ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

for the record, i'm excited about the album rollout. It is flatly impossible to listen to all the nominations there (for the spotify list alone, it's over 4 weeks of nonstop play for a first spin), so I'm more reliant there on informed recommendations.

― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, January 26, 2015 2:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes

Damn, you go to sleep for a few hours, and the whole place blows a gasket.

I voted in the dreaded metal poll this year. It was easy and fun because I listened to something like 200 metal albums last year, taking notes as I went. I've spent so much time in the genre that a new song or album has to be really fucking impressive to upset my sense of the established order. Nevertheless, the rollout (I missed nominations) was FULL of stuff I hadn't heard or had misjudged on a cursory first pass. I came away with several new albums that I'd probably include in my 2014 top 50 if I had to do it again. Maybe that makes me "bad at listening to metal", I dunno. Nor do I care. I had fun, I contributed, and I learned something in the process. Gold star for robot boy.

If that kind of discovery regularly happens with metal, where I do most of my current listening, how could it not be all the more common in unrestricted EOY nominations and rollouts? My familiarity with the landscape of most musical genres is necessarily limited. Therefore, the monuments that knowledgeable people bring to my attention from within less familiar genres almost necessarily seem all the more striking for their relative novelty. This is not evidence of poor listening skills, imo. It's openness, curiosity, a modest awareness of my own limitations coupled with a taste for pleasure in discovery. What we're now calling "special snowflake syndrome" :/

Obviously the big takeaway here is that omg gr80 voted for Botanist! *crosses fingers*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgs0V2ccAM

you know, just f'rinstance

(Ftr my top 2 albums on my weighted ballot were very late discoveries where it was somewhat like how Tim F said, where as much as I loved my then-No. 1, both of those albums had impressed me so much that I couldn't in good conscience say that my no.1 album was better than either. It was actually kind of uncomfortable. So some ppl itt have one kind of integrity and I can have another.)

(Sry contenderizer I didn't mean to cut you up like that)

lol, nah, we cool. i'm listening to highly-touted 2104 swallowed album lunarterial for the first time. bad metalhead, bad!

^ forward thinking

At least I got a new display name out of this

ps I am pretty lenient w/r/t metal noms, some who dont take part in it are puritanical about these things but not me.
I allow swans,zombi,wovenhand,menace ruine and countless other things in metal poll.

i only had 1 metal album on my ballot this year and i just looked at the metal poll results and it didn't quite crack the top 10 so i doubt it has a chance in the sitewide. alas

We're a go: ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

i actually have a lot of work to do this week so maybe just hold off for a while thanks

my "rather be is the popular peak of microhouse" challop forever buried on a dead poll thread under a boring argument damn

there's no place i'd rather it be

well played

lol classic deej/ship :-)

you dont actually care!

when has that ever stopped me

Cant get my head around the idea of strategic voting. I didnt want anything either in or out of the list, thought it should be whatever it was going to be

― saer, Sunday, January 25, 2015 2:48 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

FYI the appropriate response to being called out on how you voted is *Slim Jimmy voice* I like what I like!

otm

It would be better in the Macho Man snap into a Slim Jim voice

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the chances of either of you throwing some shit you heard thanks to the eoy nom list for the first time 3 weeks ago in your top tracks ballot is about 0% so uh maybe I won't.

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Sunday, January 25, 2015 7:39 PM Bookmark

You assume I care how anyone else votes. ;)

(Also I probably heard the Tef Poe track I voted for about 3 weeks before voting. Same with "Stoner" last year.)

For anyone who is looking for the playlist and doesn't wanna scroll up and look for it:

http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/57m9LpUGkWDzGOiIgNsTeR

It would be great if poll results were edited into the tops of all the EOY poll threads, saving me hours of opening up the whole thing and searching for the rundown in among 578 clusterfucks. mods how easy is this?

very, tbh

It would be great if poll results were edited into the tops of all the EOY poll threads

all ballot poll threads too, as long as we're on the subject.

There's a link at the top of the stats thread.

You could meet somebody who really loves you.

Did Word Crimes get any love whatsoever?

It would be great if poll results were edited into the tops of all the EOY poll threads

all ballot poll threads too, as long as we're on the subject.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, January 26, 2015 11:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a good idea, there've def been some ballot polls ive been interested in investigating after the fact but many of them its a huge pain to load the whole thread

Did Word Crimes get any love whatsoever?

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:24 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zero Yankovic votes in the tracks poll. i voted for Mandatory Fun in teh albums poll, though.

'No Type' sounded really familiar to me, so I worked out it was very similar to an Autechre track, 'nodezsh', from 2013. I played them over each other for fun and it's true:

nodezsh vs No Type

lol awesome

huh

Sorry, Weird Al.

cunnt ((()))

― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 20:40 Bookmark

O___O

Yeah that was terrible, sorry.

ha no i thought it tremendous tbh but now i'll probs never listen to them again

i had a vision of them draped not in monks' robes, but in big fleshy folds of skin instead, and making this huge squishy sucking vortex of sound

http://ilxor.com/ILX/FullTextSearchControllerServlet?terms=cunto&offset=10&searchtype=text&startdate=&enddate=&artefact=messages&idtype=null&sortorder=Relevance&boardid=0

Did Word Crimes get any love whatsoever?

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:24 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zero Yankovic votes in the tracks poll. i voted for Mandatory Fun in teh albums poll, though.

I had "Word Crimes" as #25 in my ballot, was that not counted?

I looked at the results table, and "Word Crimes" got 4 votes/72 points. Some Dude wrong!

http://carles.buzz/how-scalable-is-pc-music/

ah yeah, my bad. i think i underestimated how long it took my browser to load the full results spreadsheet.

"Word Crimes" was my #2 for all the good it did.

I get it now!

list of ex-lovers
listof ex-lovers
stofex-lovers
Starbucks lovers

got a long li-starbucks lovers

like, wtf how do you even mishear that

it's like the katy b arrogance/africans common mishearing. my ears have never ever once done that! in this case i was immediately struck on first hearing that "got a long list of ex-lovers" was a brilliant and witty lyric for taylor swift to write and i don't even understand the desire for it to be anything else

I always thought the line was "Go along you Starbucks lovers."

I thought that line went "I will rip your fucking heart out and eat it in front of you, lover"