THE 2012 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ is open for nominations! (ends Sunday January 6)

i'm not entirely sure how that Lone record became the 'token' idm record for this year but i haven't actually kept up with much else so its good enough for me

TRACKS

Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal

9/15

Tracks

Scott Walker - Epizootics!
M.I.A. - Bad Girls

Johnny Fever, I already nominated the Blood Diamonds & Grimes track.

Tracks

When Saints Go Machine - Mannequin

29/30

Oh cool, I missed that (and, really, wasn't expecting anyone else to even have repped for it).

Had no idea Susanna Hoffs released a record this year.

Also, "Cartoons and Cereal" not making the album proper (and "Compton" being on there) will probably be the very thing that keeps Kendrick outta my own top 10.

ALBUMS

Dev - The Night The Sun Came Up
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
Ichicuts - Filthy First Year
Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

9/15

TRACKS

2 Chainz - I'm Different
Flo Rida featuring Sia - Wild Ones
Eli Young Band - Even If It Breaks Your Heart
Keyshia Cole featuring Lil Wayne - Enough Of No Love
The Gaslight Anthem - 45

10/15

album noms:

lissy trullie - s/t
now, now - threads
harry howard & the nde - near death experience
the megaphonic thrift - s/t
the laurels - plains
horrid red - celestial joy
peter daltrey & the asteroid #4 - the journey
raveonettes - observator
toy - s/t
lorelei - enterprising sidewalks
dignan porch - nothing bad will ever happen
ultrasound - play for today
by the sea - s/t

singles noms:
fear of men - mosaic
paws - sore tummy
by the sea - eveline
savoir adore - dreamers
beat connection - further out
mining boom - pda
nun - solvents

couple more singles noms:

the presets - promises
the history of apple pie - do it wrong
the tenfivesixty - do this for me
sulk - flowers
shrag - devastating bones

"Yours Truly Cellophane Noise"

nice to see i'm not the only one who read this wrong (it's "nose")

peter daltrey & the asteroid #4 - the journey

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Immediately put this on on Spotify. Thanks for the tip.

it rules

TRACKS

London Grammar - Hey Now
Haerts - Wings

9/15

Three tracks, more later:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Driftin' Back
Drake & Rihanna - Take Care
Imperial Teen - Don't Know How You Do It

Speaking of which, anyone want to start compiling Spotify playlists?

ALBUMS

T-ara - Funky Town
Miss $ - Miss Us?
Serebro - Mama Lover

TRACKS

Orange Caramel - Lipstick
Trouble Maker - Trouble Maker
Cassie - King Of Hearts

6/30

ALBUMS

Diamond Rings - Free Dimensional
Crystal Castles - (III)
Beach House - Myth
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
Florrie - Late
Gossip - A Joyful Noise
Icky Blossoms - Icky Blossoms
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Lescop - La Forêt
Memory Tapes - Grace/Confusion
Rebecca & Fiona - I Love You, Man
The xx - Coexist
Yeasayer - Fragrant World
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

14/30

Okay, with nominations closing on January 6, that's about three and a half weeks for nominations. I had originally planned to open voting on Monday the 7th and close it on Friday the 18th (which is two 5-day work weeks and one weekend for voting), but is that enough time for voting? Should the nominations period be short and voting longer? However we split it up, voting needs to end on the 18th. Let us know.

Nominations period might sound long, but a lot of people are going to be busy over the holidays. And people can always think about what they're going to vote for during noms. So I'd keep it as you have it, myself.

i think shorter nom period and longer voting period is prob a good idea. a lot of what people want nominated will get taken care of well before the 6th but it's good to have a decent-sized window for voting imo. xpost

Fight!

agree with some dude here

I only ask because seandalai informed me that he'll be too busy to do any data crunching come February (which won't be a problem, because this has always happened, at least in the post-musically era, the last two weeks of January). Last year, nominations were open for a month and voting lasted two weeks and we got plenty of participation. The year before, we had three weeks of noms and three weeks of voting with only a negligible uptick in ballots. Perhaps I should've opened the thread earlier for nominations, but I'm still thinking 3.5 weeks of noms and then 12 days for voting sounds reasonable. As emily pointed out, a lot of people are going to be busy over the holidays, so the longer nominations period makes more sense.

Anyway, it's still early enough to resplit the timeframe in one way or the other. I just wanted to refresh everyone's memory on how it's gone down the last two years.

Just noticed that LeRooLeRoo nominated Beach House - Myth under albums, but that's the name of the first track, not the name of the album

Oh, hm...I wonder that was an intended vote for the album or for the track.

I just changed it to Bloom, assuming it was an album vote. If this isn't the case, it needs to be added to the tracks spreadsheet when that arrives.

TRACKS

Disclosure - Flow
Hospitality - Monkey

11/30

TRACKS

Clyde Carson - Slow Down

TRACKS

Shamar Forté - Bright Lights

9/15 (still 9/15 because I got one back from a duplicate nomination)

Speaking of which, anyone want to start compiling Spotify playlists?

I just created a collaborative one for tracks, working from this point upward. I can't do the whole thing because I need to go to bed, but if anyone else wants to jump in, then feel free.

http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/4EmfUgrRlPAEybUttQHgmw

Okay, I got all the way up to this post with the playlist. Anything above that hasn't been added. Plz halp.

Dev - The Night The Sun Came Up

this is eligible? wiki says it was released in sep '11. (i ask b/c if it IS eligible i'm rearranging all my lists to make room for it, what a surprisingly awesome album.)

that voices from the lake track is going to be my #1 probably, so simple but incredibly effective

i <3 that album but i don't know if isolating any track from it would make sense to me

Scott Walker - Epizootics!

thanks, can't believe i forgot to nom this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_the_Sun_Came_Up#Release_history

spotify tracks playlist should be current now

Re: shortening the noms window, I will def be using the period from Dec 26th to Jan 3rd to catch up on all the 2012 music I missed. So please don't bring the shutters down before 3rd. The length of the voting window is not an issue for me, so long as it covers at least one weekend.

ALBUMS

Deep Time - Deep Time

Just noticed this from Tuomas's nominations:

Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe (this is technically a reissue from the 1970s, but 50% of it is material that's never been released before, so I think it should qualify)

This is still technically a reissue. As cool as it is (and it's COOL), I think it falls outside the just about the only rule I've set regarding eligibility.

Okay, but can we still nominate some of the never-released-before tracks from it for the tracks poll?

Albums

Can - The Lost Tapes

this is eligible, right?

Previously unheard Spiegel tracks are okay.

The Lost Tapes is eligible.

spotify tracks playlist should be current now

― a robotic squirrel named RoboSquirrel (reddening), Thursday, December 13, 2012

grazi!

I seem to have had a particularly DIY/indie/punx0r year in 2012. Struggling to call up any of the weird/world/experimental/electronic stuff that seems to usually make up a large proportion of my ballot.

Just noticed that LeRooLeRoo nominated Beach House - Myth under albums, but that's the name of the first track, not the name of the album

― Dan S, jeudi 13 décembre 2012 04:59 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, hm...I wonder that was an intended vote for the album or for the track.

― Johnny Fever, jeudi 13 décembre 2012 05:00 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just changed it to Bloom, assuming it was an album vote. If this isn't the case, it needs to be added to the tracks spreadsheet when that arrives.

― Johnny Fever, jeudi 13 décembre 2012 05:01 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes it was a mistake, but I'll nominate "Myth" for the tracks. Thanks!

Oops was supposed to be quotes not bold...

TRACKS

Saint Etienne - DJ
Saint Etienne - Over The Border
Kate Boy - Northern Lights
AlunaGeorge - Just A Touch
The xx - Chained
Swiss Lips - In The Water
Sally Shapiro - What Can I Do
Souvenir - No Es El Final
Girls Aloud - On The Metro
Charli XCX - You're The One

ALBUMS

Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair

Lex, The Night The Sun Came Up got a U.S. release this year, with a slightly different (and worse) track list, but I'm going to vote for it anyway.

Since "Take Her From You" is my favorite track, they naturally enough left it off the American version, which they also made worse by adding the non-fabulous Fabolous to "Kiss My Lips," deleting "Bass Down Low" altogether, and adding a mediocre Timbaland collabo and a mediocre Enrique Iglesias collabo. But according to Wikip "Take Her From You" is a promo single this year, and it had a video late last year. If there's a Pazz & Jop this year it's on my singles ballot. So's "In My Trunk," for which there was a video this year which makes it eligible even though Dev makes videos more often than I make blogposts.

(I wouldn't worry too much about "eligibility." If people think something is too old, they won't vote for it.)

By the way, I've never been able to parse the lyrics to "Take Her From You," since the identity of the "you" keeps shifting.

This Clyde Carson track "Slow Down" is fantastic, and I'd never heard it before starting the spotify list.

TRACKS

Y.N.RickKids - Hot Cheetos and Takis

10/15