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Mercury Music Prize shortlist - have your say

Who do you think will be among the 12 nominees tomorrow (July 22)?

The shortlist for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Music Prize will be announced tomorrow (July 22) at 11.30am (BST) – and we want to know who you think deserves to be on the list.

You can follow the announcement live on NME.COM tomorrow morning, but for now we're speculating who might take the 12 nomination spots.

Last year the prize went to Klaxons (pictured) for their debut album, 'Myths Of The Near Future'.

Below are the albums we in the NME office think could be in the running, but log in to MyNME below and have your say. Who do you think will get nominated, and who deserves to make the shortlist?

Remember - the album has to have been released after July 1 last year.

Here are NME.COM's possible Mercury Music Prize contenders:

Adele – '19'
Babyshambles – 'Shotter's Nation'
British Sea Power – 'Do You Like Rock Music?'
Burial – 'Untrue'
Coldplay – 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends'
Duffy – 'Rockferry'
Elbow – 'The Seldom Seen Kid'
The Enemy – 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns'
Estelle – 'Shine'
Foals – 'Antidotes'
Future Of The Left – 'Curses'
The Futureheads – 'This Is Not The World'
Hot Chip – 'Made In The Dark'
Jamie Lidell – 'Jim'
Johnny Flynn – 'A Larum'
Kate Nash – 'Made Of Bricks'
Kids In Glass Houses – 'Smart Casual'
The Kills – 'Midnight Boom'
The Last Shadow Puppets – 'The Age Of The Understatement'
Laura Marling – 'Alas I Cannot Swim'
Lightspeed Champion – 'Falling Off The Lavender Bridge'
Los Campesinos! – 'Hold On Now Youngster'
MIA – 'Kala'
Mystery Jets – '21'
Neon Neon – 'Stainless Style'
The Pigeon Detectives – 'Emergency'
Portishead – 'Third'
Radiohead – 'In Rainbows'
Spiritualized – 'Songs In A&E'
These New Puritans – 'Beat Pyramid'
The Ting Tings – 'We Started Nothing'
Tricky – 'Knowle West Boy'
Wiley – 'Grime Wave'
The Wombats – 'The Wombats Proudly Present... A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation'


Now have your say below.
 

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IndieWriter 

Jul 21, 2008

i bet it'll be the last shadow puppets, hope it isnt thoshould be in rainbows

Jaybee1990 

Jul 21, 2008

Radiohead - In Rainbows is a certainty surely? Cracking album! Coldplay - Viva La Vida also a certainty me thinks.

jonny_london 

Jul 21, 2008

For me, the only real album in that time period that has exceeded anything else is Alas, I cannot swim by Laura Marling. If she is nominated I could see her being the dark horse.

jack205 

Jul 21, 2008

Burial will win, unless the editor of NME is leading the pack again (Arctic Monkeys + Klaxons? Hardly credible...) Anyway, reckon it could go something like this:Burial Elbow Radiohead MIA Portishead Foals (heaven forbid) Duffy (ditto) Laura Marling Last Shadow PuppetsDan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip *Token Jazz *Token WorldMaybe Robert Wyatt, hopefully Guillemots or Frightened Rabbit... possibly Neon Neon. We'll see. They usually have a mix between popular crap and decent stuff.

benandrews7 

Jul 21, 2008

duffy, laura marling, foals and Radiohead deserve it. All fantastic albums. Hopefully Radiohead or Laura Marling to win.

cpbrophy 

Jul 21, 2008

A lot of very good music hard to say which one deserves it more personaly I would like to see either babyshambles or the enemy win or maybe radiohead

redpipe70 

Jul 21, 2008

SHAUGHNESSY will win this year. check out www.terryshaughnessy.co.uk or www.myspace.com/terryshaughnessy

heyania 

Jul 21, 2008

and the best album of 2008 is ... 'Antidotes' by FOALS - I'm 100% sure that they'll win :-)

highspire 

Jul 21, 2008

duffy's the blond muppet thats the poor man's winehouse right? wots a ting ting? the sound a retarded bell makes? if they get nominated then the panel has all the direction of Mark Thatcher in a rally race.spiritualized as the dark horse. great album that.

pjc456 

Jul 22, 2008

Paul Weller - 22 Dreams. Great Album!

22grandallyn 

Jul 22, 2008

Either The Futureheads or Mystery Jets should win it. The Futureheads should win it cos they have come back with a storming 3rd album, on their own record label, when everyone thought they were dead and buried, it would be a great way to mark a great comeback. Mystery Jets for making a great 2nd album even better than their 1st, hugely under-rated. The 12 will be Adele, Coldplay (cos Mercury bum them), Elbow (always produce good albums), Foals, The Wombats, Laura Marling, Last Shadow Puppets, M.I.A, Radiohead (cos they're breaking new ground, yeah right but In Rainbows is good) & Portishead (cos of their comeback). Please no Duffy, Ting Tings or the natural selection defyers, The Enemy

bobalamo 

Jul 22, 2008

wild beasts? or did it miss the cut off point?

shapes 

Jul 22, 2008

shaughnessy is so bad its not funny, the enemy surely cant get nominated for the mecury if they do its a joke. the only two albums i've been able to listen to over and over without getting bored of them are in rainbows and the new music album

tincho_argentino 

Jul 22, 2008

i think the last shadow puppets deserve it just for having the balls to make an album with strings

acedrums 

Jul 22, 2008

c'mon Johnny Flynn! Amazing album, amazing live band. Rather him that some melody-less generic crap like The Ting Tings, or some other overrated jizz like The Wombats or Foals. Lets give it to a genuine artist with enduring songs and fantastic all round musicianship, not a band who just jump on the bandwagon and have there astonishingly pedestrian music lauded by the shallow and pretentious critics of such websites such as Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound, and even this very site. The Flynn album is a fantastic folk album that has something for everyone whilst maintaining a strong identity of its own. plus, the bloke plays 6 bloody instruments on this album. let the angry responses begin! xxx

exigent 

Jul 22, 2008

How can it not be Elbow

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