Thank you, Stacey-Lynn. The award for Most Overrated Album is similar to the one just given, but it focusses more on the hype surrounding the album, the reviews it got and the fact that it failed to live up to its promise. It's not seen as the same as the Most Disappointing Album because, here at the Playlist of Life, we may not have expected it to be great anyway, but were drawn in by the buzz around it.
And the nominations in this category are:
Dream Theater, for “A dramatic turn of events”
Peter Gabriel, for “New blood”
The Von Hertzen Brothers, for “Stars aligned”
and Coldplay, for “Mylo Xyloto”.
And the award goes to...
Coldplay, for “Mylo Xyloto.”
Not really too much you can add to that, is there? Which takes us to the award
no-one wants to win, but it has to be awarded anyway, so tell us Laura, what are the nominations for the Worst Album of 2011?
Well, there have been quite a few bad albums, Stacey-Lynn, but we've had to narrow it down to four, so they are:
Dream Theater, “A dramatic turn of events”
Peter Gabriel, “New blood”
Charred walls of the damned, “Cold winds on timeless days”
and “Sin-atra” by Various Artists
And the Polly goes to...
”Sin-atra”! Those of you who contributed to this mess should all be ashamed of yourselves haha!
Yes, well deserved. Funny for about five minutes until the joke starts to wear thin, and you realise there's little else underneath. But enough about Trollheart's Best Man speeches...!
Okay, so that takes care of all the awards nobody ever wanted to win, and leaves us with Best Debut Album of 2011, and the nominees for this will be read by Helen.
The nominations for Best Debut Album are:
For all we know, for “For all we know”
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Pistol Annies, for “Hell on heels”
Three Seasons, for “Life's road”
and Lanterns on the Lake, for “Gracious tide, take me home”.
And the winner, once more, is ...
Lanterns on the Lake, for “Gracious tide, take me home”!
Unbelievable! Can they make it a clean sweep, we wonder, as we come to the last category in this first part of the show? It is, of course, the one you've all been waiting for, which needs no introduction. Li-Chang?
Thank you, Stacey-Lynn. Yes, the nominations for the Best Album of 2011 are:
”50 words for snow”, by Kate Bush
“Grace for drowning” by Steven Wilson
“Gracious tide, take me home” by, oh, you know...!
“Fallen empires”, by Snow Patrol.
And the winner of the award for Best Album of 2011 is... can they do it again? YES!
”Gracious tide, take me home”! Many congratulations!
Yes definitely, huge respect and congratulations to a band who have all but made a clean sweep of the awards here tonight. The future is looking bright for Lanterns on the Lake. A total of FIVE Pollys! Fantastic work, delighted for them.
That's it for part one of the show. Please make your way in an orderly fashion to the bar and don't forget to return for part two, when we'll be dishing out the Pollys for the non-chronological awards. See you all soon! Bye for now!