taking sides:

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Mercury Music Prize:

Bloc Party – 'Silent Alarm'
Hard-Fi –'Stars Of CCTV'
Kaiser Chiefs – 'Employment'
MIA – 'Arular'
The Magic Numbers – 'The Magic Numbers'
Coldplay – 'X&Y'
The Go! Team – 'Thunder, Lightning Strike'
Antony And The Johnsons – 'I Am A Bird Now'
KT Tunstall – 'Eye To The Telescope'
Maximo Park – 'A Certain Trigger'
Seth Lakeman – 'Kitty Jay'
Polar Bear – 'Held On The Tips Of Fingers'

vs

PopJustice £20 Music Prize

» Basement Jaxx 'Oh My Gosh'
» Charlotte Church 'Crazy Chick'
» The 411 'Dumb'
» Girls Aloud 'Wake Me Up'
» Goldfrapp 'Ooh La La'
» Kaiser Chiefs 'Every Day I Love You Less And Less'
» Mylo 'In My Arms'
» Rachel Stevens 'Negotiate With Love'
» Shapeshifters 'Lola's Theme'
» Uniting Nations 'Out Of Touch'
» Verbalicious 'Don't Play Nice'
» Robbie Williams 'Radio'

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Popjustice list is VERY disappointing.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Actually, Mercury Prize is proven BETTER by science by dint of having 2 records I really like as opposed to 0.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that would be coldplay and kt tunstall i assume? ;)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's basically Black People Don't Exist (apart from token 'street' 'edgy' names) vs Black People Don't Exist (unless their music is so weak and diluted that it doesn't scare us), innit.