ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD

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Ballot: https://goo.gl/forms/KFue5nhEsFwWCEs32

The procedure is simple: enter your tracks and album ballots (up to 25 items on each), one item per line, in the appropriate fields below. Please copy each line directly from the nominations lists; do not number your ballot. You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:

(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 50 points, the second receives 48 points, and so on, until the 25th item receives 2 points.

(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 26 points.

(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 50 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 26 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 25 items will allocate a total of exactly 650 points).

Tracks Master List: https://pastebin.com/raw/SkMdzn5T
Albums Master List: https://pastebin.com/raw/AXHcPn7u

Spotify Tracks: http://spoti.fi/2ARbO2p
Spotify Albums: http://spoti.fi/2AV2ZES

Youtube Tracks: http://goo.gl/QK6yZH
Youtube Albums: http://goo.gl/Bouu3M

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 19th, 2017.

Allez hop!

(The voting deadline should say 2018, obvs.)

And metal poll voting finishes Saturday, February 3rd
The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

please consider voting in both!

Am def going to vote, still listening to a lot of nominations.

I recommend the new Lustre, who’ve dialled back their sound even further to the point where it’s finally impossible to say whether that faint static in the background are guitars of just the sound of a shower hitting the plastic curtain. Drums and vocals are also hitting new records in Metal in terms of how distant and low they are in the mix. The whole experience is like slowly falling asleep in front of a dimly glowing fire, wrapped in a fluffy blanket, holding a huge mug of hot cocoa topped with extra whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.

wrong poll thread Siegbran!

Forgot to vote in this main poll last year so made sure to get my ballot off right away. Cheers to the pollrunners.

I already voted, which I usually don't do so soon, but it's cold outside and I don't want to leave the house.

TOO MANY POLLS

Voted since I had my lists already set.

Not 100% sure whether anything from Instant Classic, but this song from the Alameda Duo album is an amazibg, approximation of Bob Welch-era Fleetwood Mac

https://youtu.be/ucBWdwp-XEY

Voted

i forgot to nominate this year, a ballot with some write-in votes are ok I guess?

I don’t make any guarantees about write-ins (if everyone did it the system would break down) but I do make an effort to count them.

voted

I just realised I missed a couple of albums off my ballot. Is there any way to get them added on?

Make sure you check you lists before pressing submit kids :(

just submit another ballot and post here

Ta, didn't realise that was an option

Johnny, I know there was a second Spotify playlist created for album nominations since the first one got overloaded, wasn't sure if there were still two playlists for album noms but thought I'd mention it.

Whoops, I forgot about that when making the thread! Here's the link: http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/2ymp6yQ3AlQmuXtQRCVMyK%22

voted :)

Man, it's brutal for me trying to pick even a top twenty. Liked a ton of stuff, didn't really obsess over anything this year.

how many ballots are in? working on mine just now

Voted!

me too

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lol my tracks ballot is a mess this year, like 3 of my top 5 weren't nominated and i had just assumed they would be so i didn't get around to it

One week left!

GOOD MORNING!

(I voted.)

my ballots are done, just giving them the weekend to marinate and then I'll submit

I voted

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Dear Van Horn Street,

There was no email for you given in the ilx mail you sent, but the answer to your question is "Creating the nominations list is an imperfect exercise, and I'm sorry if I missed a nom of yours. You can still vote it as a write-in, but adding it to the main list 50% of the way through the voting period wouldn't help matters. People have already submitted ballots."

Thx,
J Feves

Ah fuck I was super busy and I didn't get to nominate songs like XX - Replica or Migos - Stir Fry which I thought would be nominated for sure. Ok I'll work with what we have.

^it was also surprising to me that The XX - On Hold and Migos - Bad and Boujee weren't nominated

the trax list is full of great stuff though

Bad & Boujee made last year, was ineligible

Everything is Recorded - close but not quite and Mustn't Hurry by Fever Ray are also not there :S should have nominated.

on hold placed last year too

i'm gonna do at least one write-in b/c I didn't nominate The Myrrors' album.

I should listen to that. I listened to almost every other space rock album this year

Sarah Angliss - Ealing Feeder

yo this is really good

yes, I really should mention it on the Lobbying thread

I'm guessing Migos - Stir Fry could do quite well next year.

Oof. I should've listened to this Jane Weaver album before I voted.

Voted a few days ago. Forgot to mention in here. Thank you for putting this on!

vo
ted

Voted!

It's nice to have that brief moment of relief before I start questioning all my choices.

voted!
i had to do it via a stupid way as work appears to have blocked the voting ballot url
let me know if you haven't received it x

Got it!

for everyone else: voting ends on Friday!

Voted!

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Resubmitted my ballot because I realized I left out a key track. Please only count the latest one.

I hope this doesn't cause problems. Sorry if it does :/

voted earlier today, but just resubmitted with one change to my albums list

VOTED!

Just voted!

(btw I put some write-ins in my tracks ballot, if it's gonna make things more complicated for pollrunners I can resubmit without them)

Aaaaaaaagh I am still not close to finalising my ballot, just been pissing about doing other things and the deadline has snuck up on me. Hopefully will get it done!

― emil.y, Friday, 19 January 2018 16:51 (four hours ago)

Would be awesome if you get a ballot in, emil.y!

Voted, with only a little bit of being-difficult at voting for some lusosphere stuff that wasn't nominated / voting for remixes of nominated tracks.

Zsófia Boros - Lost Objects

So I screwed this nomination up:
i) The title is Local Objects; don't know how I messed that up +
ii) it came out in Oct 2016

I doubt it will make the top 77 anyway but mea culpa.

just voted.

voted! Didn't do a full tracks ballot cos I've been swamped with stuff going on and didn't nominate the stuff I wanted to and then didn't spend enough time catching up with noms this week :( looking forward to the rollout as always, thanks for organising this guys!

Voted.

Voted, now want to kill myself.

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estimate that we're open for another 10 hours or so

Voted!

I feel your pain, Tim F.

And now I have voted!

OK, voted

estimate that we're open for another 10 hours or so

― Vote! In the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Friday, January 19, 2018 7:23 PM (fifty minutes ago)

i'm going to go ahead and submit my albums ballot and hope that this ^ is true

voted. it is what it is.

The midnight EST cutoff is official, but whenever seandalai gets out of bed on Saturday morning is the unofficially official cutoff. I imagine he'll post again at that point.

VOTED.

Included a few write-ins, sorry.

I'm not saying we don't want everyone who wants to vote to go ahead and vote, but I'm laughing at what's at #78 right now.

Voted

included one write in, there was no way I could ignore Girlpool's It Gets More Blue

i'm cramming my ass off for the exam but i will submit by 11:59pm i promise

Voted tracks! Feel bad that the last thing I did on ILM was like, follow last year's tracks rollout, but that's how it goes.

Voted!

I just want to register my disappointment, though - and I know this is my fault for not nominating - that Logic's 1-800-273-8255 and Migos' Bad and Boujee were not choices on the tracks poll. Horrible oversight IMO.

drunkenly did an albums ballot and a bit of a tracks ballot, now i can go to sleep

Didn't the Migos place in last year's? xp

Yeah, #25 for 2016

Submitted with 3 minutes to spare! god i can't wait to look at that ballot in literally a week and go "what was i DOING".

(also i had to write two tracks in - i'm sorry i just had no mental space this past month to think of things that may be forgotten, i just assumed those with better taste than me would have nominated them!)

TYTYTY for running this! :D

Technically, voting is now closed, but if you get a ballot in before seandalai says "stop," it'll be counted.

submitted my albums and tracks ballots separately

anyone still out there?

Ok we're closed! Come back on Monday for the results.

In the meantime, if you are a hard and/or heavy disposition, please checkout out our sister poll The 2017 ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll VOTING + CAMPAIGNING thread! Ballots due Saturday, Feb. 3rd!

voted just night but just realised that i copied my album votes from a personal list and not the proper noms list (had meant to fix that but forgot). i think that most things should match but there may be a couple of things that don't exactly match. sorry, was totally my fault - happy to email a corrected version. my tracks ballot should be fine though

just last

Phew, I managed to get a ballot in just a few hours before it stopped :) Then I fell asleep again.

I noticed that The Clientele - Music From The Age Of Miracles is named incorrectly on the album list (because of me getting the name wrong when I nominated it). I'm not sure it's going to be an issue really, but just in case it does place, it should be Music For The Age Of Miracles.

I didn't get a confirmation email, although admittedly I did vote in the grey zone between JF's close and Seandalai's close. No dice?

Anything submitted before my post was counted.

I didn't get a confirmation either. I didn't even realize how close to the deadline I was voting last night. I've been putting it off because I liked so many albums from this year (a bunch only discovered in the last few weeks). Wasn't happy with my tracks ballot but I was avoiding voting for any from albums I voted for.

the system doesn't send out confirmation emails - I do keep an eye on this thread to make sure everyone who says they voted did get their ballot through

I voted albums only. Did you get my ballot, seandalai?

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in that case: I voted a few days ago

I voted

I voted Thursday night

ILM's Top 77 tracks of 2017