Mercury Shortlist 2006
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mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
swears said:DFKDFC
lol do what? is that don't fuckin know don't fuckin care? great abbreviation!
My vote would go to "Freakishly Strong' by Dirty Diggers.
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simon silverdollar
Guest
i find the whole Mercury thing of restricting it to UK albums a bit stupid: there just isn't a great deal of interesting stuff going on, album wise, in the UK i think. may be i could think of 5 UK albums from the past year that i really love, but i'd struggle to get to ten...
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
swears said:
I just told that to the doctor I live with, i think the meme just spread! I don't care about the babyshambles thing either but I've listened to it, and I think it's interesting, and weird in places, which is more than i can say about some of the stuff on the real MP list.
hurricane run
Well-known member
none
Seem to have heard bits of all these records on FAB R1. All seem shite to me. Special mention for shiteness goes to the Gue....cant spell.. all thats bad about 'indie' music. Best just to pretend that the Mercury Music prize doesn't exist. I much prefer the Brits. Honestly dishonest.
Seem to have heard bits of all these records on FAB R1. All seem shite to me. Special mention for shiteness goes to the Gue....cant spell.. all thats bad about 'indie' music. Best just to pretend that the Mercury Music prize doesn't exist. I much prefer the Brits. Honestly dishonest.
Paul Hotflush
techno head
Blackdown said:
UK Urban music is shit, that's why it doesn't get many fine moments.
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
I like it, and I won't be too shocked if it wins.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
The words "Isobel" and "Campbell" are enough to avoid listening to it.
Editors - The Back Room
Dear God!
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
I liked the singles, actually, and I'm curious about the album.
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Pass!
Hot Chip - The Warning
Easily the best one out of those I've heard 'til now. I really enjoyed it.
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Pass!
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
Don't know it. Maybe I'll check it.
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
I couldn't fucking care less about what Lou is doing at mo. Pass!
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
A bit patchy, really, and some songs take much longer than needed.
Sway - This Is My Demo
A bit meh!
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Haven't heard it yet.
I like it, and I won't be too shocked if it wins.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
The words "Isobel" and "Campbell" are enough to avoid listening to it.
Editors - The Back Room
Dear God!
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
I liked the singles, actually, and I'm curious about the album.
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Pass!
Hot Chip - The Warning
Easily the best one out of those I've heard 'til now. I really enjoyed it.
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Pass!
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
Don't know it. Maybe I'll check it.
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
I couldn't fucking care less about what Lou is doing at mo. Pass!
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
A bit patchy, really, and some songs take much longer than needed.
Sway - This Is My Demo
A bit meh!
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Haven't heard it yet.
swears
preppy-kei
jaxxalude said:
Everybody stop liking this right now!
I have had to put up with this shite record at a million boring parties. This is music for smug, annoying meatheated Loaded-readers (nevermind the NME) who simultaneously want to be hip yet totally normal. The singer is a snotty little twat and I really hope they are looked back on in the same light as Menswear or Shed Seven.
If it wins the Mercury Music prize, then that will finally prove that everything is shit.
Raw Patrick
Well-known member
Burial was in the cut off period but wasn't eligable bcz the label didn't enter it (at a cost of £250, I think.)
Lauren Laverne is on the panel this year, don't know who else is (but would like to know.)
I would like Hot Chip or Scritti to win. I haven't heard the Isabel Campbell but it being on this list will make me do so. I might even listen to the token jazzbo. Not to Lou Rhodes though--did that get a good review anywhere, has anyone ever spoken of it?
Lauren Laverne is on the panel this year, don't know who else is (but would like to know.)
I would like Hot Chip or Scritti to win. I haven't heard the Isabel Campbell but it being on this list will make me do so. I might even listen to the token jazzbo. Not to Lou Rhodes though--did that get a good review anywhere, has anyone ever spoken of it?
hint
party record with a siren
boomnoise said:
Isobel Campbell used to be in Belle and Sebastian. Mark Lanegan used to be in Screaming Trees and Queens of The Stone Age.
The album they did together is pretty straightforward dusty alt Americana. I don't know the other two albums you mention.
I'm predicting that Muse will win.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Not quite as bad as the Libertines though - they made a really interesting first album, which if it had been hyped by Pitchfork instead of the NME would have people foaming at the mouth, but because of a) the tabloid thing and b) the wave of bands who followed picking up on the least interesting bits (blokes, guitars, proper songs) rather than the most interesting bits (actually doing something rhythmically and stylistically interesting by working within the framework of indie rather than by doing a half-arsed appropriation of some other stuff), they end up getting hated on by people who don't seem to have heard the music, or if they have, ignored it because it suits them better to write it off as more hyped up generic indie stuff...stelfox said:
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
I hope Richard gets the award because it's the Kiss Ov Death to most artists.
"Alreet Richard have this and now shut the fuck up, you twat"...Well that's what I'd say...
"Alreet Richard have this and now shut the fuck up, you twat"...Well that's what I'd say...
swears
preppy-kei
stelfox said:
I hate all those bands, even when they're playing in a garage down the road.
Since Oasis, forming an indie band has been the least subversive or even interesting thing you could possibly do as a musician. I was trying to explain this to an American online and my argument is that Indie in Britain in 2006 is basically serving the same function as cheesy Metal did in the States in 1986. It's what all the meatheads and bores listen to.
Slothrop said:
They did (well tracks 1-5 mostly), and along with the 'What A Waster' EP, what a delight it was to hear a band that didn't sound like they regularly wet the bed. As for the Guillemots, it's just a Derek Griffiths Playtime LP ripoff, isn't it? (except even less classy).