Mercury Music Prize nominees announced

[triggerhappy]

2006 Mercury Music Prize nominees

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Editors - The Back Room
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
Hot Chip - The Warning
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
Sway - This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5188692.stm

Thoughts?

[Kenny]

Entirely predictable, really.

Although Guillemots and Campbell / Lanegan are slight surprises, and pleasant surprises at that.

[Campestral]

i'd like to hear thom yorke's eraser i've read good things about it.

scritti politti???? man they have reformed? green his name is right? would like to hear that just to hear wtf.

i don't know any of the rest. artic monkey might be good but they've been so hyped my view is coloured.

who you think should win it?

[triggerhappy]

I actually think it'll be worth sticking a fiver on Guillemots.

[Stew]

I actually think it'll be worth sticking a fiver on Guillemots.

Likewise.

Then loads of people to pretend that they knew who they were before they won.

[Charlie Parker]

Guillemots bleh, Scritti Politti

[triggerhappy]

XFM are whoring them to the max at the moment. I think I've heard Love Song Number 43 about a thousand times since the beginning of July

[poprock]

I’ll be surprised if the prize doesn’t go to the ’Monkeys. Their album sales have dipped just enough by now for them to be due an award or two in order to get units shifting again.

Not that I’m cynical about the MMP or anything.

Personally, I would give it to Hawley.

[monkey star]

I prefer Milli Vanilli

[Semprini]

Then loads of people to pretend that they knew who they were before they won.

Heh.

I alweays felt sorry for the few people who actually were at the first Sex Pistols concert, because their voices are lost amongst the 20,000 who claim to have been there, and no-one will believe them.

[The Colossus]

Thoughts?

blah.

[Kenny]

I've got an old Guillemots 7" that I've listened to precisely twice. More because it's a hassle putting it on than because it's not good.

I had no idea they were taking off though. That's cool.

[Dec]

What album will Guardian readers be buying this Christmas? Find out soon!

I'd give it to Isobel Campbell. But the Mercury prize should go to Sway.

[Adele]

The Thom Torke album is actually really good, I'm listening to it just now. Impressed.

http://www.nme.com/artists/thom-yorke/media/261

[Vonnie]

I'm chuffed to see Hot Chip there, and the Guillemots have become a new favourite, but I'd like to see Isobel Campbell take it.