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poptimistsAfter much deliberation the shortlist for The Lex 20p Indie Prize has been announced:
The Automatic
Camera Obscura
The Feeling
The Guillemots
Kasabian
The Kooks
Lily Allen
The Pipettes
Test Icicles
The Young Knives
All of these acts* have been nominated BY POPTIMISTS for their vital contributions to INDIE over the last 12 months. Let the debate commence!
The Automatic
Camera Obscura
The Feeling
The Guillemots
Kasabian
The Kooks
Lily Allen
The Pipettes
Test Icicles
The Young Knives
All of these acts* have been nominated BY POPTIMISTS for their vital contributions to INDIE over the last 12 months. Let the debate commence!
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NO FAIR
Date: 2006-09-05 04:05 pm (UTC)2) there is one nomination MISSING
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Date: 2006-09-05 04:07 pm (UTC)1) Well yes.
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Date: 2006-09-05 04:08 pm (UTC)KAREN O WAS ROBBED
but then YYYs aren't really indie anyway so I guess it's good that they haven't been SULLIED
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Date: 2006-09-05 05:08 pm (UTC)Re: NO FAIR
Date: 2006-09-05 05:17 pm (UTC)Re: NO FAIR
Date: 2006-09-05 06:56 pm (UTC)It will be a sad day for music awards when sponsors get a say in awarding the prizes!
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Date: 2006-09-05 04:11 pm (UTC)I'd be tempted to go with Test Icicles just cos of that good Alan Braxe remix (altho an instrumental version would be better - that guy's shouting gets v annoying v quickly).
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Date: 2006-09-05 04:19 pm (UTC)Camera Obscura are pleasant-sounding but, as is the way with many members of the Scottish Indie Mafia, are tools.
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Date: 2006-09-05 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 04:41 pm (UTC)I am not proud of having turned Steve indie.
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Date: 2006-09-05 04:43 pm (UTC)I will post that Test Icicles Spank Rock remix for your listening pleasure this evening. Also attempt to find the bosh Automatic remix from Cross Central.
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Date: 2006-09-05 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 05:49 pm (UTC)I am not sure the prize has a nature!
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Date: 2006-09-05 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 05:30 pm (UTC)WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE ? They are too stupid to be your REAL PARENTS.
Date: 2006-09-05 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-05 05:51 pm (UTC)I like the Young Knives. They wear tweed, they sound a bit like Robyn Hitchcock and a bit like XTC, and their lead singer looks like a supply teacher. Or, if you will, the Asda SmartPrice Jarvis.
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Date: 2006-09-05 07:00 pm (UTC)i saw young knives when they were calle dpony club (as i imagine a few ppl did round here) and sounded like the pixies, and then the first futureheads alBUM came out...
...i like the HOT summer song though
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Date: 2006-09-05 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 08:55 am (UTC)very few ppl make it with their original line-up/band in tact, so there's always some old codger can say, ooh i saw them when they had nowt/a horn section/were all women etcetfc
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Date: 2006-09-05 07:06 pm (UTC)Anyway. The Young Knives are bloody good, a bit like We Are Scientists only from this side of the pond, aren't they?
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Date: 2006-09-05 09:10 pm (UTC)The Young Knives are more village fete than We Are Scientists. I like them if only for that little 'Tall tales, creeps and whii-spers' in, um, that song of theirs. For all their quirk there's a bit of FM radio pop in there.
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Date: 2006-09-05 07:04 pm (UTC)1. They are not just good on 'Monster' they are good all over their album.
2. They understand the finer points of being shouty whilst maintaining a fiendishly catchy melody.
3. They are Welsh but not Lostprophets or Funeral For A Friend. We must really stop the latter two bands being what Wales is known for, in terms of current music.
4. Singer's fit, innee?
5. The Automatic are, in some ways, a bit like Pulp and that can only be construed as good by most people that aren't Lex.
6. A lot of the other bands on that list are almost frighteningly twee and tweeness is not something I personally would like to stand for. Having grown up in a twee place, I can say that The Automatic sound a lot like a reaction to twee and so this is valid'n'interesting and a bit Against The Grain. And I really don't want The Pipettes to win because although I quite like them they get rapidly irritating.
I cannot vote for Test Icicles because I bought The Automatic's album rather than theirs one fateful day in Brighton awhile ago, although I personally thought they were bloody brilliant.
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Date: 2006-09-06 08:58 am (UTC)as i have only heard the monster song, could you expand on this a bit pls?
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Date: 2006-09-06 04:07 pm (UTC)'Raoul' is actually noticeably better than 'Monster,' as their singles go, although admitedly lacks Bigfoot-dancing in the video so maybe could come under 'must try harder.' It is about sandwiches, though, so that's always good.
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Date: 2006-09-05 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 08:22 am (UTC)The Automatic - I gave their album a go as I thought they deserved a fair crack and not just be written off as 'that Monster band', thought it was pretty weak though
Camera Obscura - GREAT when they do their big pop song thing (If Looks Could Kill is a 'tune'), but I find the twee stuff boring
The Feeling - how did these bastards sneak in here?
The Guillemots - Lovely lovely band, some of their album stuff's a bit pointless but Trains To Brazil is a little treasure of a song
Kasabian - nooooooooo, ape-like beery lad stuff, not a good thing
The Kooks - evil gits, but their songs are extremely catchy which has to count for something
Lily Allen - harmless, I suppose, not all that indie mind
The Pipettes - I like this lot now, really big fluffy songs
Test Icicles - a bit annoying over an entire gig or an entire album, but I do like their stuff, Circle Square Triangle is still one of my pre-going out records
The Young Knives - they look like Mark off Peep Show and his geeky mates from the chess club which initially put me off, but I was surprised on listening to them, I like them quite a lot
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Date: 2006-09-06 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 08:50 am (UTC)I only ask because most people are going with the former... "I really like The Pipettes' album" or "Kasabian are evil", whereas I would prefer to go with the second option.
This then poses the problem of how you define indie, and I'm sure everyone has their own definitions, but according to mine, The Automatic would be rock (I guess), The Feeling, Lily Allen and The Pipettes would be pop and of the remainder, the most indie band there are clearly The Kooks, annoying as they might be. They have these catchy twee indie songs, indie clothes, indie haircuts and indie lyrics. So yes, vote Kooks for Lex's 20p prize, even if you don't like them, and crown them as the INDIE-EST BAND EVER.
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Date: 2006-09-06 09:20 am (UTC)