(TOP 5 TODAY, MOFOS!) Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Albums Poll Results)

Im never surprised to see you Glenn at that end of the centricity list!

Wish I could remember my ballot

glenn you are a gentleman and a scholar

just vote for two albums and you can be like me

My memory has returned!

Zombi - Spirit Animal
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
Yob - The Great Cessation
Converge - Axe to Fall
Baroness - The Blue Album
Cobalt - Gin
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
Zu - Carboniferous
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Oneida - Rated O
Cave - Pschic Psummer
Gates Of Slumber, The - Hymns Of Blood And Thunder
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Blues Control - Local Flavor
Circle - Triumph
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
Woods Family Creeps - Woods Family Creeps

or three, i wonder what the other one was...i guess i can find out

Only 4 made it so I may as well not vote for 20 albums!

And here's some album-similarity. The numbers here are a score (asymmetrically-weighted voter-overlap), and the raw number of voters in common.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

0.306 - 11 - Dirty Projectors, The - Bitte Orca
0.265 - 10 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
0.247 - 8 - Flaming Lips, The - Embryonic
0.209 - 12 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray

Baroness - The Blue Album

0.219 - 6 - Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Dirty Projectors, The - Bitte Orca

0.282 - 11 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
0.245 - 10 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.235 - 11 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.210 - 11 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.206 - 6 - Miranda Lambert - Revolution

DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout

0.512 - 18 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
0.471 - 19 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
0.349 - 8 - Ciara - Fantasy Ride
0.326 - 10 - Maxwell - Blacksummers' Night
0.318 - 14 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.312 - 8 - UGK - UGK 4 Life
0.288 - 9 - Rihanna - Rated R
0.285 - 14 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.265 - 10 - Dirty Projectors, The - Bitte Orca
0.259 - 7 - Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3D

DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

0.363 - 8 - Omar S - Fabric 45
0.247 - 10 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
0.209 - 8 - Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II

Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1

0.521 - 18 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.468 - 19 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
0.371 - 11 - Maxwell - Blacksummers' Night
0.346 - 15 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.338 - 16 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.323 - 8 - Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3D
0.299 - 10 - DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
0.284 - 9 - Rihanna - Rated R
0.269 - 7 - Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
0.265 - 8 - Dam Funk - Toeachizown

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

0.498 - 22 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.452 - 22 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.444 - 20 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
0.373 - 14 - Juan Maclean, The - The Future Will Come
0.330 - 11 - Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
0.320 - 13 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
0.302 - 12 - Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
0.297 - 13 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.290 - 13 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
0.266 - 12 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Flaming Lips, The - Embryonic

0.233 - 7 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

0.238 - 13 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
0.233 - 11 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
0.208 - 11 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.203 - 7 - Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
0.203 - 7 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

Juan Maclean, The - The Future Will Come

0.267 - 14 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
0.237 - 11 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.204 - 9 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II

0.239 - 6 - Field, The - Yesterday and Today
0.225 - 8 - DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
0.224 - 6 - El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
0.216 - 12 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
0.210 - 6 - Meanderthals - Desire Lines

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

0.229 - 6 - Baroness - The Blue Album

Maxwell - Blacksummers' Night

0.290 - 11 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
0.260 - 10 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.219 - 11 - Xx, The - The Xx

Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back

0.215 - 5 - Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star

Omar S - Fabric 45

0.265 - 8 - DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

0.329 - 14 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.245 - 10 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
0.237 - 12 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.206 - 7 - Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
0.206 - 7 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
0.204 - 10 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

0.245 - 6 - Mos Def - The Ecstatic
0.233 - 7 - Flaming Lips, The - Embryonic
0.218 - 10 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!

Rihanna - Rated R

0.282 - 12 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
0.223 - 9 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.216 - 9 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1

Taylor Swift - Fearless

0.216 - 9 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.210 - 10 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money

The-Dream - Love Vs. Money

0.529 - 19 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.515 - 19 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
0.405 - 12 - Rihanna - Rated R
0.390 - 20 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
0.389 - 17 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.350 - 17 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.307 - 8 - Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
0.280 - 10 - Taylor Swift - Fearless
0.277 - 11 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
0.254 - 9 - Maxwell - Blacksummers' Night

Xx, The - The Xx

0.431 - 19 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!
0.425 - 22 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
0.398 - 16 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
0.375 - 17 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
0.342 - 14 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.326 - 11 - Maxwell - Blacksummers' Night
0.308 - 12 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
0.272 - 11 - Dirty Projectors, The - Bitte Orca
0.264 - 11 - Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
0.225 - 9 - DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The - It's Blitz!

0.438 - 22 - Fever Ray - Fever Ray
0.403 - 19 - Xx, The - The Xx
0.399 - 14 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
0.389 - 17 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money
0.381 - 15 - Electrik Red - How to Be a Lady Vol. 1
0.357 - 14 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.322 - 10 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
0.293 - 11 - Juan Maclean, The - The Future Will Come
0.285 - 11 - Dirty Projectors, The - Bitte Orca
0.273 - 9 - Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
0.273 - 9 - Flaming Lips, The - Embryonic

Who voted for Zombi apart from e.mily and I?

Flaming Lips, The - Embryonic

0.233 - 7 - Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

rofl

Taylor Swift - Fearless

0.216 - 9 - DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
0.210 - 10 - The-Dream - Love Vs. Money

lol

biggest non surprise is that mastodon and baroness featured in the same ballots

And here, since the highest average-points getters have already been pointed out, are the lowest average-points among albums getting at least 5 votes:

Dominique Leone - Abstract Expression - 6.8
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm - 6.6
Ryan Leslie - Ryan Leslie - 6.2
Sonic Youth - The Eternal - 5.89
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs- 5

lol @ nostalgia votes (says one of the two guys who voted for polvo)

And here are the top voter similarities:

score · overlap · voters
0.529 · 7 · LeRooLeRoo · Spencer Chow
0.469 · 5 · won't have sex cuzzov stds · Cunga
0.465 · 6 · Future_Perfect · peepee
0.461 · 6 · pfunkboy · Steampig67
0.445 · 6 · psychgawsple · karl...arlk...rlka...lkar...
0.438 · 7 · Matt DC · blueski
0.435 · 7 · DavidM · Bee OK
0.433 · 7 · LeRooLeRoo · Kitchen Person
0.430 · 4 · psychgawsple · skeletor
0.429 · 7 · een · J0rdan S.
0.426 · 6 · forksclovetofu · lou
0.420 · 7 · een · k3vin k.
0.419 · 4 · won't have sex cuzzov stds · monster_xero
0.415 · 8 · ilxor · Gavin in Leeds
0.415 · 5 · LeRooLeRoo · Jibe
0.406 · 7 · een · President Keyes
0.406 · 5 · forksclovetofu · some dude
0.406 · 5 · Pete Scholtes · Ioannis
0.406 · 4 · Steve Shasta · CrackleBox
0.401 · 6 · Matt DC · The Reverend
0.399 · 5 · Matt DC · hoot
0.398 · 6 · een · call all destroyer
0.391 · 5 · ciderpress · Ari
0.390 · 6 · won't have sex cuzzov stds · sofatruck
0.389 · 5 · een · cozwn
0.389 · 3 · forksclovetofu · Euler
0.388 · 3 · Derelict · keythhtyek
0.387 · 6 · een · johnny crunch
0.384 · 6 · een · Moreno
0.381 · 5 · emil.y · David Katz (davek_00)
0.377 · 3 · Steve Shasta · Jamie T Smith
0.376 · 4 · Steve Shasta · Tannenbaum Schmidt
0.374 · 6 · johnny crunch · Tim F
0.374 · 4 · pfunkboy · jjjusten
0.371 · 6 · danzig · Alex in Montreal
0.364 · 6 · Matt DC · Ari
0.364 · 4 · LeRooLeRoo · Paul in Santa Cruz
0.361 · 4 · Parenthetical Grillz · Mordy
0.361 · 4 · pfunkboy · Ioannis
0.360 · 5 · won't have sex cuzzov stds · Parenthetical Grillz
0.360 · 4 · forksclovetofu · groovemaaan
0.359 · 4 · tubesocks · Johnny Fever
0.356 · 4 · won't have sex cuzzov stds · MumblestheRevelator
0.354 · 6 · LeRooLeRoo · ilxor
0.353 · 4 · LeRooLeRoo · Johnny Fever

who is 'won't have sex cussov stds'

who is een

i'm number 20, how the hell did that happen?

sometimes i feel so lost on this board but it's my home...

thanks musically, another excellent job this year!

even though I'm hated on here I'd like to say nice/ interesting #1 even though I think a lot of the songs on that album don't feel finished. Also XX is a bad album. Rest of top 10 is pretty great though. I'm still a Veckatimest is a great album person, but I'm also hated here, so there you go.

had I been able/figured out how to vote I might have been able to "shake things up"---also really love Black To Comm record.

wish I could erase my last post I wouldn't have shaken ANYTHING up...joke that didn't translate well. :(

poo

0.374 · 6 · johnny crunch · Tim F

^^this makes me feel good tbh

who is 'won't have sex cussov stds'

i'm a little agog at how much ilx/singles jukebox is influencing my music taste this year

0.406 · 5 · forksclovetofu · some dude

sup homey!

i'm guessing maxwell, the-dream, quik and kurupt, UGK and jeremih?
and i have to ask: have you TRIED much tonetta?

all of those except the-dream, yeah. i was trying to think what less popular thing we both would've voted for that'd pair me up w/ you instead of lex or one of the other goons, and it was definitely jeremih.

i actually have only the vaguest idea of what tonetta even is from the youtube stills i've seen on ilx, so i have no real opinion on that (other than that i'd vote for a youtube channel in an albums poll over my dead body).

jeremih got the game on http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r110/AndreeKoRn/slipKnot-1.jpg

youtube channels as album = an idea whose time is coming pretty damn fast

great stats glenn

i consider my high centricity here as a kind of balance for low p&j centricity...

gotta say i'm with al re: youtube channels as albums. i mean, apart from anything else, really shitty sound quality, right?

a couple of have been posted here already but i might start a new thread for ballots, as per the other EOY polls, to stop them getting too lost.

also, whoa at terius and electrik red getting SIXTEEN no 1 votes between them, esp when you might have thought they'd split votes!! i think erykah got five no 1 votes last year and everyone thought that was pretty high.

multiple #1 votes aka #1s in our hearts:

10 - the-dream
6 - electrik red
5 - fever ray
3 - phoenix, dirty projectors, dj sprinkles
2 - the xx, taylor swift, the juan maclean, the flaming lips, neko case, el perro del mar

youtube channels as album = an idea whose time is coming pretty damn fast

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, February 27, 2010 4:16 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ehhh -- 'your hard drive is the album of the year'-type magazine stunts have been obnoxiously going on for like a decade now. and my distaste is not just because of the internet context, like if a theater critic said 'there weren't as many plays this year and the theater is dying so my favorite play was this movie' that'd be a total dick move imo.

i did the vast majority of my listening to tonetta/autotune/thru-you on my ipod; if you can explain to me how voting for a youtube channel is drastically different than voting for a mixtape, i'd be curious to hear.

it's really not a "stunt", it's the music i listened to most and enjoyed the most. if there were a better way to classify it than "youtube output", I'd be happy to embrace less clunky lingo.

more accurate comparison would be a theater critic who said among the best plays they saw this year was some street theater, a performance art piece and a flash mob; the "theatermusic is dying/there weren't as many playsalbums this year" is absolutely not my argument, though i'm aware it is some challopsian tubes'

i think it comes down to personal preferences of pedantry -- like if i listed all the music i listened to most this year, my whole songs ballot would've been gucci mane songs (aside from "blame it") but personally i try to stick to well known albums/mixtapes, diversify my song choices etc -- i don't think either way is better & i think forks should list youtube output if he wnats, as long as he's okay with us making fun of him :-)

it's what i'm here for

9/20, and i'm still an ultra-outlier on the voter-centricity ranking.

El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop
Ducktails - Ducktails
Henrik Schwarz, Âme and Dixon - The Grandfather Paradox
Nite Jewel - Good Evening
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Washed Out - Life Of Leisure
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Sorcerer - Neon Leon
Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Cam Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
Mungolian Jet Set - We Gave it All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back
Dolphins Into the Future - ... On Sea Faring Isolation
Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
Broadcast & The Focus Group - ...Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
omar s - fabric 45
Linkwood - System
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
Dam Funk - Toeachizown
David Sylvian - Manafon
Washed Out - High Times

who is skeletor? and why didn't i realize how similar our tastes were before?

ugh sorry, just saw the ballot thread.

i did the vast majority of my listening to tonetta/autotune/thru-you on my ipod; if you can explain to me how voting for a youtube channel is drastically different than voting for a mixtape, i'd be curious to hear.

i would vote for a mixtape that was assembled by/with the artist and features primarily new material -- i wouldn't vote for a mixtape that some DJ or kid with a CD burner threw together to collect a bunch of singles and loose tracks, which to me is the analog to the youtube thing. i'd roll my eyes the same way if anyone tried to vote for "Gucci Mane output for 2009," but then there he actually had proper albums and album-style mixtapes to vote for. i think i'd be far more interested in seeing a poll (or individual's list) of best youtube stuff of a given year than it being shoehorned into a list about a completely different medium, is all. but i agree with jordan that obviously you CAN vote for that kind of thing and it's cool that you have a good attitude about being zinged or questioned about it.

i mean i voted for the Freeway 'Month of Madness' thing, which is basically just a collection of tracks released on a website, but Free released those songs as part of a particular project in a particular order and (i think) approved of the mixtape compilation himself, so that's a gray area but ultimately to me feels more like an album than not.

pretty much agree w/al here, though i think those youtube channels were created by the artists in question? imo they're as valid as any other, i just think it's funny that forks voted for three of them.

in an albums poll how well the artist has put together a collection of songs that works as a collection, be it mixtape or album or youtube channel, is def an important (though not the only) factor to consider for me.

in an albums poll how well the artist has put together a collection of songs that works as a collection, be it mixtape or album or youtube channel, is def an important (though not the only) factor to consider for me.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, February 27, 2010 5:20 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is true

also, as an outsider, i would actually follow & check out a youtube-only music poll, as long as it wasn't shit like "chocolate rain"-type meme bait -- that youtube single that forks picked for the jukebox redemption week was truly great

Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery -- 85 points, 6 votes
Tonetta777 - YouTube output for 2009 -- 84.5 points, 8 votes

oh for fuck's sake

I'm just annoyed you're statistically more of an obscurantist than me, LJ. That's what I get for loving DProj and AnCo, I suppose.

I'm so totally alternative, you MAINSTREAM SQUARE

but I would have voted for the winner if I'd heard it in time so maybe not

i'm a little agog at how much ilx/singles jukebox is influencing my music taste this year

forks- I was just saying the same thing to Alex in Montreal yesterday, so it makes sense that our ballots matched up.

Didn't vote for any Youtube channels though. :)

I'm a centricity outlier on both this and the metal poll. Not too surprised. Only two on my ballot made the top 50 - Death and The Mountain Goats.

My ballot:

Yob - The Great Cessation
Mountain Goats, The - The Life Of The World To Come
Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel - Willie And The Wheel
Bloody Panda - Summon
Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
Joe Henry - Blood From Stars
Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo
Wardruna - Runaljod-Gap Var Ginnunga
Mayyors - Deads
Sula Bassana - The Night
Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart
Disappearer - The Clearing
Zu - Carboniferous
Hacride - Lazarus
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean
Cornershop - Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast
Death - …For the Whole World to See

"i would vote for a mixtape that was assembled by/with the artist and features primarily new material -- i wouldn't vote for a mixtape that some DJ or kid with a CD burner threw together to collect a bunch of singles and loose tracks, which to me is the analog to the youtube thing."

okay; without being a dick about it, this betrays a distinct lack of familiarity for the stuff that I voted for.

autotune the news released nine numbered singles on youtube (along with a bunch of other work by the same guy that, while generally excellent doesn't fit into the rubric) that had cohesive thematic and melodic elements that joined the work together (along with a weak intro track and a light outro). Tonetta's absolute flood of material was regularly shut down, pulled from the web and never really self-archived, but it smells to me like a single thought is absolutely running through all his songs... as well as a single drum mix. as for Thru-You, I think I've flogged this piece enough (especially as it's really just a link-heavy rewrite of my singles review), but I talk at length about what makes it special to mein this article; if x=tl;dr: Thru-You was released as a seven track EP on his own site and while it consists of artfully diced youtubes, it doesn't really count as a "youtube collection".

I'm going to assume that loving a video game soundtrack doesn't require qualifiers? Or no? Happy to talk about that too.

I'm pretty shocked Tonetta didn't make it, though, to be honest the dude kind of has an advantage with the youtube format in that I voted for his output as "album" of the year when he's had years to write all those great songs and make all the great videos, this is just when the collection finally made it to the outside world. It's like if Death had released a box set coming out of obscurity. "Drugs, Drugs, Drugs" is still song of the year for me, though.