Mercury Music Prize Nominations 2005

[ho chi feen]

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Sorry if this has been posted (as it no doubt has) but the nominations are:



Bloc Party – 'Silent Alarm'
Hard-Fi –'Stars Of CCTV'
Kaiser Chiefs – 'Employment'
MIA – 'Arular'
The Magic Numbers – 'The Magic Numbers'
Coldplay – 'X&Y'
The Go! Team – 'Thunder, Lightning Strike'
Antony And The Johnsons – 'I Am A Bird Now'
KT Tunstall – 'Eye To The Telescope'
Maximo Park – 'A Certain Trigger'
Seth Lakeman – 'Kitty Jay'
Polar Bear – 'Held On The Tips Of Fingers'


Doesn't seem to be quite as good a list as it once used to be, but some decent ones on there nonetheless. Maximo Park would get my shoud, but of course, tipping the winner of the Mercuries is fallacy... as is tipping the winner for any kind of sustained success. Thoughts?

[PabloDollbox]

Bloc Party or Maximo Park

[paudie]

this is not a list of big guns, is it?

Coldplay – 'X&Y' are the big name so will not win the big name never wins
Kaiser Chiefs – 'Employment' will not win as well

but you got to ask your self who wants to win this for nine out of ten artist or band its the kiss of death

[STEVIEG]

Can't understand how Coldplay got in but from what i've heard on the list its defo MIA, one of the most innovative and fresh albums of the year!

[rulersfan]

magic numbers all the way!

[jmc]

MIA or Hard-Fi? Love both. Or if the judges are feelin' lazy, Kaiser Chiefs or KT Tunstall...

[dotty]

recent winners......
1997 Roni Size & Reprazent
1998 Gomez
1999 Talvin Singh
2000 Badly Drawn Boy
2001 PJ Harvey
2002 Ms. Dynamite
2003 Dizzee Rascal
2004 Franz Ferdinand

curse perhaps and its for that very reason i hope bloc party dont win it even though their album "silent alarm" is the best so far this year (imo obviously!)

give it to KT KT Tunstall!

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[ho chi feen]

Originally Posted by dotty

recent winners......
1997 Roni Size & Reprazent
1998 Gomez
1999 Talvin Singh
2000 Badly Drawn Boy
2001 PJ Harvey
2002 Ms. Dynamite
2003 Dizzee Rascal
2004 Franz Ferdinand

Ahra give it to the Kaisers so, can't see them disappearing off the face of the earth at this stage.

[Cyprus Avenue]

Nah....give it to The Go! Team.

Great great album and they were a genuinely nice bunch when they played here.
Twas funny....straight after the gig, Ninja went back to the tour bus to cram for her college exams!

[Jim Comic]

and the winner is........



antony and the johnsons



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