Well, someone's got to say it...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

ARSE MORE LIKE.

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I still like their first album (which was also nominated for the Mercury Prize) an awful lot. I can't really stick up for this album though as I haven't heard it apart from the underwhelming singles.

I actually watched Lauren Laverne present it all in her nice red dress last night - some of the acts were surprisingly good in the snippets they showed (Adele, Laura Marling, Portico Quartet) and some did pretty dire performances (Radiohead, Neon Neon). I quite liked British Sea Power's air raid siren but the rest of their song was uninteresting.

The best bit though was the bed music when they were reading out the nominees - some sort of boshing minimal which I vaguely recognised and am desperate to identify so I can hear it again on repeat x1000.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I actually watched Lauren Laverne present it all in her nice red dress last night

Did you REALLY like her dress? I thought she looked like she was wearing a tablecloth. And not a nice tablecloth, but the sort that you get in a greasy spoon.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with greasy spoon tablecloths!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with greasy spoon tablecloths if they're being used for their primary purpose i.e. on a table in a greasy spoon. I'm not convinced they work so well on a 90s indie singer-turned TV presenter.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

The track used during the nominees recap was LCD Soundsystem's 'Get Innocuous'

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Really? I'm pleasantly surprised! I had sort of written off LCD Soundsytem as not worthy of general attention.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

when they're good they're great. but that's about a third of the time at best.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Even 'Yeah' and 'Losing My Edge'?! I think LCD Soundsystem are really amazing at all times except when they do albums, which then get bafflingly overrated by the music press.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

also i agree that Portico Quartet actually sounded good. love their steel drum type thing (it's called a Haang or something), and the clarinet/sax (i can't remember which it was) sounded really nice too (i wish Graham Massey had used this on 808 State's 'Pacific' now instead of that Yamaha digital version)