Mercury Music Prize 2008 tittle-tattle aggregator

[nick: this is life as lived with a longhair, they never quite grow out of it]

constructive criticism there

This is a spectacularly useless consumer piece that I only read cos I really am that bored.

Like, if it's cheapest in HMV, why would I even need to know how much it costs in Jumbo in Leeds?

Like, if I'm 'money-conscious', why the heck would I want to buy all 12 albums, 2/3rds of which I'd probably hate?

Like, why bother mentioning £30 at all?

Her subs are way too lenient...

Elisa braying, morelike

I doubt it was her idea somehow! Not that I'm familiar with her

xpost

So some other genius sent her down the shops thinking that she could buy everything at £2.50 each?

NickB, meet commissioning editors at major British newspapers. Commissioning editors at major British newspapers, meet NickB.

I must have missed her piece about buying a new bubble for her spirit level.

A rubbish and pointless article but nice to see Flashback in Essex Road, North London, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, The Universe, getting a bit of publicity.

Well done for thinking you could get a cheap deal on new CDs at Sister Ray.

Which she seems to think opened in 1981.

I started my search in London's most fashionable and newest independent store, Rough Trade East, in the hub of the trendy East End.

I mean, is this really the best that broadsheet journalism can do in 2008?

Why am I even asking King Rhetorical Question of Rhetorical Questions?

The infamous Berwick Street? Just cos you have to walk down a narrow alley of lol dingy sex shops to get there...

Or indeed no narrow alleys of any sex shops if you approach it via Oxford Street...

Berwick Street with its INFAMOUS market stalls and INFAMOUS branch of Somerfields...

Louis always goes CD shopping after visiting one of his 'model' friends.

and that INFAMOUS chippie xpost

This is the kind of hack who if they sent her to Oxford would mention that it was poetically known as the city of dreaming spires.

"poetically known" ;_;

Many's the time when I've taken my life in my hands and ventured into the INFAMOUS newsagent's at the junction with Soho's INFAMOUS Broadwick Street to purchase a can of R White's INFAMOUS Lemonade!

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In Berwick Street's INFAMOUS Selectadisc indie record shop, which has been going strong since 1927, you can buy that INFAMOUS "rap" album for as little as a FIVER!!

The Independent obviously are unaware of price comparison websites:

http://www.find-cd.co.uk/

http://music.kelkoo.co.uk/c-150701-cds.html

God, it's like having a red-light district is a bad thing!

It's a total waste of effort - most Independent readers are more interested in finding replacement needles for their Bush radiograms.

Also: "National chain Music and Video Exchange"????

"Gomez are to release a 10th Anniversary Edition of their Mercury Prize-winning debut of 1998, Bring It On.

The new version of the much-acclaimed record will feature bonus material including b-sides from the era and BBC session tracks never previously released.

The special-edition album - released on two discs - will be yours to own from August 25."

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The Independent should do a piece where their reporter trawls the secondhand record shops of London's infamous Berwick Street trying to see if she can get £30 for the 12 nominees from 10 years ago.

It's good they're marking this momentous occasion, I was considering petitioning my local MP to mark it with a parade or street party, or maybe going right to Gordon Brown to request an extra public holiday.

God knows I've already festooned my stereo with bunting.

Well that was all very entertaining & sporadically interesting NOT LIKE THE MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE.

I wish Dorian L would post here more.

Except I have never listened to Diamond Head (voluntarily anyway)

-- Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 20:09 (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

Your loss. "Am I Evil" is a cracking track, "Canterbury" a v v under-rated & inventive album. They were a great live band too.

Dorian L playing Cuthbert Cringeworthy to the LBZC's Bash Steet Kids = a good look, imo

Haha I've only just seen that last Martian post... astonishing. Nothing says Motorhead quite like 'lickety-split'.

Sorry, all I'm getting from that is "blb blb playing lb blb lblb lblbll blb to LBZC's blb blbllbb blblb = a good look imo" (xpost)

Is that a bit of cricket commentary?

No it's more like GET ONE NEW SCHTICK ASAP PLZ PLZ

Point 'em out, point 'em out

I shouted at LJ on Saturday night for using the phrase 'LBZC' in real world conversation.

Anyway back to the matter at hand:

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Come on, post-haste! Lickety-spit! Chop-chop!

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xp

"lubzuc"

It's only just occurred to me who DJ Kaled reminds me of.

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