Beez: The Mercury Music Award Is A Crock
In a year where British rock music has reached it’s highest point this decade, rock didn’t receive one nomination. What’s that all about?!
So, Speech Debelle walked away with the Mercury Music Prize last night. Have you ever heard Speech Debelle before? Had you even heard of her? Would you recognize her if you came out of your house and saw her laying a turtle head in front of your door? Most importantly, do we think that a significant amount of people have had their lives enriched, their days brightened or their mood affected by the music of Speech Debelle?
Please don’t read this as a direct attack on Debelle. I’d rather she won than someone like say Florence and the bastard Machine. A contrived, stage-school student playing bland music that’s cleverly disguised as being ‘moving’? No thanks. You can keep it.
La Roux? Fuck off, will you. I’m with Liam Gallagher. She’s got man hands. That and the fact that she’s utter, utter bollocks. Going in for the kill? I’d love to, you hag.
Anyway, we’re getting off track here. This year has been stunning for British rock music. It goes without saying that the soulless, cock-sucking suits that vote for these things aren’t going to recognise the brilliance of Malefice, Trigger The Bloodshed or The Ghost Of A Thousand but is it too much to ask that they look in the direction of some of the less niche elements of the British rock scene?
I’ll get the predictable one out of the way, Gallows’ ‘Grey Britain’. It’s an album of sublime musicianship and progressive know-how, its lyrical narrative is nothing less than vital to anyone under the age of 40 and living in Britain and the progression from the band’s also amazing debut to this new record is inspiring to all other bands in Britain. If it’s not worth recognising by the Mercury panel, they’re fuckwits of the highest order.
The Answer have made one of the finest classic rock albums of the year. It’s an album that has seen AC/DC take them around the world, won them universal critical acclaim and provided us with the kind of songs that Aerosmith haven’t provided in way too long. It’s a belter of a record and surely more deserving of attention than some fashonista with a shit quiff.
Until they acknowledge that there are great things going on within British rock music, it will remain a bullshit, ignorant award for pretentious pricks who think they’re above our scene.
As such, fuck them and their fucking award.
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More often than not these awards are usually just radio 1’s favourites.
I agree with beez from about 2004/2005 we have seen British rock steadily come back to the masses with such acts like gallows or heck FFAF and BFMV and its a shame that these bands don’t even get a acknowledgment from there so called “peers” in the industry truly these awards just focus on engineered pop and not give rock/metal the time of day yet rock musicians are the ones busting there balls day in day out to make a creative and original body of work……and this is why we have award ceremonies like the golden gods or hell even the k*****g awards so we can reconise those artists for who they are
Totally agree with all points made. At least the winner (can’t really be arsed to look up her name) will have faded into obscurity within six months.
In For the Kill? I thought that was a Sabbath song…
Too fucking right. I’m sick of all these degenerate, brain-dead, sheep spouting out the same old bollocks in the same dull, pointless way… Where’s my battle axe? There’s an argument to be won.
I agree but is it worth getting upset about? Who really cares about the Mercury Music Award and others just like it (Ivor Novello, the Brits…)? The “establishment” that exists in Britain are all a bunch of cretins as well as the vast majority of the media that sucks up to them. Radio 1 has never at any point in the last 15 years played music that people want to hear, they play shit that they THINK people want to hear or what they’ve been to plug by major record companies. How many people actually still listen to the Rock show anymore when it’s on at midnight on a Wednesday?? The gutter tabloid press (the Sun, Mirror and Star) have some of the most odious bastards in the world writing for them, who remembers the whinging and moaning the wanker from the Sun did when Maiden won their Brit award? I remember years ago one of these deluded hacks asked why, after yet another failed crack at the US market by Robbie Williams and Oasis, most British bands failed to make it overseas. If he had any idea about music at all he would’ve know that, back then, loads of UK bands were doing well over in the States, he just couldn’t be arsed to look further than the top-40 chart!! The NME is just a rag that I wouldn’t wipe my arse with. If you were to say to any of these people from radio, MTV or the press that Def Leppard has pretty much been the most successful English band in the States for pretty much every year, I bet they’ll just laugh in your face because the trendy, ‘in’ crowd don’t consider them to be cool. But the cold, hard facts are right there – Leppard are HUGE in the US. Just because the sort of music we like rarely gets noticed by The Man is hardly cause to get frantic. If the Ivor Novello is really meant to honour the best songwriters that these isle’s have produced then why hasn’t Ginger, Steve Harris, Dani Filth et all won something by now and yet that spanner from Oasis won it by writing the immortal words “saw you walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball…”?? Wow, that’s some really challenging, thought-provoking shit right there, ain’t it?? What a genius…
hahahaha I agree with everything that skumbo just said I wish I could type something that good lol
I’ll be honest; and please dont take this as an arse kissing, but the Golden Gods Awards is the only one i pay attention too. A quick glance at Kerrang and the Brits Awards yes, but for me Golden Gods is a celebration of everything i love about heavy music. Win.
beez please stfu about the gallows already most over-rated band ever
Actually, Skumbo, Iron Maiden have won an Ivor Novello award for songwriting (back in 2002, I think)
Skumbo is so right. And no Gallows are not overrated!! They’re awesome!!!
And I think the new InMe album should’ve won, but it wasn’t nominated :O
well sed beez. nd gallows are like the best britsh band around at the moment nt overated. mayb u just dnt like punk thts ok i sopose but gallows rule
who gives a monkeys about the mercury prize award?
not me
now you bring it up TGOAT should have been in there!
‘gallows are like the best britsh band around at the moment’
Never heard of Sylosis then, I assume?
Even if he has, which I’m guessing he has, he would still be correct in saying Gallows are the best British band around at the moment.
Totally agree with everything on this one!
It seems unfortunate that the vast majority of the awards for any kind of musicianship (regardless of quality or quantity) seems to go with the mainstream most popular of the pop/rave/some-other-genre-that-ain’t-metal/rock/whatever-you-wanna-call-it category. It is indeed a shame that the fine musicians (some not so, but still a part of the metal scene nonetheless) don’t even get hinted at. It’s bollocks. If music is supposed to be something to be recieve awards for, then surely every category and genre of music should be given the same level of consideration…unfortunately this is never likely to be so, so it’s just the Golden Gods. And let’s face it, at least at any Golden Gods awards bash it’s gonna beat the ever lovin’ fuck out of anything to do with the likes of the Mercury award. Mine may well not be the right attitude to have but if they can’t be assed to even sniff in the direction of the music that people like you and I like, then they can go shove a tree trunk and the foghorn off the titanic up their frikkin arses. Fuck em!
TWICE, THRICE AND FOUR TIMES OVER!!! THREEFOLD!!!! I can’t add any more to it than that.
All you have to do is look at the products of chimp rape who present the Award show to see it’s a sham. It’s like an infinity symbol with these fecal freaks going ass to mouth in order to consume the shit which is only created by turd munching fuck wits looking to bag the £20k or whatever it is. Fuck ‘em. Kill ‘em All.
And the Nobel peace prize should be given to someone who isn’t fighting two fucking wars.
And Slayer should get an award for being slayer, then the world would be right!
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