ILM Tracks Poll 2019: Thread of Stats and Balloon Emojis

such a joyous track! heard it in a few mixes where it just came barrelling in with this huge stupid grin on its face

Burna Boy is the only person who can possibly make afrobeats happen in the US atm, I'm afraid.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, January 31, 2020 8:57 AM (one hour ago)

not a chart geek, but I thought Davido had already had some success?

I honestly preferred the Davido-album, but it seems like Burna Boy had a lot more succes this year?

i might be alone in finding Davido just a bit uninspiring and not fun? can someone point me to a fun Davido track?

Define "fun", please!

You don't like Risky?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9H3iinXZv0

Banana fall on you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Iyuym-Gci0

Sweet In The Middle is pretty fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVte8a_2q80

But again... not sure what you mean by fun here - if you measure his music up against balloon... well.

well colour me wrong. a lot of the stuff i'd previously checked out was that smooth, sleepy side of afrobeats that doesn't really excite me much

i like Risky best out of those. guess I just like chunky, dancehall or hip hop inflected riddims when it comes to afrobeats

Burna Boy is the only person who can possibly make afrobeats happen in the US atm, I'm afraid.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, January 31, 2020 8:57 AM (one hour ago)

not a chart geek, but I thought Davido had already had some success?

People I'd like to see blow up in 2020: A-Star, Teni, Rema

Also, Tiwa Savage and Sho Madjozi need some long-overdue wider recognition

it is stunning to me that there was a new album of (mostly) beyonce released this year that got no traction here

That's mostly because the album was okay.

there were outstanding singles! just nothing commercially released as such except for the very shitty one.

oh yeah "Joanna" I actually heard in the wild (of Montreal, but still)

oh i know there were some hits. Burna is the only guy I can see breaking into the mainstream as a star though, you know, of the kind that other artists pay to have on their projects.
I'd LOVE to see Rema blowing up, obviously.

Belatedly, my ballot, bold placed:

Erika de Casier - Intimate (Club Mix)
Blick Bassy - Ngwa
Busy Signal - Balloon
Octo Octa - I Need You
Fireboy DML - Jealous
Roisin Murphy - Incapable
Ciara - Thinkin Bout You
Black Coffee ft. Msaki - Wish You Were Here (Guy Mantzur Remix)
Donato Dozzy & Anna Caragnano - Parola (Rework)
Sir Babygirl - Haunted House
Underworld & The Necks - Appleshine Continuum
Roy Kinsey - Fetish
Amaarae - Like It
Sun-El Musician & Ami Faku - Into Ingawe
Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted
Tresor ft. Msaki - Sondela
Bawrut - Shooreee
Emily King - Teach You
Brandt Brauer Frick - Rest (Pearson Sound Remix)
Laura Stevenson - Value Inn
Zero12finest ft. ThaMagnificent2 - Baby Are You Coming?
Channel Tres - Brilliant N***a
Beyoncé - Before I Let Go
Zventa Sventana ft. Ivan Dorn - Muzha Doma Netu
HAIM - Now I'm In It

but your #1 did place, tim! the other track i share with you is the brandt brauer frick. what a great multi-dimensional track.

I'm interested in the Erika de Casier tune. it's not that I don't like it but I need some context perhaps?

Tim F voting 'Before I Let Go' - mate

Sorry yeah Erika should be bold

but what's the deal with it? I know nothing about her. sounds like dnb of the sort I'd hear 20 years ago but with a house gloss.. other than that?

the erika de casier album is one of the best r&b albums of the year, it's very 90s r&b in sound but with deep house textures mixed in too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDM73CL8zXs

this is the original "intimate", the club remix is a bonus track on the album, made by one of the album's main producers. there's nothing else like it on the album unfortunately so it's just this wonderfully singular perfect blend of d&b & r&b

yeah sadly there isn't any particular context for the club mix other than whatever context you invent for it in your head

the other thing she did that was like 'intimate club mix' was the club mix of 'drive' from a couple of years back, which is on a bit more of a ukg tip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7gR6am2EKA

thanks ufo. okay that makes more sense

I suddenly thought "wait, I must have missed Michael Kiwanuka when I listed my highest-placing non-77 tracks" but no, it was far further down, having only received votes from me and (perhaps) whoever nominated it. Hope that means people were saving their points for the album.

387    Michael Kiwanuka - You Ain't The Problem     47   2    0

621    SAULT - Smile and Go                         26   1    0

i was the other voter for "you ain't the problem". as you i am quite surprised of its' poor performance.

Aha! The arrangements all across that LP were frequently hella groovy. Perhaps not in a very ILM way though.

I was surprised I was the only one who voted for Fury's Laughter as I didn't nominate it and it was fairly ubiquitous this year and did well in lots of the end of year lists xps

wasn't around for the rundown but a late thank you to the poll runners!

my ranked ballot:

Mount Eerie - Love Without Possession
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
Girl Friday - Decoration/Currency
oso oso - the view
ShooterGang Kony - Charlie
Caroline Polachek - Hit me where it hurts
Denzel Curry - RICKY
Chief Keef & Zaytoven - Posse
Foals - Exits
Big Thief - Not
Solange - Binz
Danny Brown - Combat
Richard Dawson - Jogging
PUP - Kids
Teejayx6 - Swipe Story
Busy Signal - Balloon
Zed Kenzo - Type
Rabbit Trap - Coconut Oil
Shy Glizzy - Demons
Vampire Weekend - Unbearably White
100 gecs - money machine
The Hold Steady - You Did Good Kid
Queen Key - Evil
Default Genders - Christmas Card From a Scammer in Minneapolis
Laura Stevenson - Value Inn

Weighted

Stormzy - Vossi Bop
Headie One – Both
Wiley ft. Sean Paul, Stefflon Don & Idris Elba – Boasty
NSG ft. Tion Wayne – Options
Stormzy - Wiley Flow
Stormzy - Sounds of the Skeng
Octo Octa - Can You See Me?
Schacke - Kisloty People
Octo Octa - Spin Girl, Let's Activate!
Burial - Old Tape
#OFB SJ x Bandokay x Double Lz – Ambush
Headie One ft. Dave - 18HUNNA
Digga D x Russ - Mr Sheen
NSG - OT Bop
Carla dal Forno - Push On
De Ambassade - Geen Genade
DJ Python - Be Si To
Dave ft. J Hus – Disaster
Kano ft. D Double E and Ghetts - Class Of Deja
Kyoto - Venetian Blinds
#OFB Bandokay x Double Lz x SJ X Headie One - Once In A While
Joe - Get Centered
J Hus - Must Be
Jay1 - Your Mrs
Free Love – Bones

Wish I'd put Must Be higher up

And thanks to all the poll runners/organisers

11 of my albums list has already been in the album list rollout and there's 20 left to go. I guess I'm going to have a high "hivemind". But what is blood sausage? And why are things done in 77s? Halp

I think "blood sausage" refers to voting for tracks that got votes in the ILM poll but not in any other EOY polls? Though I have no idea how that's calculated?

77 is an ILX arc number, it's the name of the invite-only secret board, which got its name from the ID number of said board (I guess it was the 77th sub-board created?).

we demand the formulas!

(This is all impressive and thank you)

77 isn't invite btw in case you were wondering, but it is locked for reasons of privacy so you do need mod approval in order to access it. and you get that by requesting it on the relevant thread

I was surprised I was the only one who voted for Fury's Laughter as I didn't nominate it and it was fairly ubiquitous this year and did well in lots of the end of year lists xps

― groovypanda, Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:13 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah I nominated that but it fell off my ballot because in the end the laughing sample tips it over from earworm to slightly irritating

i also nearly voted for "fury's laughter"

work and personal life have been insane for me in the past year, so was kind of out of the loop - first time sending in an unweighted ballot, still haven't gotten through the whole 77.

Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
Ariana Grande - Ghostin
sakanaction - 忘れられないの
Caroline Polachek - Door
Hatchie - Stay With Me
박혜진 Park Hye Jin - I Don't Care
FKA Twigs - fallen alien
Jessie Ware - Adore You
Mannequin Pussy - Drunk II
Charly Bliss - Young Enough
Marie Davidson - Work It (Soulwax Remix)
Stormzy - Vossi Bop
Spellling - Under the Sun
Yu Su - Watermelon Woman
Robyn ‎– Baby Forgive Me (Young Marco Remix)
Roisin Murphy - Incapable
Billie Eilish - Bury A Friend
Beyoncé - Before I Let Go
Kitten – Memphis
Lizzo - Truth Hurts
Marika Hackman - The One
Samthing Soweto - Akulaleki
Sun-El Musician & Ami Faku - Into Ingawe
Sunmi - 누아르 (Noir)
Dreamcatcher - Piri

of course ufo is my closest neighbour. :) thanks for doing this, poll runners!

So you were the other "I Don't Care" voter... I was surprised no one else voted for it, it feels exactly like the sort of stuff ILX dance music crew would love.

Great tune but my long list of great tunes exceeded my actual ballot by a factor of about five

xpost Yeah I thought it was well loved too but maybe people voted for the EP, which is great. Can't see it placing so high though.