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

Ultros, you should do a tracks ballot so you can vote for Vermin Mangle! Which, along with the rest of the Cardiacs discography, goes on Spotify TONIGHT, just in time for the last two days of voting :D

I too am thinking of only doing an albums ballot. I've no idea what to vote tracks wise.

On the other hand I found the impossibility of narrowing down the tracks ballot freeing. I knew there was no way to come up with an honest assessment so I just chucked 25 songs I love on there and called it a day

yeah, like every year I try to overthink this and try to come up with the perfect ballot, get frustrated because it is actually impossible to rank music so just semi-randomly list the songs I think I like most on that day. At least this year I gave up pretty early and wasted less of my time.

Imago that's a good point, I never even looked at the track noms. I'll get on it

just semi-randomly list the songs I think I like most on that day

ha otm. this was easily my least strategic, most fruitlessly partisan tracks ballot ever

I did adopt the old Lex rule of not voting for tracks off of albums I voted for (with one exception). That freed up a good bit of space.

I usually abide by that but ended up breaking it a couple times this year

i'm straight up angry that i didn't discover dadi freyr's "think about things" until today, i love this ridiculous shit

forks, noticing that the young dolph song on the spotify playlist is by something called "dj lil rubin." should be this one: https://open.spotify.com/album/6A0oDDWAJwFxzD2YQwmp0U?si=4dQyUuVORy-_tDVnvdW93w

got it

~36 hours left hop hop hop!

I fucked up my album ballot a bit by mixing it but then forgetting to rank the top half properly tho really I had no particular standout favourite last year (not for the first time but still pretty rare) so will be interested to see if my #1 is uniquely so (would expect it to place in the lower half of the 77 either way).

Omg just realised the deadline for this is approaching fast. I still have a fifth of the tracks playlist left to hear...implementing the 'five second rule'.

All right my tracks ballot's been sent. Must admit that I didn't do any extra listening and there's a huge amount of stuff I didn't get to this year.

okay, voted! Gonna keep listening though, up to "J" in the song names!

dang, i forgot to nominate stuff this year so there were so many tracks i couldn't vote for. now I've gotta vote for a track called Now That's What I Jack Off About! instead

i will note that I'm annoyed no one nominated Cookie Kawaii's "Vibe" as a track because I wanted to vote for it!

Voted! Couldn't face a tracks ballot in the end.

xp what? that was my track of the year, not that I heard many tbh

not that I'm voting this year anyway

Vermin Mangle isn't on Spotify - only Cardiacs' full albums are, alas. But you should all still vote for it!!!!

Think I've made all my decisions. Gonna marinate over them and then send later

Voted! I missed the nomination period this year so I had to gut my personal list down. Still excited to see the results.

Albums done

Tracks have a shortlist of about 100 with over 40 definites so cutting it to 25 is going to be absolutely brutal - might have to go the strategic hivemind route and leave in the ones I think have the best chances of placing

one track per artist rule usually helps

Fuck it. Voted

If you're only going to vote for two records titled La vita nuova in the albums poll this year, please consider making them the ones by Maria McKee and Christine & the Queens!

Voted.

i hit a point in submitting my ballot where it was more or less the things i listened to chronologically first on the albums list that made the cut and vice versa for tracks. Anyways! No one is going to be angry if you change your mind tomorrow; the world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Aye. Semi-random is pretty much inevitable in both inclusion and ranking within individual ballots, the best remedy is wide representation of ballots.

My albums ballot was fairly well considered, and then I half assed my tracks list and still couldn't manage to pick 25 that I actually liked.

had the genius idea of sorting the tracks nominations playlist by length so that it was easy to isolate the bobbins stuff i missed last year, having a great time

okay, i just hit carl stone and imago did you nominate this?
No shade, i'm liking it.

i did not! don't even know what it is...

oh, well listen to it then! it made me think of you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPm5OPVKarw

ohhhhhh wait i do know this, tangenttangent saved it to a playlist of finds, yeah it's pretty cool

n.b. for all you worried collusion-counters out there: we are no longer collaborating ballots at least, having last year transcended the plane of mere 'relationship' to become 'ilxor chums', the highest state. still expecting some overlap mind

Carl Stone is excellent fwiw

tracks I liked:

Janelle Monae
that "Weedman" track
Plone
Blackpink "Pretty Savage"

Carl stone’s radio show changed my life in high school

I have “bugsnax” caught in my head this morning <3

I’ve got 26 tracks and not sure which one to cut, man my life sucks lol

voted!

sorry if any special characters have been smudged, have to send via my work computer to my phone and back again due to firewalls x

i had 27 and extremely brutally got rid of two that would a) never place and b) were from albums i'm also voting for

Yeah I cut a few of my favourite tracks from the year because I was also voting for the album.

neither were cut from my top ten though. i wouldn't do that

Ah god. I'm getting there, just about. I am scrapping the "don't vote for the same artist in both polls" thing I've been doing for the past few years as there are a few things I want to rep for in both places. But it's doing me bloody nut in m8s.

oh yeah there are a few unavoidable ones, that's never been a rule for me

ohhhhhh wait i do know this, tangenttangent saved it to a playlist of finds, yeah it's pretty cool

― imago, Friday, 22 January 2021 17:40 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was like the top of that playlist! The Carl Stone is p much one of the best things I've found.

Last minute rep for the Jean Dawson album! It's half hour long and extremely infectious if you are inclined to enjoy top tier glitchy emo rap.

This has to be done tonight? 10 is looking a stretch at this point anything friendly records out there?

Last minute rep for that one Klô Pelgag track, which is like a giant swirling dream of French classic pop, indie folk and new romantic synths that a certain ilxor happens to feature on quite prominently