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

hi i am drunk sense probably not happening

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I am against it because of the attitude and the badness, really. I actually like quite a lot of music that sounds not dissimilar to the Basquiet case (har har har I am so drunk I am making with teh puns good god deliver me from the internets) but I dislike that they clearly consider themselves superior to other people because they are crap. Essentially, I could throw the same criticisms I have thrown at them at Rasputina, for instance, who I adore and own about 7000 albums by but the difference is that Rasputina, despite having a clear 'we are bringing cellos into the fore of rock/pop' agenda, don't go 'o yeah and this means you're all ignorant peasants for not being us.'

Err, this is probably not making sense. Anyway, the point I wanted to make was that I don't mind the idea of people making music like the Basquiet people it's just I really think they have got it all wrong and as a violinist it makes me weep to realise this is the sort of thing people envisage when contemporary violin is brought to mind. I'd really rather people thought we were all mad Final Fantasy-esque types. :/

Re: hi i am drunk sense probably not happening

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

nb: (OH DEAR MOGGY SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER NOW PLZ) I am actually v. big fan of non-tonal, messy music when is done right but feel you shouldn't be able to pass bad musicianship off as it because it is an interesting and v. difficult to pull off sort of thing and I have immense respect for people that do. As was demonstrated by LoP and my affection for Katharine McPhee.

Re: hi i am drunk sense probably not happening

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha ok fair enough, i think i was misreading yr rant a bit -- actually i largely agree with it in regard to smugness (but this is based only on those mp3s), and am just somewhat feeling, well ok if robert wyatt sed he enjoyed it, then (on a good night?) maybe they are a lot better than they manage on record? (i interviewed him once, he is a very nice and quite sensible man)

everyone shd post more when drunk