!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~FINALLY - 2009 ILX Albums 'n' Trax Poll voting thread ahoy~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (VOTING CLOSED: lol Whiney)

Actually I noticed we are starting two days earlier than last year and the deadline is the same so I think we're good.

Also, please do a quick check of the nom list to make sure that spelling is okay, titles and correct, and most importantly that there are no omissions.

Standard rules, same as before.

How it works:

• You can vote for up 20 albums AND 20 tracks. That's 40 total. They are not transferable, so you cannot vote for 1 album and 39 tracks.

• You may vote in one of two ways: ordered and non-ordered. You can order your list, and I will give 20 points to your #1 ranked item and 1 point to your 20th ranked item. Be sure when sending me your ballot that your top-ranked item is at the top of the list. If you can't be bothered, you can submit an unranked list and each item will receive 10.5 points.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2yl60c3.gif DO NOT FREEFORM TYPE YOUR VOTES; COPY AND PASTE THEM FROM THE NOMINATION LIST INTO YOUR EMAIL

• Blurbs, anecdotes, etc are welcomed. I will not be emailing people after I tally the votes to solicit blurbs, so if you have something please send it with your ballot.

******************Lists of nominations

******************Ballot submittal form ***new*** <<<<<<<<-this is where you are sending your ballots, don't email them to me this time.

My contact info is on the main page if you need to email me.

Have fun.

whoa, the ballot form. fancy!

can you post the best comments at the end :D

Well it's 2010, start of the "internet" decade, I thought I would catch up to the trends and all that

also I now know how to use Pivot tables in Excel so HELLO I will probably finish calculating the results in an hour, no lie

azari III - hungry for the power

that's Azari & III

This is big and fancy! I approve!!!

looking amazing - btw heads up the rihanna album is somehow in the albums list twice

also

Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali

and

Vistoso Bosses - Delirious
Vistoso Bosses - Delirious

Pink Dollaz - (Pockets) Never Hungry
Pink Dollaz - Never Hungry

(those two are the same)

digidesign - joker

^^should be the other way round (joker is the artist) though idk if this matters?

(not nitpicking, your efforts much appreciated - just bringing these up as i see them...)

no, I want to catch all these, especially ones where artist/title are transposed because that means that people might miss them when making their ballots...

The tracks list is missing:

Omega - Merengue Electronico

Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Japandroids - Post-nothing

two entries for Very Best (also under 'the' very best) and v/a 5 years of hyperdub (both under the v section).

uh those are both from the albums list.

Stina Nordenstam - The World Is Saved is from 2004?

[not a correction (i think), but someone nominated Z-Ro - Relvis Presley, but not Z-Ro - Cocaine???]

etienne jaumet - repeat again after me (ame remix) is from 2008 (not even tail end of 08/nearly 09, well inside 08)

I would like to point out that Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 was NOT nominated, even though it appears in the albums list. Ilxor mentioned it as a big one yet to be nominated, but did not include it in his actual nominations list.

badge of pride

Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 was NOT nominated

kudos ilx

son of a bitch...it's really annoying when people post lists of albums and tracks in nomination format when they're just recommending them, hint hint

Future Of The Left - Arming Eritrea
future of the left - arming eritrea

Ellie Goulding - Under the Sheets
Ellie Goulding - Under the Sheets

why are there so many different pill songs nominated? did whoever nominated them think that anyone else was going to vote for something other than 'trap goin ham'?

btw I will crosscheck for any dupe noms for a "The such-and-such" and "[dropped The] such-and-such" shortly, I'm sure there are a few that need to be removed...

Brad Paisley - Welcome To The Future
Brad Paisley - Welcome to the Future

Burial - Fostercare
Burial - Fostercare

the-dream - sweat it out was nominated but is not in the tracks list

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Pictureplane - Goth Star
Pictureplane - Gothstar

Lindstrom and Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane dub)
Lindstrom and Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane remix)

on second thought, those may be different

some noms were posted after some casual talk of a decade poll. so there are a few albums that should be removed:

Bob Drake - The Skull Mailbox (2002)
Roddy Frame - Surf (2004)
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (2000)

and some trax:

Mint Royale ft. Lauren Laverne - Don't Falter (2000)
Louis Philippe - Fires Rise and Die (2004)
Chris Eckman - Healing Waters of the Flood (2004)
My Favorite - The Happiest Days of My Life (2003)
Smoosh - Find a Way (2006)

as far as I can tell the 2 lindstrom/christabelle/aeroplane are the same

Animal Collective "My Girls" nominated for trax, missing from final list.

Ekkehard`Ehlers - Ballads should be: Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus - Ballads

The Flaming Lips "Watching the Planets" also missing from final TRAX nominations list (this was my submission, there's no way I won't vote for the darn thing).

Lindstrom - Wherever You Go I Go Too

this is 2008

^ not only that, but it was #2 in the 2008 albums poll.

if it was beaten by sound of fucking silver i wish i'd heard it sooner

oh wait it was portishead wasn't it? in which case a most booming top 2

sound of silver was 2007 I CAN'T REMEMBER CAN I

lol hercules and love affair came 2nd and lindstrom 3rd, a triumph for albums that take half a year to date and eight months for everybody to completely forget

Royksopp - The Girl and The Robot
Royksopp feat Robyn - The Girl and the Robot

xp lol I guess my #2 memory was wishful thinking due to never liking the H&LA album.

The Flaming Lips "Watching the Planets" also missing from final TRAX nominations list (this was my submission, there's no way I won't vote for the darn thing).

Scratch this, I found it alphabetized under "The" instead of "Flaming" and got my votes finished. Still, Animal Collective "My Girls" is still missing and was nominated. I didn't vote for it but I'm sure some folks will want to do so...

Animal Collective "My Girls" nominated for trax, missing from final list.

that was on someone's list when they originally nominated about 50 things, when he redid his list he didn't include it.

The Flaming Lips "Watching the Planets" also missing from final TRAX nominations list (this was my submission, there's no way I won't vote for the darn thing).

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor)

see Flaming Lips, The, it's on there

and I think dub and remix can be two distinct things, I mean it's basically nominating the instrumental but since it doesn't add much complication and it doesn't split the vote I don't have a problem with allowing both to be nominated.

that was on someone's list when they originally nominated about 50 things, when he redid his list he didn't include it.

No way... I would have included it in my noms, had I known. Pretty "significant" record that is going to be shut out of the ILX poll, I guess.

Fever Ray: "Keep The Streets Empty For Me" was nominated, although I think it was written as "Leave The Streets...", which might have thrown you off, musically.

that was another of the over-noms that was cut. yes, i agree, it does suck. i don't have a huge problem adding the ones that were cut except that it's not fair to people who actually read the rules and limited themselves to 15 nominations.

Sorry if this has already been said, but can I just send a top 10 for tracks? I'm stuck staring at the list and I know if I try to do all 20 it'll never be finished, whereas if I can just chuck 10 in there it'll be fine.

And for some reason I was operating under the impression it was 30 slots each, so now I'm going to have to get rid of 10 albums. Gah.

Oh no shit I only voted for fifteen of each, oops duh! Does that screw things up? Only my albums were ranked btw.

I am taking Wicked Witch off my ballot, even though it was initially quite high, as it isn't technically an album from this year. I am very sorry. It deserves to place anyway.

(As in, it's a reissue... which means it's still eligible, just not for my ruthless cutting purposes.)

emil.y, you can vote for as few as you like - just no more than 20 apiece

my trax are way faggier than my albums, half of which im kinda only eh abt which surprised me.

Thanks, Kevin. It looks like I'm voting for 12 tracks in the end. AND putting Wicked Witch back on my albums, just docking it some points. It needs to be there.

ballots due today!

It looks like I'm voting for 12 tracks in the end

tell you what, emil.y, I'll give you 8 tracks to vote for and you give me 8 albums. I'm struggling to get to 20 albums especially now that RLINC has been cruelly and vindictively booted off the noms list ;)

Aw, I've sent mine in now. But in case you want to do some last minute listening, have you considered the Trembling Bells, Belbury Poly or Position Normal albums? Note that these are not the top 3 of my poll, but ones that I think may be overlooked and could do with extra votes. I've kind of reconciled myself with the fact that I'll be the only person to vote for Arthur & Martha, otherwise I'd be pushing for them, too.

Also, if you want something rockier, I didn't vote for Lovvers in the end, but they're good guys and could do with some lovve.

Belbury Poly may well feature somewhere on my ballot :)

I've only heard one track from the position normal cassette, but I liked it.

bump

btw if a mod is reading this please change title to "ballots due TODAY," my mod request is still open

I have 95 in now, get crackin if you haven't submitted already...

When are you closing submissions?

end of the day for the person's time zone

i told jacob about it and he's doing it now

Wait, I just assumed it was 11:59 pm PST (so 2:59 am EST)?

End of the day for wherever, I guess, with the absolute latest ballots being counted if received before 11:59 PST.

i didn't want people to have to convert PST to their time, so just submit it while it's the 22nd where you are. I won't be doing the calculations at midnight anyway so i don't care.

Agreed about the Major Lazer "Pon de floor" omission, also "Hold the Line"

Easy for me to run stats for you, if you'd like, musically. Drop me a note (glenn at furia dot com) if you're interested...

which stats are you referring to?

start reading here !!!!!!!! ILX METAL ALBUMS of 2009 POLL RESULTS!!!!!! (TOP TEN! LAST CHANCE TO DECRY FALSE METAL m/!)

i personally think it's awesome

So… I only paid money (which I consider the base level of actual YES! interest in music anymore) for 18 albums out of the list, but at least I got a ballot in. A thin, lonely ballot that won't change anything, but hey, I voted for Nader.

Sorry, Oneida and Sunn O)))! Too many good albums in 2009 and more than 20 I still want to hear.

Oneida is top ten, though... :'(

musically I tried to webmail u

could u please email my ballot to cozenezoc @ gmail dot com

I threw in a late entry... kinda fucked the formats after reading otherwise... sorry!

lmk if there's any problems

steveshastaATgoogle'sfreewebmailservice.corn

how many people voted this year musically?

i hope ILX was able to break the 100 person mark this year.

starting countdown tomorrow?

aw man so excited

i have a feeling my top 10s won't place any better here than they did in pazz/jop. but there's stuff in my 11-20 that might do ok.

bum i forgot to vote

none of my stuff woulda placed anyway though

i considered voting for spc-eco's "shine on down" for a minute!

^their album was my #12

musically, can you send my ballot to: damagedintransitATshawDOTca

Thanks, and thanks for doing this again.

fuck, i forgot to put holy ghost! - "i will come back" on my singles list!!!!

Antici

Pation

i've been anticipating

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

this is our song they're playing

Unfortunately I have to be in the office a few days this week, but there's no law that I have to start the countdown on Monday so I'll try to start it the first day I can, which is probably Wednesday btw

and email me if you want your ballot so I can keep track of who to send it to, thx

For bookmark watchers, the countdown has begun!

Thanks!!

My trax ballot (unranked)

Animal Collective - My Girls
Azari & III - Hungry For The Power
Bat for Lashes - Daniel
Britney Spears - If U Seek Amy
Curses! - The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Day School dub)
Dam Funk - Hood Pass Intact
DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central, Pt. I (Deep Into The Bowel Of House) (MCDE Bassline Dub)
Eddie C - Make It Better
Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me
Floating Points - Love Me Like This
Fuck Buttons - The Lisbon Maru
Guido - Way U Make Me Feel
Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Juan Maclean, The - One Day (Surkin mix)
Junior Boys - Bits & Pieces
Lindstrom and Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop
Memory Tapes - Stop Talking
Nite Funk - Am I Gonna Make It
Omar Souleyman - Lansob Sherek (I Will Make A Trap)
Still Going - Untitled Love

They Belong To You: Your ILM 2009 Track of the Year Ballots

The album countdown starts today, yes?

Monday