🎤 Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2003) 🎤

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Previous results from these threads…

1993 - PJ Harvey - Rid of me
1994 - Pulp - His ‘n’ Hers
1995 - Tricky - Maxinquaye
1999 - Blur - 13
2001 - Radiohead - Amnesiac
2002 - The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2005 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006 - Hot Chip - The Warning
2008 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
2009 - The Horrors - Primary Colours
2010 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
2011 - Metronomy - The English Riviera
2013 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity
2015 - Aphex Twin - Syro
2017 - The xx - I see you
2020 - Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
2021 - Sault - Untitled (rise) / Mogwai - As the love continues
2023 - Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

Today we travel back to 2003 when the mercury prize for best album by an Irish or British album was won by Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da corner.

IF you could pick the runner up, who would it be?

As usual you have up to 3 votes…

  • Athlete - Vehicles & Animals
  • Eliza Carthy - Anglicana
  • Coldplay - A rush of blood to the head
  • The Darkness - Permission to land
  • Floetry - Floetic
  • Soweto Kinch - Conversations with the unseen
  • Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
  • The Thrills - So much for the city
  • Martina Topley Bird - Quixotic
  • Radiohead - Hail to the thief
  • Terri Walker - Untitled
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:face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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The best they could do?

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Up until these alternative winning album threads were started I had no idea/recollection how bad the Mercury shortlists are. 2003 was no exception.

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Permission To Land is a classic, easy choice

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That being said, I would say that we have a nice looking list of runners up in the list at the top of this post. However some of these Mercury lists have some absolute stinkers!

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Had six of these on CD, what an era

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Alarmingly, hail to the thief would be in my top three.

This should’ve been nominated/won;

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I remember Planet Sound on Channel 4 teletext saying how terrible this shortlist was - the only ones they liked were Dizzee Rascal, Coldplay and Radiohead and they pointed out the latter two didn’t really need a Mercury nomination at that point

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That is a grim list. My 2003 votes go to:

Four Tet - Rounds
Broadcast -HaHa Sound
Super Furry Animals -Phantom Power

The Mercury Prize is comically shit I’m not sure why anyone takes it seriously

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Easy three for me. Radiohead, The Darkness and Lemon Jelly.

Definitely spent to much time listening to The Thrills in 2003 though :grimacing:

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Phantom Power came out the same day as Boy in Da Corner - good release date that

(Haha Sound would have been eligible for the 2004 prize as it came out in August)

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Ok sub in:

Goldfrapp -Black Cherry

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Is Quixotic any good? I remember hearing Sandpaper Kisses while playing Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy years ago and loving it, but I never ventured further beyond that.

I voted for Coldplay and Lemon Jelly. Really like those two albums.

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No surprises. That was Hail to the thief right?!

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