Taking Sides!

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Nationwide Mercury Prize
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Editors - The Back Room
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Hot Chip - The Warning
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
Sway - This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Popjustice £20 prize
'Biology' - Girls Aloud
'DARE' - Gorillaz
'Destroy Everything You Touch' - Ladytron
'I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)' - Rachel Stevens
'Number One' - Goldfrapp
'Over & Over' - Hot Chip
'Push The Button' - Sugababes
'Smile' - Lily Allen
'Supermassive Black Hole' - Muse
'Up All Night' - Matt Willis
'Valentine' - The Delays
'Who Am I?' - Will Young

Of unity with parody, tragedy or comedy, probably publicity...

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The saga continues with the longest Ultramix yet (in it's online form at least). You can actually spend an entire working day immersed in the sounds of 1993, even the ones you didn't like then and still wouldn't now (there's bound to be a few) - but all mixed up as was not the style of the time. Listen, at least just the first time, without prejudice ;) Full tracklisting is here. Much more condensed CD version to come in a few weeks. In the meantime...

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I Love #1s - 1975

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Last week saw Kylie win 2001: A Pop Odyssey with a massive 36 ticks! Poor old Westloife on the other hand will be wandering the wild and windy moors of Pop! But readers, what say you to... 1975?

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