DiS's Pluto Prize: get voting now!

looks a bit confusing (or am i being a n00b?).

If not, then Wild Beasts.

wouldn't i have to buy all the albums?

better than the mercury list. except for 2 albums. which be rubbish, but the rest? superb!

for me on clicking the appropriate "Vote" button. I still think there's something wrong with the formatting.

I've only gone and voted for Portishead when I actually meant to vote for Mystery Jets. Can someone reassign my vote??

but i'm probably one of the few that doesn't download anything...ever.

This has been checked, and checked again, y'see.

Winner

frightened rabbit clicky-finger poised...

Since I've only properly heard Kala and Curses, it'll have to be one of them.

What a great idea..! But as with the Mercury I haven't actually heard all the albums so I'll just have to vote for what I think is the best one I've heard...

!!!

So the tiebreaker was based on whichever was better when I saw them live, and Johnny Foreigner wins that accolade.

and replaced The Accidental with Mystery Jets. Please fix.

I'm sure Falco will really appreciate the prize!

That's 2 votes she's got now, at the very least.

going to get really embarressing when Johnny Foreigner win.

(and a reason why the Mercury prize is better) is that it naturally rewards the albums heard by the most people. At least with the Mercury prize, despite whatever conceptions you have about the judging process, they all listen to all of the albums. Here people may have heard just a small selection, probably the most hyped albums, and so more people will vote for them by default even if it is just a vote for voting's sake

So even though half of DiS hate Foals and half of them like it, it's got a strong chance of winning because 90% of DiS have heard it. You get me?

It'll show something, sure, but i'm not sure if i care about what it shows. Basically, the fringe efforts are even more marginalised than in the real Mercury prize

is absolutely amazing.

they just say 'and the winner is...

MUSIC!

Flowers for everyone!'

win

i sure did

Mystery Jets
Johnny Foreigner
Portishead
Wild Beasts
Fuck Buttons
went for Portishead,good choice i reckon :)

to vote these new puritans?
i really liked this album, although only just a bit more than Johnny Foreigner /Foals /Mystery Jets.

JoFo win on fit bassist factor. It improves the music ok.

but now i'm going to have to go and download, ahem, i mean buy all those others. except foals. nah fuck it, might as well.

I was convinced Third was in the Mercurys though. dunno where i got that idea from

Out of these I've only have Foals, Fuck Buttons and Johhny Foreigner. And Fuck Buttons certainly aren't getting my vote, despite Sweet Love for Planet Earth beiong the best thing on any of these albums.

What? No Los Camp!? Thats probably my favourite british album released this year. Also Youthmovies, but then maybe you can't include them?

you're kidding right?

Third for the win

was v close between that and Kala.

also, hurrah for the non-representation of los campesinos and frightened rabbit!

I feel I need to register my love, even though it's not my favourite Peej album by a long stretch. Hmmmm tricky.

what is the criteria? why is it even more limited in scope than the Mercury prize?

Waste of time.

between robert wyatt, mia, london zoo, portishead, future of the left myself...

are all liked by the people that frequent this board? They are considered safe somewhat, yes?

At least the Mercury trys to broach the subject of unpopular genres like jazz and modern classical.

And where is Electrelane?

that I have none of these albums?

release an ep then! albums are a snapshot in time of how the band were at that point! 'blahblah, oh, i just want a classic debut album that will be in Q magazine lists for years and years and blah.'
tool.
ach who cares anyway, they're rubbish.

i voted for johnny foreigner. i maybe should've voted mystery jets...

Oh yes indeed.

By far the best album on there. It was the Wire's album of the year last year and yet people still take no notice!

is a bunch of shit. go NEON NEON!

damn right.

...that Foals were an odds-on favourite to win the Mercury right up until the point that they released their rather disappointing album. What went wrong? It just doesn't hang together. Ah well.

just for the sake of it? (that isn't a rhetorical question)

Also, i would consider Electrelane to be just as safe as most of the stuff on that list.

The five albums I really like on the Mercury (Radiohead, BSP, Burial, Laura Marling and Elbow) and six here (Wyatt, The Bug, JoFo, Portishead, Mystery Jets and MIA) as well as a few missing ones (Frightened Rabbit, The Long Blondes, Johnny Flynn, Pete and The Pirates, SFA Pete Molinari and Paul Steel) that make up The Uranus prize (Can't believe I'm the first to make that joke) this covers most of the British albums I've enjoyed these past 12 months.

Portishead.

Pete and The Pirates
Benga
Weller

(Shcoked to discover neither of the latter 2 have been review yet on DiS - sort it out please Driver)

Portishead.

Electrelane are easily comparable to Robert Wyatt et al in safe seat terms.

I agree with, uh, CumFace, though. Most of these bands are in the Rock And Pop section of HMV, with those that aren't being in Dance. Robert Wyatt is the 'folk' artist and, uh, M.I.A... world? Portishead the jazz inclusion?

Proper niche artists would get hammered by a voting system like this, though, however worthy. So. It's not really an alternative or addendum to Mercury at all. Unless it's an indie addendum and somewhere DrownedInJazz.com are hosting their own Charon Awards.

Nice idea though.

this is a fucking good list, and great idea so well done DIS.

but I throughly care about a lot of the albums in this list (a lot moreso that than mercury list), esp FOTL, JoFo and TNP. Was tough call but Curses it is.

if I had seen an album on that list that I own I would have had to rethink my entire buying ethic.

Please do correct my if I am in error here, but am I right in saying that on the basis of that list there has not been a single hard rock/ punk/ metal/ or eletronica album released other than that pile of turd from Portishead in the last twelve months??

Funny my band account would differ.

Obviously everyone would have their own views on who should be on any list but i would have liked to see

Edwyn Collins
Euros Childs
Kevin Ayers
Tindersticks
Richard Hawley

But then i guess none of the above are particularly DIS type bands / artists.

...

doesnt win this, there is no justice in the world...that album is amazing.

why isn't [album a] by my favourite [band b] on this list? Who are you, kinda idiots? I can't believe it's not there but then you put [record r] on, why? it's just a token [demographic d] entry anyway! So predictable DiS, I could've predicted [DiS favourites 1-12] would've been on this list, but despite it being 100% predictable I still cannot believe you included [token unheard LP x] instead of [other personal favourite y]!!!!!!

good sir.

Seriously, don't make me choose between Wild Beasts and These New Puritans. Hell, the only album I don't actually like there is Mystery Jets (only heard two tracks from The Bug, but that does sound pretty good as well). No love for the obvious album-of-the-year Imperial Wax Solvent though? For shame, DiS, for shame...

albums here that are really being made out to be a lot better than they actually are by people on this website. portishead is one (it is NOT better than Dummy, and that's a fact). wild beasts is another. these new puritans. and listening to pj harvey's album all the way through is pretty much self-abuse. sorry

Cheers for all your votes so far - there's been loads.

If you're yet to vote - get involved!

The way it's shaping up is pretty interesting; the record I would vote for is currently a lot higher than I'd anticipated.

And the leader... well... that'd be telling.

All tight, of course, at the moment. Plenty more votes to be counted.

up the 2rd prize for albums that missed the Pluto list? :D

but (like a lot of good dance records) it didnt get much coverage in the indie press. Shame.

I wana hear it and was currious.

sort it

;)

(that's the suspected second moon of Earth. I was watching QI earlier.)

album of the decade perhaps?

Haven't had an album out this year, so that would explain their exclusion.

I'm massively surprised Frightened Rabbit and DiS favourites Los Cam haven't made it, but even if they did, Kala wins hands down for me.

i've only heard one of these in it's entirety. Foals. and it's well rubbish.
i'm starting a new poll. it's between frightened rabbit and tunng. and only i can vote, and i can't be bothered so it'll be a draw. the prize(s) is(are) in the post.

"Whoever said that the most popular/hyped album has the best chance of winning is right"

I can't tell you who is currently leading the pack, but I can say that you might be surprised. Hype, it seems, may not extend to voting patterns.

...if that hasn't convinced you, then Portishead.

Los Campesinos! should have been in here though. Would have voted for them if they were up for the Mercury award!

Because it is the most interesting album available here.

Won't win - but it should.

i did as well.

for this, it told me to vote for M.I.A.

The Bug's album is fantastic but I fear many wont have heard it.

if Wild Beasts win this I wont be happy heheh

The Bug should win, its so good and more people need it in their lives. I was listening to it today and was thinkin it has that doom drenched feel to it that so much noise and badass doomy guitar music has in it. that it should have a massive loving audince with alot of post rock freaks on here.

MIA would be a nice winner as that is a wicked original, accessable and fun record. I like JoFo and Fuck buttons too...

The rest is avrage at best hehe

Comicopera "average at best"? NA BLUD.

It's good to know that Justin Hawkins managed to get some work after The Darkness and Eurovision.

Wild Beasts is massively overrated.

Johnny Flynn or Wave Pictures for me. Shit, not on the Mercury or Pluto lists. Hopefully will be on the Mars Saturn list.

I vote Johnny Foreigner out of that lot then.

Foals just to be polemical.

I went with Fuck Buttons, despite how much I hate their name.

but TNP were pretty damn good live...

Surely the most diverse and original sounding record in that list. I do love the JF album though...

perfect, you just stole the letters from my keyboard! Not even one that represent my musical choices this year so far, maybe Wyatt, but for what he has done in the past than now. I would have vote for Left Lane Cruiser, but i think you don't know them....

if you look above at previous posts there seems to be a lot of people in favour of this bit of fun.

And I too say AYE!

Hopefully it means a few people have discovered albums that they wouldn't have necessarily heard before.

And whoever gets the prize* (I have my bets on one) will, I'm sure, thoroughly deserve it!

*a bag of picknmix?

MIA all the way,
even though she pulled out of the exit fest, naughty girl!

win.

everything said ^ is true. And I haven't heard most of the listed albums. So I voted for Portishead.

When are you guys planning on announcing the winner?!
It says september 9th in the article, but I've heard nothing as yet!
Stop keeping me in suspense! :)

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