Comments on: Fucked Up Wins 2009 Polaris Music Prize

By: Kevin Kania

Kevin Kania — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:42:09 +0000

I believe Fucked Up is putting the money towards a charity recording against crimes involving native women.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:25:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure Fucked Up could use the money. As much as Pitchfork makes us think bands are the biggest and best selling thing in the world, they’re really not.

Plaskett’s concept was sort of like that Magnetic Field’s album ‘i’ where every track name started with I. Not really a concept at all, but in that case the songs were good. Three blows. He deserved $20,000 for ‘Down at the Kyber’ and ‘Truthfully Truthfully’.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:07:15 +0000

I LOOOOOOOOOVE THREE.
I don’t like that Fucked Up won, what do they need 20,000 for? They’re pretty huge…

By: Kevin Kania

Kevin Kania — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:25:05 +0000

It’s not that Joel Plaskett is bad, but the album’s such a stupid, boring concept. 3 discs of nine songs that basically involve him repeating a phrase several times. Possibly three times. While he was 33. Such a chore to get through.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:49:17 +0000

Nevermind, after doing a keyword search it turns out we swear all the time.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:45:06 +0000

Strange occurences indeed.

Seems to me like the jury wasn’t happy at all that everyone made a mockery of their shortlist for only noticing established artists, so they picked the exact opposite of the establishment for their winner. No one likes to lose street cred after all, especially not people who consider themselves music afficionados.

Your comment about Joel Plaskett is more than fair, but had the award existed in his prime he would have been a real contender.

By the way, I think you’re the first person to swear on the site. It’s fun, eh?

Fuck.