THE 2011 ILM SUPER-MEGA YEAR-END ALBUMS 'N' TRACKS POLL™ is open for nominations!

Nominate some more tracks then :)

Anyone notice that when you play the Nyan Cat! track in Spotify, the progress bar is Nyan Cat?

Plaid - Scintilli

WTF I didn't even know this existed. Excited.

Matt - really? It's worth checking out. I wrote a lengthy screed about it here.

TRACKS

Agent Sasco (Assassin) - Badda (Yuh Mada)
Aidonia - Dem Love We
Buju Banton ft. Wayne Wonder - Murder
Chino - Hustler
Chino - I Am
Gappy Ranks ft. Russian - Tun Up
Jacques Greene - Another Girl
Keida - Straight Action
Vybz Kartel - Every Gyal a My Gyal
Vybz Kartel - Half on a Baby (Mosca Remix)
Mavado - Lost Dem
Mavado - Tump
Natalie Storm ft. Deewunn - Gimme 60
Opal - This Me Know
Tanya Stephens - Shame On You

ALBUMS

BNJMN - Black Square
NGUZUNGUZU - The Perfect Lullaby
Walls - Coracle

(18/25)

Kudos to whoever nominated Mano Le Tough BTW, love that dude

Opal - This Me Know

I'm guessing this isn't *the* Opal. Ach, it's so easy to google potential band/artist names now (or look at last.fm), why do people just not bother?

I think people have the right to perform under their given names whether they share it with some metal band or whatever.

And it's like really like dancehall queens and metal bands are competing for marketshare either.

Opal (the original) is neither of these things, btw.

Oh alright, I shouldn't have assumed that.

Emily's point is valid, though. It's the easiest thing in the world now to see if anyone else has put out records using the name you want to use. If you choose to go forward at that point, be ready to make some people irritated.

Not really sure internet penetration in Jamaica is that great (a quick google search says not really, no), esp. among the poor, but OK.

And also, back to my other point, it's not the end of the world or even a big deal, like at all.

"Intentalo" comes as a breath of fresh air on this playlist. I didn't even know it was nominated. I'm still not convinced it works all that well translating tribal into pop, but I will vote for it.

I am very happy with ilm's pattern of nominating pretty much every song I might want to vote for. Thanks guyz.

I think I'm back down to 15/25 as Meshell Nedgeocello had already been nominated. Apparently Wild Beasts had already been nominated too but I didn't spot them.

Tracks

Wolfram Feat. Sally Shapiro-Hold My Breath
Teddiedrum-Odd Lovers
Alex Winston-Locomotive
Dum Dum Girls-Coming Down
Rimer London-Aim at my Body
Wild Beasts-Loop The Loop

21/25

Def voting for "Locomotive"...thanks for nomming it so I didn't have to :)

Tracks:

Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
Chromatics - Kill for Love
Jamie XX - Far Nearer

3/25

konshens "nuh pull it up" has been nominated twice lol

Anyone want to nominate the Zombi album? I only have two noms left, need to save them for a while.

Tracks

Atlas Sound - Terra Incognita
Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons
Ducktails - Killin the Vibe
Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes
EMA - Marked
Engineers - To an Evergreen
Frank Ocean - Swim Good
Foster the People - Helena Beat
Ghostpoet - Cash and Carry Me Home
Gold Panda - Marriage
Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody that I Used to Know
Kenton Slash Demon - Daemon
Keren Ann - My Name Is Trouble
King - Hey
Radiohead - Lotus Flower
Radiohead - Separator
Sandro Perri - Changes
Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - Floating Through Summer
White Denim - Street Joy
Widowspeak - Harsh Realm

Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes

This was already nominated.

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If this is the Opal you meant then I think rev's point about market share is even more valid. Also, talking about originality and names in a Jamaican context is different than in other places. Ninjaman gets big, so you get Ninja Kid and Ninja Ford. Horace Hinds changed his name to Horace Andy because Bob Andy was popular; etc. It would be going well against the grain to worry about sharing a name with a late 80s psych band.

going by the arguments i've seen on luciano's last.fm page (among many others) i'd say the fans, at least, definitely mind, on all sides

that page is interesting--I wonder if last.fm will pretty much force this kind of change to happen

google will! i love last.fm but i'm not sure it'll ever really have the necessary sway for that. you have many situations where there are multiple artists with the same name, but if they're all confined to different locations (karizma and kingdom spring to mind) i doubt it bothers them...

Tracks

Au/Palais - Tender Mercy
Other Lives - For 12
Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)
Jay-Z and Kanye West - Niggas In Paris
Purity Ring - Ungirthed
Toro Y Moi - Still Sound
Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
Girls - My Ma
Rihanna - Talk That Talk
Peter Murphy - The Prince and Old Lady Shade

10/25

Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes

This was already nominated.

― o. nate

Well in that case, exchange for:

Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

Bwahahaha.

http://tuxpaint.org/gallery/antonis/BOOM.png

RIP sandbox

ALBUMS
Container - LP
Björk - Biophilia
Fen - Epoch
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts

TRACKS
Addison Groove - This Is It
Andre Lodemann - Riven Reminiscences
Arkist - Rendezvous
Burial - Street Halo
Dexter - Great Northern Diver
Estelle feat. Rick Ross - Break My Heart
Fat Pimp - Chevys & Polos
Floating Points - Sais (Dub)
Guided By Voices - The Unsinkable Fats Domino
Hype Williams - Rise Up
Ill Blu - Meltdown
Machinedrum - Sacred Frequency
Morgan Zarate - Hookid
Ngzungzu - Timesup
Ossie - Tarantula
Peverelist - Dance Til The Police Come
Schoolboy Q feat. Jhene Aiko - Fantasy
Teeth - Shawty
Thurston Moore - Benediction
Vessel - Nylon Sunset
Vybz Kartel - Coloring Book
XXXY - You Always Start It

25/25

"Street Halo" has already been nominated.

Beach Fossils - Distance
Chris Brown - Beautiful People
Down with Webster - Big Wheels
Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
Katy Perry - Firework
Rihanna - Cheers (Drink to That)
Rye Rye & Robyn - Never Will Be Mine
Wire - Moreover
Seapony - Dreaming
John Cale - Whaddya Mean by That?
Wussy - Little Miami

if we're all going to be nominating rihanna songs can somebody at least pick "do ya thang"

Rihanna - Do Ya Thang

you're the shit yeah baby you're the bomb!

Most of the stuff i'll be voting for has been nominated anyway and i do like that track

I think people have the right to perform under their given names whether they share it with some metal band or whatever.

― furnace mane, Thursday, December 8, 2011 7:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

a) Tell this to actors. Really, you are not aware of the fact that it is almost impossible to make a case for performing under your given name if there is a previously existing member of Equity who uses it?

b) I have no idea why you associate me with metal bands. That's a bit weird.

c) On the other hand, this is more acceptable of an answer:

Not really sure internet penetration in Jamaica is that great (a quick google search says not really, no), esp. among the poor, but OK.

There is a casual assumption that *everyone* has the internet now, and yes, it's fair enough that you challenge that.

talking about originality and names in a Jamaican context is different than in other places. Ninjaman gets big, so you get Ninja Kid and Ninja Ford. Horace Hinds changed his name to Horace Andy because Bob Andy was popular; etc. It would be going well against the grain to worry about sharing a name with a late 80s psych band.

― rob (night house), Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

Okay, I'm not au fait enough with the artists to be entirely sure what point you're making, so if I'm misunderstanding you feel free to correct me. But, on a surface level, you seem to be equating making a name in tribute to another act with taking the name of another act entirely. Which is so different as to be ridiculous that you'd even suggest that they were the same. It's perfectly reasonably to call yourselves a pun, a tribute, a nod or whatever, as long as the name itself is different.

As in, there is no way that 'Horace Andy' and 'Bob Andy' are the same. How do you make that distinction between 'Opal' and 'Opal'?

There are loads of examples of bands accidentally taking on the same names as other bands, Nirvana being perhaps the most prominent example. When I was scanning around for more music by Sully, I ended up coming across a Canadian indie band, an Irish producer and ended up buying something off Boomkat I'm pretty sure is by none of those three artists.

Yeah, and you know what? One of my bands googled, we found an obscure defunct band had already taken the name we were going to use, and WE CHANGED IT. Because we weren't a bunch of dicks.

btw, my #1 album is by the 18,000th group named King.

As I say, rev, I think your point about internet penetration stands, and I fully cop to that assumption, but your other points I disagree with.

Yeah, I think are main disagreement is over whether this even slightly matters.

brb getting started on my new side project called the Beatles

Okay, I'm not au fait enough with the artists to be entirely sure what point you're making, so if I'm misunderstanding you feel free to correct me. But, on a surface level, you seem to be equating making a name in tribute to another act with taking the name of another act entirely. Which is so different as to be ridiculous that you'd even suggest that they were the same. It's perfectly reasonably to call yourselves a pun, a tribute, a nod or whatever, as long as the name itself is different.

They're not really done in tribute to the established artists, they're essentially done so the new artist can jump on the bandwagon of the bigger artist's popularity. Like if in the late 50s a new rock singer had come out named Elvis Peterson and no one batted an eye. But yes, you're right, those examples are not the same as Opal not checking for the existence of a band called Opal.

This is a big generalization, but my point was that in Jamaican music culture there is much less of a perceived ethical harm in copying--there, I believe, this wouldn't be seen as a dickish thing to do. OTOH since the band Opal have been defunct for two decades, I'm not sure what the harm is anyway? You make a good point about actors and Equity, but I see lots of (I) and (II)s behind actors' names on the imdb all the time.

Anyone want to nominate the Zombi album? I only have two noms left, need to save them for a while.

― thread of missing brony (sean doily), Thursday, December 8, 2011 3:50 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i say this every year, but seriously: if you want something nominated, you should do it yourself. and if you won't or haven't for some reason, and noone else does, then it probably wasn't going to get votes anyway, so either way there's no point in asking someone else to nominate something.

Matt DC i'm lovin your trax on spotify right now, too bad I won't make it through the next 17 hours of this playlist tonight.