Music of the Decade: A List of Music Awards

**The following awards came solely from the mind of me, Max Neibaur.  Obviously, no one else could have come up with such brilliant, or, depending on your point of view, idiotic opinions and validations.** Most Prolific Artist of the Decade: Regina Spektor Spektor wrote well over 100 songs this decade without a clunker in the bunch.  Spektor’s brilliant originality gets slightly watered-down on her big label releases Begin to Hope (2006) and Far (2009), but not too much for one to recognize how special she truly is.  Critics and music fans will disagree on how good Spektor is, but fellow musicians nearly unanimously credit the Russian-born, Bronx-raised, anti-folk artist as one of the most gifted singer/songwriter/musicians ever. Best Debut Album of the Decade: Get Away from Me (2004) – Nellie McKay The album title is a play on words of Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me. With Get Away from Me, McKay wanted to reclaim jazz as a genre... Read More »