JohnB wrote:
This year's nominations are:

    * Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
    * Florence and the Machine – Lungs
    * Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
    * Glasvegas – Glasvegas
    * Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
    * La Roux – La Roux
    * Led Bib – Sensible Shoes
    * Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew
    * Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy
    * Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Twice Born Men
    * The Horrors – Primary Colours
    * The Invisible – The Invisible

... to which I can only say, cack. I've heard bits of Bat For Lashes,
Friendly Fires, Glasvegas, Kasabian, La Roux and Lisa Hannigan; the
rest are strangers to me, but of the ones I do know, there isn't one
that is really worthy of the honour.

I really can't beieve that Madness haven't even made the shortlist - The
Liberty of Norton Folgate is my album of the year by an absolute mile!
Not that my musical opinions tend to line up with either the Mercury
people or the rest of the world, generally speaking.

Good call.

This year's nominations are:

* Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
* Florence and the Machine – Lungs
* Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
* Glasvegas – Glasvegas
* Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
* La Roux – La Roux
* Led Bib – Sensible Shoes
* Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew
* Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy
* Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Twice Born Men
* The Horrors – Primary Colours
* The Invisible – The Invisible

... to which I can only say, cack. I've heard bits of Bat For Lashes,
Friendly Fires, Glasvegas, Kasabian, La Roux and Lisa Hannigan; the
rest are strangers to me, but of the ones I do know, there isn't one
that is really worthy of the honour.