2012 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ VOTING THREAD (LAST 24 HOURS OF VOTING)

People of ILX, the time has come (again)! Please cast your considered vote for the best tracks and albums of 2012 via the form linked below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJERkE5T3NTTDM1WnM5NXhHQWFkd2c6MQ

The voting procedure is the same as last year. You can vote for up to 25 albums and up to 25 tracks, one item per line in the appropriate box. Please copy each line directly from the nominations lists (linked below); do not number your ballot. You can choose one of three ballot types, which determine how points are allocated to each item you vote for:

(1) Weighted: The first item on your ballot receives 50 points, the second receives 48 points, and so on, until the 25th item receives 2 points.
(2) Unweighted: Each item on your ballot receives 26 points.
(3) Mixed: To submit a mixed ballot, you must divide your ballot in two with an extra blank line. The upper portion of the ballot will be treated as weighted, with the first item receiving 50 points, and so on. The lower portion will be treated as unweighted, in that all items will receive the same number of points. The score allocated to items in the unweighted portion is calculated as 26 minus the number of items in the weighted portion (this is so that any weighted, unweighted or mixed ballot consisting of 25 items will allocate a total of exactly 650 points).

Track nominations: https://www.dropbox.com/s/naa3slvvvk3bv97/2012_tracks_nominations.txt
Album nominations: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd6z3u5cklftbaf/2012_albums_nominations.txt

There are Spotify playlists to help you navigate the vast ocean of worthy candidates:

Tracks on Spotify
Albums on Spotify

Voting ends at MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 18th, 2012.

That's it. Allez hop!

yeah

THE BALLOTS ARE HERE! THE BALLOTS ARE HERE!

After massaging the nominations list a bit there are now 813 nominated albums and 1183 nominated tracks.

exciting :) now i must sift through all the songs i like and put them in order :(

kinda liking the idea of listening to the best of 2012 for the first four months of 2013

yay! you guys rule.

Miguel seriously testing my one track per artist limit. ;_;

Why is: Donnie & Joe Emerson - Good Time in the noms? That one is from 1979 or so.

spotify caution: i'd hazard a guess that a good half of the nominees won't be on it...

@Moka: We're lenient on things that nobody heard first time round, "year of impact" etc. If you don't feel they're appropriate, don't vote for them (I tend not to).

Looks like about 70% of nominated tracks are on Spotify. If there's something that's not there and you're afraid might get ignored, post a Youtube or w/e on the campaigning thread.

My ballots might take a minute. On the whole, there was less I liked as much in 2012 as I liked in 2011, but perhaps there was a broader swath of music I enjoyed? Harder to cull when that's the case.

Thanks for warning us about Spotify, lex. I was under the impression it had every piece of music ever recorded.

Spotify Limitation Awareness Campaigner of the Year.

I assume it's OK to copy data to the ballot from the original googledocs spreadsheets* rather than the text files? dropbox.com is blocked at work for me

*though I think the albums spreadsheet hasn't yet caught up with all of seandalai's massaging(?). Not that I haven't got enough choice as it is ;)

It should be fine. There are only a couple of extra things on the Dropbox version, almost all of which are listed at the tail end of the nominations thread.

voted!

me too!

Getting my ballots together I noticed some duplications. Might not be a problem, but I'll mention them anyway:
Donald Fagen - I'm Not the Same Without You is in there twice, as is:
Omar-S & Ob Ignitt - Wayne County Hill Cops
Omar-S & Ob Ignitt - Wayne Hill County Cops

In the album list the Lopatin/Hecker collab is in there twice.

I have 22 nominations left and about 25 tracks I'm thinking of nominating. Figure I'll just wait to see if others take care of a few for me first.

― jaymc, Friday, January 4, 2013 9:19 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

D'oh, I forgot to send these final nominations! And it looks like three of them *were* taken care of, too, so it would've been easy. Here are the 22 I'd have nominated if I hadn't spaced:

Bat for Lashes - All Your Gold
Beck and Philip Glass - NYC: 73-78
Best Coast - The Only Place
Blondes - Pleasure
The Chap - What Did We Do
Curren$y ft. Wale - What It Look Like
Dr. John - Ice Age
Four Tet - Locked
Grouplove - Tongue Tied
Gym Class Heroes - Ass Back Home
JLS - Hottest Girl in the World
Kelly Clarkson ft. Vince Gill - Don't Rush
Kendrick Lamar ft. Drake - Poetic Justice
Metric - The Void
Norah Jones - Happy Pills
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents
The Shins - Simple Song
Silversun Pickups - Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)
Skyzoo - Range Rover Rhythm
Vijay Iyer Trio - Human Nature (Trio Extension)
Wild Nothing - Disappear Always
The xx - Chained

Probably only *really* care about a half-dozen of them, though.

@willem: thanks! Identical duplicates don't throw the system but the "county hill"/"hill county" one might have caused an unnoticed screw-up.

year end poll time is my favourite ilm time.

it really brings everyone together

@jaymc I'll add your noms but I hope this is the last of the edits...

This Ashlee Simpson track is properly terrible.

would be disappointed if it was anything less than

ashlee simpson is amazing why would it be terrible

Have you heard this song? It's amazingly pathetic.

it's like someone said "the reason Kelly Osbourne's moody period didn't take off was because it didn't have any cursing in it, but we can fix that"

lol otm

i believe "Kelly Osbourne's period" is the title of Ashlee's next album

@jaymc I'll add your noms but I hope this is the last of the edits...

thx dude!

otoh This track I'd never listened to before by Autre Ne Veut is making my ears really happy right now.

I'd recommend going through the Spotify list either filtering by Artist or Time.

I am boggling at the fact that there is an Asia song on here

why are a whole bunch of my track nominations not in the list?

seandalai hates you.

j/k I dunno, but I'm sure he'll fix it.

whoops, i said "singles" instead of "tracks" so that probably didn't help

these were my track noms, if they could be added that would rule as i have nothing to vote for otherwise

fear of men - mosaic
paws - sore tummy
by the sea - eveline
savoir adore - dreamers
beat connection - further out
mining boom - pda
nun - solvents
the presets - promises
the history of apple pie - do it wrong
the tenfivesixty - do this for me
sulk - flowers
shrag - devastating bones
bleeding rainbow - waking dream

Instead of figuring this out myself, I'll be lazy and just ask: if I'm voting for 15 songs and no albums, do I just start at 50, 48, etc., until I stop at 22 points? Or should I adjust somehow for the truncated ballot?

xp Argh I thought I'd fixed that blunder but sure I'll add them.

@clemenza: just list your top 15 tracks in order and I'll assign the points. As you say it will be 50,48,...,22.

Thanks.

@electricsound: Your noms are already on the list. Are you reading from the link at the top of the thread?

o shit. that means i forgot to nominate something important, i am fool. thanks for checking!

Wait, wtf, 'Cleaning Out My Closet' wasn't nominated? Fuck.

I realise that this is highly out of order, but that track was going straight to my top 5 of the year, so please can I do a beg of ye, seandalai, to add Angel Haze - Cleaning Out My Closet to the list? Please please please? It's my own bloody fault, but I just assumed that the goons would take care of it.

Yeah, it's ok.

Also goes for electricsound if you have something you need to nom.

A+ display name

Thanks, dude.

I'll be as surprised as everyone else to follow the tracks results. I had seandalai keep the results a secret from me.

Albums results look pretty great, imo.

It just hit me - did NO ONE nominate the mission of Burma album?!?

I would 've voted for it and totally should've nom'd

of all the miguel songs, i did not expect "pussy is mine" to top the poll, but here we are

"A tender, thought-provoking evocation of Miguel's heroes, Belle & Sebastian and Bon Iver" - The ILM Hivemind

you joke but that's like his most popular non-single on spotify

pervify

that song rules though

i was kinda bummed no one nominated joey bada$$ "1999." i would've done it myself had i known that i needed to.

closed?

i was kinda bummed no one nominated joey bada$$ "1999." i would've done it myself had i known that i needed to.

― billstevejim, Sunday, January 20, 2013 4:41 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i should have done this, it's certainly in my top 25 of 2012. dunno how i overlooked it when nominating. i nominated albums i didn't even end up voting for !!!! :@

Re the deep cuts on popular albums thing, I agree it's a bit pointless voting for these if you're gonna vote for the album too. But this year there were a few such records that I genuinely thought were patchy so didn't want to vote for. The CRJ album is one - or at least the bonus tracks on the deluxe edition were generally the best ones, not counting "Call Me Maybe". I don't see a problem in nominating and voting for bonus tracks, especially if that draws ppl's attention to songs they may not have heard.

Sorry if this has been mentioned upthread, but have you guys decided on when to roll out the results?

Monday 1/21, I think?

Not that it would have mattered, but I missed one of my favorites (that I nominated!) when I was voting. I'm sorry, Sylvester Anfang II.

:O

That was totally in my top 10! I guess I'll be the only voter for that

Oh well. Fortunately, me forgetting to vote for it isn't going to stop it from being super awesome. I neglected to nominate some other stuff, but it really wouldn't have mattered anyway and it's not like the album is going to evaporate. It's still there. I listened to it yesterday!

That was totally in my top 10! I guess I'll be the only voter for that

You may be, as despite totally being an Anfang stan, I didn't actually hear the record they did this year. I'm sorry too, Sylvester Anfang II!

oh god i didnt see it in the list either

LL otm, I will listen to it later. Perzische Taputjen = rad rad rad!

No Karin Park, no credibility.

(late discovery, would definitely have gotten a nom and a high placing in my ballot)

results start on monday

EXCITED!

booooooo

Goodbye already tattered work ethic...

what time we kicking off?

gonna get this popping off b/w 12-1 EST

probably while i'm on the train home :-/

quick survey

usually we do this over 4 days, with 17 today, then 20 over the next 3 days

or we could do it over 5 days, with 17 today and 15 over the next 4 days

is there an overwhelming feeling either way?

Will miss, if rich kidz places today just pretend I posted "FLEX!" afterwards.

Selfishly it works better for me to do it over 5 days BUT I think it works better for the poll to do it over 4 tbh. Let tradition continue.

Plus maybe people not around Friday evening UK time perhaps

Yeah, I'm down with the 4 day model.

^

One reason we usually finish on Thursdays is so Euro ILXors don't miss the finale if they're out on Friday night. I say stick with the 4-day rollout.

http://i.imgur.com/tzHMOOk.jpg

word

quick survey

usually we do this over 4 days, with 17 today, then 20 over the next 3 days

or we could do it over 5 days, with 17 today and 15 over the next 4 days

is there an overwhelming feeling either way?

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 21, 2013 11:19 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this for albums and tracks, or the sched for the first with the other to follow?

if it's the former stretch it out, if it's the latter keep it moving imo

tracks i think

Four days, please, for the Euro ilx0r reasons.

sounds good

Tracks this week, albums next xps

Was too busy to vote this year, but looking forward to the results anyway.

one last thing before we get this rolling: do people care about the p&j/pfork info?

I'm including it on my images for the sake of tradition, but I imagine no one really cares.

ha ok

i've always ignored those

ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

I like the extra stats, even if the publications are somewhat arbitrary.

You'll get all the stats at the end, with additional (but equally arbitrary) publications this year.

"Kerrang: DNP
New Yorker: DNP
Country Life: DNP"