaires, and couldn’t stop saying the most vapid shit at every chance.0

Kanye doesn’t just say “vapid shit,” he’s a politically active Trumper. (Also, Kim was no billionaire when they got together – whatever you think of her, she’s not to blame for who he is.)

I mean, you can’t blame Musk either for Grimes.

I did notice "Horchata" and "Cousins" by Vampire Weekend on the list, and those are arguably 2009 songs, as they were released as singles in October and November respectively. Though I suppose they could get by on Year of Impact rules. Does feel a little odd to see them on there, and then on the other end of the decade see "Don't Start Now".

Thanks ufo - really looking fwd to this.

Typo in the tracks spreadsheet: Modern Kosmology - 'C'est Le Vent' should be by Modern Cosmology - my error when nominating, sorry.

I thought that Broken Flowers by Danny L Harle had been nommed as a track but apparently this was an album! Possibly will manage to find 50 other tracks to vote for despite this major setback

― technopolis, Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:57 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hi there! I think that this may have affected the spelling of Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology which is spelled in the spreadsheet as "Modern Cosmology". Could the Jane Weaver album be given its proper spelling in the albums list?

People on ILM were lining up to listen to Donda 3. You sure they're going to hold his state of political confusion against albums that were released years earlier and critically lauded for their mad egocentric genius ? Also the Big Boi still sounds fresh and fun, it takes Daddy Fat Sax three seconds to put a smile on my face.

Donda live from a piece of lawn*.

Could the Jane Weaver album be given its proper spelling in the albums list?

fixed, sorry

i think someone brought them both up before and i fixed the wrong one by accident

Thank you!

I mean, you can’t blame Musk either for Grimes.

I’ll let someone else tackle Grimes

My point was – dislike Kanye for whatever reasons you like, but “was in a relationship with a rich person” seems like it wouldn’t make the top 5

ILXors, assume your responsibilities of citizenship
Vote like you understand someone died for your right to do so
Good #1s are determined by people who SHOW UP
Silence is betrayal
Get mad and vote

ah man, just realised voting closes today - i thought it was going to be over the weekend. I'll try to whip up my ballots real quick!

no it's extended until end of monday, gmt

the deadline has been extended to to 11:59pm GMT on Monday 8th August (as of two days ago)

LOL Nabozo.

Voted just now. I hadn't really been much of a "yearly list" sort of person for much of the decade, so largely started from scratch. The noms made for a good 6-ish weeks of listening!

oh phew, thanks ufo! will def get something in by tomorrow-ish

Glad to see it was extended. i've spent this whole poll thinking "nah, i shouldn't vote, there's no way i could feel confident enough in any ballot i put together"... but I've had a total turnaround since then. I've absolutely gotta vote, even if i end up doing an unranked ballot.

Ballot submitted!

ufo, my power blipped out at the moment that I pressed send on my ballot. So I went back, filled everything out, and tried sending again. I hope I didn't accidentally send duplicate ballots.

a vote that was simply too powerful

i got your ballot just fine peace, man

Albums ballot in. Working on Tracks tomorrow.

VOTE MOTHERFUCKERS!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

— Axl Rose (@axlrose) November 6, 2018

I will Axl, I will.

about 2 and a half days left so please get your ballots in everyone! there's still a ton of volatility in the results and pretty much anything has a chance of placing so every vote counts.

this playlist is really very long

so was the decade

Voted for 50 tracks and 1 album (I’ll understand if the album ballot is disqualified)

i'd really prefer a minimum ballot size of say, five or ten, but i forgot to specify that so i'm not going to disallow it

Will something be required to receive a minimum of, say, two votes in order to place in the results?

Working on tracks now. YOU FREAKS DIDN'T NOMINATE K. MICHELLE'S LOVE 'EM ALL????

I'm putting it on my ballot anyway.

so many things not nominated. Like I think there was like less than 20 house/tech songs nommed lol. can’t belief I missed Helena Hauff.

wasn’t going to nominate a bunch of 12s and weird tapes nobody but me and maybe one other poster would vote for

but I guess I thought there were more techno fans here… times change I guess

I realize those last three posts are rather incongruent

ufo, you're honoring the ballot edits right? I went back in and added tracks to the album ballot I submitted last night (plus one more album I forgot to vote for).

If not, I'll submit a new one from scratch.

>wasn’t going to nominate a bunch of 12s and weird tapes nobody but me and maybe one other poster would vote for

most of my nominations i am assuming i am on my own for. i'd be ecstatic if even one ilm'er agreed with any of my fav picks!

yeah ballot edits will be included

it is done

voted! at least I think it went through? the form acted a bit odd

i received your ballot just fine kraudive

Voted, 25 tracks. Pretty minimal, I know, but those were the songs among the nominees I really loved (would have loved more if I'd had time to listen to the playlist more, I'm certain.)

voted late, from a 1st timer -- i thought the deadline was august 9th for some reason. sorry if i did it wrong!

v much enjoyed the playlists; thanks for organizing it all

the deadline was extended, i'll post that again so no one misses it

the deadline has been extended to to 11:59pm GMT on Monday 8th August

BST?

UTC+0 not UTC+1

but in practice there'll likely be some leeway for very last minute ballots in the hour or two after the deadline. no guarantees though!

just under a day left to vote!

I've been thinking about tracks, I didn't nominate any so I can’t complain, but

I would have voted for Beep Dee - From Above, an amazing track that would have been high on my list

voted for Amen Dunes’ Believe as a stand-in for Miki Dora, which is his best track hands down imo but was not nominated

I like Duke Dumont’s I Got U as much as Need U (100%)

have a lot of other thoughts

finally voted, this one was hard to complete because of real life but i had to do it somehow.

Beyonce's Drunk In Love is so astonishingly great, as is the video. It was her best track and it wasn't nominated

oh I see it was nominated, damn. I wish I had voted for it

You can edit your ballot.

should I just submit another tracks ballot? I already see some mistakes in mine

you can edit your ballot & write-ins are allowed but of course are unlikely to attract other votes

it just sounds like more trouble for you. I'm really happy that you are willing to do this, it is an immense undertaking

it's not any trouble if you mention in this thread that you've edited your ballot & only a little bit if you don't

ok, I've edited my tracks ballot, didn't touch albums

ufo - I submitted my ballot a while back, and slightly edited it the next day (switched a few tracks around). Mentioning it here for the record / to minimize trouble, thanks!

i'd seen that, but thanks

technopolis please check your emails

Hi ufo - amended now - sorry for trouble. I also made use of the edit function a fair bit and lost count...

I edited mine twice (first poll I’ve ever done so).

Voted

Tonight's the night!

voted!!

so many things I wanted to vote for, so little room...

I didn't do any nominations so I guess it's my fault, but I was surprised over how many great tracks were missed in the noms. I mean how did you guys overlook Doja Cat's Mooo!??

voted yesterday. thanks for running this, ufo! looking fwd for the rollout

Voted!

Voted

Me too!

must be up to or just over 50 ballots now at least, right? I can see a set of results not being too different from if there were double that tally, but maybe with a few more intriguingly personal faves so...win win?

voted

just noticing this thread ... when's deadline? looks like y'all must've pushed it back a bit from 8/5.

Two hours, get to it!

voted

voted

Actually there's still 3 hours from now

3 hours to make some tough, tough calls

must be up to or just over 50 ballots now at least, right?

a fair way beyond that now, competitive with last year's EOY poll which i wasn't sure we'd get to. turnout has been decent!

2 & a half hours left but if anyone is not quite done then please post here so i can wait for you, within reason

Should I get an acknowledgment, just checking I didn’t mess it up.

I've got your ballot

do people want email acknowledgements?

xxp great to hear - I know the anxiety of watching the votes come in and wondering whether there will be "enough" (whatever that means)

Voted!

Can't believe nobody nominated Let It Go! Would have thought that was a lock for the top 20.

My not nommed bad was Strawberry Skies - Games. I might have put it Number 1!

It was nommed, unless there's a group called Strawberry Skies that did a song called Games.

it was nommed and i voted it v high

ffs. It's right there on the spreadsheet.

edit your ballot, you know it makes sense

voted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkHf069fvA

about to submit mine - sorry if it's late!!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Cher_Lloyd_-_Sorry_I%27m_Late_%28Official_Album_Cover%29.png/220px-Cher_Lloyd_-_Sorry_I%27m_Late_%28Official_Album_Cover%29.png

my 'why wasn't this track nominated ffs' is Drab Majesty's Dot In The Sky fwiw

filling out the form now, not sure how long the c&p will take..

Am about to vote

at the deadline now, still waiting for imago & geoffreyess at the very least

please let me know if there's anyone else rushing to get in a last minute ballot

ok voted, thanks!

Phew, just in

And in!

Voted! Thank you to everyone involved in setting this up :)

Oh, should mention I added a quick edit about ten minutes ago, but no worries if it's too late!

no one else still working on a ballot?

it wasn't mentioned but Bjørn Torske's Fuglekongen from 2016 was amazing

ok that's it then, voting is closed. thanks everyone!

the rollout will probably not start for at least a week, Moka is working on the images

thank you and Moka both

thanks ufo/moka!!

Stoked for this definitive determination of what music was good

There were 77 good songs. Maybe.

There were only 50 because that’s all that was allowed.
Everything else was terrible.

:)

But how many good albums

you got mine?

yeah

I have no idea why I thought it was 60, but easily remedied since they were weighted ballots.

How many ballots made it?

84!

the rollout will probably not start for at least a week, Moka is working on the images

― ufo, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 01:01 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just plug 'em all into Dall-E and see what happens? ;)

someone can do that for this year's EOY poll!

Would be more appropriate for 2022, true

Love the idea of DALL-E imaging the 2022 poll

Oops I forgot to vote :)

84 seems really good, right? is that on par with other big polls like this?

As far as other non-artist specific polls:

Classic Rock Tracks - 63

Grand Disco Poll - 40

Greatest Rawk Trax of the 1970s - 56

1990s ELECTRONIC ALBUMS - 24

1980's Rock Poll - 87 album ballots and 62 tracks ballots

ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s - 42

ALL TIME RAP MUSIC POLL OF THE GODS - 35ish

ILM Top 100 2005-2009 - Somewhere between 80-90

Around how many does an average EOY poll get?

the 2021 poll received 77 tracks ballots and 86 albums ballots so this is very much in line with that (78 received of each)

EOY vote numbers have been declining for a while though, used to be a fair bit higher than that

eoy trends

https://i.imgur.com/oT5MYNW.png

Disco gotta be re-polled, gotta say

The 00s poll from 2019 had 100 ballots for tracks and 111 for albums.

I will do a top 100 for both tracks and albums!

Will start working on images and bbcode, hopefully I can get time to add also a small blurb from zines that gave a positive review on each track / album.

If everything goes fine I might be ready to roll next Monday, if not it will probably be until Aug 23. Will update my status this weekend to confirm when we’re live!

Thanks everyone who nommed and voted!

thank you so much Moka

sorry i did not get time but i look forward to the rollout!

can't believe ufo forgot to nom Nao's "For All We Know" (2016)

Omission that was crazy to me was ‘The Underside of Power” by Algiers.

The single

84 votes seems like a lot these days

can't believe ufo forgot to nom Nao's "For All We Know" (2016)

didn't quite make my shortlist unfortunately

84 votes seems like a lot these days

it's pretty much in line with the 2021 EOY poll, not any sort of real drop-off thankfully (which i was a bit worried about because the board has felt even quieter this year generally)

that's good considering the 2021 number and how many years people are asked to deal with here!

i forgive u

What are the main contenders for the tracks poll then? And wonder if any of the yearly poll #1s won't make it, I think probably "Boys" for a start, as people will have voted for other, better Charli tracks (I went for Take My Hand)

based on recent poll results covering similarly broad ground i am going to guess that hit singles by performers who aren't "album artists" will not do well compared to their showings from the year-specific polls

Does "2 On" fall into that category? Cause I think that could still fare well. "Black Beatles", maybe not as much.

These are the number 1s from the past decade:

2010 Girl Unit - Wut
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212
2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
2013 Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 On
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
2016 Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
2017 Charli XCX - Boys
2018 Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
2019 Busy Signal - Balloon

I actually don't know if any of these are contenders for the decade top spot though.

Some combination of 'what were we thinking' and 'at least we're unique' looking at those lol

I only re-voted for two of those ten.

two of those made my ballot

What are the main contenders for the tracks poll then? And wonder if any of the yearly poll #1s won't make it, I think probably "Boys" for a start, as people will have voted for other, better Charli tracks (I went for Take My Hand)

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

Yeah, I don't see Boys getting anywhere near our list. I still love it, but she has better as you say. Two others of hers made my list.

I would be surprised if people still rate Get Lucky that highly. Peggy Gou always seemed like a very surprising winner. No idea about Wut and 212. I can see them missing out. Out of our winners, I'd expect Inspector Norse, Realiti (Demo) and maybe 2 On to do the best.

Split voting is going to be interesting. No idea out of Run Away With Me or Call Me Maybe which is going to be the biggest contender for Carly. All those Ariana Grande, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift etc nominations make it hard to know which songs will come out on top for any of them.

Overall, I think the tracks list will be way more unpredictable than albums. I can't wait!

Oops I forgot to vote :)

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 17:06 (yesterday) link

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didn't remember to vote for 2 On or Call Me Maybe! Those are two of the best tracks of the 2010s. Run Away With Me is really good, but not that close.

I was thinking about albums when I voted, not tracks

Well I certainly did my best to ensure 212 makes the top 100.

"Boys" is such a deeply odd #1 because Charli XCX released something like 77 songs herself in 2017 and I wouldn't even put it in the top 10 of those were we ranking them.

I'm hoping Superlove can sneak in. Still my favourite Charli despite all the amazing songs she's put out since then.

Half of the number ones from the yearly polls are like huh?

voted for six of the ILM 2010s #1s, one as #1, two others in top 5, an additional two in top 15, and one other lower down on the list

i can promise surprises at the very least

ILM doubled down and Balloon is actually #1 decade ?

Balloon is easily the best and freshest of those winners tbf imo. Didn't vote for it but expecting it to do very well

oh fuck i completely forgot about "2 On"!

I'm not sure if anyone else does this but in my head there are songs which are "singles" even though they ended up on albums I love, and songs which are "album tracks" even though they ended up being singles, and I will always go for the former over the latter in a tracks poll - hence voting for "Call Me Maybe" over "Run Away With Me" or etc.

I don't know if I naturally make a mental distinction like that, but if I've heard the song prior to the album, and especially if I've seen the video, the song stands out in a way it doesn't if I hear it on the album first. Different context, for sure

I have noticed my favorite songs on albums often tend to be ones picked as singles anyway, and I'm not if that's a function of the extra exposure singles get or the elevated status making me pay more attention or simply catchiness or some other standout quality that me and the artist agree on

Balloon is easily the best and freshest of those winners tbf imo. Didn't vote for it but expecting it to do very well

― ban, buddy (imago), Thursday, August 11, 2022

Balloon is good but it wears itself out very quickly.

Often if I hear an album first I end up loving a particular song, and then am mystified when a different song is picked as a single and everyone likes it.

Sorry I didn't vote. It's been an epic couple of weeks.

so, after going through everything, is Courtney Barnett's "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit" the best album title of the decade?

https://i.discogs.com/3-LCGt6HqIAGkhjaWAgv09kvSIN5pJpKXvXB3F2Rkgs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1NjEz/NTktMTQ1MTMwMDc3/Ni00MjcyLmpwZWc.jpeg

I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

that is also a very good one!

This feels less like a quest to find the best album title of the 2010s and more a quest to find the most unrelentingly miserable

transgender dysphoria blues
trust in the lifeforce of deep mystery
spooky action at a distance
sir lucious left foot: the son of chico dusty

can't forget:

i go in on every song
i promise i will never stop going in
if you ever think i will stop going in, ask rr (royal rich)

should've done a side poll
(not that I voted)

American Dollar Bill - Keep Looking Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On
There Existed An Addiction To Blood
Titanic Rising
A Laughing Death In Meatspace
SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
...Because I'm Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For
Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It

if you ever think i will stop voting ask royal rich

oh and if it's misery you're after, WASTEISOLATION

In League With Dragons

Sorry everybody, I partied a bit too hard last night and didn’t get any work done yesterday or this morning, but we’re getting there.

Depending on how much I advance tonight I’ll confirm of rollout starts on Monday around 11pm est

11am I mean

no need to apologize for partying hard!

It’s actually going to be 100+1, since #101 has the same points as #100 but I’m using number of votes as tie-breakers. I feel bad leaving #101 out on a technicality.

would be just perfect if #101 would turn out to be “212”

Excuse me for party rocking.

sorry, but that song wasn’t nominated

iirc we didn't nominate Party Rock Anthem in its eligible EOY poll either

lmfao indeed

ppl complained as if it was a shoo-in

"gangnam style" did get nominated though and it's just a slightly better rip of "party rock anthem" really

should do this

never mind it's too late no?

yeah voting closed, sorry. rollout is starting next week

I did think about nominating "Party Rock Anthem". If I had, I don't think it would have made my final ballot though tbh

Hi everyone!

So I’m at 65% of the tracks images, I’ll have them complete by Monday no problem…
However, I still need to do the text / bbcode and search for blurbs for each one and that takes more time than I’ll have from Mo-We because it’s a bit of a hectic week for me and I don’t want to have long spans of not posting, I usually like posting every 8/10 mins so I can post results in a spam of 3 hours every day.

There’s 3 options:

1. I start posting on Tuesday. Finish the top 20 on Saturday instead of Friday.

2. I start posting on Monday without blurbs, maybe I can start adding them for 80-01.

3. I start posting Monday 22nd.

I vote for 1 or 2 (but defer to you). Thanks for your work on this, Moka!

Vote 2! No to Saturday final day. Will accept hybrid option where we get 25 a day from Tuesday

If I were to take on a big task like this I wouldn’t want to start until I’m good and ready, so take your time I say. 1: only if you can make it, 2: no, 3: why not? this is about a whole decade - what’s another week?

Thank you!

Alright, saturday is off!

I’ll do my best to post at least 15 on Monday or go blurb-less for the first batch and then I’ll catch up.

In case of fire we’ll jump to the 22nd.

sounds good, Moka

I'm cool with 3. Take your time.

Same

Yep. I am patient

i would also vote 3
x

when tt and i ran the 00's, tt did the images but i did all the bbcode, text, blurb etc stuff, ufo is shirking imo lol

tbf i got around this by not doing blurbs, and demanding the thread's live reactions to suffice

to be clear i originally offered to do that part too (& am still happy to do whatever's necessary there)

poor moka grafting away while you sip daiquiris

Lol

Not at all! Ufo did the spreadsheets, the voting form and the spotify playlists which are a pain to make.

Those are some well deserved daiquiris

oh damn, did ufo do all the seandalai stuff, accusation firmly retracted haha

that said i did do the spotify stuff for the 00's and that was definitely the most gruelling part yeah

Moka, you're not doing the bbcode by hand I hope? If you have everything in a spreadsheet, any decent text editor can generate the right tags for you.

xxp
1 vote for no blurbs at all.

I still have one week of vacation so I'm happy with either option 1 and 2

Another 3 here.

Don't stress to rush them out Moka, post when you're good and ready