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Mojo Awards '08: two minutes hate

TheBoyDeadly by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 35 comments 11:32 June 17th, 2008
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The Mojo Awards were doled out last night and for some reason the national press have chosen to focus on the success of Duffy, whose ‘Mercy’ won out in the ‘Song of the Year’ category. Why?

Because it was “a timeless song,” said Mojo editor-in-chief Phil Alexander. “It could really have come from any period in time over the last 50 years._”

DrownedinSound won’t start beating on Alexander, we’ve done that to his ilk enough in the past, but it’s probably worth pointing out that other than the inclusions of the “timeless” Duffy and The Last Shadow Puppets - who must have had a hard time 'breaking through' on the back of some 3 million record sales – the list of winning artists could conceivably have been drawn up as early as 1984, with the birth of My Bloody Valentine.

Anyway, enough with the sniping. Gongs:

Song of the Year: ‘Mercy’ - Duffy

Best Breakthrough Act: The Last Shadow Puppets
Best Album: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Hero: Motorhead
Icon: Sex Pistols

Best Live Act: Led Zeppelin
Classic Songwriter: Neil Diamond
Hall of Fame: The Specials
Lifetime Achievement: Genesis
Special Award: **Judy Collins
Legend: Irma Thomas
Classic Album: Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Inspiration: John Fogerty
Outstanding Contribution to Music: Paul Weller

Roots Award: Toots Hibbert
Les Paul Award: John Martyn
Maverick: **Mark E Smith
Vision Award: Julien Temple’s The Future is Unwritten

Compilation of the Year: Juno OST
Catalogue Release of the Year: Pillows and Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981-1984

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I hope

the publicity encourages Express readers to try this Dig Lazarus Dig!! thing.

simon_t | 17 Jun '08, 11:35 | X | Reply

i remember people

laughing at the Q awards for having so many 'icon'/'special'/'legend' etc. awards, but this actually has NOTHING ELSE.

penguinzz @ClicheGuevara | 17 Jun '08, 11:41 | X | Reply

God that is as bad as the stupid MTV Movie awards

BEST MOVIE OF THE SUMMER. SO FAR.

justanothersheeldz | 17 Jun '08, 11:49 | X | Reply

I could say all the things I want to say,

but it feels somehow futile.

Good to see John Fogerty getting his props, though. Gotta love a bit of Creedence.

SeymourMBA @penguinzz | 17 Jun '08, 11:49 | X | Reply

Can someone

tell me the difference between a "Hero", an "Icon" and a "Legend". Must have taken an intelligent being to draw this one up...

benthemod | 17 Jun '08, 11:50 | X | Reply

oh snap...

i really should have read the comments before posting...

benthemod @benthemod | 17 Jun '08, 11:51 | X | Reply

When you say 'hello' to Toots Hibbard

do you have to slap him/her on the bottom?

Royter-Hatfood | 17 Jun '08, 11:54 | X | Reply

nah

you just have to thank him for recording some of the best ska and reggae of all time...

popcult @Royter-Hatfood | 17 Jun '08, 12:00 | X | Reply

Totally

thought this about Alex Turner winning Break through Act...

Mojo all over really isn't it? Weller/Zeppelin/Sex Pistols..

G-town | 17 Jun '08, 12:02 | X | Reply

Mojo

in liking retro music shocker!

themighty @jimitheexploder | 17 Jun '08, 12:14 | X | Reply

well it's already been covered

but really, whats the point of all these 'icon' awards? surely once one has been awarded thats it, thats the one icon they have chosen?

And don't get me fucking started on Duffy. Why can't this Alexander bellend just cut to the chase and say it sounds like it could have been made any time in the last 50 years simply because it's rehashing everything shit from the last 50 years?

mac_daddy | 17 Jun '08, 12:14 | X | Reply

also

this is precisely why I am so disillusioned with the current market in music magazines (excluding the niche stuff like stool pigeon which i cant get as im in birmingham) as they are so firmly rooted in the past.

mac_daddy @mac_daddy | 17 Jun '08, 12:18 | X | Reply

This Duffy thing annoys me

She sings retrospective crap and gets hailed as some kind of genius? The success of her and Adele and their status as 'saviours of soul' or whatever it is this week pretty much just comes down to the fact that they are youn, white and marketable. You think Mojo, Q et al would give out awards like this to one of the many contemporary black artists that have been toiling away for years? Would they fuck

dove_from_above | 17 Jun '08, 12:30 | X | Reply

Obviously

Mojo readers don't like anything new. The only new acts that won anything were ripping of sounds of the sixties anyway!

JoeToy | 17 Jun '08, 12:31 | X | Reply

Two minutes of Apathy

would be more accurate. Pointless

theseabass | 17 Jun '08, 13:09 | X | Reply

How can anyone with ears like Duffy?

Terrible voice, music a direct rip off of 60s songs, and she's an ugly pug faced twat.

Everything else is exactly what you'd expect from Mojo.

steveholt | 17 Jun '08, 13:41 | X | Reply

is it me or

is the labelling and awarding of "maverick" to mark e smith just about the most poisonous thing that could happen to him? I bet he swore when he accepted his award and everyone in the room went "Yeah! he's still got it! the flame of rock still lives!" etc. The fact he shares an award ceremony with fuck-ing Gene-sis makes me sad....
No award for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss is surprising though...

amyblue @steveholt | 17 Jun '08, 13:50 | X | Reply

Mark E Smith

wins a different one each year.

Jakc @ClicheGuevara | 17 Jun '08, 16:36 | X | Reply

Duffy's pretty good,

though Winehouse should have won, surely?

Musically, she's in another league. Yeah, she's retro (and that's bad because?) but she has attitude, great lyrics and a rock'n'roll swagger (yeh, that's 'cuz she's always pissed etc. etc.)

Duffy's a light-weight.

FizzyBovril | 17 Jun '08, 16:44 | X | Reply

Almost everyone who won is brilliant.

You're all abortions.

wrightylew | 17 Jun '08, 19:06 | X | Reply

Because her voice is nice

and her songs have really good melodies. The sort that make nice feelings happen in your head.

Also because there's no 'cool' factor to it.

wrightylew @steveholt | 17 Jun '08, 19:09 | X | Reply

how is pillows and prayers?

.. any good?

cliquester @wrightylew | 17 Jun '08, 23:49 | X | Reply

heh

agree with everything apart form the ugly thing, which has nothing to do with anything anyway.

bleepthis @steveholt | 18 Jun '08, 08:24 | X | Reply

well put.

very frustrating. Add Beth Rowley to that list.

Young, white, marketable. Utterly soulless.

Kate Nash may be unlistenable, but at least she is not described as one of the aforementioned "saviours of soul"

ashstreath85 @dove_from_above | 18 Jun '08, 14:12 | X | Reply

they are totally gay

ah well

pylon @asif | 27 Jun '08, 16:02 | X | Reply

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