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...

:(
Also, where were Los Campesinos in all this?

Third is light years better than most of these other records

of this board be if every one said positive things about everything you dick??

without coming accross as a bit of a dick but if you think the JoFo album is noisy, complex and aggressive you need to reevaluate your listening habits, it's good, straight down the line indie rock with some post-hardcore embelishments.

It's SHIT.

I expected better, Diver.

you people don't deserve the vote!

:)

preach it from the rooftops

It has won here because the most people voted for it.

Ends.

Yeo JoFo!

by far the best album of the year so well done alexei, kelly and junior, you deserve it - they've been slogin away gigging constantly and it's great DiS readers have recognised them at last!

roll on madame jojos on the 30th!

Oh well...life goes on.

and jofo are a good 5 places too high, maybe you forgot to carry the 1 about 300 times

They won.

I am happy.

It's been been good fun!! Am really curious about what their prize was though ... ? :) Did you settle for the Joe Lean album in the end?! Haha

Bring this back next year please DiS! :D