ILM 2022 Tracks Poll: The Battle of Ballads: Verse Your Ballot and Join the Rhyme-Fueled Debate!
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Thursday, 23 February 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
Thanks again pollrunners! Couldn't even vaguely follow the thread this week so I have much reading, image-gazing and playlist-listening in my future...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:05 (one year ago) link
I guess I haven't been paying attention (and I didn't vote this year), but I'm a little surprised "Break My Soul" didn't make it. I don't have strong feelings about Beyonce, but that song has always struck me as an undeniable jam. Did people just want to avoid the obvious critical favorite?
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:09 (one year ago) link
I'm surprised it didn't make it but I don't especially like the song either so
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
I'm guessing everyone picked their favorite cut on the Beyonce album and split the votes (I had a different one on mine, Break My Soul is definitely not my fave).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
as far as Beyoncé in 2023 goes (and as someone that listed Renaissance as #1 in the album poll) I would only have countenanced a vote for the Queens Remix of "Break My Soul", despite the original technically being my most played track of 2022 (this is because it was released before the album, so I played it a bit then, and then once the album itself arrived it demanded a complete listen from beginning to end every single time, so, there wasn't much opportunity for any other track to beat it out in scrobble count).
A great song but I'd pick, like, 12 other tracks from the album over it easily. "Cuff It" not getting a single vote is more surprising to me honestly.
― monotony, Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:19 (one year ago) link
"Cuff It" wasn't nommed
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
I spent barely seconds on nominations this time, but I doubt I've had two of them ("Saoko" and "Gary Asby") making the top 100 before. Finger secretly very much on the pulse, lol.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:30 (one year ago) link
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― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:32 (one year ago) link
sorry, "Cuff It" was nommed. I guess the only way to know is to show all posts on the nominations thread.
Giving my head a shake.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link
ILX is officially an anti-Beyonce zone
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:43 (one year ago) link
great poll outcome, sick images and excellent work as always from our pollrunners!
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:47 (one year ago) link
Wait … Kate Bush was used as a prop herein?
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
Do you wanna know that it didn't hurt her?
I was out for the end of the rollout but enjoyed it all. I think 14 things off my ballot placed, so no complaints from me. Curious, is this the least Anglo-American top 10 ever?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:58 (one year ago) link
I don't quite the rationale of all the fake-outs... seems there's plenty of reaction/argument over the actual placements anyway, and the fakes don't really generate an "extra" response or do anything except cause confusion(?) A friend who's been monitoring the Spotify playlist had to ask me if certain ones were real (after he brought up "Bruno," I said no, that's fake)... and I got Drake wrong, didn't realize that was a fake-out. What's the point(?)
Just my 2c... thanks to the poll-runners, as always!
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:16 (one year ago) link
Beyonce album made the top 10 so I don’t think ILM is anti-beyonce, it got vote splitted. Also I don’t really follow her but as an outsider I didn’t see any singles - other than “break my soul” - being pushed?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
I’m checking her youtube page and I don’t see any music videos for any other song
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
There isn’t even a video for “break my soul” just a visualizer and a cliquebait video whatever that means.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
The ongoing lack of Renaissance music videos (presumably, due to protracted contractual negotiations with a streaming giant - it seems like she needs their cash before she can release them) has been a source of great agony for all Beyoncé fans over the last ~7 months. There was also a rumour that the videos for all songs had to be reworked in December as Beyoncé wasn’t happy with the final cuts.
Anyway, “Cuff It” is currently in the Billboard top 10 so I think it counts as a bona fide hit.
― monotony, Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
annoyed that I'll be travelling when GIRLFRIEND wins
― rob, Monday, February 20, 2023 3:18 PM (two days ago)
well dang, I did not expect this joke post to turn true wtf
I don't really have time to post right now, but what a result, amazing!, genuinely bummed I was on a long-ass flight for today and didn't get to celebrate with yall
big big thanks to forks, Moka, and seandalai as ever
― rob, Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:46 (one year ago) link
not that surprised that "break my soul" didn't place given that people here were a little underwhelmed by it overall, and there wasn't another big single to rally around ("cuff it" was pushed to radio a few months after the album but didn't get a big promo push with a video or anything) which is why "virgo's groove" ended up the closest to a consensus pick
i am a bit surprised kendrick got vote-split so badly though because i loved "the heart part 5" but didn't care for most of the album, and it was the pre-album single (even though it wasn't actually on the album)
― ufo, Thursday, 23 February 2023 03:00 (one year ago) link
Hahaha my placeholder images for tests were Saoko and The Heart Pt 5. Thought Kendrick Lamar was a lock and was unsure about Rosalia.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 February 2023 03:08 (one year ago) link
'break my soul' is excellent f the haters. and the terry hunter remix is where it's at imo.
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 23 February 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link
Yeah I was the same with "The Heart part 5" — it set me up for an album that wasn't the album he released, and I mostly like it better than anything on the album. (I considered voting for "N95" too.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 February 2023 04:03 (one year ago) link
Rich Spirit has become one of my fave KL tracks. Love the sound design on that one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 February 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
But after that one The Heart was my favorite one of the tracks released last year.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 February 2023 04:15 (one year ago) link
two favourite tracks of the year placed 1&2 tho i would have had them the other way round (voting crept up and past me unfortunately). having, slightly unexpectedly seen charlotte adigéry et pal last week, can confirm live it all works really well. certainly better than the belgian jive bunny bullshit that headlined. saw Alewya last night and it was *so fresh* with an amazing crowd, but iirc the one i woulda coulda shoulda voted for turned out to be 2021.anyway, really good poll rundown imo - thanks to moka, fct etc!
― Fizzles, Thursday, 23 February 2023 08:19 (one year ago) link
Wow. We won. Congrats, everyone!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 23 February 2023 10:40 (one year ago) link
I was one of the "Break My Soul" voters and considered it one of the standout pop songs of 2022, weak rap verse and all, but was thrilled to see a track I didn't know finish at #1. Always nice to walk away from these with a dozen or more discoveries, and this was definitely one of those years.
Many thanks, poll runners. Loved the images this year and spent way more time staring at them than usual. 3 or 4 thumbs up.
― Indexed, Thursday, 23 February 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
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― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 February 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
listening to the spotify list now...really great stuff
nia archives is amazing as is daliwongareally like the weyes blood song, they are better in small doses for me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
Speaking of Weyes Blood, I was surprised only 2 people (including me) voted for "Grapevine." I know there was an underwhelmed reaction to the album but that song just washes over you.
― Chris L, Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
Oh wow, I missed that there is a Nia Archives in addition to Sudan Archives.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
People had archive fever in 2022
― rob, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
yeah is there some pop culture thing with "archives" i don't know about or is it just a coincidence?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
Seems like just a weird coincidence, since I think it comes from Sudan Archives was studying ethnomusicology?
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:08 (one year ago) link
Loool
tha nia archives x sudan archives link up just happened 2day n let me tell ya we made a mazzaaaaa pic.twitter.com/eEm2BPlfMM— Nia Archives (@archives_nia) February 23, 2023
― groovypanda, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
wow, that's great and what a coincidence!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
shd form a group called 'archives' and call the album 'nominative determinism' imo
― imago, Thursday, 23 February 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
thx 2 pollrunners! (and voters)
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 24 February 2023 09:33 (one year ago) link
Despite the slow roll-out pace, I still didn't manage to comment while it was running. Just wanted to say that I've discovered lots of interesting music and read some great and insightful comments. So well done, everybody!
― o. nate, Friday, 24 February 2023 14:03 (one year ago) link
Yes, thanks all, without fail I always discover great new stuff in the poll.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:52 (one year ago) link
The tracks I keep coming back to ITT that I didn't previously know are:
High School In Jakarta, Anti-Hero, This Is Why, Munch, 23, Expert In A Dying Field, Holiday, Edge of the Edge
I don't like Step By Step much but the Axel Boman remix is really good.
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 13:37 (one year ago) link
I do love the original but yeah, that Boman remix gives off pure Bangalter/Falcon vibes
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
forgot to vote and just caught up today. but I hadn't heard the Shabason & Krgovich song before and its great, gives me very One AM Radio vibes.
― Will (kruezer2), Thursday, 2 March 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
Just listened to "Girlfriend" again and, well, let's not piss about. It is the best isn't it
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Saturday, 4 March 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link
finally finished listening to the results recently, and... great job ilm, for real. i'm not sure why, but i enjoyed nearly all the placing tracks that i hadn't previously heard, certainly not a typical response for me to any poll. idk, maybe having listened to much less music than usual this past year, and not being too enthused abt most of the mainstream stuff that crossed my awareness w/ no effort on my end, has made me more enthusiastic to belatedly enjoy some things. thank y'all for continuing to have great taste even when the conversations aren't quite as busy + dunderheads like me can't bother to figure out which threads to keep even minimally plugged into throughout the year
my ballot only had like 20 songs on it and was frankly rather reflective of my very limited horizons this year, but a few of the songs i voted for placed and i was happy to see them. i don't think it's worth posting my ballot in the other thread but i was the #1 vote for "provenza" (the only track in the weighted section of my ballot) + i was glad to hear what y'all thought abt it, even imago's distaste for it. rly cool to see "calm down" so high, i thought i didn't know it until i clicked play and realized oh yeah it's that quite-lovely afrobeats song i've heard every now and again w/ or w/o selena gomez (lol). "last last" i also knew but didn't recall until hitting play -- frankly the toni braxton sample turned me off it for a while due to my increasing annoyance w/ ~2/3 of all radio hits in america now being reliant on samples of highly recognizable old hits, but i came to like it just fine. tho i certainly don't dislike afrobeats, i tend not to be as enthusiastic abt it as its fans on here anyhow
fav discoveries were real lies ("dream on" especially but both of the placing ones -- just getting into the album too now!) and "step by step" lol
thanks to the pollrunners and the voters for introducing me to a lot of good stuff :)
― dyl, Sunday, 12 March 2023 07:00 (one year ago) link