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Hmmm, one the other hand... there are a few slightly better known ones - Primal Scream first winners, still going, ditto Portishead, Franz Ferdinand, Artic Monkeys. And though they've split Pulp and Suede were pretty well known in their day.


Anyway, it's not really about highlighting the most commercially successful record of the year, those get a more obvious reward.

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> Normally it heralds a career in obscurity winning

> the Mercury. Let's see; Dizee Rascal - hardly a

> household name; Badly Drawn Boy - ditto; Ms

> Dynamite; Jonny and the Antonys (or whatever)

> Where are they now?


er, I know next to nothing about music post 1998...but Dizee is pretty big isn't he?

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Dizzy rascal has had a fairly monumental year, and Anthony and the Johnsons released their third album to pretty widespread acclaim. Ms Dynamite went off to start a family and didn't fancy leaving them behind to soend a couple of years on the road. Fair enough


The Mercury isn't about predicting who is going to go massive in a "postman whistling on his round way" more about plucking out lesser known artists.


That said it is STILL an award ceremony and therefore completely arbitrary but I'd rather listen, even if it's only once, to most of the nominees of this one that the Brits

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Oops cross post. I'd agree it's more about the music than the money. They can get it a bit wrong and have weaker years (this one springs to mind) but it's always nice to see a couple of the albums and new artists I'd stumbled upon and been raving about get a bit of recognition.
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> Didn't M People win it one year?


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Wossa her name from M people Heather Doh dah, sings like she's eating a toffee and got it stuck on her teeth


Yuk can't bear her voice.

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Yes it is supposed to be best album rather than most successful album and most often they are never the same thing, but I think sometimes the panel like to choose the most obscure out of the bunch.

Has Dizee had a phenomenal year? passed me by, likewise Antony and the wotsits but then most music does now Top of the Pops isn't on.

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