ARIA nominations

[choc_soldier]

They were released today...

Here's the main categories:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
* Awake Is The New Sleep - Ben Lee
* Dreams - Evermore
* Be Here - Keith Urban
* The Sound Of White - Missy Higgins
* The Overture And The Underscore - Sarah Blasko

BEST FEMALE ARTIST
* Kylie Minogue
* Missy Higgins
* Natalie Imbruglia
* Sarah Blasko
* Mia Dyson

BEST MALE ARTIST
* Ben Lee
* Keith Urban
* John Butler
* Lior
* Paul Kelly

BEST GROUP
* Eskimo Joe
* Evermore
* Grinspoon
* Powderfinger
* Thirsty Merc

BEST SINGLE
* Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
* For One Day - Evermore
* The Special Two - Missy Higgins
* Some Day, Some Day - Thirsty Merc
* Woman - Wolfmother

The full list can be found at www.ariaawards.com.au/winners-nominees-2005.php

 

[Alex28]

My god - how bland...

Where the hell is Architecture in Helsinki? The Panics (best Australian album of the year - hands down)? Cog? f**ken Youth Group (I mean what other Australian band got a run on The OC!)? The Mess Hall?

I hope Sarah Blasko goes well in it, but Missy Higgins will scoop the pool with her bland, overrated, boring, sellout commercial crap.

And if Thirsty Merc win anything I may have to totally abandon the Australian music industry forever. If that is the best they can come up with for the best 5 Australian songs for the year, then ARIA need to stop blaming downloading for crap music sales and look at the quality of music coming out instead. (I hope Wolf Zeppelin win out of that group incidently...)

 

[choc_soldier]

I agree... bland indeed. But it's what the public likes.

It appears we're doing the "adopt a successful Kiwi as our own" game again...

Evermore? I love "Dreams"... but WTF!

 

[Alex28]

It appears we're doing the "adopt a successful Kiwi as our own" game again...

Evermore? WTF!

If we are doing that, where is Shihad?

 

[choc_soldier]

If we are doing that, where is Shihad?

They're nominated in the best rock album category.

 

[Alex28]

LOL...the Aria's really are a joke...

 

[choc_soldier]

LOL...the Aria's really are a joke...

Always has been.

 

[Misanthrope]

For what it's worth, here are my picks:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
* Awake Is The New Sleep - Ben Lee
* Dreams - Evermore
* Be Here - Keith Urban
* The Sound Of White - Missy Higgins
* The Overture And The Underscore - Sarah Blasko

BEST FEMALE ARTIST
* Kylie Minogue
* Missy Higgins
* Natalie Imbruglia
* Sarah Blasko
* Mia Dyson

BEST MALE ARTIST
* Ben Lee
* Keith Urban
* John Butler
* Lior
* Paul Kelly

BEST GROUP
* Eskimo Joe
* Evermore
* Grinspoon
* Powderfinger
* Thirsty Merc

BEST SINGLE
* Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
* For One Day - Evermore
* The Special Two - Missy Higgins
* Some Day, Some Day - Thirsty Merc
* Woman - Wolfmother

(Not necessarily what I'd pick, but what I think they'll pick)

 

[c_eagle]

No wonder Australia's music industry is in a sharp decline, at least Canada and the UK nurture their talent.

 

[half]

No wonder Australia's music industry is in a sharp decline, at least Canada and the UK nurture their talent.

like when dizzee rascal won the mercury award. true

i like the arias cos it reminds me how much cooler my music taste is compared to practically everyone else in this country tbh

 

[iggy plop]

Pathetic awards night, pathetic nominations.

Best band = Dappled Cities Fly

Best Album = A Smile

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Are these awards seriously for Australians? Cos like, Evermore are quite obviously NZers. That really isn't even funny.

 

[ledzep]

My god - how bland...

Where the hell is Architecture in Helsinki? The Panics (best Australian album of the year - hands down)? Cog? f**ken Youth Group (I mean what other Australian band got a run on The OC!)? The Mess Hall?

I hope Sarah Blasko goes well in it, but Missy Higgins will scoop the pool with her bland, overrated, boring, sellout commercial crap.

And if Thirsty Merc win anything I may have to totally abandon the Australian music industry forever. If that is the best they can come up with for the best 5 Australian songs for the year, then ARIA need to stop blaming downloading for crap music sales and look at the quality of music coming out instead. (I hope Wolf Zeppelin win out of that group incidently...)

 

[Dean Moriarty]

BEST SINGLE
* Catch My Disease - Ben Lee

We can but hope this nomination (and all his others) are just a way of getting him in one place so he can be executed. That song is one of the worst, most offensive, earworms ever produced anywhere.

I'd rather listen to the Macarena (or even Ratt).

 

[choc_soldier]

We can but hope this nomination (and all his others) are just a way of getting him in one place so he can be executed. That song is one of the worst, most offensive, earworms ever produced anywhere.

I'd rather listen to the Macarena (or even Ratt).

Agreed!

His music actually gets worse with every release.

Bernard Fanning summed it up best a few years ago... :lol:

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Yeah I can see this awards are basically going to ber a "suck up to Missy and Ben" session. With "suck" being the operative word in Ben's case.

 

[madunit]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrriiing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Misanthrope]

Haha, nothing makes me laugh more than indignant music snobs

They're the ARIA's guys. Of course the Australian Record Industry is going to nominate people who made lots of money and sold lots of singles. The majority of Australians couldn't care less if COG, Youth Group, or Yothu Yindi get awards, so why would a mainstream industry like the recording industry advertise them at a nationally broadcast awards ceremony?

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

My Picks:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
* Awake Is The New Sleep - Ben Lee
* Dreams - Evermore
* Be Here - Keith Urban
* The Sound Of White - Missy Higgins
* The Overture And The Underscore - Sarah Blasko

BEST FEMALE ARTIST
* Kylie Minogue
* Missy Higgins
* Natalie Imbruglia
* Sarah Blasko
* Mia Dyson

Wouldn't be suprised if Delta wins this catergory, despite the noticible handicap of not being nominated.

BEST MALE ARTIST
* Ben Lee
* Keith Urban
* John Butler
* Lior
* Paul Kelly (Has he actually done anything latley?)

BEST GROUP
* Eskimo Joe
* Evermore
* Grinspoon
* Powderfinger
* Thirsty Merc

Can't pick from these...they all suck

BEST SINGLE
* Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
* For One Day - Evermore
* The Special Two - Missy Higgins
* Some Day, Some Day - Thirsty Merc
* Woman - Wolfmother

 

[carcharias]

Ben Lee can jam his quirky little hand clapping songs up his arse.

Same goes for Missy Higgins ...BORING!