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DM Awards 2007 - The Nominees Are In...

FraDonaghy	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 2:58 AM Here they are folks… without further ado, the final nominees for the 2007 Dmusic awards. Links will take you to the relevant pages. See below the nominee list for voting instructions. DMusic Awards 2007 Nominees DMusic Alternative Song Of The Year Dull Reality – Kit Rumble Family Album – Simon Waldram Shame – Kit Rumble Downloader – Pop Dolls Levitation – Pop Dolls DMusic Bluegrass Song Of The Year Coal Tattoo – County Farm George Harrison Said It’s Ok – Robbie Tucker Blackberry Blossom – GTOriginal Going Down To Georgia – County Farm DMusic Blues Song Of The Year NYC Breakdown Blues – GTOriginal Cosmic Man – Far 4 Now Small Town Blues – Guitaroo Fade To Blue – Swampman Baby Blue – Bill Rhynes (Earth Blue Aura) DMusic Classical Song Of The Year Ocean Of Storms – Tony Monaghan LaRotta – MandolinLady Greensleeves – MultiMike Hallelujah Chorus – Dan Sindel DMusic Collaboration Song Of The Year Say What You Want – AORPete and Jennae One Of Us – EvansOrchid, Saint and Bluenevus “Chillin’ Schitt – Somewhere In The Middle” – Gene Hilbert and ChillinBuzz Smother Me – EvansOrchid and Bluenevus Alone As A Stone – EvansOrchid and Kulli DMusic Country Song Of The Year Grandpa’s Purple Heart – Don Lindsay Bar Room Tragedy – Knightmoods Next Broken Heart – Electric Gypsy Escape From Myself – Rocky Larsen DMusic Electronic Song Of The Year Theme From Umbriel – Umbriel Rising Chillout Symphony – Baiko Quantum Physics – ChillinBuzz Blue Future (A Long Time Coming) – Monda Ice Fortress (She Melts The Frozen Heart) - Mojosnake DMusic Folk Song Of The Year I Miss You – Valerie Diane Mermaid Lady – Rocking Thru America Puppetry – Julie Ann Bertram Blue and Grey – Simon Waldram The Highest Tower – Wailing Miserere DMusic Hip Hop Song Of The Year Talk To Ya – Mickey Breezy Beatz 4 $ - Halaka Afraid To Love Again – Aflunky Lost Myself – Aflunky DMusic Instrumental Song Of The Year To A Wild Rose – Dan Sindel Ciaran’s Capers – MandolinLady Who Do Voodoo – Tim Sanders USA Five More Minutes – OneGuitarLady Summer Snow – T2 DMusic Jazz Song Of The Year Sous Les Dunes – Henri Roger Evidence – Henri Roger After Love – Henri Roger and Perkie1973 King’s Court – Tim Sanders USA and Saxsinger Four On Six – Gene Hilbert DMusic Metal Song Of The Year Turn The Screw – Bill Rhynes (Earth Blue Aura) Decapitated – Sween featuring Bill Rhynes The Thing I Cannot Kill – Wormscrew Say What You Want – Diagnosis Red My Demise v.2.0 – Mojosnake DMusic “Other” Song Of The Year Black Magic Marker – GTOriginal Opening Lights – Saint I’ll Find Peace – Valerie Diane Just Another Year – Shadowself DMusic Pop Song Of The Year They All Told Me – Rodrica Rudge Does She Love You – Pop Dolls Haze (Plastic Version) – Pop Dolls No Good For Me – Knightmoods I May Know The Word – Valerie Diane DMusic R&B/Soul Song Of The Year It’s On Tonight – Lenora Jaye Is This Just A Dream? – Aysha Can’t Let You Go – Jessurun If Loving You Is Wrong – Don Lindsay Wrap You – Don Lindsay DMusic Reggae Song Of The Year The Tallest Palm – Mondae Stonehouse & Loude Skye Girlz Girlz Girlz – Diverse Beats River Of Embers – Mondae Stonehouse & Loude Skye Dread Orbit – Mondae Stonehouse & Loude Skye Lost My Mojo – Knightmoods DMusic Rock Song Of The Year Crimson Kiss – DeadraveN Validation Dance – Pop Dolls Ok Already – Pop Dolls Headland – Rodrica Rudge This Song – GTOriginal DMusic Male Artist Of The Year Bill Rhynes AORPete BlueNevus Ime Mine Steven Davies DMusic Female Artist Of The Year Israfel Perkie (Bass Over Forty) Valerie Diane Ebarbarella Rodrica Rudge DMusic Band Of The Year Pop Dolls Diagnosis Red Wormscrew Knightmoods Wilhemina Murray’s Revenge DMusic New Artist Of The Year Saint’s Destiny AORPete MandolinLady MultiMike OneGuitarLady DMusic Outstanding Achievement Of The Year (Click each nominee to see the relevant news story, where possible) Guitaroo – Cartoon Network Props Pop Dolls – Selling over 1000 copies of their debut CD “Made In Plastic” Israfel – Hosting the DMusic interviews Shadowmom –Service to Dmusic Dan Sindel – Sponsorship deal as an independent artist Voting Instructions. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY To vote you must be a DMember from before 1st October 2007 and have at least 500 points. You have a maximum of ONE vote per category. You do not have to vote in all categories, but please vote in as many as possible. You cannot vote for yourself in any category. Voting begins on the 2nd of October and closes on the 16th of October. Winners will be announced on the 17th of October. Please copy and paste the below voting form and send all your votes at the same time to me via the DMusic note system. …and just to make it clear, you are now voting for the winners out of the selected nominees – you can not vote for someone who is not on the nominee list. Thank you Fra --------------------------------- Voting Form Username: I would like to vote for the following songs/artists… DMusic Alternative Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Bluegrass Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Blues Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Classical Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Collaboration Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Country Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Electronic Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Folk Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Hip Hop Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Instrumental Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Jazz Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Metal Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic “Other” Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Pop Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic R&B/Soul Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Reggae Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Rock Song Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Band Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Male Artist Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic Female Artist Of The Year 2007 My vote: DMusic New Artist Of The Year 2007 My vote:: DMusic Outstanding Achievement Award 2007 My vote: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
HenriRoger	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 5:36 AM Congrats to all the nominees and thank you very very much to my nominators
Rodrica	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 5:49 AM Thanks for everyone who nominated me - and good luck to all who have been nominated. Exciting stuff!!
shutyatrap	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 6:21 AM Best Male artist! What the fuck!
ajpresentsky	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 6:26 AM Congrats everyone and thanks for everyone who nominated me!
farfor44	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 8:14 AM Congrats to all the nominees, Good luck to all and thanks for nominating Cosmic Man
ShadowMom	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 8:24 AM Congratulations to all the nominees, enjoy the contest! And whoever nominated me, but... Part is my job, part is my joy; neither is an achievement. I just talk too much. Thanks for the thought, but I respectfully decline and have asked Fra to remove my name. Have fun, youse guys!
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 8:49 AM Congratulations to AORPete and all his family who totally make up the BEST NEWCOMER section, a truly talented musical family - awesome job !! And thanks for nominating me in the electronic category, plus I know several people voted for me in other categories, although I didn't make the final list. Dmusic is an awesome place and the final list is one hell of a bunch of amazing musicians
mandolinlady	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 8:50 AM THANK YOU so very much EVERYONE who nominated me & for nominating my family Also Congratulations to all the Nominees & Good Luck. Once again a Very Big THANK YOU
baiko	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 10:34 AM i'm nominated??!!! nooooooo!!! i'm fat and ugly... no way! ... but thanks!!! and congrats to other!!!!!
zedsalt	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 10:37 AM Good lord, there's a lot of great music here. Any DMvirgin who listened to all of these nominees would HAVE to walk away from the experience thinking, "Why don't they play music like this on every broadcast radio station all the time?" O.k., so part of the answer to that one would be, "ClearChannel is lame", but still...
TOA2007	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 10:49 AM Good luck to everyone artist who was nominated, and if you wern't there's always next year, I know who i'm voting for. Best wishes from T-HOUSE
Tattoomom	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 10:53 AM MY thanks to Fra for all the hard work putting this together! The ballot was especially nice! You so rock!!! Thanks to everyone who mentioned Wormscrew. Good Luck to all!!
Mojosnake	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 11:36 AM OMG ?!?!!?!?!??!!?!?! two catagoreies thank you all very much i geuss i really did get to play with the big boys and girls i really dont want to win , it's jus a pleasure to be nominated along side my peeps besides i go some really syiff competition ,what alogside of wormscrew,baiko, and chillinbuzz good luck to all , and you really dont know howmuch this made my day
GeneHilbert	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 12:04 PM Thank You for the nominations....
SimonWaldram	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 12:15 PM Agghhh! I don't know what to say!! I am just so happy and honoured to be nominated! And in two different categories as well! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my songs. DMusic is a special place to me, and to get such recognition here makes me feel very, very happy indeed
ebarbarella	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 12:39 PM Pop Dolls and Diagnosis Red Here want to say Thanks to everyone that voted for us and got us nominated! All the Best To all the Nominees, Great Music on this 2007 awards Good Luck! The especial Thanks to Fra Donaghy for organizing it! Lets Dance! Lets Have Fun! Out to Listen, e.barbarella Pop Dolls Diagnosis Red
NoRentJoseph	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 1:17 PM Well done Fra, that must of took some collating -) Some of the nominations I made, made it to the first stage. I look forward to listening to the nominees and shrinking my list down to the final stage. Good luck everyone
8111	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 1:51 PM Thank you for the nominations congrats and good luck to everybody!
aorpete	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 2:09 PM THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR MY FAMILY!!! I know for sure that someone in my family is gonna win an AWARD for NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR!!! I am so GRATEFUL, EXCITED & PROUD!!! Thank you to all you wonderful people who voted for me & particularly for the new collab with JENNAE!!! Just to be on this listing at this stage with all these truly fine & AMAZING Artists is like an Award in itself!!! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! An to all those I voted for who have made it... (Which is most of you up there!!! ) CONGRATS!!! I will continue to support you the rest of the way!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!! LOVE THIS PLACE!!!
Saxsinger	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 2:29 PM Thanks for nominating
MultiMike	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 2:38 PM This site is amazing, so many fantastic friendly musicians with so much good music to listen to you all need an award. I would like to thank everyone who nomimated me, and also for nominating my whole family for NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR WISHING YOU ALL GOOD LUCK FOR THE FINAL RESULT
celtaidd	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 3:08 PM I'm so honoured to be nominated Thank You
evansorchid	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 3:24 PM I guess I’ve just been crowned the new collaboration kid….sorry Frank….. Wow…..that is like…..tooo freaking bazaar. How in the world did I get nominated three times in the same category? I’m totally honored and humbled by the recognition, and feel privileged in every respect to be listed with so many other talented folks.…. I especially would like to thank Frank, A.K.A. BlueNevus, for providing me with some totally kick-ass material to work with recently. A thousand thanks to everyone.
guitaroo	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 7:56 PM Hey thanks for nominating small town everyone!!
GTOriginal	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 10:24 PM Thanks for the nominations. Good luck to all.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 11:16 PM I just wanted to add 1) Thanks to Fra for all his time, energy and devotion in getting the impetus to have this contest. Thanks also to the indomitable Shadowmom as always. to both of you 2) Good Luck to (ladies first) Lamonda (MonnieB), Chris (Chillin Buzz), Branko (Baiko) and Matthew (Mojosnake) in the electronic category. Your music is awesome and if you guys finish ahead of me (umbriel rising) in this category, I will have no regrets or hard feelings. Just getting this far makes me feel like a winner
ShadowMom	Date: October 2, 2007 @ 11:19 PM I appreciate that, but in this case-- it's been all Fra. Literally, he has done all the work. And from the bottom of my heart, I thank him for it. He's doing a wonderful job!
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 1:57 AM i better cast some votes while i can still type
officernarc	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 2:11 AM uh, why are there multiple nominations for the same category?
FraDonaghy	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 2:39 AM On 3rd Oct 2009, officernarc said: uh, why are there multiple nominations for the same category? The nominations are the songs/artists that received the most votes during the nomination period. Now they have been selected to go through to this stage, where you vote for a winner in each category.
independentm...	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 3:48 AM I tried to nominate Fra for "Outstanding DMusic Achievement Award" (Especially since he recused himself from being nominated in all the other categories.) But, not enough of the rest of you nominated him for it. (For SHAME!) ...but, then again, Fra probably DID get enough nominations for that category, but selflessly declined to let us know. ---------------- You are TOO humble Fra! --------------------- Congrats to all!
BOWILLIE	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 10:19 AM undeserved..but i do appreciate the nominations.
FraDonaghy	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 10:50 AM On 3rd Oct 2009, independentmusician said: I tried to nominate Fra for "Outstanding DMusic Achievement Award" (Especially since he recused himself from being nominated in all the other categories.) Thanks Mike, but it wasn't possible to nominate me for any category at all
darkgrrrl	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 11:14 AM CONGRATULATIONS YOU ALL, TOO MUCH TALENT IN ONE SITE VOTES IN FOR ALL GENRES
independentm...	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 11:46 AM Ok, I give up then. (Enjoy your "humble pie" ...yum!) ----------------------- FraDonaghy is a true HERO folks! (Reward him somehow in whatever method you have available!) ----------- Suggestion: Why not stick a few bucks in his tip-jar?
FraDonaghy	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 2:34 PM ...because I don't have it enabled Seriously though, there is no need to reward me for doing this. It needed doing, and I'm enjoying it more and more every day. ...now back to the music
Tattoomom	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 2:52 PM Fra!?! Do you AT LEAST get to vote?!?!
FraDonaghy	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 2:56 PM I think it's best if I remain completely impartial in all respects
Alstroph	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 3:38 PM Great job organizing this! Good luck to everyone
vzeye	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 4:52 PM Thank you for nominating our "Mermaid Lady" in the Folk category. These are exciting times!
onewhodreams	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 4:55 PM Thank You for the nomination.
GTOriginal	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 5:15 PM My votes are in!
FraDonaghy	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 5:23 PM Good to see Diane back I believe she was the person who started the whole concept of DM Awards way back in 2004
shutyatrap	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 5:28 PM I agree its great to see Diane back. I will be playing a number of our fine nominees on the Shutyatrap Radio Show Friday mornings at 7am. D Music!
Tattoomom	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 5:30 PM HEY!!! ALRIGHT!!!! Steven has BEER at 7am!!!!
shutyatrap	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 5:32 PM Every hour is Beer O'clock in my house hold Tattoomom!!
imemine	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 5:57 PM HOLY CRAP! clears throat After months of shaking babies and kissing hands, my cold sores are nearly healed. Today, it is my great honor with a deep sense of humility and high resolve to accept your nomination. Though not worthy, I accept it with a full and grateful heart – without reservation – and with only one obligation – the obligation to devote every effort of body, mind and spirit to lead Dmusic blindly into the depths of mediocrity. I promise pot for every chicken and a cash bar in every mirage. I accept, too, the responsibility that goes with it, and I seek your continued help and your continued guidance……and cheese puffs! My fellow DMers, our cause is too great for any man or woman to feel worthy of it. Our task would be too great for any monkey, did he not have with him the hearts and the hands of this great community. And I promise you today that every fiber of my being is consecrated to our cause; mediocrity, that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by devotion, and plain screwing around on line. I wish my brother George was here. In the words of my favorite agnostic, dyslexic insomniac who stayed awake at night pondering the existence of dog………. Thank you -Dog bless you - and Dog bless DMusic. I am humbled! Many thanks and much luck to all……all deserving more than I!
soulvibration	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 8:27 PM Hey guys! Thanks for the nominations! ..and congratulations to the other nominees. ..AND thank you Francis for making the process so simple- YOU ROCK!!!
BOWILLIE	Date: October 3, 2007 @ 11:53 PM i vote for ime as mayor of dmusic.
southwing	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 12:29 AM Props to Fra for the work..............& MAN! that s alot of work, we (Knightmoods) really appreciate the nominations, there are so many other musicians more worthy of the recognition here at dmusic. i.e. Halaka, Rocky Larson, Mind Sculpture. and the list goes on and on......(for me anyway).... But, we humbly appreciate the nominations. I love this SITE (dmusic), and all of you who voted for us............
aflunky	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 1:05 AM OMFG!!!!!! Nominated for 2 Songs?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! HOOOOOO!!!!!!! that's like... (takes a quick mathematical course) ...a 50% chance of winning in the hip hip section!!!!! Seriously though, thank you all for your nominations congrats, and good luck to all the other nominees
moam	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 2:26 AM Ok, seriously, I'm sorry but what the fuck is this?? DMusic Hip Hop Song Of The Year Beatz 4 $ - Halaka Halaka...don't get me wrong, dude you make great music, no insult to you...but hip hop song of the year?? Who the fuck voted that as a hip hop song? I listened and it's interesting...nothing bad by any means, but its not rap. Anybody who enjoys and respects this genre of music would not even begin to consider this to be rap or hip hop. I'm sorry, but that's just a joke. I will give up all hope of this place if Halaka wins "best hip hop". There are sooo many other actual hip hop / rap artists out there worthy of a nomination...such as Dizeazed, Dislocated Boner (heh I love that name), jdubb had some good stuff, TDUBB, artists who actually make good rap. Again Halaka, dude, your music rocks, but I just can't believe that was fucking nominated under the rap section. I also find it ridiculous how many multiple mentions there are. Like, do people on this site even explore new artists at all? In the best alternative...there are three different artists... Not only that, but AORPete's whole family was listed multiple times in these nominations... Are you serious? No offense guys, you have made some decent music...but best new artist? Mandolinlady has like 2 songs...and MultiMike has almost all covers. You guys have talent and everything, but being nominated "best new artist" should be about the artist as a whole. I never look up to a person as an "amazing artist" when all they play are covers... Seriously, you guys do have great talent, but it just pisses me off that someone with a page full of covers got nominated for "best new artist". There were some really good picks too, and many I think deserved their mention, but just a few things that I could sniff out a mile away with this site really pissed me off. Also, back to the rap one again...why only four picks? I'm a little lost on that. One more thing...People need to seriously label their songs better as far as genre goes. Diagnosis Red - Say What You Want is definitely NOT metal...it's good and all, but it's not a fucking metal track. I guess all in all the main thing I wanted to bitch about is the hip hop portion of it. Lastly, I would also like to say that I'm done being a fake bitch. I've had people on here tell me shit like I'm their favorite artist and shit...fillin' my head with a bunch of comments that make it seem like I'm some flawless musician who's bound to make it someday. Then I don't even get a mention. It's kind of insulting to me, so if you want to go and be a fake bitch to me in my comments, don't even THINK that I'm gonna respect you. Cause I have lost an enormous amount of respect for this site, not only for some of these nominations, but for all the lying and fakeness that goes around (I'm guilty of that shit too). I'm no one's friend here, so stop talking to me like I am your best friend. I come here to visit with a few people I enjoy the company of and to upload good music. And if you ever want a comment from me, don't expect a bunch of bouncies, smilies, and bowdowns, cause I'm gonna tell you what I honestly think of your song. End of story I would like to thank Fra in all respect for doing this. It took a lot of effort and a lot of work and I appreciate the sacrifice you made of your own time. To the rest of you, good luck.
FraDonaghy	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 8:41 AM To answer your questions MOAM, "Beatz 4 $" is listed under the hip hop genre, and it was nominated twice - I won't say by who - which was enough votes to get it into this stage. Yes.. two votes. The vast majority of people didn't even nominate in the hip hop section. The reason there are only four nominees in hip hop and a few other genres is because those four were the only ones with enough votes to make it through - all the rest had the same amount of votes and it would have been unfair to just randomly pick one for inclusion. AORPete's family deserve their nominations as much as anyone else. They are new to the site, they contribute a great deal - and whether or not you find their musical contribution worthy of recognition in these awards is completely irrelevant. They were nominated a lot more times than anyone else. I appreciate your frustration at not being nominated, but no-one at all ever said these awards were the be all and end all of musical achievement. You were nominated in many categories but not enough times to make it through to this stage. These rewards were meant to be fun, not taken too seriously and hopefully inject a bit of life back into the site. These nominations were never going to affect how people respect you or your music - but your above rant certainly will... and that is a shame.
moam	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 9:37 AM As I already stated, I don't give a shit here who respects/disrespects me. I come here for the music and that is all. As I said above, I am nobody's friend and I don't intend to become anybody's friend. But do I intend to point shit out that I find totally obnoxious... I think I'm more annoyed with Halaka's "rap song" being nominated than I am about anything, cause that was seriously ridiculous. Thats really all I got left to say. I'm done posting in this forum. If you wanna go and argue at me or whatever, take it to my PM or my shoutbox. I'm not some whiny attention whore who likes drama in the forums, but to me, what was said needed to be said.
Distilled1	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 10:42 AM /me raises hand, I really tried to find as many new songs to nominate as I could, spent each day at work listening to a few, in genres I don't listen usually to. What makes me mad is that there was such poor participation! (.) how do you know? by Moams rant and Fra saying the same. I think it helps get some excitement going and I woul;d love to see us maybe do something monthly that the winners move on to a best of year where is it that I do and many others do Spin (or something check ebarbarellas page, the contest there are nothing but a vote for me fest a popularity contest. I think that doing something with what they do mixed with what we do here would be great! (a monthly new song, best in genre or something to that effect.) I know Fra did this to get people out listening and digging again. Congrats to all the nominations and congrats to those that took part and made your pics. I didn't make any dont feel like I should I already know im the shit and I have won 2 years of free subscriber for other stuff already . going to start a thread on trying to get this done into a monthly type rounds so 10 rounds then a final at 12 months? I think with some rules to get each of us off the beaten path we know CONGRATS again all and good luck
BOWILLIE	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 10:54 AM thats a great idea.. maybe the site would feature the monthly winner too.. and at end of year...12 songs to vote for the best year tune.. that would certainly achieve a monthly buzz and bring out for this place i would think.. (of coarse this wouldnt take place of annual dmusic awards in general)
GTOriginal	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 12:57 PM I did not nominate in hip-hop or in other genres where I don't know what I'm talking about, for many of the reasons moam said in his post - keeping it real. Having said that I would like to mention in the forum that one of my nominated tunes - NYC Breakdown Blues in the Blues category is actually a collaboratin. Imemine did ALL the music and production on that song (esp the wicked lead guitar & bass which makes the thing imho). I did the lyrics & vocals. Fradonaghy, if your intention was to wake the site up, thank you. My page has enjoyed some new activity as a result of this, as it seems like DM was mostly dormant for the past year or so.
ebarbarella	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 12:59 PM every time this awards happends somebody gets pissed off now, i think the mistake this year was eliminating genres. When i was nominating i realised there was no punk or latin. imagine that two of my favo genres, i contacted Fra about it but it was too late to fix it. I am gonna talk about our song Say What You Want (Diagnosis Red) i know thats not a pure Metal song but that was the closest category to a genre that wasnt availble in this awards like Hardcore. I retagged the song because one of our fans ask me so they could vote on it. Now the whole idea of the Awards was to get more traffic in the site. whitch happened btw ... didnt you guys notice? I am sorry if you got offended but it is nobody's fault. We didnt vote for ourselves, we voted for you, i actually nominated one of your songs but i think what happend was : all the people here nominated different songs from you, thats why you didnt got mention Imagine my surprise when i come here and Empire Day is not mention either its not a DM Award without them Please lets just have fun thats the whole meaning of this
FraDonaghy	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 2:15 PM Don't get me wrong - participation was better than I expected, though several genres were not as active as others. I guess some people didn't feel right nominating in a genre they were not a fan of. On the flip side, many people DID nominate in most categories. And now that we are at the voting stage, participation has increased even more. On the topic of making this a monthly thing - I really don't see that as being practical. It takes a lot of work both from an organisational and from a participation point of view. I imagine participation would be very low, and even if interest was maintained, continuous awards would only take the shine off in the long run.
BOWILLIE	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 2:17 PM true enough
GTOriginal	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 2:31 PM Yep - there's another site I know of that does an AOM (artist of month). Most of the artists there spend a lot of time campaigning rather than creating. This is way better.
ebarbarella	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 2:37 PM ps. i forgot to say before that We know we dont decerve that many nominations there is way more talented people here at DMusic than us. Fra, i agree with you on this one, the DM awards should be once a year! Lets Dance! i ve seen a lot of dancers around DM latetly
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 2:41 PM Moam's a closet crackhead hippy anyway... And his music needs no award to confirm its greatness. There.
Tattoomom	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 2:47 PM You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. Frank Zappa
kingo	Date: October 4, 2007 @ 10:41 PM I am deeply hurt, saddened, and offended. This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. MOAM STILL THINKS HALAKA IS A FUCKING DUDE. Halaka is a band. In fact, you're right. I would like to withdraw every one of our songs from every contest we've ever won. Not a single one of them has ever been put in the right genre. It's a catastrophe, and it's ruining this place. So yes, I would like to withdraw every halaka song from every contest, now, past, present, and in the future. Except for that Beatz 4 $@L3 song, which, frankly, I think is better than every song MOAM has nominated in this contest. Aside from none of that, I don't disagree with anything MOAM was saying, or implying, or not saying, or outright denying, in that post. It really is mostly true or partially at least not a fabrication. Halaka: Still ruining everythings while not even being here.
Woof	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 12:09 AM Oh my goodness... As politely as I can think to say it at this hour: EVERYBODY in the DM community has had TWO BLOODY YEARS to organize another awards ceremony. Two years to discuss the ins and outs, the rules, the stipulations, the regulations, the genres, and everything else having to do with this event. Nobody did a thing. Fra took the initiative to get this going again. And now there's this awful fracas about how it's turning out. This is supposed to be a cheerful event. Something that DM can look forward to every year. And it's turning into a series of arguments? Where was the organization committee all of this time? Nowhere. It's too late to find fault with this year's event, folks. Next year, get involved. And this is NOT directed at any one DM member in particular. It's directed at ANYONE who is intent on making what is supposed to be a fun event into an exercise in hindsight... and going on a fault finding mission on what could have been done differently. Once again... Next year, get involved. This year... let's just get on with it. Please return to our regularly scheduled program.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 12:53 AM Fra did an outstanding job and worked really hard. He also acknowledges that some minor tweaks could be implemented for next time based upon feedback given. For example, maybe some extra genres such as ebarbarella's suggestions and possibly we could have a best album, given that several artists have released full length albums or maybe a best free download. Since 2 fruitless years have gone by, Fra has brought this contest back from the dead and tried to keep it clear and concise without going overboard on rules and regulations. This made the nominations smoother and more painless than it could have been, so thanks for that ! I respect that and have found this a friendly contest conducted in good spirit. I have had messages from fellow nominees wishing me luck and I have issued similar messages - and I believe it's genuine sentiment and not fake, call me naive if you want. It's great to be nominated in the final round, but I wouldn't have been upset if I wasn't. I have sold copies of my CD to people here, had many streams and downloads of material too. And I know people voted for me in several other categories for which I am really grateful and was not in the final nominees, there are scores of talented musicians here so that is to be expected. How do you choose in some genres, 2 nominations from DOZENS of classic songs ! Moam - you say you're not here to be popular, I get that, but the fact is your music is popular, many people download your music and your albums and you have regular contact with several DMers. I'm sure you were close to making the final nominations in multiple categories. You can't blame Fra for anything here, it's a hard enough job setting up the contest, vote counting, responding to dnotes etc, he cannot have had the time to listen to every nominated song and judge whether or not it was tagged correctly for genre, which is a subjective business anyway.
moam	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:28 AM Okay, I said I wouldn't come back to comment, but before everyone starts fuckin' flamin' me for "blaming Fra" about this contest...read what I wrote. Nowhere did I mention any fault that Fra had. Fra has done an exceptional job organizing and getting down to business with these awards. What I'm disappointed in is the fact that a non-rap song got nominated by people (It just goes to show that people have no idea what rap is) and a metal song that really wasn't metal got picked as well. Again guys, great music, but by people nominating those, a chance got taken away from somebody who actually HAS the right genre selected. Somebody like Dizeazed could have got the rap nomination, or maybe a more metal-sounding artist could have been picked instead of a song thats truly NOT metal. It just makes me wonder if people on this site even know the difference between genres... Honestly, I explained why I blew up to a few certain DM-er's...and it's not really about me not getting nominated. I think that a little to do with it because of everything I have sacrificed to do what I do. I just felt under appreciated. But most of all, it was just a lot of little things around here that all piled into one massive breaking point. Not only was I really fucking pissed off and let down, but I couldn't express myself because I am in college now so I can't make music, so I did the next best thing and ranted about it. This drama that I started...for once I guess I WANTED, because at this point, I just want to fucking beat somebody, break them. I can't let my pissed off emotions out through music, so I let them out here. Seriously though, Fra, I never threw any blame on you. I never accused you of shit besides throwing a fun contest. Props to all of you who got nominated. And I guess I am sorry for starting all of this drama. But this doesn't change the fact that I still don't give a shit about this place because everything here seems more of a popularity contest than a music site. Honestly, I think I'm simply saying what's on most of your minds...but whether you agree with me here or not, I know its true. People can look at me as the immature bad guy who cried because he didn't get nominated, but if you read what I said, you would realize that I actually have a relevant point.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:38 AM Dizeazed is a great talent but he has been absent for some time, apart from Diane Jessurun, most of the old talent who have not been seen for quite some time did not make the final nominations. Hip Hop is a messed up genre at DMusic right now. Mickey Breezy and K3 are ths only ones I see regularly participating and K3 is trying hard to get a Halloween battle going with limited interest and we know what happened to the summer battle. The fact that it was possible to be nominated on just a couple of votes shows how little interest the Hip Hop community at large had in the Dmusic Awards. Given the fact that Halaka were voted in fair and square is something that some of the Hip Hop community might reflect upon. The question is not why Halaka were rightfully nominated based upon votes, it is why WEREN'T people voting for the established names such as Dizeazed etc.
moam	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:46 AM My point through all of this though...is it shouldn't be about who's regularly here. It should be about who has the best tracks in what genre. Just the fact that we are picking these artists based on how regularly they attend...that right there proves that this place is more about popularity and less about the music. My list of nominations went wayyyy back, because I picked the songs that I truly believed in to be some of the best...I didn't care who spent time here and who didn't. If this place was about the music, people would be thinking the same way I am thinking. By the way, Dizeazed said he wants to be part of the community again, but nobody is helping him get his account working. He said he even submitted help desk tickets... Growl!
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 2:35 AM "better to sound new than to sound good" quote from producer David Pensado of Justin Timberlake, Pussycat Dolls, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Timbaland etc. Of course you should vote for songs you believe in, regardless of age and current participation. It's not necessarily down to popularity though, you have to remember that newer members don't know who Dizeazed and other talented artists from many genres are, or at least don't know that they have music here.. They only know what is NEW. They are probably not consciously voting down older members who don't spend time here. Fra tried to open it up by not putting a time limit on things, so great material from 2005 and pre 2005 was able to be considered but this site has such a high turnover rate that probably 75% of people signed up in 2005 have either cancelled their account or never visit. So that quote from David Pensado has some validation. The other question is where did all these hiphoppers go to? Presumably, hip hop battles are going on fine elsewhere, judging by all the beefing that went on in the summer battles about 'i'm leaving and going to another site who can organize a battle' etc. So where are they at now? Soundclick?? Broadjam ??
moam	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 2:46 AM You've made a good point about people not even knowing about certain artists. I definitely don't think that artists should be forgotten just because they don't come back here as often. I know this was already discussed...but maybe if we kept like a chart on the DM front page that listed best monthly tracks...or....fuck I don't know. Hell, I'd even be willing to organize something like that. All that would happen is everybody would vote for their favorite track of the month...not of every genre...just one track that stood out to you as...amazing. The song and artist could be posted on the front of DM along with a list of the 12 other songs chosen through out the whole year, and the list will be constantly updated...that way new artists will always be motivated to upload here and try to promote here. I'm not sure what our options would be, but if this were to happen, this list would have to be one of the FIRST things you see on this website. This has to be a list that nobody forgets. In other words, it shouldn't get treated like Israfel's interviews. It seems like her interviews are put on the front page for about a day or so and then...forgotten. That is definitely something that should not be taken lightly. But again, I really think that if we had a monthly list of the most voted tracks, and then we have a yearly list that NEVER gets taken down, we might have a more exciting website.
moam	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 2:50 AM I'm tired so I might not have explained it very clear Every month, everybody votes for their favorite all-around track, then it gets posted at the end of that month. No nominations or anything. Or...we could have best rock (metal, hard rock, classic rock), rap/hip hop, and like country or something. So maybe 3 songs every month get chosen. The front page list could get updated every month with the tracks that were chosen. That way, artists that achieved a lot would NEVER be forgotten here!
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 3:11 AM On 5th Oct 2009, Woof said: Oh my goodness... As politely as I can think to say it at this hour: EVERYBODY in the DM community has had TWO BLOODY YEARS to organize another awards ceremony. Two years to discuss the ins and outs, the rules, the stipulations, the regulations, the genres, and everything else having to do with this event. Nobody did a thing. That's not quite true actually. There had been a plan to do the awards before but it kept crashing into something way above me in the chain of command, "calls were not answered" and it collapsed. And I agree, Fra is doing an awesome job bringing it back and that part should NOT be forgotten despite all the squabbling. P.S. And Moam is still a crackhead hippy.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 8:44 AM Yeah, I remember a while back that some people such as Chris had tried to resurrect the contest. The ideas of a monthly artist are good, the only issue is would people maintain it? Some people promise big things they can't deliver, even though the intention is good. I just fear for Hip Hop in general at this site. I mean look at the interest in having Mickey Breezey as interview of the month - very few questions - compare this to the interest in Halaka (2 parts needed) or Dan Sindel etc., I guess the majority at this site are doing rock, alternative, electronic, folk or pop and seem loathe or uncomfortable posing questions to a Hip Hop artist. What is most worrying is that I don't see questions for this interview coming from Hip Hop artists and they had similar disinterest in the DMusic Awards. It just seems to me that they have given up. The potential lure of a prize has drawn a couple back to want to participate in the Halloween battles, but if it starts, will they follow through or just do lame no shows as last time?
moam	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 9:19 AM Well I can tell you this...if we figured out a somewhat easy way to do the monthly contest, where all I gotta do is count votes for like two or three categories, I know I could easily keep up, so don't worry about the following through part. I am willing to throw something like that together as long as updating it every month weren't a huge pain in the ass. But yeah, we'll see. Maybe I'll bring this up to Leflaw at some point or something.
ShadowMom	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 10:24 AM Put it in the suggestion forum, guys, it would have to be figured into the design, and that's Tracy's department. I would maintain it for you, not like I'm doing anything else anyway.
moam	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 10:47 AM Sweet...
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 11:03 AM What got me was that the prizes for the last summer(?) battle were absolutely tremendous... And despite that, it flopped. When I joined, hip hop was far and away the largest music section here, although as it transpired over the years a significant number of accounts were little more than copyright violations, not to say it never happened in other genres but in this one genre the issues were definitely the most widespread. Then there were many comments about chart rigging too which, unfortunately it has to be said, was mainly from the same genre too. This I remember well did not go down with the rest of the site, many an argument ensued, cleanup operations commenced and then... Something odd happened, the genre almost vaporised itself. One thing that this site has always signified to me was that the artists put their love of music first, well before money and attention. With the ever growing internet music market, it would take the blindest of fools to not attempt to capitalise on it but too many literally jumped from one side of the deck to the other and couldn't understand why the other side wasn't as green as they had believed. Our awards have, from looking at the nominations this time around, worked very much the same as the marketing tactics employed by the big guns prior to a festive period. You know the score, you show up on the tv, the radio, suddenly your sales are right up there over xmas... And it's happened here to a degree too. Some have been nominated just for uploading or promoting at the right time... I don't see this as a bad thing but rather than people tearing apart every good intention on this site, we should be more constructive as to how to IMPROVE things for the next time. Make sense? Still, the fact these awards came back at all should please everyone. Think of the site's interests, not just your own. Everyone here has talent to some extent and there are a great number of talented artists who probably didn't even get nominated at all. The thing to remember is that no matter what decisions are made (be it the design, the awards or just about any choice) you can't please everyone. You never will. Life changes too much for anyone to keep up sometimes. This site has changed immensely in 5 years and the only way to keep up is to change along with it.
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 11:09 AM Artist Of The Month? Less categories but more nominations per category? I'd love to see what kind of response we'd have from, say, a guitar battle! Open to suggestions. Everything considered. Diversity brings interest.
JSwitch	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 12:01 PM Congrats to all of you, a lot of music talent here. Especially, I' d like to mention that without e.barbarella a lot of people wouldn't know about DMusic. Pop Dolls deserve all this nominations. Thank You. I enjoyed listening here, I'm becoming a regular
aflunky	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 12:43 PM Ok, well... I guess I have to say something now... When I first came on to this site, the Hip hop genre was alive and kickin, though I did notice little by little that people left. Dizeazed left the site, and now can't upload music anymore. TLK, hasn't been on for personal reasons, JDub, also disappeared. So did Royal Roach, NTG, J Prophecy, etc. T-Dubb has been uploading music, but hardly anyone pays attention anymore. MBreezy has been as well. I have, but not as much as I did last year (due to personal development, divorce, soul searching, etc.) which is also why I haven't participated in battles. I have a lot on my plate, and I'm taking care of 2 kids by myself. Personally, I think hip hop has been dying here cuz most people in that genre feel like they go nowhere with DMusic. That there isn't enough room for them to grow and flourish here, so they move on to other sites where the influence is greater (Soundclick, etc.) IDK, that's just what I've seen.
HenriRoger	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 12:58 PM Fra , can you tell us how many people voted for the whole nominations ?
ChillinBuzz	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:02 PM In that list of artists you mentioned, you wouldn't believe that at least three of them abused this site... Plus it's not just a lack of attention, the usual methods for "promoting" aren't working with most listeners and artists anymore. Diz... Good artist. Got a little too frisky with the gold bolt and blew off some steam publicly one day. Next thing you know, he's criticising the place and leaving. I would like to see him come back though, great music (have one of his CDs and a collab too). Although I can understand your thoughts that hip hop people feel they get nowhere here, I was left feeling sometimes it was more like they weren't getting their own way on a site that caters for every genre, although there are plenty of exceptions to that thought. To date I don't recall metal musicians threatening and abusing each other over a bunch of lyrics although I'm sure that will happen one day... It doesn't happen virtually every day though. This site has it's fiery moments but it's not what the site was built on and it's more a case of conform as best you can or go... And most of them left when it became obvious their actions weren't well liked. Not to say all of those who left acted like this but you show me another genre on this site that had anywhere near as much beef, foul language, degrading lyrics, spam and copyright violations and I will eat my hat. Literally. There is plenty of space to grow... That part I really don't agree with. Again, it's about adapting to the site, not the other way around. Anyway... This thread will be buried when the awards are announced and I hope there will be a lot more constructive points and suggested improvements for the awards and maybe how we all treat other genres in future... ?
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:16 PM Thanks for the info Chris. I agree with the moral of the story too, that whatever our personal feelings are, we need to think about what is best for the site as a whole. I have a (fairly dormant) account with soundclick and they have strict rules about copyright violations and such regulations too, so it still seems weird that Soundclick seems to be more of a A list place to be for hip hop. One advantage I can think of is that they have much more emphasis on charts, with charts going down to 500 or 1,000 (can't remember offhand) and the chart cannot be rigged as easily as ours. Also, people seem to be more tolerant of beats spamming there. And sorry Flunky, when I said K3 and Mickey were the only active ones, I forgot about your contributions and acknowledge that given your life changes, it makes sense to spend less time here and more time focusing on what is truly important.
8111	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:25 PM Chill sed: "To date I don't recall metal musicians threatening and abusing each other over a bunch of lyrics although I'm sure that will happen one day..." -Lord I hope not...all five of us might get kicked off the site, then where would you be, hmmm??? (personally I wouldn't be caught dead doing a rap song)
FraDonaghy	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:34 PM at MC Rhynes On 5th Oct 2009, HenriRoger said: Fra , can you tell us how many people voted for the whole nominations ? I can indeed, 41 people in total submitted nominations.
Tattoomom	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:35 PM :ROFL: All five of us!!! HA! ummmm....did you forget about the boogie woogie motion in your butt, darling?
realmedia	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:40 PM i wish i could vote~ i am not a "D-MEMBER" but there are many well deserved artists who did not make the list. ~let us not forget them~ and ones who did~ either way d~music is a cool site~ like fifty million times better than stupid ass myspace~ hahaha~
FraDonaghy	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:45 PM You are a DMember! You can vote.
Tattoomom	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:46 PM One time I applied for a really cool job. I went to an interview with a panel of 11 people and answered questions for over an hour. A couple of days later the leader of the panel called me and told me that I didn't get the job but that I had come in a close second. "Don't tell me that shit...just send me a letter"!
FraDonaghy	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:48 PM Is that a vote against posting the runners up then Crystal?
Tattoomom	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:50 PM Not really...but it's an AWFULLY intersting story...don't you think?
FraDonaghy	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:53 PM For sure!
ebarbarella	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:55 PM just came to see what you guys are talking about awesome Crystal 41 is not a bad number hope more people votes in the finals
FraDonaghy	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 1:59 PM On 5th Oct 2009, realmedia said: i wish i could vote~ You asked me how to vote in my shoutbox but I can't reply to ya - your page must be set to private or I'm blocked Just copy and paste the voting form (above) into a note, fill it in, and send it to me!
realmedia	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 2:01 PM i meant to say i am not a subscriber~ this is a stupid question~ how do i cast votes?
realmedia	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 2:03 PM ok i figured it out~ DUH all i had to do was read the rules
FraDonaghy	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 2:03 PM On 5th Oct 2009, FraDonaghy said: Just copy and paste the voting form (above) into a note, fill it in, and send it to me!
aflunky	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 2:08 PM On 5th Oct 2009, ChillinBuzz said: There is plenty of space to grow... That part I really don't agree with. I'm not saying there is no room to grow, I know I have grown in the 2 short years I've been on, just from listening to others, taking advice, and collaborating. I just think that most of them felt that they have gone as far as they could with DM. Me personally, I love this place. Sure, I have a soundclick account, but I'm hardly active there. I also feel that since I am more open to other genres as well, I still have more potential and much more to learn and grow here On 5th Oct 2009, leedsquietman said: And sorry Flunky, when I said K3 and Mickey were the only active ones... There's no need to apologize, but thank you for understanding. For the last few months, I've only recorded music when I had the urge to vent, with time, and an inspiring instrumental. Since June, that has been 3 times. Once this all blows over and my life is straightened out, I'll be as active as I was before. Can't speak for the other ones though.
sackyjamboree	Date: October 5, 2007 @ 6:12 PM On 5th Oct 2009, moam said: It just makes me wonder if people on this site even know the difference between genres... I think you might be missing the boat here. Or maybe you didn't dodge the truck in time. Or something. If you don't understand that Halaka does not just ARBITRARILY select a genre when posting a song, you've totally missed the fucking point. And maybe it's not even the point of everyone in the band. But I know my own view is to generally say, "FUCK BOXES. FUCK CATEGORIES." And most certainly, "FUCK GENRES." Music is music. Some motherfucker in a business suit came up with charts and classifications to sell more music. And what did that get us besides the fucking Monkees? NSync. Backstreet Boys. Fucking Spice Girls. Well... I guess it got us a lot. But it's all a lot of fucking crap. The only reason any Halaka song on this site has a genre attached to it is because it has to. And we're too stupid to just go pick "ROCK" or whatever you might think we belong in. No - instead, we have to scout the choices and see where somebody who's been living on the moon for the last fifteen years and is now married to Priscilla Presley and living in the basement of Graceland, sipping on Elvis' old stash of Tequila might stick the song. There's thought and purpose behind it. Some people might call it artistry. Some people also thought Syd Barrett was crazy. So fuck your genres and your classifications. That Beatz song wouldn't EVER have gotten nominated if somebody didn't see a need to separate and segregate music into little pods that people can easily digest without having to think too hard about it. So I guess what I'm trying to say is -- maybe we're not only gender-benders, but also genre-benders. After all, I can only imagine the uproar that would have happened if this contest had a Gospel category and "Terrible Christian Cheaters" got nominated. Sacky

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