lmfao Jamie.

 

 

I still love him. Artists I love are given immunity and can insult whoever they like. ahaha.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(he does have a slight point though..... :uhoh: )

who's actually singing the second verse of "Baby I'm Yours"?

Matt?

Someone from the 747's

Monkeys tipped for Mercury prize

 

 

The Arctic Monkeys are favourites to win this year's Mercury Music Prize for album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, at a ceremony in London.

Bookmakers say the album, which became the fastest-selling debut album in the UK in February, has "frozen the rest of the field out of the betting".

 

"It'll be a major surprise if they fail to win," said a Ladbrokes spokesman.

 

The Sheffield-based band are up against nominees including Muse, Editors, Thom Yorke, Richard Hawley and Guillemots. More than 200 albums were considered for the 2006 prize. Other contenders include Hot Chip, Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan, rapper Sway and Scritti Politti - who last experienced major success in the mid-1980s.

 

The winner, announced at the London's Grosvenor House Hotel on Tuesday night, takes home a cheque for £20,000 - and can expect a surge in album sales.

 

Victory for the Arctic Monkeys would cap a remarkable 12 months for the group, nearly a year since their single, I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, reached number one in the UK.

 

But Mercury judges have a history of defying expectations.

 

Last year Antony and the Johnsons unexpectedly took the award for the album I Am A Bird Now, ahead of big-selling acts like the Kaiser Chiefs and KT Tunstall. In 2003, Coldplay missed out to the little-known Dizzee Rascal, while in 1997, Radiohead's OK Computer - which frequently features in polls to find the greatest album of all time - was beaten by Roni Size/Reprazent's New Forms.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5315452.stm

Funny, all the albums they turned down are classics now. I've never heard of the acts that beat them out.

 

 

"It'll be a major surprise if they fail to win," said a Ladbrokes spokesman.

 

lmfao, therefore they won't. *sigh* oh man lmfao.

 

Cheers for the article, Ian.

Uh... THEY WON!!!!! :D

 

:juggle: :juggle: :juggle:

WHOA!

 

 

YAY I'M GLAD I'M WRONG!

 

 

:dance: :dance:

Victory for the Arctic Monkeys would cap a remarkable 12 months for the group, nearly a year since their single, I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor, reached number one in the UK.

That's great!

 

Got to be happy for them, after all they deserved it. :crown:

 

Strange to think it's been only a year of Arctic Monkeys! :wacko:

I feel like I've been a fan forever! :laugh4:

Mercury Winners Arctic Monkeys the Best of British? Think Again

 

The judges of the U.K.'s Nationwide Mercury Prize were acclaimed Tuesday when they unexpectedly did the expected and honored the hot favorites, the Arctic Monkeys.

 

The Mercury judges have a history of trying to prove their ``cooler than thou'' credentials by selecting the obscure over the obvious. They played it safe -- too safe.

 

The Mercury aims to select the best of British or Irish music in any genre, including pop, classical and folk. The trouble is, ``Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'' (Domino) is just OK. For all the swagger of the Monkeys -- barely out of their teens -- it isn't the best album, not even the best rock album.

 

The men from Sheffield have good moments, such as ``I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor.'' The ``fantastic'' energy lauded by the prize doesn't excuse that other songs are dull.

 

The shortlist had more worthy choices. Muse's ``Black Holes and Revelations'' (Warner Bros) has greater ambition, with an opener, ``Take a Bow,'' that builds from a whisper to a guitar storm. It raises hairs on the back of the neck in the way the Monkeys don't.

 

Also on the shortlist was the debut by Editors, ``The Back Room'' (Kitchenware). Seriously impressive, heavy with meaning and Joy Division style bass, it's more enjoyable than you might think.

 

The Editors' local rivals from Birmingham, central England, the Guillemots, were listed for ``Through the Windowpane'' (Polydor). The CD fits the Mercury love for eccentricity and has a reservoir of inventiveness that extends to a 12-minute suite ``Sao Paulo,'' which sounds like Spiritualized or Yes updated for 2006.

 

Obscure and Overlooked

 

The rest of the shortlist included the obscure and the overlooked. If the judges had been looking for something off-the- wall, they might have backed, among others, Isobel Campbell's chilled ``Ballad of the Broken Seas'' (V2), Zoe Rahman's jazzy ``Melting Pot'' (Manushi), Thom Yorke's experimental ``The Eraser'' (XL) or Scritti Politti's resurgent ``White Bread, Black Beer'' (Rough Trade.)

 

Some even better titles weren't short listed. The debut by Kooks ``Inside In/Inside Out'' (EMI/Virgin UK) got eclipsed by all the Monkey business even though it is a better slice of Britpop.

 

I'd argue the shortlist should have included the Pet Shop Boys, Beautiful South, Snow Patrol, the Streets, Graham Coxon and Kate Bush.

 

The organizers say the prize focuses on the music, not sales or media exposure. One aim is to highlight ``albums which have escaped mainstream media attention.'' Yet the prize Web site notes that the Monkeys' CD was the U.K.'s fastest-selling debut.

 

Extra Sales

 

They hardly need publicity and don't even want the 20,000 pound ($37,860) prize, which they gave to charity. The likely extra sales are worth more, though some of the other nominees are in greater need. The Monkeys already scooped the 2006 Brit award for Best British breakthrough act.

 

The Mercury picked Dizzee Rascal over Coldplay in 2003; and Roni Size/ Reprazent's ``New Forms'' in 1997 over Radiohead's ``OK Computer,'' often cited in polls as among the finest rock albums. In 1999 the winner was Talvin Singh's ``OK,'' beating Blur's ``13.'' Last year, the Kaiser Chiefs and K.T. Tunstall were beaten by the New York-based Antony and the Johnsons.

 

Often the award has been a poisoned chalice: Pulp, Gomez, Suede and Franz Ferdinand failed to follow though on their success.

 

The Arctic Monkeys need to be free to develop naturally and may well record a great CD in time. So early in their careers, they do not deserve a Mercury millstone around their necks.

 

The CDs are priced from $16.98 in the U.S. and 9.99 pounds in the U.K.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aJ53j0WM1ixw&refer=muse

omg omg omg the artic monkeys are hot!!!! :P:P:P

lmfao I agree.

 

 

Oy vey, I hate writers who report something then have it be one huge opinion piece. I'm so sick of other people's opinions. :snore:

HEY DANIELLE, WHAT'S SHAKIN'?!

HI KELLI, I DON'T REALLY KNOW. I'M TIRED.

 

 

 

I'M BORED.

WELL I'VE GOT CRAMPS SO I'M GONNA GO LIE DOWN.

 

NICE TALKIN' TO YA. lmfaoooooo.

 

i can't wait until i get my computer back, dude.

LMFAO COOL. SOUNDS LIKE FUN. or not :(

 

 

me too. like wtf, when are you going to. I'm still waiting on my Spinto Spam. Srsly.

Just noticed I started this thread when I used to love them. I now hate them rather strange....... What kind of song is choo choo anyway???

LMFAO that's irony for ya.

 

 

 

A really old song, that's for sure.

hehe good stuff......

*BUMP GODDAMNIT*

 

 

 

They're recording, aren't they? Any thoughts when the new album will be released? I'm thinking before summer '07 so they'll do the festival circuit again.

 

 

Just starting a convo back up ;)

Oh are them? First post on this thread for some strange reason. In the deepest of myself I know I'll probably get addicted to this place too. Oh whatever! Are them recording? I'm totally lost when it comes to news.

I heard that they went back into the studio about three weeks ago. I haven't heard any official news, though, it was just a random thought I had. They don't seem to be a slow, annoyingly perfectionish band where we'll be waiting five years for a new album (I swear to god I'm not ragging on Coldplay, promise! :uhoh: ). I have a feeling it'd be out in Springish '07. Or at least that's what it was alluded to. I'm pretty sure Alex told us Irish at Oxegen they'd be back "next year". hMmmm. I think I also had a mild concussion though :laugh4:

well, i read that Matt think they record could also be ready to released at the same time their first record was released. so that would have to be at the beginning of 2007.

dunno.

sounds a little too early, but i wouldn't mind a brandnew album of course! :laugh3:

*bump*

Did someone photoshop that first one? :thinking: Matt's nose seems to.... just end...?