2012 Albums Poll Afterparty of Stats, Ballots and Differential Calculus

weighted

Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads
Lambchop - Mr. M
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV
The Chap - We Are Nobody
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers ii
Chairlift - Something
Gerry Read - Jummy
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Screaming Females - Ugly
Action Bronson & Party Supplies - Blue Chips
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
Grimes - Visions

put it together really fast and now wish i'd thought about it more. some stuff on here i already don't care about and missed some obvious stuff but mainly things i was sure would get votes from others. but i stand by the top 5 at least.

Most likely to read Pitchfork!? God no!

Ha, lex is a Pitchfork reader too.

Sleaford Mods made my ballot cos I checked it after you listed it on noms thread and if I'd had a chance to check 'Sweater Girls' before now that may have made it too (if it lives up to the first 3 terrific tracks)

― pandemic, Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it does. I'd not got into them through the singles but the album works really well for me.

haha turrican you got caught out

My short, unweighted ballot (DNP in bold):

Action Bronson & Party Supplies - Blue Chips
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Christian Mistress - Possession
Death Grips - The Money Store
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Grimes - Visions
Hospitality - Hospitality
Justin Townes Earle - Nothing's Going To Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
Royal Headache - Royal Headache
Screaming Females - Ugly

Mixed.

Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
Headboggle - Head Boggle
Mirrorring - Foreign Body
Goat - World Music
Violens - True
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing
Demdike Stare - Elemental
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended

Actress - R.I.P.
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Blondes - Blondes
Chairlift - Something
DIIV - oshin
Golden Retriever - Occupied with the Unspoken
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Madalyn Merkey - Scent
Maria Minerva - Will Happiness Find Me?
Marielle V Jakobsons - Glass Canyon
Matt Carlson - All Moments
NHK'Koyxeи - Dance Classics Vol. I & II
Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Suum Cuique - Ascetic Ideals

ha I love that both tracks and albums are telling me to read Spin, which used to be my favorite music magazine (back when I read music magazines regularly)

n/a that dustin wong album is great, good choice!

seandalai can you autocorrect "spin" to "car and driver"

hahaha

n/a that dustin wong album is great, good choice!

― Jaap and roids (NickB), Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:10 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know, right!

Marielle V Jakobsons - Glass Canyon

This was a really late cut from my ballot; there were too many albums I wanted to vote for and I decided to think tactically for a change.

Not that it matters now, but this was my cut list:

Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
Marielle V Jakobsons - Glass Canyon
Lindstrom - Smalhans
Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon
Zita Swoon Group - Wait For Me
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Seeds
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything?
Discoverer - Tunnels
Fatima Al Qadiri - Desert Strike
OMBRE - Believe You Me

This afterparty needs to swing a little bit more, IMO... stimulants, anyone?

theyre all eating at the dinner party

i see you j0rdan

(lost my ballot but... i voted future #1 lololol)

xps to seandalai: Yeah, the Jakobsons really is an excellent album, great at proper volume. Probably would have snuck Emeralds into my ballot for a sympathy vote had I known about their imminent dissolution.

second lowest hivermind, rudipherous beat me here. mixed ballot:

Tindersticks - Something Rain
Tracey Thorn - Tinsel and Lights
Allah-Las - Allah-Las
The xx - Coexist

Aimee Mann - Charmer
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Brad Mehldau Trio - Where Do You Start
Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano II
Cody ChesnuTT - Landing on a Hundred
David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
Deerhoof - Breakup Song
Dr. John - Locked Down
Giant Giant Sand - Tucson
Lambchop - Mr. M
Lee Fields & the Expressions - Faithful Man
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Mark Eitzel - Don't Be a Stranger
Pinback - Information Retrieved
Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Sun Kill Moon - Among the Leaves

I should have written an explanation of the graph at the top of the thread...it's a plot of all the similarities between voters collapsed into two dimensions through PCA. On average, people with similar ballots will appear close to each other in the plot but the method doesn't work all the time and seems to have a particular aversion to Tim F.

― questino (seandalai), Thursday, 31 January 2013 8:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why am I so bad and hated

you're unique!

I felt this was a very 'me' year actually, my top choices all placed:

1. Dawn Richard - Armor On (#4)
2. Grimes - Visions (#5)
3. Taylor Swift - Red (#6)
4. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream (#1)
5. Blondes - Blondes (#18)
6. Angel Haze - Reservation (#37)
7. Future - Pluto (#14)
8. Gunplay - Bogota Rich (#67)
9. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City (#2)
10. John Talabot - Fin (#3)
11. Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss (#17)
12. Voices From The Lake - Voices From The Lake (#32)

you have the highest hivermind score of all 25 album voters. your taste is ilm's or vice versa!

My ballot:

Mac Demarco - Mac Demarco 2
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
The Fresh & Onlys - Long Slow Dance
Zombie Zombie - Rituels d'un Nouveau Monde
Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber
Chris Cohen - Overgrown Path
Rye Rye - Go! Pop! Bang!
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Nu Sensae - Sundowning
Dent May - Do Things
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
Metz - Metz
Beak> - >>
Todd Terje - It's The Arps
Death Grips - The Money Store
Disasterpeace - Fez
Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
UFOmammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Tenniscoats - Papa's Ear
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Grass Widow - Internal Logic
Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Dan Deacon - America
Off! - Off!"

I can't believe I was the only person to vote for that Daily Bread album :(

weighted

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Burial - Kindred EP
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways
Angel Haze - Reservation
Grimes - Visions
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Holy Other - Held
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
Jam City - Classical Curves
Jeremih - Late Nights with Jeremih
Beach House - Bloom
The KDMS - Kinky Dramas & Magic Stories
Swans - The Seer
The xx - Coexist
Taylor Swift - Red
Chairlift - Something
Cate Le Bon - CYRK
Julia Holter - Ekstasis
Actress - R.I.P.
Catcall - The Warmest Place
Solange - True
Charli XCX - Super Ultra

only heard pluto about a week or so ago, would've put it in my ballot had i voted today.

Weighted. LOL Boys, Rihanna (!), and Silkie & Quest were unique votes.

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
Future - Pluto
Young Smoke - Space Zone
Ab-Soul - Control System
LOL Boys - LOL Boys Enter the Unknownp
Le1f - Dark York
Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz
Mala - Mala in Cuba
Rihanna - Unapologetic
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday ... Roman Reloaded
Silkie & Quest - Dubstep Allstars, Vol.09
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Elle Varner - Perfectly Imperfect
Dawn Richard - Whiteout EP
Jessie Ware - Devotion
Azealia Banks - 1991 EP
Terror Danjah - Dark Crawler
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Wynter Gordon - Human Condition: Doleo
Chief Keef - Finally Rich
Mykki Blanco - Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss
A Tribe Called Red - s/t

were LOL Boys and OMG Girls related?

Ha - I thought I'd be the only one without a top 77 placer but I forgot I'd voted for a certain record on the strength of one track before hearing the rest (which I'm sure is brilliant) #oops #notdoingthatagain

The Field Music effort was heroic - next time fellas. We know what side our orch-prog-pop bread is buttered on...

Weighted:

Of Montreal - Paralytic Stalks
Thumpermonkey - Sleep Furiously
Field Music - Plumb
Extra Life - Dream Seeds
The Pre-New - Music For People Who Hate Themselves
Volcano! - Pinata
The Chap - We Are Nobody
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
KTL - V
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Ultrasound - Play for Today

were LOL Boys and OMG Girls related?

― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha naw, it's just the most fun dance album of the year that I don't think I successfully convinced a single person to listen to

they should get together and be the WTF People

soooo surprised to have Alex in MTL as my top neighbor

I just googled "wtf people" and uh...

oh -- i didn't google, not sure i wanna know?

how does the LOL boys you voted for compare to "changes", reverend?

I think they've broken up now which is sad.

kind of lol but...

I'm a big LOL Boys/Jerome LOL stan but wasn't really that into "Changes" so I'm possibly not the best one to ask. But anyway, it's a mix album and isn't very reliant on their own productions (only has a few of them), and it's mostly a lot more upbeat than "Changes". A lot of the tracks on it are from Body High artists and related ppls. It kind of sounds like what the cover looks like:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xYIjWJNBHe8/UAca3J6aO6I/AAAAAAAAEuo/xxux3A8w0O4/s1600/LOL%2BBoys%2B%25E2%2580%2594%2BEnter%2BThe%2BUnknown%2B%255BDj%2BMix%255D%2B%25282012%2529.jpg

Jerome LOL is still doing really good stuff. I haven't really checked for the other guy's solo stuff tho.

Jerome LOL did a great remix of The Dream's H.A.T.E. U

huh, i voted for...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2t859S1ej1rnanb8o1_500.jpg

Weighted:

Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair
Taylor Swift - Red
Maria – VIII
iamamiwhoami - Kin
Alina Devecerski – Maraton
Grimes - Visions
Mylene Farmer - Monkey Me
Farrah Abraham - My Teenage Dream Ended
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
UFOmammut - Oro: Opus Primum
Charlie Straight – Someone With A Slow Heartbeat
Goat - World Music
Dawn Richard - Armor On
Future - Pluto
Zdob Si Zdub - Basta Mafia
Ivan Dorn - Condorn
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Ke$ha - Warrior
Charli XCX - Super Ultra
Die Antwoord - Ten$ion
Katy B - Danger EP
Crystal Castles - (III)
Serebro - Mama Lover
Chromatics - Kill For Love
Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss

xp, yahhhh. same mix series on Unknown To The Unknown

i'm being forgetful. not sure i can face emailing them again to get them to post a cd.

Alina Devecerski – Maraton

oooooh i really liked flytta pa dej, i should get around to this

I ordered the DJ Q mix and it arrived eventually but the whole thing is a skip-monster :-(

This has discouraged me from ordering anything else from the label.

as in the CD skips?

yes

not scratched, but skips ridiculously on every cd player i've tried

I can ilx mail you ripped mp3s if its of interest

LOL Boys Fader Mix is incredible:

https://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/lol-boys-fader-mix

Lil Wayne – Nightmares of the Bottom
Cloud – Turning
Avicii – Levels
John Legend – Tonight
Radiohead – Talk Show Host
Fiona Apple – Every Single Night
Christina Milian – Chameleon
Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
Kanye West – Mercy
Jeremih – Keep It Moving
Kreayshawn – Summertime
R . Kelly & Jeremih – Misunderstood
Basement Jaxx – Romeo (Acoustic Version)

Lol just saw this last post. Shd start one if only to post abt the New Young Pony Club