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

Do we still do a "Summer Jams" thread? That always worked nicely as a mid-year tracks touchpoint

We do, but it's been basically DOA the last few years imo.

Last year we had this thread: 2022 AOTY So Far. And for a few years prior we had a "rolling favorite tracks & albums YEAR" thread.

I discovered one of my noms via the Summer Jams thread. We also have rolling genre threads, and obv. threads for artists/albums that folks are especially passionate about. This is how I discover music throughout the year; no way could/would I "cram" via the massive nomination list.

I try to listen to every track that places on the EOY poll, and it's very rare there's one that makes me think – "I would have voted for this if I had known about it..." So I guess the system works for me.

don't have much to say and just wish i managed to be active here more of the year (maybe this time!), but...

maybe a rolling 2023 creme de la creme thread?

lol i dunno

mostly think it's working fine.

― maf you one two (maffew12)

So… I was thinking: I really enjoyed listening to songs others ilxors queued on turntable/plug/outloud but it was live so you had to be there to queue songs and there was no easy way to archive and listen later. Would there be interest in a “ilm listening club” in the form of a private, collaborative spotify playlist? Only rules would be to not delete other people’s songs and only post one track before another ilxor adds another, so if there’s at least two people sharing back and forth the playlist keeps rolling…

There could even be two playlists: one exclusively of 2023 recommendations and another without year constrictions…

Idk I’ve discovered some amazing tracks via this year’s noms playlist and get lost in the individual rolling threads so if several ilxors are interested in participating it could turn out into something great.

Come up with some guidelines to ensure one person doesn't add 1000 similar songs, and I'd absolutely be interested/participate

I like the "only post one track before another ilxor adds another" but feels like something like one track per poster per week/day would be helpful to keep it manageable. If it gets really big, it'll cease to be useful.

Yeah I mean I was saying wait your turn for at least one person to post assuming there’s not much participation so the playlist doesn’t die a boring death but if there’s idk at least 8 people sharing tracks then yeah, oversharing could be a problem… the rule should then be maybe limit yourself to one song per week or something so the rest and the more inactive members have time to do a “weekly catch-up”…

It also helps having these sort of restrictions to pick carefully what you want to queue… quality over quantity

Idk just an idea and it should be more polished but if there’s enough interest we can all chime in on how to make it work.

There were rolling collaborative 'anything goes' playlists back in the day and tho prone to chaos they mostly worked well. Collab. playlists on Spotify now seem to be invite-only so it should be easy enough to manage and worth a go.

would participate! good idea. ultimately I'm not looking to change any board stuff around for shameless last minute crammers like me

hope to poke my head into the usual Rolling threads more this year

I like the idea of a current year listening club starting after the polls with a thread where people comment on latest additions (offhand or Tim F style). I would aim for 3-7 songs per week, either on first-come first-served basis, or people mention when they have a song they want to post and Moka adds it.

I wouldn't do all-time anything goes, but it could be very interesting for a specific era / location / broad genre. Say, pre-1950s music, or a travelogue through lesser-known countries / subcultures.

They've not crossed my path before, but really enjoying the De Lux album so thanks to whoever nominated that. Scratching that itch I didn't know I had for more 80s influenced synth-pop a la Cut Copy

Was me. De Lux have put a bunch of good tracks out over the years and the singer's quite a Byrne-soundalike at times.

Sooo impatient.

hey emil.y, huge congrats on slum of legs making christgau's year end list!!! coupla years late but...

almost fell off my chair when i saw that :)))

Haha yes, we just saw that ourselves. Honestly I feel like if it keeps getting reviews over the years that's no bad thing: screw release-date push, just review us whenever. Half of the band didn't know who Christgau was, while I was like w(°o°)w !

Pretty high up in his list too, so cool

Maybe in ten years there'll be enough interest to finance a luxurious reunion tour (we'd all be hella old so got to have hotels and maybe a foot-spa on the rider).

I like the idea of a current year listening club starting after the polls with a thread where people comment on latest additions (offhand or Tim F style). I would aim for 3-7 songs per week, either on first-come first-served basis, or people mention when they have a song they want to post and Moka adds it.

― Nabozo, Wednesday, January 25, 2023 2:01 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Cosigned. Start it, Moka!

Look forward to that even if i don't totally grasp how it's much different from youtube embeds on a Rolling page

Mostly it'll be nice because it will work on my phone.... i see now in the Flagging app thread that it's not just me who can't see YouTube embeds on that. Will have to try using browser more.

ILM 2023 Listening Club

I feel so bad about not voting for Asake's album "Mr Money With the Vibe" that I'm going to tell my friends to start calling me by its name. In its honour.

I saw that Slum Legs listing, super cool. Christgau's list overall I liked just for its Christgau-ness, he has no compunction about sticking by his old faves — Buck 65, Todd Snider and Tommy Womack all in the top 20. But also still an open ear to catch things here and there.

does Buck 65 sound like Serengeti now or do i have that backwards?

interesting record of buck 65

Psyched

Will try to set up the album poll thread tonight

aag but this Anna Butterss record is so good!

Getting into an albums state of mind, here's the list of winners since 2010:

2010: Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
2011: Destroyer - Kaputt
2012: Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
2013: Haim - Days Are Gone
2014: D’Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
2015: Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
2016: KING - We Are KING
2017: Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2018: Low - Double Negative
2019: Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
2020: Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?
2021: Low - Hey What
2022: ???

2023: Smokey Robinson - GASMS

GASM COOMBES

is there anything else that's theoretically a serious contender for #1 apart from big thief and beyonce?

SZA

my guess as stated above was sudan archives

Real Lies could do it. Beyonce usually comes fourth in our polls and I'd like to see her keep that up.

I miss not being in the team of pollrunners so I could speculate and discover things ilm seems to love that I had no idea they existed along the way.

First time - at least since I’ve been helping behind scenes - when we’ll run albums first and then tracks.

Note regarding my end: For album images I didn’t do too much work this time. I’m using the actual album covers for the image as usualz for the tracks poll I used midjourney A.I. which I thought would save more time but it’s actually more time-consuming than picking and editing already existing images. It was still fun to make and love some of the results I got playing around with it.

If I’m around next year I’ll probably spend more time on the template and ditch a.i. completely.

Results for both polls are great imho, hope you’ll enjoy! See you tomorrow!

Thanks seandalai and forks for all the work!

Looking forward to it, thanks!

Albums then tracks is a good idea, because the tracks rollout has always been the main draw of our EOY polls for me. Albums felt like an epilogue (and, now I guess, a prologue).

Opposite for me!

Not surprising. Don't think there's ever been a year with more tracks ballots than albums ballots, but I could be wrong.

oh hey
ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2022 - 21st Anniversary Edition

JF - there was one year! Found seandalai's graph again, and it looks like it was 2019.

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

These are all fake imo
― rob, Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:25 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

If that's real then duck you ilm and really duck you Richard ducking Dawson
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:25 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

"not" is the fake because ilm wouldn't let a song with a killer guitar solo into the top 77
― na (NA), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:27 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is funny
― nxd, Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:28 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

one year it would be good to announce the fake entries like a month later
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:32 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ok this Big Thief song is very boring and I can absolutely believe its in the top three.
― Matt DC, Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:33 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is the best top three in ILM history (once corrected)
― opden gnash (imago), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:34 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i love ilm
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:36 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait is it over
who won
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:44 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't really get Balloon either but I'm glad it makes everyone so happy
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:44 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Anybody shd've been higher yeah but Burna just couldn't match the sheer musicality and joy of *checks notes* some plodding clever clever dadfolk dirge
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 30, 2020 8:50 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

so ILM's #1 is a tune with 10k views on YT and no entry in RYM, amazing guys
― frogbs, Thursday, January 30, 2020 9:48 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

imago comparing [redacted pile of shite] to R Wyatt last night has left me in a black hole of depression and bereft of hope for the future of humanity.
― calzino, Friday, January 31, 2020 11:58 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2022: 17th Anniversary Edition