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Rough Trade's People's Voice Prize winner is...

sean by Sean Adams [Edit this content] ▾ 23 comments 13:30 December 17th, 2008
Bon Iver

Drowned in Sound and Rough Trade teamed up a month ago to allow you to pick the first People's Voice Prize winner. Several thousand votes later and we have a winner...

The idea was simple: Rough Trade named their top 50 albums of the year, DiS then turned this into the list of nominated albums for the People's Voice Prize and you, the people, picked your top three albums.

Voting closed at midday today and we now have a winning album. With over a hundred votes more than its nearest rival, Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago is your first People's Voice Prize winner. Justin Vernon (and if he's nice, his band members too) will receive £1000 worth of Rough Trade shops vouchers to purchase whatever they like.

Here's what missed out on the store credit but made your top 20 of Rough Trade's inaugural People's Voice Prize:

And they're not the only winners. This afternoon DiS will be randomly messaging someone who voted and asking for their address as they have won all 50 nominated albums courtesy of Rough Trade shops, where of course you can buy all the above and lots more.

DiScuss Did you predict the winner? Did you expect all of those to be in the top 20? Any surprises? What did you vote for? What should Justin Vernon spend his vouchers on? Do you think he even has a record player in that infamous shack?_

Bon Iver
From the archive

I think Bon Iver liked 2562 best

and he is thinking about moving his shack to Jamaica to record soom rootsy stuff with The Bug. Then he will pop round to Bradford Cox's place for a crumpet.... No idea what I'm on about sorry *ahem*

jimitheexploder | 17 Dec '08, 13:35 | X | Reply

He's recording

His next album in a hammock in Jamaica, I heard that too..

Anthonyc @jimitheexploder | 17 Dec '08, 13:56 | X | Reply

Nicely done

The people have spoken, and they didn't talk shit!

dale | 17 Dec '08, 14:35 | X | Reply

I only recently listened to the Bon Iver album

but it really is rather good. I can understand why it's doing so well in these end of year polls.

skybluesam | 17 Dec '08, 15:24 | X | Reply

the top two are the most boring records on the list

in fact, the majority of this is awful.

fuck_this_band | 17 Dec '08, 15:57 | X | Reply

What an irritatingly predictable top 5

This proves that people are fucking boring, music is never gonna progress if we keep championing people like Bon Iver so much

Matty_PARIS | 17 Dec '08, 16:30 | X | Reply

POPULAR STUFF IN BEING POPULAR SHOCKER!

Really, what do you expect?

svenrokk @Matty_PARIS | 17 Dec '08, 17:50 | X | Reply

Fleet Foxes at #2?

Really?

And no Late of the Pier?

FuzzFoxx | 17 Dec '08, 19:16 | X | Reply

A pretty conservative top 15

I quite like Fleet Foxes but having downloaded For Emma, Forever Ago I'm not really getting into it, I like the guy's voice but there's little that grabs me.

CaviarAndCigarets | 17 Dec '08, 20:46 | X | Reply

well deserved

ThingsThatFly | 17 Dec '08, 21:12 | X | Reply

yeah but this list didn't have Elbow in, so is fairly irrelevant

by the way, i trust JohnM's actually representative DiSers album of the year poll, that he asks and calucates himself, will actually recieve a news story. i mean, if not, you may as well just not bother having users able to comment on news articles + reviews - it's an actual TRUE bit of user interaction, unlike this

brusma | 18 Dec '08, 00:10 | X | Reply

Best 2007 album

to win a 2008 poll ever!

sonofhal @brusma | 18 Dec '08, 11:21 | X | Reply

I predicted

Bon Iver being number 1 this year in 2007. Far too limited a list to choose from in the first place - no Late Of The Pier? No loads of other stuff that was released this year, so give it to a re-release. Gah.

GoatmeatMF | 18 Dec '08, 11:39 | X | Reply

are you sure?

They voted Bon Ivor at number 1

thommo @dale | 18 Dec '08, 12:30 | X | Reply

Bon Iver

has got so much publicity based on the story of recording the album in a shack in the woods, hunting deer for food etc. If the album had come out without this story for journalists to latch onto it wouldn't have anything like the attention it has. I found it pleasant with the occasional moment of greatness, but over all faily dull. Fleet Foxes is also easy listening retro music that ticks all the right boxes. The conservative side of indie.

johnedwards64 | 18 Dec '08, 16:31 | X | Reply

Not one...

...of my top 3 votes made the people's voice list, and looking at it now, I'm glad they didn't.

Although there's some belting LPs there, they do seem to be the more mainstream choices available.

Oh, and how did Deerhunter's 2008 release Microcastle not even make the initial 50?!

smnwnwrght | 19 Dec '08, 09:50 | X | Reply

...

They just listen to it.

Stealthy @dale | 19 Dec '08, 12:10 | X | Reply

Is that true?

I thought he got big because people kept hearing the record or saw him live and really liked it. I think the back story is a nice romanticised bonus hook that people discovered after the fact that the music already got them. If he was getting publicity base on the story, then peopel would have been getting the album since it was released in January or whenever it was, not by then end of the summer after it had filtered through.

GoatmeatMF @johnedwards64 | 19 Dec '08, 12:56 | X | Reply

I enjoyed the first two TVotR albums

but I thought some of the tunes on Dear Sciences were not just filler, but actually rather bad. The mass popularity of this record continues to baffle me.

besidethesea | 4 Jan '09, 16:55 | X | Reply

I don't understand why MGMT is so far up

I've tried listening to it and it's really dull minus the singles. Doesn't seem to go anywhere at all. Portishead's Third however, was a brilliant album from last year.

bizzy | 7 Feb '09, 10:41 | X | Reply

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