Trying my best to get caught up on this list. A lot of pleasant stuff and some really bad stuff, but the first track that has really captured my attention and got me interested to dig further is the Richard Dawson one. Is the long-awaited Freak Folk revival finally happening? Does the rest of the album measure up.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
keep thinking that Richard Dawson is the guy who wrote The God Delusion
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
I guess "Boys" will be in the top 20 but imo it's not even in the top 20 of the thirtysomething songs Charli XCX appeared on last year
― monotony, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
^this
― daavid, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
and xps to Brad I can't really figure out a #1 either. I'd personally be surprised if it was "Bodak Yellow". "DNA" seems like the safest bet but Kendrick is also the kind of artist who would likely suffer most from vote-splitting.
― monotony, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
I would have totally voted for 'Mask Off' had I cast a ballot.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
I'd say "Boys" was significantly lifted by its video, but I recently learned that no one watches those
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 10:42 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd add cultural impact as a factor - though this is hard to disentangle from the video. I saw "I was busy thinkin' 'bout boys" (or a snippet of that from the song) being deployed online as a lolronic self-descriptor much more than I actually heard the song in the wild last year.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
I think Mask Off might win by virtue of being #8-15 on 35 different ballots and no one's #1.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:51 (six years ago) link
^yes, but also, given the something like 6 'best song of the year' votes on that Bodak Yellow poll...
― Dan S, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
But is cultural impact usually taken into account for ILM voting?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
Does the rest of the album measure up.
you shall find out next week!
(yes)
― #TeamHailing (imago), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
xpI can buy that. I only watched it once, but the video definitely felt like an *event*If it had come out back when tumblr was thriving, it would have been seismic on there
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
― rob, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 22:42 (three minutes ago)
^^ Didn't vote for it, but considered throwing something the way of the Mandarin-language Howie Lee remix.
― etc, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring and guess for Cut To The Feeling at number one. ILM loves Carly and that's a really great song, although it feels like it came out a long time ago now
― Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
The Chromeo remix salvaged "Green Light" for me, which was unbearably omnipresent in New Zealand
It was "bearably" omnipresent across the ditch, I'd say, though as #2 on my ballot I don't think it's the sort of thing that would ever have become unbearable to me. I like the airiness of the Chromeo remix and am also partial to a trashy one made by someone called "Riddler", which seems to come on every time I go to the gym and then unexpectedly popped up very briefly in a recent episode of The Good Place.
― monotony, Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
CRJ #1 is my guess as well
― Simon H., Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
Mask Off is a masterpiece face it
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
bad liar gotta be in the top 20
― just sayin, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
You guys are collectively missing at least one as yet unnamed artist
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
rico nasty? nah
― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
lmao sun-el musician??
please god 🙏🏻
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
Is it me? It's me, isn't it? I'm number one! I'm number one!
― emil.y, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
Ibibio Sound Machine? Haim?
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
Rihanna??
Hmmmn, my "ILx gonna ILx" guess'd be the Cut Copy massive turning out for the Horrors.
(would be nice if it was e.g. Nadia Rose, mind)
― etc, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
Is Miguel in with a shot? The album got a mixed response overall, but Told You So and Pineapple Skies got good reactions on here. He's had a good hit rate over the last few years.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
oh god it'll obviously be him
― #TeamHailing (imago), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
idk reception has been a little lukewarm to Miguel
― marcos, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
miguel isn't a #1 contender like in previous years but i am surprised he hasn't shown up yet
― ufo, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
damn, didn't realize War and Leisure was released.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
I think Miguel will certainly place in the album poll but I would be surprised if he had a track in the top 20
― monotony, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
and further, Miguel can't be the person we allegedly haven't discussed yet, because we did - when "Lost In Your Light" placed.
― monotony, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
just catching up - this was a fun roll-out! so many weird (in a good way) entries.
Voted for: The xx, Red Velvet, Yaeji, Mondo Grosso (I was the first place voter for "Labyrinth" - so gorgeous)
Considered voting for: Kelela's LMK, Nilufer Yanya, Kamasi Washington, Kedr Livansky, The Mountain Goats, Alvvays, Atelje, Susanne Sundfor, Wolf Alice, Lil Uzi Vert, Lorde, and all the K-pop tracks that wasn't Red Velvet
Kedr Livanskiy, Kamasi Washington and Wolf Alice were definite standouts when I was going through the noms list, and I voted for a different Lorde track ("Supercut") which I guess isn't going to make it now.
My ballot was less K-pop heavy than usual and tbh I had sort of given up repping for K-pop after so many years of having minimal representation on the EOY poll. But it turns out it didn't need my help this year! I mean, TWO LOOΠΔ tracks - that's incredible. I guess more people are keeping up now that most of it is on Spotify + increased TSJ coverage? Holding out hope for "Palette", another one I actually voted for, but maybe it's just a little too understated for ILM.
I couldn't follow dance music as much as last year was a particularly busy work year for me so am glad the bobbins crew stepped up. Enjoyed a bunch of tracks I heard via the noms list - might have ended up voting for any number of Avalon Emerson tracks if I had heard them sooner. The S.A.M. track is lovely too, very Superpitcher circa 2005.
Favourite discoveries: 70 TAYLOR ALXNDR "Nightwork" [153 points, 6 votes] - didn't see Tim's thread until after I had already voted but yeah, this is fantastic.TIE-54 L'RAIN "Which Fork/I'll Be" [170 points, 5 votes] 25 SERGE BEYNAUD "Akrakabo" [276 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes] 28 KARA-LIS COVERDALE "Grafts" [256 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote] - this is intriguing.38 RICHARD DAWSON "Ogre" [216 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes] - not normally my thing but I actually kind of like this?! Don't know if I can sit through a whole album of it though.
― Roz, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link
It's HAIM, isn't it?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
Which was the group I was hinting at earlier as possibly genreating some groans and mentions of ILM being on autopilot.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
That or the ILM voting body really liked that Blink-182 styled cover of The 1975's Girls.
― MarkoP
The only way I'd be happy to see a Haim song appear at this point is if there had been a bunch of write-in votes for their Shania cover.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link
the haim album was quite good despite the underwhelming singles, i doubt they'll show up now since no one seemed too enthusiastic about any of them
― ufo, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
Charly Bliss haven't been mentioned yet. I assumed people were just going to vote for the album (because that's what I did), maybe they'll sneak in somewhere?
― kitchen person, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:42 (six years ago) link
Feel like i'm totally outside the ILM hivemind, but love y'all..hopefully shining places
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
iirc only one Charly Bliss song was nominated, surprisingly. I guess it could make it since no vote-splitting? I think most people opted to vote for the album instead though. xp
― Roz, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
Grafts is good. I didn't get a chance to check it out thoroughly earlier.
Did any of those posthumous Prince tracks gain traction here? I wonder if Prince in top 20 is a possibility.
― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Thursday, 25 January 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
other curiosities about this year's poll so far: no metal (a result of doing the metal poll afterwards?) and not much in the way of shambhala thread stuff (though that was pretty dead this year)
― ufo, Thursday, 25 January 2018 06:04 (six years ago) link
Akanamali will make the top 20.
The Arcana will be top 10.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 January 2018 06:39 (six years ago) link
Glitter was my #1! I'm not counting on it placing though
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 25 January 2018 06:48 (six years ago) link
Whelp, was holding out hope some bobbins picks of mine would make it, such as SW., Four Tet, Blanck Mass and Terje's Jungelknugen (Four Tet mix), but it's lookin' grim.
― octobeard, Thursday, 25 January 2018 08:23 (six years ago) link
I voted for Maskindans over Jungelknugen
― groovypanda, Thursday, 25 January 2018 08:30 (six years ago) link
xp - fwiw, I had Blanck Mass in my top 10, so fingers crossed. The rest of my ballot was mostly filled with Europop and Drab Majesty tracks (both sorely missing in this poll).
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 25 January 2018 08:31 (six years ago) link
I thoroughly expect most of those acts to make the albums list (maybe not SW but who knows). Terje/Four Tet would have been ILM catnip in previous years so it might appear although reaction seems to have been fairly muted.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 January 2018 09:47 (six years ago) link