20 Years of the Mercury Prize - Winners Poll

i didn't know antony was a britishes!

voted dummy

Has to be between the first two. Going for "Suede" in the long run, just ahead of "Screamadelica". Otherwise, Elbow, Pulp and Franz Ferdinand are the best efforts here.

It looks like I'm the only one voting for the one I'm voting for.

Speech who?

Probably should have said "Vanishing Point is a more deserving winner," but we can make these claims about a lot of these artists' catalogues.

I love Elegant Slumming, Different Class and Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

went with Elegant Slumming

pulp or dizzee. don't know if i've heard any of these in full since franz f.

Such a zeitgeisty collection of records
like, "what was your favourite age?"

I rep for Hour of the Bewilderbeast, but I won't vote for it.

I love a thread where ILX can amusingly trash a load of shit so-called experts used to adore. More please.

1-dizzee
2-arctics
3-portis

Probably should have said "Vanishing Point is a more deserving winner," but we can make these claims about a lot of these artists' catalogues.

We could have, and "Vanishing Point" is also an excellent album, but outside "contrarian" ILM, "Screamadelica" is generally considered to be their masterpiece, among critics and indie audiences alike.

god pulp really are the fucking worst band ever though. i literally want to punch jarvis DICKHEAD cocker in the face

― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 September 2011 00:22 (9 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, worse than hitler

there was a band called hitler, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwsWGLLub30

This is what I found...

Its no good taking the piss out of Michael Jackson when your legacy is a load of landfill brit-pop shite and a decades worth of Peel session debris. Pulp were truly dreadful, just pumped up chancers who got lucky. The fifth form doggerel of JC on Common People is the apex of absolute shiteness. The Auteurs had already nailed it with The Upper Classes. Looking at this Mercury list makes me feel queasy and angry at how its nearly always the tossers that win in life.

winning the mercury prize |= winning in life

Hey, Luke Haines, welcome to ILM! (xp)

Talentless chancers, yeah! Coming round here, punching our peados - who do they think they are? All those singles were rubbish weren't they? Disco 2000, Es & Whizz, Common People, Do You Remember the First Time, Babies - who likes those? A: No one! We only bought them to throw in the bin.

2000: Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast

FUCKING TWENTY PENCE BUSKER, FUCKING DIE

You've just reminded me of that viz cartoon, in which Badly Drawn Boy is desperately busking outside Natwest, and the caption below is "Badly Overdrawn Boy".

My favourite Viz strip was "Vidal Baboon"

Luke Haines otm

The Auteurs had already nailed it with The Upper Classes.

Did Luke Haines have a strand of uncertainty with regard his position in the social strata in the lyrics? Or was it pure invective?

I mean, I also wrote a version of a similar scenario, way back in the day. It was called "Lichtenstein". It wasn't great, but.

I voted for Different Class, by the way, risking the opprobrium of various people on here.

xxxpost Vidal Baboon LOL

i gots no problem with people repping for pedestrian indie as long as they don't mind a little banter in return

god pulp really are the fucking worst band ever though. i literally want to punch jarvis DICKHEAD cocker in the face

so otm

mum emailed me to tell me "dj harvey that dj you and your father like won the mercury music prize" haha

i gots no problem with people repping for pedestrian indie as long as they don't mind a little banter in return

if that's where you're setting the bar i'm not sure what in the way of indie wouldn't fall under it.

indie music is just the worst.

Yeah, that King Creosote, for one

it's just rubbish innit? just blokes meowling in stupid accents about how the quality of the rain was better in the '60s.

xxxxp preferred him when he played for AFC Wimbledon.

Who? Glenn Mulcaire?

and don't get me started on the grebos...

Was MC Harvey, not DJ Harvey, sorry.

and don't get me started on gomez. i would like to PUNCH all of them in the DICK extremely HARD

with my FIST

DICK...HARD...FIST...

o_O

Its no good taking the piss out of Michael Jackson when your legacy is a load of landfill brit-pop shite and a decades worth of Peel session debris. Pulp were truly dreadful, just pumped up chancers who got lucky. The fifth form doggerel of JC on Common People is the apex of absolute shiteness.

otmfm. had an argument in the pub about that last night - everyone lionises cocker for that dickhead stunt but it's like, c'mon son stack MJ's music up against JC's and there's only one possible winner, and it's not the man peddling trite ~social commentary~ that only seems smart cuz it was concurrent with fucking neanderthals like oasis

god franz ferdinand are a bunch of CUNTS aren't they? they deserve to get KICKED in the HEAD very HARD by FEET

SO HARD... literally!

ehhh -- MJ rules but the spectacle of wiry uncertain Cocker destroying Jackson's well-choreographed display of kitch was great television.

"wiry, uncertain" = ripped to the tits on coke

nb nowt wrong with being ripped to the tits on coke but let's not buy this "David vs Super-Goliath" version eh?

cos it was much more like "hype toddler shows off in front of mates" imo

OTM, still MJ deserved it, no matter how good he was

i often think that if MJ had beaten the crap out of him there and then his career wd have never dipped

He's a lover, not a fighter

and really "oddball reclusive black guy pretends to be Jesus in concert performance" is much more subversive and funny than "aging student doesn't like pop music"

portishead my arse.

Portisarse - Bummy

fuck this shit

I am more confused by Badly Drawn Boy coming in 5th; regardless of how I feel about them, the top 4 albums have enough recognizable support around here to make their placings a given but I thought everyone detested BDB

(ftr I think the correct album won)

I don't. (detest I mean, I also think the right album won)...

I dunno, BDB... The album is great, but he seemed to have a very steep 'run out of ideas' curve.

.. also, he seemed to have a very strong 'irritation' factor, one small thing going wrong could cause a mighty strop on-stage. That tends to upset people, and rightly so.

Every one talked about Elliot Smith being 'better', but the one CD I got of his, ummm... Nice enough, but didn't really win me over.

'Once Around The Block' is a fantastic song. At the time it made me buy BDB's album, which was a huge disappointment. Apart from that song, which to this day is great.

i love a lot of BDB songs, esp from HOTB and the about a boy soundtrack. and one or two from the next one. after that he became entirely unlistenable. some of the most grating shit i've made myself listen to.

voted xx just over dummy. similar albums in some ways - they both feel real modern. products of their times perhaps - dummy is all 90s bombast (i remember really liking "roads" at first, which quickly faded) while xx is pretty subdued and cautious. fwiw i find third and xx super super similar, and at times i wonder if third is the superior album to dummy. def still feeling my xx pick, and real surprised dummy stomped it so hard

"Bombast"? Dummy? "Bombast"?

"roads" is basically THE most melodramatic song ever

a lot of dummy is pretty chill but there are still some srsly emo lyrics there

Missed this poll, but echo 'the right album won'

the snore album snored

Aren't all these albums, by definition, overplayed though? And if that's the case, any winner could be accused of being a boring choice?

yeah exackly this is why lists, polls, awards, and shit that wins lists polls and awards sucks and is wank

I don't think anyone could accuse Speech Debelle's album of being overplayed.

Poor Speech Debelle

Speech Impediment Debelle

When she won, did peopl eyell out "Speech! Speech! Speech! " ?

That would explain her length of award acceptance.

Speech Débile

@campbellclaret
Alastair Campbell
met Speech Debelle at a Labour/arts do last night. Really nice, and she didn't laugh when I showed her the song I wrote about Elvis
5 minutes ago via web

Never before have I seen so much irrelevence in one tweet.

would love to hear that tbh

He later had a discussion about Avatar and vuvuzelas with Hull City manager Phil Brown.

See, i have no idea if you're joking about that or not