Nominees for Secondary Awards

Even though no one reads this, here is the awards that I will be giving at the end of the year (doesn't include top 10s):
Best Rock Album, Best Folk Album, Best Metal Album, Best Post-Rock Album, Best Alternative Album;
Absolute Worst Artist, Best Album to Fall Asleep To, Biggest Letdown, Stupidest Things to do in Public, Best Album Art

And the nominees are.

Best Rock Album (these nominations liable to change)

• Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
• Karnivool - Sound Awake

Best Folk Album

• Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
• Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
• Neil Young - Fork In The Road

Best Metal Album

• Isis - Wavering Radiant
• Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
• Mastodon - Crack The Skye
• Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals

Best Post-Rock Album (these nominations liable to change)

• And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
• Do Make Say Think - The Other Truths
• If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
• Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship

Best Alternative Album

• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
• The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
• Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away

Absolute Worst Artist

• BrokeNCYDE
• 3OH!3
• Cobra Starship
• The Millionaires

Best Album To Fall Asleep To

• Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away
• Muse - The Resistance
• Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
• If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky

Biggest Letdown

• Muse - The Resistance
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• New Moon Soundtrack
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Stupidest Things to do in Public

• Interrupt Taylor Swift (as done by Kanye West)
• Die (as done by Michael Jackson)
• Release an album (as done by BrokeNCYDE)
• Prosecute people who download music (as done by Lily Allen)

Best Album Art

• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
• Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

Remember, any of these could change. The ones that I've noted are probably going to change. You can still consider it a final nominee list, however :)
Matt
Now listening to "Above The Earth, Below The Sky" (2009) by If These Trees Could Talk