Mercury Prize 2007

[Kite]

So the short-list gets announced tomorrow, so whom do you think will make the list?

[mc_squared]

I couldn't give a t*ss after some of the garbage it's served up in recent years!:rolleyes:
Antony and the Johnsons and Dizzee Rascal spring immediately to mind.

[Kite]

So you need not to post in this thread again, since you couldn't give a toss about the list.

[mc_squared]

So you need not to post in this thread again, since you couldn't give a toss about the list.

I'll see how I feel.:rolleyes:

[Kite]

I know the mercury prize on some years have awarded the prize to some dodgy albums instead of the best album of the year.

Take last year, giving the award to the Arctic Monkeys instead of Editors

[Lamposts]

Yeah like the editors are any shitter than the monkeys. I mean they are equally shit.

[GazeboflossUK]

Yeah like the editors are any shitter than the monkeys. I mean they are equally shit.

Indeed.

Put me on the panel. Then you'd get the rightful winner.

[GazeboflossUK]

The full list of nominations are as follows:

Arctic Monkeys - 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'
Klaxons - 'Myths Of The Near Future'
Amy Winehouse - 'Back To Black'
Maps - 'We Can Create'
The View - 'Hats Off To The Buskers'
Jamie T - 'Panic Prevention'
Dizzee Rascal - 'Maths & English'
Bat For Lashes - 'Fur And Gold'
Young Knives - 'Voices of Animals And Men'
Fionn Regan - 'The End Of History'
New Young Pony Club - 'Fantastic Playroom'
Basquiat Strings - 'Basquiat Strings'



Worst List Ever.

[J.]

that's hilarious

new young pony club? and their website wearepony, well.

*singing* her love's a pony

[Space Cadet]

:dance: :dance: Maps! Maps! Maps! Maps! Maps! :dance: :dance:
I love that album so much. :nice:

Otherwise, yeah. I think this is official proof that this has been one of the worst years in music ever. :disappointed:

I'm thinking Amy Winehouse will win. Or maybe Klaxons.

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

The full list of nominations are as follows:

Arctic Monkeys - 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'
Klaxons - 'Myths Of The Near Future'
Amy Winehouse - 'Back To Black'
Maps - 'We Can Create'
The View - 'Hats Off To The Buskers'
Jamie T - 'Panic Prevention'
Dizzee Rascal - 'Maths & English'
Bat For Lashes - 'Fur And Gold'
Young Knives - 'Voices of Animals And Men'
Fionn Regan - 'The End Of History'
New Young Pony Club - 'Fantastic Playroom'
Basquiat Strings - 'Basquiat Strings'



Worst List Ever.

what a crap

[mc_squared]

The full list of nominations are as follows:

Arctic Monkeys - 'Favourite Worst Nightmare'
Klaxons - 'Myths Of The Near Future'
Amy Winehouse - 'Back To Black'
Maps - 'We Can Create'
The View - 'Hats Off To The Buskers'
Jamie T - 'Panic Prevention'
Dizzee Rascal - 'Maths & English'
Bat For Lashes - 'Fur And Gold'
Young Knives - 'Voices of Animals And Men'
Fionn Regan - 'The End Of History'
New Young Pony Club - 'Fantastic Playroom'
Basquiat Strings - 'Basquiat Strings'



Worst List Ever.

Dizee bloody Rascal AGAIN?? Do they feel sorry for him or something?:stunned:

[busybeeburns]

July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys are among artists whose albums have been shortlisted for the 2007 Nationwide Mercury Prize, the organizers said.

Winehouse's CD ``Back to Black'' (Island) is the second album by the 23-year-old British singer and includes the singles ``You Know I'm No Good'' and ``Rehab.'' The Arctic Monkeys won the prize last year and are now on the shortlist of 12 for their second album, ``Favourite Worst Nightmare'' (Domino).

The winner will be announced on Sept. 4. The award is valued at 20,000 pounds ($40,900), although the probable boost in sales for the winning record is worth much more.

Simon Frith, chairman of the judges, said in an e-mailed statement that the shortlist ``marks the emergence of a wealth of eclectic talent.''

The award is given to British or Irish artists for the best album of the year. The Mercury Prize Web site states that the music on the recording is the only factor taken into account, rather than sales or media exposure.

The award has not always gone to the most obvious choices. The Mercury picked Dizzee Rascal over Coldplay in 2003; and Roni Size/Reprazent's ``New Forms'' in 1997 over Radiohead's ``OK Computer,'' often cited in polls as among the finest rock albums. In 1999, the winner was Talvin Singh's ``OK,'' beating Blur's ``13.''

The prize is sponsored by Nationwide Building Society, the U.K.'s biggest customer-owned lender.

The full shortlist is:

Amy Winehouse -- ``Back to Black'' (Island)
Arctic Monkeys -- ``Favourite Worst Nightmare'' (Domino)
Basquiat Strings -- ``Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford'' (F-IRE)
Bat for Lashes -- ``Fur and Gold'' (Echo)
Dizzee Rascal -- ``Maths and English'' (XL)
Fionn Regan -- ``The End of History'' (Bella Union)
Jamie T -- ``Panic Prevention'' (Virgin)
Klaxons -- ``Myths of the Near Future'' (Polydor)
Maps -- ``We Can Create'' (Mute)
New Young Pony Club -- ``Fantastic Playroom'' (Universal)
The View -- ``Hats Off to the Buskers'' (1965)
The Young Knives -- ``Voices of Animals and Men'' (Wea)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6RNrvW.Q7dE&refer=muse

[Lamposts]

I'm voting for Fioon Regan since he's Irish.... his music is too quiet for me.

[Kite]

What a crap list...

Last year I owned 8 of the 12 albums, this year I own 3.

[mc_squared]

What a crap list...

Last year I owned 8 of the 12 albums, this year I own 3.

Which ones?

[Kite]

View, Young Knives, Arctic Monkeys (which I got given by my brother)

[mc_squared]

View, Young Knives, Arctic Monkeys (which I got given by my brother)

And?

[GazeboflossUK]

That's 3.

[mc_squared]

That's 3.

I'm waiting for a critique.;)

[Emelie]

I reckon Winehouse'll probably win.. I'd put my vote on Fionn, though.

[camofire]

I'd like bat for lashes to win, if only for her mega video for 'what's a girl to do' - I realise this prize isnt judged on best video, and I actually have only heard that one song..but yeah whatever i'd like the random underdog to win considering how poor the list is.

[Kite]

If they say the Arctic Monkey's 2 out of 10 album is the best release of the past 12 months than I will stop buying new music.

[mc_squared]

If they say the Arctic Monkey's 2 out of 10 album is the best release of the past 12 months than I will stop buying new music.

And what marks did you award the other two albums?:rolleyes:

[Kite]

Young Knives is a pretty good album, nothing over the top brilliance though. 7/10

The View's album has a few V. good songs (same Jeans, face for the radio, The Don) and a couple songs which are good, but contains too much filler material which sounds too similar. Would make an excellent 6 track EP. 6/10

[busybeeburns]

http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/ContentResources/288.$plit/C_58_article_230500_body_articleblock_0_bodyimage. jpg

While the safe money is on Amy Winehouse to win this year's Mercury Music Prize, one name keeps cropping up as the act most likely to "do an Antony" - the one that just might sneak up on the inside lane and pip the favourites at the post, just like Antony and the Johnsons did in 2005, when the Kaiser Chiefs were expected to walk it.

And that name, arguably the best outside bet for 2007, is Bat For Lashes. This odd collection of words, chosen simply because they sounded unusual together, is 27-year-old multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Natasha Khan, whose debut album Fur and Gold was praised by the Mercury judges as "beautiful and intriguing - a hypnotic voice and irresistible music". Khan herself prefers to describe it as like "Halloween when you're small, dreaming by the sea, pine trees, UFOs, dark night-time lovemaking." Around 15,000 copies of Fur and Gold have been sold since its release in September last year, while Amy Winehouse's Back To Black has shifted 1.3m in the UK and a further million in the US.

But interest in Brighton-based Khan has steadily increased over the months. Every time she plays a gig with her all-woman band the venue is twice as big as the previous one she sold out. And she seems to have new famous fans appearing out of the woodwork every other week. Bjork, an obvious influence on Khan's otherworldly vocals, described a Bat For Lashes live show as "amazing". Radiohead's Thom Yorke singled out the track Horse and I for praise: "I love the harpsichord and the sexual ghost voices and bowed saws. This song seems to come from the world of Grimm's fairytales," he wrote on a music website. Other devotees include it-artists like CSS, Devendra Banhart and the Klaxons, as well as more veteran performers such as Jarvis Cocker.

"I think Bat For Lashes are beyond a trend or fashion band," said Jefferson Hack, publisher of Dazed and Confused, magazine, yesterday. "[Khan] has an ancient power; like Bjork or Patti Smith, she is in part shamanic." This mysterious quality is often attributed to her peripatetic childhood, which included spells travelling the world with her Pakistani father, who trained the Pakistan national squash team, including former world number one Jehangir Khan.

She has since described the summers spent in Pakistan as "exotic and barbaric with lots of animal sacrifices, ghost stories, religion, mysticism". The rest of her time was spent in Hertfordshire: "A repressed, Edward Scissorhands-style place."

Khan's father left the family suddenly when she was 11. Her response to the shock was to retreat to the cellar to play the piano with the soft pedal on. Critics have noted that a part of her seems to have stayed there, in that her music contains a childlike innocence, tinged with something slightly disturbing. Or perhaps it is her old job, as a nursery teacher, which has let her tap into this youthful vein.

Unique to Khan is the clarity of her artistic vision. Her first record company boss, Jeremy Lascelles of Chrysalis, recalls how she turned up with ideas for how she wanted Fur and Gold to sound, expressed in extraordinarily vivid detail. "For the track Horse and I she said she wanted 'beats made out of horses' hooves, really thundering through dirt'," he said yesterday.

Her co-producer David Kosten, who under the name Faultline has worked with the likes of Coldplay's Chris Martin and the Flaming Lips, yesterday recalled how she once asked for a song to sound as if she was "in bed, cuddled up with a friend, aged nine". Kosten's response was very literal: he packed her off to the attic of the country house where they were recording and got her to sing underneath the duvet.

6 Music DJ Marc Riley said yesterday: "It took me a while to get the Bat For Lashes 'thing'...then all of a sudden it jumped out at me. She's a real talent. She also told me she's been listening to Lou Reed's fantastically dark masterpiece Berlin since she was a teenager - she deserves an award for that alone."

What also makes Khan stand out is her Pochahontas-meets-a-peacock look. She rarely takes to the stage without a feathered headdress. And she is invariably sporting at least one other eye-popping item: who else could look so elegant dressed as a skeleton, as she was for her set at the Latitude festival in Suffolk last week?

But don't mistake this frivolity for naivety. Khan is acutely aware of what she wants and where she is going, and is nobody's fool. "When she makes her mind up about something, there's nothing you can do," said her manager, Dick O'Dell, yesterday. And when her name was announced at Tuesday's Mercury ceremony, she proclaimed herself delighted, but expressed certain disappointment at the £20,000 prize. "It's the icing on the cake after working so hard the last year," she said. "But I thought the prize was £25,000. Gutted."

The CV

Born October 25 1979, to an English mother and Pakistani father, who left when she was 11.

Career A nursery school teacher until she signed a publishing deal with Chrysalis in September 2005.

Family Two younger siblings, a sister, Surriya, and brother, Tariq. Her boyfriend is in the New York band Moon and Moon.

Education Studied film and music at Brighton University.

http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/entertainment/music/s/230/230500_natasha_khan_to_pip_amy_winehouse_for_the_m ercury_.html

[Kite]

Well it is an "odd" year, so the judges won't go for the so called favourite.