🎤 Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2004) 🎤

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:microphone: Mercury Prize - Best of the rest (2004) :microphone:

Today we look back to 2004 when the mercury music prize for best Irish or British album was won by Franz Ferdinand’s self titled album.
Who should have won second place in your opinion?

As always you have up to three votes from this list…

  • Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
  • Belle & Sebastian - Dear catastrophe waitress
  • Jamelia - Thank you
  • Keane - Hopes & fears
  • Snow Patrol - Final straw
  • Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions
  • The Streets - A Grand don’t come for free
  • Ty - Upwards
  • Amy Winehouse - Frank
  • Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland
  • The Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons?
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Poll closes on Tuesday 20th Feb

Previous winners from these threads…

1992 - Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
1993 - PJ Harvey - Rid of me
1994 - Pulp - His ‘n’ Hers
1995 - Tricky - Maxinquaye
1996 - Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
1997 - Radiohead - OK Computer
1998 - Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1999 - Blur - 13
2000 - Doves - Lost souls
2001 - Radiohead - Amnesiac
2002 - The Streets - Original Pirate Material
2003 - Radiohead - Hail to the thief
2005 - Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006 - Hot Chip - The Warning
2007 - Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
2008 - Radiohead - In Rainbows
2009 - The Horrors - Primary Colours
2010 - Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
2011 - Metronomy - The English Riviera
2012 - Field Music - Plumb
2013 - Jon Hopkins - Immunity
2015 - Aphex Twin - Syro
2016 - David Bowie - Blackstar
2017 - The xx - I see you
2018 - Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
2019 - Little Simz - Grey Area
2020 - Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
2021 - Sault - Untitled (rise) / Mogwai - As the love continues
2023 - Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

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Must be one of the few years that Joss Stone was nominated rather than on the judging panel! :thinking:

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Basement Jaxx/Belle and Sebastian/The Streets

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It’s Amy by a billion miles

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I’ve never really connected with Belle and Sebastian which is weird because I’ve enjoyed other bands from the chemikal underground era like Arab Strap, Mogwai etc.

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The Soul Sessions is possibly the laziest album name of the century

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Streets the best, Zutons was good zany fun, and sorry but Final Straw was a very solid album

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Belle & Seb, Snow Patrol, The Zutons.
IN THAT ORDER

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this is true

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would have been happy for When It’s All Over to win in 2001

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In retrospect Frank is a fine album but I wasn’t on Winehousebook in 2004. Final Straw is also a fine album, as equally maligned as Snow Patrol have become to Amy’s modern day Sainthood.

Fuck the rest of that lot, though. Terrible year of noms.

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The Streets, Belle & Sebastian, Ty

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Poll close tomorrow.

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Love that Belle & Sebastian album and the Robert Wyatt album is killer too.

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The streets win!

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