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Reply to Post 70463 by MarkEMoon in Mercury Prize Music? on a music forum?

Blimey, who'd have thought it

Some good albums nominated for this year's Mercury Music Awards (Foals, I Am Kloot, The Xx, Villagers, Wild Beasts, Mumford and Sons) some very overrated albums (Dizzee Rascal, Shitty Clyro) and some albums I know very little or in some cases nothing about (Kit Downs Trio, Laura Marling, Paul Weller, Corrine Bailey Ray).

It was pretty obvious The Xx were going to win it and fair enough, I would've liked to have seen I Am Kloot win it but that's just my opinion, I'm just relieved that Clyro or Dizzee didn't win it as I find both acts vastly overrated.

Several albums released over the past 12 months that I felt could've more than held their own in that final list of nominees as well (from the likes of the F**k Buttons, The Fall, These New Puritans, Stornoway, Field Music, Pulled Apart By Horses, The Cribs) but it's just a competition and hopefully what it will do is raise the profile of the likes of I Am Kloot, Laura Marling, Wild Beasts and help them.

I would still question the validity of a prize that was once awarded to M People (way back in 1994, they were terrible times)

Reply to Post 70478 by MarkEMoon in Mercury Prize It's decided by a panel of judges

The Xx are 3 (formerly 4) grumpy 20-somethings from London, their album is pretty good, skeletal guitar lines, programmed drums, basslines half inched from The Cure, boy/girl vocals.

Reply to Post 70493 by valjester in Mercury Prize Interpol are American, my friend. The Mercury Prize is for artistes from the UK & Ireland only.

Reply to Post 70507 by Bozley in Mercury Prize I have to take issue with that! they arent grumpy at all, theyre very nice people.. just really shy. not traditional band types.

Reply to Post 70506 by Bozley in Mercury Prize did you just say that the mumford and sons album is good?

jesus christ.


I feel good about the xx winning. a good choice.

Wild Beasts hurt my ears a bit. i probably would have nominated these new puritans.

Reply to Post 70509 by RhythmMaster in Mercury Prize Oops! My bad

If you ran a poll on this forum and everybody nominated a winner I suspect there would be at least 50 different artists/bands on the list. That's the beauty of music for me; so much about and so so varied. Brilliant.

Wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same stuff

Reply to Post 70520 by MarkEMoon in Mercury Prize Back in 2008 I started compiling the "albums of 2008" as voted for by Swindon Music Forum members (there was a thread on here prob around October 2008 time) with the intention of playing a track from each of the top 20 albums of 2008 as voted for by SMF members at the Music Quiz I run at The Vic just before Christmas each year.

I did tally the votes up and still have the results saved on my laptop

Interestingly enough in 2008 the most popular album was a joint tie between Vampire Weekend's self titled debut and The Gaslight Anthem's "59 Sound", following not far behind was Elbow's "Seldom Seen Kid" then about 16 albums all tied on joint 4th place (inc TV On The Radio, Fleet Foxes, Rise Against, Portishead, Deathcab for Cutie, The Hold Steady and Neon Neon).

I might see if we can get a reasonable response to a "Best Album of 2010" thread this year and play the top 20 at this year's quiz.

Reply to Post 70523 by MarkEMoon in Mercury Prize On a similar theme I also compiled people's votes for the best albums of the past decade...

Reply to Post 70541 by Paj in Mercury Prize You've been bitten by the project management / anaysis bug, haven't you - your life will never be the same again!

Reply to Post 70546 by MarkEMoon in Mercury Prize You could well be right

Reply to Post 70552 by lazarus in Mercury Prize don't do it....the next thing you know you will have spreadsheets set up, macro's flitting about behind the scenes and tidy little pie charts explaining voters break downs....who are you Mark Fowler!