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RoeDent 
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Joined: September 08 2009 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 850 |
 Topic: Mercury Prize 2009Posted: September 08 2009 at 13:31 |
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Seeing as this is a general music board, I thought I'd ask your opinions on who you think will win this years Mercury Prize tonight. For those who don't know, the albums nominated are as follows:
Two Suns - Bat for Lashes Lungs - Florence and the Machine Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires Glasvegas - Glasvegas West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian La Roux - La Roux Sensible Shoes - Led Bib Sea Sew - Lisa Hannigan Speech Therapy - Speech Debelle Twice Born Men - Sweet Billy Pilgrim Primary Colours - The Horrors The Invisible - The Invisible Who's it gonna be then? |
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Dean
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 13:38 |
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I only know the first two - Florence and the Machine sounds too "constructed" for my liking, but she/they are flavour of the month at the moment. Bat For Lashes is a better prospect - I really enjoy Two Suns.
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rushfan4
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 13:49 |
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Is the Mercury Prize somehow related to Freddy Mercury? I've not heard of any of these except for Bat For Lashes and Led Bib, and that is mostly only because of discussion regarding them here on PA. I've not heard Bat For Lashes, and I've only heard one Led Bib song.
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Dean
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 13:54 |
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The Mercury prize is named after its original sponsor Mercury Communications (now absorbed into the T-Mobile corp) - even though they no longer sponsor the competition, the name remains.
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Evolutionary Sleeper
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 14:06 |
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I have no idea who will win, but I hope Led Bib takes it home.
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Padraic
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 14:13 |
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 14:14 |
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Talked about it at work today and my money goes on.......
The Horrors
Not based on preference as i've only heard bis and pieces of these artists. Although the panel tend to be slightly more mature than your average Horrors fan.
How much do I get if I win?
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chopper
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 14:22 |
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I like Florence and the Machine but I'm hoping Sweet Billy Pilgrim win - their album is truly a thing of wonder.
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 16:34 |
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I told you Speech Debelle would get it!
Hip Hop but a very South London Jazzy feel and less of the sampling more sax Edited by akamaisondufromage - September 08 2009 at 16:34 |
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Help me I'm falling!
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Progbeatz
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 17:13 |
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Prog in the projeKcts...
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 19:17 |
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How on earth can La Roux and Led Bib be nominated for the same prize?
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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The T
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Posted: September 08 2009 at 19:29 |
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Bat for lashes
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Jimbo
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Posted: September 09 2009 at 01:41 |
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Dean
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Posted: September 09 2009 at 02:32 |
That's part of the charm of the Mercury - up until recently even Classical albums were nominated (and there is no reason why they still can't be) - some years have seen Tavener up against Simply Red and St Etienne, (or against the Prodigy and The Spice Girls), and Nyman against Pulp and Take That. In a way it forces people to look outside narrow genres and regard music as a whole.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: September 10 2009 at 07:17 |
Jazz tokenism - Polar Bear were the last jazz band nominated a few years back
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Evolutionary_Sleeper wrote: