Mercury Music prize 2006 predictions and discussion thread.

Some Eligible Albums for the Mercury Music Prize 2006. i.e British or Irish Artists who released an album between July 25th 2005 and July 17th 2006.

my fantasy 12

#1 Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
#2 Boxcutter - Oneiric
#3 Broadcast - Tender Buttons
#4 Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
#5 Burial [GBR] - Burial
#6 Kate Bush - Aerial
#7 Coil - The Ape of Naples
#8 The Neil Cowley Trio - Dis-Placed
#9 Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
#10 Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
#11 FortDax - Divers
#12 Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

plus some more suggstions

#13 Leo Abrahams - Honeytrap
#14 Steve Adey - All Things Real
#15 Amit - Never Ending
#16 Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
#17 Richard Barbieri - Things Buried
#18 Beecher - This Elegy His Autopsy
#19 Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
#20 Breakage - This Too Shall Pass
#21 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
#22 Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
#23 Cursor Miner - Danceflaw
#24 The Durutti Column - Keep Breathing
#25 Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
#26 The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
#27 Field Music - Field Music
#28 Simon Fisher Turner - Lana Lara Lata
#29 Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
#30 Gravenhurst - Fires in Distant Buildings
#31 Robin Guthrie - Continental
#32 Herbert - Scale
#33 Hot Chip - The Warning
#34 Hystereo - Corporate Crimewave
#35 Immune - 1/F
#36 IZU - Going Salamander
#37 Jimpster - Amour
#38 Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell
#39 Marconi Union - [Distance]
#40 Mogwai - Mr. Beast
#41 Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
#42 Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
#43 Posthuman - The Peoples Republic
#44 Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third
#45 Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
#46 Sennen - Widows
#47 Alex Smoke - Paradolia
#48 Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus
#49 Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - And The Battle Is Won
#50 Vector Lovers - Capsule for One
#51 The Workhouse - Flyover
#52 Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Mercury Music Prize 2006
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/djmartian/mercury_music_prize_2006
Some Eligible Albums for the Mercury Music Prize 2006. i.e British or Irish Artists who released an album between July 25th 2005 and July 17th 2006.

My guesses of what they will select

12 Nominations

Arctic Monkeys
Lily Allen
Vashti Bunyan
Kate Bush
Field Music
Herbert
Hot Chip
Muse
Corrine Boring Rae
Sway
Thom Yorke
Token Jazz: Neil Cowley Trio

plus 12 Outsiders: some of these may sneak in

Broadcast
Camera Obscura
Depeche Mode
Nathan Fake
Guillemots
Richard Hawley
Mystery Jets
Nine Horses
Pet Shop Boys
Pure Reason Revolution
Scritti Politti
Tunng

Steve Reid is American.

the most boring new Brit band of 2006.

Mark Lanegan is American

Green is german.

you've not heard The Kooks then?

she is rather publicity shy.

Also miserable morrissey, do you reckon his record company have entered him?

Imagine Mozza and Kate Bush on the shortlist !

However sadly certain music journalists/ publications are praising the AOR sound of The Feeling.

The Mercury Prize have shortlisted bland bands before, check: Athlete, Turin Brakes, and Keane.

Green Gartside AKA Paul Julian Strohmeyer - yes German surname

It'll be the Arctic Monkeys or Lily Allen this year, I reckon. Last year was their curveball year.

but will any of these lesser known debuts make the shortlist?

Nathan Fake
Field Music
The Guillemots
Hot Chip
The Mystery Jets
Pure Reason Revolution

I thought, Dom's idea of worst music was:

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s343690.jpg

Who are eligible for this year's nominations as the album was released July 25th 2005.

However if Edith Bowman is still on the selection panel, this creates a conflict of interest.

Apparently Lanegan/Campbell is a lock to be nominated according to "those" in the "biz".

For some reason I thought Herbert was Canadian - a quick Google reveals this isn't the case.

sometime in June each panelist gets batch delivered all the CDs entered into the competition via Securicor. So they have something like 4 - 6 weeks to make some sort of individual assessment of the 12 albums they should select.

Rules are Rules, these are not British/Irish artists so not eligible. Whatever next the daft, Andy Gill in The Independent suggesting American Scott Walker:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1174207.ece

I'd imagine the actual contenders will include some or all of the following: Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Kate Bush, Goldfrapp, Richard Hawley, Morrissey, Muse, Plan B, Scott Walker and Paul Weller. My own alternative shortlist appears below, although I hope that none of them wins it.

...except on The Independent website his alternative shortlist was not listed, did anyone buy The Independent last friday?

However Peter Murphy should have been shortlisted in 2002 for Dust.

PS in a year's time, Tim you will be hoping indie-jingle-jangle merchants Bricolage [AKA Orange Juice Karaoke] will be nominated

http://www.myspace.com/bricolagetheband

Also DJM I have never heard of 6 of your fantasy 12 and the only sane working definiton of darkwave is "bands I've never heard of who DJ Martian likes".

I'm surprised your fantasy 12 doesn't include Nicolas Anelka, mind.

i'd like the Arab Strap album to win. Not in a month of Sundays, though.

Yr big headline tomorrow: MERCURY SNOBS SNUB PEOPLE'S CHAMP DAME SANDI THOM: Plucky Tooting Basement She-Ra "Only Fit For Proles And Heathens" Claims Heartless Frith-Whiley-Holland-Headed Cerberean Hellhound

And the eventual winner... eh, Guillemots seem as likely as anyone.

1. Breakage - This Too Shall Pass [Marcello's drum n bass faves]

2. Broadcast - Tender Buttons [In the top 10 2005 ILM albums poll]

3. Kate Bush - Aerial [In the top 10 2005 ILM albums poll]

4. Burial [GBR] - Burial [dubstep faves, we also read Dissensus types]

5. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country [Twee faves]

6. Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel [Ned's faves]

7. Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love [Hipster faves]

8. Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental [for old skool popists]

9. Rachel Stevens - Come and get it [for new skool popists]

10. Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell [for AlexinNYC - honour the fire ! or else]

11. Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow [for People in their 30s/ 40s who read Mojo, Uncut and The Wire]

12. Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer [Jerrythenipper wrote a review in Uncut and many ilm folk rate the album]

this made the ILM top 20 albums of 2005.

http://www.nme.com/news/antony-and-the-johnsons/23632

Arctic Monkeys - 'Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not'
Babyshambles - 'Down In Albion'
Corinne Bailey Rae - 'Corinne Bailey Rae'
Editors - 'In The Back Room'
Girls Aloud - 'Chemistry'
Hot Chip - 'The Warning'
Guillemots - 'Through the Windowpane'
Jim Noir - 'Tower Of Love'
Kate Bush - 'Aerial'
Morrissey - 'Ringleader Of The Tormentors'
Plan B - 'Who Needs Actions When You Got Words'
Richard Hawley - 'Coles Corner'
The Kooks - 'Inside In/Inside Out'
The Longcut - 'The Longcut'
The Streets - 'The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living'

The Streets - More useless spoken yapping by a one trick pony

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s555192.jpg

All the same, I would love it to win tho...

To be honest music tv presenters piss me off more than most non-political things, more than the entire career of the Arctic Monkeys (so far).

Seriously folks, we can forgive M People now.

I missed Isobel Campbell :-(

Have the Arctic Monkeys really sold a lot of records? I must have missed that.

-- Mark Grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), Yesterday 3:55 PM. (later) (link)

Well, that was what I was trying to say yesterday at the time indicated. Meaning: The Arctics were so going to win it, and everyone was seriously debating who they thought was going to without mentioning a certain band from Sheffield.

They are notoriously bad at speechmaking, but I thought their "Call 999, Richard Hawley's been robbed!" was quite charming in its way.

I did not think their massive sales had been sustained after the initial rush. Well, I hadn't really thought about it at all.

ahem

Arctic Monkeys at a canter, put your shirt on 'em.

-- More Tongue Feldman (noodle_vagu...), July 17th, 2006

i am aiming to never ever hear the arctic monkeys - i do not wish to sully my ears with the worst band ever to exist ever.

I did see you say that, but I was meaning the debate that was running at the time.

Also Scritti Politti #42 at Amazon's, hurrah.

ok but it's gettin' old now srsly

*stretch*

*shrug*

NEXT!

long blondes for 2007 then?

It can't be another Sheffield gtr band can it. Pity.

Next year, a girl jazz singer. She's called Francine Ferdinando.

*roll eyes smiley*

I hear "Ride On Time" was what stopped Black Box Recorder winning the Mercury in 2000.

Like this?

i hope ppl don't say that the 'mercury curse' did for the arctic monkeys, as SUEDE-style the rot has/had already set in (cf. the bass man leaves, and the non-hit last single).

No, I think ver kids will latch onto something totally new and they'll be forgotten. Then they'll release a second album which nobody will care about except for a Passantino music-review-that-doesn't-mention-music (TM) on Stylus (if that's still around).

If you want a band that's going to define this generation, look at My Chemical Rom--

from BBC News

Yes
10.23%
No
16.27%
WHO?
73.50%

8 Arctic Monkeys
9 Richard Hawley
16 Guillemots
19 Hot Chip
20 Thom Yorke
25 Muse
27 Zoe Rahman
29 Campbell/Lanegan
36 Lou Rhodes
45 Scritti Politti
62 Editors
731 Sway