suggestions for future AOTM

[cinni]

I'm not sure where we do this, but the little blurb in the main page said that this is a place to suggest future AOTM candidates. Have we ever had OMD as an AOTM? Looking at the library, we have lots of their stuff, and of course they are great, so I think they'd be a good candidate for the future.

[Sousaphonic]

OMD is a great choice, but they were featured previously. There is a post in this thread that gives the history on it.

My preferences for artist of the month (assuming Howard Jones is selected for August) are

1. a-ha
2. Alphaville
3. Oingo Boingo
4. Thomas Dolby
5. Simple Minds

[FlatMatt]

I'd love to see (and hear) Oingo Boingo or Dolby as AOTM - two of my favorites.

[Guest]

OMD is a great choice, but they were featured previously. There is a post in this thread that gives the history on it.

My preferences for artist of the month (assuming Howard Jones is selected for August) are

1. a-ha
2. Alphaville
3. Oingo Boingo
4. Thomas Dolby
5. Simple Minds

All of the above, I believe, were choices fairly recently and lost. Outside of the runner up each month, I try not to repeat artists/groups for a few months. I am now posting who was in the running each month in the history section to make it easier.

[Sousaphonic]

Ed, That will make things easier

Here is a list of artists with 40 or more songs in the playlist that have not been featured as artist of the month. Unfortunately, I don't know if and when they were given as choices and lost in the voting. Anyway, for what it's worth:

10,000 Maniacs
A Certain Ratio
Act
Adam Ant
a-ha
Alarm, The
Almond, Marc
Alphaville
Altered Images
And Also The Trees
Beastie Boys
Berlin
Big Country
Blue Aeroplanes, The
Blur
B-Movie
Bow Wow Wow
Boxcar
Bragg, Billy
Bush, Kate
Buzzcocks
Camper Van Beethoven
Cars, The
Chills, The
Concrete Blonde
Connells, The
Cramps, The
Cult, The
Dead Or Alive
Devo
Dolby, Thomas
Dumptruck
Erasure
Felt
Ferry, Bryan
Fischer-Z
Fixx, The
Gabriel, Peter
General Public
Go-Go's, The
Harding, John Wesley
Heaven 17
Heyward, Nick
House of Love, The
Icicle Works
Idol, Billy
Inspiral Carpets
Japan
Jones, Howard
Killing Joke
Kinks, The
Lightning Seeds, The
Lush
MacColl, Kirsty
Marillion
Mary's Danish
Midnight Oil
Morrissey
Moyet, Alison
Ocean Blue, The
Oingo Boingo
Pixies, The
Pogues, The
Police, The
Pop, Iggy
Prefab Sprout
Pretenders, The
Psychedelic Furs, The
R.E.M.
Railway Children
Ramones, The
Replacements, The
Shriekback
Simple Minds
Sisters of Mercy
Smithereens, The
Sound, The
Spandau Ballet
Squeeze
Style Council, The
Sugarcubes
They Might Be Giants
Thompson Twins
Translator
Tubeway Army
U2
Ultravox
Undertones, The
Violent Femmes
Waterboys, The
Wire Train
Wonder Stuff, The
X
XTC
Xymox
Yaz

[Guest]

A couple in particular I'd love to see featured would be :

Lush
Ladytron
The Go-Go's

Another one would be Grace Jones, but I don't think there are enough tracks in the library.


I think I might be an idea to feature some runner-up's in future AOTM, as alot of them originally were up against tough competition.

Also if the Artist features in the top 5 successful requests they should not be eligible for entry in to the AOTM.

The first runner up is always in the next months AOTM.

Ed

[Sousaphonic]

A few I would like to suggest now that they have enough songs in the playlist are Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk and The Fixx

[greebo]

Bill Nelson - and by golly, Ed will have to add more

Big Country ( or Stuart Adamson as a collective, get the Skids in the package)

[zale]

how about some combined ATOMs (bands & solo projects) where there are maybe not enough tracks for them to be contenders on their own?
Wall of Voodoo and Stan Ridgway; Style Council and Paul Weller (though there is enough solo Weller out there if Ed is in a buying mood )
just a couple examples to get started.

zale

[Christienne]

Please please please
Sisters of Mercy or Siouxsie & the Banshees
Thank you

[FlatMatt]

I'd like to put in a request that Devo be added to the AOTM poll in the near future.

Thanks Ed!

[Sousaphonic]

My AOTM Poll for February would look like this:

December Runner-Up
Spandau Ballet
XTC
Blur

[Guest]

My AOTM Poll for February would look like this:

December Runner-Up
Spandau Ballet
XTC
Blur

Hi Sousaphinic. Long time no see.

[Sousaphonic]

Glad to be back:

March Suggestions:

February runner-up
Erasure
The Kinks
Big Country

[Sousaphonic]

I'm thinking about March's Poll for April's artist of the month,

here are my suggestions

March Runner-Up
Iggy Pop
Beastie Boys
The Pogues

[Sousaphonic]

For May AOTM, my suggestion:

April Runner-Up
Alphaville
Sting
Buzzcocks

[Sousaphonic]

For June AOTM, my suggestion:

May Runner-up
Kate Bush
Husker Du
Camper Van Beethoven

[Sousaphonic]

July '10 suggestion.

June Runner-up
The Style Council
Oasis
Ultravox

[Sousaphonic]

August '10 suggestion

July Runner-Up
Violent Femmes
Midnight Oil
The Blue Aeroplanes