ILM's 2020 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD

"End of Daze" by Spillage Village is on the nominations list twice.

I made a thread for Keleketla!, you can check it out.
Rose Rouge is a song that keeps climbing on my ballot, gorgeous cause it's Jorja Smith, full of relaxed vibes because of the jazz bass - horns, grand because of the broad sound and all those flourishes.

Since it was nominated, I'm thinking of claiming year of impact going for Where I'm Coming From instead of I Spy / Stars Align. I might joint the person who said Mango for Sevana. Finally, I nominated 24K because it's a-ma-zing but Shook is clearly the hit. In the songs discovered through the nomination process, I'm tempted most by Damn Daniel, that's how you do a fun novelty pop hit. Spots are expensive but I might have Wizkid up to three times on my tracks ballot.

Still no idea what Jessie Ware or Dua Lipa track I'm voting for, just not Remember where you are (slow and lush and melancholic and crescendos with choirs no thank you).

For albums, I'll just say please include EPs and some jazz in your votes my good people ! And check that Keleketla! thread.

Oops! Can a mod add the voting link to the first post? https://forms.gle/5FEXdcBsXZu2tpLMA

Thanks emil.y!

Hope that edit's okay, let me know if you want anything changing.

lol I missed the entire noms thread, oh well

At this point I mostly just want Pharaoh Overlord to make it.

I've already done a big tracks booster post, which you might want to consider: The Pre-Poll Lobby - Tracks You Want People to Consider for ILM's Top 77 of 2020

There's a duplicate on the TRACKS spreadsheet
Disclosure - Mali Mali
Disclosure ft. Fatoumata Diawara - Douha (Mali Mali)
are exactly the same and not different versions.

Please dont forget 2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: NOMINATIONS Thread (open until the 8th of January 2021)

Sleeve you haven't missed those nominations.... yet ')

There's a duplicate on the TRACKS spreadsheet
Disclosure - Mali Mali
Disclosure ft. Fatoumata Diawara - Douha (Mali Mali)
are exactly the same and not different versions.

fixed

^^^ please do call out any duplicates you spot - I've removed all the easy ones but when the titles are different I can't catch them automatically

Okay, the track playlist is as complete as I can make it and closed. Let me know if there's something available that I missed?

1280 tracks seems actually LOW for any given year but maybe we went harder on albums this go round. I'm personally about 1/4 of the way through listening to the whole thing; hoping I can make it at least to the halfway mark before voting ends.

I was wondering how the numbers stacked up against other years, I kind of assumed they would be lower. I am hoping for some good enthusiastic participation, I need a bit of fun to counteract the bleak hellscape.

There were 1,260 track nominations and 1,070 album nominations last year, about the same #'s as this year. I've no doubt those numbers were much higher back when the board was more active though.

Just like last year, I made two Spotify playlists for all the (*very* broadly defined) African “pop” that has been nominated:

one for all the South African stuff: first the 47+1 nominated tracks and after that the 16 albums that were nominated (I counted the Keleketla! album Nabozo is championing as South African), 273 tracks in total, a lot more than last year. that’s 25 (!) hours of music to get lost in: lots of amapiano, some Limpopo house, a bit of gqom and of course several representatives of the House of Sun-El.

link: ILM 2020 EOY🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICAN NOMS

...and one for all the non-SA African stuff, 62 tracks and 18 albums, 279 tracks in total, about 16 hours of music, similar to last year.
I stretched “pop” to include Nyege Nyege, Tony Allen & Masekela (counted this one towards the non-SA side) and “African” to include Afro-Portuguese (by way of the UK and France) batida-makers DJ Danifox and Nídia. Oh, and Moroccan-French band Bab L’Bluz is there as well, because I like ‘em.

link: ILM 2020 EOY🔷AFROPOP NOMS

Please let me know if you think I forgot or overlooked something!

forks, looks like a batch of tracks were added twice on the playlist from CRJ's Stay Away to Kesha's High Road.

Also the entire Canshaker Pi album is on there (but don't know if that's because someone nominated every track)

voted

what good will do all of our campaigning do now?

Albums ballot submitted. I'll get working on tracks later this week.

I dunno, but I had no idea until I looked at the albums master list that Mimi Goese released a new album this year and decided to vote for it AS I was listening to it for the first time lol

xp

i pay attention to campaigning and tend to discover numerous things i like thru it but frankly nothing introduced to me this late in the game is likely to displace the songs i've been enjoying for a large portion of the year already from my ballot xp

forks, looks like a batch of tracks were added twice on the playlist from CRJ's Stay Away to Kesha's High Road.

Also the entire Canshaker Pi album is on there (but don't know if that's because someone nominated every track)

― groovypanda, Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:55 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk they sound like some pretty good duplicates to me

like, there's already an entire ballot-sized collection of songs that i thought would be shoo-ins that i'm sad about having to exclude b/c 25 songs is not a lot, it's highly doubtful something i learned about after new year's day is making its way in

albums would be another story b/c i'm not sure if i've even enjoyed as many albums as a lot of ppl here nominate every single year and consequently tend to leave my albums ballot blank, as i did again this year

I'm also about a 1/4 through listening to the playlist (phenomenal work as always, forks) and wanted to mention that silverfish's noms have been a high point so far. I saved like four tracks of those I didn't know (which was most).

silverfish is an Established Ally

Voting now.

Wow - no one was into that Jeff Tweedy record, huh?

There were 1,260 track nominations and 1,070 album nominations last year, about the same #'s as this year. I've no doubt those numbers were much higher back when the board was more active though.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:35 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Looking back, the nomination counts are pretty stable over time. Even in "big" years like 2013 - where the number of voters was (conservatively) 50% more than we'll get this year - the number of nominations wasn't that much higher (1510 tracks, 1060 albums). Though in 2013 the limit per person was 30, the "surprise" extra 10 towards the end of nominating was introduced by JF the following year.

Ballot submitted!

wow am I glad I have 2+ weeks for this, I haven't even started to engage w/the ILX noms after putting my own list together (40 new, 20 archival/reissue)

I can't believe "Delete Forever" wasn't nominated until the final day. There goes my prediction that it would win the poll.

I'll cross-reference my post in the Aya Nakamura / French rap thread and encourage people to listen to and vote for Lous and the Yakuza - Gore, which is the debut album by the Belgian-Congolese rapper, produced by El Guincho (known for his own work, as well as that with Rosalía). Dour and heavy, but inventive and thrilling at the same time, and the accompanying videos are wonderful.

Also on the album front, Carla J Easton - WEIRDO is more or less Carly Rae Jepsen (even the names have a similar cadence!) x CHVRCHES with the faintest traces of the Charly Bliss debut, so I'm surprised there isn't a 1000 page thread for it on here. A delightful record.

Without getting carried away and posting my whole ballot, I'll also gently encourage users to vote for:

Princesa Alba - Ya No Quieres Querereme, which is fabulous Chilean discopop that wouldn't have sounded out of place on Future Nostalgia;

Javiera Mena - Corazón astral, which, well, speaking of fabulous Chilean discopop...;

Pauline Chagne - Orange Sanguine, which is frothy fun in a Vendredi Sur Mer-vein;

NIKI - Switchblade, which is poised R&B from Indonesia;

RAYE - Love Of Your Life, which is, in a long string of singles from her over several years, perhaps the most faultless; and

Jayda G - Both Of Us, which I could see as a surprise winner in the vein of "Itgehane", so if that happens I just want to be on the record as being in the "it's a fucking banger" camp.

I can't believe "Delete Forever" wasn't nominated until the final day. There goes my prediction that it would win the poll.

It's safe to say I no longer have my finger on the ilm pulse, but does the larger ilm populace even fuck with Grimes anymore?

"violence" placed in the top twenty last year and a few of us liked her record this year yeah

i don't really check for her but i didn't know she put anything out this year

don't worry i'm sure she'll place, i had no idea about her music last year either

"violence" did quite well last year despite being a complete nothing of a song and there was still some decent enthusiasm for miss anthropocene as an album despite all her antics overshadowing it, though nowhere near that for art angels and visions. i was one of the ones who was very disappointed by it

the album will surely place but probably like in the 20s?

I was totally out of the loop this year, and it will be the first time in as long as I've been around here that I have no idea what anyone likes, where anything will place, and how many people are likely to vote and who they are. lol

she sucks but the record is good

I don’t fuck with Grimes anymore. I think Elon Musk is disgusting and she has become unpalatable by association.

Even if I separate art from artist I don’t hear too much I like in this album in particular. The mixing sounds off for me. Delete Forever is probably my favorite of the album but I just can’t get into it.

ok let's not repeat the grims discourse in the campaign thread, some ppl do not like it when their records sound like the inside of a vacuum cleaner, i get it, however i do

lol that really does sum it up

I love Miss Anthropocene but can’t really see voting for any of the tracks as singles; it’s a very “album-album” for me.

(or as “tracks,” whatever)

I'm also about a 1/4 through listening to the playlist (phenomenal work as always, forks) and wanted to mention that silverfish's noms have been a high point so far. I saved like four tracks of those I didn't know (which was most).

― tangenttangent, Sunday, January 3, 2021 5:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Thank you! I doubt that much of the stuff I nominated is going to place so I'm very happy some people are checking it out and enjoying it.

some ppl do not like it when their records sound like the inside of a vacuum cleaner

the "i accidentally washed my earbuds in my jeans pocket" mix

I don't know if I'll get anybody voting for it, but I still highly recommend watching this video of 'Firefly' by Hey String. It's so so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrBT4fR-81g

I'm going to be very boring and say "listen to and vote for clipping."

I'd say the same about Nate Wooley's 17 years in the making "ecstatic music" symphony featuring a wall of magnificently controlled noise and a 21-woman choir, it's really quite something.

voted!!!!!!!!!!

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I voted!

Springsteen album title is wrong on the list, but I used what was there.

voted, what a weird year

This is the first year, maybe ever, I didn't max out my tracks ballot. Only did 20 out of 25. Surprised my albums ballot got all the way to 25 tbh.

Anyway, they're both in now. EOY team gonna roll out the best music poll on the internet as usual. Thanks in advance!

(p.s. seandalai, can you email me my albums ballot? I forgot to save a copy when I submitted it.)

scratch that request...I found it!

I voted

I had a hard time cutting albums from 50-70 down to 25. Let's just say no album out of South Africa made my list and that's insane given the releases.

Heck, I typically missed voting, so I’m gonna pour one out for Sleaford Mods’ Mork and Mindy and cross my fingers for We Live Here to go all the way

voting is open until seandalai says it's shut iirc. think you still have time

I've just submitted my ballot :)

yep, still a bit of time to vote

any stragglers should get a move on though

Will have mine in before 11gmt

Done!

I'm weighing up a last-minute tracks ballot change-up...

Oh but it would involve dropping one thing 6 points though and if that takes it out of the 77 I can never forgive myself

going to shut it down in about 10 minutes - anyone who still wants to submit speak now

I have resubmitted with one change. If that change (and removal of 6 points from my erstwhile #1) results in said song departing the 77, PLEASE DISREGARD lol

lmao

I'm serious :D

ok we're done here - tracks results will roll out next week

Awesome. Can't wait.

And many thanks

Yeah super work as ever seandalai!

Got a late request from gaudio - I've reopened the voting form but make it quick!

gaudete more like

thanks seandalai!!! voted

Hey seandalai I forgot to vote too! will csat my ballot very quickly!!

voted.

ballots received - proceedings are closed for real now

ah okay! dang

ok ok go ahead

:)

i also forgot to nominate anything so i put all my write-ins on the bottom half of a mixed ballot -- if it's easier just to chop em off that's totally fine. so sorry about inconvenience !!

got it and counted (except for the write-ins, sorry - too late for that)

thanks so much seandalai - i owe you one

Phew, crut et al, under the wire!

I feel like I've got a fair idea of what will be high in albums but no clue about tracks (unless it's all the Tyl0r Sw4ft tracks DJP nominated). Hmm hmm.

ty seandalai!

kicking myself for totally spacing on this. been a rough week.

Okay, we're live!
ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2020

whaatt?

thought we’d be starting on Monday?

we are. clearing the runway.

...easing back into Sunday afternoon mood...