Mercury Music Prize 2008 tittle-tattle aggregator

Mercury Prize loves debut albums and always has a few female artists

Adele Vs Duffy Vs Marling Vs Nash

Adele too boring
Duffy too mainstream
Marling too serious
Nash too crap

I reckon Duffy will likely be shortlisted

I wish The Notwist were British.

I don't think Hot Chip will necessarily get a nom. I'd like to see Sennen on the shortlist... well, the longlist anyway.

Kate Nash could just be nominated; August 6th release.

Polar Bear is not released till July 28th therefore will qualify for Mercury Prize 2009

predict:

Coldplay OR Radiohead
Duffy
Ting Tings
Last Shadow Puppets
Poxy Foals
Elbow
Estelle
Hot Chip OR Sam Sparro
Portishead OR Pendulum
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss OR Paul Weller
Jazz
Other

I can't see past Lightspeed Champion.

It's the hat.

I'd have a punt on Last Shadow Puppets.

Also Goldfrapp durr.

stating the obvious: but i reckon these will be shortlisted:

Burial [I know Kode9 / Hyperdub didn't enter the first Burial album, I wonder if the second Burial album was entered?]

Elbow

Portishead

Radiohead

Rachel Unthank & the Winterset [probably the token folk nomination]

Sam Sparro is Australian, no?

Sam Sparro is a shade too Australian (this also takes out Cilmi and Pendulum, I should imagine). I'd say that the list will have Adele, Duffy, Kate Nash and Estelle on it, the press bumph will be all "Yay women!", and the prize will go to... Coldplay.

Pendulum = OZ band [don't qualify for the Mercury Prize)

Lightspeed Champion would have the benefit of being both GUITAR and BLACK, thus filling the only two requirements for winning the Mercury in one total package.

I LOVE drum'n'bass. Whenever I want to get a whole dancefloor going I put on Pendulum. When that beat drops...aahhhhh. SO HEAVY. They make the best electronic music.

Fake Louis?

Burial
Edwyn Collins
Duffy
Elbow
Goldfrapp
Guillemots
The Last Shadow Puppets
Lightspeed Champion
Radiohead
The Shortwave Set
Some folkie
Some jazzbo

Petridis: "But really, is the sound of Pendulum any less authentic because it appeals to a more intelligent audience than the original junglists did?"

Uhhhh... what, Louis?

Paraphrasing the Head Of Music at our uni radio station, who made constant references to his love of "heavy rock", as championed by the likes of InMe and Reuben.

Pendulum makes a pretty good pizza topping

Pendulum bottle opener

This is a guy who thinks Laura Marling is pretty much here to save music.

Will PJ Harvey get nominated for White Chalk?

Rachel Unthank & the something-or-other, I assume? British twee folkness. Joanna Newsome-esque

such great wrongness in such a small statement :(

Tell me more then! I'm going exclusively off her Myspace.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2008/fabriclive39.jpeg

Yes, she's nothing like Joanna Newsom, she's not shite

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513ejppRh6L.jpg

^^^ brilliant heavy rock, great for when you want to make some noise

http://img3.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/5/6/6/0/d/5660dd4cfdb97ceaa5c5097f086b15d3_full.jpg

If the Mercury Prize was selected by rateyourmusic.com ratings this would be the shortlist:

6 from the qualifying period of 2007

Radiohead
Primordial
PJ Harvey
Oceansize
Burial
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

6 from the qualifying period of 2008

Portishead
Esoteric
Elbow
No-Man
The Fall
James

Esoteric

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002BO0GM.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg?

YR MISSING PIECE IS ON THE FLOOR MATE, NOT IN THAT DUSTBIN!

(xpost)

Oceansize have by far the best album of the available choices (IMO), but the chances of them getting nominated are so negligible as to be ludicrous.

The Fall?

Now that'd make an interesting ceremony.

wrong Esoteric

doom metal

Esoteric
http://www.myspace.com/esotericuk

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1333086.jpg

by far the most superior rock album produced by a British or Irish artist in the qualifying period:

Primordial - To the Nameless Dead

myspace
http://www.myspace.com/fallentoruin

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s964594.jpg

Tell me more then! I'm going exclusively off her Myspace

start here and then follow DK's link, i'd say.

Just buy their last album. You'll love it!

Have bought it on the way home, ostensibly for Em, who loves stuff like this.

hurrah!

My predictions:
British Sea Power
Burial
Duffy
Elbow
Estelle
Goldfrapp
Laura Marling
Paul Weller
Portishead
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset
Radiohead
Shortwave Set

In reserve:
Benga
Foals
Last Shadow Puppets
Ting Tings

Right then, on t'block we go:

Ting Tings
Coldplay
Oonthank
Adele
Marling
Wombats
Foals
Portishead
Estelle
Burial
Radiohead
Edwyn Collins

There will be OUTCRY at the absence of Duffy, which will be assuaged when Edwyn Collins wins.

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

i guess the best british album of the past year is...tinchy stryder? that won't get nominated

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.

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!

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

British or Irish Artists who released an album between July 16th 2007 and July 21st 2008.

dates can be checked on amazon uk

You guys can hate all you want but deep down you know that classical music has existed for longer than modern music

TV's Bradley Walsh has existed for longer than Sue Perkins. Does that necessarily make him better?

He is though

Fair enough.

I'm just glad that jolly frolics Daily Mail-friendly Jane Asher missed the final count.

Maestro might be fine if it was an elimination contest for actual composers and not just whichever slebs are free and willing. I don't care that they get to learn how to do something new and isn't that great for them and also maybe we learn something about ourselves and our capabilities as Ordinary People at the same time. FUCK OFF.

Maybe they should have been made to conduct the full 60-minute version of Goldie's "Mother."