*****THEY SEE ME POLLIN, THEY HATIN: 2007 ILX ALBUMS & TRAX POLL VOTING THREAD*****

sample ballot:

My albums list is ordered, but my tracks list is not.

ALBUMS

!!! - Myth Takes
1900s - Cold & Kind
65DOS - The Destruction Of Small Ideas
A Mountain Of One - Collected Works
A Place To Bury Strangers - st
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Comic Music Journal
Acid Eater - Virulent Fuzz Punk ACID*
Adult. - Why Bother?
Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Go On
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Afrirampo - Suuto Breakor
Against Me! - New Wave*

TRACKS

T.I. - Big Shit Poppin (Do It)
T2 Ft Jodie Aysha - Heartbroken
Take That - Shine*
Talib Kweli Feat. Sizzla - Hostile Gospel Pt. 2 (Deliver Me)
Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain*
Telepathe - Chromes On It
TEPR - Minuit Jacuzzi (Data Remix)
The Pierces - Boring
Thomas Fehlmann - TRNTTF
Timbaland - The Way I Are
Times New Viking - Teenage Lust!
Tinariwen - Matadjem Yinmixan
Tokyo Jihen - Kaban No Nakami
Tokyo Jihen - Metro
Tokyo Jihen - Osca
Tom Middleton - Sea Of Glass
Tony Allen - Ole (Moritz Von Oswald Remix)
T-Pain - Buy U A Drank
Tracey Thorn - It's All True
Trae/Z-Ro - No Help

WORST TRACKS

Mistah F.A.B. - Ghost Ride It*
Mason Vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)*

Also, I'd like to write about Any Winehouse - Rehab if it places.

Are all music poll organizers based in Seattle? first Matos @ Idolator, now musically !

Thanks in advance! I'm excited to see the results...

not a bad list, there

i ignored the nomination process, so most of the stuff i would vote for isn't on there. :(

thx for doing this dude

I'm psyched, thanks Musically.

What if someone submits an ordered list of only 10 albums? Will the top album still receive 20 points?

What if someone submits an unordered list of only 10 albums? Will they still all receive 10 points?

Yes & yes.

Albums

Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss

Songs
Pantha Du Prince - Saturn Strobe
Animal Collective - Fireworks

All I need to say.

could u do more than 10 each?

seems like it?

You can vote for up 20 albums AND 20 tracks. That's 40 total.

Lemme know if I did it wrong, musically.

UGK - Underground Kingz
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English
Battles - Mirrored
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

tracks:

Amerie - Take Control
Dude 'N Nem - Watch My Feet
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around... Comes Around
UGK - International Players Anthem (Feat Outkast)
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Battles - Atlas
Dizzee Rascal - Where's Da G's
Lil' Mama - Lip Gloss
Radiohead - 15 Step
Timbaland - The Way I Are

how did i miss throw some d's do'h

ah i didn't even read i just assumed 10 oh well sorry to all the artists that were left off my HIGHLY IMPORTANT and INFLUENTIAL year-end list

lol i know right was gonna write blurbs then was like "why?"

Not to dissuade anyone else from writing blurbs, just don't think I have anything especially insightful to say.

(Anthony "Cuz," jesus christ, how did I miss that typo? Too late now and it doesn't matter, but that should be Cruz.)

um, don't post your ballots here! That's why I said EMAIL ballot. You can post your ballots after voting is over and results have been posted.

abort abort abort! sorry!

jesus i've really made a mess of this, i just wasn't cut out for the rock criticisin' business.

mod delete that ballot!

lol same here i spose

there you go

you can delete mine too if you want, whatever. i e-mailed mine but i thought we were just posting ballots why because its intrstng.

aw I totally slacked on nominations. No Volcano The Bear, no Faust/NWW, no Fall.

any predictions?

in no order: burial, studio, m.i.a., britney, lcd

i guess it all depends on which sects of ilx vote

i just voted for bland indie sect so better not slack or it's gonna be 2007: the year of animal collective (again).

maybe that will motivate ppls

ohno only 2 t-pain/featuring singles.... gah

Is the ILX comp online?

big big applause for allowing 20 albums/singles instead of the usual 10, musically.

if i have 12 ordered albums nominated, will the one at the bottom still get only one point? how does that all work?

45:33 on tracks and album lists??

I pol'd (during lunch break):

1. Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
2. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexions
3. Blues Control - Puff
4. Blues Control - st
5. Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
6. Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
7. Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
8. Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
9. Cloaks - A Crystal Skull In Peru
10. Angels Of Light - We Are Him
11. Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
12. Cherry Blossoms - Cherry Blossoms
13. Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
14. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
15. James Blackshaw - Cloud Of Unknowing
16. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
17. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
18. Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules
19. Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights
20. Low - Drums And Guns

But my realy real fave album is this:http://www.softabuse.com/images/SAB022.jpg

and best song of year is obvs either +81 or Almost Ready

..The End of Radio & Rhinohead r also sweet.

Toward the end of the nominating process, I used my nominations to cover anything on my year-end list not already covered up through 15th place in albums and 12th place in tracks. When voting in this, I had to go down to #27 on my albums list to get 20 nominated options, and would've had to go down to #40 if I hadn't slipped in one album I hadn't heard in time for my original list a few weeks ago (Amerie), with only 2 more nominated in my top 50. And I had to go to #32 on my singles list to get 20 nominated options. Not saying this to complain or criticize the poll, in a way I like the challenging of whittling down the options, I just want to note an example of the ways the nominations process can shape ballots.

if i have 12 ordered albums nominated, will the one at the bottom still get only one point? how does that all work?

No, if you only nominate two ordered things, they would receive 20 and 19 points respectively. Alternatively, if you nominate fewer than 20 unordered things, they would all receive 10 points regardless (so you can't nominate two things only and bank points to give them both 100 pts).

Made some minor changes to the list of noms...some spelling changes and took 45:33 off the trax list and left it on the albums list. I swear we had the exact same problem last year. I've received lots of ballots so far, keep it up!

To be honest, I'd only vote for two new albums, the "Voice of the Seven Woods" one and the good ol' "ILX Vol 3: ILX Has a Bucket" compilation.

So, go you lot!

Four Seasons/Pilooski - Beggin'

should really be:

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons - "Beggin' (Pilooski re-edit)"

Bump! One week left!

bump

VOTE!

lol i fucking love the title of this thread

Hey musically, how many have voted so far?

I really should get around to this.

can i ask you all to vote for that Fantasia remix, k thanks. for those unawares, click here

There are about 50 so far, there's usually a big rush near the end so I won't be surprised when it jumps. And yes, definitely get around to voting!! Only a few days left!!

I voted for the Fantasia remix (I put the original "When I See U" on my Pazz & Jop and Idolator ballots, and just substituted the remix for it in this poll since that was what was already nominated).

Were there any good emo releases at all that someone might like if they love Decemberunderground, Three Cheers.., and A Fever... and quite like From Under the Cork Tree, Beautiful Lie, and What to Do When You Are Dead but were crushingly disappointed by Black Parade? I'm really hesitant to give Infinity On High a chance.

the deadline is way too early. 2007 isn't going anywhere.

Were there any good emo releases at all that someone might like if they love Decemberunderground, Three Cheers.., and A Fever... and quite like From Under the Cork Tree, Beautiful Lie, and What to Do When You Are Dead but were crushingly disappointed by Black Parade? I'm really hesitant to give Infinity On High a chance.

-- Sundar, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:26 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I liked the Paramore album, Say Anything's In Defense Of The Genre, and Infinity On High, in that order (and I liked Infinity more than the previous Fall Out Boy album, and was also really disappointed by MCR).

Infinity goes in kind of an entirely different direction than The Black Parade. Full out guitar pop rather than classic rock posturing. They aren't really comparable. I like both, but the former moreso.

I've done a preliminary count, and so far there are lots of little ties within the top 50, so please vote if you haven't, as your contribution might shape who makes the short list and who doesn't. Exciting!

Say Anything sounds like it may be good. I guess I'll give Infinity On High a chance but R&B/pop-pop crossover efforts aren't really what I look for when it comes to this stuff. (Maybe I've got the wrong impression of what it sounds like.) I want emo that sounds like, you know, emo, just gothed-out and radio-friendly. Well-crafted high-energy melodic guitar melodrama with strained tenors. Sunny Day Real Estate with stylists and (over-)producers or something. Someone's got to be able to milk the formula successfully for a couple albums!

I did like the Billy Talent album, which wasn't nominated, unfortunately.

(I am more open-minded than that sounds, and I did kind of like "This Ain't a Scene..." I just worry about these bands losing what I found interesting about them when they 'diversify'.)

I wish I'd waited for my Amazon order to turn up before I voted, Spoon would definitely have made my top 3 albums.

I'd say "This Ain't A Scene" and the Jay-Z cameo are kind of red herrings, Sunday, for the most part the album is straight up guitar pop like The Reverend said, with a welcome little bit of piano and bells and whistles here and there.

Decisions being made

fuck, fuck: i forgot all about this. won't get a chance to do it before feb 1 itself: assume that'll be okay? :)

(i remembered, in fact, listening to polly scattergood on the bus on the way home. i'm going to be the ONE-VOTE WONDER KID here, i can tell.)

I'll accept ballots on Feb 1 but not after, so if you want to email me on Friday you can.

excellent. i shall. thank you.

only ONE more day, VOTE!

Album:
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Songs:
Radiohead - Reckoner
Radiohead - 15 Step
Radiohead - All I Need

high on cough syrup right now. accidentally posted unfinished list instead of emailing it. :(

hurrah! done. sent.

done and done. thanks for doing this, musically!

Your email has been successfully sent.

MusicAlly, what's the deadline for today/tonight?

midnight pacific time plz. app. 15 hrs. from now.

musically is based in the pacific time zone - pacific standard time = 8 hours behind GMT

oh shAIT

yeah, I'm not really as picky as that this time around...just send it within 24 hours.

(Sent.)

There are officially twice the number of last year's ballots cast, and I expect the total to go even higher as you lazy bastards tend to send these things in at the last minute. Keep it up...the more, the better.

Voting is closed, thanks to everyone who participated! If you offered to blurb about something, you may or may not receive an email from me in the next few days. I will try to post the results in one week.

damn forgot to blurb

yeah I totally missed the whole thing about blurbs in the announcement, probably would've asterisked all over the place, dag.

It's not too late...if you contact me with the names of the tracks/albums you'd like to write about in the next few days, before I start sending out the requests for blurbs, that will be okay.

Did anyone vote for Kylie - Two Hearts (Studio Version) thinking that it was the single version? I'm thinking definitely yes!!

"Did anyone vote for Kylie - Two Hearts (Studio Version) thinking that it was the single version? I'm thinking definitely yes!!"

I presumed it was the album version and voted for it on that basis. Does the "Studio Version" differ from the album version? Does the album version differ from the single version?

Are you going to treat the different versions as separate entries or will you lump them together, like the SOMB singles poll?

looking forward to results

"Studio" is actually a remix outfit. The album and single version are the same AFAIK. There's really nothing to combine vote-wise as the single edit of the song was not nominated (presumably because people thought it had already been nominated) but I think I will call it just "2 Hearts" and treat it as a combination of votes for the two. To make it fair, I'll go through the rest of the list and do it for any other song pairings.

Did I miss the results, or have they not happened yet?

Did I miss the requests for blurbs, or have they not happened yet?

They are being sent out today. My manager, in his infinite wisdom, has been giving me lots and lots of work, which has effectively messed up my "work on the poll during my free time at work" plan.

HOW DARE HE.

ik,r?