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HOA: 2008 voting thread

Believe it or not, we have arrived at 2008, and the final HOA election (at least until the next update). Yep--this is your last chance to get your favorites in!

Submit a ranked list of your ten most deserving artists. You may want to check out the top 100 eligible candidates. For a reminder of who's already been inducted, see the results thread.

For your top FIVE artists (at least), you must explain why they deserve to be in the HOA. You may recycle your comments from past elections if you wish, but I want us to have a context for WHY we're selecting these artists. Ballots without comments for the top five will NOT be counted!

In addition, you have the option to nominate up to three people for the Backstage Wing. This isn't required, but perhaps we can get a few more luminaries to joing Henrik in that wing.

Deadline for ballots is Sunday, September 20, at 6:00 pm US Central time (midnight GMT).

Voting is now open. Make your last ballot a good one!

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01. LCD Soundsystem : Sound of Silver is one of the best albums of the decade, it's deep, danceable, creative... I used to think the first album was so-so but I really like it not and I think that this band's music is what I will remember 10 years from now when I will think about "the 00s sound"
02. Rage Against the Machine : come oooooooon, here is the only real guitar hero of the 90s with very solid song and awesome bass lines
03. Built to Spill : Perfect from now on is the most incredible discover I have made this year, the five first tracks are, well, perfect, with an intensity I have very rarely heard, goes right to my guts.
04. Animal Collective : Leaf House, Purple Bottle and Fireworks would be enough reason to induct the most innovative band of the decade on the HOA, even if the albums in which they are were not as great as they are
05. TV on the Radio : their 3 best songs are in their first LP but Welcome To Cookie Mountain, as a whole, is fantastic
06. IAM
07. Puppetmastaz
08. Architecture in Helsinki
09. Gorillaz
10. Dizzee Rascal

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1. King Crimson
Absolutely no chance of getting in (did anyone even vote for them last time?), but I have to stick with the greatest prog band of all time for my top spot.

2. LCD Soundsystem
Almost assured of getting in this time around due in large part to Sound of Silver, one of the albums of the decade. I wish an artist like this could gain some sort of mainstream popularity in today's music industry.

3. TV On The Radio
They deserved getting in last year, even before their '08 output of one of the best albums (Dear Science) and two of the best songs ("Dancing Choose" and "DLZ") of the year.

4. Iggy Pop
Why is he not in yet?

5. Deep Purple
I fail to understand why Led Zeppelin and The Who are automatic ins for this type of thing, but Deep Purple (as with the actual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)stands on the outside looking in.

6. MC5
The album Back in the USA is criminally underrated not just around these parts, but basically everywhere.

7. The Verve
Producers of one of my all time favorite songs ("Bittersweet Symphony"). I need to check out their less-popular-but-acclaimed albums at some point.

8. Soundgarden
Second-best band to emerge out of late-80s/early-90s Seattle scene.

9. Yes
Their best work (Fragile/Close to the Edge) more than makes up for some embarrassing releases.

10. Eric B. & Rakim
Slightly dated sound more than made up for by timeless lyrics/delivery.

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1. New York Dolls – To the bitter end!

2. LCD Soundsystem – If the first album made you suspect that James Murphy could do just about anything, the follow-up confirmed it – and added startlingly genuine emotion and poignancy to the mix. All due respect to “All My Friends,” but “Someone Great” may be my favorite song of the decade.

3. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – They’ve lasted this long for a reason.

4. Warren Zevon – He just missed getting in last week, so I figured I’d help out.

5. Sonny Rollins – Now that Ornette’s in, let’s remember his only living peer among saxophonists.

6. M.I.A.
7. Lucinda Williams
8. Dusty Springfield
9. Bill Evans
10. Spoon

BACKSTAGE WING – The movie edition
1. Martin Scorsese
2. Jonathan Demme
3. Paul Thomas Anderson

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1. Warren Zevon - last chance for WZ!
2. King Crimson - i'll lend a hand on this one
3. Richard & Linda Thompson - that's all, amen, close the door
4. Drive-By Truckers - heathens
5. The Magnetic Fields - gay & loud
6. The Blue Nile
7. Ryan Adams
8. Jackson Browne
9. Dwight Yoakam
10. John Cale

backstage

1. Jay Dee (J Dilla)
2. Marley Marl
3. Mutt Lange

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1. Townes Van Zandt - Brilliant songwriter, or so I have written.

2. Loretta Lynn - When you're looking at her, you're looking at country.

3. Nat King Cole - Wonderful singer with a number of memorable hits.

4. Warren Zevon - Greg persuaded me.

5. Herbie Hancock - A jazz legend in the fifties and sixties.

6. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
7. Drive By Truckers
6. Lucinda Williams.
9. MC5
10. Sonny Rollins

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And my last special edition of HOA: get back 2
(I did it before for the 2000 edition, I’m just going to post again the remaining non-Spanish artists in my Top 100 in order of preference)


01. KING CRIMSON: three different periods (70s, 80s and 90s) with Robert Fripp as the Brain and the only link and as a result we got an impressive and innovative body of work difficult to categorize (prog-rock?, jazz-rock?, hard-rock?).
My favourite album: Red (1974).
My Top 3 Songs: Starless (1974), Cadence and Cascade (1970), Elephant Talk (1981).

02. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: Door-influenced psychedelia and Joy Division-influenced post-punk are the two main foundations for the sound of Echo & The Bunnymen, dark but brilliant, thunderous but majestic.
My favourite album: Ocean Rain (1984).
My favourite song: The Killing Moon (1984).

03. CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: if every work they released as solo artists, as a band or as a duo from 1969 to 1972 could be filed as a C,S,N&Y work they would be a Top 10 band for sure. I mean: “Neil Young”, “Crosby, Stills & Nash”, “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere”, “Déjà vu”, “After the Gold Rush”, “Stephen Stills”, “Four-Way Street”, “Songs for Beginners”, “If I Could Only Remember My Name”, “Stephen Stills 2”, “Harvest”, “Crosby & Nash” and “Manassas”. Impressive, isn’t it?
My favourite album: Déjà vu (1970).
My favourite song: Our House (1970).

04. PREFAB SPROUT: sophisticated but not cold sounds, clever but not impenetrable songwriting, imaginative but not overwhelming arrangements, they should be in.
My favourite album: Steve McQueen (1985).
My favourite song: Goodbye Lucille #1 (Johnny Johnny) (1985).

05. THE STYLE COUNCIL: they had an eclectic approach to exciting genres as sixties pop, Motown soul, smooth jazz, bossa nova, French pop and synth pop with a decided social content.
My favourite album: Café Bleu (1984).
My favourite song: My Ever Changing Moods (1984).

06. DEEP PURPLE: the pioneers of the hard rock, almost as ambitious as Led Zeppelin and almost as loud as Black Sabbath, and the most competent players of their instruments. Virtuoso-rock.
My favourite album: Made in Japan (1972).
My favourite song: Highway Star (1972).

07. JOE JACKSON: fascinating evolution, from the sharp new wave hero of the late 70s to the sophisticated crooner of the mid 80s, fishing in the fertile waters of jazz, latin, funk and… pop.
My favourite album: Body and Soul (1984).
My favourite song: Not Here Not Now (1984).

08. TODD RUNDGREN: a genial singer-songwriter, a skilled multi-instrumentalist (he play almost all instruments in his albums) and a talented producer.
My favourite album: Something/Anything? (1972).
My favourite song: I Saw the Light (1972).

09. JAPAN: from the nasty late 70s (they began as a clone of New York Dolls) to the glamorous early 80s (they ended as an electronic Roxy Music fascinated by the Far East images and sounds).
My favourite album: Tin Drum (1981).
My favourite song: Visions of China (1981).

10. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: and to end this sophisticated list (hey, not that much, there are Deep Purple on it) here it comes sophistication at its peak. Son of two prestigious singers-songwriters and classically-trained, Rufus displays along his four albums a fascinating and lush concept of pop.
My favourite album: Want Two (2004).
My Top 5 Songs: The One You Love (2004).

And if someone cares the non-English artist on my all time list that not entered the Hall of Acclaim were:
- Camarón de la Isla.
- Joan Manuel Serrat.
- Radio Futura.
- Goran Bregovic.
- Pata Negra.
- Caetano Veloso.
- Rubén Blades.
- Lluís Llach.

And my last special edition of the backstage wing (today: rockumenting Dylan)
01. D.A. PENNEBAKER: yes, I know, I know, he’s inducted yet but he’s the creator of rockumentary and the creator of video-clip and his “Don’t Look Back” is still unsurpassed. Favourite song: BOB DYLAN Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965).
02. MARTIN SCORSESE: “No Direction Home” is the definitive rockumentary about Dylan. You know, “Don’t Look Back” is the accurate portrait of a moment in Dylan’s life, but “No Direction Home” takes a step back and give us a wide (and deep) vision of the whole thing. And, you all know, Scorsese got so much more to deserve induction. Favourite song: BOB DYLAN Ballad of a Thin Man (1965).
03. TODD HAYNES: a filmmaker specialist in fake biographies, he did the same with David Bowie in “Velvet Goldmine”. Well, not exactly the same, “I’m Not There” is a brilliant exercise on fiction-rockumentary, if that thing it’s possible. Favourite song: BOB DYLAN Maggie’s Farm (1965).

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1. Nina Simone - Vocal brilliance.
2. John Lee Hooker - Kinda forgot about him, but one of the all time greatest blues singers should have been inducted a long time ago. If the HOA will continue, it will be a pet project of mine to get him in.
3. Missy Elliott - So addictive.
4. Jefferson Airplane - Key band in the Summer of Love.
5. The Prodigy - Important part of my childhood.
6. Dusty Springfield
7. Deep Purple
8. Herbie Hancock
9. Warren Zevon
10. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Backstage:
1. Anton Corbijn
2. Gerry Goffin & Carole King
3. Allen Toussaint

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My final ballot:

1. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE. As a slightly underappreciated band, it would be somehow appropriate for them to slip in just under the wire. I admit I’m really only voting for them on the basis of two songs, but they’re great, great songs.
2. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM. This is my “real” #1, but I don’t think he needs much of a push to get in this time, so I’m putting my biggest chit on Airplane.
3. RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON. RT would join the HOA’s honorable list of quirky, relatively unknown artists.
4. ARCTIC MONKEYS. The one band of the last three years or so which all of my friends agree on (positively). I’ll be seeing them at the Austin City Limits festival in a few weeks.
5. WARREN ZEVON. Doesn’t look like he needs my vote, but let’s make sure…
6. YEAH YEAH YEAHS
7. THE SHINS
8. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
9. M.I.A.
10. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

Y’all still have about five days…remember, speak now or forever hold your peace (well, hold your peace until the next update).

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1. The Streets – Original Pirate Material still sounds fresh to me.

2. Iggy Pop – He’s already in with The Stooges, but his solo work is impressive enough to warrant a second inclusion (especially those first two releases).

3. The Jesus Lizard – They were a force. Steve Albini said that out of all the bands he’s ever recorded there were two of them he wished he was in, and The Jesus Lizard was one of them.

4. Fugazi – Was the other band Steve Albini wanted to be in.

5. Erik B. & Rakim – Anyone else like great old school hip hop?

6. Dinosaur Jr.
7. M.I.A.
8. The Libertines
9. Spoon
10. LCD Soundsystem – They’ll get in regardless of where I rank them.

I’d really like to vote for TV on the Radio/Arctic Monkeys/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/etc…but I ran out of room.

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Last ballot:

1. LCD Soundsystem - James Murphy may be the man the decade. His business is the composition of funk-tinged electronic masterpieces.

2. Animal Collective - Can we get some of the AC fans in here? They're a lock after MPP, but I think Strawberry Jam + Feels warrants their inclusion.

3. MIA - Miss Arulpragasm has recorded some of the most singular music of the decade. Paper Planes is the obvious highlight, but most of Kala is great.

4. TV on the Radio - Will move towards the top of the ballot next year.

5. Spoon - They get points from me for consistency, even if I don't think they've ever made a stunning record.

6. The Hold Steady
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. The National
9. Interpol
10. Brian Wilson

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1. John Lee Hooker : a great bluesman
2. LCD Soundsystem : one of the very best albums of 2007
3. The Streets
4. Robert Wyatt
5. Georges Brassens
6. Santana : pre-1975 only
7. The Divine Comedy
8. Rufus Wainwright
9. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
10. Fabulous Trobadors

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nicolas, what happened to Townes?

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1. They Might Be Giants - They made the soundtrack to my teenage years, weirdly enought.

2. Rufus Wainwright - Fantastic in every way. The gay Messiah.

3. Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible is the best album I've heard since In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

4. Daniel Johnston - So much musical talent wrapped in such a lousy package. Can't sing, can't play, yet a master of both.

5. Bright Eyes - I really adored every Bright Eyes album up to (and including) Lifted. I haven't listened to them in quite a while, but I fell of somewhere. Still important in my life, though.

6. CocoRosie
7. Mansun
8. Moneybrother
9. Tinariwen
10. Nirvana - the other Nirvana

If any of these are already included (I fell off a couple of weeks ago, and I don't have time to check) move these ones up:

11. Satyricon
12. Uriah Heep
13. Slint
14. Dr Strangely Strange
15. The Teardrop Explodes

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The most underrated artists in the AM forum:

1. Ennio Morricone
The best film music creator ever.

2. Nina Simone
She mixed jazz, blues and soul and invented her own personal style.

3. Judas Priest
JP have always been classified as a heavy metal band, but I think they started out as a (wonderful) prog-blues band, although they quickly grew heavier (especially faster, and still wonderful).

4. Genesis
In the "complex song structures" division, Genesis are in a league of their own.

5. Anouar Brahem
Classified as jazz, but I don't know. I just know that this oud player's music is the most soothing my ears have ever heard.

6. The KLF

7. Nat King Cole

8. Iron Maiden

9. Erykah Badu

10. Astor Piazzolla


BACKSTAGE:
schleuse - for all his inventive games in the AM forum. Thank you.

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I can't believe we've arrived at the end (for now, at least)!

1. Janet Jackson- She's my favorite artist on my ballot, and it's about time that I ranked her number 1. Rhythm Nation 1814 celebrated its 20th anniversary recently, and I've been listening to it ever since.

2. Kylie Minogue- X was a nice summary of her career over the 2000s, which was enough to rank her as my favorite artist of the decade, as per Henrik's formula.

3. Siouxsie and the Banshees- They are, in my mind, the most deserving act not to get in the HOA. Their diversity and execution is mind-boggling.

4. Annie- I can't wait for Don't Stop! It's been a long journey.

5. LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver is one of my top 5 albums of the decade, and I only hope Mr. Murphy continues to amaze.

6. Grace Jones

7. Aaliyah

8. Missy Elliott

9. Annie Lennox

10. Donna Summer