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2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize nominees announced
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The nominees for the Nationwide Mercury Prize 2008 have been announced.
The 12 British records in contention for the annual award, last year won by Klaxons for Myths Of The Near Future, are:
Adele 19 8/1
British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? 8/1
Burial Untrue 6/1
Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid 6/1
Estelle Shine 8/1
Last Shadow Puppets The Age of the Understatement 5/1
Laura Marling Alas I Cannot Swim 8/1
Neon Neon Stainless Style 10/1
Portico Quartet Knee Deep in the North Sea 10/1
Radiohead In Rainbows 5/1
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset The Bairns 10/1
Robert Plant & Alison Kraus Raising Sand 6/1
William Hill odds as of 1200PM 22/07/2008.
Watch out for the Weekly DiScussion feature on the nominees later today.
From the archive
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No Wild Beasts
gash. Burial or Radiohead it is then.
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Neon Neon
just because its Gruff based. Otherwise Do You Like Rock Music? Ta.
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crap
odds - laura marling or burial
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Wow, BSP make their worst album and it gets nominated
for a Mercury. Figures
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Burial, surely?
Boo to Last Shadow Puppets. >:(
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is it radiohead who have never won the mercury one?
either them or elbow really.the rest i havent really heard
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Ladbrokes
Gonna stick £10 on Burial
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or Radiohead
as they will give the money to a good cause!
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gotta be burial
how much is the entrance fee for trying to get into this anyway?
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couple of hundred quids
i think...
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Short Odds?
Where's the 50-1 outsider?
It's all a bit meh, realy. I'd quite like Elbow or BSP to win, even though I'm not that keen on the new albums.
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Burial, by far
Althoguh I'd be happy to see Neon Neon win it too.
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hmmm
would love it to be neon neon. but..
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Maybe Gruff's work ethic is being rewarded..
portishead are lazy fucks.
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Better line-up than last year
Burial MUST win it.
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Gotta be Radiohead
Suuuuurely
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I'd vote for..
Rachel Unthank. has anyone heard this? it's brilliant.
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Quality, not quantity.
Stainless Style promised so much, but it's so bad really.
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Meh
.
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do Radiohead hold the record for biggest Mercury losers?
they seem to get nominated for the sake of it every time with never any real expectation that they'll win. even The Eraser did!
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^ Yes.
It's stunning.
Surprisingly close odds for all of them, really. But I might have a wee flutter on the Unthanks just to show support. -
Neon Neon
It really isn't very good is it?
Good to see the Lara Marling LP recognised, my fave of the year so far.
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wow
that list is bad
some ok albums on there, but best british album of the year? hmmm
radiohead for me, best album on the list by far
no portishead?
good on the portico quartet, they always used to busk on the southbank with their strange hang drums
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i am surprised
at the lack of Portishead
Third is a masterpiece
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Exaclty.
How did it end up on this list I'll never know - hollow and overproduced shite.
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Saw PQ down there for the Southbank Festival last summer...
and they were pretty good, but they don't deserve to be anywhere near this list. Good luck to them, though.
I'd give it to Burial or Laura Marling off that list.
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Last Shadow Puppets!?!?!?11
WHY!!!!!111
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FRIGHTENED RABBIT ?
why are they not on the list ? some good albums there but quite a few duds too.
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I hope Radiohead win it
In Rainbows is a great album.
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Pointless, pointless award
What's the point in the token acts not many of heard of, they're never going to win.
What's the point of rewarding record sales and hype over musical originality and craft?
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No
Portishead or Wild Beasts.
Yet the poor Neon Neon album gets in, and a very average BSP album gets the nod.
Very weak. Betting odds aren't that hot either.Radiohead FTW this time, I think.
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Small point, but...
It's actually just the "Mercury Prize" now, rather than "Mercury Music Prize".
Carry on...
(Laura Marling or Elbow for me.)
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You could get yourself a good little collection...
...of Mercury nominated records inc.
Simply Red – Stars
Sting – Ten Summoner's Tales
Take That – Everything Changes
M People – Elegant Slumming
Mark Morrison – Return of the Mack
The Spice Girls – Spice
Robbie Williams – Life Thru a Lens
Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails
Richard Ashcroft – Alone with Everybody
The Thrills – So Much for the City
The Darkness – Permission to Land
Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions
Keane – Hopes and Fears
KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope
Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV -
pointless ?
i always thought the point of this award was to showcase the best albums regardless of how many people have bought them ?
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lastshadowpuppets
deserve
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No love for Robert Plant & Alison Krauss?
Raising Sands is a beautiful album IMO.
Burial, Elbow, Radiohead I'd like to see win too.
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yeah thats what i thought!
to be fair i do really dig stainless style (bar the first two hip-hop songs).
Third should really, really, really be on that list
Elbow for the win. Its about time. Richard Hawley should have won with Coles Corner. Last year was just a joke. I don't have high hopes that they will actually win but they deserve to. Although In Rainbows is the strongest record on that list
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Yes, but it doesn't do that does it
, every year they go for a majority of safe bets that have iether sold really well, garnered loads of hype, or both.
Unless you think Adele album is better than Future of the Left or Youthmovies of course..
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I knew Rachel Unthank would be nominated
I think it's a good list, apart from the glaring omission of Portishead.
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Burial = Crap
IMHO.
Sounds like a dodgy dance LP from Bristol from 1995.
I really think this is a case of people believing the media created hype. As if Thom Yorke knows anything about Dubstep!
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Very happy...
...that BSP are nominated - OK, it isn't their finest album, but they deserve it, no question.
I hope they or Radiohead do it to be honest.
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to
have the light turned off?
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I agree
Probably a nomination for the band, more than the actual album i suspect. 8/1 is a fair price too as i think it's got a fairly good chance. I reckon Elbow are going to get it though. If i was a record company cynic and all that; a win for thm would really send them to 'the next level'...
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WTF?
Totally disagree with this. Think DYLRM? is a great album. Career high point so far. I'm surprised it made the list but I think it's well deserved.
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i think it was 250 plus 10
or 15 cds
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agree
Really think the Burial album is overrated.
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QUIET.
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Very true
It sounds like someone putting a cloth over a UK garage track from 99.
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BSP FTW
maybe not their best, but still pretty great.
the decline of>dylrm>open seasonwild beats should be on there though.
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"MIA, Foals, Burial, Portishead I reckon are all dead certs"
Oh well, shows what I know. Quite surprised at the lack of MIA and Portishead, surely they are two of the best UK records of the past year.
Bit surprised at those odds, surely Portico Quartet and Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are real outsiders.
I'd go for Radiohead out of those, great album although they don't exactly need the publicity.
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i thought estelle and adele were the same person
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Yeah
'Limbo, Panto' is soupoib
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Terrible list
Adele
Estelle
Radiohead
Last Shadow PuppetsDon't make me larf.
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Burial
Without a doubt!!!
Wonder how he's gonna collect his award?
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Burial
methinks.
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Betfair odds
Adele 8.2
British Sea Power 9.2
Burial 5
Elbow 7
Estelle 8.6
Laura Marling 7.6
Neon Neon 11.5
Portico Quartet 11.5
Rachel Unthank 11.5
Radiohead 3.6
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 6.8
The Last Shadow Puppets 6Think that Elbow at 7's there are worth a plump.
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In Rainbows is probably my favourite there
But I think BSP or Burial ought to get it - both amazing albums, and it's not like Radiohead exactly need more publicity. Also, it'll be fun to see how Burial accepts the prize if he (?) wins...
Like everyone else, I'm a bit stunned that they found room for Neon Neon and Last Shadow Puppets but not for Portishead (quite surprised at the lack of Foals as well actually).
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utterly, utterly predictable. As usual.
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Burial
He won't win it cos he won't turn up, even though he probably should.
I could see it going to Radiohead like, especially with the internet release situation.
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Alex Turner
could go a whole year without making any music at all and he'd still get on the list.
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No I haven't but...
... I reviewed them briefly for last year's Green Man Festival for DiS:
"A little later, sounds of traditional folk melodies with percussive clog dancing drifts from the main stage as DiS rests on the banking, watching clouds and flying ducks as we let the Green Man vibe reset our stress meters. Rachel Unthank and the Winterset are the source."
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^^^^^^
Nail hit squarely on it's head!
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My friend Steph plays piano
in Rachel Unthank. Mercury Nominated -Crazy!
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Surely Radiohead have to win it this year!
Burial or Robert Plant & Alison Kraus if not.
Where is M.I.A. and Portishead?! Silly silly people.
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Burial
To win!
He is the best on that list by a long long way.
He wouldn't turn up to collect the award I wouldn't think. But his label boss Kode9 might along with a pose.
No one turning up to get it is still alot better than Klaxons speach last year.
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thats why I like it
cos it sounds like a dodgey dance LP from Bristol from 1995.
It sounds like he has killed UK Garage and brought it back to life as some kinda ghost. Hell its better than all the stuff on that list and some.
Not everyones gona like it of course.
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^this
clearly
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what a load of shit
not one decent LP on there
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Apart from
British Sea Power, Burial, Elbow, Neon Neon and Radiohead
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It's a good album.
Well, I like it anyway...
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no fuck buttons?
completely bottled it, the cunts.
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Sorry....what?
ESTELLE
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a good list
some of the pillocks here need to remember that if it were all "critically acclaimed" bands, with maybe Radiohead the only top 10 singles band to get nominated...no-one'd give a shit! the award would be rendered pointless and benefits to people like Rachel Unthank or Portico Quarter would disappear. as always, some people need some perspective.
btw, anyone saying Youthmovies or Fuck Buttons really should just stop. right now. just stop. they're shit. very shit. please. stop. stop. stop.
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I thought you only got nominated
if you sold under a certain amount of records?
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Hehe
I saw a band jam on the South Bank about 2 years ago and was absolutely mesmerised. Never did find out their name. Until i looked on the Portico Quartet website just now...awesome.
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Radiohead for the win
because all of a sudden the British press seems to have forgiven them for making difficult yet brilliant albums, and are suddenly trying very hard to be nice to them, and to explain just what jolly blokes they are.
But seriously, In Rainbows, Untrue, or Do You Like Rock Music? would be very worthy winners.
However, like everyone else is saying, where are MIA and Portishead? -
No one other than the people on this board
have ever heard of Frightened Rabbit. Get over yourselves.
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No Roisin Murphy??
VERY NOT HAPPY.
grrr.
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That's the Shortlist prize
which they have in the USA
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problem wit burial winning
is... that he's not very likely to perform at the show, and therefore not very likely to win, because that's how it works apparently. which is sort of a shame but mostly not a shame at all as he's better than the whole list put together (er, minus radiohead). xx
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WHAT?!
Do You Like Rock Music? is a great album!
In Rainbows pips it for me though.
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They've been robbed
They've been nominated 4 times, but never won it. Then again, they don't really need to.
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RADIOHEAD
All over it.. Estelle?
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quite shocked
no Mystery Jets or Portishead?
It's so hard to predict with this award though, some years it will go to a complete outsider, and other times it goes to something like the Klaxons or Franz with lots of commercial success.
I'll go with the masses and say Burial though.
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If Radiohead don't win this it will be a farce
but I'm really disappointed that Portishead aren't on the list. Honorable mentions: Burial and Laura Marling. Elbow record is prett solid too. If Adele wins I'm going to kill myself.
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?
I like Moloko and I like some of her stuff. Other than overpowered and you know me better - which songs do you actually like off that album?
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radiohead
or shadow puppets will win.
defo should be laura marling.
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Rachel Unthank & The Winterset The Bairns
will win obviously as it is the mercury prize
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foals should win this surely - where r they
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Sorry
didn't check thread...
I love the whole album, it's a massive grower.
Along with YKMB, Primitive probably my favourite, and by far the best live if you ever see her (do!).Scarlet Ribbons is beautiful, as is Tell Everybody.
What's not to love?
Songwriting, production and even lyrics are all excellent.
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