Mark Wilcox AND Daniel Reid wrote on Jul 24^th, 2008, 5:22pm:


Much better than last year's abysmal list.  Not too many obvious ones left out.  M.I.A should be on there somewhere though, and probably winning it.  Would certainly make for a more worthy choice than Adele or Laura Marling.  So very dull.  

As for who should win of those nominated, in can really only be Elbow.  They've been getting better every record and this one is just incredible.  Can see them picking up the award too.  LSP, Radiohead or Burial wouldn't be a disaster either.

So would I, although the thing is they've both released better albums.  It's rumoured Elbow only lost to Ms Dynamite in 2001 by a single vote.

I keep meaning to listen to neon neon, loving the super furry animals as I do. I've only heard one album from this list so I hope radiohead wins
Also it seems like it's only been a couple of weeks since this last happened.

That Ms Dynamite album was genuinely terrible, don't know what the judges were thinking that year.

Anyway, it'd have to be Burial for me out of that lot. I think it'll be between him and Radiohead - they may be an obvious choice but there's a chance they'll get the 'it's about time' vote. I'd be sorely tempted to stick a few quid on Burial at 7/1, but I can't really be arsed.

Christ knows what Adele is doing on there though, and that last British Sea Power album is the worst thing they've done by a street. Dull as dish. Laura Marling bores the a*se off me as well. And it's funny how Estelle is only getting real recognition now she's turned herself into an identikit R'n'B warbler.

Radiohead or Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. Elbow wouldn't be disappointing either, but sh*t like Adele and and Estelle can gtfo. On the strength of their music, they don't even deserve to win a £5 WH Smiths gift voucher, let alone a Mercury.

Mark Wilcox AND Daniel Reid wrote on Jul 25^th, 2008, 11:28am:


This.

Also, Adele and what was that lyric..should I give up, or should I just keep chasing pavements? Jesus, what a f*cking awful song. I just want to grab her by her chubby little head and say, give up, love. There's no way you're ever gonna catch that ice cream truck weighing what you do.

I just looked up the last shadow puppets single and that seems pretty good, though I do like the arctic monkeys. I know some people (stu ) don't though.

It'd be cool if radiohead won as it is a really good album, especially coming after hail to the thief. Though I guess they'd probably be the band that would benefit the least from winning.