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DM Awards 2007

FraDonaghy	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 4:26 PM Ok...I may regret this but I'll volunteer to organise this. Similar format to past years with certain categories (see below) listed, you have say two weeks to put forward your nominations, then a further two weeks to put in your final votes on the nominees (at most 5 per category). All votes will be submitted by note to me, and as the organiser I will withdraw my own music from the competition in order to avoid a conflict of interests. I propose the following categories - suggestions are welcome to improve it. I will announce when the nomination period begins - this is just testing the water to see who is up for it. Categories : Best Folk Song Best Hip Hop Song Best Jazz Song Best Rock/Metal song Best Pop Song Best Country Song Best R&B/Soul Song Best Classical Song Best Americana Song Best Bluegrass Song Best Instrumental Song Best Reggae Song Best Blues Song Best Electronic Best "Other" Song Best Collaboration Best Male Artist Best Female Artist Hopefully this will boost the site traffic a bit. No prizes other than the recognition of your peers. What do ya think?
ebarbarella	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 4:35 PM awesome Fra! if you need help counting votes let us know one suggestion: Best Rock Song and Best Metal song should be in different categories i also suggest Best Gothic Song considering that DMusic have a lot of amazing songs in that genre
Distilled1	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 4:37 PM best drunk live recording?
Distilled1	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 4:40 PM Best radio play list?
ebarbarella	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 5:01 PM im with Distilled1 good ones Best Alternative song another one
Distilled1	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 6:34 PM Best video of song on Dmusic ..eh?eh? there are a ton now
celtaidd	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 6:39 PM Now, Best drunk live performance; I can live with that
Tattoomom	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 6:55 PM YEAH!
Israfel	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 7:35 PM I'd be happy to help you out Fra! Let me know if you need some help with this.
aflunky	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 7:36 PM Best San Diego Sexy Rapper Singer guy!
moam	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 7:39 PM
Woof	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 7:39 PM One little suggestion: Maybe it would be a little more accurate, to use the term "Favorite" instead of "Best" this time around... It would avoid the implication that anything in second or third place is "Worse", if you know what I mean. And of course I'll be glad to assist, if services are required. Thanks for getting the ball rolling!!!
Distilled1	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 7:44 PM I like that idea Woof as best in music is so very dependent on each persons taste and ear
aflunky	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 8:13 PM Best Flunky on DM?
moam	Date: September 13, 2007 @ 8:16 PM On 13th Sep 2008, aflunky said: Best Flunky on DM? awesome But seriously, if that were a topic, I would pick "Lost Myself" (atleast I think that was the name of the track) That was good shit
FraDonaghy	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 2:47 AM Ok, in line with a few of the suggestions I have no problem adding a separate Rock and Metal genre as well as an alternative one. We can drop the "best" title too.. how about using the phrase "Dmusic Rock song of the year 2007" as an alternative? (for example) Not sure about the video category as they are not hosted on Dmusic and there's no way to go and find them all easily. Similarly with the radio playlist suggestion, I don't think there are too many of them, if any other than Goth nights. Correct me if I'm wrong. I also suggest putting a new category in this year - "DM achievement award", where you can nominate anyone from the site who you think has done something outstanding to promote either themselves or the site through the year. Examples that come to mind instantly would be Guitaroo (appearing on national TV and on stage with Johnny Lang), The Pop Dolls (selling over 1000 copies of their debut CD) or Mary (conducting the DM interviews) - I'm sure there are others! Those are my thoughts so far.
evansorchid	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 8:50 AM Cool, cool, cool!!!! I'm excited that someone has gotten the ball rolling on this. You deserve a pat on the back, FraDonaghy!! The only suggestion that pops into my head at the moment is maybe we could have a category for "Best New Artist". Anyone who became a member in 2007 though say September would be eligible. I just think we should be trying to promote our newest artists as well.
Distilled1	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 10:30 AM Vocal pop station, there is a jazz and blues one (i forget who was doing them, there is a Alternitive one, there s the morning show one. and more but yeah some are never really updated much as it seems hard to get the powers to change the link I guess toss that I was just spouting of stuff lol.
FraDonaghy	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 10:31 AM No probs Rich, I appreciate the feedback.
aflunky	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 11:30 AM haha, thanks moam So this is actually happening, Glad FraDonaghy got this one rolling. Let's get it goin
aflunky	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 11:41 AM Can we have Britney Dancing in the beginning?
FraDonaghy	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 12:06 PM Please.. just call me Fra I was thinking of having a few more days for people to give their opinions and kicking off the nomination period on Monday. Any objections?
aflunky	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 12:16 PM
HenriRoger	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 12:30 PM Great idea Fra Might be nice to have Vocal jazz and Instrumental jazz . ? . Maybe the journals could be in the list as some Dmers have great journals
FraDonaghy	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 12:48 PM I think journal excellence would be better rewarded in the DM Quirk Awards - like the ones Alstroph & Shadowmom organised last year. This is a celebration of the musical talent here at DM Again, with the sub genre suggestions - are there really enough songs within each category to justify their own award? Trust me, the last time we did this there were a lot of genres and in many cases there were less than 5 nominees per section. I think with a wider genre classification it opens up the possibility of a better "competition". As it stands I have 21 categories which I think might be enough to cover the broad spectrum here at DM.
aflunky	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 12:52 PM Maybe I should cover another Hilary Duff Song... Nah, I dumped her ass a long time ago. Duff is So yesterday... Since I'm dating Spears now... She does have that 'Gimmie More' Song... hmmmmmmmm.............
GTOriginal	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 2:56 PM Woof has made an excellent point - I go with "favorite" as this describes the result of a popular vote. I always kinda understood "best" to mean "favorite", still it's a more accurate and less competitive way to think about the DM Awards. I suggest "Favorite Cover", those tunes being one thing that sets DM apart from other sites. Weird Gary Tuckovic suggests "Song Parody" but GTO believes this is the same thing as a cover tune. We are in complete disagreement there, so we are going to slug it out among ourselves as soon as we are done typing this. Fra, awesome that you wanna do this & stir the old DM pot for 2007.
Alwex	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 4:32 PM Great fra, glad someone took the shot. Better get started on finding some tunes for nomination.
aflunky	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 4:49 PM Hint-Hint
BOWILLIE	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 4:51 PM should be a cool one..two years worth of selections
Ghostie	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 10:21 PM Now wouldn't it be cool to have a "Best Listener" ... That's the only way I could get a
Distilled1	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 10:56 PM oh^ yes we need that for SURE!!!!
perkie1973	Date: September 14, 2007 @ 11:17 PM I would like to apply for my former position as a Counter...I bring a wealth of experience. We need an annual ShadowMom Award: given to any subscriber or non-subcriber who promotes, supports, spends time and effort assisting, teaching and encouraging the dmusic family... [You know who you are] Hell give ShadowMom the first one!!!!
FraDonaghy	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 1:02 AM As much as I appreciate the listeners like Carol, this is an attempt to get people to re-focus on the reason we are all here - the music. Without the listeners it would be hard for a music site to flourish but these rewards are about the music itself. Perkie, I appreciate the offer, but I'm going to do all the counting myself so as many people as possible can enjoy the awards and find time to go and listen to the music that is nominated. I'd suggest Kathy could be nominated for the achievement award.
perkie1973	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 1:30 AM Ok..I'll put this way...one person counting the vote is a conflict of interest.
FraDonaghy	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 1:41 AM On 13th Sep 2008, FraDonaghy said: All votes will be submitted by note to me, and as the organiser I will withdraw my own music from the competition in order to avoid a conflict of interests. I'm not putting my music into the competition.
independentm...	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 2:42 AM For the suggested Best (or, "Favorite") New Artist/Song category, how about making it a list of the top 10 New artists/songs of 2007? They need not even be in any particular order. Simply give the awards the 10 top vote-getters. (Hundreds or thousands of new tunes are added here each year ya know!)
moam	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 3:26 AM On 15th Sep 2008, FraDonaghy said: As much as I appreciate the listeners like Carol, this is an attempt to get people to re-focus on the reason we are all here - the music. Without the listeners it would be hard for a music site to flourish but these rewards are about the music itself. Yeah I couldn't agree more. These awards are about the music, not the popularity of the user/artist or the participation at DM.
GTOriginal	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 8:13 AM As a music artist I love what moam & fradonaghy just said. I don't think one can prevent the awards from being a popularity contest, but a renewed focus on the music may be worthwhile. Still the listeners and other support people deserve recognition too, either in a seperate category or seperate award thing. Ghost30 gets my vote
ShadowMom	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 10:21 AM I goof off one day, and look what goes on! MUSIC-- is the achievement. All else is incidental. I appreciate the wonderful kind words, but without the music none of us would be here. And Fra knows any way that I can help, I'm always available-- except for yesterday And if a certain gadfly keeps getting off-topic and posting pictures of painted RIAA Barbie dolls, I have a Repentance Corner all set up...
ebarbarella	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 3:00 PM thanks for adding the alternative genre and separating rock from metal i think if Fra can count them all, its cool but its a lot of work sweetie i think some members just wanna help you. But is up to you when can we start nominating? Lets Have Fun DMusic!
aflunky	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 3:28 PM yay!! Time to dance!
FraDonaghy	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 7:14 PM Thanks Barbie. The reason I am opting to go it alone with the vote counting is because I want as many active users to be in with a shot of being involved in the actual awards, and if they are involved in the counting - they will either have to withdraw their own music too or face possible accusations of a conflict of interests. I will keep all notes in my inbox and offer to allow access to them to an admin of your choice once the awards are over if you want to double check that everything is above board. I'm aiming for nominating to begin on Monday. I will post the rules etc tomorrow evening.. then we are officially off and running!
Tattoomom	Date: September 15, 2007 @ 9:52 PM I trust you Fra! I have no problem with you counting the two votes Wormscrew is sure to get! But...please...do let us know if you need help!
FraDonaghy	Date: September 16, 2007 @ 5:36 AM Nomination rules are posted (a little early, I know) over here... http://www.dmusic.com/forum/favartistsawards/27418
SimonWaldram	Date: September 16, 2007 @ 5:52 AM I think it's brilliant that you're doing this, Fra. I know you've decided to count the votes yourself, but give me a shout if you want a hand with anything else.
Ghostie	Date: September 16, 2007 @ 8:34 PM I understand Fra.. no problem!..... I got my vote from GT.. so I'm happy! Thanks Gary!