Mercury prize.

[woofmarkthedog]

Is this a bunch of bollox or what, I feel transported back to Art school way back in 81

Good god am I wrong.

W**F

[woofmarkthedog]

Though of the bunch & after her radio 4 interview well deserved.

Faith restored....

[woofmarkthedog]

Digable Planets inspired anyone ?

[Mick Mac]

Never heard of her - but no shock there. I was hoping for Florence.

[LuLu Too]

I too thought it would go to Florence. An Alleyns girl apparently.

But good on Speech Debelle - another South Londoner.

Digable Planets - wow - that's taken me back!

[flapjackdavey]

pop hop , brit pop , trip hip , bop hop , rub a dub , ambient gabba .... I don't know what the younger generation is coming to these days .

[Sue]

Is this the one Norma Waterson won a few years back?

Say no more .... what on earth are their criteria?

[Asset]

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?

[flapjackdavey]

where's Miss Dynamai-tee-hee now ? ...... in where-are-they-now-land thats where ! Jonny and The Antonys . lol .... wonder if he's got himself a new jumper yet ?

[mockney piers]

All a bit harsh. It's still better than the other one that awarded prizes to Robbie Williams fourteen years in a row and one to Kate Bush for best musician three years after she'd died!!

[indiepanda]

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.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Damn - didn't know Kate Bush had died. Must start a thread.

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Asset Wrote:

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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?

[flapjackdavey]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Damn - didn't know Kate Bush had died. Must start

> a thread.

lol . :)-D

[LuLu Too]

And at least it didn't go to the insipid Lisa Hannigan.

But Florence was robbed!

[Jeremy]

Kate Bush ain't dead!

[SeanMacGabhann]

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

[mockney piers]

Really? Maybe I exaggerated a teeny bit in my post.

I referred to her inexplicable 1987 best British female artist when she'd released her previous album Hounds of Love in '85.

[mockney piers]

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.

[Jeremy]

Didn't M People win it one year?

[mockney piers]

Ha ha I think you're right. Damn case closed!!!

[woofmarkthedog]

Jeremy Wrote:

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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.

[Asset]

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.

[SeanMacGabhann]

No doubt an element of truth in that, but unless you have been collared by Piers at 3am in the morning to listen to some new CDs, you have no idea what obscure CAN mean ;-)

[Asset]

Speech DaBelle's album is just about to slip out of the top 100 after rising to the dizzy heights of #65 in the wake of her Mercury prize......