ILM's 2018 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

Guided by Voices – That’s Good

this track is awesome, could totally be a "soft bulletin" outtake

That's a terrible sales pitch.

i'm not trying to sell anything !

it just came on as i was listening playlist and that's what the track reminded me of. why is that terrible

E Ruscha V & Woo - Woo Are You

amazing, thanks to whoever nominated this !

The E Ruscha album is really good too, been chilling out with it a lot lately.

oh man i've just started listening my body is a-buzz

playing "osiris" by maisha on bandcamp and "hidden beauties" by ANNA on spotify. wild

i should've done this sooner if i were actually gonna get anyone to vote for these, but..

i love the suba album, 'wayang,' which is for if you want tribal drums and kosmische synth to coax you into an out of body experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClwaqvT3OWw

and on the same label, geins't naït and laurent petitgand's 'make dogs sing' which is sort of a cozy rainy day soundtrack to falling into a k-hole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNMAOZmmE6g

i also nominated the job sifre EP het bestaan as an album b/c it's long enough to be a mini LP and every track is great. the one that got me obsessed with job sifre (and his amazing mix series on red light radio) is 'at least we try,' a long, churning, nasty thing that becomes quite beautiful by the end, with a swaying dub bassline and studio-esque melody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sjlkP-9CgU

suba sounds good, thanks for posting (dipping into the other two rn)

Mother of Mars - Hera In The Valley

wowwwwwwwww

seandalai, I submitted two ballots - the first has my correct tracks ballot, the 2nd my correct albums ballot. Is that too complicated to merge? Should I submit a third that has both correct?

I did it, finally!

sent!

@Tuomas, beard papa: I've caught up and removed your first ballots
@octobeard: Easiest if you can submit again

In!

Some last-minute repping for a very late 2018 release (mid-December):
https://youtu.be/OhPjmI44y2Y
Pop d'n'b!

Oh yeah, that's a banger! Hadn't heard about it before scanning through the nomination list, when I noticed Shy FX there, so of course I had to vote for it. Junglist massive 4eva!

Oh, I meant to apologise as well - I massively over-nominated in the albums field and ended up shifting a few votes over to the tracks, so I think I had about four write-ins. I actually don't really mind if they don't get counted, but as I said before, this list is my only EoY list, so I try to make it be what I actually want to remember from the year.

Voted!

24-ish hours left to vote!

Voted!

Voted!

Is the rollout starting next week?

Yes on Monday!

I am on deck to make the singles happen, starting Monday. I've seen the early returns and they are SHOCKING; vote now or you don't get to complain when we start posting things you SIMPLY CANNOT BELIEVE (pollsters hate this ONE SIMPLE SONG)

bitch i'm a cow no. 1

laugh now, moo later

we are entering the voterarium. a place of strife and sensation. the night is yet young

voted!

I'm honestly drawing a blank on what song from 2018 could simultaneously be really hated and yet also do really well. God's Plan? Lift Yourself? Baby Shark? This is America?

baby shark and moo are two i'm definitely rooting against in vain

the presence of non-song "this is america" would be a bummer

voted! just in time.

There were quite a few things I was surprised weren't nominated (I was travelling during the noms period so didn't get around to it) but by the same token narrowing each list down to 25 selections still broke my heart.

Voted!

Really short ballot, but I voted.

I'm honestly drawing a blank on what song from 2018 could simultaneously be really hated and yet also do really well. God's Plan? Lift Yourself? Baby Shark? This is America?

― MarkoP, Friday, January 25, 2019 8:54 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From these: one I've voted for, one I wouldn't mind seeing crop up, one I can't fucking stand, one I've never knowingly heard.

My suggestion for a joke top 10 entry is Peach Scone.

I can confirm the results are bonkers, also there’s a huge song that I thought was a top 20 contender and it is not even in the top 77.

Voted!

voted

Did a write in for Jean Grae and Quelle Chris "Gold Orange Purple" and I suggest you do the same!

and voted! that is a great track but i voted for the album anyway so

Voted. No write-ins despite missing the noms because yeah it was a good year. Albums vv strong

Voted!

what level of weird are we talking like weirder than last year when somehow SZA completely missed the tracks poll and "Boys" won? that would be impressive

forks, when you start the rollout thread Monday morning, I beg of you to use the format we've used every year in the post-musically era...and to call them tracks instead of singles. 👍

*title format

voted! god that copy & paste job was hard!

i will totally call all those singles tracks. or vice versa. Wait, what am i doing?

voated

voted!

what level of weird are we talking like weirder than last year when somehow SZA completely missed the tracks poll and "Boys" won? that would be impressive

― ufo

Incoming ballots might change some things, but there are definitely some songs which I didn't expect to make it and which are a nice surprise imho... also yes, without revealing too much, if the ballots received today don't change the scores significantly on the bottom we might indeed have another SZA scenario this year.

I was legit angry last year that the final batch of ballots ruined Taylor Swift getting 78'ed.

Best way to avoid WTF WHO VOTED FOR THIS syndrome is to get your ballot in!