Idiot Kid
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 | | 22 Jul 2008 3:54 AM |
| Adele - 19
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial - Untrue
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Portico Quartet - Knee Deep in the North Sea
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - The Bairns
So predictable really (well 50% of it!). From that list it's Elbow for me, but it will be a toss up(off) between Radiohead and The Last Shadow Puppets I fear. | |
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Binokular
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| | 22 Jul 2008 4:12 AM |
| | Burial and the whole dub-step thing are so over-rated. | | | |
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dermot_trellis
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| | 22 Jul 2008 5:04 AM |
| | Isn't Burial supposed to be an anonymous\secret identity sort of thing? Might be a bit awkward if he won.. | | | |
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PeterQuaife
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| | 22 Jul 2008 7:08 AM |
| | BSP / Radioscone for me out of that list | |
where the dew drops cry and the cats meow.... | |
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PARTON
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| | 22 Jul 2008 8:04 AM |
| Its meaningless, complete tat guised as an award to commend the best record from the UK or Ireland...
No Irish record there...mostly London innit...
It is completely predictable..the last shadow whatsits....arent they the dopes from Arctic Monkeys and some other Top Shop band? | | | |
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UnaRocks
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| | 22 Jul 2008 8:08 AM |
| | I don't think Burial is over rated at all. 'Untrue' and 'Burial' are two of my favourite records from the past few years. Really hope 'Untrue' gets it, will expose more people to his music. | | | |
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Binokular
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| | 23 Jul 2008 2:35 AM |
| | Ah I dunno Una, maybe I should give it another spin, but I listened to Untrue and I just thought "sounds like 1997 all over again". Remember previous Mercury Prize winner New Forms by Roni Size? I mean that was a pretty good album, but not that good, it hasn't aged well and is a bit dry to listen to, and I hear a little bit of history repeating in Burial, partly of course because Dubsteps lineage can be traced back to Drum'n'Bass of the 90s. This is the Mercury Prize token "urban" entry. Sadly, no other album on the list jumps out as being a deserving winner either. | | | |
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UnaRocks
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| | 23 Jul 2008 3:36 AM |
| | I don't care if it's the 'token' 'urban' album, and I don't think you can really say it's history repeating itself because you could say that about every rock or indie album that has ever won too. I just think Untrue is the best record on the list. | | | |
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Unicron
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| | 23 Jul 2008 3:57 AM |
| | Fuck Buttons wuz robbed. | | | |
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Binokular
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Posts:1600
| | 23 Jul 2008 5:51 AM |
| Posted By UnaRocks on 23 Jul 2008 3:36 AM
I don't care if it's the 'token' 'urban' album, and I don't think you can really say it's history repeating itself because you could say that about every rock or indie album that has ever won too. I just think Untrue is the best record on the list.
I thought it sounded like 1997 all over again long before it got a nomination 
...you might be right about it being the best on the list, but that's because the list is pretty lacklustre. Decent enough album, nowhere near lives up to the hype. | | | |
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