Mercury Music Prize 2008 tittle-tattle aggregator

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!

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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

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.

Mothers, Pete & the Pirates and So So Modern make it, the others are before and after cutoff.

mother and the addicts are no more.

Fuck an Edwyn sympathy vote.

Orange Juice were useless too.

^this

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

ROISIN MURPHY

that will be all, thank you

Inasmuch as I like Grandaddy, I'll give that a go...

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.

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.

I guess London Zoo by the Bug came out too late to qualify.

Nah, London Zoo's in time to qualify.