http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8183133.stm

""It's (the Mercury Prize) got nothing to do with the public," said Liam Howlett. "It's to do with a panel of people that always opt for the most obscure thing."

The Prodigy were nominated in 1994 for Music for the Jilted Generation, the year pop act M People won the award."

Most obscure.