What on earth will be nominated for the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize 2005 shortlist?

Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Jamelia - Thank You
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
Ty - Upwards
Amy Winehouse - Frank
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons

Franz Ferdinand won it in 2004, of course. And Dizzee Rascal won it the year before that.

Probably Jem, who will probably win...

Alasdair Roberts perhaps?

Mercury Prize 2005 Shortlist Predictions

Later today [Tuesday] at around 11.30am the Nationwide Mercury Prize shortlist of 12 albums will be announced.

To be honest, overall the last 12 months of British and Irish music has been rather disappointing too many artists going the easy route of copying the past.

Predicting What the Mercury Prize Shortlist Nominations will be:

Acoustic Ladyland - Last Chance Disco [this is hotly tipped to be the jazz nomination]
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm [the best crossover British rock/ guitar album of the past 12 months]
British Sea Power - Open Season [another rock album in the 12 shortlist]
Go Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike [the uptempo fun art-pop album]
Kaisers Chiefs - Employment [this ghastly simpleton singalong student band will get in. The panel wll say it represents English culture and songcraft zzzzz]
Kano - Home Sweet Home [that will be the urban album]
Jamie Lidell - Multiply [maybe an outsider]
The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers [dull media darlings cross ref with 6 music, xfm, mojo etc]
MIA - Arular [probably will get nominated]
Malcolm Middleton - Into the Woods [A Scottish entrant, distinctive album and vocal delivery]
Roisin Murphy - Ruby Blue [dull faux sophisticated wine bar muzak will get the nod to be inclusive, another female and the only Irish nomination]
Tom Vek - We Have Sound [another media darling, Mr Vek is way overhyped]

Note: If Coldplay get nominated the whole panel of judges deserve to be openly ridiculed. That whiney Chris Martin voice is nauseating, coupled with the predictable wishy washy dull guitar backdrop - it's a ghastly bland combination.

Other Eligible Albums:

I have developed a list using RYM: Mercury Music Prize 2005 -- Rate Your Music

Mercury Music Prize 2005
A list by djmartian

Some Eligible Albums for the Mercury Music Prize 2005. i.e British or Irish Artists who released an album between July 26th 2004 and July 18th 2005

What should be Nominated?

In terms of idealism and a well balanced mix of styles, imagine a 12 Shortlist as follows: it's not going to happen like this though !

#1 Acoustic Ladyland - Last Chance Disco
#2 Bark Psychosis - ///Codename: Dustsucker [If I were voting this would be the overall winner]
#3 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
#4 Brooks - Red Tape
#5 Richard Davis - Details
#6 The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
#7 High Contrast - High Society
#8 Jesu - Jesu
#9 Kelpe - Sea Inside Body
#10 Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
#11 Ryan Teague - Six Preludes
#12 Van Der Graaf Generator - Present

Another 38 Eligible Albums: Will any make it to the official shortlist ?

#13 Axis of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From the Transition Hospital
#14 Tim Bowness - My Hotel Year
#15 British Sea Power - Open Season
#16 Broadway Project - In Finite
#17 Calyx - No Turning Back
#18 Ben Christophers - The Space In Between
#19 Matt Elliott - Drinking Songs
#20 The Emperor Machine - Aimee Tallulah is Hypnotised
#21 Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
#22 Freeform Five - Strangest Things
#23 Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
#24 Githead - Profile
#25 Martin Grech - Unholy
#26 Guapo - Black Oni
#27 Homelife - Guru Man Hub Cap Lady
#28 Hood - Outside Closer
#29 Influx UK - 2 Million and Rising
#30 July Skies - The English Cold
#31 Nostalgia 77 - The Garden
#32 Piano Magic - Disaffected
#33 Polar Bear [GBR] - Held on the Tips of Fingers
#34 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
#35 Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
#36 65 Days of Static - The Fall of Math
#37 Slam - Year Zero
#38 Alex Smoke - Incommunicado
#39 State River Widening - Cottonhead
#40 Stromba - Tales From the Sitting Room
#41 Theo Travis - Earth to Ether
#42 Tunng - Mother's Daughter And Other Songs
#43 Twin Zero - Monolith
#44 Mark Van Hoen - The warmth inside you
#45 Vector Lovers - Vector Lovers
#46 Cristian Vogel - Station 55
#47 Vince Watson - Sublimina
#48 Whitey - The Light At the End of the Tunnel Is A Train
#49 Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires
#50 Yellotone - Tar File Junction

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Actually that Eno album stands a good chance of being shortlisted, I would have thought (if the last track hasn't scared the judges off).

must be after july 26th 2004 to qualify.

Bloc Party
British Sea Power
Futureheads
Hard-Fi
Jem
Kano
Magic Numbers
Malcolm Middleton
MIA
Roisin Murphy
Roots Manuva
Saint Etienne

Other possibles: Coldplay, Doves, Duke Spirit, Four Tet, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Go! Team, Kaiser Chiefs, Lemon Jelly, Maximo Park.

Hold on a moment - I rather like this album, and I resent the implication that this somehow makes me some sort of "student"....

Students don't mosh anyway, they always get upset when you start pummelling their faces.

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huh? that was dj martian's description not mine!

i rather like the k chiefs these days. then again i am a ghastly simpleton singalong middle-aged (glorified) accountant so one would expect it to be at least halfway up my street.

Thinking about it, though, Stephen Fretwell seems like a lock, plus at least one of The Coldplay, The Embrace or The Athlete. Futureheads were released too early for this list.

(I'll start caring about this an awful lot more if Universal Audio somehow finds its way on there, but I've not exactly got my fingers crossed. The whole 'no longer together' thing kind of buggers it up a bit.)

DDI - Magic Numbers are generally classed as being 'from London'. Be extremely surprised were they not on there.

mike t-diva, Goldfrapp has not even been released yet !

So OTM it hurts.

DJ Martian, wrt Electric Soft Parade, "fan" is a taking it a bit far, but I've seen them a couple of times (once at a festival and once because Clearlake were supposed to be on the bill with them) and have both albums. Wanna make something of it, eh? ;~P

Go Team
James Yorkston
Karl Jenkins
Coldplay
Kano
Magic Numbers
Malcolm Middleton
MIA
Roisin Murphy
Kaiser Chiefs
Saint Etienne

I'll be surprised if Coldplay are nominated this year.

Bloc Party
Stephen Fretwell
Roisin Murphy
Go Team
Coldplay
KT Tunstall
Embrace
Kano
Girls Aloud
A Jazz Album
Magic Numbers
MIA

HIS EAR IS ON THE PULSE

Well, the PCD's obviously, but wheyyyyy....

According to the midweeks, yes.

Of course, this means that you'll have to play the PCDs at Club Popular next week...

(i.e. I thought I'd have to play Coldplay)

I quite like the PCDs anyway.

[Antony said] he’d be spending his £20,000 prize money on a new wardrobe, telling us: “I really should buy some new clothes. I look a bit rough.”

Despite previously blasting Antony as “American”, the Kaiser Chiefs said if they couldn’t win then they’re glad the prize didn’t go to a rock rival.

Frontman Ricky Wilson told us: “I would have been very jealous if Maximo Park, Hard-Fi or Bloc Party had won.

“We can’t contend with Antony And The Johnsons as they’re so different, so I don’t really mind.

“Although I thought KT Tunstall should have got it.”

And Hard-Fi weren’t too upset about losing either, with singer Richard Archer revealing his group had already made the prize money back in alcohol.

“Antony fully deserves it but we’ve drunk £20,000 worth of booze – so we’ve also won!” he boasted.

Still 'funny' that Coldplay will seemingly never have a #1.

I have boycotted the PCDs in the same way I boycotted Spacedust.

Alan: [Hands him the folder] Just some notes I made last night, for a laugh. I was drunk, you know. Yeah, I mean, I woke up this morning asleep on the sink, just like this. [leans on the bar, half-crouching, with his eyes closed]. I'd been asleep for eight hours like that. Got up, walked downstairs, straight downstairs. Had breakfast, didn't even wash my hands. Cause I'm a bloody bloke!

This'll be the third time they've been kept off the top, following previous defeats at the considerable hands of Darius and Crazy Frog. Make of that what you will.

i'd be so happy about the pussycat dolls if i'd never heard tori's version!

my god, how big trouble you'd be in, if the kaisers wouldn't exist...
confess, you need them, or where could you swagger with your MIA and bark psychosis records?

i just hope antony puts his big johnson to good use now and gives us an album full of songs that are really worthy of his voice. my problem really is that fucking cover of "mysteries of love": now i've heard him do that, absolutely nothing can compare.

i urge you all to (soul)seek it out ASAP. it's on "i fell in love with a dead boy", IIRC. i can YSI later too, maybe.

Antony & The Johnsons - 1 (1)
Seth Lakeman - 2 (5) (WOW)
KT Tunstall - 3 (3)
Coldplay - 4 (2)
Magic Numbers - 5 (9)
Kaiser Chiefs - 8 (8)
Hard-Fi - 10 (14)
The Go! Team - 12 (16)
Antony & The Johnsons (debut) - 14 (32)
Polar Bear - 16 (22) (playing it now - excellent)
Antony & The Johnsons (I Am A Bird Now, alternative version, huh???) - (22) 44
Bloc Party - 24 (34)
Maximo Park - 25 (38)
And, er, MIA - 39 (58)

Remember when Jagger's solo album sold 158 copies in its first first week.

Why is the MIA album selling so badly compared to all the others? Is it on sale at a less-discounted price?

1 - Antony & the Johnsons
2 - Coldplay
4 - KT Tunstall
8 - Kaiser Chiefs
10 - Magic Numbers
12 - Seth Lakeman
15 - Hard-Fi
22 - Go! Team
50 - Bloc Party
60 - Maximo Park
79 - Polar Bear
and, er, 200 - M.I.A.

I note that Antony is not even in the Woolworths album chart, which currently has the Stones at number one.

OK, the Top 10 for w/e 17 Dec 1983 FROM MEMORY was as follows:

1 (1) Flying Pickets - Only You
2 (2) Paul Young - Love Of The Common People
3 (5) Slade - My Oh My
4 (11) Culture Club - Victims
5 (4) Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
6 (6) Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together
7 (9) Cliff Richard - Please Don't Fall In Love
8 (22) Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
9 (8) Tracey Ullman - Move Over Darling
10 (3) Billy Joel - Uptown Girl.

Impressed, aren't you, ladies?

Well I'm not a lady but certainly impressed, as I now know the top 10 from the week I was born. Cheers.