Wot - no mercury prize winner thread?
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pk
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stop trying to dominate me
Can I not just say I will be sure to check them out and not bother?
No. Fuck the internet off and educate your ears.
FridgeMagnet
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Silva
This went well.
I have two winners (the first that won, actually), almost bought Different Class but the fuckers at the store misplaced the CD and couldn't find it (and obviously, returned the un-numbered case to the shelf 
), yet I'm pretty sure I own at least one finalist on most years.
As for this year, Elbow is fine with me. At least it wasn't the Last Dull Muppets or Adele.
), yet I'm pretty sure I own at least one finalist on most years.As for this year, Elbow is fine with me. At least it wasn't the Last Dull Muppets or Adele.
Funky_monks
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pk
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What an awful load of fucking old toilet you do talk at times, dad
Of course, I was being entirely serious and not at all drunk and deliberately beligerent at such a late hour...
I've been an Elbow fan for ages. I heard "Newborn" on XFM when it was released as an EP and was so blown away that I sat in the car and listened to the radio for about 20 minutes afterwards until the DJ got around to telling us who the artist was. 
I was then straight onto the net, ordered all the existing EPs and found that their gig at the ULU had sold out. So I went up to Bedford on a wet Monday night to go and see them with about 50 other people in some tiny upstairs bar. Sheer magic.
"Asleep In The Back" is still their best album for me and is definitely in my five favourite albums of all time. But all four albums have had many moments of great beauty.
I hope that the Mercury Prize goes some way to giving them the commercial success they deserve after years of slog. In an industry full of wankers, Guy Garvey and the others come across as genuine, ordinary, hard-working blokes. They deserve this.
I was then straight onto the net, ordered all the existing EPs and found that their gig at the ULU had sold out. So I went up to Bedford on a wet Monday night to go and see them with about 50 other people in some tiny upstairs bar. Sheer magic.
"Asleep In The Back" is still their best album for me and is definitely in my five favourite albums of all time. But all four albums have had many moments of great beauty.
I hope that the Mercury Prize goes some way to giving them the commercial success they deserve after years of slog. In an industry full of wankers, Guy Garvey and the others come across as genuine, ordinary, hard-working blokes. They deserve this.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Mecury prize is a load of old gash anyway, half the time they award it to artists who do nothing of quality ever again, half the time they award it to artists who've been taking the mediocrity trail for years.
Maybe it's cos I don't pay any attention to the charts, cos none of the music I like ever gets near them (with the occasional exception of some of the hip-hop I listen to).... But I thought Elbow already were commerically successful, no? I mean, I remember my girlfriend at the time who knew jack shit about music bought their previous album in Sainsburys using some leftover reward points. So they must have had top 40 albums already, right?
Looking at the list of previous winners, there's only two that really stand out for me. Dizzee Rascal's "Boy In Da Corner" and Portishead's "Dummy". Dizzee because, when you actually listen to that album, the majority of tracks on it are seriously harsh. It really isn't very Mercury-listener friendly; it really does sound like something knocked up with a bit of attitude in Acid or Garageband in a bedroom studio (and before any smartarse says anything, that's a GOOD thing in my book); it's not trying to be anyone's mate. (It's also not a patch on Dizzee's other albums, but there you go...)
And then "Dummy" stands out for me cos at the time it was so self-evidently the album of the year, so blindingly obviously the best thing on the shortlist, that I went round the corner to Ladbrokes in Rusholme and put some money on it to win. I forget what the other contenders were – but they were basically the indie bands de jour. Although "Dummy" doesn't sound nearly as strange now as it did back then, at the time it was one of those rare occasions where you really couldn't trust anyone's taste in music if they didn't like it; there was quite clearly something objectively wrong with their ears.
This year, well, there wasn't a single album on the shortlist I liked. Burial has its moments, but it's nothing I really need to hear more than once. I suspect I'd quite enjoy Neon Neon – sounds quite fun from what I've heard – but again, it's kind of one-listen music. And Elbow, well, I'd rather listen to them than Coldplay or Radiohead, but I wouldn't by choice listen to any of em. If it was up to me then the Mercury would have gone to 'London Zoo' by The Bug.
Looking at the list of previous winners, there's only two that really stand out for me. Dizzee Rascal's "Boy In Da Corner" and Portishead's "Dummy". Dizzee because, when you actually listen to that album, the majority of tracks on it are seriously harsh. It really isn't very Mercury-listener friendly; it really does sound like something knocked up with a bit of attitude in Acid or Garageband in a bedroom studio (and before any smartarse says anything, that's a GOOD thing in my book); it's not trying to be anyone's mate. (It's also not a patch on Dizzee's other albums, but there you go...)
And then "Dummy" stands out for me cos at the time it was so self-evidently the album of the year, so blindingly obviously the best thing on the shortlist, that I went round the corner to Ladbrokes in Rusholme and put some money on it to win. I forget what the other contenders were – but they were basically the indie bands de jour. Although "Dummy" doesn't sound nearly as strange now as it did back then, at the time it was one of those rare occasions where you really couldn't trust anyone's taste in music if they didn't like it; there was quite clearly something objectively wrong with their ears.
This year, well, there wasn't a single album on the shortlist I liked. Burial has its moments, but it's nothing I really need to hear more than once. I suspect I'd quite enjoy Neon Neon – sounds quite fun from what I've heard – but again, it's kind of one-listen music. And Elbow, well, I'd rather listen to them than Coldplay or Radiohead, but I wouldn't by choice listen to any of em. If it was up to me then the Mercury would have gone to 'London Zoo' by The Bug.
I saw Elbow at Latitude and thought they were brilliant, really good live set. I already knew their music and liked it a lot so I'm glad they won. They seemed really happy to win last night and not to cool to admit it
I saw Rachael Unthank at the Big Chill and didn't really 'get' her. She's a bit different but not my thing.
I saw Rachael Unthank at the Big Chill and didn't really 'get' her. She's a bit different but not my thing.
