Mercury Shortlist

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare
Basquiat Strings featuring Seb Rochford's Basquiat Strings
Bat for Lashes' Fur & Gold
Dizzee Rascal's Maths & English
Jamie T's Panic Prevention
Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future
Maps' We Can Create
New Young Pony Club's Fantastic Playroom
Fionn Regan's The End of History
The View's Hats Off to the Buskers
Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
The Young Knives' Voices of Animals and Men

go on then.

Comments

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Is winning the Mercury still considered some kind of curse? Looking at the list of winners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_music_prize) it doesn't seem to be that bad. However, I'm still not sure that I'd want the ones I actually like (Young Knives, Klaxons, Winehouse) to win, just in case.

The View, as noted already, utterly incomprehensible. I own it. I have listened to it quite a few times. It is 'fun' at best and 'utter rubbish' at worst. They are really not very good.