While I was busy daytripping to vineyards and pirate stores, that out-of-touch trainwreck we call The Grammys Nominations thrust its spotlight on a new crop of overrated “crossover” artists and recently deceased dudes. Album Of The Year and Best New Artist are the only outcomes I tend to remember (not counting Jethro Tull’s Best Heavy Metal win in ’87), so let’s focus our derision on those categories…
Album Of The Year
- Ray Charles & Various Artists Genius Loves Company
- Green Day American Idiot
- Alicia Keys The Diary Of Alicia Keys
- Usher Confessions
- Kanye West The College Dropout
- Los Lonely Boys
- Maroon 5
- Joss Stone
- Kanye West
- Gretchen Wilson
I also wanted to write about the CDs I picked up at Aquarius (Japanese acid-folk oddity L and Animal Collective fave Ariel Pink) and tell you about the burrito place Byron recommended, but this Hilton computer sucks. Do you hear me Paris? NOT HOT.
So Grammys … who wuz robbed? (Full list here.)
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No props for Hillary and Hallie? WTF!?
Can I apologise, on behalf of all Brits, for Joss Stone.
Sorry about that.
Album of the Year:
What SHOULD win: Green Day.
What WILL win: Kanye West.
Best New Artist:
Who SHOULD win: Kanye West.
Who WILL win: Kanye West.
Kanye’s gonna clean up. 8 or 9 for him.
Album of the Year:
What SHOULD win: Green Day.
What WILL win: Kanye West.
Best New Artist:
Who SHOULD win: Kanye West.
Who WILL win: Kanye West.
Kanye’s gonna clean up. 8 or 9 for him.
i definitely think nellie mckay should’ve been nominated for best new artist, at the very least! this year’s grammys are gonna suck so bad.
Damn, slim pickings this year! Further proof that the RIAA can no longer blame file sharing on the fact that mainstream music has pretty much gone pffffffft.
yeah Joss Stone blows…not me, but whatever…
i’m just pissed that the killers got nominated for 3 grammies. the killers! 3! exclamation points alone cannot express my anger. the fact that we all know the grammy committee is out of touch doesn’t rationalize it away for me this time.
aargh.
Why is it that of all the awards in the world, the Grammy nominators are the least knowledgeable about the people they are honoring?
At least the motion picture academy has people who made movies and actually watch the movies before nominating them, instead of scouring the charts for names they recognize.
Still, it’s great to see David Sedaris get nominated for best spoken word. Woo!
I’m friends with Ariel Pink mind you, but I just cannot understand his music (or how people like it!).
On the other hand – fuck kanye. fuck him in his stupid ass… he’s clown shoes at best. If I wanted to see a hairlipped fug rap about being black jesus, I’d call Joaquin Phoenix. And seriously – that Workout video? It’s EIGHT FUCKING MINUTES! Kids these days – i just don’t get it…
Let’s all tip the 40 for Dime Bag Darrel.
Those shortlists are disturbingly bad.
Some of the weakest music of the year, totally neglecting the best albums groups.
Oh yeah, wait….it’s only the grammys – noone cares !
Next…
No shit J, sad day for metal fans… This Kayne fucker is a retard. He got so pissed off that he dident win at the American Music Awards. I mean fuck, hes brand new to the whole idustry or whatever, and he already thinks that he is a P. Diddy or some shit. Fuck him, fuck him right in his ear.
Los Lonely Boys. Hurl.
Every time I hear that stupid song of theirs, I want to kick over a bookcase or yank a tablecloth full of fine china onto the floor.
You guys saw the part where Ashlee Simpson totally blew off Lil’ Jon? I so fucking hate her even more (Best New Artist…stab me with a spoon…). Could of been a little more considerate and acknowledge him on stage. Bitch just walked right passed him. I guess too busy doing the whatever fuck that dance was.
I also felt as if I was watching the new season of American Idol instead of the Billboard Awards…Ryan Seacrest…ugh. “Petey Pablo. I like that name. Petey Pablo.” Har har har.
Glad to see that Loretta Lynn got 5 noms. I want her to wipe the floor with Shania or whoever else.
Also hope the big JC is a shoe-in for his noms. He probably is: academies louve posthumous awards.
I totally couldn’t give a shit about the other categories. I don’t know his work, but this Kanye (stupid name, btw) seems like such a whiny bitch.
Wow, the Pirate Store! Is Karl the pufferfish still alive? I visited SF in June of last year (I’m from Louisiana so it was like “Oh, this is what culture is like. This is nice.”) and I think my favorite things about the place were:
1)Waking up to Bay To Breakers passing by my window. A marathon that features kegs???
2)The pirate store/writing workshop
3)the taquerias
Yes i was happy to see that Loretta got 5 noms. She is great, and her new cd which Jack White produced, kicks ass.
Yes, Loretta’s new album does indeed kick ass, and it’s a crime it wasn’t nominated for Album of the Year. I refuse to believe that Alicia Keys’ album deserved its nomination more.
I know especially since Alicia sold out. The album she is touting this year, is a far cry from her debut. It sucks ass. And if I hear that motherfucking stupid song that she sings with Usher called My Boo or whatever, I am going to seriously go off the deep end.
I know especially since Alicia sold out. The album she is touting this year, is a far cry from her debut. It sucks ass. And if I hear that motherfucking stupid song that she sings with Usher called My Boo or whatever, I am going to seriously go off the deep end.
We live in a world in which Hoobastank has been nominated for an award. An actual fucking accolade. HOOBA-FUCKING-STANK! Am I the only one who finds this profoundly distressing??
no your not
What? I was totally expecting SMiLE to be nominated for album of the year. Maybe not win, but jesus, at least a nomination.
Oops, found it. Consider my comment reatracted.
I don’t think distressing covers it. It is a downright travesty. The 80s were pretty bad – hair metal and Paula Abdul – but I believe we’ve reached a nadir from which it is impossible to emerge. Marketing and music have become so intertwined that you can’t really tell anymore where one begins and the other ends. Stop world, I want to slap Ryan Seacrest.
Gotta agree with everyone who said that the latest Alica album sucks ass. My theory on why the grammy people seem to nominate artists such as Alica Keys, Elvis Costello, and Norah Jones year after year is that the grammy’s have taken so much crap over the years for nominating and giving awards to Milli Vanilli and the Starland Vocal Band and so by nominating artists such as Alica, Elvis and Norah they feel that they would get cred with the critics since those artists are the critics darlings. But honestly….Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash nominated for best pop caloboration???? WTF!? The grammy’s still don’t have much of a clue.
I didn’t watch the billboard awards, I just read the synopisis on the ET website…Asshlee Simpson deserves nothing! And she said to the ET reporter that her new tour will get people to shut up about the lip synch scandle….I don’t get it, her album was listed as one of Blender magazine’s best albums of 2004 me thinks they are on Daddy Simpson’s payroll!
Sorry I had to make a comment on the rest of the nominations….Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash in pop WTF……and why the freak isn’t Brian Wilson’s Smile nominated for record of the year? IMHO I think its far superior to what is nominated. I was quickly looking over the nominees for best rock song and I was looking at the songwriters and I saw Duff and I got scared there for a second I thought maybe the grammy people really didn’t have a clue and nominated one of the Duff sisters under the catagory of rock….but then I looked and it was Duff from Velvet Revolver.
I bet Hillary and Haylie are seething cause they aren’t nominated in that catagory….I bet Ashlee’s pretty miffed too cause she wasn’t nominated for best alternative performance..cause she is the most alternative thing about 2004!
Kanye West is a good producer.
Oh damn, thank god it was Duff from VR. You scared me.
How is Maroon 5 “new”? Their album came out summer 2002 and they were old news by Christmas. Ridunculous.
I know Beavisoncrack, I totally thought that the Grammy people may have had no clue and nominated the Duff sisters for their oh so punk rockin remake of Our Lips Our Sealed.
The grammy people seem to have no concept of time I noticed that the new Gwen Stefani song is nominated isn’t that song less then a month old? And I also noticed that Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton are nominated for their version of Something from The Concert for George…..didn’t all that happen about three years ago?
At least the grammy people are sane enough not to nominate The Duff sisters, Good Charlotte or Ashlee Simpson!
Once again the grammmys are an embarrasment to themselves. Where is a wasted ODB stumbling on stage when you need him. (sigh)
The fucking Killers? Given the choices, Kanye West better clean up, as he is one of the few nominated who didn’t make a crap commercial record.
Hoobastank is one of the reasons why the CIA should be able to assassinate people legally. That song is one of the worst anythings that has surfaced in the past millenia. Shame on the world for allowing a band of that low embarrasing calibur to even think they deserve anything. I feel bad for them because in their minds they are good and they’ve just been confused.
And Kanye put Hoobastank on his iTunes playlist which shocked me since his reason was that it was an incredible melody. My god, my god, we have been forsaken- and the Grammy’s prove it.
http://www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com has a hilarious video on it from a Hoobastank show, pointing out to a crowd not yet old enough to buy smokes, that yes, Hoobastank is…BAD MUSIC.
my WTF:
how is the hell is sheryl crow nominated every-fucken-year for a grammy? didn’t she win for covering g n r’s “sweet child?” apparently, she could fart out a song and still get nominated…
Yea she totally butchered “sweet child” and they even named it one of the Most UnMetal Moments of all time. Its like when Celine Dion did ZZ Tops’ Shook Me All Night Long. Fucking disaster
oops I meant ACDC
the Grammy nominations are decided by an exclusive committee comprised of 35 year old “has been’s”/”wannabe’s”/& industry “insiders”…
so its no surprise that these choices are sub-par, at best…
they should let kids from Williamsburg decide the nominees…that way, it would be more hilarious to decide between Bloc Party, the Futureheads, Arcade Fire, the craptastic folk movement spearheaded by Devendra Banhart, & noise bands from Ann Arbor, MI & Rhode Island…
I think the same squareheads that dull out the Oscars, do the Grammys too.
kanye west made a good album, one of the better commercial rap albums of the year. deal with it.
i want sheryl crow to dissapear off the face of the earth.
Carl Bean & Beavis on Crack, add Sheryl Crow to the list of performers who will be nominated every year cause the grammy people think that by nominating them they will make up for the mistakes of the past i.e. Milli Vanilli, Melissa Etheridge is another who comes to mind and I see that she is nominated again this year. Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Sarah McLoughlin, Alica Keys and Melissa Etheridge can release cds of themselves farting and you know it will be nominated for a grammy!
Interpol’s new album is way better than Usher, hands down.
i can’t wait to see kanye’s face when he loses again to gretchen wilson. do you remember him proclaiming that “he was robbed” when he lost to her on some lame awards show?
The Grammys might pull an India.re(R&B singer who got 10 nominations and came home empty) on Kanye West.Hopefully Usher pulls a 50cent and goes up for an award that he didn’t win but knowing the grammys and judging from last year(Outkast got some grammys and they’re album wasn’t even that good to me) they probably might give him a couple of awards sadly.I don’t think that Usher deserves but like life the grammys aren’t always fair.
I work with a Grammy voter, and he knows NOTHING about any kind of music outside of his own crappy genre. I imagine the rest of the voters are pretty similar.
Kanye West has actually been producing for a while. He’s not totally new to the industry. His album is good, but I’m not sure it’s THAT good. It seems the nominees are more about who will bring viewers (and ratings) to the show and less about real good, deserving music and artists.
actually, Kanye started out rapping, but nobody gave him any burn…then he tried to get his foot into the industry by producing. After Jay Z got a hold of him, the industry started buzzing for that cat…
Now, we are subjected to listening to his music 24/7 on mainstream radio…call me crazy, but Lil Jon is far more entertaining
Interpol wasn’t nominated for anything, so they have some taste.
Also, let’s stop bashing the 80′s (outside of the clothes, bash the clothes). In the 80′s David Lynch had a top rated television show on a major broadcast network, the talking heads were Top 40 artists, and Clear Channel as we know it did not exist.
Finally, (I killed my TV years ago so I didn’t see) I heard Ashlee got booed. If that’s true, things are looking up.
I wonder if Anna Nicole Smith will introduce Kanye West again if he performs at that grammys? And if Kanye West did say that he was robbed when he lost out to Gretchen Wilson what a sore loser!
What happend to the good old days when people who won and were nominated for Best New Artist and never heard from again i.e. Men at Work, Starland Vocal Band etc et all….if that was still the case then I so wish that Ashlee Simpson was nominated in that catagorey, damn you Sheyrl Crow for breaking that curse!!
well looking at this years awards I guess…yeah, it is a sad day for metal.
I’m glad Kanye won something although the workout video is really I get the point.
I could stomach the billboard awards for alot of reasons, but there’s really one that just turns my stomach- – Usher. I swear someone just ought to cut his tongue out! I’m so sick of him. He seems like an arrogant, pompous, jackass and he does not deserve a grammy..he deserves like..a Big in 04′ award. and as for ashlee..ugh..G-d! someone shouldve hit the no-singing stick figure in her head…at least i wouldve gotten a laugh outta the show instead of the utter disgust.
they gave her that damn award either outta pity or daddy Simpson paid someone off.
damn, I have horrible grammar.
I shouldve just summed it up.
sorry to all the people who like metal that didnt either see their group perform or win.
much props to those who like Kanye, I dont think he deserves an album of the year or anything, but i’m glad he got something.
and usher sucks ass and needs to be putout his misery
and someone shouldve tripped ashlee up on her way to get her award.
whew! okay 4;59pm i’m out.
okay, so will someone please tell my why the killers don’t deserve their nominations? because i think they DEFINITELY do.
Okay WTF is up with Dave Navaro!? I saw that last night he performed with Usher. First it was P.Doofy, then he was in that Mariah Scary video remake of Bringing on the Heartbreak were Mariah Scary should have been shot for covering a pretty good Def Lepard song and for trying to channel Bette Midler in the Rose and for putting Joe Millionare in that video and then he played with Usher last night!!!?? Seriously Dave Navaro WTF?
I guess alot of people will be missing out on the UsherKanyefest at the grammys next yr.
let’s not forget that carmen’s davey also plays on xtina’s “fighter.”
(so embarassed to admit that i know that)
So totally off topic, but — a Britney update: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004571685,00.html
dave navarro’s sucked for years. does anyone have a clip/source for that mariah scarey cover? i truely want to hear that.
I think Dave is in just in the video for the song not sure if he plays on the actual track. The video made the list of VH-1′s least metal moments, its pretty bad Mariah Skanky rips off Bette Midler in the Rose for the video and in the concert footage with Dave there is bad pyrotechnics and the background backdrop is a huge butterfly….but to make matter worse and even more cheesier Joe Millionare plays her body guard in the video….pretty bad!
I was just reading in Page 6 that the lead singer from Maroon 5 suposedly hooked up with Paris Hilton at the Billboard awards….ewwewww I hope that guy got himself checked for any kind of STD’s afterward!
Yeah, the Grammy’s are totally out of touch. Lindsay Lohan was not even nominated.
hi everyone.
i don’t care about ANY of this!!!!
BA HUMBUG.
?bbt
Matt,
Since you asked for it here is a link to the Bringing on the Heartbreak video from Mariah Skanky’s offical website.
http://www.mariahcarey.com/mariahcarey/music/index.las
Don’t say that I didn’t warn you!
Let me try this again-here ya go Matt
I’m not going to watch it at work, but grimmone’s descriptions sounds like the most awesome thing ever.
Kanye’s album may not have been THAT good, but it was THAT much better than anything Usher has done.
That Genius Loves Company CD is SOOOOOOO painful! Ask anyone who works in a Starbucks.
Bette Midler should have sued Mariah Skanky’s skanky ass off for ripping off and ruining one of her greatest rolls!
I wonder if there will be a comic thing at the grammys were Kate Winslet comes out dressed as Norah Jones to introduce her. Her impersonation of Norah Jones on SNL was really dead on.
Oh man tell me about. I cannot stand Mariah. I wonder if the rumors of her being broke are true. I can beleive that they are, because she has someone hired to do everything for her, including wiping her skanky ass. And damn, how many more pictures do we have to see of her with her cleavage on display? She is so disgusting. Dont even get me started on her badly drawn eyebrows! YIKES
Wow, Britney Spears nominated for a Grammy.
The Grammys are such a joke. They’re concerned with best sellers, not most talented.
Ani Difranco got nominated for best folk though… hooray!
Usher sucks ASS.
Cofession 1 + 2 What the F**K !!!
Yeah doesn’t make sense
JESUs christ i guess there are alot of pretten girls out there who just love usher so much that he had to be nominated you know god forbid there be more than one rock album nominated green day should win merely on the fact that they play instruments and not computer beats and samples not only that green day fucking rocks they have been a band for nearly 15 years and have had ups and downs yet still keep goin and i went to one of their shows and it kicked as best show ever and i have seen a few foo fighters slipknot korn 311 and alot more USHER IS GAY HE DANCES AROUND IN HE|IS FUDGIES HES A FAG AT BEST
YOU PEOPLE NEED TO PAY LESS ATTENTION TO TV AN CELEBRITY FUX–THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE PORR WILL GET POORER IF YOU DON’T QUIT PAYING ATTENTION AND CARING about these stupid bastards
Woot! Los Lonely Boys rock! Especially their song Heaven and I mean in both Spanish and English. I can sing that song in both Spanish and English too. Que tan lejos es esta el Cielo…. I gotta get a grip. Maybe I better go to bed now. I just felt like posting all this cause I love the Los Lonely Boys (Mostly the guitarist Henry Garza aka the long haired guy) and because i’m tired and hyper and just felt like posting. Once again yay for Henry, Ringo, and Joey Garza and good night.