THE 2010 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ - VOTING CLOSED

In a short amount of time, you will be able to vote in the 2010 ILM Albums 'n' Tracks poll. Here is how it will work:

*A ballot will consist of (up to) 25 album votes and (up to) 25 track votes.
*Both categories will be allotted 650 total points each.
*An ordered albums/tracks ballot will count the points down from 50, 48, 46...6, 4, 2.
*An unordered albums/tracks ballot will have 26 points assigned to each vote.
*You MUST copy + paste your votes directly from the final list(s) of nominations, as syntax is of utmost importance.
*We must receive your ballot by midnight EST on Friday, January the 21st. That's 5am on the 22nd in London and 9pm on the 21st in California. If you live outside of that 8-hour umbrella, please consult a global timezone map.

Beginning the 24th, J0rdan will countdown the singles and I'll follow with albums once he finishes. As with the recent 20th century poll, our man behind the curtain is seandalai. Shower him with praise for handling the computation.

The online ballot and master nomination lists will be linked shortly so voting can begin. Thank you for participating!

*excitement*

hoping for a few more curveballs than usual this year, don't disappoint me ILX

This is the link for the Online Ballot. It's self-explanatory, hopefully.

I don't think J0rdan has the tracks nominations list up to date, so I'm going to wait to post the albums list until that happens.

sorry i've been on vacation -- i'll be home @ like 5 est tomorrow & will update the tracks list sometime tomorrow night

Okay, that being the case, here are the links for the nominations spreadsheets again if people want to start sketching out their ballots before casting votes (keep in mind that the tracks list is incomplete):

ALBUMS

TRACKS

We decided we were counting the E-40s as one, right?

so ready for this!

apart from not knowing how the fuck i'll narrow down my trax, as ever

We decided we were counting the E-40s as one, right?

Yeah, I just never fixed it on the spreadsheet. Will be fixed in the final list.

apart from not knowing how the fuck i'll narrow down my trax, as ever

cross-reference yr year-end trax list w/ ILX nominations ballot, vote for yr top 25 tracks that ILX nom'd

or is that underthinking it?

It'd be nice if you could actually scroll down the master lists by clicking the space instead of manually moving the right-side cursor, BTW.

this looks very well organized but can't get to the spreadsheets so can u just post the final list to noms thread?

Matos, what browser are you using? That works fine in Firefox.

When J0rdan gets the tracks list updated, I'm going to take both lists out of the spreadsheets and make a simple webpage with both lists on it.

thx, guys!

perfect, thanks (xp)

Wait wait wait is Chemical Brothers' "Further" seriously not in the "albums" thing? I suppose it's too late to do a write-in, huh?

o wait the word "the" lol nvm

i voted!

Did you guys get my ballot okay?

i voted!

― hann am0n tana (some dude), Monday, January 3, 2011 4:55 PM (16 minutes ago)

Did you guys get my ballot okay?

― Davek (davek_00), Monday, January 3, 2011 4:56 PM (15 minutes ago)

Y'all know the master lists aren't complete yet, right? J0rdan's still got to finalize the tracks list.

Anyway, yeah...we've got 4 ballots in already and everything seems to be working.

Wait wait wait is Chemical Brothers' "Further" seriously not in the "albums" thing? I suppose it's too late to do a write-in, huh?

― cathy opie & anthony (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, January 3, 2011 11:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

good catch, it was nominated by deej 3 weeks ago but is not on the album list (and I'm damn sure voting for it!)

so poll runners plz take note

It is on the list, under THE Chemical Brothers.

i found everything i wanted to vote for just fine, but i mean if you guys don't have everything ready to the point that you're 100% cool with people voting now, why start the thread and post links to vote already?

I started it before I knew J0rdan was out of town. My bad.

eh it's cool. things looked complete enough that i don't imagine whatever's missing will cause a whole lot of trouble for early voters.

so wait, you can do 25 albums AND 25 tracks?

Yep.

for the albums is the formatting supposed to be Artist - Album

because i'm getting weird formatting when i copy directly from the spreadsheet, dunno if thats gonna screw it up or if its what you want

I think Johnny is going to copy it into a different format eventually, if I understood one his comments earlier in this thread. I'm waiting for that.

I don't understand how best to copy from the spreadsheet either. Would all the extra spacing that results be acceptable?

If you're copying directly from the albums spreadsheet, just select all 3 columns (including the em dash), then copy and paste.

Okay, but that looks weird.

alright thanks. and for the E-40 do i just vote for 1 of them and they'll get merged? or should i wait until that's updated on the list

lol, sorry everyone

tracks list is now updated

there were about 30 tracks or so added to the spreadsheet for those that already voted

oh noooo the besnard lakes album wasn't nominated ;________;

is no one going to point out that copy and pasting 50 things individually from a spreadsheet is like an enormous pain in the ass and possibly a waste of time?

or is that "trolling"

It's not that much more time consuming than typing it out or cut-and-pasting from some other source. if you want to "waste" your time on it, do it, if you don't don't.

i already made a list, why can't i just copy and paste that?

voted

because they're using a script to count ballots and it's not smart enough to guess that "Rick Ross - Super High Remix" is the same as "Rick Ross - Super High (Remix)" is the same as "Rick Ross - Super High feat. Curren$y and Wiz Khalifa" etc etc so the idea is to standardize each nom

i'm sure its possible to integrate the nominations list into the voting form but no one's done it yet since its a bit of work

Whiney is right, it's a huge pain in the ass. I don't mind doing it, but it might get less voters than easier to vote for polls.

it was the same system last year iirc except that the spreadsheet lists were posted at the top of this thread too (and there were fewer noms so the lists weren't as massive)

Suggestion:

- number your favourite albums in the noms spreadsheet in column 2 (e.g. 1 to 50)
- order the list by colum 2
- copy and past the entire block into the ballot field

Wish I had seen that suggestion twenty minutes ago :/

stop giving him usernames, share the love

j4gz u gots to check tbrr asap

am doing a 19-page monster :( but ok, this had better not fuck with my ability to discuss chinese architecture

what the hell is tbrr?

travel by railroad

oh okay

i have my hands on my hips and am glaring at k3v and deej like i'm the tiger mother and they came home with Bs

lmao. funniest thing i have read all week

lex wouldn't be the worst stand-up comic, you know

stop acknowledging ilxor

lol yr one to talk k3v?

voted love vs. moneyyyy

― ilxor, Saturday, January 22, 2011 7:59 PM (2 hours ago)

? thought you were a love king guy

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, January 22, 2011 8:01 PM (2 hours ago)

i've played love king a ton this year but i prob played love vs money twice as much in 2009 and would admittedly choose it at gunpoint so

― ilxor, Saturday, January 22, 2011 8:15 PM (1 hour ago)

lvm def more respectable than lk

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, January 22, 2011 9:07 PM (57 minutes ago)

only the nation of britain has a free market system that can correctly correlate sales with quality

'free market' is as BS as 'free to listen to whatever you want' and both come into play in the case of big boi

free market

wow did not mean to post that. im playing with my stylesheet /:

invisiblehand.css

ppl ppl deej didn't really like the big boi, ilxor is a dick, goons essentially made a recommendations list that some of y'all are pissy you didn't get invited into voting for, metal is p lame, wu-tang is for the children, markers 4 president.

A+ post of the year ^^

i would like to mitigate my earlier post about why deej might be viewed as a dick, now that is obvious that we are all pretty much assholes also metal is the bestest and rockingest GOOOOO EAGLES t( o_O t)

i voted.

but um i accidentally forgot to vote for one of my top albums of the year, the-dream

:/

load that in your big boi gun and he'll come in about 23rd alongside fucking four tet

― kate bush fan (acoleuthic), Saturday, January 22, 2011 6:25 PM Bookmark

this goon voted for four tet and not for big boi. but i did vote for it in the goon poll.

knits u a sb

hey, it was one of my 15 favorite rap albums, but not one of my 25 favorite albums overall ¯\(°_o)/¯

four tet album is

http://images.swap.com/images/music/87/908087.jpg

maybe it will be a contender for high billing?

I hope!

No one acknowledged it upthread, but J0rdan mentioned that he and I have decided to count down the top 77 in each category. 100 is too many, 75 too few...so 77 it is (thanks to ciderpress for the idea).

i thought the uk stores post was a joke?

ILX EOYs are always the best lists no matter what...at least in this decade...

it's true that metal tends to place a little lower than it should, but still just the fact that we've got top 50s with both Electrik Red and Sunn0))), or with Badu and Wayne and Earth and Torche, along with the regular ol' P4k stuff, just warms the cockles of my heart.

― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^TRUTH #keepingitpositive

i mean apart from "along with the regular ol' P4k stuff" OBV

idk if anyone who didn't vote in the hh poll cared that much about voting in it (maybe some trad rap ppl?), else they would have contribbed more to the rlvnt threads and then presumably could have voted

the idea of a restricted ballot determined by ilm gatekeeper whiney von wein /is/ pretty gauche and the surprise that ppl took umbrage was pretty lol

then again i guess i might actually investigate some of it if i can get round to d/ling rap albums not by raekwon, ghost or young jeezy :x

my surprise umbrage took on the novel form of SBing everyone involved in that poll. felt pretty good, too--like that nice clean sensation you get after washing you hands with a decent bar of soap (y'know, the kind that doesn't leave any filmy residue, natch).

not that i would have voted had the poll been open to us dum unwashed troglodytes, mind u--it was just the principle of the thing.

think u 'should chill' wrt the ilm shitty mixtape cru, many of whom are good ppl

u kiddin', man, i luv most of 'em!

:-)

\m/ *.* \m/

tommy ioanni, rockin bro

so anyone have any opinions on the results schedule?

17-20-20-20 & skip friday? or 17-15-15-15-15?

Skip Friday. Give everyone a workday to talk about it.

aight, cool

sounds great, thanks for doing a top 77!

Wait where is the part where we write blurbs abt shit we liked

You are free to do that when a track or an album you like comes up in the countdown.

just an fyi i'm probably gonna start this at 11/11:30 est

what is that in proper times?

16/16:30 utc I believe

hyped! and yeah good call on the no-friday thing, esp as that's friday night UK time - constantly refreshing ilx on one's blackberry is nagl at a party or a restaurant :(

it's a disaster for wallflowers though

surely wallflowers go out, they just stay by the walls when they get to the spot

Poll countdown needs twitter updates.

Cosign the countdown schedule, the top 10 coming out on a Friday night in the UK has been a perennial frustration with these things. Should enliven an otherwise dull Monday evening as well.

Tracks! ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

Albums! ILM'S TOP 77 ALBUMS of 2010