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Burial needs to forget about this anonymous rubbish and go and represent and pick up his award.

Citizen wrote:

dubstee wrote:Ladbrokes have Burial as favourite to win...

Thats bizarre...

...I bet him and Kode are having a right old laugh at all of this.

link on ladbrokes? just curious

i thought that this was surreal too.
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists ... e?q=burial

I was pissed off to find he is the favourite to win i hoped to put 5 pound on a hundred to one shot and reap the rewards of burial winning but i guess the bookies read the guardian.

Klaxons won it last year so its about time someone with talent won it this year so either radiohead or burial should claim that in my opinion, how anyone can say they are miserable stnuc is beyond me, fair enough some of the earlier stuff was dreary and introspective but at least radiohead bring fresh ideas to the plate every album or would you like them to still be like oasis churning out the most bland and bollocks "brit pop" in the same vein as they made for the last 15 years ago.

How do you vote?

MONSTA L4L wrote:big up burial. well deserved.

i second that!!! Biggles

seckle wrote:i thought that this was surreal too.
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists ... e?q=burial

The thing that i don't get is how polarised the reaction to it is, like i agree with the overwhelmingly positive reviews, i fucking love this album, but i can understand people not liking it, but most of the negative reviews just seem to be responding to the positive ones like they are offended or something.

Although kudos has to go to this joker:

Hater H wrote: This may be the greatest dubstep album of all time.

Hater H gave it a: 4

What is it with these electronic albums that have the same boring sound over and over getting great reviews. Save your money and time. Get In Rainbows or anything by The Kings Of Leon if you want to hear good music!

spot on really

God bless radiohead and their tireless crusade against repetitive electronic music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frTmBp_iAxM

Oh.... shit

Neville Bartos wrote:Also, if Burial wins it, does that mean that he/she/ they will have to go on stage and expose himself/ herself/ themselves?

good point?

sales of cd up 360% ! according to guardian website

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/au ... e.hmvgroup

great to see one example in these days of hard times for musicians in an everychanging industry of true talent and vision being rewarded . . . .

lets hope he keeps head down, ignores the hype and keeps the quailty high........ reckon he's gonna win it!

pk wrote:

What is it with these electronic albums that have the same boring sound over and over getting great reviews. Save your money and time. Get In Rainbows or anything by The Kings Of Leon if you want to hear good music!

spot on really

no, not at all - completely wrong in fact.

do either of you even listen to electronic music?

jrj2020 wrote:Worked for Roni Size...

Thats true but the only reason Roni won was because his major had arranged it previously with the Mercury prize organisation for him to win to boost the sales of the album which at that time was failing..

True industry fact that!


Not sure anyone in the majors is behind Burial enough for him to win.. i think he desrves it. Not sure whethr i'm being biased here but his album stands otu above those others... god I hope Radiohead dont win.. i love that album but they dont really need it do they!

could someone from the UK gang share when the awards are to be announced? thanks

lokki wrote: Not sure anyone in the majors is behind Burial enough for him to win.. god I hope Radiohead dont win..

If it really is decided by the majors then Radiohead definitely won't win, having circumvented the whole majors way-of-doing-things with their album. Maybe it'll be one of the little folkie acts...

upreal wrote:could someone from the UK gang share when the awards are to be announced? thanks

9 september

Its big

Awards covered live by Radcliffe and Maconae, on BBC tomorrow night at 9pm GMT.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/musicevents/mercuryprize2008/


best of luck to hyperdub and burial.

indeed.

phletch wrote:sales of cd up 360% ! according to guardian website

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/au ... e.hmvgroup

great to see one example in these days of hard times for musicians in an everychanging industry of true talent and vision being rewarded . . . .

lets hope he keeps head down, ignores the hype and keeps the quailty high........ reckon he's gonna win it!

Seems a shame the guy gets forced to expose his anonymity at a time when he is earning most paper and so much more in the public eye, we just couldnt leave it alone could we......best of luck to Burial for tommorow night its a great album and deserves to win a big award to prove that its not about the size of your studio and your 3 executive producers earning $90,000 a track its just about expressing yourself the best way you know how.