ILM 2010 Tracks Poll Ballots/Stats/Banter/Recriminations Thread

Full results are here:

2010 Tracks Poll Results

My ballot

Nachtmystium - No Funeral
Mark McGuire - Brothers (for Matt)
underworld - scribble
Triptykon - Shatter
Oneohtrix Point Never - Pelham Island Road
Oneohtrix Point Never - Where Does Time Go
Woods - Blood Dries Darker
Nina Nastasia - One Way Out
Kvelertak - Mj?d
Kayo Dot - Stained Glass
Isobel Campbell / Mark Lanegan - You Won't Let Me Down Again
Blonde Redhead - Here Sometimes
Autechre - r ess
Underworld - Always Loved a Film
The Bug - Skeng (Autechre Remix)
Diskjokke - Rosenrod
Four Tet - Love Cry
Prins Thomas - Wendy Not Walter
Justin Bieber - U Smile (ambient version)
Floating Points - People's Potential
holy ghost! - say my name
Rangda - Plain of Jars
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Lovesick
Nicolas Jaar - WOUH
Stereolab - Silver Sands (Emperor Machine Mix)

My #1 everyone please check it out and let me know what you think
Nachtmystium - No Funeral

My unweighted ballot:

Big Boi - Shutterbug
Caribou - Sun
CFCF - The River
DJ Nate - Poetry
El Guincho - Bombay
Erykah Badu - Window Seat
Four Tet - Love Cry
Gil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil
James Blake - Footnotes
Janelle Monae - Tightrope (ft. Big Boi)
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
Justin Bieber - U Smile (ambient version)
Katy B - Katy on a Mission
Lil B - Age of Information
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Lovesick
Mano Le Tough - Started Running
Nicolas Jaar - WOUH
School of Seven Bells - Windstorm
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
Shit Robot - Take Em Up
the-dream - abyss
Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy - New Year's Eve's The Loneliest Night Of The Year
Woods - Blood Dries Darker
Zinja Hlungwani - N'wagezani My Love
Zola Jesus - Night"

my ranked ballot (placed tracks bolded):

Girl Unit - Wut
The-Dream - Yamaha
Ciara ft. Ludacris - Ride
Kingdom ft. Shyvonne - Mind Reader
Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint
Cher Lloyd - Turn My Swag On
Gyptian - Hold Yuh
Jam City - Arpjam
Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé - Telephone
Nicki Minaj ft. Eminem - Roman's Revenge
Horror Inc - Aurore
Willow Smith - Whip My Hair
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
Sunny Sweeney - From A Table Away
Kourtney Heart ft. Magnolia Shorty - My Boy
Teairra Mari ft. Mavado - Coins
Nicolas Jaar - A Time For Us
Rich Boy ft. Yelawolf - Go Crazy
Funk Butcher ft. Shea Soul - Pull Me Close
Velour - She Wore Velour
Storm Queen - Look Right Through
Katy B - Katy On A Mission
Creep ft. Romy Madley Croft - Days
White Ring - Ixc999
Yung Humma ft. Flynt Flossy - Lemme Smang It

my tracks ballot -- unranked, songs that didn't go top 77 in bold

Big Boi - Shutterbug
Kanye West - Power
Rick Ross - B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)
Yelawolf - Pop the Trunk
Curren$y - King Kong
The-Dream - Yamaha
Erykah Badu - Out My Mind, Just in Time
Janelle Monae - Cold War
Ciara - Speechless (ft. The-Dream)
Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
alicia keys - try sleeping with a broken heart
Drake - Shut It Down (ft. The-Dream)
Robyn - Dancing on My Own
Underworld - Always Loved a Film
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Lovesick
The Chemical Brothers - Swoon
Alphabeat - Hole in My Heart
justin bieber - baby (ft. ludacris)
Adam Lambert - Whataya Want from Me
Ke$ha - TiK ToK
Four Tet - Angel Echoes
School of Seven Bells - I L U
Crystal Castles - Not in Love (ft. Robert Smith)
Zola Jesus - Sea Talk
Taylor Swift - Mine

listening to the girl unit song now. never heard it. pretty cool. vocals remind me of t.a.t.u.!

i don't like that ariel pink song at all. blah. that song by the books should be in the ariel pink spot.

saw ariel pink on jimmy fallon and it made me cringe so hard. some people should stay in the studio. or the bedroom. or wherever he makes music.

AG: Given the results my biggest regret is not voting for "Brothers (for Matt)" and getting it into the top 77, but it's not distinct enough from the album in my mind. If "Brain Strom (for Erin)" had been nommed I would have voted for it.

love this girl unit youtube comment:

This is that kinda song I'm listening to at 2 in the morning pulling into a Taco Bell, and you KNOW I'm gonna be hungry

InterpolFL 2 days ago

Haven't saved my ballot, but my number one, Perfume, watch it, got three votes and ended up at #157. Had hoped for a few more votes and a top 100 ranking. With a bit more exposure I think it could have... but what can you do? Asian pop not quite there yet. Second highest song with 3 votes, though.

What's the 'diversity' score thing and why is it one out of only two with 1.00 ?

My ranked ballot, with bolded tracks that didn't place

The Naked and Famous - Young Blood
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
Robyn - Dancing on My Own
School of Seven Bells - I L U
Niki & The Dove - Mother Protect
ke$ha - we r who we r
Sky Ferreira - One
Crystal Castles - Not in Love (ft. Robert Smith)
Marina & The Diamonds - Shampain
Rihanna - Rude Boy
Jamie Woon - Night Air
lady gaga - telephone (ft. beyonce)
Kim Ann Foxman - Creature/Faze Action Remix
Kanye West - Power
Ke$ha - TiK ToK
Jazmine Sullivan - Don't Make Me Wait
hot chip - i feel better
Gayngs - Gaudy Side of Town
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round
Zola Jesus - Sea Talk
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II
Robyn - Hang With Me
Janelle Monae - Cold War
Jackie Chain - Haze
Gorillaz - Stylo

Unweighted Ballot (ranked tracks bolded)

Patrick Wolf - Time of My Life
Blue Hawaii - Blue Gowns
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
Robyn - Dancing on My Own
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
katy perry - teenage dream
The-Dream - Yamaha
Lil B - Age of Information
cassie - skydiver
Teengirl Fantasy - Dancing in Slow Motion (ft. Shannon Funchess)
alicia keys - try sleeping with a broken heart
Drake - Fireworks (Deadboy Slo Mo House Edit)
Girl Unit - Wut
Ciara - Gimmie Dat
jacques greene - (baby i don't know) what you want
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
The Tallest Man on Earth - King of Spain
willow smith - whip my hair
Crystal Castles - Not in Love (ft. Robert Smith)
trey songz - bottoms up (ft. nicki minaj)
Jazmine Sullivan - Luv Back
Janelle Monae - Tightrope (ft. Big Boi)
Drake - Shut It Down (ft. The-Dream)
Broken Social Scene - All to All

hey seandalai: for weighted ballots w/ only 15 tracks (& no albums) what would the points awarded been like?

Unweighted ballot (poll placing in parens):

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round (3)
Best Coast - Boyfriend (91)
Big Boi - Shutterbug (7)
Caribou - Odessa (44)
Corinne Bailey Rae - Paris Nights New York Mornings (387)
Curren$y - Roasted (ft.Trademark and Young Roddy) (556)
Crystal Castles - Not in Love (ft. Robert Smith) (12)
Deerhunter - Helicopter (148)
Delorean - Grow (256)
El Guincho - Bombay (43)
Erykah Badu - Window Seat (18)
Janelle Monae - Tightrope (ft. Big Boi) (8)
Javiera Mena - Hasta La Verdad (63)
katy perry - teenage dream (16)
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (53)
lady gaga - telephone (ft. beyonce) (41)
MIA - XXXO (79)
Pantha du Prince - Stick to My Side (ft. Noah Lennox) (321)
Rihanna - Rude Boy (9)
Robyn - Dancing on My Own (6)
Sky Ferreira - One (98)
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill (13)
The-Dream - Yamaha (4)
Uffie - MCs Can Kiss (315)
Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow (35)

could someone send me my ballot?

btw i thought this was a great poll, i think i voted for every song in the top 5, kinda weird how my tastes have been formed by lurking ilx for like 3 months. im not complaining tho. lotta thanks to people making this poll + people posting about awesome songs year round. id post more but i just dont feel like i have a lot to add

It would start at 50 like normal and go down in increments of two. xps

alright i will reveal my ballot this year, it's ranked:

Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In Da Paint
rick ross - super high remix (remix ft. wiz khalifa & curren$y)
Beach House - Zebra
Earl Sweatshirt - Earl
lil boosie - top to the bottom
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II
Kanye West - Runaway (ft. Pusha T)
Sade - Soldier of Love
Andre Nickatina & The Jacka - My Middle Name is Crime
yung humma - lemme smang it (ft. flynt flossy)
Deerhunter - Helicopter
Curren$y - King Kong
John Boy YaBoy - Let That Boy Cook
Yelawolf - Box Chevy (ft. Rittz The Rapper)
Gucci Mane - Lemonade
Caribou - Odessa
Big Boi - Hustle Blood (ft. Jamie Foxx)
Jamie Woon - Night Air
Diddy-Dirty Money - Hello Good Morning
These New Puritans - We Want War
Janelle Monae - Tightrope (ft. Big Boi)
Wavves - King of the Beach
Domo Genesis - Super Market feat. Ace Creator
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Star Of Venus
Rihanna - Rude Boy

was not expecting THAT many of my picks to place oh god i'm turning into an ILX hivemind :(

ranked ballot, stuff that didn't place in bold:

Reading Rainbow - Wasting Time
The Fresh & Onlys - Waterfall
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Star Of Venus
Kvelertak - Mjød
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean
Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
Triptykon - Shatter
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
Roach Gigz - Goomba Pimpin'
The Books - A Cold Freezin' Night
Sade - Soldier of Love
Swans - No Words/No Thoughts
M.I.A. - Born Free
Rush - Caravan
Gyptian - Hold Yuh

I was the only one who voted for my #1 song.

did anyone else order their ballots backwards because of this:

"An ordered albums/tracks ballot will count the points down from 50, 48, 46...6, 4, 2."

because i think my vote might have made a difference had i been wise enough to realize i had it wrong.

two other votes for cher lloyd <3 <3 <3 <3

bort, I just sent your ballot.

Just posted this explanation of the stats in the other thread:

Enthusiasm = (points total)/(#votes) - 26

So if it's negative then that track's voters were less enthusiastic than average (tended to put in in the lower half of their ballot)

Diversity = (number of unique tracks on all ballots for that track)/(number of tracks on all ballots for that track)

In general, diversity will go down as the number of votes goes up as there's more chance of overlap. But if a track is less diverse than its neighbours (e.g. Rick Ross) then its voters had more homogeneous ballots.

Once the albums poll is finished I'll roll out fun voter stats.

can you send mine as well Johnny?

bort, I just sent your ballot

― Johnny Fever, donderdag 27 januari 2011 21:17 (27 seconds ago) Bookmark

thanks :)

Brainwasher, sent.

ranked

Robyn - Dancing on My Own
School of Seven Bells - ILU
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II
Gorillaz - Empire Ants
Maserati - Pyramid of the Moon (The Field remix)
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Time of the Assassins
Big Boi - Fo Yo Sorrows (ft. George Clinton, Too $hort & Sam Chris)
Gayngs - Cry
Matthew Dear - You Put a Smell on Me
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change
Azari & III - Reckless w/ Yr Love (Tensnake remix)
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
Isolee - The Fantastic Researches of Yushin Maru
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Die Antwoord - Beat Boy
The Black Keys - Tighten Up
Rick Ross ft. Styles P - B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)
Willow Smith - Whip My Hair
Ariel Pink - Round & Round
Joker - Tron
Twin Shadow - Slow
MIA - XXXO
Erykah Badu - Window Seat
James Blake - CMYK
Kanye West - Runaway (feat. Pusha T)

two other votes for cher lloyd <3 <3 <3 <3

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Thursday, January 27, 2011 9:17 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i was one! (i think)

Underlined if I was the only voter (there are, surprisingly, only two of these, and they're both British and proggy, haha). BTW, those who gave 1, 2 and 3 respectively to Blackjazz Deathtrance, Weather Report 2 and The Body Is True, u fam. Other two Dominique Leone voters are fam as well. And someone gave that Titus Andronicus song I nominated their #1! :D

Working For A Nuclear Free City - Do A Stunt
The Fall - Weather Report 2
Dominique Leone - 40/60
Shining - Blackjazz Deathtrance
Extra Life - The Body Is True
These New Puritans - We Want War
Third Eye Foundation - Closure
Justin Bieber - U Smile (ambient version)
Kayo Dot - Stained Glass
Brendan Perry - Utopia
Oceansize - Part Cardiac
The Knife - Colouring Of Pigeons
Swans - No Words/No Thoughts
Shit & Shine - Bass Puppy
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
Titus Andronicus - Four Score And Seven
Caribou - Odessa
The Fall - Bury Pts. 1 + 3
Marina & The Diamonds - Shampain
School Of Seven Bells - Heart Is Strange
The Chap - We Work In Bars
Pantha du Prince - Stick to My Side (ft. Noah Lennox)

btw Pfunkboy I listened to that Nachmystium before voting and I felt it veered a bit too far towards Pink Floyd-ish soft-metal (a blacker Porcupine Tree, lol) for my tastes (and I can dig that sorta shit, but more when it's done fully committing to the swoon and battered beauty that, say, Anathema evince). nice synths and it kicks a bit of ass but not quite there for me, soz - caught a bit between stalls

i was the only funk butcher voter? all the uk funky heads could get "it's what you do" into the 77 but couldn't vote for "pull me close"? smh

so seandalai, if I just sent a 15-song ballot then 1st song woulda been 50, 2nd = 48...

(I imagine you've prolley gone over this a thousand times, I'm sorry)

Yeah, you're on target.

Pfunkboy, listening again it grew on me though! :) Can get with that shit, really.

HERE is my #1; feedback would be appreciated, especially if it is mystified abuse

lex I really liked Lights Out & It's What You Do, but Pull Me Close didn't quite catch me...

yeah i guess i like "pull me close" better because it's dutty rather than pretty like "it's what you do"

abcsfk - just listened to that perfume track you posted. It's great!!

I liked WFANFC more when they sounded like Stone Roses.

LJ - never heard that song before but liked it more than anything that made the top 10.

'pull me close' is really good but for some reason I didn't have an mp3 of it so could only listen to it when I remembered to punch it into utube so didn't really 'live' with the track. But you're right, totally deserved to make it top 77.

Rihanna - Rude Boy
Gucci Mane - Lemonade
My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na
Sade - Soldier of Love
katy perry - teenage dream
ludacris - how low
young jeezy - lose my mind (ft. plies)
Lloyd Banks - Beamer, Benz or Bentley (ft. Juelz Santana)
Linkin Park - Waiting For The End
Ciara - Gimmie Dat
Train - Hey, Soul Sister
Neon Trees - Animal
John Mayer - Half Of My Heart (ft. Taylor Swift)
Paramore - The Only Exception
Erykah Badu - Window Seat
Katy Perry - California Gurls (ft. Snoop Dogg)
j. cole - who dat
Fat Joe - (Ha Ha) Slow Down (ft. Young Jeezy)
Keri Hilson - Pretty Girl Rock
Lady Gaga - Alejandro
Pitbull - Watagatapitusberry (ft. Lil Jon, Black Point, & Sensato)
B.o.B. - Nothin' on You
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
ne-yo - one in a million
Cypress Hill ft. Pitbull & Marc Anthony - Armada Latina

Lj that is great. I was surprised that I clicked on it and running time was sub 3 mins!! Had to check it was you that posted it!

ranked ballot btw (xpost)

only thing better than a prog song = a prog song that packs it all into 3 minutes innit

ppl shd post more links to their #1s that didn't chart, EZ am looking at you

Ordered ballot with placing:

Beach House - Norway (80)
Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel (269)
iamamiwhoami - o (405)
The Knife - Colouring of Pigeons (67)
Gil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil (58)
We Love - No Plane, No Train (164)
Delphic - Doubt (467)
The Amplifettes - Somebody New (Claes Rosen Vocal Remix) (480)
Beach House - Zebra (52)
zola jesus - poor animal (364)
These New Puritans - We Want War (33)
Trentemøller - Sycamore Feeling (539)
Mason - Boadicea (556)
School of Seven Bells - I L U (14)
Sade - Soldier of Love (23)
Glasser - Apply (120)
Goldfrapp - Rocket (Richard X One Zero Remix) (352)
Hot Chip - I Feel Better (116)
Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me (112)
yolanda be cool and dcup - we no speak americano (511)
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill (13)
Warpaint - Undertow (107)
Crystal Castles - Celestica (74)
Glasser - Mirrorage (78)
Zola Jesus - Night (94)

AG - Nachtmystium: I really liked the keyboards/synths in the song, but really disliked the vocals.

did you guys save these your hard-drives or is there some way to retrieve them?

Here's my #1. Listened to it about a zillion times last year, but I think I was the only person who voted for it.

The Naked and Famous - Young Blood

pandemic -- sweet

did you guys save these your hard-drives or is there some way to retrieve them?

Had mine in a Google Doc.

Mine:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round
Crystal Castles - Celestica
Gayngs - Gaudy Side of Town
Goldfrapp - Alive
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Janelle Monae - Tightrope (ft. Big Boi)
Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
Joker - Tron
Kanye West - All of the Lights
Kanye West - Monster (ft. Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver)
Laetitia Sadier - By The Sea
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change
m.i.a. - born free
MIA - XXXO
Of Montreal - Famine Affair
Ramadanman - Don’t Change For Me
Rihanna - Rude Boy
Rush - BU2B
Rush - Caravan
sleigh bells - infinity guitars
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
Stereolab - Silver Sands (Emperor Machine Mix)
The-Dream - Yamaha
These New Puritans - We Want War

"Try Sleeping" was out and charting well by the end of '09, at least in the U.S., never even would've occurred to me to think of it as a 2010 song before I saw it on some ballots here

Nice to see a few other votes for You Know What it is though, that song just gets me so amped, plus Flockavelli foreshadowing!

― See Gucci that's my Gucci that's my Gucci (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, January 28, 2011 10:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I voted this. Was actually the first time I'd (knowingly) heard Waka. I could have easily gone with half a dozen off of Mr Zone 6 which was my first experience with Gucci tbh. I'm really not up with rap but bookmarks in the new rolling gun shots thread should hopefully help fix this.

Not heard Madvillainy straight thru, altho I do have it! Oughta correct that flaw soon - I like what I've heard...

u will dig dude

lol maybe somebody could email me my ballot bc i seem to have changed it since whatever i posted bc that anonym track i claimed i voted for (which is an insane jam and im pretty sure would have turned me gay if i wasnt already) is not in the noms

Ok, here's a first rollout of user stats, including:

Hivemind Score: the average number of points given to the tracks on your ballot (Winner: jon/via/chicago)
Fuxxor Quotient: how your tracks did in the Pitchfork Top 100 (Winner: jon/via/chicago again)
Antifuxxor Ratio: the ratio of Hivemind Score to Fuxxor Quotient, this measures the degree to which you voted for tracks that ILM loves and Pitchfork doesn't. (Winners: Jeff W, emil.y, glenn mcdonald, Lamp and a passing spacecadet, all with infinite AntiFR!)
Loneliness: the proportion of tracks on your ballot that nobody else voted for (Winner: V79)

If anyone has suggestions about other fun analytics, shout!

Oh, and you get to find out whose ballot was most similar to yours.

You can also sort by the various stats via the tabs at the bottom (not sure how obvious this is).

lol @ reposting p4k <3 as the key to ilm supremacy. gonna find a way to get the forkast to automatically repost as my ilm posts.

like i guess ill get ilxor-style clowned but u r all gagging for it clearly.

Lex's fuxxor quotient is higher than mine!

I am infinitely antifuxxor! Though I think it's more likely that I'm actually that terrible thing of indier-than-thou. Still, ya boo sucks to Pitchfork.

My nearest neighbour is rockapads. High fives to you, rockapads.

disappointed i am nobody elses neighbour also lol that my nearest neighbor mike t dive also voted for some emetic calibre shit like scissors sisters

How did you calculate top neighbor?

11th least popular feels about right but surprised at the (relatively) low # of "only vote" trax

Similarity(user1,user2) = (# of tracks in common)/(# of tracks voted for by either user1 or user2)

It's basically this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index

I ignored the order of ranked ballots, partly because not all ballots are ranked.

Really good work, seandalai.

wow somebody else voted for Pissed Jeans <3

Jaccard is simple and easy. The obvious weakness of it is that it doesn't take the popularity of the tracks into account, so two people who share 5 very popular tracks will seem more similar than two people who have 4 tracks for which they are the only two voters. It's also symmetric, which in the case of voters with very different vote counts isn't ideal.

My alternative is the Empath Coefficient, and for voter similarity you can go one step fancier still and use the weighted version, which works like this:

First, calculate a popularity weight for every track, by doing

1-N/T

where N is the number of voters for that track, and T is the number of total voters (in other words, the fraction of voters who didn't vote for this track)

Then do, for each pair of voters A & B that share a track (or album, or whatever):

4V(1-M/(V+1))/(A+3B)

V: sum of the popularity weights of the shared tracks
M: minimum overlap (in a set this small, try 2)
A: number of things A voted for
B: number of things B voted for

This is an asymmetric score, so you do it for each pair directionally, not once for every two connected voters.

Not that you asked, of course!

Thanks for the explanation! I was going to say something about tf-idf but I see you mention that in your blog post. Obviously Jaccard and Empath are answering different questions, I went with the idea that if your ballot is 75% hivemind approved and 25% weirdo folk then your most similar voter might be someone who is 75% hivemind and 25% tru kvlt metal whereas you'd pick up the voter who is 75% weirdo folk and 25% ping pong noises. I'll add in the Empathy-based neighbours when I do the next batch of stats.

I guess my real justification for ignoring the weighting information is that if two voters have multiple lower-ranked choices they're more similar than two voters with the same #1 but everything else different. Selecting a track out of the hundreds of nominations in the first place seems a far more weighty endorsement than ranking one such pick above another.

Right, I ignore the ranking on the individual ballots, too, for exactly the reason you mention. The weighting in my weighted version is, as you say, to make weirder things be more strongly indicative of similarity than popular things, because sharing two unpopular things is less likely. But note that with 113 voters, and the winning track getting just 31 votes, the weights are only going to range from .726 (for "Wut") to .938 ("Ass on the Floor") to .982 (anything with just 2 votes), so most of the time the extra-fancy math is just going to shuffle the order of some similarities that were already close.

Matt dc is my top neighbour, apparently

abcfsk, my girlfriend now loves that Perfume song! Not sure she could have been convinced to cast a ballot, though.

great stats, thanks!

I hate the people responsible for getting me addicted to "On a Mission." I listened to that maybe ten times last night when I needed to go to bed.

the thread got me into Crystal Castles and Sleigh Bells both

wow somebody else voted for Pissed Jeans <3

― sleeve, Friday, January 28, 2011 6:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

it's-a me, mario

Umm... This isn't my ballot. I lost it, but this is my last draft:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Can't Hear My Eyes
Autechre - r ess
Big Boi - Shutterbug
Caribou - Odessa
Darkstar - Gold
E-40 - Lightweight Jammin' (ft. Clyde Carson and Husalah)
Erykah Badu - Window Seat
Games - Planet Party
Gil Scott-Heron - Me and the Devil
Girl Unit - Wut
James Blake - CMYK
james blake - limit to your love
Jamie Woon - Night Air
Janelle Monae - Oh, Maker
Katy B - Katy On A Mission
Kenton Slash Demon - Sun
Nicolas Jaar - Shakedown
Salem - King Night
Shining - Blackjazz Deathtrance
Simon Hinter - Take Care
Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em
Squarepusher presents Shobaleader One - Cryptic Motion (Mr. Oizo Mix)
Tensnake - Coma Cat
The Books - A Cold Freezin' Night
Tinie Tempah - Pass Out
Yelawolf - Stage Lights

nice non-ballot! yr track mentions from darkstar, shining, autechre, the books all could use more love

def need 2 check out the latter 2 of those, and shining was my #4 (anyone with a remote interest in metal, avant-jazz or industrial rock needs to hear that)

^^ will def. second the love for shining, that album's fantastic

Shining basically reminded me of why I love metal all over again.

Hopefully there'll be some mention in the albums poll

that autechre track is lovely btw, sounds like it's emerging from a peat bog in the best possible way

The whole album is wonderful. Although the track titles seem to be so deliberately off-putting I tend to ignore individual tunes and just wack the whole thing on, or play it on random with move of ten mixed in. D sho Qub or whatever is my fave, but not nommed.

Great poll, great work with the jpegs! Thanks guys! Though now I am OBSESSED with "Wut" and "Coma Cat".

I had never even heard of the makers of "Wut" let alone the song...on the pulse of modern music as always...

Love that Invisible Light made it into the top 20. Unsurprisingly it doesn't hold together live but they out-Frankie Frankie in both concept and execution in the last half of the track--the production is deep and complex but not confusing or overly maximalist. An amazing end to an album that is often a bit too slight for its own good.

Arcade Fire - surprised that something so Animal Collective-y made it into the top 5. "City With No Children" was my favorite track off that album.

Dance Yrself Clean - not as good as "Home" but not a bad selection.

Crystal Castles - also not aware this existed, sad.

Tightrope - very surprised this didn't rank higher--thought it might unify a few different segments of the ILM voting base. Maybe lacking a bit of punch somehow.

Rude Boy and the rest of Rihanna's big tracks this year were just sad, dour stuff.

also voted for Round & Round, Rill Rill (reluctantly) and I L U (turned out to be a productive last minute change on the 7 Bells vote). Glad to see three other people who liked Kylie's "Get Outta My Way".

And the Fresh & Onlys' "Waterfall"! "Desire Lines" should have gotten some more love.

unraked - bold didn't make it.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round
Beach House - Zebra
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Far East Movement - Like a G6 (sorry)
Four Tet - Love Cry
Grum - Turn It Up
Janelle Monae - Tightrope (ft. Big Boi)
Joy Orbison - BRKLN CLLN
Ke$ha - TiK ToK
Kisses - Midnight Lover
Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Lovesick
New Pornographers - Crash Years
Nicolas Jaar - WOUH
Ost & Kjex - Continental Lover
Robyn - Hang With Me
Sambassadeur - Days
School of Seven Bells - I L U
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
Shit Robot - I Got a Feeling
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
Stereolab - Silver Sands (Emperor Machine Mix)
Tensnake - Coma Cat
The Fresh & Onlys - Waterfall
The Radio Dept. - Heaven's on Fire

If I could have people listen to ONE track from the ones that didn't make the top 77, it would be Kisses' Midnight Lover. The rest of the album is sketchy at best but love the production on this track - hazy chillwave beat with some pep, hyper-present guitar hook on top of it, and heavily but not distractingly accented vocals. The YouTube sound quality is shitty but you can get the idea: youtube link

Arcade Fire - surprised that something so Animal Collective-y made it into the top 5. "City With No Children" was my favorite track off that album.

please dont ever compare anco to arcade fire again, kthx

well, apropos of something someone said elsewhere, both will apeal if you:

a) take NPR or Pitchfork's music recommendations seriously
b) enjoy boring indie bands like the grizzly bear, deerhunter, yeasayer, etc.
c) you're white btw

booooom

got me hah

lol but no. Well (c) I guess.

lol i feel like a big part of that straw-contingent would b p freaked out by say here comes the indian

By the way, who else voted for Tokyo Jihen's "Zettaizetsumei"?

^^ i did, i was youtubing tracks i hadn't heard on the noms list and i loved this one. d/l'd "sports" and i've been enjoying the hell out of it for a few weeks now, it's my first exposure to tokyo jihen/ringo shiina.

Oh wow (this is Tokyo Jihen day on ILM). Sports is actually not one of their better albums, imo. I would try to check out Adult and Kyōiku too (and then Variety, though no hurry there, since it's kind of weak.) Kyōiku sounds oddly demo-ish, but the material is generally extremely good; though there are better realization to be heard, in some cases, in live performance, especially on the Dynamite Out! DVD. (You can easily find some of this on youtube.) As for solo Shiina Ringo, the first three albums are all well worth hearing: Muzai Moratorium, Shouso Strip, and Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana. The last is her ultimate masterpiece. (Yeah, saying that has become a cliche, but I think it's true. It's a very distinctive album at the very least.)

(I have come around to liking some of those Sports songs more though based on the live performances on them on Ultra C--not that I've actually seen the full DVD, but there's a lot on youtube. I think maybe they should have let it cook longer, or something.)