THE 2012 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ is open for nominations! (ends Sunday January 6)

ALBUMS
1. Penny Royale, This Town (Sleepy Hollow)
2. Sontag Shogun, Absent Warrior, Abandoned Battlefield (Palaver)
3. Melody's Echo Chamber, Melody's Echo Chamber (Fat Possum)
4. Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel... (Clean Slate/Epic)
5. Pauline Oliveros, Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (Important)
6. Mike Shiflet, Merciless (Type)
7. Oneida, A List of the Burning Mountains (Jagjaguwar)
8. Natural Snow Buildings, Night Coercion Into The Company of Witches (Ba Da Bing)
9. Meek Mill, Dreams & Nightmares (Maybach Music/Warner Brothers)
10. Dial, Western Front (Ektro)

That was ALBUMS, 10/15

Sent from my iPhone

Love critmas, it's a thrill just eyeballing these lists and being all "what was THAT?"

SINGLES
1. Ab-Soul, "Track Two" (Top Dawg Entertainment)
2. Mike Bell, "Monroe Station" (MT6)
3. Black Dice, "Pigs" (Ribbon)
4. Death Grips, "I've Seen Footage" (Epic)
5. Godspeed You Black Emperor, "Mladic" (Constellation)
6. Carly Ptak, "All Ways Different" (Heresee)
7. Schoolboy Q, "There He Go" (Top Dawg Entertainment)
8. Sharon Van Etten, "All I Can" (Jagjaguwar)
9. Starving Weirdoes, "Land Lines" (Amish)
10. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, "Walk Like A Giant

Nice one, I was thinking of nominating Pigs. Black Dice are very much missing from EOY polls this year and yet Mr Impossible is the best thing they've done since Beaches & Canyons - beating Battles at their own game; total turbo-driven corruscated rave.

Hey Johnny Fever if at some point you want me to link to the spreadsheet in the opening post then just shout. It'll probably be useful once the thread grows.

Tracks:

Shurwayne Winchester – Winin’ Addiction
Sass ft Nadia Batson – No Pressure
Eva Polna – Je T’aime (Ya Tebya Tozhe Nyet)
Chika Iz Permi – Hipster
Maria – Mrasni Pomisli
Goga Sekulic ft Jasmin Jusic – Vuce Lopove
Alina Devecerski - Flytta På Dej
Kerwin Du Bois – Bacchanalist
Fabrika – Filmi O Lyubvi

9/15

Albums:

Maria – XIII
Alina Devecerski – Maraton
Charlie Straight – Someone With A Slow Heartbeat

3/15

Tracks:

Brodka - Varsovie
Brodka - Dancing Shoes (Kamp! Remix)

11/15

Raymond I have already nommed There He Go. So that is one more nom you have.

hint to all: ctrl+f is your friend

Sorry man

I need to scan this thread carefully for my last noms

Remind me, how many total votes will we have?

ALBUMS

Dead Sara - Dead Sara
Mark Lanegan Band - Funeral Blues
Melanie Fiona - The MF Life
Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game
Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears

5/15

TRACKS

Future - Same Damn Time
Elle Varner - Refill
Little Big Town - Pontoon
Trey Songz featuring T.I. - 2 Reasons
One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful

5/15

ALBUMS
Lotus Plaza, Spooky Action...
Diablo, Twins
Lightning Bolt, Oblivion Hunter
White Suns, sinews
Grasshopper, Day America forgot
V/A, compilation for a cat*

10-15

*just realized I nominated Melody' Echo Chamber after someone else already had

Thank you, based hypnocat

I can't work out if I like Melody's Echo Chamber. On one hand it's quite pleasant and has quite a few moments of transcendence into something wonderful. On the other hand, it's yet another 2012 album with hazy indistinct chimey fuzz-guitars and a detached female vocal, that falls somewhere along a tri-axis between the Knife, the XX and Dirty Projectors without really grabbing my attention very much or making me very excited at all.

Mark Lanegan Band - Funeral Blues

oops this should read

Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral

Nadia Oh - Taking Over The Dancefloor

Wasn't this on last year's list?

― The Reverend, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:52 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, this placed last year. You get one nomination back, Michael B Higgins.

Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms
Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms (John Talabot & Pional Remix)

Remember remixes get counted together with the original (a policy that doesn't always make sense, but hey), so dog latin if you're worried about maxing out your nominations maybe scratch one of these?

"Somebody That I Used To Know" placed last year, should it be off the table this year?

Yes

I think of "Somebody That I Used To Know" as being from this year really, as this was the year it charted. I'll claim back that nom then w/r/t Chairlift

yeah i'm sure most of ilx hadn't heard the Gotye song until after last year's poll, but i'm fine w/ it being restricted from placing 2 years in a row. just frees up more room on my noms/ballot.

We had the same discussion last time with "Ass on the Floor" iirc. Pretty much the only rule we have about nominations is that if something places one year it can't be nominated in a subsequent year.

TRACKS

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Best Love
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue)
Perfume - Point
The Crystal Ark - Rhodes
The KDMS - High Wire
Burial - Ashtray Wrap
Sakanaction - Yoru no Odoriko
F(x) - Electric Shock

8/15

ALBUMS

Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
Lau Nau - Valohiukkanen
Starring - ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ
LA Vampires and Maria Minerva - The Integration LP
Woods - Bend Beyond

5/15

Starring - ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ

wait what?

There's a band called Starring and they released an album called "ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ".
Reviewed here. It's very good if you like that kind of thing.

Burial - Ashtray Wrap

Ashtray Wasp, surely?

TRACKS
Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage
Burial - Kindred

14/15

:'-( i bet I've missed about 20 things I wanna nom.

TRACKS

Bat for Lashes - Laura
Yeasayer - Reagan's Skeleton
Jessie Ware - 110%
Jessie Ware - No to Love (Ewan Pearson Remix)
Angel Haze - New York
Plan B - Ill Manors
Mark Lanegan Band - Ode to Sad Disco
Haim - Forever (original + Lindstrom Remix)
Hot Chip - Let Me Be Him
Muse - Madness
Blur - Under the Westway
Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart
AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love
Daphni - Yes, I Know
Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire

15/15

Sadface at prosaic thread title. Taylor had gifted us a title to use. Whose on the thread pun committee these days?

― Jeff W, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:19 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we usually break out the fun titles for the countdown, right? and yes, that line is a GIFT THAT WE MUST USE

poor gotye

ALBUMS

Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe
Matthew Dear - Beams
Spoek Mathambo - Father Creeper
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
Saint Etienne - Words and Music
Pet Shop Boys - Elysium
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
Dr John - Locked Down

9/15

Ashtray Wasp, surely?

So it is...funny how once I decided it was "Wrap" I always read it that way. I'll fix it when JF puts the spreadsheet up.

ALBUMS

Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships
Vespero - Subkraut U-Boats Wilkommen Hier
Tweak Bird - Under Cover Crops
Sula Bassana - Dark Days
Giant Giant Sand - Tucson
Goddess - Discovery
Menace Ruine - Alight In Ashes
Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
Tigon - Infinite Teeth
Striker - Armed to the Teeth
RAM - Death
Mugstar - Axis
Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Graveyard - Lights Out
Ufomammut - ORO: Opus Primum/Opus Alter
Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
Lambchop - Mr. M

TRACKS

A.Dd+ - "Shit Got Crazy"
Witch Mountain - "Bloodhound"
Witchcraft - "It's Not Because Of You"
ZZ Top - "I Gotsta Get Paid"
Christian Mistress - "Haunted Hunted"

I want to vote for at least four different Jessie Ware songs.

Wait, Witch Mountain had a record out this year? This is what I get for only reading the metal thread when they do their EOY poll. Said poll last year introduced me to 'South of Salem'. Excited to hear the new one!

I voted for that Lambchop album already, EZ Snappin

TRACKS

Icona Pop - I Love It

1/15

Sorry, missed the 'chop. Thanks for nominating it already!

New Witch Mountain is better than South of Salem, and "Bloodhound" is from a new single that you can get for free from the Scion AV club. It's the best thing they've done yet.

Gotye is, evidently, somebody that we used to know.

*groan*

as far as dog latin jokes go that's actually in the top 10 percent or so

dad latin

DL, Words and Music was nommed by Kitchen Person and you've nommed Bat For Lashes twice. I know it's good, but...

I don't understand why we've adopted this half have to be albums/half have to be tracks rule just cause ship can't count past 15.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:54 AM (4 hours ago)

i don't understand this actually - do we have to nominate 15 of each as per the first sentence or can we nominate eg 25 tracks and 5 albums as per the second? if the former, that's dumb

― lex pretend, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:57 AM (4 hours ago)

30 noms, nominate what you like afaict.

― Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:04 AM (4 hours ago)

NickB otm. Everyone has the option of splitting their noms evenly now that we've upped the total to 30 from 25, but you can really still nominate as much of one and as little of the other as you feel like (within 30).

why limit the # at all, honestly

Albums:

Soko - I Thought I Was An Alien

4/15

haha JF you drive me nuts. what i complained about before was that the OPTION of being able to use more nominations on albums vs. singles created a whole dilemma on what to allot more of my noms to. the option is still there, therefore the dilemma is still there. the only thing that's better now is that at least it's an even number!

― some dude, Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:39 AM (3 hours ago)

<3 u, some dude.

why limit the # at all, honestly

When I did the alt 70s album poll a few years ago (and I think it happened again in the 20th century track poll), some clown came in and dropped 300 nominations in one go, half of which were junk, and then never even voted.

why limit the # at all, honestly

Good question. The main argument is that if people started dumping their personal top 100 lists, then the thread and spreadsheet would become unusable. Having a cap means that people have to think a bit harder about what to nominate and leads to a better shortlist.

Oh! Um ok

ALBUMS
The Pre-New - Music For People Who Hate Themselves
Extra Life - Dream Seeds
Volcano! - Pinata

TRACKS
Of Montreal - Ye, Renew The Plaintiff
Extra Life - Blinded Beast
Thumpermonkey - Blackout
The Pre-New - Cathedral City Comedown
Death Grips - Hacker

Hacker wasn't in until now. Oh you card, ILM!

TRACKS
Volcano! - Fighter
The Chap - Rhythm King

ALBUMS
The Chap - We Are Nobody

ah Jaymc already got We Are Nobody, ignore

TRACKS
Matt Elliott - Dust, Flesh And Bone

ALBUMS
Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife

ha here's one I forgot to nominate:

ALBUM
Marissa Nadler - The Sister

While we're still here: Adding a couple of non-noms that placed highly on P4k cos I have the list in front of me and someone might want to vote for them:

TRACKS

Kendrick Lamar - Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe
Grimes - Genesis
Cat Power - Nothin But Time
Gunplay - Jump Out
Dum Dum Girls - Lord Knows
Burial and Four Tet - Nova

omg we slept on "Genesis"? ridic

ALBUMS

Ty Segall and White Hair - Hair

okay, locking up.