ILM 2010 Albums Poll Ballot+Stats Fiesta

Full results

As in the tracks poll, we have Enthusiasm and Diversity scores for each album:

Enthusiasm = average points/ballot - 26
If an album has negative Enthusiasm, this means it was typically in the lower half of ballots

Diversity = (number of albums with which the album shared a ballot)/(number of ballots it was on)
If an album has lower Diversity than its neighbours in the ranking (e.g. Ciara), the ballots voting for it were more homogeneous. Diversity will be lower for higher-ranked ballots (more chance of overlap) so comparing #1 with #50 doesn't tell you anything interesting.

Voter stats:

(note that none of the stats pay attention to whether your ballot was weighted or not, or how you ranked the albums on it)

Hivemind Score: Average overall point score for the albums on your ballot
Fuxxor Quotient: Average "score" in the Pitchfork Top 50 for the albums on your ballot
Antifuxxor Ratio = (HS/FQ): if this is high, then your taste is much closer to ILM's than to Pitchfork
Loneliness = the proportion of albums on your ballot that nobody else voted for ;_;

ah man, if Belle & Sebastian had made it...

my ranked ballot. albums that DIDN'T place bolded.

Ciara - Basic Instinct
Diddy/Dirty Money - Last Train To Paris
The-Dream - Love King
Jazmine Sullivan - Love Me Back
Sade - Soldier Of Love
K. Michelle - What's The 901?
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik
Glasser - Ring
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh)
Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have
Fantasia - Back To Me
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
Quadron - Quadron
The Jacka & Laroo - Neva Be The Same (20 Bricks: Season One)
Guido - Anidea
DJ Nate - Da Trak Genious
We Love - We Love
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
R. Kelly - Love Letter
Kelis - Flesh Tone
School Of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster

my list, formatted all weird the way it was in the voting spreadsheet, ranked with albums that didn't make it in bold (note that my #1 was one of five #1s that did not make the top 77):

Butch Walker & The Black Widows — I Liked it Better When You Had No Heart
Diddy-Dirty Money — Last Train to Paris
My Chemical Romance — Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
Jazmine Sullivan — Love Me Back
Nice Nice — Extra Wow
Styles P. & DJ Green Lantern — The Green Ghost Project
Waka Flocka Flame — Flockaveli
Superchunk — Majesty Shredding
Floored By Four — Floored By Four
Yelawolf — Trunk Muzik
The Gaslight Anthem — American Slang
Big Boi — Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists — The Brutalist Bricks
Freeway and Jake One — The Stimulus Package
The Nels Cline Singers — Initiate
Erykah Badu — New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Gucci Mane — Mr. Zone 6
Jonathan Richman — O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan — Hawk
Fat Joe — The Darkside Vol. 1
Nels Cline — Dirty Baby
The-Dream — Love King
Scarface — Dopeman Music
Sade — Soldier of Love
The Bird and The Bee — Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates

15 of my picks placed, thanks to the expanded-to-25 ballots this year

ranked, dnp in bold:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti — Before Today
Owen Pallett — Heartland
Menomena — Mines
Spoon — Transference
The Books — The Way Out
Yelawolf — Trunk Muzik
Earl Sweatshirt — EARL
Field Music — Measure
Eluvium — Similes
E-40 — Revenue Retrievin'
Phosphorescent — Here's to Taking it Easy
Caribou — Swim
Midlake — The Courage of Others
Jacka & Laroo — Neva Be the Same
Beach House — Teen Dream
Tallest Man on Earth — The Wild Hunt
Quadron — Quadron
Delorean — Subiza
Thomas Fehlmann — Gute Luft
Superchunk — Majesty Shredding
Tyler, The Creator — Bastard
Curren$y — Pilot Talk 2
Titus Andronicus — The Monitor
Janelle Monàe — The ArchAndroid
Gil Scott-Heron — I'm New Here

78-94 = p great too...

My weighted ballot (non-placers in bold):

Four Tet - There is Love in You
Caribou - Swim
Lindstrøm & Christabelle — Real Life Is No Cool
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Tape and Bill Wells - Fugue
Guido - Anidea
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Dylan Ettinger - New Age Outlaws
Trembling Bells - Abandoned Love
Bandjo - Bandjo
Mark McGuire — Living With Yourself
Voice of the Seven Thunders - Voice of the Seven Thunders
DJ Nate - Da Trak Genious
Swans — My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Alcest — Écailles De Lune
Various Artists — Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
Mycale — Book of Angels, Volume 13
Vijay Iyer - Solo
Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have
Janelle Monàe — The ArchAndroid
The Magnetic Fields - Realism

If I were voting today I'd put Umberto in the top half and Electric Wizard in the bottom half, and ditch Janelle and The Magnetic Fields. Rather surprised there wasn't more love for Nina Nastasia, Charlotte Gainsbourg or Forest Swords.

ordered ballot, the ones that didn't place in bold:

Nina Nastasia — Outlaster
Jack Rose — Luck in the Valley
Club 8 — The People's Record
Allo Darlin' — Allo Darlin'
The Knife — Tomorrow, In a Year
Magic Lantern — Platoon
Gangrene — Gutter Water
Kylie Minogue — Aphrodite
Faun Fables — Light of a Vaster Dark
Emeralds — Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Hello Seahorse — Lejos, No Tan Lejos
Echospace — Liumin
Gatekeeper — Giza
Gnaw Their Tongues — L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante
Amiina — Puzzle
Roll the Dice — Roll the Dice
Underworld — Barking
The Radio Dept. — Clinging to a Scheme
Javiera Mena — Mena
Grum — Heartbeats
Console — Herself
Class Actress — Journal of Ardency EP
Active Child — Curtis Lane EP
Brendan Perry — Ark
Blue Hawaii — Blooming Summer

Weighted ballot:

1. steve reich, “double sextet/2x5”
2. william brittelle, “television landscape”
3. owen pallett, “heartland”
4. ariel pink’s haunted graffiti, “before today”
5. twin shadow, “forget”
6. javiera mena, “mena”
7. curren$y, “pilot talk 2”
8. tame impala, “innerspeaker”
9. lindstrom & christabelle, “real life is no cool”
10. the-dream, “love king”
11. janelle monae, “the archandroid”
12. curren$y, “pilot talk”
13. jaga jazzist, “one-armed bandit”
14. gold panda, “lucky shiner”
15. four tet, “there is love in you”
16. the chap, “well done europe”
17. deerhunter, “halcyon digest”
18. big boi, “sir lucious left-foot: the son of chico dusty”
19. kylie minogue, “aphrodite”
20. caribou, “swim”
21. laura veirs, “july flame”
22. erykah badu, “new amerykah part 2: return of the ankh”
23. delorean, “subiza”
24. sam amidon, “i see the sign”
25. spoon, “transference”

wow even FANTASIA beat sade too? o_0 (as pleased as i am that others cared about ms barrino)

actress an unsurprising #78, had been half-expecting it for most of the countdown.

i think there were more than 5 #1s that didn't make the top 77? Johnny said there were 72 that did, out of 100+ ballots

That was someone else keeping track of #1s...Jeff W I think?

wow i'm the #3 ilx hivemind voter-- 23/25 placed! though i guess that's what i get for deliberately boosting albums that i figured would place. next year i oughta vote my heart? judging by what missed the top 77 narrowly, i may have helped demdike stare, high on fire, kylesa all to make the countdown. though on the flipside, if i boosted a handful of these albums over something worthless in its vicinity, i guess that's fine w/ me as well

UNRANKED>..... bolded the two albums that missed the countdown

Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Rick Ross - The Teflon Don
The-Dream - Love King
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
R. Kelly - Love Letter
Ciara - Basic Instinct
Sade - Soldier of Love
Robyn - Body Talk
Underworld - Barking
Lindstr?m & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
The Chemical Brothers - Further
Four Tet - There Is Love in You
Caribou - Swim
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Glasser - Ring
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
These New Puritans - Hidden
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Rangda - False Flag
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Neil Young - Le Noise

Gatekeeper — Giza

i did not realise gatekeeper released an album, how does it compare to their optimus maximus ep? loved that.

Phosphorescent and John Grant got 2 #1s, and there were a couple of albums that only got #1s:

Butch Walker & The Black Widows I Liked it Better When You Had No Heart
Gemma Ray It's a Shame About Gemma Ray
Jahcoozi Barefoot Wanderer
Jana Winderen Energy Field
Outrageous Cherry Seemingly Solid Reality

lots of big names missing the top 77 - B&S, Superchunk, Underworld, Sade, of Montreal, Field Music, Liars, Best Coast. Tough year!

i'm unfamiliar w/any earlier work but this one was pretty amazing imo

hmm

The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever - 32 - 1

You can sort the results by #votes and #1s via the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet btw.

lex that one's an EP too

I'm a bit sad I'm not infinitely Antifuxxor this time around, but was definitely expecting to have a little fuxxorism. With the loneliness stat, I wouldn't mind having a solid number as well as the proportion, because I am bad at maths. Although I guess I could just go through the full results...

Here's my ballot, anyway. Will follow the convention of bolding what didn't place. It's ranked.

Owen Pallett — Heartland
Umberto — Prophecy of the Black Widow
Sylvester Anfang II — Commune Cassetten
SHRAG — Life! Death! Prizes!
Trembling Bells — Abandoned Love
Kemialliset Ystävät — Ullakkopalo
Drum Eyes — Gira Gira
Moon Wiring Club — A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding
The Mountain Movers — Apple Mountain
Library Tapes — Like Green Grass Against a Blue Sky
Love Is All — Two Thousand and Ten Injuries
Catherine Christer Hennix — The Electric Harpsichord
Dum Dum Girls — I Will Be
Oneohtrix Point Never — Returnal
Demdike Stare — Voices of Dust
The Chap — Well Done Europe
Various Artists — Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
Emeralds — Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Thee Oh Sees — Warm Slime
Cinema Red and Blue — Cinema Red and Blue
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti — Before Today
Chrome Hoof — Crush Depth
Grass Widow — Past Time
Mark McGuire — Living With Yourself
Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

My list in order.

Hot Chip — One Life Stand
Robyn — Body Talk
LCD Soundsystem — This Is Happening
Scissor Sisters — Night Work
The Chap — Well Done Europe
Owen Pallett — Heartland
Big Boi — Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Fantasia — Back to Me
Janelle Monàe — The ArchAndroid
Caribou — Swim
Gorillaz — Plastic Beach
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists — The Brutalist Bricks
The Walkmen — Lisbon
Jazmine Sullivan — Love Me Back
Goldfrapp — Head First
Spoon — Transference
Antony & The Johnsons — Swanlights
Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Groove Armada — Black Light
The Fall — Our Future Your Clutter
Edwyn Collins — Losing Sleep
Erykah Badu — New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Rose Elinor Dougall — Without Why
The Charlatans — Who We Touch
The-Dream — Love King

Since I voted I've heard both the Curren$y and the School Of Seven Bells albums which would have all easily made my list.

lex that one's an EP too

oh yeah, forgot EPs were allowed in with the albums this year

yeah as i understand it there were 120+ ballots, & 72 placing #1s

emil.y, Who are SHRAG?

my ballot, ranked, not-placing bolded:

Robyn ? Body Talk
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti ? Before Today
Lindstr?m & Christabelle ? Real Life Is No Cool
Deerhunter ? Halcyon Digest
The Knife ? Tomorrow, In a Year
The Magnetic Fields ? Realism
The Depreciation Guild ? Spirit Youth
Mark McGuire ? Living With Yourself
Beach House ? Teen Dream
School of Seven Bells ? Disconnect From Desire
Four Tet ? There Is Love in You
Kylie Minogue ? Aphrodite
The New Pornographers ? Together
Tame Impala ? Innerspeaker
Quasi ? American Gong
Superchunk ? Majesty Shredding
Grum ? Heartbeats
Shit Robot ? From the Cradle to the Rave
Grass Widow ? Past Time
Bad Religion ? The Dissent of Man
The Radio Dept. ? Clinging to a Scheme
Stereolab ? Not Music
Girl Talk ? All Day
Sleigh Bells ? Treats
Ost and Kjex ? Cajun Lunch

Too bad about Magnetic Fields, loved that album.

also, I forgot to vote for Scissor Sisters, which would have been top 15-ish.

im guessing scik mouthy and i are the only ones who voted for 'steve mason'

i think EPs are usually allowed, it's just that few people vote them because a good album is better than a good EP on volume alone

my ballot

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Javiera Mena - Mena
Marina - The Diamonds - The Family Jewels
Earl Sweatshirt - EARL
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Tyler, The Creator - Bastard
Beach House - Teen Dream
Rick Ross - The Teflon Don
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
The-Dream - Love King
Vampire Weekend - Contra
The National - High Violet
Gucci Mane - Mr. Zone 6
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Wild Nothing - Gemini
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
The Fall - Our Future Your Clutter
Actress - Splazsh

much <3 to the two ppl giving los campesinos first place, that album was overlooked by every list in the world and im pretty bummed it didn't place. but cool list overall. glad i could make a difference in the choice of number one

My weighted ballot; ones that didn't place in bold:

1. Curren$y — Pilot Talk 2
2. Big Boi — Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
3. Big K.R.I.T. — K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
4. LCD Soundsystem — This Is Happening
5. Gucci Mane — Mr. Zone 6
6. Onra — Long Distance
7. Chromeo — Business Casual
8. J Stalin — Prenuptial Agreement
9. Mellowhype — Blackenedwhite
10. Delorean — Subiza
11. Rick Ross — The Teflon Don
12. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
13. Pantha du Prince — Black Noise
14. Erykah Badu — New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
15. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti — Before Today
16. Deerhunter — Halcyon Digest
17. The-Dream — Love King
18. Earl Sweatshirt — EARL
19. Gucci Mane — Jewelry Selection
20. Waka Flocka Flame — Flockaveli
21. Sade — Soldier of Love
22. "Tyler, The Creator" — Bastard
23. The Bird and The Bee — "Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates"
24. Hot Chip — One Life Stand
25. Curren$y — Pilot Talk

WHO ELSE VOTED FOR THOMAS WHITE, THIS IS IMPORTANT, also DJ Mencap, Extra Life #1 was you right? Until I heard top 3 right near the end of the year, it was leading the way. Emil.y u my Chrome Hoof pal

Unique votes underlined. Bushman's Revenge wasn't even my nomination!

Third Eye Foundation - The Dark
Chrome Hoof - Crush Depth
Field Music - Measure
Extra Life - Made Flesh
Working for a Nuclear Free City - Jojo Burger Tempest
Thomas White - The Maximalist
Foetus - Hide
The Fall - Our Future Your Clutter
Shining - Blackjazz
Kno - Death Is Silent
The Knife - Tomorrow, In a Year
The Chap - Well Done Europe
Drum Eyes – Gira Gira
Burkina Electric - Paspanga
Silvery - Railway Architecture
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
Bushman's Revenge - Jitterbug
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Pan Sonic - Gravitoni
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Quasi - American Gong

oops, Bushman's Revenge should be underlined

Its my fault. I'm sorry.

Ordered ballot with top 77 in bold (just to be contrary):

Beach House — Teen Dream (13)
We Love — We Love (40)
These New Puritans — Hidden (37)
Trentemøller — Into the Great Wide Yonder (161)
Delphic — Acolyte (364)
Gil Scott-Heron — I'm New Here (26)
Grum — Heartbeats (240)
Glasser — Ring (22)
Sade — Soldier of Love (93)
Zola Jesus — Stridulum II (74)
School of Seven Bells — Disconnect From Desire (25)
Delorean — Subiza (110)
ANBB (Alva Noto / Blixa Bargeld) — Mimikry (456)
Warpaint — The Fool (70)
Various Artists — Radio Rothko Mix by Deadbeat (152)
Burkina Electic — Paspanga (345)
Sleigh Bells — Treats (8)
Tensnake — In the House (252)
Hot Chip — One Life Stand (29)
Max Richter — Infra (155)
Crystal Castles — Crystal Castles (51)
Tamaryn — The Waves (558)
Goldfrapp — Head First (86)
Autechre — Oversteps (87)
Booka Shade — More (315)

49 #1 votes didn't make the top 77--that's 72/121 not 72/77 ship (tried to say something to you in the other thread)

poor Broken Bells, one solitary #25 vote.

Any chance someone could send me my ballot please? As with the tracks, I have lost my scribbled-on-paper copy...

seandalai, I'm not entirely sure how to describe SHRAG without using the term 'art pop' and I might have to shoot myself if I do. I guess sort of bratpunky pop? They're really great.

Looking at my ballot now, I'd probably move around everything from #8 downwards. Not sure it's entirely representative of how much I like everything in comparison to everything else.

peter in montreal
abanana
NickB
bmus

lets be friends :)

Richard Skelton - Landings
These New Puritans - Hidden
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
Glasser - Ring
Yellow Swans - Going Places
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
Fabulous Diamonds - II
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself
Shackleton - Fabric 55
Various Artists - Ayobaness! The Sound of South African House
Philip Jeck - An Ark for the Listener
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Various Artists - Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
The Knife - "Tomorrow, In a Year"
John Roberts - Glass Eights
Benoît Pioulard - Lasted
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Rene Hell - Porcelain Opera
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Lone - Emerald Fantasy Tracks

DaM: Unweighted votes don't have #1s. I don't have the # of weighted/unweighted votes here.

NickB's ballot is fantastic

what ship probably meant was there's 5 #1s that got no other votes at all, his is one of those

Emeralds — Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Steve Mason — Boys Outside
Lindstrøm & Christabelle — Real Life Is No Cool
The-Dream — Love King
Efdemin — Chicago
Abe Vigoda — Crush
Mark McGuire — Living With Yourself
Pantha du Prince — Black Noise
John Roberts — Glass Eights
Midlake — The Courage of Others
Arp — The Soft Wave
Caribou — Swim
Games — That We Can Play
School of Seven Bells — Disconnect From Desire
Oneohtrix Point Never — Returnal
Swans — My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
The Knife — Tomorrow, In a Year
No Age — Everything in Between
Yelawolf — Trunk Muzik
Deerhunter — Halcyon Digest
Scissor Sisters — Night Work
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti — Before Today
Alcest — Écailles De Lune
Tonetta777 — Tonetta777

for fun, ranked

i'm pretty anti-fuxxor and super-lonely in these results

Oh, I nominated Actress and didn't vote in the end. I'm a bad bad person.

Yelawolf — Trunk Muzik
Kelis — Flesh Tone
Janelle Monàe — The ArchAndroid
Diddy-Dirty Money — Last Train to Paris
Earl Sweatshirt — EARL

Big K.R.I.T. — K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
Lindstrøm & Christabelle — Real Life Is No Cool
Erykah Badu — New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
M.I.A. — MAYA
The-Dream — Love King

Curren$y — Smokee Robinson
Corinne Bailey Rae — The Sea
E-40 — Revenue Retrievin'
Bilal — Airtight's Revenge
N.E.R.D. — Nothing

R. Kelly — Love Letter
Roach Gigz — Roachy Balboa
Four Tet — There Is Love in You
Esperanza Spalding — Chamber Music Society
Waka Flocka Flame — Flockaveli

Flying Lotus — Cosmogramma
Ramamdanman — Ramamdanman EP
Curren$y — Pilot Talk 2
Tyler, The Creator — Bastard
Shabazz Palaces — Shabazz Palaces / Palaces of Light

I was holding a candle for Ramadanman as we entered the top 20 but gave up when I realized he's never had a thread of his own.

Mixed emotions about my whole top ten placing. I'm usually not right at the center of the ILM hivemind.

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Sleigh Bells - Treats
The-Dream - Love King
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Goldfrapp - Head First
Hot Chip- One Life Stand
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
of Montreal - False Priest
These New Puritans - Hidden
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip
Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love
Stereolab - Not Music
Flying Lotus- Pattern + Grid World

^^^Same here.

Stuttering by JaZmine Sullivan just came on random!!

:-o

Also sounds like 'better off without a wife' by Tom waits.

:-O

but yeah 100% of at-home listening is done through the computer, which is plugged into the stereo system & proper speakers - obv not necessarily while i'm actually in front of the computer

About 3/4 of my listening is done away from home so last.fm would be kinda useless for me.

you can get your ipod or other mp3-playing device to scrobble to last.fm. don't ask me how though, i got mine working accidentally and i know people who can't get theirs to. but then i am a luddite.

i am of the vague opinion that every working critic should be on last.fm.

but yeah 100% of at-home listening is done through the computer, which is plugged into the stereo system & proper speakers

best thing i ever bought was this usb stick i plug into the computer and it transmits the sound output of my computer to my hi-fi on the other side of the room wirelessly. before that i had shitty computer speakers rather than wires trailing across the room.

(just pasting this here while I have temporary access to a PC that can view google spreadsheets. Sorry)

78 Actress Splazsh
79 Grinderman Grinderman 2
80 Demdike Stare Voices of Dust
81 Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
81 Superchunk Majesty Shredding
83 Toro y Moi Causers of This
84 Kylesa Spiral Shadow
85 Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring
86 Goldfrapp Head First
87 Autechre Oversteps
88 Fantasia Back to Me
89 Tame Impala Innerspeaker
90 Twin Shadow Forget
91 Mark McGuire Living With Yourself
92 Underworld Barking
93 Sade Soldier of Love
94 High on Fire Snakes for the Divine
95 Games That We Can Play
96 Tonetta777 Tonetta777
97 Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2
98 Shining Blackjazz
99 of Montreal False Priest
100 Alcest Écailles De Lune
101 Field Music Measure
102 Mellowhype Blackenedwhite
103 Against Me! White Crosses
104 Liars Sisterworld
105 Ludicra The Tenant
106 Best Coast Crazy for You
107 Various Artists Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa
108 Jacka & Laroo Neva Be the Same
109 Midlake The Courage of Others
110 Delorean Subiza
111 Christian Mistress Agony and Opium
112 Forest Swords Dagger Paths
113 Wavves King of the Beach
114 Nina Nastasia Outlaster
115 Voice Of The Seven Thunders Voice Of The Seven Thunders
116 Scissor Sisters Night Work
117 J Stalin Prenuptial Agreement
117 Triptykon Eparistera Daimones
119 Marnie Stern Marnie Stern
120 Mark E Works 2005-2009 Vol. 1
121 How to Dress Well Love Remains
122 Jaga Jazzist One-Armed Bandit
122 Kingdom That Mystic EP
122 The Chap Well Done Europe
125 Shackleton Fabric 55
126 Superpitcher Kilimanjaro
127 Roc Marciano Marcberg
128 Ewan Pearson We Are Proud of Our Choices
129 The Books The Way Out
130 Gucci Mane Jewelry Selection
131 Jack Rose Luck in the Valley
132 DJ Nate Da Trak Genious
133 Killing Joke Absolute Dissent
134 Extra Life Made Flesh
135 The Corin Tucker Band 1,000 Years
136 The Body And All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood
136 The New Pornographers Together
138 Faun Fables Light of a Vaster Dark
139 Ellen Allien Dust
140 Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
141 Zs New Slaves
142 Holy Ghost! Static on the Wire EP
143 Phosphorescent Here's to Taking it Easy
144 Perfume Genius Learning
145 Gnaw Their Tongues L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante
145 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks
147 Drum Eyes Gira Gira
147 Mock & Toof Tuning Echoes
147 Yellow Swans Going Places
150 Ufomammut Eve
151 The Young Voyagers of Legend
152 Various Artists Radio Rothko Mix by Deadbeat
153 Salem King Night
154 Wild Nothing Gemini
155 Max Richter Infra
156 Roach Gigz Roachy Balboa
157 AG Everything's Berri
158 Cathedral The Guessing Game
158 Lone Emerald Fantasy Tracks
158 Trey Songz Passion, Pain, and Pleasure
161 Trentemøller Into the Great Wide Yonder
162 Curren$y Pilot Talk
163 Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté Ali and Toumani
164 K-X-P K-X-P
165 Kvelertak Kvelertak
166 Various Artists The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1
167 Michael Mayer Immer 3
168 Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM
169 Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea
170 Bottomless Pit Blood Under the Bridge
171 K. Michelle What's the 901?
172 James Blake CMYK EP
172 The Sword Warp Riders
174 Dungen Skit i allt
174 Majeure Timespan
174 Menomena Mines
177 Jamie Johnson The Guitar Song
178 John Grant Queen of Denmark
179 Laura Veirs July Flame
179 Stereolab Not Music
181 Walter Gibbons Jungle Music
182 Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
183 Efdemin Chicago
183 Girl Talk All Day
183 Girl Unit Wut
183 Kurt Vile Square Shells EP
183 Various Artists Night Slugs All Stars Vol. 1
188 Shit Robot From the Cradle to the Rave
189 Holy Fuck Latin
189 Moon Wiring Club A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding
191 Burn One & Starlito Renaissance Gangster
191 Danger Mouse / Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul
193 Tracey Thorn Love and Its Opposite
194 Aboombong Asynchronic
195 Ellie Goulding Lights
195 The Roots How I Got Over
197 Mulatu Astatke Mulatu Steps Ahead
198 Jerusalem and The Starbaskets Battle of the Orchids
198 John Roberts Glass Eights
198 Matthew Dear Black City
201 Daddy Yankee Mundial
202 Barn Owl Ancestral Star
202 NHT Boyz Power Triangle
204 The Volebeats The Volebeats
205 Prins Thomas Prins Thomas
206 Rene Hell Porcelain Opera
207 Club 8 The People's Record
207 Foetus Hide
207 I Am Kloot Sky at Night
210 2NE1 To Anyone
211 Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer
212 Ost and Kjex Cajun Lunch
213 Sightings City of Straw
213 Slough Feg Animal Spirits
215 The Gaslight Anthem American Slang
216 Black Breath Heavy Breathing
216 Eluvium Similes
216 Maserati Pyramid of the Sun
216 Rumer Seasons of the Soul
216 Umberto Prophecy of the Black Widow
221 Richard Skelton Landings
221 Steve Reich Double Sextet/2 X 5
223 Bvdub The Art of Dying Alone
223 Ea Au Ellai
223 Kode9 DJ Kicks
223 Wiz Khalifa Kush and OJ
227 Future Islands In Evening Air
227 VHS Head Trademark Ribbons of Gold
229 Massive Attack Heligoland
230 Omar Souleyman Jazeera
231 Nicki Minaj Pink Friday
232 Sam Amidon I See the Sign
233 Groove Armada Black Light
234 El Guincho Pop Negro
235 Mount Kimbie Crooks and Lovers
236 Catherine Christer Hennix The Electric Harpsichord
236 Steve Mason Boys Outside
236 William Brittelle Television Landscape
236 Yakuza Heart Attack II
240 Grum Heartbeats
241 Across Tundras Old World Wanderer
241 Kemialliset Ystävät Ullakkopalo
243 Fang Island Fang Island
243 Peter Wolf Midnight Souvenirs
245 Ghost Opus Eponymous
246 Klaxons Surfing the Void
246 Surfer Blood Astro Coast
246 The Drums The Drums
249 jj No. 3
249 Linkin Park A Thousand Suns
249 Thomas White The Maximalist

Hey, somebody else voted for Yakuza Heart Attack! Sweet.

best thing i ever bought was this usb stick i plug into the computer and it transmits the sound output of my computer to my hi-fi on the other side of the room wirelessly.

Wait, what? Tell me about this, please.

this is the one i bought but i'm sure there are plenty of equivalent thigns:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/wireless-pc-to-stereo-audio-transmitter-104993

changed my listening habits completely

Thanks. I'm probably not in the market for that right now, but eventually. (I keep kicking myself for buying a car instead of escaping apartment living hell and renting a house. It seemed like the right decision at the time, but now it's going to delay, possibly significantly, getting myself into a small house where I can have control over my aural environment.)

is there a list of ballots etc available thru somewhere other than the google spreadsheets site

i just realized if i had remembered to vote for actress (my #3 in some list i wrote on some other thread) i would have bumped it to 77. i wonder if that harvey milk album is any good

only one way to find out!

is there a list of ballots etc available thru somewhere other than the google spreadsheets site

― frail slattern altness (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:03 (Yesterday)

As in just the full results or everyone's ballot? We haven't made the ballots public; I can send you a PDF of the results (or can put it up somewhere if anyone wants to host it).

cool, well you could always put it on mediafire

Ok, will do it later today.

there are a lot of ballots in...this thread?

don't rly rate results this year....not far distinguished from yr average webzine list, a few ilx favs like lindstrom given extra prominence

would quite like to know what other webzines contained all of yelawolf, ciara, we love, swans, glasser, jazmine sullivan, WAKA, taylor swift, diddy and earl sweatshirt in their top 40

also people who didn't vote can quit complaining

of those maybe we love and earl sweatshirt are outliers

yeah ciara and jazmine were really tearin up the EOY lists elsewhere! plus, all of those acts together?

i am of the vague opinion that every working critic should be on last.fm.

Honest question: why? Has never occurred to me and not sure why it matters.

ha it's only a vague opinion, but a critic's taste is a part of our selling point/brand/whatever, right? certainly looking at a person's taste in toto helps me understand where they're coming from w/r/t their opinions.

always tempted to point PRs there when they start hassling me, too. "does it LOOK LIKE i'd be interested in that shit you sent me?"

ciara will be more valued on an ilx album poll than most elsewhere, but since she had a couple of the consensus top10 rnb songs of last decade it's not really a recondite /name/

tho i am from an opposite perspective to lex since i am really not invested in many of the names who placed (or could have been expected to place)

stuff i voted (and a few that weren't nominated) was s/thing like

autechre
pan sonic
neil young
actress
oneohrix
lcd
lovesliescrushing
vainio/booth/matsunaga
forest swords
fennoberg

various things i have forgotten

xpost. Ah, I see. I think my taste is broader than yours (or maybe more dilettantish/distractable) so I don't think lastfm stats would reveal as much.

it might actually help with more dilettantish tastes - to see if you can pin down any common thread! (and in my case it'd reveal a lot of stuff that people might find unexpected.)

if i was a PR i would totally track journalists' last.fms, see when they're in a particular mood for a type of music and hit 'em with it at that point.

I bet there still are a lot of music journalists who listen to stuff mostly on vinyl and CDs, so last.fm wouldn't really reveal that much about them.

I'm not a journalist, but my last.fm figures don't really represent my listening habits, as maybe 5% of my listening is done via the computer.

John Grant — Queen of Denmark
These New Puritans — Hidden
Rumer — Seasons of the Soul
Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté — Ali and Toumani
Luke Abbott — Holkham Drones
I Am Kloot — Sky at Night
Glasser — Ring
Jackie Leven — Gothic Road
Carolina Chocolate Drops — Genuine Negro Jig
Khaira Arby — Timbuktu Tarab
We Love — We Love
Hot Chip — One Life Stand
Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson — Gift
Laura Marling — I Speak Because I Can
Esperanza Spalding — Chamber Music Society
Ellen Allien — Dust
Goldfrapp — Head First
Smoke Fairies — Through Light and Trees
The Chieftans / Ry Cooder — San Patricio
Four Tet — There Is Love in You
Quadron — Quadron
Ron Basejam — Deep and Meaningless
Owen Pallett — Heartland
Chris Wood — Handmade Life
Janelle Monàe — The ArchAndroid

came across frank kogan's ballot on his livejournal last night. his #1 track was one that i nominated (but forgot to vote for)! woooooooo

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/257261.html

John Grant — Queen of Denmark

btw i now think this album is completely amazing, so thanks to dorian for turning me on to it - he definitely reminds me of someone really specific but i can't bring it to mind - something to do with his kinda laconically romantic style. like he erodes the distinction between cynic and romantic.

also i love his voice - is this "indie"? if it is why do more indie males not sing like this!

It's camp!
Great record, too.

Smoke Fairies — Through Light and Trees

These girls are amazing. Saw them live. Two girls with capo'd classicals stomping their heels and harmonising like nothing else. Filled the room. I'd like to hear the album. Beautifully folky, and a good antidote for those who get a bit sick of Newsom's ickiness. There's absolutely nothing pretentious or cloying in them, just really pure music.

Ok, the full results are downloadable from http://www.mediafire.com/?84vfbu0febtdlwa

ty

thx everyone.

i, uh, accidentally left off ciara and the-dream (who would have been in my top five!)

Diddy-Dirty Money — Last Train to Paris
Perfume Genius — Learning
Javiera Mena — Mena
Max Richter — Infra
Jerusalem and The Starbaskets — Battle of the Orchids
Sleigh Bells — Treats
Laura Marling — I Speak Because I Can
Francis and The Lights — It'll Be Better
Guido — Anidea
Los Campesinos! — Romance Is Boring
Joanna Newsom — Have One on Me
Jazmine Sullivan — Love Me Back
Corinne Bailey Rae — The Sea
M.I.A. — MAYA
Sun City Girls — Funeral Mariachi
No Age — Everything in Between
Wavves — King of the Beach
Vampire Weekend — Contra
Titus Andronicus — The Monitor
Rihanna — LOUD
Laurie Anderson — Homeland
Heater — God and Hair
Mellowhype — Blackenedwhite

just me and lj voting for pan sonic

surprised autechre and actress didnae get in 77

well actress was 78

i never got around to listening to the pan sonic disc! i really should, esp if you rate it...

is it recondite enough that's the question

yr mum could be more recondite

And Autechre was somwhere in the 80s, I think? I have Oversteps but didn't really get into it.

yah lamp it's pretty great though nothing earth shattering like KESTO

oh yeah both of those were 'bubbling under' xp

is it recondite enough that's the question

'the purity of the process'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY5zcMS_ckM&feature=related