The Tuesday DiScussion: The Mercury Music Prize shortlist

Hence the money would come in handy? Or am I confusing it with another award?

My money's on Guillemots

why the funk are Muse on it!?! :S

it'll be hawley. middle aged folks like it, and its hip too.
my comments on the noms are on my blog if anyone fancies reading it.

i thought "Lou Rhodes" was "New Rhodes" and i got a bit excitied. but alas no.
Guillemots will win. Or arctic monkeys.

So they say.

arctic monkeys or muse will win, they're too safe. Then again i'm not sure who will win. I think its between guillemots, thom yorke, and isobel campbell

album is barely out no? i cant have been out for more than a week.

... there's some decent albums on the list.

My money (if I were a betting man) would go on Muse or Guillemots.

There are two Domino albums I'd have chosen above the one that got the nod, but I'd have liked to have seen all three...

There's two acts I haven't heard of - are they the token jazz entries?

since an 'urban' artist last won - ms. dynamite wasn't it?

in which case i reckon Sway is in with a shot.

i've not heard of half of the people on that list, have only heard three of the albums in full and the odd song from a couple of others - am i out of touch, or too cool for the mercury prize?

I've only really listened to the efforts by Scritti Politti and Hot Chip so I can't really pass judgement, both of them are pretty good, although I wouldn't say that they truely break any new ground or anything.

which will be nice for him. I'd like it to be Guillemots, but I doubt it, as the 'obscure' one won last year. Antony seemed to escape the curse of Mercury pretty well though, I think.

thom yorke to win it after radiohead's superior band albums have been overlooked so many times would be quite wrong so...

hot chip please.

the Arctics.

- Yorke's effort only came out last week, and there's the off chance he'll either not turn up or deliver a vaguely inflammatory acceptance speech.
- Scritti Politti? They're still going?
- Sway's alright, but he's got nothing on Dizzee Rascal, either commercially or artistically.
- Hot Chip are an outside bet. They're just slightly too out there.
- Lou Rhodes? Ho?
- Muse are too successful and overblown to win something as "cultured" as this. They're going to win at hatful of awards elsewhere anyway.
- Izzy's been shoved in to make up numbers.
- I will kill myself if Editors win. You have my word.
- As with Yorke, Guillemots are too recent, too much of a gamble.
- zo gaman? richard haly? Ho? Ho??

I'm hoping they are willing to discount them on the grounds they make the Arctic Monkeys look like Thom Yorke.

I was like whoa!!! :D AWESOME!

antony hasnt released another record yet has he? we'll see how good the next one is. the bsides to you are my sister were mighty good though, but dont know when they were recorded

To be fair, she wrote all but one of the tracks on the record alone - I don't think a fuss should be kicked up.

I would like to see Hot Chip win but the Campbell/Lanegan record is good too.

will win

Sans doute.

MJ Hibbett's album not there? What is the world coming to?

wrote ten of the tracks on that album, her scottish guitarist wrote one, and mark lanegan wrote only one. all the bits of it except lanegan's vocals were recorded by eligible recipients for the award, i.e. british citizens.

SO if anyone kicks up a fuss, give me their photo, and I will track them down and kill them and their family, 'cause i really can't be doing with either stupidity, or whinging for the sake of it after their overrated favourite band are unceremoniously dumped in the shitter. Fin.

Oh, and for the record, the 'Monkeys will win, after people got a bit confused by the Mercurys last year when an artist who wasn't on the Radio 1 Daytime playlist won.

I'd have shit myself it Langean really was from this err crap town. Our musical history is so far confined to Nine Black Alps and Mark Owen. Great innit?

seeing as they have a Brazilian AND a Canadian, it's hardly fair.

Due to your overly heated and serious rant. Looks like I succeeded fabulously.

his album isn't good enough. If the mercury awards work as everyone seems to think by rotating different non-specific sub-categories then they should at least choose a credible one to make the whole thing, well, credible.

is so shit :(

?!??!?!
it'll be guillemots.

you're a fuckwit. you go on the internet to wind people up. i feel smug.

I am so happy Plan B didn't make the list (he'll win a MOBO no doubt)but Scritti Politti where awful enough the first time. A comeback now is just taking the piss! I reckon some coked up music journalists cooked this up for a sick and demented laugh.Please! no more.