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

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

just want to confirm:
Circle of Ouroborus - The Lost Enterance of the Just

I misspelled it "Loast" when i nominated it upthread.

TRACKS

ZZ Ward - Put the Gun Down
Miranda Lambert - Run Daddy Ru (ft Pistol Annies)

(19/30)

Run Daddy Run

ALBUMS

Various Artists - For Lee Jackson in Space

(20/30)

So much good stuff to hear on this, btw: http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/4EmfUgrRlPAEybUttQHgmw

Thanks to the couple other people who've been helping fill it up.

Why did it take me all year long to realize that "Disparate Youth" is a close cousin of "Making Plans for Nigel"? Heard the song at least 40 or 50 times and I've just now realized that.

Thanks for the playlist JF!

Just stuff I want to vote for.

albums

Lower Dens - Nootropics
Choir of Young Believers - Rhine Gold
Gudrun Gut - Wildlife
Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred

tracks

Cody ChesnuTT - That's Still Mama
Kinky - Despues Del After

TRACKS

Justin Townes Earle - Look the Other Way
Royal Headache - Psychotic Episode

I'm sorry if I'm blind but is there a spreadsheet for tracks?

Walk 6 posts up, look under the red toadstool.

Oops spreadsheet not spotify, sorry for snark. There is one, I'll find the link.

Actually, there's no albums spreadsheet yet. Sorry for posting.

Poor confused seandalai - there is an albums spreadsheet (it is in the original post), but there is no tracks spreadsheet yet.

Albums spreadsheet, yes. Tracks spreadsheet, no.

aaaargh what am I doing here? Help me!

A few more tracks I'd like to add -- I don't know how many I have, but I'm pretty sure I'm not over the limit yet

Josephine Foster - Geyser
Alexander Tucker - Mullioned View
Swans - Mother of the World

sorry i extra-added the other songs to the spotify list! i didn't realize they were already on there. did they disappear automatically or did someone delete them? it doesn't matter, i was just wondering how it works.

Oh, that was me. I knew they were already on there because I'd added them myself last night, but that's not always the case. Eagle-eyed ilxors should keep an eye out for doubles.

ALBUMS
Kettel & Secede - When Can
Field Music - Plumb
Pinback - Information Retrieved
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
(5/15)

La Lechera, dunno if you noticed but I submitted that swans track already I think (good choice though!)

some bobbins picks

TRACKS

Head High - Rave (Dirt Mix)
Special Request - Lolita (Warehouse Mix)
Huxley - Let It Go
Bicep - $tripper
Pachanga Boys - Time
Omar-S & Ob Ignitt - Wayne County Hill Cops
Andrés - New For U
Geeman - Bang't
Lauer - Trainman (Tensnake Tranceman mix)
Ejeca - Horizon
Storm Queen - Let's Make Mistakes (Club)
Conforce - 24 (Gesloten Cirkel Remix)

12/15

actually, it should be:

Lauer - Trainmann (Tensnake Tranceman mix)

ALBUMS

Fort Romeau - Kingdoms
Tin Man - Neo Neo Acid
V/A - Panorama Bar 04 Mixed by Nick Höppner
Juju & Jordash - Techno Primitivism

4/15

Does Matos still lurk here?

SINGLES
11. Benoit & Sergio, "New Ships"
12. Lotus Plaza, "Strangers"
13. Death Grips, "Deep Web"

Andrés - New For U

surprised not more mention of this - will place high in RA poll i guess