OH BABY LET'S MAKE: 2017 Tracks Poll debrief, ballots, and haters mad for whatever reason

oops accidentally bolded CRJ and stormzy but whatevs - it's too early in the morning where i am xp

Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
Charli XCX - Boys
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
Lorde - Green Light
Banoffee - Ripe
SOPHIE - It's Okay to Cry
Red Velvet - Red Flavor
Burial - Rodent
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Lorenzo Senni - The Shape of Trance to Come
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Kelela - LMK
Drake - Passionfruit
ANGEL-H0 - Obeisance
Tarquin, TSVI and Luru feat Jammz - Come To The Dance
Errorsmith - I'm Interesting, Cheerful and Sociable
Keyakizaka46 - Fukyōwaon
Tentenko - 危険なハイウェイ
BLACKPINK - As If It's Your Last
Kumisolo - Pico Pico Robot Woman
Tatarka - Алтын
Odd Eye Circle - Girl Front
Balako - Hora de Balako
Girlpool - 123

This year is easily my most hivemind.

Thanks to all of you! It's a lot of fun to watch the votes come in.

Without you, none of this is possible (I'm sure not countin' all this shit).

1. “Bobby,” Alex G
2. “Location,” Playboi Carti
3. “Stay the Course,” Feelies
4. “Continental Breakfast,” Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile
5. “Sixteen,” Diet Cig
6. “No Question,” Waxahatchee
7. “To the Moon,” Smokepurpp
8. “Apoptosis,” Tall Friend
9. “Snow,” Angus & Julia Stone
10. “In Undertow,” Alvvays

I lived in a Top Neighborhood with edcasual many years ago, and we were only six houses apart in 2017.

seandalai -- sorry to hassle, just wanted to make sure you saw my request for my ballot. you can ilxmail it to me!

weighted, didn't place, sole voter

Sun-El Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Future - Sorry
Lil Uzi Vert ft. Oh Wonder - The Way Life Goes
Kelela - Frontline
SZA - The Weekend
Kesha - Praying
Tornado Wallace - Voices
Kendrick Lamar - DNA.
HAIM - Want You Back
21 Savage - Nothin New
PnB Rock - Selfish
The xx - I Dare You
Sevyn Streeter - Before I Do
French Montana ft. Swae Lee - Unforgettable
Cardi B - Bodak Yellow
Becky G ft. Bad Bunny - Mayores
LeToya Luckett - Back 2 Life
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Miranda Lambert - Tin Man
Future - Mask Off
Kendrick Lamar - FEEL.
Future - Hallucinating
Chris Jeday, J Balvin & Ozuna ft. Arcangel - Ahora Dice
Marshmello ft. Khalid - Silence
Danny Ocean - Me Rehúso

Did not place

Lorde - Green Light
Alvvays - Not My Baby
Julien Baker - Hurt Less
Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.
Freddie Gibbs - 20 Karat Jesus
Charli XCX - Track 10
Lorde - The Louvre
Kesha - Praying
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
Lana Del Rey - Coachella-Woodstock In My Mind
Kendrick Lamar - DNA
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Jessie Ware - Your Domino
The National - Guilty Party
Alvvays - In Undertow
Burial - Rodent
Drake - Passionfruit
HAIM - Want You Back
Kesha - Woman
Lana Del Rey - Love

Omar yr ballot ws posted by sean abt 12 posts up from your own

and my favorite ten tracks I did not know about before the poll.

Sun El-Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
LOOΠΔ/yves - new
Mama - Unmask Me
Yemi Alade - Mon Lo
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Laurel Halo - Moontalk
Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
L’Rain - Which Fork / I’ll Be
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts

Craig Boingo, so you're the other Balako voter.

I returned the favor (without realizing it) by voting for one of your more obscure album nominations without ever paying attention to who had nominated it, one of the last things I listened to before voting that actually made my ballot. I'm not going to give away the specifics, not that it has any chance of placing.

oops sorry sean. Thx or something.

thx for posting mine Sean!

A reminder for those so inclined that the metal poll is still open! Rollout starts shortly after the main album poll

The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

I'm considering submitting a single-vote ballot with Värimyrsky on it for the metal poll, but I feel like that's pretty irresponsible.

some favourite 2017 tracks that felt like omissions:

machine woman - camile from ohm makes me feel loved

beyonce/jay z - shining

peaking lights - love can move mountains

s.o.n.s. - a new life

japanese breakfast - diving woman

gaussian curve - the distance

Thanks for posting my ballot Sean!

weighted:

Serge Beynaud - Akrakabo
Charli XCX - Boys
Red Velvet - Red Flavor
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
SZA - Love Galore
SOPHIE - It's Okay to Cry
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Luv
LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby
Subin - Circle's Dream
Wizkid - Sweet Love
Guru Randhawa - Suit Suit
Future - Incredible
Lorde - The Louvre
Jay-Z - Smile
Sauti Sol ft. Patoranking - Melanin
Simi - Love Don't Care
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill (Avalon Emerson's Gilded Escalation)
Future - Mask Off
Kamasi Washington - Truth
Barbara Hannigan/Luciano Berio – Sequenza 3
Oneohtrix Point Never ft. Iggy Pop - The Pure and the Damned
J Hus - Plottin
Sun El-Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamal

Ha were we the only two to vote for Sequenza 3?

1. Becky G - Todo Cambio
2. Drab Majesty - Kissing the Ground
3. Caracara - Revelatory
4. Clean Bandit ft. Zara Larsson - Symphony
5. Axwell Λ Ingrosso - More Than You Know
6. Drab Majesty - Dot In The Sky
7. Lucas & Steve - Up Till Dawn (On the Move)
8. Drab Majesty - Too Soon To Tell
9. Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
10. Wat Aans! - Sjomp
11. Blanck Mass - Rhesus Negative
12. Shinichi Atobe - Regret
13. Vince Staples - BagBak
14. Muddy Magnolias - American Woman (David Lynch Remix)
15. Vince Staples - Party People
16. The Mountain Goats - Rain in Soho
17. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do
18. St. Vincent - New York
19. Manchester Orchestra - The Gold
20. King Krule - Dum Surfer
21. Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.
22. Drab Majesty - 39 by Design
23. Ibeyi ft. Kamasi Washington - Deathless
24. Kendrick Lamar - DNA
25. Maya Jane Coles - Weak (Mak & Pasteman Remix)

weighted

King Krule - Dum Surfer
Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.
Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming in Blood
Charli XCX – Boys
Richard Dawson - Ogre
Alvvays - In Undertow
St. Vincent - New York
The Mountain Goats - Wear Black
Aimee Mann - Goose Snow Cone
Angel Olsen – Special
Wiley - Laptop
Charly Bliss - Glitter
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over Everything
Lorde - Green Light
The New Pornographers - Play Money
Mount Eerie – Ravens
Paramore - Hard Times
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding
Susanne Sundfør - Undercover
Taylor Swift - Getaway Car
The Magnetic Fields - '02: Be True to Your Bar
The xx - Say Something Loving
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Lana Del Rey - Love

Not a big Krule fan but there is definitely something going on with Dum Surfer

Ha were we the only two to vote for Sequenza 3?

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), 26. januar 2018 12:29 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Apparantly there was a third one. Really happy to see it nominated, stunning performance from an album that I cut from my ballot late in the process.

silverfish, props for being the other "Nasty Boy" voter!

also, shout out to whoever the other Pardison Fontaine, Noga Erez, and NIN voters were

v surprised I got no company on the Killers' "The Man" (their best single in ages, though I recognize they don't have much of an ILM contingent) and Rapsody's "Pay Up"

Rapsody's "Pay Up"

Her album was my #1 vote, so it better place.

You might want to prepare yourself mentally for it not placing because it went almost completely unmentioned on the rap thread iirc

High five to my fellow Aigel, Natali, Lana Jurcevic and Serebro voters!

No soca in the top 290 is unusual. I thought Full Extreme might pick up a few stray votes.

Mixed ballot. Bold = did not place, italic = sole voter

Weighted:
1. Dave - Question Time
2. Hifi Sean ft. Crystal Waters - Testify
3. Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
4. Childish Gambino - Redbone
5. Richard Dawson – Soldier
6. The Black Madonna - He is the Voice That I Hear
7. Laurel Halo - Moontalk
8. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Holy Mountain
9. Field Music - Count It Up
10. The Blaze - Territory
11. Moses Sumney - Don't Bother Calling
12. Todd Terje ft. Det Gylne Triangel - Maskindans
13. Baxter Dury - Miami
14. Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses
15. Four Tet - SW9 9SL
16. Arcade Fire - Everything Now

Unweighted:
Bicep - Aura
Bjork - Blissing Me
Brandy Clark - You're Drunk
Lorde - Green Light
Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee - Despacito
Powerdance - A Safe And Happy Place
Sleaford Mods - B.H.S
Tensnake - Freundchen (Red Rack'Em Remix)
Tony Allen - Wolf Eats Wolf

silverfish, props for being the other "Nasty Boy" voter!

― Simon H., Friday, January 26, 2018 8:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was it you that posted about that album in the overlooked albums thread? If so, thank you, I've been playing it quite a bit since discovering it from that thread.

ya that was me! sweet little album, plus they're local boys

Also, I was the third vote for "Sequenza 3". I only heard it for the first time while listening to the nominations playlist on shuffle, but felt like I had to add it to my ballot.

Unweighted

67 – Waps
Abra Cadabra - Art Of War
Big H feat President T – Spaceman
Burial – Rodent
Carla dal Forno - We Shouldn't Have To Wait
CarnsHill Ft Youngs Teflon x KTrap x 67 Monkey, Dimzy, Liquez, R6, ST & Itch - Check Dis
Crazy Cousinz x Yxng Bane x Mr Eazi x Lily McKenzie - No Way
D. Tiffany feat Regularfantasy - How RU Plush
Dizzee Rascal - Wot U Gonna Do?
J Hus - Did You See
Jlin - Nyakinyua Rise
Joe – MPH
Joe - Tail Lift
Juls feat Not3s, Kojo Funds and Eugy – Bad
Kara-Lis Coverdale – Grafts
Kojo Funds - Warning
LAPS - Lady Bug
Loski - Teddy Bruckshot
Lotto Boyzz - No Don
P Money feat Hyde - Like Dem Man
Tarquin, TSVI and Luru feat Jammz - Come To The Dance
Wiley - Can't Go Wrong
Wiley feat Newham Generals - Joe Bloggs
Yves Tumor – Limerence
Yxng Bane – Rihanna

Mixed ballot. Slowdive and Kehlani placed.

Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Emily Haines - R.I.P.
Moses Sumney - Lonely World
The Proper Ornaments - The Frozen Stare
Tyler, The Creator - Garden Shed
St. Vincent - Hang On Me
Vince Staples - Party People
Kehlani - Undercover
The Shins - Fantasy Island
Alvvays - Not My Baby
Ride - Cali
The Stevens - Keep Me Occupied
Lomelda - Interstate Vision
Marika Hackman - My Lover Cindy
Aldous Harding - Imagining My Man

Japanese Breakfast - Diving Woman
Tomberlin - Self-Help
Sleeping Bag - Affection
Big Thief - Mythological Beauty
Real Estate - Darling
Aimee Mann - Patient Zero

I, er, also need my ballot... I did it in a rush on Friday night.

Apparently, 65% of my nominations placed on the list... and I think that's the highest percentage of any voter? Not sure whether to be proud or ashamed.

No one else voted for my #1 (https://youtu.be/aL_mTKWwRto), though, so I'm pretty proud of that.

^of my tracks ballot, not my nominations.

reposting my weighted ballot w/bolded ones not placing, thanks again sean for hooking me up:

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Pa’lante
Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
Kendrick Lamar - FEEL.
Kendrick Lamar - DNA
Kamasi Washington - Truth
Jens Lekman - What's That Perfume You Wear?
Saint Etienne - Dive
Kedr Livanskiy - Ariadna
Robert Plant - Carry Fire
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - An Intention
Joan Shelley - If the Storms Never Came
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
Johnny Jewel – Windswept
Pumarosa - Honey
Kendrick Lamar ft. U2 - XXX.
Kelly Lee Owens - Lucid
Pinkshinyultrablast - Find Your Saint
Nikki Lane - Highway Queen
Patricia - I Know The Face, But Not The Name
Land of Talk - Inner Lover
Princess Nokia - Kitana
Yaeji - Raingurl
The Juan Maclean - The Brighter the Light
Mark Barrott - Mokushō
Laserdance - Skydiver

Also, I was the third vote for "Sequenza 3". I only heard it for the first time while listening to the nominations playlist on shuffle, but felt like I had to add it to my ballot.

Cheers! If you don't know the piece, it's from 1965 and was written for Cathy Berberian (Berio's wife), who recorded the most famous version. The Hannigan was a surprisingly strong performance and recording, though, imo.

It's a pretty great record 'Crazy Girl Crazy'. Kinda rare a classical record has such a big theme to it, and her singing is amazing throughout. A bit too little singing in the Lulu suite, though. Still, she's a superstar.

Btw, please tell my that couple chose to hyphenate their names to Berio-Berberian.

i sat this year out, i can't make sense of what went on last year yet, but here are the songs that placed that i heard/liked:

76 AVALON EMERSON "One More Fluorescent Rush" [149 points, 7 votes]
61 BRIAN ENO with KEVIN SHIELDS "Only Once Away My Son" [163 points, 6 votes]
TIE-54 L'RAIN "Which Fork/I'll Be" [170 points, 5 votes]
49 KAMASI WASHINGTON "Truth" [176 points, 7 votes]
45 BICEP "Aura" [182 points, 8 votes]
38 RICHARD DAWSON "Ogre" [216 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes]
32 ALGIERS "The Underside Of Power" [238 points, 11 votes]
27 OCTO OCTA "Adrift (Avalon Emerson's Furiously Awake Version)" [269 points, 9 votes] [93 points for original]
16 THE BLACK MADONNA "He Is The Voice That I Hear" [329 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
12 BICEP "Glue" [361 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes]
07 KENDRICK LAMAR "Humble." [402 points, 13 votes]
06 SUN EL-MUSICIAN ft. SAMTHING SOWETO "Akanamali" [463 points, 16 votes, 3 first place votes]
05 KENDRICK LAMAR "DNA" [510 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote]

i totally missed the voting (sigh) and even though i’m meh on “boys” i think it’s notable that the top four was all women in a year when american pop was very girls averse for the most part

My weighted list

Dua Lipa & Miguel - Lost In Your Light
Charli XCX - Boys
Rita Ora - Anywhere
Paramore - Hard Times
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Japanese Breakfast - Boyish
Jessie Ware - Your Domino
Susanne Sundfør - Undercover
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Katy Perry - Chained To The Rhythm
St. Vincent - New York
Rae Morris - Do It
Tove Styrke - Mistakes
Paramore - Fake Happy
Heinali - holding a cloud (Steve Hauschildt Remix)
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Kesha - Praying
LOOΠΔ/yves - new
Nico Niquo - In a Silent Way
Lana Del Rey - Love
Miley Cyrus - Malibu
Miguel - Pineapple Skies
Denai Moore - Desolately Devoted
BC Unidos - Trouble in the Streets
Charlotte Day Wilson - Doubt

I actually forgot to save my ballot, so this is my ill-fated recreation of it - however there's one song I can't remember. Sean, would you be able to tell me what it is?

Mixed:

Charly Bliss - Glitter
Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Llif3

Alex G - Bobby
Avalon Emerson - One More Fluorescent Rush
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
Carly Pearce - Every Little Thing
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Errorsmith - I'm Interesting, Cheerful and Sociable
Girlpool - It Gets More Blue
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - An Intention
Karen Gwyer - The Workers Are On Strike
Kehlani - Undercover
Kelela - Frontline
Paramore - Hard Times
Playboi Carti ft. Lil Uzi Vert - wokeuplikethis*
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
SZA - Love Galore
Taylor Swift - Delicate
The Black Madonna - He is the Voice That I Hear
The xx - I Dare You
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On

I forgot to nominate tracks, so it came out rather conventional. Also this was my first full year on ILM and honestly it's been a great time. I've learned about so much new stuff and everyone here is generally nice. Thanks so much to Johnny, Sean and all else involved for putting this together!

i'm pretty sure this is correct. weighted ballot, bold placed

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – “If We Were Vampires”
Kendrick Lamar – “Duckworth”
Kamasi Washington – “Truth”
Big Thief – “Haley”
Jens Lekman – “How Can I Tell Him”
Playboi Carti – “Magnolia”
Daniel Caesar – “We Find Love
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – “The French Press”
Susanne Sundfør – “Undercover”
Jay Som – “One More Time, Please”
Migos – “T-Shirt”
Lil Uzi Vert – “XO Tour Llif3”
Moses Sumney – “Quarrel”
Algiers – “The Underside of Power”
Alex Lahey – “I Haven’t Been Taking Care of Myself”
Ty Dolla $ign – “Lil Favorite” ft. MadeinTYO
Spoon – “Hot Thoughts”
Pardison Fontaine – “Food Stamps”
OMB Peezy – “Lay Down”
Tee Grizzley – “First Day Out”
Kehlani – Honey
J HUS – “Did You See”
Tay-K – “The Race
Young Thug – “Killed Before”
Oxbow – “Cold & Well Lit Place”

My mixed tracks ballot:

bold: did not place, italic: sole voter

1) Flavour ft. Phyno - Loose Guard (#374)
2) Wizkid - Sweet Love (#160)
3) Mut4y ft. Wizkid - Manya (#426)
4) Wizkid - Medicine (#462)
5) Mayorkun - Che Che (#491)
6) Davido - If (#118)
7) Kidi - Odo (Remix ft. Mayorkun & Davido) (#549)
8) Dua Lipa - New Rules (#2)
9) J Hus - Did You See (#34)
10) Olamide - Saysaymaley (#453)
11) Olamide - Wo!! (#120)

Adekunle Gold - Call On Me (#654)
Alkaline - Fast (#449)
Diamond Platnumz - Eneka (#943)
DJ Vetkuk vs Mahoota ft. Black Motion, Nokwazi & Drumatic Boys - Thando Lok'dlala (#508)
Don-E ft. Nado - You Alright Yh? (#112)
Eddy Kenzo - Jubilation (#630)
ExQ ft. Killer T - Nhema (#943)
L.A.X - Run Away (#943)
Mr Eazi - Leg Over (#83)
Niniola - Maradona (#221)
Pappy Kojo ft. Mr Eazi - Give Me Love (#392)
Simi - Joromi (#943)
Sun El-Musician ft. Samthing Soweto - Akanamali (#6)
Tekno - Yawa (#943)

I was the sole voter for 5 of my top 7 tracks. Happy that a couple of my noms got some love though.
Curious about the voters for KARD’s Rumor, Olamide’s Saysaymaley and Pappy Kojo & Eazi’s Give Me Love.

ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2017

my weighted ballot

Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
Carla dal Forno - We Shouldn't Have To Wait
Tove Styrke - Say My Name
Charli XCX - Boys
Bullion - blue pedro
Charlotte Adigéry - 1,618
Mabel ft. Kojo Funds - Finders Keepers
Gerd Janson x Shan - Surrender
Objekt - Theme from Q
Peverelist - Still Early
Atelje - Zephyr
Paramore - Hard Times
Mella Dee - Techno Disco Tool
Dua Lipa - New Rules

I wish I had spent more time on this - totally forgot to vote for Self Esteem's "Your Wife" and there's plenty of things on both Jeff W and Dan S' ballots I should have considered. Also I stuck to my rule about not doubling up artists on the albums ballot and I think it was a much better year for albums than tracks.

shame about 'Your Wife'. I was hoping it'd place.

11) Olamide - Wo!! (#120)

x-post

I voted for this Olamide track but not the other one.

catching up...

This would be forapper's weighted ballot:

Hitchhiker x Taeyong - Around
Kesha - Praying
OGUOGU - ICE CHU
Ka5sh - I'm Depressed
BLACKPINK - As If It's Your Last
Fever Ray - To the Moon and Back
Twice - Signal
TWICE - Likey
EXID - DDD
BTS - Go Go
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
Childish Gambino - Redbone
Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee - Despacito
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
Red Velvet - Red Flavor
LOOΠΔ/yves - new

and 2011nostalgia's mixed ballot:

Charly Bliss - Glitter
Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Llif3

Alex G - Bobby
Girlpool - It Gets More Blue
The Black Madonna - He is the Voice That I Hear
Taylor Swift - Delicate
SZA - Love Galore
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - An Intention
Playboi Carti ft. Lil Uzi Vert - wokeuplikethis*
Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On
Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
Dua Lipa - New Rules
Stormzy - Big For Your Boots
Kehlani - Undercover
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
Karen Gwyer - The Workers Are On Strike
Tove Lo - Disco Tits
The xx - I Dare You
Errorsmith - I'm Interesting, Cheerful and Sociable
Paramore - Hard Times
Kelela - Frontline
Johnny Jewel – Windswept
Avalon Emerson - One More Fluorescent Rush
Carly Pearce - Every Little Thing
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling