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Hopefully you are wearing your tuxedo, because it is time to present the winners of the 2009 Gummy Awards. Of course, hopefully you are always wearing your tuxedo, because what is this? A circus for children? No. We are all adults here, let’s act like it. Anyway, without any further ado or red carpet interviews from Ryan “Straightface” Seacrest, we proudly present the 2009 Gummy Awards winners at www.gummyawards.com.
Dreams really do come true! Congratulations to everyone! And a special congratulations to Tom Callahan, winner of the Grand Prize, which included the top 50 LPs of the decade on vinyl, an Apple TV, and a bottle of 2009 Chateau Peanut Riesling. You can even follow him on Twitter! I mean, if you want!
Please definitely head over to the Official Awards Page for a thorough breakdown of this year’s winners and nominees, as well as some pretty neat CELEBRITY BALLOTS (you love celebrities! You want to kiss them with your mouth!) from Patton Oswalt, Andy Samberg, Aziz Ansari, Michael Showalter, Fred Armisen, Margaret Cho, and various members of famous indie rock bands! Very cool. It’s like that part in Good Will Hunting: Do you like cool beans? Well how do you like these cool beans?
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Holy famous people’s ballots batman! I guess some SNL types obv are reading teh videogum too, as they all seemed to enjoy the gathering of the juggalos! Make free your left hand!
Yeah, the Juggalos sketch makes more sense now that I know at least Fred Armisen has seen that clip, and I’m assuming Sandberg and Slate as well.
PUMPKIN HEAD DANCE WUZ ROBBED
Can someone please explain to me why people like Girls so much? I always feel like someone listened to Veckatimest and said “This is nice inoffensive, harmonic music that puts me in the mind of the Beach Boys on lithium, but could it be made to be nauseatingly hipster-friendly as well?”
I think Girls just sounds like a couple of college dudes fucking around in a dorm room trying to come up with something that sounds cool, if derivative of their respective music collections. I think they could be good in like 10 years, after they get jaded a little bit. But that might just be me. I’d rather listen to the Walkmen, who at least sing like they’ve had some life experiences.
Wait, you don’t think Grizzly Bear is already nauseatingly hipster-friendly?
I know I should be taking this to Stereogum, but I just have to state a large and fevered disagreement with claims that MPP is better than Veckatimest.
OK, maybe I’ll just take it to Stereogum then…
I am totally with you, for what it is worth (it is worth nothing on Videogum, and I’m too scared to try and make my case on Stereogum).
Awww, I am a little disappointed. The winners are sort of predictable choices, no? Keyboard Cat, Animal Collective, etc… I thought the V-Gum community would tip the votes away from obvious hipster choices, but oh well.
Nope. Obvious animal choices will always win out over their human counterparts. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was writing on the wall.
Ugh, stereogum readers make me angry at how predictable they are. Also, double UGH at Inglorious Basterds winning best movie of the year.
On a positive note, I guess we know now who was responsible for the SNL juggalo gathering sketch. I’m going to continue my hope that this means that he and others read videogum because then I’ll feel important by proxy because logic.
S-s-sometimes… Stereogum makes me uncomfortable…. beacuse, sometimes Stereogum Monsters can be scary monsters who take themselves VERY seriously.
Me, I’m not willing to pretend that I’m too indie for Rilo Kiley or whatever. I still regularly listen to albums I got in 2003, so I’m not up on the Hot Hipster Hits.
Also, Bangs was robbed.
I don’t consider Stereogummers to be monsters.
No, I suppose not. Cheerfully withdrawn.
None of the videogum things I voted for won.
Word. I bullshit my way through the Stereogum choices (I am just not cool with the kids’ music!) just to do the three Vgum ones. How many times do I have to be shown that democracy simply doesn’t work before I learn and stop voting?????
EXPOSING MY SEKRET BALLOT: I voted for Pumpkinhead, A Serious Man, & Flight of the Conchords. Now if only someone combined those three into a single video, it would be unstoppable!
I voted for singing smoking dude in the shower, It’s always sunny, and probably like Harry Potter or something. I don’t remember what I voted for for best movie.
NO LOVE IS THE ANSWER BY BARBRA STREISAND FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR. NOT EVEN IN THE TOP 50.
YOU GUYS MY ? IS BROKEN. AS IS MY CAPS LOCK.
Hit [SHIFT} on the unimportant letters.
Of course I am wearing my tux, it’s after 6 o’clock. What am I, a farmer?
We should never murder to dissect, whether in art or love or end of the year awards. So lettuce save the analysis and revel in the ribald idiosyncrasies of it all.
Umberto Eco would have something very insightful to add here.
Man reading these results makes me feel like I don’t even know what music is anymore…
Let’s read the Gummy Awards winners, in case there are no hipsters around…
*slowly pokes in head through crack in the door*
Who said you could leave your closet? Get back in there!
I’m still sad this wasn’t nominated for best wed video. Use your brains!
Is there a chart that measures our ignorance and credibility?
The awards is the chart!
I definitely felt like there should have been more video-gum related questions…and i am also scared of the stereogummers…THEIR DOWNVOTE NUMBERS ARE RED! and it’s not save africa (red) it’s how dare you say something stupid red. no thank you.
who put that hyphen in there? don’t you know hypens are dead? compound words people! red scary votes for me, thank you.
Breaking Bad was robbed. ROBBED, I SAY. Although my icon is happy about Mad Men taking home the gold prize. (She may not look it, but she feels it, deep down inside.)
Keyboard Cat is the only thing the voters did right.
Yawn the winners
and I SECOND bangs was robbed. He should have swept video, indie crush, and whatever one best movie should have appeard with an *
*as seen from the seat next to Bangs with the popcorn.
It seems like this list was voted for by frightened hipsters scared to death that a bigger hipster was looking over their shoulder smirking at all their shitty picks. AnCo sucks and Kid A best of the decade? What?!?
geez, you guys, with the stereogum. it feels like the drama kids talking about the popular kids. it’s not like we sit at the nerd table in the cafeteria or anything.
Whatever fills the superiority bags…
Annie Clark was ROBBED! Are we still doing that?
Yes and yes.
Annie Clark > Zooey
Gotta do it right.
I really don’t get all this Annie Clark love. She’s…alright.
The music picks are predictable because Stereogum is a very popular blog and masses drive the ad sales. (duh)
Aziz’s Indie Rock Crush gave me a serious case of the LOLzorz!
Aziz’s Indie Rock Crush gave me a serious case of the LOLzorz!
Am I the only one who has heard the Woods album, Songs Of Shame? It’s one of my favorite albums of the year.
LOVED songs of shame.
And while I’m still wearing my complaining tux, Logos should have been way higher.
I loved Songs of Shame, too. You are not alone, sister (brother?). I am basically picturing that I’m saying this to Pepper Ann.
natasha khan (bat for lashes) is the most beautiful woman to have ever graced this planet, fuck zooey deschanel and her cotton ads. stereogum can HAVE HER.
Yeh, gotta say a bit of a let down with the stereogummers. I came to vgum gradually from there. But they get all huffy whenever they post a metal column. So. . . I’m kinda off on them. I feel extra old reading that blog cuz I never can keep up with all the twee ass electro-poop they’re into. I like that stuff (MGMT, Dirty Projectors, Bowerbirds, Beirut etc) but miss the days of Pavement, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf etc. These days music-wize it’s all extremes from full on sissy to full on meathead. Both ends of which I totally dig. But don’t let the stereogummers get a little chocolate in their peanut butter. . . they get all pissy.
It may be predictable, but hey, I’m still listening to MPP over and over and Kid A probably had more influence on ~*~the future of music~*~ than any other album did this decade.
I don’t get this idea that people vote for things because they think they are supposed to vote for them in order to be hip. Maybe a lot of people just think Merriweather Post Pavilion is a great album. And that Keyboard Cat deserves to play people off in the annals of history. (What?) That doesn’t mean we don’t have room in our hearts for the Gathering of the Juggalos and like, Stankonia.
Let’s just all wear our tuxes in harmony! Right.
You’re right, shoving as many sounds as you can through a delay definitely deserves to be hailed as one of the greatest things of the decade. Groundbreaking.
SNAP
Getting upset that Kid A won seems kind of silly (and I don’t even like Kid A all that much). The overwhelming majority of Decade’s Best Lists are going to give the #1 spot to either Kid A or something by the White Stripes (with a few going with OutKast to prove their not racists). Better to just accept it now.
You guys seem to have a lot of hipster hate. I mean its one thing to dislike hipsters or (for example) the Girls album, but don’t hate on Girls just because you think it’s “hipster music.” You V-gummers are better than that. And if you aren’t aware of these records don’t feel old or like your wearing the tux of a square, give em a listen or ten. I certainly didn’t appreciate Debut on first listen the way that I do now.
Oops.
Meant *Album.
I actually listen to most of the stuff over at stereogum but there’s only so many hours in the day and whole lot of it runs together becoming indistinguishable. For me mostly I feel outta the loop since I moved out of NYC to Central Europe where it’s all Lady Gaga and unrecognizable euro-disco. My main beef is the anti-metal kids over there. There are plenty of supporters of the column even among non-metal fans. It’s still the first place I go to find out about new music.
I think there’s a legit case for KidA and I really really like Merriweather. But Brooklyn is very inward looking and seems to drive the whole scene. I’d put Bitte Orca way above Merriweather but dif’rent strokes, perineum, etc.
OK confession time, you guys. Animal Collective and a lot of other “hip” bands sound like noise to me. In related news, I just bought a tasteful cardigan at Ann Taylor. I have officially joined the ranks of the olds.
Feel I need to give Stereogum it’s due. The blog itself is great. They cover all the bases for me (including the metal). It’s not out there that much I guess but I really appreciate them calling attention to the Jawbox reunion. The Sgum writers are top notch and inclusive. It’s just some of the commenters that need to get their heads outta their asses. We’re all pretty much on the same team. It’s more Band nerds vs. AV Club nerds than Jocks vs. Nerds.
Not that anybody cares but this brought back highschool for me. I was on the soccer team which in North Georgia (aka Squidbilly territory) was a weird nether region of not cool but not nerd either. Of course my group of friends were known as the “dead-heads” even though half of us were skate punks. Mostly cuz we had a 6ft 6 dude that looked liked Jesus and everyone came to us for weed. Pot was such a unifier at our school. . . oh and this was from 1988-1991. That’s right I’m older n’ shit.
Where was Kenny f*ckin Powers!?