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[Undercooked Sausage]

do we still pm these? best video britney spears - womanizer eh hold on let me think about this, just wanted to get mine on the top of a new page

[Paul]

do we still pm these?

You can post it if you want.

[Paul]

-Best Album Tracks
1. Brendan Canning – Love Is New
2. The Hold Steady – Lord, I’m Discouraged
3. Jonathan Richman – When We Refuse To Suffer
4. My Morning Jacket - Librarian
5. Land of Talk – It’s Okay
6. Gonzales – Let’s Ride
7. The Gaslight Anthem – High Lonesome
8. Weezer - Heartsongs
9. Los Campesinos! – This Is How You Spell “HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics”
10. TV on the Radio - DLZ

-Best Album Openers
1. The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer
2. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
3. Mates of State – Getting Better
4. Ida Maria – Oh my God
5. Conor Oberst – Cape Canaveral
6. Coldplay – Life in Technicolor
7. Ne-Yo - Closer
8. Los Campesinos! – Death to Los Campesinos!
9. She & Him – Sentimental Heart
10. Laura Marling - Ghosts

-Best Album Closers
1. Bon Iver – Re: Stacks
2. The Black Keys – Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be
3. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Go Away
4. Conor Oberst – Milk Thistle
5. Young Jeezy – My President (feat. Nas)
6. Girl Talk – Play Your Part (pt. 2)
7. Hayes Carll – She Left Me For Jesus
8 . Jenny Lewis – Sing A Song For Them
9. Old 97’s – The One
10. R.E.M. – I’m Gonna DJ

-Artists of the Year
1. Kanye West
2. Vampire Weekend
3. Girl Talk
4. Lil Wayne
5. Jay Reatard
6. My Morning Jacket
7. TV on the Radio
8. Weezer
9. Elvis Costello
10. Coldplay

-Videos of the Year
1. Feist – I Feel It All
2. Weezer – Pork and Beans
3. Brendan Canning – Churches Under The Stairs
4. LCD Soundsystem – New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
5. Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
6. Kanye West - Heartless
7. Stars – Bitches in Tokyo
8. Kevin Drew – Lucky Ones
9. Maroon 5 – If I Never See Your Face Again feat. Cross (Swizz Beatz remix)
10. Los Campesinos! – Death to Los Campesinos!

-Best Music-Related Movies
1. Walk Hard

-Best Live Acts
1. Broken Social Scene
2. Kanye West
3. Neil Young
4. Jonathan Richman
5. Wilco
6. Old 97’s
7. DeVotchKa
8. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
9. Gogol Bordello
10. Butch Walker

-Biggest Letdowns
1. Counting Crows – Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
2. Ben Folds – Way To Normal
3. Ghostland Observatory – Robotique Majestique
4. Black Kids – Partie Traumatic

-Best Music-Related TV Performance
1. TV on the Radio on Letterman
2. My Morning Jacket on Austin City Limits
3. Conan O’Brien – “Blue Moon of Kentucky”
4. Nicole Atkins on Conan
5. The Pretenders on Letterman
6. Jenny Lewis on Conan
7. Wilco on SNL
8. Adele on SNL
9. Ben Folds, Regina Spektor and Jason Sudakis on Conan
10. The Killers on SNL

-Best Music-Related Pop Culture Moments
1. Barack Obama references “A Change Is Gonna Come” on Election Night
2. Jack McBrayer in the “Touch My Body” video
3. Girls cry when David Cook beats David Archuleta
4. That Onion article about vinyl
5. Jay-Z covers “Wonderwall”
6. Jim DeRoGatis and Greg Kot go on Conan, hate on the Doors
7. Journey finds its new singer on YouTube
8. Weezer’s video gimmicks
9. Radiohead sneaky top 40 hit
10. The Animal Collective listening party

-Best SOMB Mixes
1. SOMB Meltdown
2. Mitchell Q1
3. Mr. Poon’s “Just For Fun: 26 Fantastic Tunes by Jonathan Richman”
4. Mitchell Q3
5. Mitchell Q2

-Biggest WTF Song
1. Soulja Boy – YAHHH! (feat. Arab)
2. Weezer – The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
3. Third Eye Blind – Non-Dairy Creamer
4. My Morning Jacket – Highly Suspicious
5. Lil Wayne – Playin’ With Fire
6. Huey Lewis and the News – Pineapple Express
7. Girl Talk – Hands in the Air
8. Bruce Springsteen – A Night With The Jersey Devil
9. Andrew W.K. – McLaughlin Groove
10. Cat Power – I Feel

-Worst Single of 2008
1. Pussycat Dolls – When I Grow Up
2. Nelly – Party People (feat. Fergie)
3. Ray J – Sexy Can I
4. Third Eye Blind – Non-Dairy Creamer
5. Santana – Into the Night (feat. Chad Kroeger)
6. Flobots - Handlebars
7. David Archuleta - Crush
8. Buckcherry - Sorry
9. Nickleback – Gotta Be Somebody
10. Madonna – 4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake)

-Best New Artist of 2008
1. The Gaslight Anthem
2. Hercules and Love Affair
3. She & Him
4. The Last Shadow Puppets
5. Ida Maria

-Best Cover Song
1. Gnarls Barkley – Reckoner (Radiohead)
2. Conor Oberst – Kodachrome (Paul Simon)
3. Allison Moorer – Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith)
4. Constantines and Feist – Islands In The Stream (Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton)
5. Wilco and Fleet Foxes – I Shall Be Released (The Band/Bob Dylan)
6. Ted Leo – The Spirit of Radio (Rush)
7. Punch Brothers – Poor Places (Wilco)
8. Hot Chip – Sensual Seduction (Snoop Dogg)
9. Duffy – Ready For The Floor (Hot Chip)
10. Black Kids – Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover (Sophie B. Hawkins)

-Worst Album Cover
1. Kings of Leon – Only By The Night (UK)
2. Madonna – Hard Candy
3. Santogold - Santogold
4. Randy Jackson’s Music Club
5. Britney Spears - Circus
6. CSS - Donkey
7. Megapuss - Surfing
8. Ludacris – Theater of the Mind
9. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology
10. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

-Best Album Cover
1. Beck – Modern Guilt
2. Weezer - Weezer
3. The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of Understatement
4. Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst
5. Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim
6. The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
7. The Walkmen – You & Me
8. Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
9. Nas - Nas
10. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

[Hans Christian Anderson]

artist of the year:
1. blitzen trapper
2. tv on the radio
3. kanye west
4. bradford cox (deerhunter/atlas sound)
5. nick cave (+ the bad seeds)
6. lil wayne
7. portishead
8. jenny lewis
9. mark kozelek (sun kil moon/mark kozelek)
10. jason pierce (spiritualized)
11. dan boeckner + spencer krug (wolf parade)

best new bands:
1. throw me the statue
2. vivian girls
3. fleet foxes
4. the dutchess and the duke

best album covers:
1. jenny lewis - acid tongue (either cover)
2. beck - modern guilt
3. kanye west - 808s and heartbreak
4. throw me the statue - moonbeams
5. lil wayne - the carter III
6. deerhunter - microcastle
7. the walkmen - you and me
8. weezer
9. vivian girls - s/t
10. sun kil moon - april
11. fleet foxes - s/t
(also...the covers for the "machine gun" and "the rip" singles would maybe take the cake for this whole list, but it's album covers not single covers dammit)

[surlacarte]

-Artists of the Year
3. Girl Talk
8. Girl Talk

I assume this was an accident?

-Worst Album Cover
10. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

-Best Album Cover
10. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

I assume this was on purpose?

[Ned Braden]

-Best Music-Related Movies
1. Walk Hard

Agree 100%. I completely forgot about this category.

Best Music Related Movie:

1. Walk Hard

[Paul]

-Artists of the Year
3. Girl Talk
8. Girl Talk

I assume this was an accident?

Yes, I moved Girl Talk at the last second and I guess I forgot to switch something else in. Thanks for catching it

-Worst Album Cover
10. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

-Best Album Cover
10. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

I assume this was on purpose?

Yes.

[Paul]

Remember, the last day to submit lists is Saturday!

[SonicAlligator]

-Best Music-Related Movies
1. Walk Hard

Agree 100%. I completely forgot about this category.

Best Music Related Movie:

1. Walk Hard

That was the only category I didn't fill out in this poll because I couldn't think of anything. Thanks for the heads up Paul.

Best Music Related Movie:

1. Walk Hard

[phlowtron]

best album tracks/best singles my best songs of the year- which ever category that fits in 51. Stereo Lab- Neon Beanbag 50. Blitzen Trapper- Furr 49. Gang Gang Dance- House Jam 48. Neon Neon- I Lust You 47. The Kills- Tape Song 46. Friendly Fires- Paris 45. Cut Copy- Out There On The Ice 44. Lykke Li- I’m Good. I’m Gone. 43. The Teenagers- Feeling Better 42. Crystal Castles- Vanished 41. Santogold- Light’s Out 40. Okkervil River- On Tour With Zykos 39. Crystal Castles- Courtship Dating 38. Neon Neon- I Told Her On Alderaan 37. Shearwater- Leviathan Bound 36. Crystal Castles Vs. Health- Crimewave 35. Mount Eerie- Voice in Headphones 34. Grovesnor- Drive Your Car 33. Santogold- You’ll Find a Way 32. The Black Keys- Psychotic Girl 31. Alias- Well Water Black 30. M83- Kim & Jessie 29. Black Mountain- Tyrants 28. The Walkmen- In the New Year 27. Lil Wayne- 3 Peat 26. No Kids- The Beaches All Closed 25. Bon Iver- Flume 24. Foals- Balloons 23. Human Highway- The Sound 22. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson- Buriedfed 21. Liam Finn- Second Chance 20. Frightened Rabbit- The Modern Leper 19. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy- So Everyone 18. TV on the Radio- Stork and Owl 17. Animal Collective- Water Curses 16. MGMT- Time to Pretend 15. Bon Iver- Skinny Love 14. The Dodos- Ashley 13. Okkervil River- Lost Coastlines 12. Wolf Parade- Kissing the Beehive 11. Cut Copy- Strangers in the Wind 10. Why?- The Vowels Pt. 2 9. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson- The Debtor 8. Fleet Foxes- Ragged Wood 7. MGMT- Electric Feel 6. Sigur Ros- Gobbledigook 5. No Kids- Bluster in the Air 4. Why?- The Hollows 3. Hot Chip- We’re Looking For A Lot of Love 2. MGMT- Kids 1. Fleet Foxes- Mykonos Biggest WTF songs 1. The Killers- Human 2. MGMT-Metanoia Worst song of the Year 1. My Morning Jacket- Highly Suspicious

[stphone]

Best Album Tracks
1.) Weezer - "Heart Songs"
2.) Lil' Wayne - "Let The Beat Build"
3.) Young Jeezy - "Circulate"
4.) Hercules and Love Affair - "Hercules' Theme"
5.) Harvey Milk - "Motown"

Artists of the Year
1.) Kanye West
2.) Lil' Wayne
3.) Weezer
4.) Jay Reatard
5.) Rihanna

Videos of the Year
1.) Beyonce - All The Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
2.) Lil' Wayne - Mrs. Officer
3.) Weezer - Pork & Beans
4.) Portishead - The Rip
5.) Solange Knowles - I Decided

Best Album Cover
1.) Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
2.) RZA - Digi Snacks
3.) Weezer - Weezer
4.) Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
5.) Santogold - Santogold

Biggest WTF Song
1.) Soulja Boy - YAAHHH!
2.) Weezer - The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

Best New Artists of 2008
1.) Hercules & Love Affair
2.) Santogold
3.) Laura Marling
4.) Air France
5.) Quiet Village

Best Music-Related Pop Culture Moments
1.) Barack Obama references "A Change Is Gonna Come" on Election Night
2.) You Can Vote However You Like

[Paul]

2.) You Can Vote However You Like

Good one. Somehow I had forgotten about this.

[Paul]

Just a reminder that tomorrow (Saturday) is the last day to vote! You can still vote in the miscellaneous polls even if you only want to do a couple of categories. The more people that vote in this poll, the more interesting the results turn out.

[killerparties]

Best Album Tracks
01. Earth – “Miami Morning Coming Down II (Shine)”
02. Marnie Stern - "Steely"
03. TV on the Radio – “Stork & Owl”
04. El Guincho – “Cuando maravilla fui”
05. Kanye West – “Robocop”
06. Sun Kil Moon – “Lost Verses”
07. Gang Gang Dance – “Vacuum”
08. Deadly Avenger – “The Wraith”
09. T.I. f/ The-Dream – “Like I Do”
10. Kanye West – “Street Lights”

Best Album Openers
01. Amadou & Mariam – “Sabali”
02. Laura Marling – “Ghosts”
03. Sun Kil Moon – “Lost Verses”
04. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Easy Does It”
05. The Notwist – “Good Lies”
06. The Mountain Goats – “Sax Rohmer #1”

Best Album Closers
01. Fleet Foxes – “Oliver James”
02. El Guincho – “Polca Mazurca”
03. Marnie Stern - "The Devil is in the Details"

Artists of the Year
01. Kanye West
02. T.I.
03. Earth
04. Lil Wayne
05. Portishead
06. Rihanna
07. Marnie Stern
08. Deerhunter
09. Sun Kil Moon
10. Young Jeezy

Videos of the Year
01. M83 – “Kim & Jessie”
02. Beyonce – “Singles Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”
03. Kanye West – “Heartless”
04. MGMT – “Kids”
05. Crystal Castles – “Vanished”
06. Kanye West - "Flashing Lights"
07. Marnie Stern - "Transformer"
08. Lil Wayne - "Mrs. Officer"
09. T.I. - "Whatever You Like"
10. Trai'D - "Gutta Bitch"

Biggest Letdowns (this is a category about albums)
01. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges

Best Music-Related TV Performance
01. T.I. & Rihanna @ the VMAs

Best Music-Related Pop Culture Moments (I wasn't gonna vote for this, but then I saw stphone's ballot)
01. "You Can Vote However You Like"
02. Kanye debuts "Love Lockdown" while singing alone, and slightly off-key, at the vma's

[taste the waste]

Best Album Tracks

1. Have a Nice Life - "Bloodhail"
2. Protest the Hero - "Palms Read"
3. Kanye West - "Welcome to Heartbreak" (top 5 single next year? probably)
4. Simon Bookish - "Portrait of the Artist as a Fountain"
5. Blank Dogs - "Blaring Speeches"
6. Fuck Buttons - "Bright Tomorrow"
7. Frightened Rabbit - "My Backwards Walk"
8. The Fall - "50 Year Old Man"
9. Boris - "My Neighbor Satan"
10. Langhorne Slim - "Tipping Point"


Best Album Openers

1. Harvey Milk - "Death Goes to the Winner"
2. Sun Kil Moon - "Lost Verses"
3. Lil Wayne - "3 Peat"
4. Genghis Tron - "Board Up the House"
5. Fuck Buttons - "Sweet Love for Planet Earth"
6. The Hold Steady - "Constructive Summer"
7. Move D and Benjamin Brunn - "Love the One You're With"
8. Trappers Cabin - "Welcome"
9. Melvins - "The Kicking Machine"
10. Black Mountain - "Stormy High"


Best Album Closers

1. Aidan John Moffat - "Hilary and Back"
2. Origin - "Antithesis"
3. Weezer - "The Angel and the One"
4. Bonnie Prince Billy - "I'll Be Glad"
5. Girl Talk - "Play Your Part (pt. 2)"
6. Lil Wayne - "Don't Get It"
7. Dodos - "God"
8. The Hold Steady - "Slapped Actress"
9. TV On the Radio - "Lover's Day"
10. Deerhunter - "Calvary Scars II/Aux Out"


Artists of the Year

1. T.I.
2. Lil Wayne
3. Jay Reatard
4. Blank Dogs
5. Fucked Up
6. Weezer
7. Kanye West
8. Portishead
9. Harvey Milk
10. Metallica


Best Album Cover

1. Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
2. Erykah Badu - "The Healer"
3. Sun Kil Moon - April
4. Madvillian - Madvilliany 2: The Madlib Remixes
5. Pyramids - Pyramids
6. Joose Keskitalo - Joose Keskitalo ja Kolmas Maailmanpalo
7. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
8. Off Minor - Some Blood
9. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
10. Fennesz - Black Sea

[James D]

Best Album Covers


1. Genghis Tron - Board Up the House

2. Coffins - Buried Dead

3. Intronaut - Prehistoricisms

4. Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life

5. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles


Worst Album Cover The World Has Ever Seen


1. Meshuggah - obZen

[theremin]

Another lazy list. For the most part I just pulled from other people's posts. Best Album Tracks: 1. Wrecking Ball - Mother Mother Best Album Openers: 1. Why - The Vowels, Part 2 2. MGMT - Time To Pretend 3. Drive By Truckers - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife Little Jackie - The Stoop Dead Confederate - Heavy Petting Tricky-Puppy Toy Black Angels - You On The Run Firewater - Borneo Hank III - The Grand Ole Opry (Ain't So Grand Anymore) Weezer - "Troublemaker" Movies: The Visitor Best Music-Related TV Performance 1. Kanye West performs "Love Lockdown" at the MTV VMAs 2. Wilco performs new song on The Colbert Report Pop Culture -Dr. Horrible -Another Spin For Vinyl Artists of the Year -John Zorn Kanye West -Videos of the Year LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love you, but you're bringing me down Kanye - Love Lockdown Kanye West - "Flashing Lights" Feist – I Feel It All Best New Artist MGMT Santogold -Best Record Label Tzadik Worst Single 01. Flobots - Handlebars SOMB Mixes: My EOY Mix Best Cover Wilco w/ Fleet Foxes - I Shall Be Released

[surlacarte]

Movies:
The Visitor

Nice

-Videos of the Year
Kanye West - "Flashing Lights"

Forgot about this. I didn't vote in this category, so I'm voting for this, if it's not too late.

[worrywort]

-Best Album Openers
1. Ida Maria - Oh My God
2. Laura Marling – “Ghosts
3. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
4. MGMT - Time To Pretend
5. Weezer - Troublemaker
6. Girl Talk - Play Your Part (Part 1)
7. M83 – You, Appearing

-Videos of the Year
10. The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses (Extreme Snogging! edition)
09. Justice - DVNO
08. Flight of the Conchords • Ladies of the World
07. Peter Fox - Alles neu
06. Feist - I Feel It All

05. Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
04. Gonzales - Working Together
03. Kanye west - Good Morning
02. Weezer - Pork and Beans
01. The BPA [ft. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal] - Toe Jam
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00. Sonseed - Jesus Is My Friend

-Best Music-Related Movies
07. Wall*E's use of Hello Dolly
06. Part Of The Weekend Never Dies
05. Reformat the Planet
04. Bananaz
03. Rachel Getting Married
02. Young @ Heart
01. Walk Hard

Best Live Acts
1. gogol bordello
2. Kanye West
3. Monotonix
4. Les Savy Fav
5. Weezer
6. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

Biggest Letdowns
1. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
2. The Futureheads - This Is Not The World
3. rem

-Best Music-Related TV Performance
Beijing Olympics, Opening Ceremony - 2,008 LED-embedded Fou drums

[The Luscious Phil]

OK here we go: Best Album Opener: 1) Fennesz - Black Sea 2) Matthew Ryan Vs. the Silver State - Dulce Et Decorum Est 3) Quiet Village - Victoria's Secret 4) Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses 5) TV on the Radio - Halfway Home Best Album Closer 1) High Places - From Stardust to Sentience 2) M83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain 3) TV on the Radio - Lover's Day 4) Castenets - After the Fall 5) Helios - Hollie Best Album Tracks 1) The Walkmen - New Country 2) Matthew Ryan - Jane, I Still Feel the Same 3) M83 - Too Late 4) The Walkmen - I Lost You 5) The Drive-By Truckers - A Ghost to Most 6) Frightened Rabbit - My Backwards Walk 7) Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping 8) Erykah Badu - Twinkle 9) Cut Copy - Strangers in the Wind 10) Marnie Stern - Shea Stadium Artist of the Year: 1) M83 2) Dan Friel 3) Matthew Ryan vs. The Silver State 4) TV on the Radio 5) The Walkmen Best New Artist 1) Women 2) Tallest Man on Earth (are we counting him, seeing as he released an ep prior to this year?) 3) Fleet Foxes 4) Fuck Buttons Best Albums Cover 1) Helios - Caesura 2) Weezer - Weezer 3) My Disco - Paradise 4) The Walkmen - You & Me 5) Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreak Biggest Letdowns 1) Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer 2) My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges 3) The Streets - Everything is Borrowed 4) Destroyer - Trouble in Dream 5) Bloc Party - Intimacy Best Record Labels: 1) Soul Jazz Records 2) Thrill Jockey 3) Jagjaguwar