And the DiS Pluto Prize winner is...

well deserved too. definitely one of my favourites of this year

harumph

i voted for Curses.

will be more worthy than Johnny f'in Foreigner.

more a complementary bit of fun. It was never my intention to pour scorn on the Mercury list - if you look back at the original Pluto article you'll notice that I never suggested the Mercury list was wrong, but that there are other albums that certainly deserve recognition. These were 12, cut down from something like 28. It could have been a very different list.

I don't like the idea that it's an 'alternative'; it's just a fun way of pointing eyes and ears towards some different records. It's a popularity contest, that's all - the result ultimately is less important than the process of reaching it, the debate that raged under the preceding Pluto articles. The omissions, the overrated few, the questionable inclusions... it's great to see a community arguing the toss.

The Pluto Prize would not have been without Samuel Strang, who named it. He gave my baby a name. Props.

Peas kidz. Go buy the JoFo album. It is toppps.

but there we go, i voted for Robert Wyatt although he never stood a chance of winning the thing.

good man

Truth.
But that was the test vote. The first one cast.
Thought I'd give them a headstart ;o)

Although I knew it was a bit of a lost vote to begin with. Nevermind.

so how did the rest of the records fare? what happened to peej?

please can we have the full rundown? I want to see the whole picture

fuck buttons are turd

i know its been said before but im still very suprised Frightened Rabbit werent even on the list.

because FB were given a 9/10 by DIS, while JF's frankly 'meh' album was handed an 8/10...any reason why FB weren't in the top 10 considering DIS have deemed it to be a better album?

Fuck Buttons?

I like it a lot. However, I prefer Frightened Rabbit and Elbow so far this year... yeah.

voted for Robert Wyatt. Shame it didn't do better.

I voted MIA, but would vote for her, Portishead, Fuck Buttons and Semifinalists' '2' if I could..if the latter was up for voting.

ps. Mystery Jets' album isn't that good.

anyone would think founders votes count for 100 users

They deserve it :]

but I would've gone for Johnny Foreigner.

I simply didn't understand Fuck Buttons, F.O.T.L are overrated and The Bug was pretty good but not really my thing. The Foals album is distinctly average.

Haven't heard the rest.

...not the one I voted for(more of a Wild Beasts man myself), but it's a good album regardless, so congrats I suppose. Bit surprised about MIA and Mystery Jets doing so well, especially the later in fact - apart from the chorus in Half In Love with Elizabeth, it's one of the most forgettable things I've ever heard. But hey ho.

is still better than all of them put together...

even though those albums are fun.

Well done JoFo I have a soft spot for them dudes :)

also

even though they were shamefully left off the list.

should have voted for Fuck Buttons.
Johnny Foreigner are so shit

Call it the 'No One Cares' Award.

my arse!

and think Third is pretty good but JoFo is urgent, vital and probably the album i've listened to most over the last 12months - well done guys!

And i'm a lot older than 15, Binary_Star..

Johnny Foreigner? *snigger*

and I would have liked her to get in the top 5 but I'm happy enough with Johnny Foreigner winning it's possibly one of the most uplifitng albums I've heard this year and a great example of substance over style.

Never even mentioned, he had my vote. Comicopera is just amazing.

I was genuinely shocked that Portishead didn't make the final cut for the Mercury Music Prize.

Now I'm appalled that Third didn't even make the top five for these here Pluto Awards.

For shame, DiS, for shame.

i stopped listening to the jofo album after about 2 weeks, but the fotl one is still brilliant.

how the JoFo backlash seems to be the vocal majority here. Where did all the voters go?

Well I think they deserved it, it's a fantastic album. But there's no denying that Street Horsing is equally great.

Love it, great album, listened loads and still not tired, soundtrack to many great summer moments!

they scared me last night. thats a loud album...

Wasn't sure about the Johnny Foreigner album at first. Then I saw them live and loved them with a sizable portion of my heart. I really like the album now... voted FotL but hey-ho.

a fairly conservative - if very decent - indie pop album won, but nice to see such a diverse little lot up there, don't think there's any need to get too fixated at the number one, eh?

should have figured in the top five surely!

has everyone in this thread actually lost their minds? We're not exactly talking about The Shins here. Waited Up Til It Was Light is basically noisy, aggressive and complex, and you couldn't play it in front of your parents without them turning it off. The fact that it has melodies hardly makes it 'conservative'.

It's SHIT.

I expected better, Diver.

you people don't deserve the vote!

:)

preach it from the rooftops

'Tangled up' wasn't on the shortlist...

Johnny Cunting Forgeigner? I seriously can't believe anyone could think this is the best album of the year, even for an alternative awards that is supposed to be a bit of fun...words fail me on the shitness of this band...

Twat.

I'm afraid I haven't even heard the Johnny Foreigner album. I voted for F*** Buttons.