2012 Albums Poll Afterparty of Stats, Ballots and Differential Calculus

I should have written an explanation of the graph at the top of the thread...it's a plot of all the similarities between voters collapsed into two dimensions through PCA. On average, people with similar ballots will appear close to each other in the plot but the method doesn't work all the time and seems to have a particular aversion to Tim F.

― questino (seandalai), Thursday, 31 January 2013 8:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why am I so bad and hated

you're unique!

I felt this was a very 'me' year actually, my top choices all placed:

1. Dawn Richard - Armor On (#4)
2. Grimes - Visions (#5)
3. Taylor Swift - Red (#6)
4. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream (#1)
5. Blondes - Blondes (#18)
6. Angel Haze - Reservation (#37)
7. Future - Pluto (#14)
8. Gunplay - Bogota Rich (#67)
9. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City (#2)
10. John Talabot - Fin (#3)
11. Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss (#17)
12. Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake (#32)

you have the highest hivermind score of all 25 album voters. your taste is ilm's or vice versa!

My ballot:

Mac Demarco - Mac Demarco 2
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance
Zombie Zombie - Rituels d'un Nouveau Monde
Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber
Chris Cohen - Overgrown Path
Rye Rye - Go! Pop! Bang!
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Nu Sensae - Sundowning
Dent May - Do Things
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
Metz - Metz
Beak> - >>
Todd Terje - It's The Arps
Death Grips - The Money Store
Disasterpeace - Fez
Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
UFOmammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Tenniscoats - Papa's Ear
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Grass Widow - Internal Logic
Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Dan Deacon - America
Off! - Off!"

I can't believe I was the only person to vote for that Daily Bread album :(

weighted

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Burial - Kindred EP
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways
Angel Haze - Reservation
Grimes - Visions
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Holy Other - Held
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
Jam City - Classical Curves
Jeremih - Late Nights with Jeremih
Beach House - Bloom
The KDMS - Kinky Dramas & Magic Stories
Swans - The Seer
The xx - Coexist
Taylor Swift - Red
Chairlift - Something
Cate Le Bon - CYRK
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Actress - R.I.P.
Catcall - The Warmest Place
Solange - True
Charli XCX - Super Ultra

only heard pluto about a week or so ago, would've put it in my ballot had i voted today.

Weighted. LOL Boys, Rihanna (!), and Silkie & Quest were unique votes.

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Future - Pluto
Young Smoke - Space Zone
Ab-Soul - Control System
LOL Boys - LOL Boys Enter the Unknownp
Le1f - Dark York
Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz
Mala - Mala in Cuba
Rihanna - Unapologetic
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday ... Roman Reloaded
Silkie & Quest - Dubstep Allstars, Vol.09
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect
Dawn Richard - Whiteout EP
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Azealia Banks - 1991 EP
Terror Danjah - Dark Crawler
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Wynter Gordon - Human Condition: Doleo
Chief Keef - Finally Rich
Mykki Blanco - Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss
A Tribe Called Red - s/t

were LOL Boys and OMG Girls related?

Ha - I thought I'd be the only one without a top 77 placer but I forgot I'd voted for a certain record on the strength of one track before hearing the rest (which I'm sure is brilliant) #oops #notdoingthatagain

The Field Music effort was heroic - next time fellas. We know what side our orch-prog-pop bread is buttered on...

Weighted:

Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously
Field Music - Plumb
Extra Life - Dream Seeds
The Pre-New - Music For People Who Hate Themselves
Volcano! - Pinata
The Chap - We Are Nobody
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
KTL - V
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Ultrasound - Play for Today

were LOL Boys and OMG Girls related?

― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha naw, it's just the most fun dance album of the year that I don't think I successfully convinced a single person to listen to

they should get together and be the WTF People

soooo surprised to have Alex in MTL as my top neighbor

I just googled "wtf people" and uh...

oh -- i didn't google, not sure i wanna know?

how does the LOL boys you voted for compare to "changes", reverend?

I think they've broken up now which is sad.

kind of lol but...

I'm a big LOL Boys/Jerome LOL stan but wasn't really that into "Changes" so I'm possibly not the best one to ask. But anyway, it's a mix album and isn't very reliant on their own productions (only has a few of them), and it's mostly a lot more upbeat than "Changes". A lot of the tracks on it are from Body High artists and related ppls. It kind of sounds like what the cover looks like:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xYIjWJNBHe8/UAca3J6aO6I/AAAAAAAAEuo/xxux3A8w0O4/s1600/LOL%2BBoys%2B%25E2%2580%2594%2BEnter%2BThe%2BUnknown%2B%255BDj%2BMix%255D%2B%25282012%2529.jpg

Jerome LOL is still doing really good stuff. I haven't really checked for the other guy's solo stuff tho.

Jerome LOL did a great remix of The Dream's H.A.T.E. U

huh, i voted for...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2t859S1ej1rnanb8o1_500.jpg

Weighted:

Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair
Taylor Swift - Red
Maria – VIII
iamamiwhoami - Kin
Alina Devecerski – Maraton
Grimes - Visions
Mylene Farmer - Monkey Me
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
UFOmammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Charlie Straight – Someone With A Slow Heartbeat
Goat - World Music
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Future - Pluto
Zdob Si Zdub - Basta Mafia
Ivan Dorn - Condorn
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Ke$ha - Warrior
Charli XCX - Super Ultra
Die Antwoord - Ten$ion
Katy B - Danger EP
Crystal Castles - (III)
Serebro - Mama Lover
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss

xp, yahhhh. same mix series on Unknown To The Unknown

i'm being forgetful. not sure i can face emailing them again to get them to post a cd.

Alina Devecerski – Maraton

oooooh i really liked flytta pa dej, i should get around to this

I ordered the DJ Q mix and it arrived eventually but the whole thing is a skip-monster :-(

This has discouraged me from ordering anything else from the label.

as in the CD skips?

yes

not scratched, but skips ridiculously on every cd player i've tried

I can ilx mail you ripped mp3s if its of interest

LOL Boys Fader Mix is incredible:

https://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/lol-boys-fader-mix

Lil Wayne – Nightmares of the Bottom
Cloud – Turning
Avicii – Levels
John Legend – Tonight
Radiohead – Talk Show Host
Fiona Apple – Every Single Night
Christina Milian – Chameleon
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Kanye West – Mercy
Jeremih – Keep It Moving
Kreayshawn – Summertime
R . Kelly & Jeremih – Misunderstood
Basement Jaxx – Romeo (Acoustic Version)

^^

yes. note that those are all their own edits of those tracks, which are available here:

http://www.freshselects.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/FRSH-SLCTS-LOL-Boys-Edits.zip

yes, crucial point

weighted

01. farrah abraham - my teenage dream ended

weighted

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
The Men - Open Your Heart
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Liars - WIXIW
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Torche - Harmonicraft
Bear in Heaven - I love you, it's cool
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
Matthew E. White - Big Inner
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Purity Ring - Shrines
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Scrappy Happiness
Metz - Metz
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
DIIV - oshin
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Grizzly Bear - Shields

ogmor, tim, grady check yr emailz

good lookin out rev

Music is a weird and wonderful thing, especially as heard by different humans!

Thanks, again, for the great work on both polls. Lots of stuff here to keep me interested for a while

(btw....I honestly hadn't known about Quietus until 5 minutes ago)

mad I could have put Elle Varner on my list and kicked out AnCo and didn't :(

didn't vote, but i meant to. my top 20 can, nonetheless, be seen here:
http://walkingthelongmileshome.wordpress.com/

monotony, you too

my weighted ballot

Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake
Fucked Up - Year of the Tiger
Blondes - Blondes
Disappears - Pre Language
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Burial - Kindred EP
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
The Men - Open Your Heart
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Swans - The Seer
Goat - World Music
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Mohn - Mohn
Sand Circles - Motor City
Unsane - Wreck
John Talabot - Fin
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Mirrorring - Foreign Body
Killing Joke - MMXII
Demdike Stare - Elemental

kind of embarrassed about how high I put the animal collective album. It's the first thing by them I've liked since Feels, so I am by no means a superfan, but I felt the album was unfairly maligned so put it higher hoping it would make the top 77 (yesss!)

Weighted:

John K. Samson - Provincial
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Dar Williams - In The Time of Gods
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City
Joel Plasket Emergency - Scrappy Happiness
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Tinashe - Reverie
Amelia Curran - Spectators
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe
Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze
Aimee Mann - Charmer
Why? - Sod in the Seed

I forgot to post my ballot. I'm already having serious second thoughts about the Phenomenal Handclap Band (which I'd only discovered from the nominations). There are some brilliant things about I'm not comfortable with the excess of irony that seems to be involved.

Weighted:

Sa Dingding – The Coming Ones
Matthew Shipp – Elastic Aspects
Zaki Ibrahim – Every Opposite
Zazen Boys - Stories
Elio Villafranca/Arturo Stable – Dos y Mas
Phenomenal Handclap Band – Form & Control
NHK’Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol. I & II
Cooly G – Playin’ Me

xp: cheers rev

rale - the moon regarded and the bright one sought
Le1f - Dark York
innergaze - mutual dreaming
Vatican Shadow - Ghosts of Chechnya
Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel
Rick Ross - Rich Forever
Young Smoke - Space Zone
Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon

not the best ballot, thought i voted for blondes but i guess i didnt. also not that representative of what i really liked this year, most of which wasnt nominated.

is that lol boys fader mix available for d/l anywhere? the link at the fader has expired.