Rough Trade's People's Voice Prize winner is...
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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:
- #1: Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
- #2: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
- #3: TV On The Radio - Dear Science
- #4: Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
- #5: MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
- #6: Foals - Antidotes
- #7: Portishead - Third
- #8: Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
- #9: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
- #10: Kings of Leon - Only By Night
- #11: The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
- #12: Santogold - Santogold
- #13: Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
- #14: The Dodos - Visiter
- #15: Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
- #16: Metronomy - Nights Out
- #17: Pete and the Pirates - Little Death
- #18: Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
- #19: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
- #20: Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
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?_
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Bon Iver
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*
He's recording
His next album in a hammock in Jamaica, I heard that too..
Nicely done
The people have spoken, and they didn't talk shit!
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.
the top two are the most boring records on the list
in fact, the majority of this is awful.
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
POPULAR STUFF IN BEING POPULAR SHOCKER!
Really, what do you expect?
Fleet Foxes at #2?
Really?
And no Late of the Pier?
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
Best 2007 album
to win a 2008 poll ever!
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.
are you sure?
They voted Bon Ivor at number 1
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.
...
They just listen to it.
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.
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.
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.
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