My Mercury's in retrograde

[venta]

Elbow ?

Elbow ?

Oh, come on.

Sheepish edit: Note to self. Elbow != Embrace. I shall stop thinking disgusted thoughts at the Mercury judging panel.

Comments

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

You don't know your arse from your Elbow! *rimshot*

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'll keep lining 'em up...

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Yes! Elbow! And they deserved it, too!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I've heard virtually none of the contenders this year. For some reason Elbow and Embrace have always been confused in my head, so I was disgusted to hear they'd won.

ChrisC sent me a link which uses Elbow's cover of Independent Woman (http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/) last night, at which point I realised I was thinking of completely the wrong band.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I was a bit surprised becuse I was expecting something less mainstream to win this time round. But I guess it's a worthy winner, just not a very inspiring one.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Um... if you listen to Elbow you might start again with the thoughts.

Didn't like them when I saw them at Reading a couple of years ago. But firstly I only know one track off this album, and maybe the rest of it isn't quite so Coldplayesque. Secondly, being Coldplayesque has never been a bar to Mercury success (or at least nomination) in the past. Still, could be worse: they've nominated Keane before. At least Elbow are probably trying not to be dull.

I suspect that in ten years time Elbow will not be the stand-out album of this batch of nominations. They never give it to Radiohead, in a kind of Martin Scorsese, Jimmy White way, but even so I'm sure they could have done better.