I quite like the Bat For Lashes song with the video with the bikes. I don't actually like any of these albums, (although I haven't heard Regan, Young Knives or Basquiat - and that's the only one I'd like to hear, I think).
― Bocken Social Scene, Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Who is Fionn Regan?
Irishy singer-songwriter type.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
The Basquiat is nice, aye, a good record, but Skinny Grin is some other-level evenmt stuff, there. If they'd picked that and had the guts to make it win they'd have saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
9/1 for the arctic monkeys?! that's nuts surely?
― pisces, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
klaxons down to £3 in sainsburys. woolworths not stocking mia's kala.
― acrobat, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
same band winning two years in a row damaging credibility further is the fear there (xp)
― blueski, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Nothing says credibility like Bat for fucking Lashes
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Whinehouse to win shurely.
― SeekAltRoute, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Of course the Pony Club piss all over the rest of them from a great height, but whatever.
― SeekAltRoute, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
BAN SEEKALTROUTE
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 23 August 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
tonight.
Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold 7/4 Jamie T - Panic Prevention 3/1 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 10/3 Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future 9/1 Maps (pictured) - We Can Create 12/1 Source: Ladbrokes
― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
my god nypc are the worst shit ever.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
worse than jamie t???
― acrobat, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
It's so hard to decide on the worst this year. So many different ways to be bad. Still going for Bat for Lashes as the lousiest though.
I think The Klaxons may be my fave album out of them.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link
there's a BAT FOR LASHES track i heard that has a dance-y beat. is there just that one or are there more?
― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone but Jamie T.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Ladbrokes have now closed the books on Bat for Lashes winning the Mercury following another giant wager being put on her to win this morning.
apprntly.
― pisces, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I actually listened to the Bat for Lashes album for the first time at the weekend - the opening track made me think the record was going to be awesome and Bjorkish and I remember being incredibly disappointed when it actually went somewhere rather dull.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
well strike me dumb
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Best shot in the two minutes I saw was Dizzee looking bored and pissed off and resigned to losing.
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
New Young Pony Club is fantastic. The only other one I've heard is Dizzee.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
HEAR THAT RATTLING SOUND? THAT'S THE DEATH OF MUSI ...
... actually, i couldn't give half a rotten shit. the only album on the list i was remotely interested in was the maps one, and even then it really isn't that good.
actually, no: i'd like to hear dizzee, and for some reason haven't.
still, anyway. farting into a bottle will be the authentic sound of desperate dinner parties for the next few weeks. ha! joy.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
otm
― musically, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
New Young Pony Club is fantastic.
http://freenoise.org/wrong/wrong.gif
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I've liked "Ice Cream" since last summer, but when I listened to the album last week, I fully expected to hate it and instead was pleasantly surprised. It's got sort of a nice Tom Tom Club flair to it.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6977433.stm
The "new rave" group from south London scooped the £20,000 prize for their debut Myths of the Near Future.Singer Jamie Reynolds said they deserved to beat Winehouse because she made a "retro record and we've made the most forward-thinking record". NME editor Conor McNicholas, who was on the judging panel, said Winehouse's performance at the ceremony was "amazing"."I've never been to an awards ceremony where somebody has performed and the room has been genuinely silent, proper pin-drop stuff," he said."But we have to take into account an awful lot and at the end of the day the Klaxons was felt to be the right decision."It's an album that could only ever have been made in Britain, could only ever have been made at this moment in time and it's a multi-layered album."Winehouse's album was "one of the greatest vocal performances this country has ever seen", he admitted. But he added: "You can argue that ultimately it is a backward-looking album and one of the things Klaxons have tried to do is produce something that feels like it came from the future."
Singer Jamie Reynolds said they deserved to beat Winehouse because she made a "retro record and we've made the most forward-thinking record".
NME editor Conor McNicholas, who was on the judging panel, said Winehouse's performance at the ceremony was "amazing".
"I've never been to an awards ceremony where somebody has performed and the room has been genuinely silent, proper pin-drop stuff," he said.
"But we have to take into account an awful lot and at the end of the day the Klaxons was felt to be the right decision.
"It's an album that could only ever have been made in Britain, could only ever have been made at this moment in time and it's a multi-layered album."
Winehouse's album was "one of the greatest vocal performances this country has ever seen", he admitted.
But he added: "You can argue that ultimately it is a backward-looking album and one of the things Klaxons have tried to do is produce something that feels like it came from the future."
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Does that NME guy only speak in ridiculous cliches? "one of the greatest vocal performances this country has ever seen"? "it came from the future" when the name of the album is... ah fuck, I give up here.
― mh, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
LOLOLOL
― jed_, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
"one of the greatest vocal performances this country has ever seen"
― jed_, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I basically agree with the NME guy.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
"We are moving forward."
― Tape Store, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I also like New Young Pony Club - "Ice Cream" is GREAT.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link
At least the Arctic Monkeys didn't win again?
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I wish I had had a bet.
Why is the judging panel so bad? Who is Simon Frith anyway? Why can't they get, (ducks) Paul Morley or someone on it?
Actually, I was going to compare the judging panel unfavourably with the Booker, but that isn't very inspiring either.
Chaired by Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the line-up consists of Wendy Cope, poet; Giles Foden, journalist and author of BAFTA award winning The Last King of Scotland; Ruth Scurr, biographer and critic and Imogen Stubbs, actor.
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link
frith is a good bloke but has a very low profile, i'll admit. he's also been doing this for a looong time.
i should reiterate that i don't give a fuck about the mercury, and i'm not sure why i'm wasting valuable seconds discussing it or thinking about it. hmph.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I know he's done it since it started, and I just googled him and found out he wrote the Sociology of Rock, but ...
I think it's a good idea to have a music prize not based on sales or whatever, so it's worth, erm, a minute or two thinking about.
Although the Woody Allen line does come to mind. "What's with all these awards? They're always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler."
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Who's actually on the panel? Every year it's a nightmare to find out. I know Conor McNicholas is on it, and obviously Frith chairs it, but who else? How are these 'experts' qualified?
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:11 (seventeen years ago) link
It's upthread.
Simon Frith - music author/Professor of Music at University of Edinburgh Charles Hazlewood - conductor and broadcaster on Radio 2, Radio 3 and BBC 4 Lauren Laverne - broadcaster, The Culture Show and Channel 4’s Transmission Conor McNicholas - Editor of NME George Ergatoudis - Head of Music, Radio 1 Dean Jackson – Presenter The Beat BBC Nottingham Arwa Haider - Music Editor, Metro/Front Row contributor Zoe Rahman - jazz musician Mark Findlay - Head of Music, GCAP’s The One Network Jude Rogers - Reviews Editor, Word Magazine/New Statesman/The Guardian
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link
So the BBC and IPC have basically given this award?
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I mentioned this before elsewhere, but I'd be interested in setting up an alternative to this shower of shite. How would I go about it? I'd need corporate sponsorship, presumably.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd help with the setting-up. There needs to be some sort of mass recognition given to alternative/good artists operating in the UK.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Longtime readers may be interested to know that the 2007 Lex 20p Music Prize for services to indie was won by Art Brut, beating the Klaxons into joint third place with The View.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Who'd you have given it to this year Sick mouthy?
― pisces, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Patrick Wolf
― blueski, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd be interested in setting up an alternative to Nick's shower of shite. How would I go about it? I'd need to give a rat's arse about shiny baubles, presumably.
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Jokes, brzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
If anyone ever starts to think this, I think they should sit down with a nice cup of tea and remember that they are having the same thought (or at least the same press release) as whoever decided the NME Brat Awards would be an amusingly edgy alternative to the Brits.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
i approve of anything that sets out to undermine stagnant (more) establishment practices tho
Stylus, Plan B, DiS and your mum teaming up to present an alternative award to an album from the last 12 months by a DEBUTANT only could be good just for taking some of the media glare away from the MMP.
― blueski, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link