2009 Readers Poll Results: Pt 2
Either Wagons are enjoying the greatest purple patch of their career, or they have a very powerful street team. After taking out Best Live Act honours yesterday, the Melbourne outfit have topped the Best Album category for their watershed record The Rise and Fall of Goodtown, outpolling the likes of Rowland S Howard, Mum Smokes, Crayon Fields and The Stabs.
Released through Spunk in April, Goodtown recently landed the band two publically voted EG Awards for Best Album and Best Group. It was accorded “On Rotation” status by M+N in May.
Speaking to M+N yesterday, singer Henry Wagon said the band have been overwhelmed by the recent slew of accolades. “I can’t believe we won these categories,” he said. “It’s truly humbling. The idea of beating the runners-up seems totally obscene to me. Thanks to everyone who voted. I think you may have made a blunder, but a very pleasing one for me.”
Despite a relentless touring schedule in ’09, Wagons show no signs of slowing down. They will perform at the Big Day Out in January, support US outfit Calexico in March and are in talks for a potential European tour in September. They will also begin work on the follow-up to Goodtown in late 2010.
Best Album
1. Wagons
The Rise and Fall of Goodtown (Spunk)
2. Rowland S Howard
Pop Crimes (Liberation Music)
3. Mum Smokes
Easy/House Music (Sensory Projects)
4. Crayon Fields
All The Pleasures of The World (Chapter Music)
5. The Stabs
Dead Wood (Spooky Records)
6. The UV Race
The UV Race (Aarght!)
7. St Helens
Heavy Profession (Dot Dash/Remote Control)
8. Sarah Blasko
As Day Follows Night (Dew Process)
9. Aleks and The Ramps
Midnight Believer (Stomp)
10. Eleventh He Reaches London
Hollow Be My Name (Good Cop Bad Cop/Inertia)
11. Love of Diagrams
Nowhere Forever (Unstable Ape/Remote Control)
12. Kes Band
Kes Band II (Mistletone)
13. Kid Sam
Kid Sam (Two Bright Lakes)
14. Pimmon
Smudge Another Yesterday (Preservation)
15. Grand Salvo
Soil Creatures (Preservation)
16. Ned Collette and Wirewalker
Over The Stones, Under The Stars (Dot Dash)
17. Songs
Songs (Popfrenzy)
18. HTRK
Marry Me Tonight (Blastfirstpetite)
19. I Heart Hiroshima
The Rip (Valve)
20. Kitchen’s Floor
Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress (RIP Society)
21. The Nation Blue
Rising Waters (Casadeldisco)
22. Tucker B’s
Nightmares in the Key of (((((WOW))))) (Low Transit Industries)
23. The Temper Trap
Conditions (Liberation Music)
24. Dappled Cities
Zounds (Speak N Spell)
25. Wolf & Cub
Science & Sorcery (Dot Dash)
26. Decoder Ring
They Blind The Stars, and the Wild Team (Inertia)
27. Philadelphia Grand Jury
Hope Is For Hopers (Boomtown)
28. Slug Guts
Down On The Meat (Stained Circles)
29. Oh Mercy
Privileged Woes (Casadeldisco)
30. Bridezilla
The First Dance (Inertia)
31. The Dacios
Monkeys Blood (Solar/Sonar)
32. Useless Children
Sky Is Falling (Exo Records)
33. The Mess Hall
For The Birds (Ivy League)
34. Batrider
Why Can’t We Be Together (Low Transit Industries)
35. Kill Devil Hills
Man, You Should Explode (Torn & Frayed)
36. Paul Dempsey
Everything Is True (EMI)
37. Dave Graney
Knock Yourself Out (Cockaigne/Fuse)
38. Alps
Alps of New South Whales (Beat Is Murder Records)
39. Yves Klein Blue
Ragged & Ecstatic (Dew Process)
40. No Through Road
Winner. (Low Transit Industries)
41. Little Birdy
Confetti (Eleven)
42. Seaworthy
1897 (12k)
43. The Bats
The Guilty Office (Mistletone)
44. Leader Cheetah
The Sunspot Letters (Spunk)
45. Bachelorette
My Electric Family (Mistletone)
46. The Native Cats
Always On (Consumer Productions)
47. Psuche
Psuche (Two Bright Lakes)
48. Talons
Talons (Rice Is Nice)
49. Darren Sylvester
Darren Sylvester (Unstable Ape)
50. Jordie Lane
Sleeping Patterns (Vitamin Records)
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For winners of Best Reissue, Best Live Act, Best Comeback and Best New-ish Act click here.
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Surprised by some of the records at the bottom compared by those at the top, but there y'all go with your terrible taste again. Rowland S Howard... tsk tsk.
C'mon Rowland shoulda won this one for sure.
I'm gonna cop it, but Wagons have like 14 members.
That'd mean more members and friends and what not vote'n....
Sorry.
YAY FOR WAGONS!
It might come as a surprise to learn this is a popularity contest, and Wagons are undeniably more popular and more populist that Rowland S.
Just sayin', despite the elitist bullshit that goes on in the discussions, most people don't give a fuck.
Never even heard of Wagons before..?
Only one way to settle this: Google Fight
Rise and Fall of Goodtown: 167, 000
Pop Crimes: 32, 500
Neither have I, bar people I know saying
''You don't know Henry? What!''
Easy/House Music: 20, 200
All The Pleasures of The World : 39, 300, 000
Crayon Fields wuz robbed
i think it's a pretty well-rounded, varied poll. well done, everyone.
More proof that I'm way out of touch
hooray for others digging htrk. great record.
Surprised by lack of love for Bachelorette, Psuche, Darren Sylvester and Bridezilla (as well as many others) given the coverage for some of them here.
not guitarry enough?
I'm out of touch...
ok, ok... which of you arseholes voted for Paul Dempsey?
Modi
Yep. Seven thousand times. I deployed a bot specifically for it, which is hiding out in every computer that opened the M+N site during the poll.
Now it's reverted to stealing your email addresses and trying to sell people iPhones
Thanks Dudes for putting our Two Bright Lakes releases in your top 50!
Wagons are a covers band, like Sedan were.
Don't people just vote for their friends' bands?
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When's it gonna get hip to be actually happy with someone winning something?
Web comment snarkiness at success is bird shit white boring.
Anyway, the whole lot of acts in the top 50 list is fricken ace and shows that there's a shitload of good local stuff to listen to right now. Thanks to the list I've got a better guide on what to buy next so wahey everyone wins.
Farken stuffed up the quote button. Ye oldde 66s and 99s from now on for me.
oh ok just people sooking and carrying on like pork chops. fair nuff
Speaking for myself, I'm pretty flattered that my band's record rated so well. Speaking for the other two dudes as well, its hard (and it feels weird) to imagine ourselves in a million years to be a band that people like, so thanks to out friends (and friendly listeners) who give a fuck. We never dreamed of being ''in'' with any crowd, all we need now is a virulent backlash to know we've really achieved something.
In a million years some monkeys will dig up your CD in the decayed ruins of civilisation and like it because it's shiny.
Fucking Stabs with all their hipster baiting ''we don't care'' bullshit.
Who won the prize pack, BTW?
won't be announced until early '09. the prize was to win all the ''on rotation'' records for the year - and it's not over yet!
Can't wait!
you didn't win.
I thought my comment was demonstrative of exactly the opposite sentiment. But its all good. Whatever.
And if I say ''I hope I win the prize pack'' on this thread, does that mean my statistical chances of winning are automatically decimated?
I think he was taking the piss, buffy.
Ah my old brain aint what it used to be. When I was young, my brain was like a scorching opening album track, and as a young adult I fashioned it into a brain akin to the killer single that sits about three songs into an album. Lately, though, it feels like Forster's penultimate dud song. Soon, my brain will be like the annoying fifteen minutes of silence that precedes the pointless secret unlisted track at the album's end...
Surely that means it will promptly return to being a hidden gem?
Maybe I'll even get it repackaged with additional material and extensive notes!
With a free download!
Sorry, buffy. I was definitely having a lend. I am as surprised as you that people like your band
Early '10
Harsh! But funny.
The same could be said of your band, FT...