Mercury Music Prize 2012 - Music - Forums : Best Ever Albums

GeevyDallas
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The Maccabees “Given to the Wild” (Fiction)
Jessie Ware “Devotion” (PMR)
Django Django “Django Django” (Because)
Roller Trio “Roller Trio” (F-Ire)
Field Music “Plumb” (Memphis Industries)
Micheal Kiwanuka “Home Again” (Polydor)
Sam Lee “Ground Of Its Own” (The Nest Collective)
Richard Hawley “Standing at the Sky’s Edge” (Parlophone)
Ben Howard “Every Kingdom” (Island)
Lianne La Havas “Is Your Love Big Enough?” (Warner Bros)
Alt J “An Awesome Wave” (Infectious)
Plan B “Ill Manor” (Atlantic)

These are the list of nominations for this years award.What do y'all think?I would of had Rustie - Glass Swords in there,best album eligible for the award in my opinion.I want Django Django to win out of this list though.

Norman Bates

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Haven't heard any of these LPs. Any good?

GeevyDallas
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Norman Bates wrote:

Haven't heard any of these LPs. Any good?

I've only heard 8 of them and I liked two.Those were Django Django and The Maccabees both their albums are great,Lianne La Havas's album is okay as well.But Plan B,Alt J,Field Music,Jessie Were and Ben Howard's albums aren't for me.

Hayden

Damn, that list sucks Laughing

I'm actually surprised one of these people will WIN.

I guess Alt-J would get my support Think

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DLGGLD wrote:

The Maccabees “Given to the Wild” (Fiction)
Jessie Ware “Devotion” (PMR)
Django Django “Django Django” (Because)
Roller Trio “Roller Trio” (F-Ire)
Field Music “Plumb” (Memphis Industries)
Micheal Kiwanuka “Home Again” (Polydor)
Sam Lee “Ground Of Its Own” (The Nest Collective)
Richard Hawley “Standing at the Sky’s Edge” (Parlophone)
Ben Howard “Every Kingdom” (Island)
Lianne La Havas “Is Your Love Big Enough?” (Warner Bros)
Alt J “An Awesome Wave” (Infectious)
Plan B “Ill Manor” (Atlantic)

These are the list of nominations for this years award.What do y'all think?I would of had Rustie - Glass Swords in there,best album eligible for the award in my opinion.I want Django Django to win out of this list though.

Bolded are my three picks. Would love Kiwanuka to get it.

Guest

I've heard six of the albums. What a shocking list. My pick would be Django Django. There's a real dearth of decent British music at the moment I guess. Considering how good a year 2012 has been, Britain needs to step its' game up.

GeevyDallas
WATTBA

Alt J won

Guest

Least relevant "prize" in music. No-one knows who Speech Debelle is, and one year the winner wasn't even British. I'm no patriot, but what's the point of the award if you're going to give it to a New Yorker? And Alt-J are fucking awful. My choice would've been Shackleton's Music For The Quiet Hour or Mala's Mala In Cuba (although I have some reservations about an album recorded in Cuba featuring Cuban musicians and sounding pretty fucking Cuban winning a British music award) or maybe even Wiley's Evolve or Be Extinct. More likely winners that I wouldn't have been too aggrieved by include Richard Hawley, Spiritualized (how on earth were they not nominated?) or Django Django at a push (despite my earlier comment in this thread). Christ, there's been a real dearth in British music this year. And, to reiterate, Alt-J are pants.

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Kiki

The result of the Mercury Prize was ruined Sad

I should have found out else where.

I have copy of that album but I haven't listened to it yet. Might try tonight.

I also got the first Speech Debelle album! I'll put it on my 2009 chart now as I had a 6/10 album on there at no20.

Above 3 lines make it seem like this prize is a big deal to me Neutral

Guest

an_outlaw wrote:

I also got the first Speech Debelle album! I'll put it on my 2009 chart now as I had a 6/10 album on there at no20.

I quite liked that album, but she's a very limited rapper. Luckily she has a sincere voice, and the production was top notch. But in terms of lyrics and flow she is not good. I sort of felt sorry for her though, because Big Dada (her label) clearly hadn't anticipated her winning the award and did not get enough copies into shops in the days (weeks) following the prize. By the time they'd printed more copies, the hype had died down. Pretty sad really.