Hello,
I'm back.
After a very successful poll last year - won by Eddy Current Suppression Ring - the Mess+Noise Users' Poll for the Best Australian Release returns.
To vote, simply PM me your top 5 Australian releases of 2007, in order, with 1 being the best and getting 5 points, 2 getting 4 points, and so on.
EPs, 7-inche Singles and Albums are eligible, as are reissues released in 2007. If you're unsure about a release, PM for a ruling.
Voting closes Sunday 19 January and the results will be announced on Mess+Noise shortly afterwards.
You're welcome to post your votes on the thread to impress and/or defy your fellow chats, but we're only counting legitimate PMs to M+N Best Local CD for the results.
Every legit voter will go into a draw to win a prize - we're not sure what it is, but it will probably involve a stack of free CDs.
Thanks,
The M+N Team
while yr at it can you delete glasshutch's account please?
Aw crap, not this again!
Also, isn't this a Saturday?
Here's the results of the 2006 Poll:
1 Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Eddy Current Suppression Ring (Album, Dropkick)
2 The Drones
Gala Mill (Album, ATP/Shock)
3 Bluebottle Kiss
Doubt Seeds (Album, Nonzero)
4 The Crayon Fields
Animal Bells (Album, Trifekta/Chapter)
5 Augie March
Moo, You Bloody Choir (Album, Sony BMG)
6 Ned Collette
Jokes And Trials (Album, Dot Dash)
7 Dappled Cities Fly
Granddance (Album, Speak n Spell)
8 Ground Components
An Eye For A Brow, A Tooth For A Pick (Album, Level Two)
9 Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males
Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth (Album, In-Fidelity)
10 Witch Hats
Wound Of A Little Horse (EP, In-Fidelity)
11 Laura Jean
Our Swan Song (Album, Unstable Ape)
12 My Disco
Cancer (Album, Numerical Thief/Stomp)
13 The Sleepy Jackson
Personality: One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird (Album, EMI)
14 You Am I
Convicts (Album, Virgin)
15 Holly Throsby
Under The Town (Album, Spunk!)
16 Sarah Blasko
What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have (Album, Dew Process)
17 Kill Devil Hills
The Drought (Album, Torn & Frayed)
18 Triosk
The Headlight Serenade (Album, Leaf)
19 Wolf & Cub
Vessels (Album, Dot Dash)
20 Because of Ghosts
The Tomorrow We Were Promised Today (Album, Feral Media)
Voting closes Sunday 20 January - thanks Socks, now where's your votes?
........Why?
Please PM your votes. Thanks to those who already have.
how many people voted last year?
sime nugent's happy hour. under-rated beauty.
Bumpety-bump
1) Richard In Your Mind - The Future Prehistoric
2) Aleks & The Ramps - Pisces Vs Aquarius
3) Pikelet - s/t
4) Tim Rogers - The Luxury of Hysteria
4) Love Of Diagrams - Mosaic
Were all these 2007 releases?
yes
Afternoon bump.
god, this year hasn't been very good for australian releases, now that i think on it
I can't think of many. I didn't get very involved.
1) Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
2) New Buffalo - Somewhere, Anywhere
I'm sure I've missed some. I can't even get to five off the top of my head.
I got to five without straining too hard.
clagg!
Keep 'em coming. PM and feel free to list them on the thread as well.
how many people voted last year?
Guess.
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This poll demonstrates why democracy doesn't work.
these people post amongst you frankie, it could be the post above! or the post below
it could be this post!
This poll demonstrates that only 60 people could be bothered voting.
i plain out forgot on the last weekend after spending time deliberating.
could've been 61.
don't think it would've changed the final results all that much though.
and its about 4 times the amount of people as the critics poll.
that was a bit dynamite, because everything was kind of as predicted from 20 to 2, but i really really was surprised by number 1.
Why?
Yeah but we have four times better taste
I dont think I've listened to 5 australian releases from 2007!
So the kind, astute and generous crew at Shiny have given us a collection of CDs for a voters prize draw:
Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia
Dardanelles – Mirror Mirror
The E.L.F – Stevie Nicks Hearts (EP)
British India – Guillotine
Bit By Bats – Go Go Go!
Sugar Army – Where Do You Hide Your Toys (EP)
Factoring in writing all the legit voters names on pieces of paper, cutting them up and doing a draw under government supervision, expect a winner at high noon.
What's high noon in EDST?
1:37
Ta!
And the winner is...
Destra.
No, it's FRENK.
PM on way requesting postal address for CD package, Frenk.
Thanks all - see you in January 2009.
sees frenk sheepishly ducking into Red Eye with an armful of albums to sell secondhand
hello! i just arrived home post gig/djing/dancing like a sexy fuck and found out i won! woo! fangs yawl involved for letting me get some sounds simply for going through the arduous task of PMing a black box some of my ear's favoured sound. LOVE! even more assurance i'll be wasting time i could be getting bored deathly and not baiting Alex for the remainder of 08. Peace love & stuff & things's. Let's vote one of my bands in next year, yeah folks? f
could (otherwise)
He's drunk. Now look what you've done!
splitting his personal vote 65 ways...