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The Music 2016 Writers' Poll: Mark Neilsen

Mark Neilsen

album of the year

  1. If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones Of A Dying World
  2. Violent Soho - WACO
  3. Metallica - Hardwired... To Self Destruct
  4. Paul Dempsey - Strange Loop
  5. Meniscus - Refractions
  6. ORB - Birth
  7. Holy Serpent - Temples
  8. DMA'S - Hills End
  9. Yak - Alas Salvation
  10. Deftones - Gore

song of the year

  1. Radiohead - Burn The Witch
  2. Paul Dempsey - Morningless
  3. From Oslo - Faking The Benz
  4. Anthrax - Breathing Lightning
  5. The Temper Trap - Fall Together

artist of the year

  1. Violent Soho
  2. AB Original
  3. Sia
  4. Beyonce
  5. Metallica

international artist performance

  1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  2. The Bronx
  3. Deftones
  4. Shihad
  5. Sleater-Kinney

australian artist performance

  1. We Lost The Sea
  2. Violent Soho
  3. Something For Kate
  4. Dirty Three
  5. DZ Deathrays

live comedy act

  1. Celia Pacquola

top tv show

  1. Game Of Thrones
  2. Stranger Things
  3. Veep

top movie

  1. Hunt For The Wilderpeople
  2. The Hateful Eight
  3. Mascots

top website

  1. The Music
  2. Bureau Of Meteorology
  3. TV Tonight

2016 highlight of the year

Unexpected hugs.

prediction for 2017

Surely we can't lose as many big names as this year, can we?