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Fantasy Album of the Year Shortlists
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Message 1.Â
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Monday, 6th September 2010
Hello,
As part of 6music’s coverage of the Mercury Prize, I thought we could have a round of Fantasy Mercury Shortlist.... ing. Choose any year. Then, from memory and/or some sort of online source, compile a shortlist of 12 albums for that particular year. British or Irish Artists. I found it a reasonable use of several minutes of my time when I tackled 1967 and came up with this.
The Beatles - St Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the gates of dawn
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majestys Request
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Procul Harum - Procul Harum
Small Faces – Small Faces
Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band - Gorilla
Cat Stevens - Matthew and Son
Moody Blues – Days of Future Past
Dubliners – a drop of the hard stuff
Ivor Cutler trio – Ludo
Ivor Cutler goes on to win in my world. I agonised over the Jimi Hendrix Experience and their eligibility. Still unresolved. And perhaps Humperdink should have been in as the pop act.
This was all kicked off by Lammo who came up with this list for 1980 a few weeks ago.
THE CURE – 17 Seconds
JAPAN – Gentlemen Take Polaroids
THE FALL – Grotesque After The Gramme
KATE BUSH – Never For Ever
BAUHAUS – In A Flat Field (token Goth)
NIC JONES – Penguin Eggs (token Folk)
THE JAM – Sound Effects
THROBBING GRISTLE – Heathen Earth (token industrial jazz)
JOHN FOXX – Metamatic
DAVID BOWIE – Scary Monsters
MOTORHEAD – Ace Of Spades (token Metal)
JOY DIVISION – Closer
So feel free to add your own shortlist – including alternate ones for 1967 and 1980 if you wish. I’m going to turn my attention to 1974 at some point
Cheers
Gidx. -
Message 2
Posted by Swell_Map (U14129256) on Monday, 6th September 2010
1979
PIL - Metal Box
Wire - 154
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
The B-52's - The B-52's
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory
The Fall - Dragnet
Black Uhuru - Showcase
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine -
Message 3
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Monday, 6th September 2010
A strong list S-M but I fear we have to rule Talking Heads and Black Uhuru out of bounds.
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Message 4
Posted by haroldseye (U14257712) on Monday, 6th September 2010
and the B-52s, methinks. Can't argue with the quality, though.
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Message 5
Posted by Swell_Map (U14129256) on Monday, 6th September 2010
Oh yeah, what an idiot, it's uk only. Ok replace those 3 with:
The Specials by The Specials
London Calling by The Clash
Settings Sons by The Jam -
Message 6
Posted by LoudGeoffW (U11943874) on Monday, 6th September 2010
1969 would seem to be a fine year
John Tavener - The Whale
Shirley & Dolly Collins - Anthems In Eden
Man - 2oz of Plastic with a Hold In The Middle (rank outsider)
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Kinks - Arthur (or the Decline & Fall Of The British Empire)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Led Zeppelin - I
Eire Apparent - Sunrise
Pentangle - Basket of Light
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Bee Gees - Odessa
Soft Machine - Volume 2 -
Message 7
Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Monday, 6th September 2010
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 -
Message 8
Posted by jtr63 (U2509539) on Tuesday, 7th September 2010
...and the 1980 winner is...
(knowing that the favourite never wins, sorry Joy Division)
Motorhead - Ace of Spades -
Message 9
Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Wednesday, 8th September 2010
The Beatles - St Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the gates of dawn
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majestys Request
The Who - The Who Sell Out
Procul Harum - Procul Harum
Small Faces – Small Faces
Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band - Gorilla
Cat Stevens - Matthew and Son
Moody Blues – Days of Future Past
Dubliners – a drop of the hard stuff
Ivor Cutler trio – LudoÂ
What, no room for The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion by The Incredible String Band? Controversial to say the least. And you're missing the statutory jazz-tinged album, so how about Open by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity? -
Message 10
Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Wednesday, 8th September 2010
The 1978 GPO Awards list, created by a Special from Slough Depot (pink slip) for express installation six months later, and found in a carton behind the telephone exchange:
Ultravox - Systems of Romance
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius - After the Heat
Magazine - Real Life
Kraftwerk - The Man:Machine
Penetration - Moving Targets
The BuzZcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
John Cooper Clarke - Disguise in Love (after 32 years I only now ask the question - could this be read "This Guy's In Love"?)
Apparently, X-Ray Spex's "Germ-Free Adolescents" was a year too early to qualify and Fischer-Z's "Word Salad", like the Skids' "Scared To Dance", was released a year too late.
I was going to say the Osmonds won but this was even after punk! -
Message 11
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Friday, 10th September 2010
1987...
*Scum by Napalm Death (token noise LP)
*Introducing the Hardline... by Terence Trent Darby (it's actually quite decent...or so I thought last time I listened to it)
*George Best by The Wedding Present (token old school indie LP - the Arctic Monkeys of their day!!!)
*Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by The Cure (electic double LP from Captain Bob and co breaking commercial ground also - how the industry loves that!)
*Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian (token Walkeresque/semi-classical/literary LP with the presence of Ryuichi Sakamoto)
*Signs of Life by Penguin Cafe Orchestra (more of the token categories we know will never win)
*Electric by The Cult (token AC/DC tribute LP)
*The Perfect Prescription by Spacemen 3
*Faith by George Michael (token pop LP - though would he cancel out TTD?)
*Saint Julian by Julian Cope (Julian Cope comes back from the weirdness to the mainstream...)
*That Total Age by Nitzer Ebb (token industrial-electronic LP, 'Join in the Chant' memorably featuring in a documentary on the horrors of acid house at the time...)
*Within the Realm of a Dying Sun by Dead Can Dance (I'll have them as Brendan Perry is Irish...)
The winner this year would obviously by The Joshua Tree by U2... -
Message 12
Posted by jasonaparkes (U3653332) on Sunday, 12th September 2010
Or how about 1989...
*I by AR Kane
*Avalon Sunset by Van Morrison
*Dum-Dum by The Vaselines
*Hats by The Blue Nile
*Kondole by Psychic TV
*Mind Bomb by The The
*The Sensual World by Kate Bush
*The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses
*Shakespeare Alabama by Diesel Park West
*Technique by New Order
*Belief by Nitzer Ebb
*Earthquake Weather by Joe Strummer
The Stone Roses were the faves, but someone pointed out they were just a bunch of Nuggets/Byrds/Cream-throwbacks and they staged an incident with paint. Nitzer Ebb were the surprise winners... -
Message 13
Posted by Rob in S10 (U14611923) on Monday, 13th September 2010
Or 1982...
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Associates - Sulk
Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
The Cure - Pornography
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Roxy Music - Avalon
A triumph for ABC, although by the following year Martin Fry has ditched his gold lame suit and recorded Beauty Stab. -
Message 14
Posted by LoudGeoffW (U11943874) on Monday, 13th September 2010
All good stuff, but surely you have to insert the obligatory nods to folk, jazz and classical. Not that they ever win (though Norma Waterson came close apparently), but it makes it just that bit more tricky.
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Message 15
Posted by James (U14376993) on Wednesday, 15th September 2010
Small Faces - "Small Faces"...
Surely "From the Beginning" was a better album? -
Message 16
Posted by Rob in S10 (U14611923) on Thursday, 16th September 2010
A bit moot as to whether or not that counts, I think. Isn't it more or less their Hatful Of Hollow?
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Message 17
Posted by stoatboy (U14364327) on Friday, 24th September 2010
1973:-
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Bert Jansch - Moonshine
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
10 CC - 10 cc
Wings - Band on the Run
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
John Martyn - Inside Out
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Rory Gallagher - Tattoo
The winner for me would be the Floyd but you just know that a Mercury panel would've chosen Tubular Bells
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