ILM's 2010s Tracks & Albums Decade Poll / VOTING THREAD

Does "2 On" fall into that category? Cause I think that could still fare well. "Black Beatles", maybe not as much.

These are the number 1s from the past decade:

2010 Girl Unit - Wut
2011 Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212
2012 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
2013 Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2014 Tinashe ft. Schoolboy Q - 2 On
2015 Grimes - Realiti (Demo)
2016 Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles
2017 Charli XCX - Boys
2018 Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
2019 Busy Signal - Balloon

I actually don't know if any of these are contenders for the decade top spot though.

Some combination of 'what were we thinking' and 'at least we're unique' looking at those lol

I only re-voted for two of those ten.

two of those made my ballot

What are the main contenders for the tracks poll then? And wonder if any of the yearly poll #1s won't make it, I think probably "Boys" for a start, as people will have voted for other, better Charli tracks (I went for Take My Hand)

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Yeah, I don't see Boys getting anywhere near our list. I still love it, but she has better as you say. Two others of hers made my list.

I would be surprised if people still rate Get Lucky that highly. Peggy Gou always seemed like a very surprising winner. No idea about Wut and 212. I can see them missing out. Out of our winners, I'd expect Inspector Norse, Realiti (Demo) and maybe 2 On to do the best.

Split voting is going to be interesting. No idea out of Run Away With Me or Call Me Maybe which is going to be the biggest contender for Carly. All those Ariana Grande, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift etc nominations make it hard to know which songs will come out on top for any of them.

Overall, I think the tracks list will be way more unpredictable than albums. I can't wait!

Oops I forgot to vote :)

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didn't remember to vote for 2 On or Call Me Maybe! Those are two of the best tracks of the 2010s. Run Away With Me is really good, but not that close.

I was thinking about albums when I voted, not tracks

Well I certainly did my best to ensure 212 makes the top 100.

"Boys" is such a deeply odd #1 because Charli XCX released something like 77 songs herself in 2017 and I wouldn't even put it in the top 10 of those were we ranking them.

I'm hoping Superlove can sneak in. Still my favourite Charli despite all the amazing songs she's put out since then.

Half of the number ones from the yearly polls are like huh?

voted for six of the ILM 2010s #1s, one as #1, two others in top 5, an additional two in top 15, and one other lower down on the list

i can promise surprises at the very least

ILM doubled down and Balloon is actually #1 decade ?

Balloon is easily the best and freshest of those winners tbf imo. Didn't vote for it but expecting it to do very well

oh fuck i completely forgot about "2 On"!

I'm not sure if anyone else does this but in my head there are songs which are "singles" even though they ended up on albums I love, and songs which are "album tracks" even though they ended up being singles, and I will always go for the former over the latter in a tracks poll - hence voting for "Call Me Maybe" over "Run Away With Me" or etc.

I don't know if I naturally make a mental distinction like that, but if I've heard the song prior to the album, and especially if I've seen the video, the song stands out in a way it doesn't if I hear it on the album first. Different context, for sure

I have noticed my favorite songs on albums often tend to be ones picked as singles anyway, and I'm not if that's a function of the extra exposure singles get or the elevated status making me pay more attention or simply catchiness or some other standout quality that me and the artist agree on

Balloon is easily the best and freshest of those winners tbf imo. Didn't vote for it but expecting it to do very well

― ban, buddy (imago), Thursday, August 11, 2022

Balloon is good but it wears itself out very quickly.

Often if I hear an album first I end up loving a particular song, and then am mystified when a different song is picked as a single and everyone likes it.

Sorry I didn't vote. It's been an epic couple of weeks.

so, after going through everything, is Courtney Barnett's "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit" the best album title of the decade?

https://i.discogs.com/3-LCGt6HqIAGkhjaWAgv09kvSIN5pJpKXvXB3F2Rkgs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:599/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU1NjEz/NTktMTQ1MTMwMDc3/Ni00MjcyLmpwZWc.jpeg

I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

that is also a very good one!

This feels less like a quest to find the best album title of the 2010s and more a quest to find the most unrelentingly miserable

transgender dysphoria blues
trust in the lifeforce of deep mystery
spooky action at a distance
sir lucious left foot: the son of chico dusty

can't forget:

i go in on every song
i promise i will never stop going in
if you ever think i will stop going in, ask rr (royal rich)

should've done a side poll
(not that I voted)

American Dollar Bill - Keep Looking Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On
There Existed An Addiction To Blood
Titanic Rising
A Laughing Death In Meatspace
SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
...Because I'm Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For
Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It

if you ever think i will stop voting ask royal rich

oh and if it's misery you're after, WASTEISOLATION

In League With Dragons

Sorry everybody, I partied a bit too hard last night and didn’t get any work done yesterday or this morning, but we’re getting there.

Depending on how much I advance tonight I’ll confirm of rollout starts on Monday around 11pm est

11am I mean

no need to apologize for partying hard!

It’s actually going to be 100+1, since #101 has the same points as #100 but I’m using number of votes as tie-breakers. I feel bad leaving #101 out on a technicality.

would be just perfect if #101 would turn out to be “212”

Excuse me for party rocking.

sorry, but that song wasn’t nominated

iirc we didn't nominate Party Rock Anthem in its eligible EOY poll either

lmfao indeed

ppl complained as if it was a shoo-in

"gangnam style" did get nominated though and it's just a slightly better rip of "party rock anthem" really

should do this

never mind it's too late no?

yeah voting closed, sorry. rollout is starting next week

I did think about nominating "Party Rock Anthem". If I had, I don't think it would have made my final ballot though tbh

Hi everyone!

So I’m at 65% of the tracks images, I’ll have them complete by Monday no problem…
However, I still need to do the text / bbcode and search for blurbs for each one and that takes more time than I’ll have from Mo-We because it’s a bit of a hectic week for me and I don’t want to have long spans of not posting, I usually like posting every 8/10 mins so I can post results in a spam of 3 hours every day.

There’s 3 options:

1. I start posting on Tuesday. Finish the top 20 on Saturday instead of Friday.

2. I start posting on Monday without blurbs, maybe I can start adding them for 80-01.

3. I start posting Monday 22nd.

I vote for 1 or 2 (but defer to you). Thanks for your work on this, Moka!

Vote 2! No to Saturday final day. Will accept hybrid option where we get 25 a day from Tuesday