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Mercury Music Prize
snowinberlin
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Tonight
Anna Calvi ‘Hunter’
Black Midi ‘Schlagenheim’
Cate Le Bon ‘Reward’
Dave ‘Psychodrama’
Foals ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1’
Fontaines D.C. ‘Dogrel’
IDLES ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’
Little Simz ‘Grey Area’
NAO ‘Saturn’
SEED Ensemble ‘Driftglass’
slowthai ‘Nothing Great About Britain’
The 1975 ‘A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships’
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I have only heard of:
Dave
Foals
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Getting very old - only heard of three of them.
*Edit* Funny enough - those ones ^^^^
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Preferred them before they went commercial.0
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looking at the previous lists, the stand out years for me are 94,95,96
Maybe due to may age as was 23-25 in that period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Prize#1990s
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You’ll have heard more than you think, Anna Calvi’s music is played in peaky blindersMrOneLung said:I have only heard of:
Dave
Foals
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Difference between heard, and heard of SR...3
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IDLES or Slowthai will win I reckon, probably the former
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF_G-RF66M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuQG6_evFc8
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Some odd decisions in retrospect, M People beating Prodigy and Paul Weller? Roni Size beating OK Computer ? Ms Dynamite better than The Streets Original Pirate?MrOneLung said:looking at the previous lists, the stand out years for me are 94,95,96
Maybe due to may age as was 23-25 in that period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Prize#1990s0 -
Big fan of Anna Calvi, a three of her albums have been mercury nominated... This for me is her weakest though. Might give the others a spin, usually a few decent ones2
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I think 'The Foals' got a mention on here a while ago .. other than that I have heard of precisely NONE of the revered nominated artistes0
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Felix White from The Maccabees playing guitar for Foals tonight as Yannis is injured is the stuff dreams are made of for a soppy indie idiot like me!4
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Lucky for me, I’ve heard of 7 of them 😂
I’d like IDLES to win, fantastic album, or Fontaine’s D.C., Foals also very good though. I’ve tried hard to like Slowthai but I just can’t get into it.1 -
Idles for me.
Seeing them at Ally Pally 7th December.0 -
Got a tenner on IDLES to win so obviously love them to do it.
Fantastic selection of albums this year tbf, strongest for a while imo.1 -
You're right of course.Jessie said:
I've heard of Foals and The 1975. Even played a few of The 1975's songs recently. And I thought Foals were famous in your country? IIRC they became known around the same time as bands like Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi (or maybe a couple of years later than them). I just didn't know they are still going. Anyway I'm surprised I'm slightly more familiar with these nominees than you people are.😂Lincsaddick said:I think 'The Foals' got a mention on here a while ago .. other than that I have heard of precisely NONE of the revered nominated artistes1 -
you say 'your country' .. where are you, the States, Oz, NZ ? .. and as for familiarity with the nominees .. I regard most contemporary British music that I've heard as contrived tripe, a few very talented female artists excepted .. just listened to a couple of Fontaines DC tracks ? .. about as listenable as a miserable cat wailing as it's being tortured .. my opinion of courseJessie said:
I've heard of Foals and The 1975. Even played a few of The 1975's songs recently. And I thought Foals were famous in your country? IIRC they became known around the same time as bands like Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi (or maybe a couple of years later than them). I just didn't know they are still going. Anyway I'm surprised I'm slightly more familiar with these nominees than you people are.😂Lincsaddick said:I think 'The Foals' got a mention on here a while ago .. other than that I have heard of precisely NONE of the revered nominated artistesJessie said:
I've heard of Foals and The 1975. Even played a few of The 1975's songs recently. And I thought Foals were famous in your country? IIRC they became known around the same time as bands like Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi (or maybe a couple of years later than them). I just didn't know they are still going. Anyway I'm surprised I'm slightly more familiar with these nominees than you people are.😂Lincsaddick said:I think 'The Foals' got a mention on here a while ago .. other than that I have heard of precisely NONE of the revered nominated artistes
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Fontaines DC are great, can't wait to see them live :-)1
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I'm sure they were considered odd at the time! Never been entirely sure what criteria they use when coming up with the nominations, and how the judges are meant to compare such different types of musicsnowinberlin said:
Some odd decisions in retrospect, M People beating Prodigy and Paul Weller? Roni Size beating OK Computer ? Ms Dynamite better than The Streets Original Pirate?MrOneLung said:looking at the previous lists, the stand out years for me are 94,95,96
Maybe due to may age as was 23-25 in that period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Prize#1990s
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Heard of 10 of these, mostly due to listening to Radio 6 on a daily basis.
These are a couple of off the wall selections:
Black Midi - Ducter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86NGJmUfRlM
Cate Le Bon - Mother’s Mother’s Magazines
https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/track/mothers-mothers-magazines
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Gotta say, I like pretty much all of this. Even the more Avant Garde stuff like black midi0
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Got to be said though that the 1975 suck the hairy bag1
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Jessie is in China as any fule knoLincsaddick said:
you say 'your country' .. where are you, the States, Oz, NZ ? .. and as for familiarity with the nominees .. I regard most contemporary British music that I've heard as contrived tripe, a few very talented female artists excepted .. just listened to a couple of Fontaines DC tracks ? .. about as listenable as a miserable cat wailing as it's being tortured .. my opinion of courseJessie said:
I've heard of Foals and The 1975. Even played a few of The 1975's songs recently. And I thought Foals were famous in your country? IIRC they became known around the same time as bands like Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi (or maybe a couple of years later than them). I just didn't know they are still going. Anyway I'm surprised I'm slightly more familiar with these nominees than you people are.😂Lincsaddick said:I think 'The Foals' got a mention on here a while ago .. other than that I have heard of precisely NONE of the revered nominated artistesJessie said:
I've heard of Foals and The 1975. Even played a few of The 1975's songs recently. And I thought Foals were famous in your country? IIRC they became known around the same time as bands like Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi (or maybe a couple of years later than them). I just didn't know they are still going. Anyway I'm surprised I'm slightly more familiar with these nominees than you people are.😂Lincsaddick said:I think 'The Foals' got a mention on here a while ago .. other than that I have heard of precisely NONE of the revered nominated artistes1 -
The Little Simz is the best album of these by far but obviously the Mercury is a running gag0
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(Obviously the watered-down, approachable, Guardian-reader-ready album won it, but Simz is the one with real bite)0
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Well, they went for another rapper, does seem like they lean towards urban sounds more0
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Glad Dave won.
Often have that playing at my house (when my son's home that is).
Clever lyricist and tells a story.0 -
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Dave's pretty good but imho they've played safe, feel that Slowthai and Idles albums are a step up0
