Mercury Music Prize 2008 tittle-tattle aggregator

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

Elbow deserve to make the execution list morelike

No Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip then?

lol at Andy Gill saying that the fucking MITCHELL BROTHERS, of all people, deserved a nomination

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.

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

i think i would love an instrumental version of Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip album

The Mitchell Brothers! I remember them. They had a song about going to Harrods or something.

Previous Andy Gill Mercury tips include: Day One, Cathy Davey, Claire Sproule, Witness.

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'

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 Mitchell Brothers: From Eastenders?

James Hunter: Who?

Have the Fall ever made the list?

having not heard of it til now i expect that second Jim Noir album is not an improvement on the first.

I noticed some suggestions on the web for Johnny Flynn - is this boring serious adult contemporary singer songwriter pop rock?

Day One wuz robbed! I loved Ordinary Man.

xpost The Mitchell Brothers were indeed named after Grant & Phil.

No, as John Peel was never a Mercury Judge

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.

Jim Noir = Huw Stephens fave

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.

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MIA = sounds like the music for 80s drink umbungo

78-year-old on the case "electro is killing black music" Andy Gill.

looooooooool dom

Mitchell Brothers 'Alone With The TV' is sometimes great

I don't make a very good naif any more. :(

Refuge by Gilad Atzmon? Can anyone tell me more? Anyone know The Indian Rope?

has jgo even SEEN the Um Bongo advert?

yeah

Sort of like M.I.A. but with saxophones (xxp).

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?

ha it was Avril

how do you know what they're playing? maybe it's Sara Borealis

because the DJ Jo Smiley Wiley announced it at the end

What you doing listening to Scab Whiley?

CRIMINALLY OMITTED GLASVEGAS*

(*copyright: M Radcliffe/S Maconie)

The BBC have no idea of presentation, no discussion of the Mercury prize - some crappy Ibiza compo

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tones/photos/compo.gif

Early tip for Xmas number one: Basshunter remix of "Nora Batty's Stockings."

now they are playing a song that sounds like a bad europop trax with a fake rap and silly umpa pumpa wailing - this is shockingly crap

is radio 1 in the daytime always this crap?

Errr...

We were down at the Mercury Music Prize Nominations to bring you the list of nominees. Excited? You bet. Want to know who's up for it this year? Read on...

So this is it, the list of albums nominated by the Mercury Music Prize. Any surprises? You bet'cha! Any of the albums that we predicted? Of course there is. We have a way with these things. Just don't ask us about Lottery Numbers... it'll cost you.

And the list of nominees are...

http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2008/the-mercurys-and-the-nominees-are

Voted for #9

#9 is leading #12 two votes to one.

now radio 1 are playing a dullard blando adult pop rock trax - that sounds so boring it should be on radio 2

Voted for "Tagged as Awards"

mcfly

XFM poll missing Nate Dogg and "You Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones

#1 will be ray joe head. I reckons.

I made a mistake and voted for #12. I wanted to vote for that umpa lumpa shit that djmartian was berating.

Where is "Alone Again Or" by Gilbert & Sullivan?