ILM 2022 Tracks Poll: The Battle of Ballads: Verse Your Ballot and Join the Rhyme-Fueled Debate!

Welcome to "The Battle of Ballads"!

Here, we invite you to share your ballots in the latest tracks poll and engage in a poetic battle of words with your fellow music lovers.

Let your passion for music flow through your verses as you defend your favorite artists and tracks, and try to sway others to your side. This thread is a safe space for artistic expression, so feel free to let your creativity run wild.

So, get ready to engage in a poetic debate and discover new music along the way. Let the battle of ballads begin!

Amazingblaze - Venture
Response & Pliskin – Metal Coffins
Response & Pliskin – Rave Victim
Born At Midnite - Y O Y
DJ HEARTSTRING - Can’t Stop The Night
Eversines - Uitzicht
Feel Fly – Nebula
DJ HEARTSTRING x TELESHOP - Cash
Adam BFD – Sonar
DJ HEARTSTRING x TELESHOP – Late Night
DJ HEARTSTRING – One Night In North Glasgow
DJ City - The Beloved One
Tommy The Cat – At The Yard
Tommy The Cat – Velvet Night
Dwarde & Tim Reaper – Realisation
Guy Contact – Spinifex Drum
Tim Reaper – Deep Within (Nebula Remix)
Narciss – Lovechild (Outrun Mix)
Guy Contact – Desert Portal
Selected Dream Memories – Beyond The Forest
Guava ft. Alex Blake – In Cloud
Perel - Real
Raär – One Floor (Synth Version)
Smasher - Break Da Beat
DJ Physical & DJ Bigspin – Human Cannonball

Unranked * placed

Bad Bunny ft. Buscabulla - Andrea
Big Thief - Flower of Blood
*Braxe + Falcon ft. Panda Bear - Step by Step
Daemoney - GTA
*DJ Python - Angel
Earth Trax - Dream Pop
Gabriels - Angels & Queens
George Riley - Jealousy
*Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles
Jack J - I Saw Fire
Jockstrap - Greatest Hits
*Karol G - Provenza
Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit
*Men I Trust - Billy Toppy
*Mondo Grosso ft. Hikari Mitsushima - In This World (Extended)
*Rema - Calm Down
Rosalía - CANDY
*Ruger - Girlfriend
*Sevyn Streeter - 23
*Shabason & Krgovich - In The Middle of The Day
*Sudan Archives - Freakalizer
*The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries - Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes
Tomberlin - tap
*tops - perfected steps
Tyla - To Last

Should have voted for Born At Midnite.

forgot to post the results spreadsheet at the top: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kYFwb3ju5ZnK1T8nJkOKmfqtQYoMej0Gf5Wu0c3uHLk/edit?usp=sharing

I think last year’s poll got me onto them with “pop charts”. “Y O Y” is just perfect.

I had a mixed ballot and the bold songs placed:

Empress Of - Dance For You
Eliza & the Delusionals - Give You Everything
Kelela - On The Run
Beyoncé - Virgo's Groove
Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)
Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love
Raye - Black Mascara
Yeah Yeah Yeahs ft. Perfume Genius - Spitting Off the Edge of the World
Jessie Ware - Free Yourself
Kali Uchis - NO HAY LEY

Caroline Polachek - Sunset
Christine & The Queens - Rien dire
Elsy Wameyo - River Nile
FLO - Cardboard Box
Girl Ultra - Amores de droga
Karol G - Provenza
La rappresentante di lista - Ciao Ciao
MICHELLE - Pose
Normani - Fair
Ofelia - Osiem gwiazd (Iga)
Shanae - Illusions
Sky Ferreira - Don't Forget
Röyksopp ft. Alison Goldfrapp - Impossible
The Knocks ft. Dragonette - Slow Song
YEИDRY - KI-KI

There were a few songs I was surprised to see others vote for - Girl Ultra, Elsy Wameyo and Ofelia particularly! Also slightly annoyed that I wasted a vote on the (better!) Raye song instead of going with "Escapism." which would have put it into the 77! The most gratifying result for me was seeing my #1 get a second voter, who by my calculations put it at #2 on their list, making "Dance For You" the highest-ranked song with just 2 votes - if it couldn't be 77ed, I'll take that for sure!

Thanks to all poll runners as per.

my ballot, bold DNP

Beyonce - Virgo's Groove
The Beths - Knees Deep
Hyolyn - Over you
Javiera Mena - Sombra
Nilufer Yanya - stabilise
FKA Twigs ft. Daniel Caesar - careless

Lisa O'Neill - All The Tired Horses
Call Super - Swallow Me
Taylor Swift - Would've, Could've, Should've
El Khat - Maafan
Romare - Quiet Corners of my Mind
SAULT - The Jungle
KARA - When I Move
Jessie Ware - Free Yourself
Jamie Leeming ft. Laura Groves - Long Term Memory
Kadhja Bonet - For You (Many Selves Version)
Christine and the Queens - Ma bien aimée bye bye
Meditations on Crime ft. Julia Holter, Harper Simon & Geologist - Heloise
One Leg One Eye - I'd Rather Be Tending My Sheep
The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries - Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes
BadBadNotGood - Unfolding (Momentum 73) (Ron Trent Remix)
Carla Morrison - Diamantes
Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov – Trenulețul
Pleasure Pool - Love Without Illusion
Yaya Bey - Alright

with 5/25 placing I'm way outside the hivemind this year

Ranked. Bold did not place.

regularfantasy - so sweet
The Beths - Silence is Golden
Burna Boy - It's Plenty
Sevyn Streeter - 23
NewJeans - Ditto
Cryalot - Touch the Sun
Big Thief - Spud Infinity
Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind
Rosalía - Saoko
Shabason & Krgovich - In The Middle of The Day
SZA - Kill Bill
Charli XCX ft. Rina Sawayama - Beg For You
Wednesday Campanella - Edison
Beyoncé - Break My Soul
Kendrick Lamar - Purple Hearts
Junior Boys - Night Walk
Soccer Mommy - Shotgun
FLO - Cardboard Box
El Alfa - Los Aparatos
PinkPantheress ft. WILLOW - Where you are
The Smile - The Smoke (Dennis Bovell RMX)
Ruger - Girlfriend
Stella Donnelly - Flood
fievel is glauque - save the phenomenon
tops - perfected steps

fast bad poem

I can’t remember the old songs that open
the old room
but it might break open along a faultline
clear and new

ballot (weighted, placed)

Girlpool - Faultline
Sudan Archives - Freakalizer
Shygirl - Firefly
La Roche - Figuyr
Tanya Tagaq - Colonizer
Sasami - Say It
Santigold - No Paradise
Björk - Victimhood
Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa - Kraut
Just Mustard - Still
Syd - CYBAH
Nick Hakim - Vertigo
Helena Deland - Swimmer
Bas Jan - You Have Bewitched Me
Laura Veirs - New Arms
Ravyn Lenae - M.I.A.
Tears for Fears - Long, Long, Long Time
Junglepussy - Foreign Exchange
Kelela - Washed Away
Dua Saleh - I Belong to You
Pinkpantheress - Boy’s a liar
Faye Webster - Car Therapy
Kendrick Lamar - Die Hard
Blood Orange - Wish
Living Hour - Hold Me In Your Mind

i don't remember my full ballot, but my top 3 (ranked) were:
sza — shirt
kendrick — rich spirit
ari lennox — queen space

very few of the things i voted for placed lol.

Brimstead: yeah love what they’re doing. Worst thing is I didn’t vote for them and I think it was a nom I did! Not sure if I removed them at last minute because I didn’t see much excitement about them on the board and thought no one else would vote for it.

I don’t id almost everything on your ballot looks interesting.

my mixed ballot. bold placed (10 in total), italics lone votes. feel very pleasantly hivemindy this go round! shout out to neighbor longneck

Ka - “Ascension”
Duke Deuce - “JUST SAY THAT” ft. GloRilla
Koffee - “Pull Up”
The Beths - “Silence Is Golden”
Big Thief - “Spud Infinity”
Arctic Monkeys - “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball”
Nia Archives - “18 & Over”
Veeze - “let it fly”
Bad Bunny - “Andrea” ft. Buscabulla
Asake - “Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)”
Cash Cobain & Chow Lee - “JHoliday”
Hitkidd & GloRilla - “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)”
Carly Rae Jepsen - “The Loneliest Time” ft. Rufus Wainwright

Ice Spice - Munch (Feelin U)
Black Sherif - “Kwaku The Traveller”
Iayze - “556 (Green Tip)”
NewJeans - “Ditto”
Babyface Ray - “Me, Wife & Kids”
Joony - “DRIFTING IN TOKYO”
Luh Tyler - “Back Flippin”
Kendrick Lamar - “Rich Spirit”
Asian Doll - “Get Jumped” ft. Bandmanrill
Yahritza & Su Esencia - “Soy El Unico”
Zahsossa & D Sturdy - Shake Dhat
Rema - “Calm Down”

Ranked, bold did not place.

Ethel Cain - American Teenager
Petrol Girls - Baby, I Had an Abortion
Rema - Calm Down
The Linda Lindas - Growing Up
Caroline Polachek - Sunset
NewJeans - Ditto
Kojey Radical - Payback
Kendrick Lamar - The Heart, Part 5
Polsivs - Broken Eyes
Art Moore - Snowy
Koffee - Pull Up
Nilufer Yanya - Stabilise
Caroline Polachek - Billions
Carly Rae Jepsen w/ Rufus Wainwright - The Loneliest Time
Sevyn Streeter - 23
Horsegirl - Anti-glory
Rosalia - Saoko
Paramore - This Is Why
Taylor Swift - Anti-hero
Lil Yachty - Poland
Bad Habits - Steve Lacy
Firefly - Shygirl
Angel Olsen - Big Time
Adeem the Artist - Going to Hell

can i propose a theory that kendrick had too much quality this year? seems like everybody voted for different stuff and there was no real consensus.

from the tracks thread:

kendrick vote split to heck

― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, February 22, 2023 1:29 PM

otm

I appear to have a goodly number of sole votes without being wholly un-hivemind'y. I believe these are my (unweighted) selections out to 500th place at least:

 10  Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul                  276    9    0
 11  Sevyn Streeter - 23                            258   11    0
 17  SZA - Kill Bill                                231    8    0
 22  Rosalía - Saoko                                216    8    0
 35  The Garden - Freight Yard                      174    6    0 
 60  koffee - pull up                               139    6    0
 70  Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - It Hit Me    128    4    0
 92  Rhyw - Honey Badger                            111    4    1
 96  Dry Cleaning - Gary Ashby                      107    4    0
107  Fievel is Glauque - The River                  101    4    0
126  Richard Dawson - The Hermit                     92    4    0
130  Shackleton - Overwhelming Yes Dub (Mark...      91    3    0
145  Destroyer - its in your heart now               84    3    0
160  ka - ascension                                  76    2    1
214  Kadhja Bonet - For You (Many Selves Version)    62    4    0
240  Kate NV - oni (they)                            54    2    0
267  Marxist Love Disco Ensemble - Brumaire          50    2    0
288  mj lenderman - you have bought yourself a boat  48    2    0
496  Eddie Chacon - Holy Hell                        28    2    0

my very hastily thrown together mixed ballot, bold placed

NewJeans - Ditto
Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm

4s4ki - LOG OUT
Ado - New Genesis
Algiers ft. billy woods & BACKXWASH - Bite Back
Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball
Asake - Organize
Beth Orton - Friday Night
Bilou XIV feat. Zo Flame - Fatalyt
Black K ft. Didi B & 3xdavs - Chérie Coco
Braxe + Falcon ft. Panda Bear - Step by Step
Burna Boy - Last Last
death’s dynamic shroud - Messe de E-102
ice spice - munch (feelin u)
Jessie Ware - Free Yourself
Jim Legxacy - dj
Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5
Mr Twin Sister - Resort
PinkPantheress ft. WILLOW - Where you are
Richard Dawson - The Hermit
Sha Ek & Bandmanrill - Who You Touch
The 1975 - Part of the Band
The Beths - Silence is Golden
Two Shell - Home
UA - Ocha

Bold placed

Melchior Productions LTD - Ascending To Our Solitude
Tri.Al.Trip - Truffles Mayo
Man / ipulate - Primary
Phil Evans - Smoovin
Andy Catana - Wav Encore
Garrett David - Emergency
Velvet Velour - Show You The Door
Co.inside ft. Guru Charanand - O My Beloved
Driahn - Watcha Flow
Matthias - Omega Doom
Andres Remis - Magic Maglev
Splitradix - Time Travelling Kodama
Silicon Scally - Altered Domain
Man Power - Psychedeletricity

I don't think many made it to the spotify playlist due to regulations, which probably didn't help.

I might well have voted for Sevyn Streeter if I had heard it but also I might have voted for 4 fewer, list already too long

Lol saer

Thanks for sharing that list. I will make it my mission to hear all of them eventually.

Mixed ballot top 5 weighted rest unweighted

XG - Tippy Toes
LE SSERAFIM - Fearless
SEULGI - 28 Reasons
Yuleum - Hero's Disease
YOUHA - Last Dance

Rain - Domestic
BLACKPINK - Shut Down
Kep1er - WA DA DA
(G)I-DLE - Tomboy
SUNMI - Oh Sorry Ya
Billlie - GingaMingaYo (the strange world)
STAYC - RUN2U
Solar - Honey
E'LAST - Creature
KANGDANIEL - Ready To Ride
Huh, Khundi Panda - Come Upright
BLACKPINK - Pink Venom
NCT DREAM - Teddy Bear
Red Velvet - Wildside
BVNDIT - Venom
Mamamoo ft. BIG Naughty - Better
TRI.BE - Kiss
ONEUS - Same Scent
BIBI - BIBI Vengeance
YooA - Selfish

0/25 placed which isn't surprising as I only voted for 1 track that was nominated by someone else the other 24 were my noms.

2022:

I felt guilty for leaving The 1975 off the albums list so they got two songs along with CRJ and Big Thief.

Carly Rae Jepsen ft. Rufus Wainwright - The Loneliest Time
Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love
Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball
Big Thief - Spud Infinity

Alvvays - Belinda Says
Angel Olsen - Big Time
Animal Collective - Prester John
Beabadoobee - the perfect pair
Beach Bunny - Karaoke
Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Big Thief - Simulation Swarm
Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind
Death Cab for Cutie - Here to Forever
Fever Ray - What They Call Us
Fontaines D.C. - I Love You
Phoenix ft. Ezra Koenig – Tonight
Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes
Spoon - My Babe
Soccer Mommy – Shotgun
The 1975 - Part of the Band
The 1975 – Happiness
Extrawelt - Gazelle Flip
Jilo - Floating Sunset
Mr Twin Sister - Resort
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Burning

always somewhat impressed/scared by oscar bravo's absolutist commitment to Korea - and find it quite funny/sad that finally ILM properly went for a kpop song but it wasn't one of the 25

weighted

Extra Life - Diagonal Power
Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack - Hecatomb
death’s dynamic shroud - Messe de E-102
VR SEX - Live In A Dream
Scarcity - V
Surface To Air Missive - Attic
Fire-Toolz - Soda Lake With Game Genie
Major Parkinson - Fantasia Me Now!
of Montreal - Blab Sabbath Lathe Of Maiden
black midi - Welcome to Hell
Spiritualized - Always Together With You
Mitski - Stay Soft
Angel Electronics - ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
Half Man Half Biscuit – Oblong of Dreams
Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
Craig Fortnam - Best Behaviour
Perfume Genius - Hellbent
Richard Dawson - The Hermit
Gavin Caine - Straight Outta The Clear Blue Sky
The Beths - Silence is Golden
Radioactive Boss Baby - GLOMANIC_ADHD
Trust Fund - late nite skate
Te Kaahu - Hi Hiimene
Cacola - Super Ultra Megaballad X
Robo Bowie - The Reindeer's Cosmic Journey

i know it's near the bottom but i just relistened to Hi Hiimene (which is by a pal of a RYM pal) and it made me spontaneously cry and it's really short so give it a try maybe and then imagine it 20 places higher

(also, my top two, despite being nothing alike, are some of the most fully-realised imagocore of recent years, if anyone wants to know what that consists of/spans)

thanks poll runners. weighted, bold dnp

Sudan Archives - Freakalizer
Empress Of - Dance For You
yehno - Reminds Me (Jex Opolis Remix)
Men I Trust - Billy Toppy
Mondo Grosso ft. Hikari Mitsushima - In This World (Extended)
Raye ft. 070 Shake - Escapism
tape_hiss - Scirocco
Real Lies - An Oral History Of My First Kiss
The 1975 - About You
Soichi Terada & Masalo - Double Spire (Club Mix)
ONO - Modern Dance (Krystal Klear Remix)
Lea Lisa - Love To The End
Joakim - Formosan Rock (Paula Tape Remix)
Au Suisse - Thing
DJ Python - Angel
xPropaganda - Beauty Is Truth
Nosaj Thing ft. Juliana Barwick - Blue Hour
Mr. Fingers - Around the Sun
Genius of Time - Sunswell
Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral (George Clanton Remix)
BadBadNotGood - Unfolding (Momentum 73) (Ron Trent Remix)
Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles
Two Shell - Home
Priori - Winged (Priori Rezone)
Kadhja Bonet - For You (Many Selves Version)

I admire your ballot, oscar bravo, will make it a playlist some day, but if you'd thrown just 8 points at Feel My Rhythm, it would have made the 77 :(

Weighted ballot, blod placed:

Tobias Rahim ft. ZK & Luna Ersahin - Kurder i København
Gilli - Baianá
Rema - Calm Down
Tiwa Savage & Zinoleesky - Jaiye Foreign
Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm
Tobias Rahim - Flyvende Faduma
Burna Boy - Last Last
Zar Paulo - Klap for fædrelandet
Natjager - Batteri 666
beabadoobee - talk
The 1975 - Part of the Band
Lamin - Window
FRAADS - Forsigtig
chat pile - why?
NewJeans - Ditto
Anitta - Envolver
Ruger - Girlfriend
Omah Lay – Never Forget
Sofia Kourtesis ft. Manu Chao - Estación Esperanza
special interest - midnight legend
The Weeknd - Gasoline
Hans Philip - Tæt på
Braxe + Falcon ft. Panda Bear - Step by Step
Tobias Rahim - Når mænd græder
Tobias Rahim ft. Artigeardit - Bums for eliten

Shout out to whomever also had Gilli on their list, making Kurder i København the only one of my top five where I was the lonely voter.

Weighted, bold placed:

Perfume - Spinning World
Victony - Jolene
Caroline Polachek - Sunset
ExWHYZ - Wanna Dance
Sevyn Streeter - 23
Dusky ft. Janai - Lost in You (Herbert's Lost Dub)
Mondo Grosso ft. Hikari Mitsushima - In This World (Extended)
The Blessed Madonna - Serotonin Moonbeams
Kadhja Bonet - JGS
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Burning
Kabza De Small ft. Msaki - Khusela
Snail Mail - Feeling Like I Do
Shygirl - Firefly
Sobs - Friday Night
ravyn lenae - m.i.a.
Paramore - This Is Why
Megan Thee Stallion - Plan B
Beach Bunny - Karaoke
Ruger - Girlfriend
Nia Archives - Luv Like
Headie One - 50's
Fireboy DML - Timoti
Kornel Kovacs ft. Aluna - Follow You Down
Amy Dabbs - Baddest Gal
Girl Ultra - Amores de droga

Weighted, bold placed

1. Big Thief - Spud Infinity
2. Ruger - Girlfriend
3. Vigro Deep ft. Murumba Pitch & Lady Du – Asijabule
4. Burna Boy - Last Last
5. Tyla - To Last
6. Floating Points - Vocoder
7. NSG x MHD - In Da Car
8. KH - Looking at Your Pager
9. FireCityFunk - Surrender to Me
10. Lasmid - Friday Night
11. Q-Mark & TpZee ft. Afriikan Papi & Cloud9ne - Paris
12. TSHA ft. Clementine Douglas - Dancing In The Shadows
13. Felo Le Tee & Myztro ft. Daliwonga - Dipatje Tsa Felo
14. Upchuck - Boss Up
15. Obeey Amor ft. T-Man SA, Bassie & Lady Du – Qo Qo Qo
16. Big Thief - Red Moon
17. Hagop Tchaparian - GL
18. Ruger – WeWe
19. Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball
20. Perel - Real
21. Archipelago Soundsystem – Txirimiri Jaz Tek
Aya Nakamura ft. Damso – Dégaine
Asake - Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)
Tom Blip - Kickdrums!!!
Bjork - Atopos

Weighted, bold dnp

Confidence Man - Holiday
Hatchie - The Rhythm
Real Lies - Dream On
The Blssm - Not Today
Braxe + Falcon ft. Panda Bear - Step by Step
X-Coast - XTC V
Skin On Skin - Burn Dem Bridges
Nat Home ft. Ms Ray - Witching Hour
Rema - Addicted
David Holmes - It's Over, If We Run Out Of Love (Hardway Bros live at the SSL Dub)
Raye ft. 070 Shake - Escapism
Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral (George Clanton Remix)
Plastic Estate - Antique Days
Momma - Speeding 72
Jessie Ware - Free Yourself

De Lux - New Summers
DJ Physical & DJ Bigspin – Human Cannonball
DJ Sofa - So Soft
Hidden Spheres - Euan 92
Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles
Mr Twin Sister - Resort
MUNA - Anything But Me
Omah Lay – Never Forget
Skeng - London
Smasher - Break Da Beat

Surprised I was the lone vote for Addicted and went with Dream On as the consensus pick but if I'd opted for my own nomination instead, An Oral History Of My First Kiss would have been top 10 :(

MIXED, bold placed

Au Suisse - Thing
Ada - Moon Rider
Mice Parade - Eisa Dancers
Jamie XX - Let's Do It Again
PVA - Hero Man
Real Lies - An Oral History Of My First Kiss
Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul
Sudan Archives - Home Maker
Art School Girlfriend - Helm (Tony Njoku Remix)
Steve Lacy - Mercury
Oliver Sim - GMT (Jamie XX Remix)
Real Lies - Dream On

De Lux - New Summers
Kadhja Bonet - For You (Many Selves Version)
Fever Ray - Carbon Dioxide
Lxury - Surface
John Cale ft. Weyes Blood - Story Of Blood
Mela Femmina - Hello Chic
Blood Orange - Wish
Fred P - Play What You Feel
Kaytranada & Anderson .Paak - Twin Flame
Khruangbin, Leon Bridges - Doris
Neil Frances - Dancing
xPropaganda - Beauty Is Truth
Munya - Cocoa Beach (Neon Indian Remix)

Thanks for sharing that list. I will make it my mission to hear all of them eventually.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

Due to lack of representation on spotify I'd already put them together here in no order

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYcYugGx0D5HJ3SDeOquxAaDeIEivGCX8

Weighted

Carla Morrison - Diamantes
Tokischa - Singamo
Momma - Speeding 72
Ethel Cain - American Teenager
Rosalía - Despecha
Lil Yachty - Poland
Widowspeak - True Blue
Rosalía - Saoko
NSG x MHD - In Da Car
Villano Antillano x Bizarrap - Music Sessions #51
Bad Bunny - Tití Me Preguntó
NIKI - High School in Jakarta
Lana Del Ray - Do you know there’s a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard?
Bad Gyal - La Prendo
Silvana Estrada - Te Guardo
Alex G - Runner
Chimbala - Feliz
Yung Lean ft. FKA Twigs - Bliss
Javiera Mena - Sombra
Gilli - Baianá
Men I Trust - Billy Toppy
Ofelia - Osiem gwiazd (Iga)
Victony - Jolene
Claire Rousay - It Feels Foolish to Care
Stromae - L'enfer

Here's mine, mixed, bold placed:

Community Theater - Let Me Party
Xhosa & X-Coast - Push It To The Limit
Chase & Status - Mixed Emotions
Justin Jay - Hypnotized
The Nasty Bros ft. Slowie & Burna - Oi Oi
Lil’ Golo - Very Good Very Nice
Watch The Ride ft. Nia Archives - Mash Up The Dance
Caroline Polachek - Billions
Confidence Man - Holiday
BABii - Ember

ANNA - Dissolution
Artist Code 4D422E - Keep On Holding
DJ Python - Angel
Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)
Fasme - Acid Party
Gardna & DRS - R.A.V.E.A.S.A.P.
Jim Legxacy - dj
KH - Looking at Your Pager
Overmono - Gunk
Persian - There Is No Love
Romy & Fred again.. - Strong
Roska ft. なかむらみなみ, Sweetie Irie, Serocee & Flowdan - Call Mi
Southstar - Miss You
Tommy Trash - Jaguwawa (Yolanda Be Cool Remix)
Zero ft. Logan_olm - Party Right

I was nominator and sole voter for a lot of these, my 1-7 included.

Gilli - Baianá

― ShariVari, 23. februar 2023 12:12 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hi!

It’s so good!

I believe this was my ballot, bold DNP:

Ethel Cain - American Teenager
Duke Deuce ft. Glorilla - JUST SAY THAT
Skeng - London
Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral (George Clanton Remix)
Sudan Archives - Home Maker
Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind
Samia - Mad At Me
Beth Orton - Friday Night
Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles
Empress Of - Save Me
Young Marco – I'm Still Mellow
Tiwa Savage & Zinoleesky - Jaiye Foreign
Aquarian - Rene Likes the Steak
TSHA ft. Clementine Douglas - Dancing In The Shadows
Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)
George Riley - Jealousy
Hitkidd & GloRilla - F.N.F. (Let's Go)
Tyla - To Last
Makaya McCraven with Brandee Younger and Joel Ross - So Ubuji
Sevyn Streeter - 23
Raye ft. 070 Shake - Escapism.
Amaarae – SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY (Vigro Deep Amapiano Mix)
Elsy Wameyo - River Nile
Omah Lay – Never Forget
Billie Eilish - The 30th

Weighted. I won't bold everything but my two placements as it's too much bold.

Maria W Horn & Sara Parkman - Kyrie
Katarina Gryvul - Vidsutni
The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries - Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes
Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack - Hecatomb
Go_A - Kalyna
Bethan Lloyd - Cutting Circuits
Fluid Tower - The Back
Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa - Kraut
Konstrakta - In corpore sano
Massive Luxury Overdose - Drive
ifax! - Rerere
Kate NV - oni (they)
Akkajee - Lastenkerääjä
The Bedroom Witch - In This City
Perfume - Flow
special interest - midnight legend
Soft-Bodied Humans x Swordman Kitala - Ookondoru
Wormboys - Weird
Štras - Neonski bogovi
Wednesday Campanella - Edison
Me Lost Me - Acrobat on the Roof
Samantha Savage Smith - Fake Nice
Principles of Geometry - First, I Heard Colors (Pye Corner Audio Remix)
Billlie - GingaMingaYo (the strange world)
Petrol Girls - Baby, I Had an Abortion

If I did it again I think my tracks list would be quite different. As I said on the main thread, 'Hecatomb' should probably be my #1, I fell for it all over again during voting and now I'm obsessed. Also I forgot about Angel Electronics, that should definitely be in there.

I was 8th most lonely and 5th least hivemindy. My nearest neighbour was Silverfish.

Favourite discoveries from the poll:
Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul
Paramore - This Is Why
Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil

Now do it again but with hyperlinks lol

Ha, I do think you'd enjoy my #1, so you can have that: https://xkatedral.bandcamp.com/track/kyrie

I was expecting to be lonely on both #1 and #2 but somebody else voted for 'Kyrie', apparently. Who was it? Reveal yourself!

Thanks! On it now!

(my own top finds prob Ibibio, Duke Deuce, Lady Aicha etc, Objekt, Men I Trust, DJ Python)

Well that was some raw stuff, crikey. Excellent

Weighted, bold DNP.

Ethel Cain - American Teenager
Kaitlin Butts - Blood
Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
Ravyn Lenae - Venom
The 1975 - Part of the Band
Big Thief - Spud Infinity
Harry Styles - As It Was
Björk - Her Mother's House
Charlie Puth - That's Hilarious
Guitarricadelafuente - Ya mi mama me decia
Beyoncé - Break My Soul
DJ Python - Angel
Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - Plantwood (Day)
Momma - Callin Me
Villano Antillano x Bizarrap - Music Sessions #51
Two Shell - Home
Joan Shelley - Amberlit Morning
Tyler Childers - Way of the Triune God (Jubilee Version)
Drug Church - Million Miles of Fun
Grace Ives - Lullaby
Little Simz - Gorilla
Anna Tivel - Heroes
Jessie Ware - Free Yourself
Hagop Tchaparian - GL
Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles

always somewhat impressed/scared by oscar bravo's absolutist commitment to Korea - and find it quite funny/sad that finally ILM properly went for a kpop song but it wasn't one of the 25

― imago, Thursday, February 23, 2023 7:23 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol nothing to be impressed by. the sad truth is that i only listen to music anymore for about 2 hours a month if that (which my younger self would have not believed possible) and so i just end up checking that month's kpop stuff and don't bother with anything else.

it's a shame but i just generally feel happier in silent surroundings the last few years. am listening to the 77 playlist today though and skeng 'london' is v enjoyable. big thief is not.

big thief is not.

― oscar bravo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIcVwH47uxQ

it's a shame but i just generally feel happier in silent surroundings the last few years.

― oscar bravo, Thursday, February 23, 2023 9:27 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can absolutely relate to this

New board description.

ahh c'mon ya'll

nah

ILS

although if my only option was big thief, i'd choose silence too

☺

Weighted, bold dnp. A good dose of vote splitting and album picks that didn't make it.

Rema – Calm Down
SZA – Shirt
Rosalía – Hentai
Sudan Archives – Freakalizer
Ruger – Girlfriend
Beyoncé – Heated
Bnxn & Wande Coal – Kenkele
Rosalía ft. Tokischa – La Combi Versace
Omah Lay – Never Forget
Wizkid – Frames (Who’s Gonna Know)
Bad Bunny ft. Buscabulla – Andrea
Little Simz – Gorilla
Silvana Estrada – Te Guardo
Karol G – Provenza
Sudan Archives – Home Maker
Beyoncé – Virgo’s Groove
Björk – Ancestress
Jenny Hval – Year of Love
Ayra Starr – Rush
Konke & Musa Keys – Kancane
Shanti Celeste – Cutie
Tinashe – Naturally
Real Lies – Late Arcades
Kendrick Lamar – Rich Spirit
Hikaru Utada – Somewhere near Marseilles

my WEIGHTED ballot

bold = did not place / italics = sole voter

Asake & Burna Boy - Sungba Remix (#79)
Vigro Deep ft. Murumba Pitch & Lady Du – Asijabule (#64)
Omah Lay – Never Forget (#45)
Oxlade - Ku Lo Sa (#184)
Q-Mark, TpZee, Afrikan Papi, Cloud9ne – Paris (#114)
Ntokzin ft. BoiBizza – Sika Bopha (#375)
Ruger – Girlfriend (#1)
Miči & Sun-El Musician – Respond (#104)
Rema - Calm Down (#2)
T-Man SA feat. Mfr Souls & Gugu - Crush Yam (#169)
K.O feat. Young Stunna & Blxckie – SETE (#482)
Daliwonga ft. Mellow & Sleazy x M.J – Abo Mvelo (#135)
Kizz Daniel ft. Tekno - Buga (Lo Lo Lo) (#350)
Aya Nakamura ft. Damso – Dégaine (#461)
Wizkid - Frames (Who's Gonna Know) (#240)
Kelvyn Boy – Down Flat (#649)
Oxlade – Want You (#440)
Bilou XIV ft. Zo Flame – Fatal (#233)
Burna Boy - Last Last (#13)
DJ Sumbody ft. Drip Gogo & The Lowkeys – Korobela (#758)
Konke ft. Musa Keys, Chley & Sayfar - M'nike (#776)
Wanitwa Mos ft. Master KG, Lowsheen & Nkosazana Daughter – Sofa Silahlane (#790)
Black Sherif - Kwaku The Traveller (#137)
Tyla - To Last (#87)
QuinzeQuinze – Reuts (#814)

big hugs to my neighbours: rob and dog latin.
thank you to those who voted for some of my orphaned nominations, these lucky ones being “Bathini”, “Qo Qo Qo”, “WeWe”, and “Soweto”.
and once again: thank you pollrunners for this thrilling experience: music and lights, let’s sing and dance and vote all night, ballots and polls, and lots of pretty tracks, you've gotta have rhythm! (you've gotta have Rema! you've gotta have Ruger!)

Weighted, bold dnp. A good dose of vote splitting and album picks that didn't make it.

Rema – Calm Down
SZA – Shirt
Rosalía – Hentai
Sudan Archives – Freakalizer
Ruger – Girlfriend
Beyoncé – Heated
Bnxn & Wande Coal – Kenkele
Rosalía ft. Tokischa – La Combi Versace
Omah Lay – Never Forget
Wizkid – Frames (Who’s Gonna Know)
Bad Bunny ft. Buscabulla – Andrea
Little Simz – Gorilla
Silvana Estrada – Te Guardo
Karol G – Provenza
Sudan Archives – Home Maker
Beyoncé – Virgo’s Groove
Björk – Ancestress
Jenny Hval – Year of Love
Ayra Starr – Rush
Konke & Musa Keys – Kancane
Shanti Celeste – Cutie
Tinashe – Naturally
Real Lies – Late Arcades
Kendrick Lamar – Rich Spirit
Hikaru Utada – Somewhere near Marseilles

― Nabozo

Howdy top neighbor

my mixed and somewhat rapidly put together (as can be seen by the fact that I voted for one track twice) ballot. Bold placed.

Jockstrap - Concrete Over Water
Destroyer - June
Objekt - Bad Apples

beast nest - kim, people are dying
Reinhard Voigt - Cha Cha Club
Amazingblaze - Venture
Mr Twin Sister - Resort
Bolis Pupul - Rendez-Voodoo
Anteloper - Earthlings
Petrol Girls - Baby, I Had an Abortion
The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries - Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes
death’s dynamic shroud - Messe de E-102
Ryoji Ikeda - ultratronics 01
Floating Points - Vocoder
Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa - Kraut
Minuit Machine - So Hard
Anna B Savage - InFLUX
Jennifer Loveless - Reverse Cowgirl 2
Megan Thee Stallion - Her
Nikki Nair - It's NP-Complicated
Rhyw - Honey Badger
Ryoji Ikeda - ultratronics 01
PVA - Hero Man
Jamal Moss - Poisonous Effects
Unloved - Number In My Phone (Black Science Orchestra Remix)

Some nice discoveries from this year's list. Big up all the pollrunners!

Weighted

Stormzy - Mel Made Me Do It
Dave – Starlight
M24 - Coulda Been
ssabae – azurescens
(OOAK) Russ Millions x Buni x YV - Reggae & Calypso
Shackleton - Overwhelming Yes Dub (Mark Ernestus Version)
C1 x LD - Hillside Demons
DJ Python – Angel
Rema - Calm Down
K-Trap ft. Skepta - Warm Remix
Headie One - 50's
M24 – Exotic
DoRoad x (67) PR SAD – BAFTA
NSG x MHD - In Da Car
Tems - Crazy Tings
Mr. Fingers - Around the Sun
Burna Boy - Last Last
Skeng – London
Skin On Skin - Burn Dem Bridges
Rhyw - Honey Badger

regularfantasy - so sweet
objekt - bad apples
eiko ishibashi - ask me how i sleep at night
blaketheman1000 - dean kissick
palm - feathers
whitney k - two strangers
steve lacy - bad habit
eliza niemi - murphy's
tops - perfected steps
whitney k - two strangers
big city - popcorn
the submissives - chirp like a bird
cam maclean - shy companion
the garden - orange county punk rock legend
"alex g - end song from ""we're all going to the world's fair"" soundtrack"
onerepublic - i ain't worried
nicky youre ft. dazy - sunroof
the dare - girls
looney - running out
special interest - midnight legend
beabadoobee - talk
stereoloab ft. nurse with wound - simple headphone mind
fievel is glauque - save the phenomenon
Beth Orton - Weather Alive
Objekt - Bad Apples

surprised steve lacy and the dare would place

just went through results today - great poll. fave discoveries: DJ Python, death's dynamic shroud, Carla Morrison, Men I Trust (I thought I knew what they sounded like but apparently I was wrong? this is good).

I forgot to vote for Perfume. :/ Pleasantly surprised at how high "Ditto" placed, considering how late it came out in the year.

thank you, pollrunners! i can't remember if this was my final ballot, but it should be pretty close. unranked:

Asake - Peace Be Unto You (PBUY)
beabadobee - See You Soon
Bella Boo - True Romance (Maja Edit)
Beyoncé - Alien Superstar
Caroline Polachek – Billions
Hikaru Utada - Somewhere Near Marseilles
ice spice - munch (feelin u)
IVE - Love Dive
Karol G – Provenza
Le Sserafim – Antifragile
Miči & Sun-El Musician – Respond
Mondo Grosso ft. Hikari Mitsushima - In This World (Extended)
My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay
NewJeans – Ditto
Oliver Sim – Hideous
Paramore - This Is Why
Pheelz & BNXN fka Buju – Finesse
PinkPantheress ft. WILLOW - Where you are
Rema - Calm Down
SEULGI - 28 Reasons
Sevyn Streeter – 23
Shygirl – Firefly
Soccer Mommy - Darkness Forever
Tyla - To Last
Yeule - Bites on My Neck

thanks pollrunners
would have voted eversines 'achterna' & death's dynamic shroud 'neon memories' top 2 but neither were nominated

through the below tracks some unweighted points
chat pile - why?
death’s dynamic shroud - Messe de E-102
DJ Python - Angel
Eversines - Uitzicht
Jim Legxacy - dj
KFC Murder Chicks - Half Life
NewJeans - Ditto
The Center for Understanding New Trigonometries - Common Shapes and Uncommon Shapes
Two Shell - Home
Yeule - Bites on My Neck

I was the only other voter for that Eversines track, so gorgeous

The older - and busier - I get, this place is increasingly the only place I really get recommendations. Hence the most hivemind-y I've ever been, by some distance (not that that's a bad thing, but my cred is important to me). Jim Legxacy wuz robbed and still can't believe I didn't nominate Looking For Somebody (To Love).

Harry Styles - As It Was
Beth Orton - Friday Night
DJ Python - Angel
Real Lies - An Oral History Of My First Kiss
Ruger - Girlfriend
Jim Legxacy - dj
DJ Sofa - So Soft
Big Thief - Change
beabadoobee - talk
Fievel is Glauque - The River
Duncan Marquiss - C Sweeps
Vitesse X - Us Ephemeral (George Clanton Remix)
Chronixx - Never Give Up Dub
Junior Boys - Night Walk
Real Lies - Late Arcades
Carly Rae Jepsen - Western Wind
Shabason & Krgovich - In The Middle of The Day
A + A (Avalon Emerson + Aunauku) - Eternal September
Jamila Woods - Boundaries
Ethel Cain - American Teenager
Lucrecia Dalt - No Tiempo
Oliver Sim - Hideous
Sudan Archives - NBPQ (Topless)
Tomberlin - tap
Eddie Chacon - Holy Hell