Mercury Music Prize Shortlist

[Pubey]

Burial - a dubstep great.

yes! finally someone on the same wavelength. it's a superb album

elbow, burial or radiohead. the plant&krauss album is really good, the BSP is pretty solid too but after '97 i reckon this could be radioheads year

 

[Pubey]

Exhibit A - Burial - Archangel

Exhibit B - Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

Exhibit C - Radiohead - Nude (great video too)

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Typical though, that their worst album is the one that gets nominated!

God, that is a dull list...

It is a bit boring isn't it. Is that really the best we can manage this year?

 

[Vange Shrimper]

Last Shadow Puppets. Brilliant album and great singers.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Exhibit A - Burial - Archangel

Exhibit B - Elbow - Grounds for Divorce

Exhibit C - Radiohead - Nude (great video too)

That Burial one is quite interesting.

A far better example for elbow though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIdXKz4sE8
they do deserve some recognition.

Here's some Neon Neon...
I Lust U - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNQsajC8Zcs
Belfast - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vJi1fmdYbg&feature=related
Sweat Shop (live) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6OeTuJsGM&feature=related

Plus it's a concept album about John DeLorean

 

[seany t]

It is a bit boring isn't it. Is that really the best we can manage this year?

Well no, but until everyone realises how ****ing awesome Future of the Left are, then I suspect so alas.

Better albums than most of these:

Portishead - Third
Girls Aloud - Tangled up
Underworld - Oblivion with bells
Aidan John Moffat - I can hear your heart
Breeders - Moutnain battles
Future of the left - Curses
Caribou - Andorra (I think that was in this time period)
The Chap - Mega breakfast
Clinic - Do it!
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Hot Chip - Made in the dark
M.I.A. - Kala
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack sustain delay

Odds are very slight and hardly worth bothering with - no 50/1 long shots:

Adele 19 8/1
British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? 8/1
Burial Untrue 6/1
Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid 6/1
Estelle Shine 8/1
Last Shadow Puppets The Age of the Understatement 5/1
Laura Marling Alas I Cannot Swim 8/1
Neon Neon Stainless Style 10/1
Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea 10/1
Radiohead In Rainbows 5/1
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset The Bairns 10/1
Robert Plant & Alison Kraus Raising Sand 6/1

 

[Pubey]

That Burial one is quite interesting.

A far better example for elbow though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIdXKz4sE8
they do deserve some recognition.

Here's some Neon Neon...
I Lust U - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNQsajC8Zcs
Belfast - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vJi1fmdYbg&feature=related
Sweat Shop (live) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn6OeTuJsGM&feature=related

Plus it's a concept album about John DeLorean

yeah great song and great video... love the sign spinning!

neon neon are someone i need to check out... will enjoy those vids

 

[loz]

Better albums than most of these:

Portishead - Third
Girls Aloud - Tangled up
Underworld - Oblivion with bells
Aidan John Moffat - I can hear your heart
Breeders - Moutnain battles
Future of the left - Curses
Caribou - Andorra (I think that was in this time period)
The Chap - Mega breakfast
Clinic - Do it!
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Hot Chip - Made in the dark
M.I.A. - Kala
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack sustain delay

I didn't realise that the Breeders and Caribou were British, but hey :P

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Well no, but until everyone realises how ****ing awesome Future of the Left are, then I suspect so alas.

Better albums than most of these:

Portishead - Third
Girls Aloud - Tangled up
Underworld - Oblivion with bells
Aidan John Moffat - I can hear your heart
Breeders - Moutnain battles - Not British
Future of the left - Curses
Caribou - Andorra (I think that was in this time period) Canadian?
The Chap - Mega breakfast
Clinic - Do it!
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Hot Chip - Made in the dark
M.I.A. - Kala
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack sustain delay

Good List though, I'd forgotten about MIA, how the hell is Kala (and indeed FotL) not on there?

 

[Uncle Leo]

Typical though, that their worst album is the one that gets nominated!

God, that is a dull list...

You reckon? I think the second one (Open Season) is their worst, although still pretty good.

 

[seany t]

Goddamn music geeks. i knew I'd get a couple wrong...

But yeah, Kala is the biggest exclusion in my book. But then again, its always a bit dull isn't it?

 

[Uncle Leo]

Last Shadow Puppets. Brilliant album and great singers.

Just can't get in to that album. I've tried, but nothing doing...

 

[seany t]

Just can't get in to that album. I've tried, but nothing doing...

Me too. Does nothing for me. And neither does that new No Age record 'Nouns', but thats off topic....

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Me too. Does nothing for me. And neither does that new No Age record 'Nouns', but thats off topic....

Madman. ;)

 

[derek duvall]

Its got to be Elbow IMO, great band great album.