mercury music prize time again

[Pie 1]

Arctic Monkeys - OK is as far as it goes
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Not heard - must do.
Editors - Really enjoyed this, excellent record
Guillemots - Not heard
Richard Hawley - what I've heard, excellent ( must get full album)
Hot Chip - not heard
Muse -
Zoe Rahman - not heard
Lou Rhodes - not really my cup of tea
Scritti Politti - not heard
Sway - not heard
Thom Yorke - Just got it today, sounds great so far

 

[aqua]

actually for once I agree with bees AND have an opinion about music

I just thought they were a bit, errr, blurgh really - nothing to make me glad I'd listened to you lot about them and gone to see them

 

[baldrick]

they were good live in 2001, the last time i saw them. dunno what tehy're like these days, i keep missing gigs. unfortunate that you don't think they're much good though

 

[aqua]

they just didn't keep my attention at all

certainly not worth all the rave comments I'd been told

never mind, I had a drink twas all good

 

[editor]

There's some people whining on the radio that Lily Allen should be on the list.

Wtf: she's hardly been around ten minutes!

And Richard Hawley rocks!

 

[Brixton Hatter]

i cant understand why thom yorke's album is on there - it's only been out for 2 minutes. they might as well have stuck Lily Allen in there if they wanted to kiss the arse of the favoured zeitgeist. the award is supposed to be for the best british album of the last year and IMO that's why i think the arctic monkeys will win it.

E2A - looks like the ed beat me to a quick slag of the smily songstress LA!

 

[art of fact]

havent heard Ballad Of The Broken Seas yet so I will have to vote Thom Yorke

 

[clandestino]

Would have been nice to have given Camera Obscura a nod. That album's great. But I guess the token indiepop spot went to Isobel.

As for the rest:

Arctic Monkeys -
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan -
Editors -
Guillemots -
Richard Hawley -

 

[clandestino]

Hot Chip -
Muse -
Zoe Rahman -
Lou Rhodes -
Scritti Politti -

 

[clandestino]

Sway -
Thom Yorke -

 

[Belushi]

I'd have to go for Arctic Monkeys cos I havent heard anything by any of the other artists!

Except Scritti Politti and that was about 20 years ago.

 

[Error Gorilla]

Hawley won the South Bank Show award for best album earlier this year, so I hope the Mercury lot are of equally fine judgement and if anyone reading this hasn't got Coles Corner, or Late Night Final, or Lowedges or his eponymous debut then I urge you to do so right now. Go on.

 

[kained&able]

was the pendulam album out this mercury yeah?


dave

 

[Dubversion]

aren't they aussies?

 

[twistedAM]

Guillemots -
Richard Hawley -

how can you give an album that you haven't heard a ??



i imagine they could come across quite ramshackle live but it's well produced and Trains To Brazil was one of the best singles of the past year

 

[clandestino]

They weren't ramshackle at all live. They were slick, polished, professional, utterly hateful in their sub-Keane twattery. I really hated them.

If I'd have heard the record, it would have got a

 

[clandestino]

Also I really liked the "Little Derek" single, so I'm a little mystified by the comments on here. What was wrong with the rest of the album? Just one good track?

 

[Negativland]

Guillemots are boring, but I think theres is a far better kind of MOR than most indie - it's quite refreshing to hear something slick rather than faux-sloppy

 

[twistedAM]

They weren't ramshackle at all live. They were slick, polished, professional, utterly hateful in their sub-Keane twattery. I really hated them.

If I'd have heard the record, it would have got a

I don't get the Keane comparion at all but at least stuff like The Upper Room, Kubb and the sub-Coldplay whiners didn't get a look in on the list.

Tbh I had the Guillemots album months ago and played it to loads of people and it seems to be an aquired taste but I liked it from first play and still spin it.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

The usual question then:

Who should have been on the list that isn't?

Burial.


I haven't heard any of the records on the list, so I've no idea who should win from that lot.

 

[spanglechick]

Burial.


I haven't heard any of the records on the list, so I've no idea who should win from that lot.

i think you'd love the arctic monkeys, babe.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

i think you'd love the arctic monkeys, babe.

I didn't say I hadn't heard anything by any of them did I. I've heard their single so I know how shit they are.

I just haven't heard any of the albums.

 

[Termite Man]

Sway but then the popular ones that are on there like Arctic Monkeys etc. are shiter and I haven't heard some of the others ! IMO the Mercury music prize was shown up to be the utter pile of wank it is when The Delgados didn't win it , and the Go! Team not winning just helped reinforce that !

 

[Dubversion]

Burial.

good call. see also Boxcutter. Would Aphex's Chosen Lord count, or is that sort of a compilation?

A lot - by no means all! - of the most interesting music in the UK is STILL electronic / dance / whatever, and the Mercury Prize has always done really really badly at recognising that

 

[bluestreak]

dave, pendulum aren't actually eligible mate...

right, what have i been listening to since last year that i'd ahve voted for???

hope of the states
belle & sebastian
brakes
the young knives
kid casanova
the nextmen
the crimea

all made great records... there's gonna be more too brb

 

[bluestreak]

camera obscura
broken family band
ladytron (sheffield innit?)
king creosote
mogwai
the fall


i'm surprised not to see those names either.

not really paid enoug attention to electronic music this year. anyone wants to pm me recommendations go right ahead!

 

[killer b]

i'm pleased lanegan & cambell are in the lead... they won't win, but i'd like 'em to... my money is on sway (not been an 'urban' winner for years) or yorke (in recognition of something or the other).

if anyone's interested, here's the longlist - similarly slim pickings, i thought...

Abigail Hopkins
Adem
Akala
Alex Smoke
Amusement Parks on Fire
And did those feet
Andrew McCormack
Angie Palmer
Archie Bronson Outfit
Arctic Monkeys
Barbar Luck
Barry Adamson
Belle and Sebastian
Beth Orton
Blackbud
Bliss
Boards of Canada
Boo Hewerdine
Boy Kill Boy
Caged Baby
Camera Obscura
Cara Dillon
Charlie Beresford
Chicken Legs Weaver
Chris Wood
Claire Sproule
Clayhill
Clearlake
C-Mone
Coldcut
Corrine Bailey Ray
Cosmic Rough Riders
David Ford
David Gilmour
David Gray
Dawn of the Replicants
Declan O’Rourke
Decoration
Depeche Mode
Dirty Pretty Things
duw a wyr
Ed Harcourt
Editors
eighteen18
Elbow
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
Endrick Bothers
Field Music
Fink
Flook
Forward Russia
Four Day Hombre
Franc O’Shea
Franz Ferdinand
Future Funk Squad
Genesis Elijah
Girls Aloud
Gledhill
Goldfrapp
Gomez
Graham Coxon
Gravenhurst
Guillemots
Helene
Heligoland
Hey Negrita
Hope of the States
Hot Chip
Humanzi
Infadels
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
James Hunter
James Roberts
Jamie Cullum
Jane Taylor
Janis Haves
Jim Moray
Jim Noir
Jo Mango
Joanna Macgregor & Andy Sheppard
Jody Wildgoose
John Tamms
Johnny Dickinson
Jon Boden
Julia Biel
Julie Feeney
Karine Polwart
Kate Bush
Kate Westbrook
Kathryn Tickell & Corina Hewat
Keane
Keisha White
Killa Kela
King Creosote
Kristy McGee
Ladyfuzz
Lee Rogers
Lethal Bizzle
Leya
Liane Carroll
Lily Allen
Lost Prophets
Lou Rhodes
Marc Carroll
Marsha Swanson
Martyn Joseph
Matthew Herbert
Medicine Hat
Merz
Miracle Mile
Mogwai
Mohair
Morning Runner
Morrissey
Muse
My Awesome Compilation
My Latest Novel
Mystery Jets
Nate James
Nerina Pallot
Netsayi
Nine Horses
Niraj Chag
Omar
Oriole
Paolo Nutini
Paparazzi Whore
Paul McCartney
Paul Weller
Pet Shop Boys
Placebo
Plan B
Primal Scream
Psapp
Public Symphony
Quinn
R.O.C.
Ralfe Band
Ray Davies
Razorlight
Reem Kelani
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Hawley
Richard Thompson
Rick Oliver
Robbie Williams
Roddy Frame
Rolling Stones
Rory McLeod
Saint Jude's infirmary
Sandi Thom
Scott Matthews
Scritti Politti
Shack
Shelley Poole
Shibuya Crossings
Show of Hands
Shri
Snow Patrol
Softhearted Scientists
Sol Seppy
Sophie Solomon
Spiers & Boden
Stephanie Kirkham
Steve Tilson
Stig
Stoney
Supergrass
Susy Thomas
Swap
Sway
Sweet Billy Pilgrim
Tarik O’Regan
Ted Barnes
Teddy Thompson
Tennant & Lowe
Terri Walker
The Automatic
The Basement
The Beauty Room
The Charlatans
The Crimea
The Delays
The Divine Comedy
The Eighteenth Day of May The Feeling
The Futureheads
The Hazey Janes
The Kooks
The Longcut
The Loose Cannons
The Mitchell Brothers
The Neil Cowley trio
The Pipettes
The R.G. Morrison
The Rakes
The Research
The Rifles
The Storys
The Streets
The Upper Room
The Webb sisters
The Zutons
Thom Yorke
Tim van Eyken
Tony Kofi
Towers of London
Trio Gitano
Tunng
Two Giraffes
Urban Myth Club
Van Morrison
Various
Vashti Bunyan
White Rose Movement
Wills and the Willing
Zero 7
Zoë Rahman

 

[H.Dot]

Lethal Bizzle

rotfl

 

[kained&able]

yoou know POW is a tune though!


umm how the fuck didn't kate bush make the list that album is genius.


dave

 

[Orangesanlemons]

*bump*

It's on BBC4 now folks, anyone watching?