ILM's 2019 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

Yes, ty!

I'd like to take this opportunity to urge you to VOTE & CAMPAIGN for your favourite METAL albums of 2019.

This way:

2019 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & CAMPAIGNING thread (open until the 7th of February)

do i vote for this great song? i first heard it in 2019 and it's from a 2019 album, but as a single it had been out since '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuind6upxyc

Is 2019 the "year of impact?" Then sure.

Also, I'm listening to this song for the first time and I might vote for it too. My tracks ballot is going to be crazy this year because I wasn't really following along closely in 2019.

Hmm... I didn’t realize “Me vs. Us” was released in 2018 (I nominated it). It certainly “impacted” me in 2019! (when it appeared on her album)... but if it’s deemed ineligible, so be it.

Can the rule be something like — if a track was released as a single the previous year, but didn’t place on that year’s poll; and then appears on an album released in the year being polled, it’s eligible?

That's generally how it's always worked, but I'm not in charge anymore. I bet it's fine, though.

Seeing as my nominations were culled from Spotify by malevolent reactionary forces within Spotify I have struck a deal with Bob at YouTube to put them in their own playlist. Not sure how long it will last as industry insiders are already tracing this post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJQPDp64kjw&list=PLYcYugGx0D5HOun6h6JQy3VD00vcbwT3T&index=1

It may be too late, it was coming from inside the house! Lets try again

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYcYugGx0D5HOun6h6JQy3VD00vcbwT3T

Thanks, saer <3

I've never campaigned before but when i nominated something that would seem to be in ILM wheelhouse, maybe this year should be different.

Clairo - Sofia:
https://youtu.be/L9l8zCOwEII

I guess I'll do a bit of campaigning too... I nominated both the album Tierra del Fuego and this track from the Mexican techno producer Tayhana, because she's pretty much the best completely new artist I've heard this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0o42VXjAnQ

I dunno if this even counts as techno, the synth riffs sound like they could be from some 90s horrorcore rap with their heavy, creepy vibe, and the beats are almost overwhelming in a way that recalls juke/footwork... It's really cool to come across an artist who has such an unique, fully formed sound straight off the gate on what is (AFAIK) her first official release.

Hmm... I didn’t realize “Me vs. Us” was released in 2018 (I nominated it). It certainly “impacted” me in 2019! (when it appeared on her album)... but if it’s deemed ineligible, so be it.

Can the rule be something like — if a track was released as a single the previous year, but didn’t place on that year’s poll; and then appears on an album released in the year being polled, it’s eligible?

― Into the Bro-known: One Dude’s ‘Frozen’ Podcast (morrisp), Sunday, 5 January 2020 05:27 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If it's on the nominations list you can assume it's eligible (unless it placed in a previous year and we didn't spot it). Then it's up to you to decide whether it feels "2019" to you.

looking forward to this rollout

How did Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close get into the tracks list btw? It's from 1995!

How did Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close get into the tracks list btw? It's from 1995!

Wow, I didn't notice that, otherwise I definitely would've said something, as I even have the 1995 album it's on.

big shout out for my fave video of the year from Sakanaction on the tracks list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxqYUbNR-c0

There's a double nomination on the Albums list:

DAWN - new breed
Dawn Richard - new breed

I'm not sure which you should go with as technically it was released under DAWN but past releases were under Dawn Richard

Thanks for catching - that could have messed things up. I picked the "Dawn Richard" version.

i think she was tired of being called "Richards" or whatever and has been trying to pivot to DAWN

I don't mind either way - the tracks were all entered as "Dawn Richard" so I went with that for the album too

Wisely, she ditched the triangle in place of the A pretty quickly.

there's another double nomination on the album list -

Caretaker - Everywhere at The End of Time Stage 6
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 6

got it, thanks

voted! (+ decided to go ahead with including "me vs. us" lol)

👍

Sorry - the Maren Morris track labeled as "Feels" in the list should actually be "The Feels" (I botched the title when nominating).

(I doubt anyone will vote for that track but me, lol)

Also, one of my other noms (Summer Walker - Come Through) didn't seem to make it onto the list(s).

Hoping I'm not the only one to vote for this gorgeous slice of Manasseh produced laid back reggae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xrtkT_p0tQ

I just want to rep for a couple of my favourite songs real quick

https://youtu.be/5KBV_Kpcnbo

Purple Pilgrims - Sensing Me

Out on Flying Nun. I've been talking this act up in a few places. Video has a real strong goth component, which was not my impression at all from listening to Perfumed Earth--more like a trippier/spacier take on Arrival-era ABBA (the album's next track, "I'm Not Saying", makes the connection explicit). The chorus is undeniable imo and thr production lives up to copy which cites the duo's preoccupation with 'synthesized nature and ancient futurism'

https://multishiva.bandcamp.com/track/monoliitti-on-nyrkki-2

Multishiva - Monoliitti on Nyrrki

A complete 180 from Purple Pilgrims, this is some crazy-ass Finnish doom nuggets. I was into their 2017 album Time Messer as a sort of cross between High on Fire and Oranssi Pazuzu, but their new EP ups the game considerably, esp. on this howling slab of nightmare psych. They've pretty much fused BM fierceness with Hawkwind-style space rock, along with some Amon Duul II, and, idk, maybe Motorhead on a bad acid trip? If this EP had been just a little longer (only 25 minutes) it would absolutely have been in the top 3 of my albums ballot

Sorry - the Maren Morris track labeled as "Feels" in the list should actually be "The Feels" (I botched the title when nominating).

― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 04:14 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also, one of my other noms (Summer Walker - Come Through) didn't seem to make it onto the list(s).

― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 04:24 (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fixed, thanks

Vote for everything by clipping. and These New Puritans

shiiit i assumed someone else would nominate Brighde Chaimbeul - The Reeling and now i'm sad i didn't myself. wonderful album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqG6g55eJU

Haven't seen much love for this, it's so sweet and summery and is an ideal post Christmas pick me up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QS8vOsV4tw

We're all voting for Jogging, yes? OK yes good. That'll do for now

I know you will all vote for Go for the Top by Girl Ray so this post is totally superfluous. Anyways. Here the three North London girls flirt a little with the jazz flute and create a pop song with a melancholic melody that adds a little sunshine to these dark winter days.

https://girlray.bandcamp.com/track/go-to-the-top

Of course I meant Go to the Top.

"But imago, what's Jogging?"

"It is the veritable spirit of the age, my friend"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGiQ_-Ktpvc

Hey, I'm interested in voting for the first time. Just curious, is there a minimum number of albums for a ballot?

I should be able to fill it up anyhow. I might've only had around a dozen 2019 albums I was excited about before, but I've already discovered a bunch more from dipping into all this.

There’s no minimum. You could, for example, cast a single vote for Taylor Swift

oooooo. Though I couldn't give the album any more than 50 points, could I?

There’s no minimum. You could, for example, cast a single vote for Taylor Swift

― rob, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:12 (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

RIP fondly remembered voter taytayfan

oooooo. Though I couldn't give the album any more than 50 points, could I?

― maffew12, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:17 (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nope

sean- would you kindly confirm that I chose “Weighted” for my albums ballot, which I submitted yesterday? That was my intention; but then I second-guessed whether I had done it right or not, after submitting.

(sorry, I’m really being a pain this cycle...!)

lol taytayfan was classic

Sam Sparro ft. We Are KING - Out of the Blue

Going on Spotify only here: should the title of this track be "Outside the Blue"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa35jTdSbAM

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Damn... That's the second year in a row I missed the nominations thread... How do I manage it??

I take it it's too late to submit some faves?

good, we need something nice to argue about

See, this is what happens when the rollout doesn't start on time.

Save us Johnny Fever!

Lol, otm

I listened to Addiction to Blood once or twice and liked it but wasn't taken with it like I was the second clipping. album, which I still consider just totally jaw-dropping
and which easily makes any end-of-decade list of mine (& which I prob still under-rate tbh). I wonder if clipping. is just one of those bands where the first one you hear will always be your favourite

This seems likely

lol ok

The Highwomen win both the tracks and albums polls. All good here? Cool. Thanks for voting everyone. 👍

Nothing Important is like a conjuring for me but I couldn't get on with Peasant or 2020.

(Would be happy with the Highwomen clearing up, tbh. As it were.)

The Highwomen win both the tracks and albums polls. All good here?

you should see the irate face I'm making right now

What are the Highwomen.

Ok but have you even listened to it? I know how you feel about anything even vaguely country, but the songwriting is soooo good.

I did. It sucked.

Thanks, I hate it.

Or rather, I didn't like it (because it sucked) (dammit I can't even be gracious about it)

Well now I *really* hope it does well.

The tune Redesigning Women is so full of regressive stereotypes about women (Changing our minds like we change our hair color + And if the shoe fits, we're gonna buy 11 + Running the world while we're cleaning up the kitchen) that I was actually quite taken aback considering that it's supposed to be a song about...redesigning women. What the song was trying to do was so far from what it achieved that it turned me off checking out the rest of the project. Open to suggestions if there's better songs on there.

"Cocktail and a Song" is the keeper for me.

Redesigning Women is the only song on the album I routinely skip. I haven't heard it in a long time.

I love country but I did not like the Highwomen album at all. Mostly I didn't like the singing, too mannered.

I wish they done more harmony work and less just all singing the same melody at once much of the time, but 10 of the 12 songs on the album are exactly my vibe. If they'd ditched Redesigning Women and My Only Child, I'd consider it perfect.

so is Moka doing the rollout then

Moka is keeping to their own timeline here. plz be patient as no set time to start was ever announced.

we should just wait another year to start the rollout, for a laugh.

It's the modus operandi for the film poll, and it honestly works pretty well. I can wait :)

2019 is cancelled

I will literally die if this doesn't start in the next hour

highwomen album is incredibly great, i know a lot of people here are allergic to dave cobb's production but it really works on it, rich with shadow but the guitar tones glow through it, making it feel like you've walked into a candlelit room. i've said this before but "loose change" is the best maren morris song of the year, and "if she ever leaves me" is maybe the best explicitly gay country song i've ever heard

i don't even mind "redesigning women" though the lyric is very clunky

"My Only Child" is one of the two or three best songs. Love how she hints at but doesn't directly resolve the question of why...leaves it up to the listener who may have their own experience. Hemby is the strongest piece of that puzzle, with a sharp eye for details and stories. Still listen to Puxico regularly.

The whole Highwomen project felt forced and calculated from the beginning, quite the opposite of the Annies, which have a better handle on real lives and struggles and have far more interesting things to say about them. There is nothing here with half the guts of "Best Years of My Life."

"Crowded Table" might be one of the stronger songs, but I find the four of them singing the whole thing together grating. I'm sure it translates live in some rousing acoustic closer but it doesn't work for me on the album.

hm peering into the highwomen album trying to discover the pistol annies album within seems to be missing the point to me. also i could say that no pistol annies album has a song as devastating as "cocktail and a song" but that would also be meaningless

I absolutely love the Highwomen album, including / especially the title track.

...sorry, I meant “Redesigning Women”! Why did I think it was the title track, lol

It's early morning where Moka is so give her a chance! All will be revealed in due course.

xp (probably because it’s so awesome, the entire album revolves around it for me)

I don't think anyone here is seriously angry with Moka. Take all the time you need (for real)!

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without blood I shrivel

how was this range forgotten:

78-whatever: I guess this really is my shit and only my shit

hm peering into the highwomen album trying to discover the pistol annies album within seems to be missing the point to me. also i could say that no pistol annies album has a song as devastating as "cocktail and a song" but that would also be meaningless

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, January 27, 2020 9:20 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Comparing the relative strengths and weaknesses of contemporary, popular, all-female country acts doesn't seem like a stretch to me. The Highwomen are a much more capital-s Serious group that demanded the industry take them Seriously, much like Carlile (who's very talented, but makes mostly boring music). Like many supergroups, it was a calculated idea--they'd never met or worked together (Wikipedia history below), and I hear that in the music.

"In 2016, when Shires was finishing her record, My Piece of Land, in music producer Dave Cobb's studio, Shires had an idea to create a female country supergroup in homage to the legendary Highwaymen country supergroup (consisting of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson). At the same time, the lack of representation of women artists on country music radio and at country music festivals had been publicly discussed by many, influenced by the Me Too movement and journalists like Marissa Moss. While on tour in her van, while listening to country radio, Shires kept a running list of artists and noticed that there were few women. When she called to request they play more women artists, she was directed to a Facebook page lottery system. Cobb recommended Shires call Carlile, whom she didn't know. Carlile thought it would be fun, and would be an interesting creative project."

the circumstances under which the supergroup was formed only makes the coherence of the album more impressive to me