mercury music prize time again

[DJWrongspeed]

apologies, i'm just being pedantic,

However much people moan about all the new-indie stuff, have you noticed that nearly all the boy/girl suger pap bands have disappeared. Surely that has to be a good thing ? Not really into Muse but they looked & sounded pretty fantastic on tv from Reading this year.

Given the Mercury Award went to M-People one year I hardly thing think this years is a bad choice.

 

[Bomber]

apologies, i'm just being pedantic,

However much people moan about all the new-indie stuff, have you noticed that nearly all the boy/girl suger pap bands have disappeared. Surely that has to be a good thing ? Not really into Muse but they looked & sounded pretty fantastic on tv from Reading this year.

Given the Mercury Award went to M-People one year I hardly thing think this years is a bad choice.

No apology needed!! I haven't a clue what grime is to be honest !! As for the "new-indie stuff" I find most of it just as bad as the boy/girl pap you speak of, however The Arctic Monkeys stand head & shoulders above that crop for me. Having seen them at The Forum gig recently & previously on the NME tour they are a truly exciting live band with one very creditable effort in their first album.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

anyway, thank god it wasn't muse. muse are just so overblown and yet bland. the dark side of coldplay

I agree with you.

 

[poului]

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I loved the look on Thom Yorke's face when the Monkeys' lead singer was giving his acceptance speech.


"who is this fool...?"

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Christ the monkeys look like busted on the cover of metro. How old are those dudes. 15?

 

[la ressistance]

Christ the monkeys look like busted on the cover of metro. How old are those dudes. 15?

19 i think.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

What a shite result

 

[Orang Utan]

I voted for Thom Yorke cos I've heard a couple of tracks from the album that I liked. editors = shit, lou rhodes = shit (only based on what I saw last night), guillemots = shit (again, based on what they did last night), arctic monkeys = apparently they did that thing called you look good on the dance floor = shit, scritti = shit (only from last night again, liked his early poppy stuff like Wood Bees though), hot chip = shit, muse = fucking shit, lanegan & campbell = fucking shit, Sway = a bit shit (based on TV last night), not heard any Rahmann or Hawley.
Arctic Monkeys seemed to be the favourites and they won - well done to them.
What are the criteria for the Mercury Prize? The shortlists don't have any rhyme or reason to me

 

[Skim]

I've never really worked out the criteria for winning, either. Each year the Mercury prize leaves me cold. I don't see any point to it, apart from shifting units.

 

[bluestreak]

What a shite result

twas a bit. i have nothing against the arctic monkeys especially, it's just that the album does nothing for me. i can't see the logic in them winning at all when there are more talented, artistic, experiemental and bigger selling acts all represented.

still, at least it wasn't sway, who is single-handedly trying to destroy british hip hop.

 

[Orang Utan]

Why is, say, a jazz musician or a folk musician, up there with a chart topper? Are they just token entries or are they there for genuine reasons? And why ain't there much room for spoddy electronic album acts if there's room for the folksters and the jazzsters? Seems very random to me.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I've never really worked out the criteria for winning, either. Each year the Mercury prize leaves me cold. I don't see any point to it, apart from shifting units.

I thought it was for innovation/quality?

Which makes the AM win even odder, as they are neither...

 

[futha]

twas a bit. i have nothing against the arctic monkeys especially, it's just that the album does nothing for me. i can't see the logic in them winning at all when there are more talented, artistic, experiemental and bigger selling acts all represented.

still, at least it wasn't sway, who is single-handedly trying to destroy british hip hop.

hows he doing that?
just interested

 

[Iam]

Which of those albums are bigger selling than the AM one, then?

 

[Flashman]

Coles Corner went platinum (according to Hawley when I saw him last) whatever that means. Or was it platinum. Something "um" anyway.

 

[Iam]

AM album was platinum in the week of release, iirc.

Can't find figures, but it's top of the Amazon sales rankings for all the records on that list.

 

[milesy]

mercury was just like the brits - a total anti-fun set-up rig. no girls aloud ffs!!

 

[joevsimp]

Why is, say, a jazz musician or a folk musician, up there with a chart topper? Are they just token entries or are they there for genuine reasons? And why ain't there much room for spoddy electronic album acts if there's room for the folksters and the jazzsters? Seems very random to me.

the murcury's supposed to be about the best album musically and not success/hype

t'other day i bought seth lakeman's album (which wasn't nominated this year but his lastone was last year) and it has to be the best "random" album that ive got, (ie not punk n metal that i usaually buy)

 

[Skim]

I thought it was for innovation/quality?

Which makes the AM win even odder, as they are neither...

Exactly.

From The Guardian:

"Normally it doesn't go to a band who has sold as many records as we have," said frontman Alex Turner as he collected the award, referring to the judges' tradition of opting for leftfield winners.

He's forgetting past winners PJ Harvey, Pulp, Franz Ferdinand...

 

[kakuma]

i'm voting for editor, well done