Apparently, it’s been a year since the last incarnation of the Shortlist Prize–formerly called something else, but I forget what, and don’t feel like looking it up–and today the “long list” of Shortlist nominees were announced. Wilco, Spoon, M.I.A., of course, and that Tool sideproject Walmart wouldn’t carry. What seemed most interesting was the list of nominators, which seems to be slipping in quality a bit.

First, what you surely clicked through for, the nominees:

A Fine Frenzy: One Cell in the Sea
Against Me!: New Wave
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Bad Religion: New Maps of Hell’
Biffy Clyro: Puzzle
Bjork: Volta
Blonde Redhead: 23
BrakesBrakesBrakes: The Beatific Visions
Burial: Untrue
Calvin Harris: I Created Disco
Dead Heart Bloom: Chelsea Diaries
Digitalism: Idealism
Dollyrots: Because I’m Awesome
Eddie Vedder: Into the Wild Soundtrack
Feist: The Reminder
Fionn Regan: The End of History
Future of the Left: Curses
Gogol Bordello: Super Taranta
Grinderman: Grinderman
Gui Boratto: Chromaphobia
Iron and Wine: The Shepherd’s Dog
Jesca Hoop: Kismet
Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Juliette and the Licks: Four on the Floor
Justice: Cross
Keren Ann: Keren Ann
Kings of Leon: Because of the Times
Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Le Loup: The Throne of the Third Heaven
Les Savy Fav: Let’s Stay Friends
MIA: Kala
Maps: We can Create
o’Death: Head Home
Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Parts and Labor: Mapmaker
Peter Bjorn and John: Writers Block
PJ Harvey: White Chalk
Puscifer: V is for Vagina
Robert Francis: One by One
Robert Pollard: Standard Gargoyle Decisions
Scout Niblett: This Fool Can Die Now
Serj Tankian: Elect the Dead
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars: In Our Bedroom After the War
Swizz Beatz: One Man Band Man
The Bird and The Bee: The Bird and The Bee
The Hives: Black and White Album’
The Thrills: Teenager
Underworld: Oblivion with Bells
Wheat: Everyday I Said a Prayer
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Working for a Nuclear Free City: Businessmen and Ghosts

Although an article probably could be written just with a 72 point “Huh?” regarding the Juliette and the Licks disc being nominated for anything, it seems the prize might be losing steam based on the list of those contributing. Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol is back for another year, and it’s hard to argue with Chris Douridas’ musical credentials , but the nominating committee which previously featured Chris Martin, ?uestlove, the Neptunes, and Tom Waits as members now has only five contributors and one is an online radio station called Hunnypot? That’s disappointing, for sure, but I’m sure having a guy from the Killers onboard makes up for some of the lost cred, right?

Shortlist nominees announced [NME]
The Shortlist Of Music [Official Site]