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Post by 3post1jack1 on Jan 31, 2012 18:01:00 GMT -5
Top 11 Artists of the Past 11 Years: OR, a game to help distract you until the lineup drops
2/6/2012 UPDATE:
Poll is up, will run for the next seven days. You can choose up to 4 artists. You can change your vote(s) at any time before the lock.
THE RULES:
"Artist" refers to musical artist, whether it be a band/solo musician/DJ etc. The artist must have been in some way active between 2000 and 2011. This means they could have played shows or released music.
What we are looking for is your subjective opinion. Not necessarily the greatest artist of the past 11 years, or the most definitive artist of the past 11 years. Just what artist meant a lot to you in the past 11 years, whose output you enjoyed. Great tunes great shows etc.
THE PROCESS:
This is the nomination thread. For a nomination to be considered, at least two people must nominate an artist. There is no limit to the amount of artists you nominate, but I ask you to work hard and be as concise as possible in your nominations since I'll have to comb through this thread to record all the names. So don't just list your entire iTunes library. I will arbitrarily decide if you nominated too many and ignore your awesome list. Yeah I bet you though it was a sweet list of seminal artists but now postjack ignored it. Ha! You messed up.
I'll let this thread run until 5:00pm CST February 5th (this Sunday). I will compile the list of nominations. The final list will not exceed 35 names, since that is the maximum number of poll options we can have. If the list exceeds 35 names I'll cut nominees based on number of nominations.
I'll get the poll up as quickly as possible, and will let it run through February 13th, which hopefully is the day before the lineup announcement.
If the lineup announcement falls before February 13th, I reserve the right to abandon this project in favor of celebration with SOME dancing in my house.
Feel free to go as off topic as you want in this thread. After all, this game belongs to YOU, the inforoo community! Mostly it belongs to me though. like 80% mine.
I actually want to take this time do some campaigning for bands I would like to win. I think the best candidate to win this title are bands that produced, entertained, and "blew up" sometime after the new millennium. I also weigh in amount of albums produced, accolades received, longevity of popularity, and diversity of music selection.
Gogol Bordello
Gogol Bordello's first single was released in 1999, and since then they have released five full-length albums, and one EP. In 2005 the band signed to punk label SideOneDummy Records. On 27 April 2010 Gogol Bordello made its major record label debut with Transcontinental Hustle on Rick Rubin's American Recordings, a subsidiary of Columbia Records/Sony Music Entertainment. Many of the songs on Transcontinental Hustle were inspired by Hütz's move to Brazil. .[3] The band has toured tirelessly throughout Europe and America. They have made appearances at numerous international festivals and toured with such diverse bands as Primus, Flogging Molly, and Cake. In an interview with NPR, frontman Eugene Hütz cites Jimi Hendrix and Parliament-Funkadelic as among the band's main musical influences.[2] They have mentioned Manu Chao, Fugazi, Zvuki Mu, Karamelo Santo, Sasha Kolpakov and The Clash as influences as well. In August 2010 the band was rumored to participate in the Ukrainian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011,[4] but the band soon denied this.[5] Gogol Bordello performed seven shows with System of a Down throughout May 2011[6] They performed live at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival 2011 for Bonnaroo's 10 year anniversary, playing a 1.5 hour set in the middle of the night and performed with Devotchka.
--Wikipedia Not to mention they kick ass and are just insane to see live.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Feb 6, 2012 12:46:59 GMT -5
Nominations are closed. I just realized I can add a poll to this thread, so I don't have to start a new one. I'll hopefully get that up tonight after work.
I missed all of this, but I can not fathom how David Byrne wasn't mentioned in any nomination
from Wikipedia: "In May 2011 Byrne contributed backing vocals to the Arcade Fire track "Speaking in Tongues" which appeared on the deluxe edition of their 2011 album The Suburbs."
He isn't in the spotlight. No spotlight = no nomination. This list is more about artists whose recent emergence took the music world by storm, like Arcade Fire...not someone who joined the Hall of Fame more than 11 years ago.
I missed all of this, but I can not fathom how David Byrne wasn't mentioned in any nomination
from Wikipedia: "In May 2011 Byrne contributed backing vocals to the Arcade Fire track "Speaking in Tongues" which appeared on the deluxe edition of their 2011 album The Suburbs."
He isn't in the spotlight. No spotlight = no nomination. This list is more about artists whose recent emergence took the music world by storm, like Arcade Fire...not someone who joined the Hall of Fame more than 11 years ago.
i had a corn moment, I thought this was the top 11 people that have played bonnaroo, im stupid
Post by Longtime and Frequent Poster on Feb 7, 2012 0:49:38 GMT -5
This ended up being way tougher than I thought it would be. Went with Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket and The National because they all have at least three albums from this time period I REALLY like. I've also seen all but AnCo multiple times and all three put on incredible shows.
Kanye, White Stripes, LCD and Radiohead (OKC and The Bends are my two favorite) are all super close but I've only seen LCD live from this group.
If Spoon was on here they'd maaaybe take Animal Collective's spot.
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