ILM's 2020 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

so glad the deadline here is midnight PST, I can do this

I really regret not nominating this year, lotta stuff I dug didn't make it

e.g. where the fuck is the Alex Dowling album

I would have broken my "don't vote for things you didn't actually hear in 2020" rule for this had it been nominated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFqhJyvly1g

this year I just voted for the 25 traxs I nommed so it went v smoothly. and I listened to less than 15 whole albums during the entire year so that went well too.

Ballots submitted. Predictably feel happier with my albums choices than with tracks. Thanks to everyone who nominated and campaigned though, have ended up with loads of fun new finds which I'll be going back to even if they didn't make my final ballot.

Broke my one song per artist rule with Taylor but I kept it to one per album!

voted. lotsa tracks i was counting on y’all to nominate that didn’t make it. first year I do mixed ballots—fun! excited for results, thx to poll runners

Argh, okay, I voted. Not entirely happy with the ordering but I ended up fiddling too much and needed to just send. It is done.

I, too, have also voted

So I was listening to the nominations playlist and a track came on by a band called ROAM with very strong emo-American accents. I thought 'I bet they're from Southampton' (I loved the track ofc) and looked them up to discover they are in fact from my hometown! But then I checked the nominations thread and no one had nominated it. ARG trailhead?

voted!

just looking at this for the first time and this is uh, quirky?

CS + Kreme - Snoopy/howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought

two totally different releases with two totally different catalogue numbers. they've got nothing to do with each other afaict? have a feeling this one will make the 77 too, so this probably needs sorting imo

howwouldyoufeelwithoutthatthought is referred to as an "epilogue" to snoopy on bandcamp, but yeah, it did strike me as a little odd

if enough ilxors vote for literally two songs in a big trenchcoat to get them into the 77 it's time to shut this place down

it's an album and an EP grouped together

it's an album and an EP (in a big trenchcoat)

lol xp

oh!! haha well let's scale the trenchcoat up a bit yes

also slightly worried that tangent will be reduced to wandering the streets of her hometown looking for a fictional emo band, sort it out forks/seandalai lol

tbh grouping an album and an ep is more forgivable and if the artist regards them as of a piece then idk

yeah i feel marginally better knowing that but it's still making me oc cranky

would any fellow stragglers appreciate some last minute campaigning

Can’t wait to see eMcimbini win Song of the year. Good going, ilm!

Brad, you know which track I need you to vote for

Voted!

- "jazzidisciples (zlele)" is the amapiano track that totally deserves to top the 77 and i hope it gets close
- yone-ko's "strip down to e" is the best opening to a workshop release i've ever heard, great ghostly house, the piano is like an eroded layer of paint on a weatherbeaten building
- tiana major9's "same space" and jenevieve's "baby powder were two songs that took my breath away on impact, the former for being a babyface-quality acoustic quiet storm sigh and the latter for feeling like the air in the middle of the summer as you're lifting yourself through the window of a moving car
- more essential r&b, one a nimbus of synths, the other arriving in a time machine from 1997: justine sky "million days", jayla darden "demonstration"
- my favorite rap songs of the year were popp hunna's "adderall (corvette corvette)" (glowing and melodic) and rio da yung og x louie ray "movie" (blown-out and relentless)

lj i have no idea what that track is and i guarantee you i don't have room for it

major co-sign on "movie," which i voted for.

Eek, I'm sorry - I fucked up my albums ballot. Resubmitting now - hope that's okay seandalai.

YAZ ABANTU goddammit

Actually, I resubmitted tracks and albums both to be on the safe side. Apologies.

i have registered my preferences

- *"jazzidisciples (zlele)"🕸* is the amapiano track that totally deserves to top the 77 and i hope it gets close

I think LJ is thinking of "badlands"

Can’t wait to see eMcimbini win Song of the year. Good going, ilm!

YAZ ABANTU goddammit

there’s also this little song called “Jerusalema” by Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode that everyone should vote for

I think LJ is thinking of "badlands"

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 23 January 2021 00:30 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

u think correctly

voted

oh shit i actually really should vote for "badlands"

there’s also this little song called “Jerusalema” by Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode that everyone should vote for

― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, January 22, 2021 5:32 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

heard this today and it's fantastique

my favorite discovery from today however was daliwonga's "my boo". i'm starting to become a purist who's like "if i didn't have a moment with this song in 2020 should it really be on my ballot????" but... in this case....

let's say 12 hours to go now

there’s also this little song called “Jerusalema” by Master KG ft. Nomcebo Zikode that everyone should vote for

― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Friday, January 22, 2021 5:32 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

heard this today and it's fantastique

i'm about to submit my ballots and i feel pretty good about them!!!! doesn't happen every time

Voted! So many good tracks nommed this year, well done all.

Voted! My tracks album is awesome

track ballot lol. it’s been a week.

voted!!!!!!!!!!

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I voted!

Springsteen album title is wrong on the list, but I used what was there.