Music for repossession (Fade like starlight to a glimmer)
Well here's a surprise. Girls Aloud have won the Popjustice £20 Music Prize, awarded every September for the best pop record of the year recorded by Girls Aloud. Call The Shots knocked The Sugababes' About You Now into 2nd place. Clearly the Girls of Allowedness's gambling references and slightly-sad mid-tempo pop have proved the winning soundtrack for recession Britain. Song 4 Mutya apparently put up a good fight, but probably having the worst video of 2007 cost it the prize (even if it did feature a giant badger).
Meanwhile the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize For Music To Listen To In Your Once-Smug New Home While Waiting For Your Mortgage To Foreclose And Your Dinner Party Guests To Criticise Your Tesco Value Bolivian Chardonnay Which Is All You Can Afford Even After Taking The Kids Out Of Their Private Nursery went to Elbow. Truly they are the sound of credit crunch Britain. I tend to confuse them with Keane (happier) and I Am Kloot (more sarcastic), but I do have Elbow's first album, which is not exciting. At least one track of their appallingly titled new long player Seldom Seen Kid sounds like long-forgotten former Mercury winners Gomez. But I've got 3 of the other shortlisted albums, and they're all crap (Neon Neon, Last Shadow Puppets, and British Sea Power). With Alex Turner failing to win 2 years in a row (and The Reverend from Reverend And The Makers quitting the music industry in disgust) is this the end of Arctic Monkeys-related indie? Probably they should have given it to Radiohead, but maybe they've burnt their bridges with the music industry or something with their free album mess-up. Or maybe In Rainbows is just really crap too.
Meanwhile the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize For Music To Listen To In Your Once-Smug New Home While Waiting For Your Mortgage To Foreclose And Your Dinner Party Guests To Criticise Your Tesco Value Bolivian Chardonnay Which Is All You Can Afford Even After Taking The Kids Out Of Their Private Nursery went to Elbow. Truly they are the sound of credit crunch Britain. I tend to confuse them with Keane (happier) and I Am Kloot (more sarcastic), but I do have Elbow's first album, which is not exciting. At least one track of their appallingly titled new long player Seldom Seen Kid sounds like long-forgotten former Mercury winners Gomez. But I've got 3 of the other shortlisted albums, and they're all crap (Neon Neon, Last Shadow Puppets, and British Sea Power). With Alex Turner failing to win 2 years in a row (and The Reverend from Reverend And The Makers quitting the music industry in disgust) is this the end of Arctic Monkeys-related indie? Probably they should have given it to Radiohead, but maybe they've burnt their bridges with the music industry or something with their free album mess-up. Or maybe In Rainbows is just really crap too.