Mercury Music Prize

[tinx]

This is th elist of nominees for this years mercury music prize. Who would you go for:-

Coldplay 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'
Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief'
The Darkness 'Permission To Land'
Dizzee Rascal 'Boy In Da Corner
The Thrills 'So Much For The City'
Athlete 'Vehicles & Animals'
Terri Walker 'Untitled'
Floetry 'Floetic'
Soweto Kinch 'Conversations With The Unseen'
Martina Topley-Bird 'Quixotic'
Eliza Carthy 'Angelicana'
Lemon Jelly 'Lost Horizons'


Personally I'd say Radiohead by a mile.

 

[dwayne]

Floetry?? Dizzie Rascal??!!??

fackin 'ell

It should go to Radiohead, I've been listening to their album for the millionth time today, it's tighter than a gnats chuff.

 

[Mr Popkins]

The Darkness-
Athlete-
coldplay

are all album ive bought recently by arnt gonna win

too commercial

Athlete may stand a chance though

 

[tinx]

I have to admit as much as I really like Coldplays Album I don't think it has a chance of winning, far too predictable.

Thats why Radiohead should win it. Not predictable and totally awesome.

 

[Albion Dan]

My personal favourite there is LemonJelly, but I reckon it will go to Athlete, I really hate Althlete btw!

 

[Trigger]

I'd scrap the award

 

[tinx]

Good call trigger, its such a shite award anyway and even the perosn who wins doesn't give a shit either way.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Athlete, for me, stand for utter banality. I can see them in my mind, sitting in the middle of the road, strumming borishly and claiming profundity.
I'd rather they weren't about.

Dizzee Rascal (only just heard some of his stuff) is slightly unpleasant, but oddly interesting.

The Darkness are just a novelty band. Would be like Jive Bunny winning.

The Thrills are annoyingly catchy and twee, but alright.

Radiohead should be winners from this list.

 

[Vicar!]

Eliza any day! Especially with the blue hair and tongue piercing.

Vicar

 

[the right footed denilson]

the thrills are irish for fucks sake

 

[Dunkstar]

I like the Darkness but i reckon athlete will win!

 

[CHAPPERS]

Dizzee rascals album is the most interesting music i've heard for a while he shouldn't win it though.

There isn't really a lot of original stuff in there so he stands a chance, i mean Coldplay? Radiohead? They aren't doing anything different from their previous albums. Ridiculous, if they are up for it why aren't the Super Furries?

The Darkness or Dizzee for me.

 

[pasty]

Reckon I can now officially qualify as an old fart. I have only even heard of two of the bands - and I don't know ANY of the songs!

 

[Pevenseagull]

there's a couple on there that I've never heard of but of those I have I'll go for Martina Topley-Bird.

Looking back over previous winners I don't think I'll be listening to any of the above a few years down the road unlike Portished, PJ Harvey, Badly Drawn Boy or Primal Scream

not inspiring and if ing Coldplay win then it all,

 

[Pevenseagull]

Hang on, was the Audio Bullies album not eligible?

 

[CHAPPERS]

No, the Audio Bullies album is bollocks though, that might be why its not in there.

 

[Pevenseagull]

hairy muff,

but there's absolutely no justification for the absence of Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man "Out Of Season"

 

[Mr Popkins]

[quote Meades ball-

The Darkness are just a novelty band. Would be like Jive Bunny winning.




/'Have you listened to their album?

they may appear as a joke band but belive me there not.

cant see them winning as not the type of band to win

 

[dwayne]

Dizzee rascals album is the most interesting music i've heard for a while he shouldn't win it though.

There isn't really a lot of original stuff in there so he stands a chance, i mean Coldplay? Radiohead? They aren't doing anything different from their previous albums. Ridiculous, if they are up for it why aren't the Super Furries?

The Darkness or Dizzee for me.

...but Dizzies doing nothing that Def Jux haven't done since 2001. He may be original to the 40 something journo brigade but to actual music buyers, he's a shite emcee behind unsyncopated tosh. Radiohead may have kept a similar formula but conceptually and technically they are on a different planet to old Dizzie.

 

[Faldo]

Radiohead will win - although IMHO Lemon Jelly are also tres good.

The darkness are also pretty good (and not a novelty band, despite the way they are being put across - I saw them described as "Queen-style comedy-rock"! Pretty wide of the mark to my mind).

Athelete suck!