So, they won the Mercury Music Prize. If I was actually a man of my word, this would mean that I’m about to leave the country for somewhere with better music. Trouble is, I’m not quite sure where that would be these days, so I’ll probably stay here for a bit. I mean, we still have Muse and the Guillemots (who were robbed, but never really stood a chance) so it’s not all bad.
Two of the judges (Lauren Laverne and some guy with a beard) afterwards, and they said the reason that the Arctic Monkeys won was that, if you look back on 2006 and are asked to pick an album to represent that year, it would be theirs. Well, yes, insofar as 2006 has been the year that godawful MySpace-spawned post-Libertines tedious garage-rock took over the world, and if you want the album that best epitomises godawful MySpace-spawned post-Libertines tedious garage-rock, then the Arctic Monkeys is that album. But it is not not not the best album of the last year. Not by a long way.
Still, at least Sandi Thom wasn’t nominated, so it’s not all bad. But in the meantime, go out and buy a copy of the quite frankly brilliant “Through the Windowpane” by Guillemots and find out what music ought to sound like.
Not a fan then?
Aww c’mon, they’re not THAT bad…
And I just can’t get into the seagu.. albatr… ohh that lot you mentioned.
When i discovered the winner ont he way home i have the album (from my job last year as music editor) and so though stick it on see if i can try and even like it. Nope it is so crap! ‘An album that represents 2006’ Thom Yorke – envrioment on its last legs, MP’s being killed, and other such stuff that makes you think the horseman are just around the corner waiting for the signal. The music Industry is rather rubbish at the moment, this is what happens when you give children power (myspace). Ah well Thom Yorke should have won.