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Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Tuesday, 8th September 2009
I've got to learn to write snappier titles.
This is a fantasy game to rival the latest edition of those other fantasy games so let's call it 2.0
Here's how to play.
1/ Choose a year prior to 1992
2/ Go online somewhere or use the power of your own memory to come up with a shortlist of 12 albums from that year. They need to be from British or Irish artists.
3/ Marvel at your work.
For example 1979 would present the following dilema
Metal Box, London Calling, Armed Forces, Bomber, Dragnet, Cut, The Crack, Coming Up for Air, Into the Music, Do It Yourself, A Different Kind of Tension,Drums and Wires, Even Serpents Shine,I'm the Man, Imflammable material, Live at the Witch Trials, Machine Gun Ettiquette, Specials, Secondhand Daylight...
Already that's too many and I haven't even mentioned Imperial Wizzard.
Feel free to dissect the year of your choice. And I will be making odd interjection into Lammo's show from the awards ceremony so do keep us posted with what you make of it.
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Tuesday, 8th September 2009
I haven't even mentioned Imperial WizzardÂ
Oooops, you just did.
Twelve albums from 1 year? I don't think they released that many in 1931 - ahhhhh, 1931...
Yet again on Mercury night, I find myself out and about, DABless, so I hope Radcliffe & Maconie are covering it too! It's not 6FM...
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And the nominations for 1968 are:
Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones
Astral Weeks - Van Morrisson
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter - The Incredible String Band
Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention
The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Karyobin - Spontaneous Music Ensemble (token free form jazz/pretentious unlistenable rubbish nomination)
Tons Of Sobs - Free
Traffic - Traffic
Large As Life & Twice As Natural - Davy Graham (token folk/blues troubadour nomination)
The Pentangle - Pentangle
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - The Small Faces
And the winner is... (interminable pause)...
A Tramp Shining - Richard Harris.
All together now: "Someone's left the cake out in the rain..."
The White Album was a controversial omission, you may have noticed.
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I was giving this some thought, and happened upon 1973.
Dark Side of the Moon is the obvious stand-out for me, but then you also have Aladdin Sane, For Your Pleasure, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (sorry), Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Mind Games, Here Come The Warm Jets, Quadrophenia, Queen, not to mention Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Tanx and Cum On Feel the Noize (yes, I did it.).
Makes this year's list look a bit anaemic in comparison, really.
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am I the only person who, on hearing "Mercury Music Prize", sighs because of the great telecomms company that is no longer with us? All I have left is a Gypsy Kings compact disc...
In 1985, this would surely have been the GPO British Telecom Part of the Post Office (note the vans don't mention that any more?) shortlist:
Passions, The, Passion Plays
Chameleons, The, What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Propaganda, A Secret Wish
Cocteau Twins, The Pink Opaque
Sisters Of Mercy, The, First And Last And Always
Dead Can Dance, Spleen And Ideal
Sharkey, Feargal, Feargal Sharkey
Echo & The Bunnymen, Songs To Learn & Sing
Scritti Politti, Cupid & Psyche 85
Armoury Show, The, Waiting for the Floods
Waterboys, The, This Is The Sea
These acts were disqualified for being too foreign:
Dissidenten, Sahara Elektrik
Eno - Moebius - Roedelius - Plank, Begegnungen II
Propaganda claimed it had been proved they worked for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's rally unit and so qualified.
Dead can Dance were so weird no-one was too sure about them, though it was claimed they might be Australian.
The Cocteaux were favourites with the kids who had queued at Our Price in Wimbledon to buy the 12" of Echoes From A Shallow Bay/Tiny Dynamine EP.
The Armoury Show were awarded the coveted "Best Band Starring Richard Jobson Whom No-One Will Have Heard Of Much in 24 Years' Time" Award. In fact, this award was made for the last time.
But for the "Record of Sheer Brilliance Which Will Be Ageless Apart From The Slight Giveaway In The Title" Award, it was Cupid & Psyche 85 which swept the 1985 GPOs...
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Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Tuesday, 8th September 2009
Someone had to do 1977.
Here’s my go:
The Clash - The Clash
Pink Flag – Wire
My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
Never Mind the B** Here's The Sex Pistols - The Sex Pistols
In The City - The Jam
Low - David Bowie
Heroes - David Bowie
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
New Boots And Panties! - Ian Dury
Motörhead - Motörhead
Dammed Damned Dammed – The Damned
Animals - Pink Floyd
If Bowie hadn’t already won one back in ‘74, Dury might have got it for ‘the journey’. Then after the judges row, the Pistols would have won, unless said judges had had a run in with McClaren, leaving the door wide open for The Damned, who would have split the remaining punk vote with The Clash (note, no Stranglers), allowing Costello to walk away with the prize on the singer/songwriter ticket – then we’d still be moaning that Wire should have won it 32 years on...
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Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Tuesday, 8th September 2009
Cor - got stopped from writing the word B0110CK5 - in 2009!
PS - Only put that Pink Floyd record on there in the spirit of balance. It is, of course, B0110CK5.
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John, you're OK until a woman dressed in Milk Tray gear cuts off your privileges for avoiding the swear filter...
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I will investigate this as the title of the album relies on that word and I've said many a time in that context on air. Seems.... odd.
In the meantime, I'm going back to bed. Can someone do 1974 please?
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robert wyatt – rock bottom
brian eno – taking tiger mountain (by strategy)
roxy music – country life
henry cow – unrest
ivor cutler – dandruff
david bowie – diamond dogs
mott the hoople – the hoople
the sensational alex harvey band – the impossible dream
kevin ayers – the confessions of doctor dream and other stories
richard & linda thomson – i want to see the bright lights tonight
cockney rebel – the psychomodo
sailor – sailor
sailor is included despite glass of champagne not being on the album. my moneys on ivor.
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in my haste to get back to bed, i mean work, forgot to say that'll be 1974. i was ten.
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re: swear filter, we know that on the radio edit of the Stranglers' "Peaches" the anatomically graphic, yet biologically implausible, reference is retained yet the (only) medium-strength swearword becomes "Oh *No*!"...and that's the third time I've mentioned it here...
...we all know the Pistols were out to shock and I see no reason why their potty-mouthed album title (which we all now know) should appear on a friendly site and give them the (retrospective) oxygen of publicity.
I mean, I've met some of the people who post here and, my goodness, when talking, they could win the Mercury Award for Swearing!
...but not in print here....
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Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Wednesday, 9th September 2009
1978
Another Music In A Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks
The Scream - Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Image Is Cracked - Alternative TV
Real Life - Magazine
Second Annual Report - Throbbing Gristle
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Life In A Scotch Living Room (Vol 2)- Ivor Cutler
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
PiL - PiL
Chairs Missing - Wire
All Mod Cons - The Jam
This Heat - This Heat
Winner? - Chairs Missing - Wire
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1978 and the world is going "actually music is never going to get any better than this".
Add John Cooper Clarke's "Disguise in Love" (showing the woman who is not called "Speech Impediment The Bells" how a spoken word record should work and how useful it is to have a *tune*, should the punter find, in her opinion, that the vocal delivery is puerile, irritating, badly-enunciated doggerel that says nothing to her about her life);
Magazine's "Real Life";
Penetration's "Moving Targets";
and this act was named as GPO winner 1978 but, 31 years later, is still waiting for an engineer to connect them to the prize:
Ultravox for the timeless "Systems of Romance"...
"Syste
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Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Wednesday, 9th September 2009
In response to Rob in Sheffield, who wrote to Gideon to complain about a couple of omissions from the 1968 short list, the judging panel was unable to consider the merits - or otherwise - of S.F. Sorrow, as The Pretty Things failed to cough up the necessary fee (retrospectively adjusted for inflation down to a very reasonable £14/12/6d). The Zombies were disqualified for their egregious misspelling of "Odyssey".
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"Systes are doing in for themselves?"
...caught out by the Revenge of the GPO for using my own walkie-talkie to the subscriber line in contravention of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949.
Probably.
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Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Wednesday, 9th September 2009
Alternative 1978 List:
Dynamite Daze - Kevin Coyne
Dread Beat & Blood - Linton Kwesi Johnson (Winner!)
Tell us the Truth - Sham 69
Adolescent Sex - Japan
Germ Free Adolescents - X ray spex
Power in the Darkness - Tom Robinson Band
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
Dire Straits - Dire Straits (Bet it would have been included)
Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts - The Adverts
Music for Airports - Brian Eno
Wreckless Eric - Wreckless Eric
Give ‘em Enough Rope – The Clash (Disappointed two years running – but they wouldn’t have turned up anyway)
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"1978 and the world is going "actually music is never going to get any better than this"."
Some would say it never did.
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"1978 and the world is going "actually music is never going to get any better than this"."Â
Some would say it never did.Â
I was mis-quoting X-Ray Spex - the year in their song is 1977 and what the world is going is "mad"- but 1978 is full of landmark albums on the cusp between Punk and New Wave before the haircuts became more important than the music.
Look again at that list and sigh at the total and utter irrelevance of the 2009 Mercury Prize. I would love to hear new bands making music anything like as good as this 1978 stuff...
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oo, what's happened to the thread display? Some hard-working techies have had to miss the footie to make that happen! Kudos, techie guys...
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