OFFICIAL ILM 2005 POLL You know you want to...

Top 1000 Albums of 2005 [by rateyourmusic.com users]
http://rateyourmusic.com/top_albums/year_is_2005_and_stop_is_1000

Haha, I was reading your guidelines thinking "hmm, this sounds really familiar..."

http://www.soundopinions.net/forum/

2005 OFFICIAL ALBUMS POLL THREAD, The Thread
http://www.soundopinions.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14436

so - no nominations, we just send our lists straight to you?

hurray!!!

(my lists will be very short, due to not having bought very much)

last year in total over 450 albums got at least 1 vote. that is the reality of the fragmentation of modern music culture[s].

strange.

GDB -- do you think maybe it's because lots of ILXors are already putting together lists for other sites/publications?

I never really understood that, though, since if anything already having a year-end list prepared for another source should make it easier to vote in this since it just takes a simple C&P.

It baffles me how people have such reluctance to make lists. Then again I'm a loser who spends the entire year compiling the songs and records I really love and pruning it so by like November I'm good to go when editors and ILM come calling for a top 20 or a top 25 ot a top 10.

I think there may be a reluctance to enter this because when it's compared to NME/Q/insert publication it may not be as 'special' as you imagine an ILM list to be.

As for songs:
1. Precious - Depeche Mode
2. What If - Coldplay
3. Dom Som Försvann - Kent
4. A Certain Softness - Paul McCartney
5. Suffer Well - Depeche Mode
6. Got None - Robert Post
7. Hold On - Magnet
8. Riding To Vanity Fair - Paul McCartney
9. This Never Happened Before - Paul McCartney
10.Fix You - Coldplay
11.Lilian - Depeche Mode
12.Sorry - Madonna
13.Wires - Athlete
14.Speed Of Sound - Coldplay
15.At The Mercy - Paul McCartney
16.Future Lovers - Madonna
17.Talk - Coldplay
18.What Else Is There - Röyksopp
19.Eleanor Put Your Boots On - Franz Ferdinand
20.Jenny Wren - Paul McCartney

btw Geir, who is Son of a Plumber?

If you're not sure if it's eligible check out last years ILM Top tracks of 2004.

Despite readin through the rules, I'm still a bit confused. The MIA album was this year, wasn't it? So I could vote for any track off Arular, including Galang, even though that came third last year when it was a single?

Also, there are very few albums that I would want to vote for, and the difference between how much I like my first choice and how much I like my third choice is massive - could I, for example, put nothing in third to fifteenth places, and then chose a sixteenth place (so that my third choice only gets 5 points instead of 18), or would that be a bit mental?

As for leaving a big gap between your choices, yes that would be mental, but if you want to do it that way, that's your choice.

http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-john_acquaviva_and_madox-bling__side_b_madox_funk_steady_dub

http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-paolo_mojo-motor_strings_jamie_anderson_remix

http://media.putfile.com/sample-of--1-up---yeahdancetomyrecordbitchmp3

hey ho. see, already i feel i'm not being true to myself. THAT'S why i never do these things. i remember now :)

i think my lists will be among the last to arrive with you, billy.

-- Billy Dods

This is exactly how I feel and came up with a similar idea. Always around the beginning of December I almost only play stuff from that calendar year, hopefully just to make the most actuate list that I can but always still miss stuff.

So this year I'm doing 'Year In Review' on my other music message board that I post at. These albums aren't obscure records or the more popular ones from 2005. These are albums that might get overlooked unless you remember to play them again for list making time or (my real hope) convince someone to seek out new music before the end of the year. I make my initial post with a blurb from somewhere else and then the members of the board weigh in with their thoughts of that album. Seems to be working, for instance M83 was today’s topic (rather weak response to this one), with members liking it but haven't played it in ages and will revisit. Not going to try and incorporate that idea on this ILM thread but thought it was strange that we had a similar idea.

Since this is also the links thread (our 'Best Album Of' threads are kicking some major ass): http://www.obner.org/bb/

Obner's 2005 results are not due until January 15, which is perfect for me because I never have it done by the end of the year. Always need an extra sometimes two week to finalize my list and since I don't have a deadline the end of December doesn't really mean anything for finalizing that years music. I will get this off to you on time but my official list will probably have some slight modifications.

also sinlgles/songs recommendations anyone?

ill pimp a few tracks and albums now.
tracks: amerie "one thing" siik mix, royksopp "what else is there" (thin white duke mix), mariah carey "we belong together", daft punk technologic (BJaxx Mix), Youngbloodz "Presidential Shit, Girls Aloud "Waiting" and "Watch Me Go", Kelley Polar - "tyrangulila", The Chap "Auto Where To", Jackson "Utopia, Animal Collective "Banshee Beat"...

albums: Teh Chap - Ham, Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue, DJ Muggs v. GZA - Grandmasters, Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs, Prefuse 73 Reads The Books

if anyone wants any of those tracks id be happy to ysi them if ive still got them on my hard drive.

Fannypack "Seven One Eight"
Ashlee Simpson "I Am Me"
M.I.A. "Bingo"
Living Things "March in Daylight"
Fannypack f. Mr. Vegas "Fire Fire"
Gore Gore Girls "All Grown Up"
L.C.D. Soundsystem "Movement"
Bobby Bare "Are You Sincere?"
Gene Watson "You Could Know as Much"
Gary Allan "Tough All Over"
Jamie O'Neal "Devil on the Left"
The Mighty Jeremiahs "John the Revelator"
Marion Raven "Break You"
Shooter Jennings "Daddy's Farm"
Lee Ann Womack "There's More Where that Came From"
The Kentucky Headhunters "I'm Down"
Brie Larson "Life After You"

I just heard this for the first (and second, and third...) time last night and I think it'sthe best thing evah track of the year: Hell - Follow You (Dominik Eulberg Mix). Wow.

Doom-laden vocal track of the year: Lopazz Blood (released Dec 04 is that allowed?)

Why wasn't I at G.A.Y. on Saturday night I just saw the photos in the Sun album of the year: Girls Aloud.

Actually, I haven't listened to many albums this year beyond the obvious ones, so get "pimping".

ps LCD -Movement came out as a single too early in 2004 to qualify, I reckon.

I'll be emailing those kind souls who've volunteered to say a few words and will probably contact a few others who haven't volunteered in the next day or two.

i have to say, my lists are a bit odd: almost exactly what you'd expect from a 30-year-old erstwhile indie kid and synthpop fetishist with a love of anthemic rock, except with a touch of grinding prog-metal and some, er, "post-folk".

anyway. e-mail sent. 'rah. now for that wank pie.

Grimly, what's yr email address as I haven't received anything from the simonmail~btinternet address?

As I may be a little hungover tomorrow, and indeed the next day I won't be scrutinising the times they arrive too closely. So briefly thanks to all who've responded so far either with lists or offers to write and I hope you all have a peaceful, joyous night tonight.

Tonight I was at a New Year's party full of meta-goths (I don't know what to call them anymore, they're not so anachronistic anymore, they look more like sleek characters from a William Gibson novel like Idoru). A band was playing loud originals that sounded vaguely like Depeche Mode, and I felt nothing, even during an odd cover of Phil Collins' "In The Air." But as soon as they stopped and the DJ started playing early 80s era New Order and such, the party really came alive. People danced, I danced, guzzled champagne, made out with my girlfriend, and felt waves of memories wash over me associated with each song. I'm not a huge nostalgist -- I spend most of my time listening to new music. But I wonder, will songs this year, and last year, and next year, have the same impact on me in the next ten, twenty, thirty years?

I guess there's a "sweet spot" of time between the age of about twelve and twenty two when everything is more dramatically burned into your brain and music is the soundtrack of the firsts in your life. Some of the songs we somewhat calculatingly jockey into positions to make some master cannon list may or may not be the soundtrack of some 15 year-old's life right now. Are they as good?

I dunno. I'm getting old. I'm drunk. Happy new year!

Thanks to all who've responded. All being well I hope to start the reveal at the beginning of next week.

I'll more than likely start with the tracks tomorrow.

Bumpity bump. A little over THREE days to go. Currently a little over 360 albums and 410 tracks voted for.

What were the final totals when the poll closed?