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

How it works:

You can vote for up 20 albums AND 20 tracks. That's 40 total. They are not transferable, so you cannot vote for 1 album and 39 tracks.

You may vote in one of two ways: ordered and non-ordered. You can order your list, and I will give 20 points to your #1 ranked item and 1 point to your #20th ranked item. Be sure when sending me your ballot that your top-ranked item is at the top of the list. If you can't be bothered, you can submit an unranked list and each item will receive 10.5 points.

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Blurbs, anecdotes, etc are welcomed. I will not be emailing people after I tally the votes to solicit blurbs, so if you have something please send it with your ballot. <-----------------this is different than before so please keep it in mind.

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I'm not trying to threaten people but I cannot guarantee that your votes will be counted if you don't do the above, because the formatting gets screwy and the find duplicates function ceases to be functional. Since not numbering your ballots and copying and pasting are both less work for y'all so I don't get why people still number their ballots and type them in manually all the time. I'll email you if I get an improperly formatted ballot to ask you to resubmit but still, please, just do it correctly the first time.

Due date: Thursday, January 22nd, 2009, 11:59pm.

Send your ballots to seattleDOTmaryATgmailDOTcom

List of nominations is here -
Trax: http://ilx2007poll.googlepages.com/2008poll-trax
Albums: http://ilx2007poll.googlepages.com/2008poll-albums
(I cleaned it up quite a bit, let me know if there are any errors left)

now get voting! This thread can also be useful for repping and lobbying those with extra votes available, etc. I hope to start the trax results the last week of January and the album results the first week of Feb.

oh christ, the due date is 2009, not 2008, i'll just assume that most of you would pick that up.

Hey, Geir (assuming you read this thread), I'll vote Coldplay on my ballot if you include Kathleen Edwards on yours.

In general, if anyone has a fave band they need a vote for - and I'm already considering them on a shortlist - I'll bump them onto my list for a Kathleen Edwards vote.

No Air is on dere twice, by the by.

Also, Panic! At the Disco is listed by their full name on the tracks list, and by P!ATD on the albums list.

Alright. My ballot is pretty much ready to go. I'll hold onto it a few days, tho, just in case someone wants to do a Kathleen Edwards trade with me.

I thought we agreed that Paper Planes was a 2007 release, though it become a minor phenomenon last year.

ok, i need to rep for a few tracks here...
check out "rise rice": www.krecs.com/mahjongg/kontpab
and along completely different lines, here's "crush":

Man, I did not have my singles ears on at all last year. I easily found more than 20 albums to rep for (Free Gold! In The Future! You And Me Cherry Red!) but outside of a handful of tracks (Milli, Blind, etc.), I just didn't get enough exposure to have strong opinions on anything… And because I was late whipping up a best-of-08 mixtape, I didn't nom anything as singles (and forgot about that Crystal Antlers EP that I meant to nom for albums, but held back because I thought that maybe EPs didn't count for some reason).

So, assume I'm ignorant but totally willing to listen and link me to some singles so I can hear 'em, because otherwise my ballot's gonna be limp like lettuce.

Here's a good single:

Man, I did not have my singles ears on at all last year. I easily found more than 20 albums to rep for

I actually have a theory about this. See, this year, I had plenty of singles worth listing and very few albums. And last year I had the same. But the year before I had tons of albums and not enough singles. I don't think it's that the year changes, or even that necessarily my listening habits change. I think it's more like one of those animated jpegs where you can see the dancer moving clockwise, or counterclockwise, but you can't see the dancer move both ways simultaneously. You can either remember albums, or remember singles primarily, but you can't primarily remember both. (Also, I suspect that the years that I can list mostly albums are years that I'm less picky about album filler, and years that I mostly remember singles are years where I want my few albums to be 100% perfect.)

doubt this is actually a problem, but the flying lotus record is listed twice

btw does this have to be all one email? i've got my 20 albums but im not sure about all the trax yet

Flying Lotus - Los Angeles is listed twice in Albums (no big deal, just two consecutive, identical listings)

btw thanks SO MUCH for organizing this, musically!

In the Albums list:

Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Mt. Erie - Lost Wisdom

4 yr consideration

sofia marikh "kelmet hobb"

That Cole Medina track is actually called Cole Loves Your Insides Out, and I'm voting for it.

I thought the rules said that there wouldn't be separate votes for remixes, but, for example, Blind and Paper Planes are listed alongside their remixes. I thought votes for all different mixes were meant to just go for the song. (I want to vote for the Club Mix, anyway!)

PIMPIN' TRAX:

wookie ft. ny - fallin' again

ciara - echo

perempay & dee ft. katie pearl - in the air

trina ft. killer mike - look back at me (ppl who love 'a milli' should definitely check this out)

wiley ft. blaze & triggz - if you're going out i'm going out too

teedra moses - so kool

joker - gully brook lane

ikonika - please

d-malice - gabryelle refix

i cant even think of 10 great albums this year maybe 8

Chris Brown - Forever
Ayumi Hamasaki - Part Of Me (Carl Craig Remix)
Lil Wayne - Got Money
Phil Collins - I'm Not Moving (Idjut Boys Remix)
Scarlett Johannson - Falling Down
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

Carlos Giffoni - Adult Life
Eric Copeland - Alien In A Garbage Dump
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter Iii
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
No Age - Nouns
Religious Knives - The Door
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Studio - Yearbook 2
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

lookin somethin like that after initial scan

btw does this have to be all one email? i've got my 20 albums but im not sure about all the trax yet

no, you can definitely split it up if you'd prefer.

i have received 10 ballots since i posted this last night...keep it up!

Voted albums and trax. Thanks Musically for running this.

Here's my albums list if anyone cares

Torche - Meanderthal
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Dear Up The Hill
Portishead - Third
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Bug, The - London Zoo
Lau Nau - Nukkuu
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Woods Family Creeps - Woods Family Creeps
Growing - All The Way
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled (Gnarled Forest)
James Blackshaw - Litany Of Echoes
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
Goslings - Occasion
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
Cave - Hunt Like Devil

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.

I am not seeing enough love for THE CHAP - MEGA BREAKFAST on this thread. Please consider voting for it in your albums chart, people.

If it were half as good as Ham, I'd consider it.

yeah i prefer it when people don't post their votes too, plus i am worried that some people are posting them here instead of emailing them to me?

how about we post ballots AFTER the poll to review instead of while we're waiting. i'll direct anyone who posts their ballot here to send it in via email if they forgot. i think the thread is better used for campaigning anyway.

musically can you check your email please?

zinc/geeneus/nikki benoit/emotions

dj ng/baby katy/mc versatile/tell me

ny/t2/fire

jamie duggan/rachel m/losing me

shut up and dance/glory days

oops!
jamie duggan/rachel m/losing me

dang! i missed the nominations due to being dumb, my 2nd fave record of the year (zazen boys iv) is not represented in track (weekend) or album!

Here's my order albums ballot:

Torche - Meanderthal
Fucked Up - Chemistry Of Common Life
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
Portishead - Third
Shearwater - Rook
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
School Of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Wetnurse - Invisible City
Hercules & Love Affair - S/T
Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive
Krallice - S/T
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser
Constantines, The - Kensington Heights
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Blood On The Wall - Liferz
T.I. - Paper Trail
War On Drugs, The - Wagonwheel Blues
Little Joy - S/T
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton

i am slowly bloggin abt these albums at http://callalldestroyer.tumblr.com

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

oh sorry.

it's okay, i should have said it in the op

sent!

Just sent my list in.

How on earth did no one nominate "Water Curses" for tracks???

No "I Kissed a Girl," either, huh?

Why is Merriweather Post Pavvy on the albums list?

Are you people retarded?

Nevermind.

i would like to second all the youtubes that ianthe posted!

omg the thought of people calling that execrable thing 'merriweather post pavvy' is about the grossest thing i've ever heard of

merriweather moist pussy

better. not as twee.

I can't believe no one nommed "Viva la Vida"

lol sorry geir ;)

lex, it's the name HRO gave it, but you prob knew that

thanks to everyone who has been voting...i have been getting about 10 ballots a day. definitely on track to have more participants than the last few years, at least.

What won last year?

ahh there it is **********Hot damn it's THE ILX 2007 POLL RESULTS, part 2**********

I hope someone else besides me is gonna vote for "Williams' Blood" by Grace Jones, this is basically the track of the year for me:

dj q/mc bones/you wot

shaznay lewis/wideboys/daddio

songs yall need to aquaint yourselves with before voting:

Hood Headlinaz, "Rollin'" (bleary, x'd-out southern chillout-rap)

Grind Mode, "I'm So High" (Miami roller-jam electro-funk)

kyla/crazy cousinz/do you mind

cahill/wideboys/trippin on you

please note "Indian Jewelry" is misspelled "Indian Jerwelry", some people may have corrected it but I left the error in as requested.

jesus fucking christ people knock it off with the youtube links.

i noted that in my ballot too, and also left it as "Jerwelry" just in case

more trax candidates:

death set "negative thinking"

sprengjuhollin "keyrum yfir island"

sent in this (ordered):

TRAX
T.I. - No Matter What
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Sofia Marikh - Kelmet Hobb
Enur featuring Natasja - Calabria 2008
Ida Maria - Oh My God
Sprengjuhollin - Keyrum Yfir Island
Death Set, The - Negative Thinking
Drive-by Truckers - Self-Destructive Zones
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
Ne-Yo - Closer
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
Myriam Fares - Mosh Ananiya
Bug, The - Poison Dart (Ft/ Warrior Queen)
Chris Brown - With You
Wiley – Wearing My Rolex
Crystal Castles – Crimewave
Ting Tings, The - That's Not My Name
Jordin Sparks And Chris Brown - No Air
Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules Theme

MIA - Paper Planes

ALBUMS
Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Taylor Swift - Fearless

Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

Amandititita - La Reina De La Anarcumbia

Times New Viking - Rip It Off
Torche - Meanderthal

Very Best, The - Esau Mwamwaya And Radioclit Are The Very Best

Sprengjuhollin - Bestu Kveojur
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

Glass Candy - Beat Box

Mountain Goats, The - Heretic Pride

Boris – Smile

Santogold – Santogold

Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark

Paul Westerberg – 49:00

El Guincho – Alegranza

T.I. - Paper Trail
Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing


I've received 50 ballots so far...since I got 60 last year I would say we're definitely on pace to break the record.

a couple of great drum & bass tracks:

High Contrast - If We Ever

Danny Byrd - Shock Out

Come on, there has to be more than fifty voters. Doesn't the ILX group on Last.fm have a few hundred members???

most ilxors are too busy/lazy to compile a list AND email it.

I've received 50 ballots so far...since I got 60 last year I would say we're definitely on pace to break the record.

― miss precious perfect (musically), Monday, January 19, 2009 12:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

huh? on last year's results thread that was just linked on here, you said that there were 75 ballots cast.

hmm...i don't remember where I got 60 from...according to the threads last yeah i got 64 tracks ballots and 75 for albums.

I am expected you to get more tracks ballots than albums actually.

bump as it went off the new answers page

thanks musically for doing this!

getting it together now.

albums (non-ordered):

Black Mountain - In The Future
Cure, The - 4:13 Dream
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Delays - Everything's The Rush
Dodos, The - Visiter
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Notwist, The - The Devil You & Me
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
Portishead - Third
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Shearwater - Rook
Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

traxx I'm deeply ashamed for not having nominated:

Dirtbombs - Sherlock Holmes
Dirtbombs - Leopardman at C&A
Electric Fire Babies - Thunderbolt
Clinic - If You Could Read Your Mind

bump

ballots due TOMORROW

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...

BUMP

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)

BUMP

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!
x-post

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

reason to hate kings of leon more than AC: i hear the former somewhere, somehow pretty much every day. don't think i've heard an AC song in several years.

That I can understand. I've never heard Animal Collective on radio or on tv.

I imagine if people haven't voted it's not because they missed this thread the 1000000000000 times it was on the front page, it's because they don't plan on voting or they have been putting it off. if you fall into the latter category then for shame!!! submit now!!

Are you near 100 ballots yet?

Two hours, I'll do it!

i have 87. i'm not going to stop taking ballots until midnight my time so technically there is still 7 hours left.

Come on ILX we can make it to 100. Still 7 hours left!!

Musically you should try asking on the metal poll thread. More chance of them listening to you than me :)

I imagine they'll listen to you, you certainly have the metal cred that I lack...

sent

lol @ the thought of me having metal cred

Oh fuck! I forgot to send in my ballot. Is there time left?

yes there is, midnight PST is when I will stop taking ballots. not that i'll be up then locking my email but still try to get it in my then at least.

Cool. I didn't know which time zone.

Oh, also, I can send in less than 20 votes, correct?

aaaaaand sent!

correct

sent!

okay, so about an hour left...if you are up late and have nothing better to do, consider sending in a ballot.

I suck at deadlines. Huge sorries to musically, but can you please include my two minute late entry?

yeah, no prob, i was asleep at midnight so it's all good.

anyway, as it's 7 hours and 18 minutes past midnight for me, i am closing the poll. thanks to everyone who participated. i'll post little updates over the weekend, and hopefully if everything goes according to schedule i'll start the trax results on monday.

I asked a few people who post/lurk on ilx to vote yesterday and they said they would. Sadly not enough to get to 100 ballots, but I tried.

If people can't wait to see results, then head over to ILX METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2008 RESULTS the top 10 is being announced today. Will be interesting to see if (m)any of them crossover to musically's poll.

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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