The 2011 Music Banter User Awards: NOMINATIONS!

Zaqarbal · 12-08-2011, 08:43 PM

Best Avatar: Djchameleon. A picture is worth a thousand erec... I mean, words.
Sexiest Member (Female): Vanilla. Ditto.
Nicest Member: Vegangelica. Doesn't she have a heart of gold?
Best Debater: Tore. Always uses wise and well-constructed arguments.
Biggest Virtuoso: Rezz.
Funniest Member: TheCunningStunt.
Best Mediator: Janszoon. MB's King Solomon.
Biggest Troll: The Virgin. As dumb as a silicone squid.
Biggest Contributor: Il Duce.
Most Improved Member: Tumor. From a malignant tumor to a benign tumor.
Most Obscure Music Taste: CanwllCorfe.
Best Music Taste: Burning Down.
Biggest Music Nerd: Il Duce. A big "music database".
Most Missed Poster: Holly984.
Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 12-12-2011, 07:42 PM

Updated with new entries:

Best Avatar: BillyJerome, ThePhanastasio, CaptainCaptain(I'm a sucker for Lynch)

Sexiest Member (Male): S_K, Scrotie McBoogerballs, Uh... Tom Clancy with his underdrill avatar

Sexiest Member (Female): Lateralus, Aurora, Tumor

Most Inane: Erasertime, by lightyears, Blastinggas, S_K

Most Enigmatic: Mondo Bungle, Moonlit Sunshine, Eric_generic

Angriest Member: Blastinggas, Guitar Bizarre (created an 8 page thread on hating CG bicycles), Freebase Dali(albeit not so much lately)

Biggest Drama Whore: Blastinggas, Guitar Bizarre, s_k

Nicest Member: Doctor Soft - Extremely nice young man. Fun to talk to. Brightens up mumusessions. Burning Down, Pedestrian

Best Debater: Unknown Soldier, Janszoon, Il Duce

Worst Debater: Erasertime, Blastinggas, TheBig3

Best Writer: I can't really say...

Biggest Virtuoso: Rezz, Burning Down, Vegangelica

Smartest Poster: Burning Down, Dali, Engine

Funniest Member: Janzsoon, Conan, Erasertime(even if unintentionally)

Best Mediator: Jack Pat, Pedestrian, Janzsoon

Biggest Troll: Erasertime, Blastinggas, TheBig3

Biggest Contributor: Jack Pat, RMR, Bob

Most Improved Member: Paloma, The Mighty Salami(getting there).

Most Underrated Poster: Engine, RMR, MrD00D

Most Mainstream Music Taste: Urban Hatemonger, Vanilla, Aw Sugar!

Most Obscure Music Taste: Bob, Jackpat, Dankstra

Best Music Taste: Stu, Jackpat, Dankstra (Bob BARELY doesn't make this list. Janzsoon, and Tore are also really close. Anteater also, as well as Loose_Lips. too many people on this forum with awesome tastes.)

Biggest Music Nerd: Anteater(seemingly literally knows everything about every genre), Tore, Jackhammer

Best Thread Starter: Jackhammer, Pedestrian, Stu

Most Missed Poster: Clutnuckle, James(big time), Loose_Lips

Thread of the Year: "The Evolution of Music: Accident, or Adaptation? " It's a new one, but has a potential for endless productive discussion. It's going to be really hard to add anymore... Too many threads.

Journal of the Year: Don't really read the journals.

Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian, Janzsoon, Vanilla

Best New Member 2011: I honestly would need a list of who qualifies. MrD00D, definitely if he counts. Mondo Bungle, as well.

Member of the Year 2011: Il Duce, Jackhammer, Jackpat

Salami · 12-13-2011, 12:58 PM

Here are my final nominations. I'm going to refuse any more temptations to nominate anyone else.

Best Avatar: I'll have to go with Jackhammer. I love that "Pink Freud" so much. Vanilla and duga are also very good.

Sexiest Member (Male): Odyshape. He's really cute. Look at him with his watch in the picture gallery. And duga.

Sexiest Member (Female): Easily Vanilla. I love her already. I think Aurora comes pretty close. [And duga too! Kidding.]

Most Inane: Killcreek. I don't know why Killcreek ever came here.

Most Enigmatic: Tore. I love it when he turns up. Duga is so infrequently encountered, but when he turns up, I want to listen.

Angriest Member: TheBig3, because Urban says so.

Biggest Drama Whore: Paloma. She's a real babe. Great lass. I'm not giving her this in a negative way, I just think she really deserves an award.

Nicest Member: s_k. Really friendly guy. Burning Down a close second. Necromancer deserves special recognition too.

Best Debater: duga. Only seen a few posts by him, but every single one was brilliant. And it's about time someone gave him some love! Il Duce is the "master debater", but that's different.

Worst Debater: Erasertime.306. Worked very hard for this award and he damn well deserves it. He even changed the thread name to C.C. Deville. Worthy winner.

Best Writer: RMR. Fantastic series of reviews.

Biggest Virtuoso: Freebase Dali. No competition.

Smartest Poster: Jackhammer. Tore is also very intelligent. Duga writes more in a single post that I've ever said on this forum, so I'm nominating him too.

Funniest Member: Urban. Every single one of his posts make me laugh out loud. Also Unchained Ballad. @#!*ing hilarious at times.

Best Mediator: Janzoon. Coolest man on the forum. Nothing can annoy him.

Biggest Troll: SIRIUSB, Hip Hop Bunny Hop and Bane of your Existence.
Also very worthy of note is Baggs, the "progwanker" as Pedestrian amusingly put it.

Biggest Contributor: Pedestrian. So much effort put into here, I don't know how she does it.

Most Improved Member: I haven't been around long enough to know!

Most Underrated Poster: Necromancer. Really knowledgeble yet no one mentions him. Same with duga

Most Mainstream Music Taste: djchamelean.

Most Obscure Music Taste: Batlord. Knows more about metal than I ever knew about my girlfriend.

Best Music Taste: Trollheart. And by "best", I probably mean similar to mine! Burning Down as well.

Biggest Music Nerd: Jackhammer. In a good way.

Best Thread Starter: Jackhammer again! His really do stand the test of time.

Most Missed Poster: Boo Boo. I feel very sorry for poor old boobs. I think there must have been some deep personal loss in his life for his unfortunate deterioration. I sympathise with him, but think that he should really have thought before saying some of what he did.

Thread of the Year: "The Evolution of Music: Accident, or Adaptation? " It's a new one, but has a potential for endless productive discussion./

Journal of the Year: Crosswalking - Pedestrian. It's an incredible read, very informative, very well written with excellent turn of phrase and very personal.
A close second would be Thoughts from a music major - by Burning Down. Talks about exactly the kind of music I love in a very honest and friendly kind of way.

Moderator of the Year: Sorry to sound like a creep, but there are several that deserve a mention:

Overall best mod must be Pedestrian. The amount of effort she puts into this forum is amazing. duga is the coolest, and one whom
I'm liking increasingly. Burning Down is the nicest. I can't nominate any more, sorry!

Best New Member 2011: Il Duce and Tom Clancy11.

Member of the Year 2011: duga.

Engine · 12-14-2011, 12:44 AM

Best Avatar: Surell. His dinosaur-headed Jesus is a work of divine beauty and I hope it never changes.

Sexiest Member (Male): I’m not normally into blondes but this one goes to TheFolkslave.

Sexiest Member (Female): Without a doubt, MB’s favorite lustful southern belle, 6Underground.

Most Inane: Mighty Salami. Sorry kid but I can’t seem to open a thread these days without bumping into one of your strange unsubstantial posts. The real award goes to s_k, though. It’s been explained why a bunch of times here already. You earned it man.

Most Enigmatic: skaltezon. I don’t understand your period usage and I can’t tell who you are at all but you know your baroque music and I dig the few other posts I’ve seen you make.

Angriest Member: lucifer_sam. A lot of the anger seems a bit manufactured but it’s always pretty … angry. I recently read that he gave up his dope-smoking so maybe that’s why some of his latest outbursts have been so loud.

Biggest Drama Whore: They’re all the same size. You’re either a drama whore or you’re not.

Nicest Member: Maybe she hasn’t been very nice to a lot of you assholes but 2011 has been the worst year of my life and Tumor was consistently there for me whenever I asked her to be and she always tried to help me out no matter how ridiculously self-pitying and drunk I got. This one goes to her.

Best Debater: Tore wins the argument literally every time. Even if I enjoyed debating on the Internet, I’d never take him on.

Worst Debater: A dime a dozen around here.

Best Writer: There are many. Janszoon gets a nod for the evocative writing in his 25 Albums journal. Pedestrian epitomizes good diction and grammar. Stu expresses his opinions and other contributions as well as or better than everybody else.

Biggest Virtuoso: Last year Freebase Dali won this I think (?) because of some of his music he posted on which he sang in a way that made me cringe. This year he posted some “music he totally made” sans vocals and I really like it. It’s strange to base this on one song but there ya go, I nominate him. Janszoon once (not this year) posted a link to an entire electronic album that he made and I really like it. I hope he makes/posts more. Also, I haven’t checked out a lot of what others have done so this isn’t a putdown of anybody else’s music.

Smartest Poster: Janszoon, Urban Hatemonger, and Freebase Dali. Don’t fuck with any of these guys if you value your credential.

Funniest Member: Same three as above plus Tumor.

Best Mediator: Even though it often comes across as a scared child begging mommy and daddy to stop fighting, Jack Pat often puts in an effort to cool things down.

Biggest Troll: Same as the drama whores – all the same size to me.

Biggest Contributor: This year it was Pedestrian. She’s the new Tore.

Most Improved Member: I don’t remember why exactly but when Jack Pat first joined he seemed to me like a kid who was probably picked on or ignored in school and dealt with it by cracking open a case of Mountain Dew and venting on an Internet forum. A year later and he seems more sophisticated and truly in love with music than a lot of posters. So he gets this.

Most Underrated Poster: Shoutout to Sparky who makes this place more fun than it would be without him. Oh, almost forgot, loose_lips_sink_ships routinely goes unnoticed.

Most Mainstream Music Taste: dunno

Most Obscure Music Taste: This feels unfair to the many people with vast musical knowledge here but the usual suspects I guess: bob. and Stu.

Best Music Taste: This one’s really too difficult because so many posters here have such good taste. What really interests me is when I feel a connection to a poster’s taste even when I really don’t like the same music they like. For instance, I don’t love a lot of post-rock but I know TheFolkslave has got that genre locked down. Same with CanwllCorfe and his black metal, and Hip Hop Bunny Hop's thrash, grind, and death metal. Whenever I open youtube links they post I enjoy it even if I know I’ll never listen to it again because it’s not really my thing.

Biggest Music Nerd: We’re all so nerdy it’s ridiculous to try to choose.

Best Thread Starter: I guess I rarely notice who starts threads. I know Sparky and Stu start threads on musicians that other people wouldn’t so … them?

Most Missed Poster: dankrsta, dankrsta, dankrsta. Please come back.

Thread of the Year: I’ve probably ignored the majority of them so I don’t feel qualified to say.

Journal of the Year: Janszoon’s 25 Albums, Pedestrian’s Crosswalking, and _____’s 1960 met 1963 is also a fun read. Honorable mentions to CanwllCorfe, Trollheart, Stu, Zer0, and bob.

Moderator of the Year: I can’t nominate people for things that I don’t even know that they’ve done.

Best New Member 2011: I really can’t say yet.

Member of the Year 2011: Janszoon is who keeps me coming back.

12-08-2011, 08:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
Zaqarbal Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Spain Posts: 824	Best Avatar: *Djchameleon. A picture is worth a thousand erec... I mean, words. Sexiest Member (Female): Vanilla. Ditto. Nicest Member: Vegangelica. Doesn't she have a heart of gold? Best Debater: Tore. Always uses wise and well-constructed arguments. Biggest Virtuoso: Rezz. Funniest Member: TheCunningStunt. Best Mediator: Janszoon. MB's King Solomon. Biggest Troll: The Virgin. As dumb as a silicone squid. Biggest Contributor: Il Duce. Most Improved Member: Tumor. From a malignant tumor to a benign tumor. Most Obscure Music Taste: CanwllCorfe. Best Music Taste: Burning Down. Biggest Music Nerd: Il Duce. A big "music database". Most Missed Poster: Holly984. Moderator of the Year: Pedestrian. __________________ "Lullabies for adults / crossed by the years / carry the flower of disappointment / tattooed in their gloomy melodies.*"

12-13-2011, 12:58 PM	#3 (permalink)
Salami Get in ma belly Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 1,385	Here are my final nominations. I'm going to refuse any more temptations to nominate anyone else. Best Avatar: I'll have to go with Jackhammer. I love that "Pink Freud" so much. Vanilla and duga are also very good. Sexiest Member (Male): Odyshape. He's really cute. Look at him with his watch in the picture gallery. And duga. Sexiest Member (Female): Easily Vanilla. I love her already. I think Aurora comes pretty close. [And duga too! Kidding.] Most Inane: Killcreek. I don't know why Killcreek ever came here. Most Enigmatic: Tore. I love it when he turns up. Duga is so infrequently encountered, but when he turns up, I want to listen. Angriest Member: TheBig3, because Urban says so. Biggest Drama Whore: Paloma. She's a real babe. Great lass. I'm not giving her this in a negative way, I just think she really deserves an award. Nicest Member: s_k. Really friendly guy. Burning Down a close second. Necromancer deserves special recognition too. Best Debater: duga. Only seen a few posts by him, but every single one was brilliant. And it's about time someone gave him some love! Il Duce is the "master debater", but that's different. Worst Debater: Erasertime.306. Worked very hard for this award and he damn well deserves it. He even changed the thread name to C.C. Deville. Worthy winner. Best Writer: RMR. Fantastic series of reviews. Biggest Virtuoso: Freebase Dali. No competition. Smartest Poster: Jackhammer. Tore is also very intelligent. Duga writes more in a single post that I've ever said on this forum, so I'm nominating him too. Funniest Member: Urban. Every single one of his posts make me laugh out loud. Also Unchained Ballad. @#!ing hilarious at times. Best Mediator: Janzoon. Coolest man on the forum. Nothing can annoy him. Biggest Troll: SIRIUSB, Hip Hop Bunny Hop* and Bane of your Existence. Also very worthy of note is Baggs, the "progwanker" as Pedestrian amusingly put it. Biggest Contributor: Pedestrian. So much effort put into here, I don't know how she does it. Most Improved Member: I haven't been around long enough to know! Most Underrated Poster: Necromancer. Really knowledgeble yet no one mentions him. Same with duga Most Mainstream Music Taste: djchamelean. Most Obscure Music Taste: Batlord. Knows more about metal than I ever knew about my girlfriend. Best Music Taste: Trollheart. And by "best", I probably mean similar to mine! Burning Down as well. Biggest Music Nerd: Jackhammer. In a good way. Best Thread Starter: Jackhammer again! His really do stand the test of time. Most Missed Poster: Boo Boo. I feel very sorry for poor old boobs. I think there must have been some deep personal loss in his life for his unfortunate deterioration. I sympathise with him, but think that he should really have thought before saying some of what he did. Thread of the Year: "The Evolution of Music: Accident, or Adaptation? " It's a new one, but has a potential for endless productive discussion./ Journal of the Year: Crosswalking - Pedestrian. It's an incredible read, very informative, very well written with excellent turn of phrase and very personal. A close second would be Thoughts from a music major - by Burning Down. Talks about exactly the kind of music I love in a very honest and friendly kind of way. Moderator of the Year: Sorry to sound like a creep, but there are several that deserve a mention: Overall best mod must be Pedestrian. The amount of effort she puts into this forum is amazing. duga is the coolest, and one whom I'm liking increasingly. Burning Down is the nicest. I can't nominate any more, sorry! Best New Member 2011: Il Duce and Tom Clancy11. Member of the Year 2011: duga. Last edited by Salami; 12-31-2011 at 09:53 AM.

12-14-2011, 12:44 AM	#4 (permalink)
Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	Best Avatar: Surell. His dinosaur-headed Jesus is a work of divine beauty and I hope it never changes. Sexiest Member (Male): I’m not normally into blondes but this one goes to TheFolkslave. Sexiest Member (Female): Without a doubt, MB’s favorite lustful southern belle, 6Underground. Most Inane: Mighty Salami. Sorry kid but I can’t seem to open a thread these days without bumping into one of your strange unsubstantial posts. The real award goes to s_k, though. It’s been explained why a bunch of times here already. You earned it man. Most Enigmatic: skaltezon. I don’t understand your period usage and I can’t tell who you are at all but you know your baroque music and I dig the few other posts I’ve seen you make. Angriest Member: lucifer_sam. A lot of the anger seems a bit manufactured but it’s always pretty … angry. I recently read that he gave up his dope-smoking so maybe that’s why some of his latest outbursts have been so loud. Biggest Drama Whore: They’re all the same size. You’re either a drama whore or you’re not. Nicest Member: Maybe she hasn’t been very nice to a lot of you assholes but 2011 has been the worst year of my life and Tumor was consistently there for me whenever I asked her to be and she always tried to help me out no matter how ridiculously self-pitying and drunk I got. This one goes to her. Best Debater: Tore wins the argument literally every time. Even if I enjoyed debating on the Internet, I’d never take him on. Worst Debater: A dime a dozen around here. Best Writer: There are many. Janszoon gets a nod for the evocative writing in his 25 Albums journal. Pedestrian epitomizes good diction and grammar. Stu expresses his opinions and other contributions as well as or better than everybody else. Biggest Virtuoso: Last year Freebase Dali won this I think (?) because of some of his music he posted on which he sang in a way that made me cringe. This year he posted some “music he totally made” sans vocals and I really like it. It’s strange to base this on one song but there ya go, I nominate him. Janszoon once (not this year) posted a link to an entire electronic album that he made and I really like it. I hope he makes/posts more. Also, I haven’t checked out a lot of what others have done so this isn’t a putdown of anybody else’s music. Smartest Poster: Janszoon, Urban Hatemonger, and Freebase Dali. Don’t fuck with any of these guys if you value your credential. Funniest Member: Same three as above plus Tumor. Best Mediator: Even though it often comes across as a scared child begging mommy and daddy to stop fighting, Jack Pat often puts in an effort to cool things down. Biggest Troll: Same as the drama whores – all the same size to me. Biggest Contributor: This year it was Pedestrian. She’s the new Tore. Most Improved Member: I don’t remember why exactly but when Jack Pat first joined he seemed to me like a kid who was probably picked on or ignored in school and dealt with it by cracking open a case of Mountain Dew and venting on an Internet forum. A year later and he seems more sophisticated and truly in love with music than a lot of posters. So he gets this. Most Underrated Poster: Shoutout to Sparky who makes this place more fun than it would be without him. Oh, almost forgot, loose_lips_sink_ships routinely goes unnoticed. Most Mainstream Music Taste: dunno Most Obscure Music Taste: This feels unfair to the many people with vast musical knowledge here but the usual suspects I guess: bob. and Stu. Best Music Taste: This one’s really too difficult because so many posters here have such good taste. What really interests me is when I feel a connection to a poster’s taste even when I really don’t like the same music they like. For instance, I don’t love a lot of post-rock but I know TheFolkslave has got that genre locked down. Same with CanwllCorfe and his black metal, and Hip Hop Bunny Hop's thrash, grind, and death metal. Whenever I open youtube links they post I enjoy it even if I know I’ll never listen to it again because it’s not really my thing. Biggest Music Nerd: We’re all so nerdy it’s ridiculous to try to choose. Best Thread Starter: I guess I rarely notice who starts threads. I know Sparky and Stu start threads on musicians that other people wouldn’t so … them? Most Missed Poster: dankrsta, dankrsta, dankrsta. Please come back. Thread of the Year: I’ve probably ignored the majority of them so I don’t feel qualified to say. Journal of the Year: Janszoon’s 25 Albums, Pedestrian’s Crosswalking, and _____’s 1960 met 1963 is also a fun read. Honorable mentions to CanwllCorfe, Trollheart, Stu, Zer0, and bob. Moderator of the Year: I can’t nominate people for things that I don’t even know that they’ve done. Best New Member 2011: I really can’t say yet. Member of the Year 2011: Janszoon is who keeps me coming back. __________________ Like an arrow, I was only passing through.