ILM's 2015 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

NOTE TO SELF: Tracks spreadsheet is updated (without duplicates) as of this point.

it's just kinda surprising to me that future's biggest hit is the eighth song nominated by him and that there's not much enthusiasm for it. it's likely a top ten song for me; there was no point at which i heard it this year that I didn't find some small joy in it.

TRACKS

MIA - Borders
The Mary Onettes - Ruins
Dua Lipa - Be The One
Grace Mitchell - Jitter
Tayá - Got Me Wondering
Annie - Cara Mia
Zhala - Holy Bubbles
Giorgio Moroder ft. Sia- Déjà Vu

8/30

(psst, forks...Holly Herndon's "Chorus" was booted because it placed in the top 77 last year.)

TRACKS

Years & Years - Shine

9/30

Shine is already there, so you can have one back.

it's just kinda surprising to me that future's biggest hit is the eighth song nominated by him and that there's not much enthusiasm for it. it's likely a top ten song for me; there was no point at which i heard it this year that I didn't find some small joy in it.

yeah i was def surprised not to see this nominated yet when i did mine, easily the future song i encountered in the wild the most (and if my personal fav is "i serve the base" then this was by far the best of his actual hits)

also surprised to see "borders" only nominated now, i think it's a pretty amazing song and even the duhhhh lyrics work in its favour when you hear it

remixes policy: these will all get folded into each other when tallying up votes, right? but does a specific remix need to be nominated in order to vote for it (eg vybz kartel's "dancehall" has been nominated but not the remix with konshens, spice and gaza tussan)

remixes policy: these will all get folded into each other when tallying up votes, right? but does a specific remix need to be nominated in order to vote for it

Yes and yes.

ALBUMS

Of Montreal - Aureate Gloom

TRACKS

Of Montreal - Empyrean Abbattoir
Aphex Twin - diskhat1

8/30

Oh shit you like that oM song too!

Might not have to nominate at this rate

TRACKS

Dawn Richard - Blow
Dawn Richard - Billie Jean
Dawn Richard - Adderall / Sold (Outerlude)

22/30

I think of the above, with Swim Free, as one extended track but get that no one else does

wait forks weren't you just cautioning against vote-splitting

(if i was to nominate a dawn track it'd prob be "james dean" at this point bc it's not on the album)

Been really digging the of Montreal album lately. Good album to listen to while walking outside in the cold rain, which is something that I've had to do a bit in the last couple of days.

xxxp

xp, i wasn't so much cautioning as mentioning the artists with the most nominations. i've gone on record (and if not am here) as not really caring too much about placement results, I end up listening to all the goddamn songs regardless!

this is going to take some time to get up to date, but here is the provisional Spotify Album playlist:

ILM's 2015 Best of the Year Album Nominations

8/30

Albums:
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
The Paranoid Style - Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall
Ryan Adams - 1989
Wire - Wire
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There
Built To Spill - Unthethered Moon
Belle & Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Just Want To Dance

Please note the Robert Forster album is "Songs to Play" not Songs to Sing. It was nominated upthread.

top 10 countdown today we're into the top 5 next folks
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ALBUMS

Dam-Funk - Invite the Light

TRACKS

Vershon - Inna Real Life
Popcaan - Weed is My Best Friend
WOKE (Shabazz Palaces + Flying Lotus) ft George Clinton - Lavishments of light looking
Jeremih - Oui
Jeremih - Planez
DonMonique - Pilates
Dam Funk - Free
Miguel - Deal
Kendrick Lamar - Momma
Future - Trap Niggas
Future - 56 nights
Kelela - A Message
Vince Staples - Summertime
Young Thug - Halftime
Earl Sweatshirt - Grief

(16/30)

ALBUMS

Sea Lion - Desolate Stars
Cam - Untamed
The Staves - If I Was
Selena Gomez - Revival
Teedra Moses - Cognac & Conversations
Samo Sound Boy - Begging Please
Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
Enya - Dark Sky Island
Adam Lambert - Another Lonely Night
Mew - + -
Long Beard - Porch
Carrie Underwood - Storyteller
Eric Church - Mr. Misunderstood
Ryn Weaver - The Fool
Van Hunt - The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets.
Old Dominion - Meat and Candy
The Front Bottoms - Back On Top

17/30

wait the adam lambert album should be 'the original high' sorry also can every1 listen to it & love it

uberweiss what are your fav songs on the carrie underwood album? i think it's the best album i've ever heard from her but "church bells" and "choctaw county affair" are towering above the rest so far

― cher guevara (lex pretend)

"choctaw" def and "heartbeat" <3 <3 <3

saying everything without making a sound
with a - river rolling in the background
underneath the harvest moon
standing on your shoes in my bare feet
dancing to the rhythm of your heartbeat
<3

& love the intensity of the "chaser" / "relapse" / "clock don't run" 1-2-3

sigh *clock don't stop

> wait the adam lambert album should be 'the original high' sorry also can every1 listen to it & love it

Listening now, had kind of forgotten it existed...

was going to nominate dorthia cottrell but it's already there, good job! great album.

xp it's really committed to its melodrama & all the melodies are so precise

AND I DON'T GIVE A FUCK
IF THE SUN COMES UP YEAH

;_;

& "these boys" catchiest song 2015

TRACKS

Danny L Harle - Awake for Hours
Of Montreal - Virgilian Lots
U.S. Girls - New Age Thriller
Speedy Ortiz - Raising the Skate
William D. Drake - Lifeblood
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - A Million Random Digits
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
Weyes Blood - Maybe Love
Midday Veil - I Am the War
JLin - Guantanamo
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - January 10th, 2014

ALBUMS

U.S. Girls - Half Free
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
William D. Drake - Revere Reach
Mr. Fried Burger - Mr. Fried Burger, I Resume?
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
The Chap - The Show Must Go
Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers EP
Midday Veil - This Wilderness
Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs

21/30

TRACKS

Steevio - Saith

(13/30)

ALBUMS

Anthony Naples - Body Pill
Boof - The Hydrangeas Whisper
Failure - Heart Is A Monster
Folamour - Chapeau Rouge
FP-Oner - 5
Gwenno - Y Dydd Olaf
Idjut Boys - Versions
Minami Deutsch - Minami Deutsch
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Sounding Lines
Pearson Sound - Pearson Sound
Petite Noir - La Vie Est Belle
Petre Inspirescu - Vin Ploile
Sherwood & Pinch - Late Night Endless
Torche - Restarter
Ufomammut - Ecate
Valet - Nature
Vietcong - Vietcong
Wand - Golem
Len Leise - Lingua Franca
Perfume Advert - +200 Gamma

20/30

Barac - Moment of Clarity
S-Max - Divine Geometry Forms Yuri

just been you-tubing some of your tracks saer, these two took me to a nice place.

that Barac one is really beautiful

TRACKS

Dumblonde - Dreamsicle
Chvrches - Clearest Blue

2/30

TRACKS

Migos - Highway 85
Migos - Memoirs
Migos - Dab Daddy
Young Thug - Check
Young Thug - No Way
Young Thug - Raw (Might Just)
Young Thug - Best Friend
Kendrick Lamar - Hood Politics
Kendrick Lamar - These Walls
Nils Frahm - Wall
Holly Herndon - Morning Sun
Miguel - The Valley
E-40 - Choices
Dr. Dre - Genocide

ALBUMS
Pope Francis - Wake Up!
Migos - Yung Rich Nation

16/30

TRACKS

Lake Haze - Your Love Nearly Killed Me
V. Lynn - Don't (Bryson Tiller) - Female Version
Waka Flocka Flame - Workin
Teedra Moses - Skin Diver
Teyana Taylor - Your Wish is My Command
Jill Scott - Lighthouse
Toni Romiti - Do Too Much

ALBUMS

Various Artists - Non Worldwide Compilation Volume 1

(20/30)

ALBUMS

Chino Amobi - Anya's Garden

(21/30)

As it happens, my noms for Maxo and Sam Lee's respective albums are already up, so I'll add one more here:

ALBUM
Cliff Martinez - The Knick, Season 2 OST

18/30

I should also note that the Spotify singles playlist and the (!@##$%^#$@#$) albums playlist are now completely up-to-date as I can see them. For those of you playing at home, the links follow:

ILM's 2015 Best of the Year Track Nominations Spotify Playlist
ILM's 2015 Best of the Year Album Nominations Spotify Playlist

Now here's the thing about that album playlist: it is 5200 tracks and over sixteen days long. So it's basically not useful as a listening tool. BUT (and this is how much I care about you because this shit will drive me crazy), I _could_ build a sampler playlist with the first three songs from each album (with exceptions made for crazy long track length albums, where it would just be one song)... if that's something that would be helpful for people to explore the selection? Can I get some hosannas to move forward?

Hose-e-Anna!

I don't know who I think I'm fooling; simply by typing that sentence, my OCD wasn't gonna let me go to sleep until I did this. So my illness is your gain!

ILM'S 2015 Best of the Year Album Nominations Spotify Sampler Playlist

I'll try to keep this one up too. It's still mammoth (about 102 hours so far) but it's at least conceivably listenable.

Kickstarter to purchase a real life medal for forks?

Also, while I'm here:

ALBUM

Phil Collins / Various Artists - my heart’s in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand’s in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught

You may still be able to stream the album here.

2/30

The sampler playlist is amazing, thank you!

Teyana Taylor - Your Wish is My Command

i completely missed the throwback ep (the cassette tape 1994) this is from and it's all really great

albums
Young Guv Ripe 4 Luv
Jose Gonzalez Vestiges & Claws
Vetiver Complete Strangers
Metric Pagans in Vegas
White Reaper White Reaper Does It Again

tracks
Thee Tsunamis Kill Kill Kill
(6/30)

that tsunamis record was real nice

lex- i especially like the Tony! Toni! Tonè! flip on "Tonight" but "Your Wish" was the single so went with that.

was gonna ask if you've checked out Cam & China's soundcloud. there's a bunch of tracks on there i didn't know about. this is prob my favorite.

also i checked out the Flava D after you nominated it and it's like catnip for me.

TRACKS

Mozzy - Dead and Gone
DJ Mustard - Love Feat. Justine Skye
Kranium - Nobody Has to Know

(24/30)

ALBUMS

Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
Simon Joyner - Grass, Branch & Bone
The Apartments - No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal
White Manna - Pan

30/30

ALBUMS

Leif - Taraxacum
Annabel (lee) - By The Sea...And Other Solitary Places

22/30

ALBUMS

Quttinirpaaq - Dead SEPtember
Destruction Unit - Negative Feedback Resistor

(8/30)

NOTE TO SELF (#3): Both the Albums and Tracks spreadsheets are up to date as of this post.