Since I love that song and since VH1 is playing so much Beatles stuff, I felt like a poll, lol, instead of a journal. Haven't made one of these in a while so VOTE!
We all love bass players. They're often the coolest members of a band, less self-obsessed than frontmen or guitarists, more sophisticated than drummers... They're also too often overshadowed.
Creating this little poll I also observed that being tall and having a name beginning with a W helps to be a great bassist.
Now, enough blah-blah, make your choice:
As illegal downloading persists and CD sales continue to drop, record labels are kicking employees to the curb left and right. EMI is going to cut 2,000 employees from the team and will combine the marketing, sales and distribution departments into one. This has pissed off both The Verve and Robbie Williams who are threatening to hold their new albums hostage until the label can prove it's fully prepared to work their records. Both Radiohead and Paul McCartney left EMI last year because of the label's lack of structure. With labels continuing to go under -- would you still want to work in the music industry?
The music scene is always changing and many artists try to keep up. Some succeed by means of constant reinvention (David Bowie, Madonna), others by assuming a signature look they’ve created (The Ramones, Stevie Nicks). Some do the inexplicable and define cool by being total dorks (Elvis Costello, My Chemical Romance). Some try being hip and their failure at it borders on devastation (or crosses that border entirely). So in tribute we salute those pathetic attempts at staying "with it."
(I would like to remind all voters in this poll that the nominations, though overseen, were not picked by the poster. These are almost completely based on suggestions made by the users who submitted nominee ideas. If you decide to attack the user for the nominees then you will only end up humiliating yourself as a result. You have been warned.)
To submit your own nominations go here.
To vote in our first Category “Get a Day Job, Don’t Quit It” go here.
To vote in our second category “Go Back to the Studio and We Will Pretend This Never Happened” go here.
To vote in our third category “And This, Children, Is Why We Don’t Give Shitty Artists Record Deals” go here.
To vote in our fourth category “Don’t Try This at Home….. Or Anywhere” go here.
To vote in our fifth category, “Lies!” go here.
To Vote in our Sixth category “Say What” go here.
To Vote in our Seventh category “To the Thunderdome With You!”
To Vote in our Eighth Category “The MMM..Bop Award for most Annoying Single” go here.
To Vote in our Ninth Category “Would You Like Fries With That? (Most Depressing Band Member Solo Career)” go here.
To Vote in our TenthCategory “The Caligula Award for Most Astounding Rumor/Scandal in Music” go here.
To Vote in our Eleventh Category “Go Back to Guitar Hero (Worst Live Act)” go here.
To Vote in our Twelfth Category “Panic! at the Fudge Tunnel Apparatus (Worst band Name)” go here.
To Vote in our Thirteenth Category “The Mick Jagger Award for Worst Attempt by a Musician at Acting” go here.
To Vote in our Fourteenth Category “The Keanu Reeves Award for Worst Attempt by a Movie Star at being a Rock Star” go here.
To Vote in our 15th category “The Pen is More Painful Than the Sword (Worst Lyrics)” go here.
To Vote in our 16th category “Not Thrilling. (Worst Attempt at being Edgy or Political) go here.
