Q Awards nomination announced: strap yourself in for a flood of mediocrity!
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This year's nominees for the annual Q Awards, the award ceremony offspring of dad-rock bible Q magazine, have been announced. Whoa, there, Q - way to get radical on our arses.
Rather than write some silly paragraph about how these bands are mostly pants, how about you just look at the nominees and come to your own conclusions? Yeah? Cool...
Best New Act
Lily Allen
Corinne Bailey Rae
The Kooks
Arctic Monkeys (pictured)
Orson
Best Track
'Chasing Cars' Snow Patrol
'Crazy' Gnarls Barkley
'I Don't Feel Like Dancin'' Scissor Sisters
'Never Be Lonely' The Feeling
'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor' Arctic Monkeys
Best Live Act
Oasis
Razorlight
Muse
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Arctic Monkeys
Best Album
Black Holes and Revelations Muse
Empire Kasabian
Under The Iron Sea Keane
Razorlight Razorlight
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys
Eyes Open Snow Patrol
Best Video
'When You Were Young' The Killers
'I Don't Feel Like Dancin'' Scissor Sisters
'Empire' Kasabian
'Smiley Faces' Gnarls Barkley
'Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?' The Zutons
Best Act In The World Today
Muse
Coldplay
Oasis
U2
Red Hot Chili Peppers
That doesn't seem like a lot of categories. There are probably more. Ones that aren't here. I don't know. Some well-wicked bands there, though: fresh, new talents!
The award ceremony takes place on October 30. It'll be presented by Jonathan Ross. Last we heard, we weren't invited. But neither were you, so bothered.
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Best New Act
Arctic Monkeys
Best Track
'Crazy' Gnarls Barkley
Best Live Act
Muse
Best Album
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys
Best Video
'Empire' Kasabian
Best Act In The World Today
Muse
I just don't get it..
everytime I've seen RHCP they've been pretty shocking.
IF I LIED HERR
IF I JUST LIED HERR
WOULD YOU LIE WITH ME
that's because
they're a thoroughly shocking band
can't argue with the facts!
Always thought they've been overrated.
Yeah, but...
None of this is as crap as what MTV & Rolling Stone usually trot out here stateside for their awards. That probably says more about the States than anything else, though.
i agree except
U2 will win best band in the world
Coldplay, U2 and RHCP
Seem to take it in turns.
its so unsurprising it leads me to think...
didn't these awards already happen??
i swear arctic monkeys have won all the 'best new act' awards its fair to give them.
are they really that new?
from this/most awards
you'd think there were only about 10 acts making music these days
Well I hope
Muse win Best Act in the World.
It'd be fucking unfair if they didn't.
First of all, Coldplay and U2 have done NOTHING this year. Oasis have just gobbed off at people. And the Chilli Peppers are shite. Caphiche?
Q continues
It's steady downfall...
Ah tis a shame. The very magazine that orginally got me into music when I was bought it on my 12th birthday is just SO poor these days.
Has anyone seen the bikini-pregnant-Britney Spears-licking-lolly cover of the 20th anivesary edition? It's horrific.
And to think I used to buy Q...
wasn't it good once....? Seems like years ago. Utter shite thesedays.
this
confirms everything i ever thought about Q.....
they really are a bunch of noncing arses!
yeah but
Q had them in their "discover new music" section in March.
Why in the name of all that's holy
...isn't Supermassive Black Hole up for track of the year as well?!
And, for that matter, the video for Knights of Cydonia?
Only one of those videos was any good, and that's the Kasabian one.
All the 'best tracks' are shit as well. Well, maybe not all of them, but they're far from award worthy.
Can't they just give everything to Muse this year? It's inevitable.
Give Muse everything
and I'll hate this ceremony slightly less than usual.
Wow...
Why are they even bothering with this? Most of the nominations are just bland.
How...
the fuck are the artic monkeys a 'new act'?!
New this year
Cos they were new this year... weren't they? It was at the end of last year they first appeared and released the album this Jan...
Have I lost a year?
To be anal about it all
....NME had them in their radar section coming up for nearly 18 months, 2 years ago now.
&& to be even more anal..
...they weren't really new this year, they played Leeds 2005 & had demos out by then.
Fuck.
I hoped Guillemots would be nominated.
God i hate Q but
does anyone remember back in the day when Snow Patrol weren't that bad? 100 Things You've done In Bed and Starfighter Pilot, were good poppy punk songs, now snow Patrol make me want to vomit up my own pelvis!
snow patrol and orson
i hope they win something.. i love listening to them when i am driving my mondeo on the way to sell toilet duck to offices around the thames valley area
Q approved Rock and Roll
i swear it was good once at least its not a another 100 top albums to decorate to as voted by the readers
hahaha
that cracked me up.
oh gosh
this is awful :'[
Yes!
It's not like the old cutting edge days when Macca used to be on the cover every month...hang on a minute...it's always been like that you fuckwits! Duh! Q magazine is for the sales reps that find FHM a bit too down market and Mojo a bit too fuddy duddy daddio.
It's not just awful
It's sad and awful.
Q needs a kick up the arse.
LOL!
Best Track - 'Never Be Lonely' The Feeling
Unless they're being serious by that nomination, in which case...
Q = Most rubbish music rag in the UK....
...and there are a rather large number of shite music magazines in the UK.
I just choked
by laughing at that, thanks. :)
Never Be Lonely as best track?
I just swore out loud, and quite loudly too. People are looking at me strangely. I think I'm vindicated though.
crap
could go like this
Best New Act
Arctic Monkeys
Best Track
'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor' Arctic Monkeys
Best Live Act
Arctic Monkeys
Best Album
Eyes Open Snow Patrol
Best Video
I bet you look good on the dancefloor- Arctic Monkeys
Best Act In The World Today
Arctic Monkeys
or
Best New Act
Arctic Monkeys (pictured)
Best Track
'Crazy' Gnarls Barkley
Best Live Act
Muse
Best Album
Razorlight Razorlight
Best Video
'Empire' Kasabian
s
Best Act In The World Today
U2
Q mag
has been shit for ages. it is a pretty predictable line up in terms of nominations, and that'll probably be mirrored in the nominations for brit awards. surely the merits of the best act in the world today should go on the performances over the last year. going by this the award should easily go to the mystery jets. zoo time.
And just what is the deal
with the Scissor Sisters' song? The backing track sounds like reheated Stock, Aitken and Waterman. Jesus in a bun, it's awful.
They'll be namechecking Big Fun and Sonia next. The 80s is 'where it's at', after all. Isn't it?
YAWN
i can't believe people still buy Q and i can't believe they still champion the same old dross....
Zzzzzzzzz
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