Orange Juice were useless too.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
^this
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Having said that, "Should've Done That" is a really fucking amazing song that deserved a lot better than being trakc 12 on an album 17 people bought a copy of:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15726805f516a622/
It's like a non-shitty Grandaddy
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
ROISIN MURPHY
that will be all, thank you
― Keaney Tong, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Inasmuch as I like Grandaddy, I'll give that a go...
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm.
This had far more a slow, chilled-out dancepop vibe to it than an earnest, depressive broken-machinery indiepop ambiance such as purveyed by Lytle and chums. Good song, but hardly a stick with which to beat Grandaddy.
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Tindersticks' A Hungry Saw is probably my favourite british album of the last 12 months. I would love for it to get nominated but it won't.
― jed_, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess London Zoo by the Bug came out too late to qualify.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah, London Zoo's in time to qualify.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Could be token 'urban' nomination.
In that case, for me it'd be a straight three-way tag team comprising Unthank, the Bug and Portishead. But they'll upset Radio 2's 50-65 year old listener demographic and confuse potential future sponsors so none of them will happen.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link
(possibly four-way but I'm not sure whether the Led Bib or Fraud albums would qualify)
I think led Bib and Fraud are both last year, at a guess. I never really got on massively with either; should I revisit?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, definitely. Especially the Led Bib one. Best cover version of "Heroes" ever.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Amy Macdonald, The Verve and The Kooks?
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The Verve isn't out yet. The kooks are too bboring.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The Brit School have already had their annual prizegiving ceremony (a.k.a. the conveniently named Brit Awards) - will the judges want another?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Keaney Tong, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:54
OOPS!
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link
my 12 predictions
Burial - Untrue - Did Kode9/ Hyperdub enter this album tough?
Radiohead - In Rainbows - They have never won the Mercury Prize, maybe this time?
Portishead - Third - previous Mercury winners return to the shortlist.
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid - certainly deserves to make the shortlist, their debut made the Mercury shortlist in 2001, but their last 2 albums were overlooked.
Duffy – Rockferry - too boring for me, but likely to be in, as the Mercury Prize like to nominate debut albums and have a geographic representation beyond just English nominations.
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement - no my thang, but the type of album that is likely to be nominated
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - will this album qualify? well received by the serious rock critics
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree - their last 2 albums failed to make the shortlist, better luck this time?
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim - a debut album and the Mercury Prize likes to have some female artists on the shortlist.
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - The Bairns - widely tipped as the folk entrant
Empirical - Empirical - always difficult to select the jazz album, but this album was widely and correctly acclaimed by jazz critics
Plus a Classical Nomination
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:15 (sixteen years ago) link
They treat the Mercury Music Prize with awe They treat the Mercury Music Prize with awe They treat the Mercury Music Prize with awe
...Obviously that's just jealousy on my part
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Elbow deserve to make the execution list morelike
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:19 (sixteen years ago) link
No Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip then?
lol at Andy Gill saying that the fucking MITCHELL BROTHERS, of all people, deserved a nomination
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, the new Elbow is by far their weakest IMO, so I don't think it deserves to make any list. It's got some good songs but it doesn't really work as an album.
However, seeing as I don't give a fuck, let them nominate whomever they choose.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link
What Else Could make the shortlist?
Debut Albums: Mercury Prize Judges like to include debut albums: maybe these
Nancy Elizabeth - Battle and Victory
Errors - It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
Foals - Antidotes
Quiet Village - Silent Movie
Swimmer One - The Regional Variations
Voice of the Seven Woods - Voice of the Seven Woods - could be a surprise nomination?
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Others
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight Hot Chip - Made in the Dark Jamie Lidell - Jim Sennen - Where the Light Gets In The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine
Established Artists
Edwyn Collins - Home Again The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent PJ Harvey - White Chalk James - Hey Ma Ladytron - Velocifero Underworld - Oblivion With Bells Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Jazz Albums
The Blessing - All Is Yes The Neil Cowley Trio - Loud Louder Stop DSQ - The House Always Wins Outhouse - Outhouse Finn Peters - Butterflies Gwilym Simcock - Perception
Artists That Don't Deserve to Make the Shortlist: Include
Adele - too boring Coldplay - too bland Kate Nash - too rubbish Ting Tings - too shoddy Paul Weller - I dislike Weller ! The Wombats - too awful
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i would love an instrumental version of Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip album
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The Mitchell Brothers! I remember them. They had a song about going to Harrods or something.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Previous Andy Gill Mercury tips include: Day One, Cathy Davey, Claire Sproule, Witness.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
ANDY GILL
Mercury rising: Who will make this year's shortlist? - Features, Music - The Independent
The shortlist for the Mercury Prize is announced today. But with a year's worth of British albums to choose from, who'll be on it? Andy Gill makes a guess - and nominates his own favourites
Andy Gill's albums of the year
James Hunter: 'The Hard Way'
M.I.A.: 'Kala'
Laura Marling: 'Alas, I Cannot Swim'
Merz: 'Moi Et Mon Camion'
The Mitchell Brothers: 'Dressed For The Occasion'
Jim Noir: 'Jim Noir'
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: 'Raising Sand'
Radiohead: 'In Rainbows'
Spiritualized: 'Songs In A&E'
Linda Thompson: 'Versatile Heart'
The Ting Tings: 'We Started Nothing'
Paul Weller: '22 Dreams'
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
The Mitchell Brothers were the biggest selling act on The Beats, which is like being the ILM poster who makes the most money from music writing.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
The Mitchell Brothers: From Eastenders?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
James Hunter: Who?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Have the Fall ever made the list?
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
having not heard of it til now i expect that second Jim Noir album is not an improvement on the first.
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I noticed some suggestions on the web for Johnny Flynn - is this boring serious adult contemporary singer songwriter pop rock?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Day One wuz robbed! I loved Ordinary Man.
xpost The Mitchell Brothers were indeed named after Grant & Phil.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
No, as John Peel was never a Mercury Judge
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the deal with M.I.A? Everything of hers I've heard has been boring and yet we have 900-post threads about her on ILX.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Jim Noir = Huw Stephens fave
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:30 (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
http://www.showclix.com/event_pictures/Jerry_Seinfeld.jpg
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
MIA = sounds like the music for 80s drink umbungo
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
78-year-old on the case "electro is killing black music" Andy Gill.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
looooooooool dom
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Mitchell Brothers 'Alone With The TV' is sometimes great
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't make a very good naif any more. :(
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Refuge by Gilad Atzmon? Can anyone tell me more? Anyone know The Indian Rope?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
has jgo even SEEN the Um Bongo advert?
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Sort of like M.I.A. but with saxophones (xxp).
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I never listen to daytime radio 1, but they are currently playing a really crap AOR pop rock song - it's bucket wrenching slop - is it Alanis or the bastard offspring of Heart and Avril?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link