POPTIMISTS READERS POLL 2007: OM NOM NOM NOMINATIONS

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's the biggest poll of the year, started a week earlier than last year because I've realised I get to demob for Christmas spectacularly early this year, hurrah.

Basically, as last year, fill in the poll, and then the most nominated things will be presented in a series of other polls through the rest of December to determine 1x (or indeed 12x) winner. Easy! There's no specific 'closing date' on this poll, but obviously once we've voted on a category that's that.

EDIT: I fucked up and put "less" instead of "more" on the last question. So what I will do is ask both in the final poll, with the same nominations for each! Solved!

[Poll #1102127]

Where though is the single of the year/track of the year poll, surely the most important? Well, BECAUSE it's the most important it's going to be its own separate thing, results announced in the new year, so the voting for that won't start for quite a while.

Comments

Last Year's Results

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Track of the year: Cansei De Ser Sexy - "Let's Make Love And Listen Death From Above"
Lifetime Achievement award: James Brown
Act of the year: Girls Aloud
Most awful thing: Sandi Thom
Other pop thing of 2006: YouTube
Argument of the year: The Paris Hilton Wars
Best to dance to 2006: The Knife - "We Share Our Mother's Health"
Video of the year: Fergie - "Fergalicious"
Genre of the year: R&B and Teenpop (tied)
Album of the year: The Knife - "Silent Shout"

("Genre of the year" has been replaced with "Trend of the year" this time)

Less is MOAR

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hoist by my own muskrat petard! The final question is meant to be what do you want to see MORE of on Poptimists, not less! Too late to change it now I guess.

Re: Less is MOAR

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aha that makes more sense :)

I shall change my answer accordingly!

I for one would like to see more popstars in Santa hats.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Poptimists video club (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/tag/video+club) might be helpful for the video category.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I can't think of anything for most of these categories :(

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OK I thought of a few things now. These categories don't really reflect how I think about pop at all though.

Genre of the year is cosmic disco obv.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I nominated something in every category but some nominations were pretty suspect and I thought for no more than 30 seconds per nom. I will revise as necessary.

Q: Are we allowed to make more than one nom in a category?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm not stopping ya - I think last year multiple noms were quite handy for filling out the final ballots.

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

Act of the year:
Antiguo Autómata Mexicano (AAM)

Live musical experience of the year:
Daft Punk (duh)

Argument of the year:
death of Oink, was it really a tragedy, etc. (it was mostly a horrid argument across the blogosphere, but it certainly separated the curds and the whey, imho)

Best thing to dance to in 2007:
Tony Senghore - mix mid-2007 available via Myspace email to the man himself

Most horrible musical thing 2007:
Burial

Most fanciable being of the year:
Burial (bastard knows how to market self)

Lifetime Achievement Award:
David Kilgour (great tour in the U.S.)

Video of the year:
Teriyaki Boyz feat. Kanye West "I Still Love H.E.R."

Other pop thing of the year (NB not singles/tracks):
the In Rainbows site

Album of the year:
Justice - †

Trend of the year:
Justice/Ed Banger recs.

Thing you want to see less of on Poptimists in 2008! (apart from polls):
nothing

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be a pain Mr Mackro - can you put them on the poll too, cos otherwise I won't see them when I'm quickly trying to do the ballots for each category!

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

No pain at all! Did so. thanks. :)

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Something tells me that Blackout is going to run away with album of the year here...