WORSTEST ALBUM TO WIN MERCURY MUSICS PRIZE!

the mercuries possibly represent an industry fight back, now won. they show that the suits didn't want to be taken by suprise again, that whatever hip new yoof culture appeared they'd be cool with it, cos y know they are cool dudes.

i would count myself as a 50 quid bloke in the original sense, not in the 'fostered by Word magazine sense.

i bought word early on, but it settled down v quickly into Mojo lite.

Did the lighthouse family ever get nominated? my god they were shit.

actually they...no, i can't do it this time.

Did the lighthouse family ever get nominated? my god they were shit.

wait until you hear the indie band featuring one of the lighthouse family : Orange Lights

The Orange Lights feature vocalist Jason Hart (formerly lead guitarist with Spiritualized) and keyboard player Paul Tucker (songwriter, one-half of The Lighthouse Family). The Single and the album was produced by Ken Nelson (all three Coldplay albums), Chris Potter (The Verve's "Urban Hymns").

so dreary it has to be heard to be believed.

Yeah, I got emails about them, and studiously deleted.

The Lighthouse Family guy has a pretty good voice. Shame he sings such bland turgid dreck with it. Surely they can't have ever been nominated, not that I care enough to google it.

I had the Orange Lights album (it sucked) but failed to notice either ex-member connection. I've never heard of Jason Hart either, he's just a session musician I guess?

press release quote :
"the time’s right for us. people are fed up with mumbling indie bands. we are all about big tunes you can sing your heart out to."
paul tucker, the orange lights

had me chuckling for many an hour that particular gem.
no doubt in 6 months the Snow Patrol-lite music will be dominating the Radio 2 playlist and we'll all wish we'd kept the cardboard cutout promos (which were very reminiscent of the Athlete debut album promo - should have seen the signs !)

I just rescued it from the dump pile just because of you - I hope you're proud

my dump pile was 'archived' a few weeks ago, so it's too late for me to follow your bravery.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Elegant Slumming indeed

ilm in hating inoffenive pop soul more than turgid blues rock shock

"Bring It On", while no blues rock will ever by my favourite music, has a great production, which brings it way above what it would have been otherwise.

And as for M People, they are the weirdest thing on the list, but I find them way more listenable than Dizzee Rascal anyway.

Geir and Dizzee both have "FUCK THA WORLD" style demeanours tempered with their obvious desire to be cuddly ambassadors of the mainstream.

Bought: 5 (Dizzee most recent, tho only bought Screamadelica a couple of months back)
Downloaded: 2 (PJ, Franz)
Acquired promo: 2 (Singh, Gomez - both were sold on)

The "winner" = more proof that England is on another planet (the heterosexual part, that is).

Maybe you should invade us.

"Westerners should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it, and guarantees respect for human rights and religion. This respect certainly does not exist in Islamic countries."

i'm glad m people won/lost because i've been listening to some of their singles and they're fucken shit

Still irked at the Gomez/Arctic Monkeys imbalance. Gomez at least showed some ingenuity in their song-structures and instrumentation. I think they're being sold short here; they should be at least two or three places lower. AM's have absolutely nothing to recommend them.

BEST GREEK/BRITISH INDIE PONTIFICATOR POLL:

* L0uis J@gger
* Alexis Petridish
* Alex Kapranos

Maybe you should invade us.

Invading heterosexual men is one of my favorite pastimes. Thanx for the invite.

i think in this case "thanx but no thanx" would be more apt