ILM's 2022 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

apologies to all the tracks I was foolish enough not to make room for

everybody who hasn’t voted yet vote for Skeng’s “London” instead of me

Voting is closed!

74 tracks ballots (slightly fewer than last year), 93 album ballots (slightly more than last year)

https://i.imgur.com/CyFj3XF.png

also the first year that someone tried to vote for a book!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag
don’t think it’s eligible

ILM's rockist year
Or maybe everyone is into ambient now

The nominating and voting and waiting for the year-end poll are the best parts of the year music-wise
Then of course the poll results get published

jk, I'm still excited, when do we start

People being mad about the top results being relatively predictable is too funny. I'd almost like to see a rollout that starts with #1. The bottom half is the real fun. More discoveries.

xp I think when i filled out the form, it said rollout planned to start on Monday

Didn’t vote but interested to see if any of my noms made it. Hagan and TSHA and Ron Trent and Space Ghost, artists of that nature.

Was the book in the tracks or albums poll?

i think the book vote was from me (albums poll). it was a cut & paste error, but it is a most excellent read.

lol, I thought someone had intentionally voted for the Dylan book or something

My top 2 albums are definite top 10, likely top 5, and I make no apologies for being such a consensus centrist because they’re GREAT.

I also ditched my long-running preference to not vote for tracks from albums I also voted for, because in several cases I think the tracks are more likely to place than the albums.

we're going to defer the rollout for a week so moka and forks can put together the art/blurbs - we'll start on the 30th

I don't really care if anything I voted for places, but it's interesting to see if anything makes the bottom reaches with one or two other votes. I agree that that's the fun part, discovering more music from the depths.

I didn't vote as an experiment to see if any of my noms actually get votes

You could’ve still voted and seen if any of your noms received >1 vote(??)

Break week! Can anyone nom me a nice book?

xp no I want the records to succeed or fail on their own merits!

admittedly I am being somewhat flippant, I should have given Wau Wau Collectif a boost but things have been crazy in life

that's one of the things I voted for!

it's real good trust

Thanks for that graph seandalai. Interesting to see right there the popular peak of the EOY poll was ten years ago.

ILM's rockist year

Haha. My very first thought re the graph.

it's interesting to see if anything makes the bottom reaches with one or two other votes.

I'm pretty sure my own final ballot (certainly significant chunks of my shortlist) included things in the playlists that I subsequently traced back to your nominations, Jordan, so thanks!

I know I say this every year and I disappoint several on the board but results make this the best EOY list I’ve seen so far.

Hope imago doesn’t hate it as much as the previous ones lol

probably depends on whether richard dawson outdid his previous best of #3 in the tracks poll

does he drop an album every year?

if you include hen ogledd then i think he has for a while

this is a nutty list lemme tell ya

I'm pretty sure my own final ballot (certainly significant chunks of my shortlist) included things in the playlists that I subsequently traced back to your nominations, Jordan, so thanks!

Lovely, you're welcome!

I have a feeling this list might actually be one that I like this year, at least for albums

probably depends on whether richard dawson outdid his previous best of #3 in the tracks poll

― ufo, Sunday, 22 January 2023 03:00 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

don't rly care so much about him in tracks

messe de e-102 otoh

oh rats i forgot to ever listen to that album

i'm just saying it'd be very funny if "the hermit" won the tracks poll

Is it weird that I only allow myself one or two slots for records that were “new to me” as a result of the noms etc? Had a heavy debate between Hagan and the Shabason & Krgovich but decided on the latter, now sort of regretting that

Ideally we should come across that music during the year as we browse ILM.
Two weeks in January seems way too late to properly absorb music from a huge composite list. Me I wouldn't trust my reactions on a last-minute sell. December and the nomination period is the last moment I try to catch up, but already at that moment I feel like I can't be an ideal listener and appropriate anyone's taste and intimate history with their music.
It's cool to be swayed though, just doesn't seem to happen much to me in practice, maybe I'm resistant.

i feel all that but I've got no hard and fast rules. OK, none other than only one entry per (main) artist per ballot. I used to think no DJ mix or compilation releases, even years where they might've been my most played thing, but i got over that.

fwiw I did not get time to fall in love with 25 albums over the course of the year. 3 in my ballot are recent discoveries. I know I could do a shorter ballot but this was fun.

Curious to see how well SZA does. Does such a late release hurt or help? Don't get something like that every December.

follow your heart imo ime

maffew12, but surely the Fievel is Glauque album will probably make the albums list, and that was released in December, too— Zach Phillips has actually done such releases intentionally before, apparently, in trying to evade the EOY maelstrom. Who knows!

hmm, shoulve nommed Sault's "zip file"

FiG, I don't think I mentioned them here but I came across "Save the Phenomenon" on the playlist and loved it. It's on my tracks ballot. Nothing else on the album came close to that for me.

Now I'll be watching for how it does in comparison to SZA. Much lower I have to think!

Impatient to get started over here, gah.

It's a week delay I thought?

Yep, that's why I'm impatient! Going to be itching to go for a whole week. Obv the poll-runners have a lot of work to do and Moka's images always rule so it's fair that we have to wait, but I'm still going to stamp my feet like a petulant toddler because I want it now, waaaa.

as a shape expert, i know what a tantrum looks like, and this is definitely one!

maybe if we ask nice we can hear 100-79?

no, half the fun is not knowing what just missed the results