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[Paul]

So turnout for these was pretty solid this year. We had about 31 posters vote, so we've got some interesting results. Sorry for the late start today. That is something we hopefully won't have to worry about for singles/albums polls later this week simply because the tabbing for those lists are done already. The categories we have for today are: -Best Album Tracks -Best Album Openers -Best Album Closers -Artists of the Year -Best Video -Best Live Acts -Biggest Letdowns -Best Album Cover -Best New Artist -Worst Single -Best Music Related Movies -Biggest WTF Songs -Best Label -Best Music-Related Pop Culture Moments -Best Cover Song -Best Music Related Books -Best Music-Related TV Perforamce -Best SOMB Mixes For most of these, we'll give the top 5-10 finishers (with a few exceptions). The first category should be up in a few minutes after some Google image searching.

[Mitchell]

First, is it too late to vote?

[Paul]

SOMB Record Labels of the Year:


#5.


Rough Trade


#4.



Merge Records


#3.



Relapse Records


#2.



Kranky




#1.



Roc-A-Fella

[Mitchell]

Good to see another placement in our end of year for the greatest record label in the history of music.

[James D]

Yay for Relapse.

[The Luscious Phil]

I might have put Roc-a-Fella at #3 for the year, but damn looking back on it, they had a stellar end to their year. good for them. and I also forgot Relapse. i don't love metal, but I picked up three different Relapse releases this year, and they were all stellar.

[Slackmo]

Label talk.

[solace]

i think i voted for Beggars Banquet, Sub Pop, Rough Trade and maybe 1 other

[plastic]

Glad to see Kranky so high, they're pretty damned consistent each year. Relapse too.

[Paul]

SOMB Mixes of the Year:


#5.

A Fond Farewell To Your Soul: New Order for the Non-New Order Fan
-The Good Dr Bill


1. “Temptation” (Original ‘82 12″)
2. “As it is When it Was” (Brotherhood)
3. “Ruined in a Day” (Republic, single)
4. “Confusion” (’87 Version from Substance)
5. “Love Less” (Technique)
6. “Turn the Heater On” (Keith Hudson cover, non-album BBC session)
7. “Your Silent Face” (Power, Corruption & Lies)
8. “Fine Time” (Technique, single)
9. “Elegia” (Low-Life)
10. “Lonesome Tonight” (Substance, “Thieves Like Us” b-side)
11. “Primtiive Notion” (Get Ready)
12. “Mesh” (1981-1982 EP, NOT the song mislabeled as “Mesh” on Substance)
13. “Dreams Never End” (Movement)
14. “Touched By the Hand of God” (Non-album single)
15. “Murder” (Limited non-album single)
16. “Leave Me Alone” (Power, Corruption & Lies)
17. “The Happy One” (theme music from TV special)

#4.



Wait, When Did Sweden Get Awesome? Vol. II
-Scarymuppet



#3.



SOMB Sounds Vol. 2

1. Montana - Winds of the Tooths
Inspired by an extraordinary clear night sky in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness amongst granite cliffs, old pines, and all that is still wild in the universe.

2. st. park - Sea

3. Twilight Revival/Tweed - Killers
Tweed plays guitar and sings in Chicago's Twilight Revival. The song "Killers" is taken from their 2007 self-titled debut.

4. Low Point Alumni/Triple Lindys - The Thick of It
I got tired of writing slow, introspective songs, went ahead and wrote a rocker. Was gunning for Son Volt, didn't quite end up that way.

5. Fox Paws/elastico - Book of All

6. Kinetic Android - Heart Attack

7. theremin - Doom & Gloom

8. Parka Bruthuz UK/Sid Hartha - Cauterize The Cure
Who says that the romance of bloodletting is dead?

9. Pauline York Band/Jimmy TKB - Foolish
"Foolish" was written and performed by Jimmy TKB and the Pauline York Band, and was issued as the second single on their 2007 LP, Get Down and Ride!

10. Creepy D/Seamus, Mr. Inches, Ashy Larry, Wolfden Robes and LA Mat - China High
It was recorded/mixed with four other tracks one night at King Size Sound Labs (on Western), by Dave Trumfio. Fueled by Winstons and High Life.

11. Flexible Products/lazarus - Funky Clavi

12. Butterfly Assassins/charleyscott, clunk, norton('s son) - Silvia II
"Sylvia II is one of the co-title tracks from the upcoming full-length debut by the Butterfly Assassins (due out in January 2008)."

13. Agrimorfee - Right!(?) or Wrong?(!)
This is an epic. Sit tight for about 6 1/2 minutes or so.

14. simakos - The Woods

15. Ghosts of Television/nic - Explosions

16. gleaman - We Almost Survived

17. Undercooked Sausage & Pavement Ist Rad - Judy & The Dream of Horses
"Judy And The Dream Of Horses" is an obscure B-side by talented members of The Mars Volta, Undercooked Sausage recorded the vocals sometime in summer of 2006 and Pavement Ist Rad ended up finishing the song over a year later. A noise masterpeice that reportedly could even made Pre-crisis Superman go deaf.


#2.



2007 Q2
-MitchellStirling

1) "Icky Thump" - The White Stripes
2) "Sick, Sick, Sick" - Queens of The Stone Age
3) "Fake Empire" - The National
4) "D.A.N.C.E." - Justice
5) "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" - Manic Street Preachers ft. Nina Peerson
6) "Man's Needs" (CSS Remix) - The Cribs
7) "Thou Shalt Always Kill" - Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobious Pip
8) "See You At The Lights" - The 1990's
9) "Foundations" - Kate Nash
10) "She's Got You High" - Mumm-Ra
11) "The Girls" - Calvin Harris
12) "Sirens" - Dizzee Rascal
13) "Ice Cream" - New Young Pony Club
14) "Motorcycle" - The Rumble Strips
15) "Earth Intruders" (Mark Stent's Extended Mix) - Björk
16) "Homecoming (Demo)" - Teenagers
17) "Oh Solitude!" - The Strange Death of Liberal England
18) "Umbrella" - Rihanna ft. Jay-Z
19) "Teenagers" - My Chemical Romance



#1.



The Mecca Of Macca
-Pavement Ist Rad and Sausage

[UselessRocker]

I might have put Roc-a-Fella at #3 for the year, but damn looking back on it, they had a stellar end to their year. good for them.

and I also forgot Relapse. i don't love metal, but I picked up three different Relapse releases this year, and they were all stellar.

Roc-A-Fella got my #1 vote. Quantity + quality.

[Paul]

SOMB Music-Related Book of the Year:

#1.



All Over But The Shouting: An Oral History of the Replacements by Jim Walsh


Honorable Mention:

"i dont read" - Sausage

[Mantana]

gfg

[Mitchell]

A worthy winner followed by a less worthy one.

[scarymuppet]

freeeeedom. talkin' 'bout freeeeeeeeeedom. i will fight. for the right. to live in freeeeedom.

[Paul]

SOMB Music-Related Movies of the Year:


#4.



The Future Is Unwritten


#3.



Runnin' Down A Dream: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers


#2.



Once




#1.



Control

[Mitchell]

Not even just a classic biopic, but a great (period) film period.

[Slackmo]

Shenanigans

[Paul]

SOMB Album Tracks of the Year:


#10.



Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Sons Of Cain


#9.



A Sunny Day In Glasgow - 5:15 Train


#8.



Jens Lekman - A Postcad To Nina


#7.



The Field - A Paw In My Face




#6.



Josh Ritter - The Temptation Of Adam



#5.



Explosions In The Sky - Birth And Death Of The Day


#4.



Kanye West - Champion


#3.



Feist - I Feel It All


#2.



Burial - Archangel




#1.



Radiohead - All I Need

[solace]

voted for #9, #4 & #1 sweet