This year’s nominations reflect a particularly bad year for British music. Thom Yorke’s ANIMA and Paul Weller’s on sunset should have made the shortlist.

2005’s list was the worst. Lots of great music in 2005, none of it here…
I Am a Bird Now Antony and the Johnsons
Arular M.I.A. (this was the only great album on the list)
A Certain Trigger Maxïmo Park
Employment Kaiser Chiefs
Eye to the Telescope KT Tunstall
Held on the Tips of Fingers Polar Bear
Kitty Jay Seth Lakeman
The Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
Silent Alarm Bloc Party
Stars of CCTV Hard-Fi
Thunder, Lightning, Strike The Go! Team
X&Y Coldplay

    Silent Alarm is alright to be fair. Not sure it deserves to be short-listed on that basis

    Didn’t get Bloc Party at all. Sixth form lyrics. Horrible singer who is a cunt.

      bosstrabs Didn’t get Bloc Party at all. Sixth form lyrics. Horrible singer who is a cunt.

      Racist and homophobic.

        Smallman1 Smalls, you’re posting in a thread I started about a bisexual half-Indian singer I like.

        Twerp.

        SICKENING sexual racism, unconsciously learnt off Si.

        Talking of twerps, what has happened to Si?

        Him and MC were like a Poundland me and BF (RIP)