laura marling winning would be totes cool! but i don't really give a shit any more, it's just blahhh albums, british people, old people, blahhhhh
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess the best british album of the past year is...tinchy stryder? that won't get nominated
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
but i don't really give a shit any more, it's just blahhh albums, british people, old people, blahhhhh
And there's Edwyn's acceptance speech.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
edwyn collins has a career? i mean he's, like, some one-hit wonder from my childhood. i liked 'a girl like you', i think, but i was still disapproving of a pop star called ~edwyn~. i don't believe he's still going!
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't check to see if their release dates fall within the correct range, but of a crop of young bands, I'd hope at least one of these make the shortlist:
Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak Mothers and the Addicts - Science Fiction Illustrated The Maccabees - Colour It In Pete & the Pirates - Little Death XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island So So Modern - Friends And Fires
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
British or Irish Artists who released an album between July 16th 2007 and July 21st 2008.
dates can be checked on amazon uk
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
In a BBC 6 Music radio interview on 18 February 2005, Collins had said he felt unwell, but ascribed the nausea and vertigo to food poisoning. Two days later he was admitted to intensive care in London's Royal Free Hospital after apparently suffering a major cerebral hemorrhage. On 25 February, he underwent an operation, reportedly after suffering a second hemorrhage. The procedure was successful, and Collins is currently working on a lengthy program of neurological rehabilitation. He has right sided weakness affecting his hand and arm which prevents him from playing the guitar, and also affecting his gait.
It was announced in June 2007 that Collins would be releasing his sixth solo album in September 2007 on Heavenly Records entitled Home Again. The album was recorded before his illness but mixed after his discharge from hospital.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Mothers, Pete & the Pirates and So So Modern make it, the others are before and after cutoff.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
mother and the addicts are no more.
― stirmonster, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck an Edwyn sympathy vote.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Orange Juice were useless too.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
^this
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Having said that, "Should've Done That" is a really fucking amazing song that deserved a lot better than being trakc 12 on an album 17 people bought a copy of:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/15726805f516a622/
It's like a non-shitty Grandaddy
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
ROISIN MURPHY
that will be all, thank you
― Keaney Tong, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Inasmuch as I like Grandaddy, I'll give that a go...
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm.
This had far more a slow, chilled-out dancepop vibe to it than an earnest, depressive broken-machinery indiepop ambiance such as purveyed by Lytle and chums. Good song, but hardly a stick with which to beat Grandaddy.
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Tindersticks' A Hungry Saw is probably my favourite british album of the last 12 months. I would love for it to get nominated but it won't.
― jed_, Monday, 21 July 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess London Zoo by the Bug came out too late to qualify.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Nah, London Zoo's in time to qualify.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Could be token 'urban' nomination.
In that case, for me it'd be a straight three-way tag team comprising Unthank, the Bug and Portishead. But they'll upset Radio 2's 50-65 year old listener demographic and confuse potential future sponsors so none of them will happen.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
(possibly four-way but I'm not sure whether the Led Bib or Fraud albums would qualify)
I think led Bib and Fraud are both last year, at a guess. I never really got on massively with either; should I revisit?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, definitely. Especially the Led Bib one. Best cover version of "Heroes" ever.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Amy Macdonald, The Verve and The Kooks?
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
The Verve isn't out yet. The kooks are too bboring.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 08:59 (fifteen years ago) link
The Brit School have already had their annual prizegiving ceremony (a.k.a. the conveniently named Brit Awards) - will the judges want another?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 09:03 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Keaney Tong, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:54
OOPS!
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 09:08 (fifteen years ago) link
my 12 predictions
Burial - Untrue - Did Kode9/ Hyperdub enter this album tough?
Radiohead - In Rainbows - They have never won the Mercury Prize, maybe this time?
Portishead - Third - previous Mercury winners return to the shortlist.
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid - certainly deserves to make the shortlist, their debut made the Mercury shortlist in 2001, but their last 2 albums were overlooked.
Duffy – Rockferry - too boring for me, but likely to be in, as the Mercury Prize like to nominate debut albums and have a geographic representation beyond just English nominations.
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement - no my thang, but the type of album that is likely to be nominated
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - will this album qualify? well received by the serious rock critics
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree - their last 2 albums failed to make the shortlist, better luck this time?
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim - a debut album and the Mercury Prize likes to have some female artists on the shortlist.
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset - The Bairns - widely tipped as the folk entrant
Empirical - Empirical - always difficult to select the jazz album, but this album was widely and correctly acclaimed by jazz critics
Plus a Classical Nomination
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Elbow deserve to make the execution list morelike
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
No Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip then?
lol at Andy Gill saying that the fucking MITCHELL BROTHERS, of all people, deserved a nomination
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i would love an instrumental version of Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip album
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:24 (fifteen years ago) link
The Mitchell Brothers! I remember them. They had a song about going to Harrods or something.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Previous Andy Gill Mercury tips include: Day One, Cathy Davey, Claire Sproule, Witness.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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'
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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 stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The Mitchell Brothers: From Eastenders?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
James Hunter: Who?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Have the Fall ever made the list?
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
having not heard of it til now i expect that second Jim Noir album is not an improvement on the first.
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I noticed some suggestions on the web for Johnny Flynn - is this boring serious adult contemporary singer songwriter pop rock?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Day One wuz robbed! I loved Ordinary Man.
xpost The Mitchell Brothers were indeed named after Grant & Phil.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
No, as John Peel was never a Mercury Judge
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Jim Noir = Huw Stephens fave
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:32 (fifteen years ago) link