Vote For Me! In Fact, Vote For Everyone!!
Song, by Toad has been nominated as Best Music Blog in the People’s Choice Awards. I didn’t actually have to nominate myself, but you can, so it’s hardly an Earth-shattering achievement, however I think it’s important we muster a bit of a turnout at the voting booth for reasons I’ll allow Tim from The Daily Growl to explain:
more importantly, I want to see proper British music blogs occupying that top 10. Not like last year where the top 5 was taken up by ‘blogs’ by top-selling artists which I cynically see as just another promotional racket (yes, I’m looking at you Mike Skinner and Dave Gilmour) and others that weren’t really music blogs at all.
…let’s see a proper music blogger – i.e. a non-professional, just writing for sheer love of music – on the podium come 2 October.
He’s right – bollocks to the well-funded, slick-arse, sphincter-polishing, devil’s shilling-grubbing professionals. That’s not what a fucking blog is, dammit. However, fortunately it turns out you can vote for numerous different blogs using the same email address and it also turns out you can vote with as many different email addresses as you have, so get out there and vote for me as often as possible. Then make your friends do it too. Then go to The Daily Growl and Fucking Dance and vote for them as well – let’s make a dent for the amateurs this year, eh! Any of my other blog pals who are in the running, let me know and I’ll link to you buggers too.
And, of course, the reason for all this bollocks in the first place – the tuuunez! And it’s nearly beer time. Woo hoo!
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
The Siddeleys – You Get What You Deserve
Elastica – Connection
Gene – I Can’t Help Myself
Cold War Kids – Passing the Hat
Decoration – It’s OK to be Fickle
Thomas Truax – Inside the Internet
OK folks, you heard the man
I had an amazing live and stripped down version of ‘I Can’t Help Myself’ that I got free with a Select Magazine. Great to hear it again.
mike skinner voted himself in last year, you can just tell.
I love you for your bitter cynicism Hannah, you are in the right place here!
wooo cold war kids and wooooo for us amateurs!
It’s okay to be fickle. Just not now. Now you all have to be loyal!
Wowie and congrats! May you show yourself to be a step above Mike Skinner, then.
By the way, according to the Sootle directory, your site is worth $728. Maybe your value will go up after a win, if blogs work like Academy Awards.
And then I can sell it and you will all hate me forever….
Oi, bollocks, that thingy says my website is worth $29,816, are you trying to buy the Toad Empire on the cheap, dammit?
$29,816?? Couldn’t be worth that much, this old piece of- er, nevermind and go here: http://directory.sootle.com/website-worth/
i love this shit! ok, when i put my url as http://www.lostinyourinbox.blog-city.com my worth is $7,521. but when i put in http://lostinyourinbox.blog-city.com, it comes up as 23,689! i’m rich!
That’s where I went, China. Turns out, as Marcy has also discovered, that the http:// makes a significant difference. There may be an awful lot of music blogs shutting down in the next week or so if this gets out!
I always loved Gene. I Can’t Help Mysef is excellent song!
It is truly excellent. And a shame they never quite made the great album that they always threatened to.
Good god, you’re right about the http:// making a difference – mine’s only worth $11 without it. About time to try taking over Toad Empire on the cheap, then!
Also, thanks for including Elastica in this one – I miss them loads.