Mercury Music Prize 2008

Another year, another host of nominations for the Mercury Music Prize. The list is, as always, a curious mix of music I've never heard of mixed with music I couldn't care less about. Radiohead, for example, get a nomination for once again producing an album of largely unlistenable nonsense that shows none of songwriting or performing ability that made them famous in the first place. And then we have Robert Plant - a man who hasn't produced an iota of interesting music since Led Zep split up nearly three decades ago. And so on.

I'd like to see British Sea Power's Do You Like Rock Music? take the prize. Whether it will or not is open to question, but there is one key reason why it should win - it is the best thing on the list.

Which, for the Mercury Music Prize, is a sure sign that it won't win. And was probably lucky to get the nomination in the first place.