Meteor Choice Music Prize Shortlist (1 Viewer)

[snakybus]

Your whiskyish Donegal voice is perfect for radio however, Ann Post

 

[ann post]

Your whiskyish Donegal voice is perfect for radio however, Ann Post

my face too.

gonna do part two of this tomorrow, with the people i ignored today along with more shit robbed off soundcloud and bandcamp. podcasts and all later.

 

[ann post]

Part 2 of the choice music rundown just after the 1pm news, with fuckloads of irish indie that isn't nominated in the show too, so long as i have my file formats right.

just about 5-10 past 1.

tune your computers here:

http://westerncorridor.wordpress.com/listen-live/

 

[ann post]

Just stuck together both shows and made them into a podcast

http://westerncorridor.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/meteor-choice-music-podcast/

 

[parx]

Mildly annoying list, mainly because of the omission of cover & flood by katie kim which was in my mind the best irish album of the last year.

 

[washingcattle]

Is there a rule about what constitutes an album ? 30 minutes or 10 tracks or something ?

No Spill Blood aren't on that list either which I can only imagine is because they broke some rules.

 

[ann post]

Mildly annoying list, mainly because of the omission of cover & flood by katie kim which was in my mind the best irish album of the last year.

Is there a rule about what constitutes an album ? 30 minutes or 10 tracks or something ?

No Spill Blood aren't on that list either which I can only imagine is because they broke some rules.

http://www.choicemusicprize.com/2012-albums-list.html

at least katie kim was in the running.

its all about what falls in your lap. i havent heard katie kim or no spill blood (but will check them out). cant imagine any one person has heard all those records.

 

[parx]

Kieron, not sure how long the no spill blood record is by "technically" anything less than 30 mins is classified as an extended play ( ep ). This was certainly the case a few years ago anyways, and to the best of my knowledge, still is

 

[ann post]

For the purposes of the Meteor Choice Music Prize, an album must contain either six or more tracks and be over 33 mins, 20 seconds in length OR a minimum of 9 separate tracks AND a minimum of 25 minutes of music.

they change this annually, based on what length of album i release.

 

[washingcattle]

Kieron, not sure how long the no spill blood record is by "technically" anything less than 30 mins is classified as an extended play ( ep ). This was certainly the case a few years ago anyways, and to the best of my knowledge, still is

Who's Kieron ?

 

[washingcattle]

they change this annually, based on what length of album i release.

Aha.

 

[parx]

Who's Kieron ?

Sorry, Kieron's just what I call people when I don't know their real name. I'm not comfortable referring to someone as their on-line moniker

 

[snakybus]

I haven't followed this every year, but I have for the last couple and it strikes me that this is year's list is particularly weak, with produced, lowest-common-denominator munge predominating.

Adrian Crowley, MDR and Windings all stand out with excellent albums and if there's any justice etc etc.

Also, I know it's said every year but if you were to view this as a snapshot of the Irish music scene -- which of course many people will - you would think that all that this island produces is guitar-indie-rock and singer-songwriter folk, which is really not the case at all. I find that really quite sad. Even last year there was an electronic act included, for example, and however tokenistic that might come across it's still better than having to listen to what sounds like the same album over and over.

 

[ann post]

I haven't followed this every year, but I have for the last couple and it strikes me that this is year's list is particularly weak, with produced, lowest-common-denominator munge predominating.

Adrian Crowley, MDR and Windings all stand out with excellent albums and if there's any justice etc etc.

Also, I know it's said every year but if you were to view this as a snapshot of the Irish music scene -- which of course many people will - you would think that all that this island produces is guitar-indie-rock and singer-songwriter folk, which is really not the case at all. I find that really quite sad. Even last year there was an electronic act included, for example, and however tokenistic that might come across it's still better than having to listen to what sounds like the same album over and over.

I basically agree with you 100%.

I listened to all the albums last year, and all this year in preps for my radio show (its part of my college, i haven't gone mad). What i could say about it is that at some level its the internet fucking up music. I consider myself pretty avid - i listen to radio, i follow 4-5 blogs. i read/listen to almost everything that hits up on thumped. even at that, its tunnel vision. Basically everyone has their own radar these days, and dare i say it (dig, dig, dig) the judges this years personal radars have obviously been informed by previous years actually putting this stuff on their radar.

i'm pretty sure its actually its 4-5 repeat nominees. A few people have highlighted some glaring omissions while simultaneously saying that they literally have never heard a/b and c. It just comes down to what people have heard and been told about repetitively essentially, i just dont know how it could be made comprehensive. maybe the GAA have this right.

 

[pissypants]

Hey give Le Galaxie an aul vote would you? We've been nominated in the Song of The Year category. Cheers. xxx

https://www.facebook.com/meteor?sk=app_312762578767529&video_id=16

 

[Unknown Convict]

good luck MDR.

edit: and le galaxie. and all the pricks.

 

[dunderhead]

threw 20 snots on adrian crowley a few months back. had forgotten all about it. c'mon AC. papa needs a new pair of everything

 

[pete]

dunno if this will work

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[therealjohnny]

appears to be working

 

[washingcattle]

Yeah but when I turned it on someone was playing a seemingly endless guitar solo so I turned it off again. Forgot guitar solos existed. Jesus they're fucking boring things.