Mojo Awards '08: two minutes hate
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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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What's the difference between
the 'Hero', 'Icon', 'Legend' and 'Special Award' awards?
They're all just the same thing surely?
i remember people
laughing at the Q awards for having so many 'icon'/'special'/'legend' etc. awards, but this actually has NOTHING ELSE.
God that is as bad as the stupid MTV Movie awards
BEST MOVIE OF THE SUMMER. SO FAR.
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.
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...
oh snap...
i really should have read the comments before posting...
When you say 'hello' to Toots Hibbard
do you have to slap him/her on the bottom?
nah
you just have to thank him for recording some of the best ska and reggae of all time...
Totally
thought this about Alex Turner winning Break through Act...
Mojo all over really isn't it? Weller/Zeppelin/Sex Pistols..
Mojo
in liking retro music shocker!
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?
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.
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
Obviously
Mojo readers don't like anything new. The only new acts that won anything were ripping of sounds of the sixties anyway!
Two minutes of Apathy
would be more accurate. Pointless
It takes an intelligent being to do that...
(safety wink ;-))
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.
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...
I may be wrong but I'm guessing the process going like so...
- Hi, can you turn up to the awards?
- Yes
- OK, you are winner of legend/icon/boss/dude of the year
huge excuse
for their writers to 'hang out' with the zep, this fulfilling their pathetic fantasies.
Mark E Smith
wins a different one each year.
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.
Almost everyone who won is brilliant.
You're all abortions.
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.
how is pillows and prayers?
.. any good?
pic of alex and miles
is just me or do these two look like a couple in love ?
check this pic...
heh
agree with everything apart form the ugly thing, which has nothing to do with anything anyway.
Um, what?
are you mental?
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"
God.....
I am so glad it's not just me that can't understand why Duffy seems to be splashed all over the news at the moment. Well I can, because it's obviously due to a load of PR spin whirring away. Yes, she isn't bad, but she is not a GREAT artist. The hype was pretty effectively manufactured, but she hasn't exactly lived up to it. I am this sounds totally cynical, but I blame the record labels, they are just jumping on the Winehouse bandwagon, thinking they can milk the retro thing for all it's worth.
they are totally gay
ah well
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