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April 02, 2006
Posted by Kyle
Sufjan Stevens recently won the New Pantheon Music Award joining the ranks of...no one really considering this was the inaugural year for the awards. The awards take a look at those great albums mostly ignored by the Grammys... albums that are critically acclaimed or masterfully constructed but have sold less than 500,000 copies. Celebrity and industry judges such as Elijah Wood, Ben Gibbard and my hero Nic Harcourt could nominate up to 7 worthy albums. Then, those nominations were whittled down to ten finalists.
As much as I love Sufjan (nominated by Jason Mraz?!? Cool!), I probably would have chose Fiona Apple as winner from the finalists. (Fiona was nominated by Elton John, Dave Matthews, Beck, Shirley Manson and more.) There was some really steep competition though, and it is just nice that these great bands are getting recognized.
It's also fun to look through the full list of nominations and see who all the nominators chose. It makes me like them all just a little bit more. For example John Cameron Mitchell nominating Andrew Bird = GLEE! I also think it is very cute and touching that Tony Kanal (from No Doubt) nominated Matt Costa, since Matt's CD was produced by Tom Dumont (of No Doubt). Awwwww. I'm sure he didn't do it just because of Tom, it is a great CD, that just touches me in my No Doubt places of awwwness (as does Tony's bio which mentions being in the studio to work on the new No Doubt CD! WOOHOO!). Look at the nominators before you look at the nominated CDs and see if you can guess who nominated what!
Seriously though, take a peak at the Nominated CDs if you want some great suggestions for new music from people who know their stuff.
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COMMENTS No way, Sufjan Stevens is easily the best album of this bunch...followed by the Arcade Fire and Decemberists....Fiona is a distant 4th at best. I agree, fiona is overrated. NEW NO DOUBT ALBUM?!?!? Wow, really? Maybe I am just feeling sympathy for Fiona for being beaten by Kelly Clarkson at the Grammys. It makes sense the Sufjan won though, since he had basically the most critically acclaimed album of last year. If it makes a difference I think the Arcade Fire would be my number 2 from the finalists, but I think there are at least 5 albums from the other nominations that would win over any of the finalists. ha! sufjan makes me think of that "other records" clip, have you seen it? Click on my name to check it out. This entire award thingy is totally awesome. I might have gone with The Decemberists myself, but I also liked their last album better than this one. Note that Elijah Wood recced his girlfriend's band, although I do quite like some of their songs. Also, Hi Kyle! Nice blog! *friends LJ feed* Woohoo! Cinco! My first posting by a person who I don't know! Congradulations on this impressive honor :) Interesting Elijah fact by the way. I've not listened to Gogol Bordello, but they sound very interesting. It looks like their lead singer was in a recent Wood film, too. Very cool. actually kyle, you did meet cinco in chicago that one time. in fact, there's a photo somewhere of the lot of us outside ye olde sex shoppe. not to be a huge debbie downer about the whole "first non-met person to comment" thing. ;P Gah! My web designer is named Shan and thus I thought it was one of his friends. Thanks a lot little miss doesn't use her full name. |
