Gummy Awards 2008: Polls Are Open!
Now that it's almost December, you've no doubt been thinking about the best entertainment offerings of the year. You also probably haven't cast a vote for anything in weeks! So now is a perfect time for you to make your 2008 favorites official. It's the third time we've turned to our readers to rank the best releases of the last twelve months. This year is more fun because Videogum is on board. So in addition to asking you to rate this year's musical highlights, we wanna know the best TV show, movie, and Web video.
The categories are...
- Best Album
- Best Music Video
- Best Live Act
- Indie Rock Crushes
- Most Overrated Act
- Best Music Blog -- Aside From Stereogum ;)
- Best TV Show
- Best Movie
- Best Web Video
As always, there are no nominees (except for the Web Video category), so the race is wide open. Once you start typing in your choice, the fields will suggest likely candidates based on your spelling. Please use this auto-fill if your desired pick pops up! It will save us so much time tallying, because formatting and spelling will be consistent. (You can vote for whatever you want, even if auto-fill doesn't suggest it. Once a few people suggest the same thing, it automatically gets added to the auto-fill suggestions.) One randomly selected entrant will receive CDs of the Top 50 Best Album winners, courtesy of Beck's, as well as a TBD gift from Videogum (UPDATE: Videogum is contributing a one-year 3-DVD-at-a-time subscription to Netflix.). So use your real e-mail address in the form so we can contact you if you win. One vote per person, and voting closes 12/2.
Coming soon: details on our Gummy Awards live event in NYC, which will double as Stereogum's 5th Anniversary party.
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Posted at 4:00 PM in The Gummy Awards
Also, FYI -- Third Eye Blind's album isn't out 'til February.
Score = 13
Top Albums of the Year (in order):
1)MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
2)Of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping
3)Wolf Parade- At Mt. Zoomer
4)Deerhunter- Microcastle
5)Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
Score = -37
MGMT was last year. The physical release was mid 2007 with the physical coming out in December.
Score = 2
Re: your list,
1)Major label, teen pop band posing as indie rockers (and last year)
2)Kevin Barnes turning to coke, disco and egoism
3)Lackluster sophomore album
4)Yeah, pretty good
5)Are you joking?
Score = -21
Can Helio Sequence win something for the comeback of the year? Brandon Summers is the Kerry Wood of Indie Rock.
http://www.evri.com/organization/the-helio-sequence-0x39ba8.html
Score = 6
chris, right on with helio. i voted for their album in the top 3. nothing revolutionary but it's extremely solid and i keep going back to it.
Score = 1
can we throw in alice glass as a pop-up for indie rock hotties?
Score = -6
you just have to get a handful of people to enter her name the exact same way and it'll start popping up
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a.) microcastles / weird era cont. + in ear park
b.) why the fuck can't I choose 30 rock?
Score = 3
you can! just type it in there. there was a very small error that kept 30 rock from popping up, but it should be working now and all the write-ins for it are counted.
Score = 0
After seeing Wolf Parade last week, Dan Boeckner is my indie rock man-crush.
Score = 2
I'm more of a Spencer Krug man myself. But I can respect your choices...
Score = 4
mary pearson from high places would be nice, too.
Score = 5
She got my vote.
Score = 1
EVIL URGES
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I'm highly suspicious of that pick.
Score = 11
It would be a peanut butter pudding surprise.
Score = 2
oh this feeling i wonderful, don't you ever turn it off.
Score = -1
I'm amazed by that pick
Score = 0
Off the record, I would agree...
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this is why i love indie music. there is no other genre or scene or whatever that has so much fucking diversity. el guincho, and on the other side fleet foxes, portishead, and of Montreal. Then look at the top forty.
my fave albums are
1) MGMT Oracualr Spectacular(still counts because this got famous this year and would have gotten consideration last year if the album came out in time, plus every single track is amazing)
2) Portishead - Third (after the billionth listen this album still gives me shivers)
3) tie between
She & Him - Volume One (i love her and she is my indie crush)
Crystal Castles (never thought id like electro this much)
Bon Iver (so fucking soulful i'm leaning towards this one)
overrated would be the hold steady too boring
Score = 0
heads up - vivian girls are listed as vivial girls on the gummy site...not sure what vivial is but it sounds like something that happens at the gynocolegist.
ps most over rated band: the v girls
Score = 5
ra ra riot, tv on the radio, dr dog, white denim, okkervil river, dodos, walkmen
Score = 2
You guys -- you can vote for whatever you want, even if auto-fill doesn't suggest it. Once a few people suggest the same thing, it automatically gets added to the auto-fill suggestions.
Score = 0
I tried to vote for mongol and it said i didn't vote
Score = 0
A vote for Mongol is a vote for nothing!
Score = 2
I'm so excited for year end lists.
Score = 5
I really wish it was more of a profile than a "submit" deal. Then when I make my list and go "oh fuck...what about ___" two minutes later...I could go back and fix it. Sad day.
Score = 2
Best Albums...TVOTR, Fleet Foxes, White Fang, Colourmusic, Vampire Weekend, Langhorne Slim, Deerhunter, M83, The Hold Steady
Score = 6
Fuck this rigged shit. Any best of the year list that won't let me vote for Lupe Fiasco's The Cool Doesn't deserve any votes.
I bet if I voted for some fuck up like lil' wayne it woud count.
No wonder you have a tough time getting more than 10 comments in a post these days (with the exception of this post, of course).
Score = -13
You can vote for whatever you want, even if auto-fill doesn't suggest it.
The Cool came out in 2007, though, so you shouldn't vote for that.
Score = 6
Lupe's record came out the last week or so of 2007, so I don't think it was really eligible for last year's voting. If it was eliglble, it certainly didn't make its mark until this year.
And no, it wouldn't let me vote for it. If the auto fill doesn't show up, then your ballot is marked with an asterix and you are forced to change.
Score = 4
Okay, then why is the form is not letting me vote for Evangalista - Hello, Voyager no matter which of the three blanks I try?
Score = 0
I don't care for music. I thought this site was about chewing gum.
Score = 15
Life's the same, I'm chewing in stereo.
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All my chewing is on vinyl, which makes me the ultimate hipster.
Score = -2
Best Live Act was easily Tegan and Sara... not many bands these days can sell out 4 nights in L.A. and have half the audience sleeping on the sidewalk every night waiting to get in again. That was pure craziness.
Score = 1
Tokyo Police Club, Destroyer, Wolf Parade, Devotchka, Beck, Vampire Weekend and lets throw in Dr. Dog's fantastic album.
Also Passion Pits "Sleepyhead" video deserves acknowledgment in the video department
and, as always, Radiohead for most overrated. they are good.. i really liked Rainbows.... But people act like they are gods. they are good. calm the hell down. The Hold Steady belong here too... (Aw who am i kidding, all the indie hipsters are just going to vote for the killers anyways)
- * (Dexter = best show on tv)
Score = -9
a) in rainbows came out in 2007, so no need to campaign against it
b) radiohead is overrated but tokyo police club released one of the best albums of the year? i think you're confused.
Score = 0
I'm voting for Merriweather Post Pavillion for this year, next year, and the year after that
Score = 2
In Ear Park FTW
Score = -1
Pretty sure that AOTY is Santogold, though the new Q-Tip is making a strong showing on my short list.
Score = 0
Also, Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane -- pretty tough to beat that or Santogold imo
Score = -1
what the hell should i put for best music video?
Score = 2
Bjork - Wanderlust...definitely! By far my favourite. I couldn't think of many others either.
Score = 4
Modest Mouse made a hilarious video for "People As Places as People"... was that this year or last though?
Score = 1
Portishead - The Rip
Score = 0
Vampire Weekend gets my vote. I don't care how many blogs love them and how many blogs hate them- their album is spectacular, and that's all that matters to me. It came out ten months ago, but for me, it still holds up beautifully.
Also, I don't care if she doesn't release a new song for ten years, Karen O will always get my vote for indie rock crush... though it's awfully hard for her to hold off Feist year after year, as she's been doing for almost half a decade now.
Score = 0
Karen O, without a doubt, has a look that you either love or loathe. I'm afraid that I fall into the latter when it comes to Miss O. I've had this argument too many times and it's an argument I can't win. I imagine this view isn't very popular in the gummy world but that's ok.
Feist > Karen O in a runaway
Score = 3
In Rainbows came out very late last year, and they toured this year and all the fanboys went nuts this year over them. i dont think a band has to release an album This year to have the title of most overrated band. its band, not album...
Score = 0
Hey guys, make sure to show Why? - Alopecia some love. It came out many blog years ago, but it definitely worth your vote.
Score = 1
Doesn't seem to be allowing me to submit it if i don't pick one of the drop-down selections....
Score = 0
(If you try to submit it after leaving any of the areas blank. To fix, just open it again and start over.)
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vote anna spence from annuals for indie crush. see her in person and you'll know why
Score = 1
music in 2007 > 2008. but i must say my album of the year is Thee Oh Sees - The Masters Bedroom... check it out
Score = 0
if you dont vote fleet foxes you dont have a soul
Score = -2
whew, good thing i voted them most overrated then!
1) deerhunter
2) sigur ros
3) of Montreal (had to write this in, wtf)
Score = -3
whatever happens, fleet foxes are winning album of the year on pitchfork, so dont get too worried, and pitchfork is the only thing that matters.
Score = 0
lol, if fleet foxes win any kind of award for anything other than making decent, pleasant, inoffensive music, i'll be shocked
Score = 0
My top 3 albums were
1.) Deerhunter
2.) Portishead
3.) M83
but there were many that came too close, like Marnie Stern, Sigur Ros, Wolf Parade, of Montreal, Plants & Animals, TVOTR, Lykke Li, and yes, Bloc Party.
Score = 4
I mean, its easy to call fleet foxes overrated, but im sure i speak for everyone who has seen them this past year, that they in fact deserve all the praise. and i like all the helio sequence votes, very good album, they deserve most underrated
Score = 0
I gave Okkervil River's "Lost Coastlines" my vote for best video, because it's the only music video I remember seeing this year.
Score = 1
Number one album belongs to Sigur Ros.
And more people need to start watching Supernatural. Seriously, if that show was a women, I would ask it out and be turned down.
Score = 0
Best albums
1. Fleet Foxes
2. White Fang
3. Okkervil River
Most overrated: Wolf Parade, and yes i've seen them live
Score = -3
1. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle
3. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts
Overrated: (this album) Islands - Arm's
Score = 0
Why Langhorne Slim is not the biggest band in America, I'll never know!
Score = 1
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Alegranza!, El Guincho
Watercurses EP, Animal Collective
Mediocre, Ximena Sarinana
...., Sigur Ros
The Carter III, Lil' Wayne
Little Joy, Little Joy
Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
MTV Unplugged, Julieta Venegas
Hoy A Las Ocho, Hello Seahorse!
Score = 0
are people suggesting that Vampire Weekend does not deserve most overrated act? I find them ok, just plain ok. Nothing to fuzz about.
BEST VIDEO was Bright Tomorrow by Fuck Buttons!
Score = -1
All of these were easy except for Best Web Video. I was torn between - "You Can Drink This Shit And It Ain't Butter", Bill O'Reilly Flips Out, and Zach Galifianakis For Absolut Vodka. Touch choice. It doesn't look good for my other choices...all the ones mentioned here in the comments so far would have filled my "most overrated" section.
Score = 0
hercules and love affair for best album.
and yes, vampire weekend is overrated. fun, but overrated.
Score = -2
T-Pain
Can't Believe It
Video of the Year
Score = 0
Guys, glaring omission just came to me: for Best Web Video, Akon calls T-Pain.
Score = 2
I forgot about Born Ruffians. Loving that album.
And Tilly and the Wall.
Score = 0
EVIL URGES!
Score = -1
don't forget those amazing EP's though.
by Antony & The Johnsons, and by Air France.
do these count?
Score = 0
Have to say that our band wins new category: "Criminally Overlooked Album of 2008"
Top other artists: 1. Portishead, 2. M83, 3. Crystal Castles
myspace.com/microfilmmusic
Score = -9
I tried to vote twice and each time it wouldn't go through because of a "parse error' with an "unexpected" semi-colon. I tried to open it a third time and I got the same thing.
Score = 0
goodness! BEACH HOUSE PEOPLE!!!
Score = 6
living things 'let it rain" is definately best song of 2008 along with evil urges as best album..and indy rock crush would be Lillian Berlin with kate moss in the just cavalli ad..sexy
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