2016 Imperious Opinion World Music & Media Awards

     The Imperious Opinion World Music & Media Awards are back by popular demand after a 4 year absence! This is the only goddamn awards show that means anything in this atrocity of a world in which the Grammy's nominate Beyonce for 9 awards. That tells you the state of the music industry in which "popular" music without soul, written by a team of scribes, backed by a marketing campaign, is considered the best there is to offer. ImpOp gives you honest and true music which is penned by the artists and crafted by earnest players who give their actual heart and soul to the art form that inspires us all, as well as "people of the year" and the best TV shows, movies, and comedy!

Album Of The Year:
Sturgill Simpson A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
A beautiful album dedicated to his son took the world be storm surprising ImpOp that people can still appreciate beautiful music. Homie absolutely killed it and we cannot wait for his next effort. If you need more check out his previous band Sunday Valley. 

Song Of The Year: Tiger Army “Dark & Lonely Night”

This is such a beautiful song. If you are in love with your own personal darkness and dreams this track is for you. Gorgeous.

Rock Song Of The Year:
Avatar “The Eagle Has Landed”

Rock Album Of The Year:
12 Foot Ninja Outlier

Punk Song Of The Year:
Guttermouth “Old Man”

Punk Album Of The Year:
Teenage Bottlerocket Tales From Wyoming

Country Song Of The Year:
Lera Lynn “Lately”

Country Album Of The Year:
Avett Brothers True Sadness

Hop/Rap Song Of The Year:
Aesop Rock “Kirby”

Hip Hop/Rap Album Of The Year:
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid

Nobody in the Hip Hop community had a better year than Aesop Rock. Already a great lyricist Ian Bavitz put out the greatest solo album of his career not to mention work with Hail Mary Mallon, The Uncluded, & Atmosphere. I mean the cat put out the best track of the year about a, well, a cat. Dude is fucking great!

Indie Song Of The Year:
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “S.O.B.”

Indie Album Of The Year:
Violent Femmes We Can Do Anything
Our beloved Femmes returned with a new album for the 1st time in 16 f-ing years and damned if it wasn't a good one. Tracks like "Issues," & "I Can Be Anything," stand out but the entire album is great!

Heavy Metal Song Of The Year:
Hatebreed “Looking Down The Barrel Of Today”

Heavy Metal Album Of The Year:
Helmet Dead To The World

Cover Song Of The Year:
Volbeat “Rebound”

Comedy Song Of The Year:
The Lonely Island “I’m So Humble”

Saddest Song Of The Year:
Jake Bugg “Love, Hope, & Misery”

Pop Song Of The Year:
Veruca Salt “Empty Bottle”

Who saw the return of these 90's ladies coming? Certainly not us but this track stood out with piercing lyrics and an ever shifting tempo working its way into brilliance. "I can't stop gushing, I'm a hemophiliac," might be the line of the year.

Comeback Of The Year: 

Tiger Army
It had been 9 years since we hear from Tiger Army but Nick 13 did not disappoint. The psychobilly band put out their best effort to date and a documentary about the album is coming soon.

Nominees:

Trixie Whitley, Willie Nelson, Ninja Sex Party, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Killswitch Engage, Soul Asylum, The Joy Formidable, Black Stone Cherry, Weezer, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Frightened Rabbit, PJ Harvey, Xiu Xiu, Hatebreed, Band Of Skulls, Lacuna Coil, Hellyeah, The Kills, Rival Sons, Blink-182, Nonpoint, Soilwork, Wovenhand, Against Me!, Kishi Bashi, Regina Spektor, Slaves, Green Day, NOFX, Phantogram, Jimmy Eat World, The Pretty Reckless, Avenged Sevenfold, Enigma, Sleigh Bells, Anti-Flag, Sevendust, Mushroomhead, Jason Isbell, Fidlar, Wavves, Ugly Kid Joe, Clutch, Silversun Pickups, The Vaccines, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Bouncing Souls, Atmosphere, Mike Doughty, Guttermouth, The Ravonettes, Strangejuice, Riverboat Gamblers, Tech N9ne, A Tribe Called Red, The Briggs, Red Fang, Goes Cube, Pulley, Radkey, Bon Iver, The Pack A.D., Paul Thorn, K.Flay, The Rumjacks, Hayes Carll, Descendents, Otep, Shawn James & The Shapeshifters, Vince Staples, Kurt Vile, Prophets Of Rage, The Jayhawks, O’Brother, Racing Glaciers, Eaves, Monster Truck, Blues Saraceno, Dorothy, Murder By Death, Nevermen, King Charles, Okkervil River, Patent Pending, Bear Hands, Dawes, The Fratellis, The Sword, The White Buffalo, Family Of The Year, Cage The Elephant, Richards/Crane, Starset, Run The Jewels, Yacht,  Supersuckers, Baroness, Dead Letter Circus, The Real McKenzies, Shinedown, Awreeoh, New Politics, The Darkness, Florence + The Machine, Fear Factory, Hozier, Nothing More, Tsunami Bomb, & The Heavy.

Movie Of The Year:

Deadpool

Horror Movie Of The Year:

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

Comedy Movie Of The Year:

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Fantasy Movie Of The Year:

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice

Let us begin by politely saying, fuck you to everyone who did not like this movie. This movie was amazing! It became the "cool thing to do" to criticize this movie but it was solid. Sure it didn't follow the comic books but it was based upon 3 of ImpOp's favorite books (The Death of Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, and Injustice: Gods Among Us) of all time and changes are a necessity when making films. Doomsday wasn't a great addition but the movie was great as was Ben Affleck's Batman, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa's Aquaman, Jeremy Iron's Alfred and we even liked Henry Cavill's Superman for the 1st time! Pretend its an Elseworld's DC comic and its stellar.

Documentary Of The Year:

Amanda Knox

TV Show Of The Year:

Game of Thrones (season 6)

Consistently the best show on television and the best show in years.

Animated Show:

The Venture Bros. (season 6)

Comedy TV Show Of The Year:

W/Bob & David

Might as well of called it Mr. Show 2.0 but however you slice it, the entire returning crew were the best thing to happen to Netflix and comedy all year!

Comedian Of The Year:

Tom Segura

Comedy Album Of The Year:

David Cross: Making America Great Again!

Comic Book Of The Year:

DC Universe: Rebirth

All of it! DC comics roared back to prominence with their "it's not a reboot." It literally changed the entire comic book scene with the greatest characters in the biz returning to their best forms. Return of the Watchmen! Return of original Lobo & not Emobo! Wally West as Flash! Dick Grayson back to Nightwing! Hal Jordan running game as always in other greats like Red Hood, Aquaman, Cyborg, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Arsenal, Deathstroke, Harley Quinn, and even the Superman titles were back to form!

Artist Of The Year:

Yoskay Yamamoto