Mercury Music Prize tonight

[D.Boon]

Get your assassinations in early........

 

I hope Glasvegas win it. i like 'em

[muleskinner]

Get your assassinations in early........

 

I hope Glasvegas win it. i like 'em

 

Thought they were in it last year?

 

Annie Lennox gets my vote.

[Swipe]

I reckon The Horrors might win it. It's a very good album.

 

Heard Sweet Billy Pilgrim's Twice Born Men on Spotify recently and it's a good record too.

 

Not a great list this year.

[muleskinner]

I reckon The Horrors might win it. It's a very good album.

 

Heard Sweet Billy Pilgrim's Twice Born Men on Spotify recently and it's a good record too.

 

Not a great list this year.

 

Its never as good a list as they think it is.

[D.Boon]

Whilst i'm an admirer of some of Florence and her Machines talents her music does my nut in.

[Swipe]

Whilst i'm an admirer of some of Florence and her Machines talents her music does my nut in.

 

La Roux is ever worse

[Bailo]

I hope it's Friendly Fires, think it'll be Florence or Bat For Lashes.

 

Weird that Friendly Fires were releasing Paris and other tracks off the album in 2006/7.

[Des]

[Des]

Of course that's only jealousy on my part.

[Raj]

I hope it's Friendly Fires

 

I hope they win it too. Think it will be Florence and The Machine though.

I like what I have heard of her stuff, although I havent heard the whole album

[Mike]

lcd soundsystem. got to be.

[Swipe]

So. Speech Debelle won it in the end. She seemed confident enough in the lead up.

[johngibo YPC]

She's only sold 3,000 albums apparantly

She'll probably sell double that this week

 

Oh and she's touring small venues, including the Masque in liverpool. in October if anyone is interested

[Sion]

She's only sold 3,000 albums apparantly

She'll probably sell double that this week

 

Oh and she's touring small venues, including the Masque in liverpool. in October if anyone is interested

 

double? try ten fold at least

 

Been listening to her album this morning. It's pretty poor. Absolutely nothing special or original.

[Knox_Harrington]

double? try ten fold at least

 

Been listening to her album this morning. It's pretty poor. Absolutely nothing special or original.

Miss Dyna-mi-tee-hee

Edited September 9, 2009 by Knox_Harrington

[cymrococh]

Miss Dyna-mit-he-he

She had two good singles though.

[Des]

She had two good singles though.

 

Her version of They Don't Know with So Solid Crew is absolutely fantastic.

 

Speech Debelle = *shrug*

Edited September 9, 2009 by Des

[Mike]

bit of a joke really this isn't it

[Knox_Harrington]

bit of a joke really this isn't it

I don't know. The Booker often makes bad decisions as well, I suppose. It just takes longer for people to get onto that.

[Des]

I don't know. The Booker often makes bad decisions as well, I suppose. It just takes longer for people to get onto that.

 

But pop music isn't literature - it isn't "high art" and shouldn't be treated as such. Pop music is none of these people's business.

[Knox_Harrington]

But pop music isn't literature - it isn't "high art" and shouldn't be treated as such. Pop music is none of these people's business.

Yeah, fair comment.

 

If it is going to exist it's going to get the shortlist and the decision from that shortlist wrong on a pretty regular basis. In fact the surprise should be when it gets it right.

[cymrococh]

Yeah, fair comment.

 

If it is going to exist it's going to get the shortlist and the decision from that shortlist wrong on a pretty regular basis. In fact the surprise should be when it gets it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Prize

 

It's not done badly to be fair.

 

I've got loads of the 02, 01, 97, 95 and 94 shortlists

[Frosty Jack]

The winner is an afterthought, its a small cash prize, but crucially all of the nominees have a large increase in album sales, as they all go on sale in supermarkets and get good placement digitally, it's really as simple as that......that is the case those who have actually released their albums already, the ones that haven't yet, and are nominated anyway, are perhaps the best demonstration of what a nepotistic charade this crappy award actually is.

 

I'm glad an "unknown" won it.

[Knox_Harrington]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Prize

 

It's not done badly to be fair.

 

I've got loads of the 02, 01, 97, 95 and 94 shortlists

95 is a strong shortlist. Also got Dizzee right and nominated Burial.

[Des]

Also got Dizzee right and nominated Burial.

 

It killed Dizzee.

 

(Although I do think Bonkers is actually really good. Calvin Harris can f*** off.)