Your first link goes to a page telling me to come back after 11 PM. But... it's after 11 PM. What gives?
The categories are really baffling. "Best R&B Album", then "Best Contemporary R&B Album"? The former doesn't have to be contemporary?
I've heard that that Fred Sherry Schoenberg album is great. Otherwise, the classical nominees seem kind of random. And that album I recommended earlier is not among them as it should be.
I see that "Fuck You" song got four nominations.
I will not sleep content until The Offspring collect their well earned Grammy. The should give JayZ polemic Grammy for _Death of Auto-Tune_ .
On the topic of old people, nice to see Laurie Anderson nominated.
There's over 100 categories?! I guess they really want to make sure that everybody gets to put 'Grammy award winning' or at least 'Grammy nominated' on their albums.
There's over 100 categories?!
I just clicked to the link and had the same reaction.
They're not recognizing a Best Regional Mexican Album this year, though, so it's only 108 awards instead of 109.
re: 8 and 9
Ditto.
There's also a lot of stuff that seems dated [not just in terms of being done by old men who've been recording for 50 years]. I mean, Setzer doing 'Sleepwalk'? It's a 1950s tune, and he first recorded it over a decade ago, when _that_ album was nominated for a f'cking Grammy.
I'v never paid much attention to the Grammy nominations, but I always assumed that the selections were horrible every year.
12 gets it exactly right. All these awards are just the industry aristocracy telling each other how wonderful they are. Don't get your knickers in a twist.
It's been awhile since I've even thought about the Grammys, but aren't they just awards for music that sold well? I mean, who cares who wins a Grammy?
(And I say this as someone who cares a bit about who wins Oscars.)
Don't hate on Fred Sherry, people.
Last night I was channel surfing and came across what seemed to be Grammy nominee announcement-related programming activities. Justin Bieber's face appeared on my TV screen and there are noises but, really, my cows.
I love Cee-lo's song. I often find myself silently singing portions of it while in court listening to opposing counsel.
If they have video Grammy Awards, this video would win "Most Accurate Description of Custody Clients." http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7487121/
I have learned SO! MUCH! about music since I started reading here.
You guys are the best.
I'm a mite too busy to click through, but I'm guessing I wasn't nominated. Again. How utterly disappointing.
21: No, it's good, Stanley! It shows you're still relevant! And still too dangerous for the Establishment!
If nominated, I will not run. If awarded, I will not stay within the speech time limit.
NTTATWWT
"Anything" is two words now? I missed the memo, darn it.
The kids today with the musical acts that are hard to spell.
26: No half-steppin', essear. Now let me tell you who I am.
25: NTTATWWT
Can also be parsed as "not that there's anything terribly wrong with that"
NTTATWWT
Obviously, he meant "nougat-tomato tacos are the world's worst tacos", and what reasonable person would disagree with that statement? I mean, seriously.
Nutella-tilapia tacos are no walk in the park.
We keep Nutella around because if you make a cake or something and are too lazy to make frosting, Nutella works just fine.
You know what kind of cake that works best on?
"any thing" is actually a perfectly respectable two-word phrase.
Why don't you like DJA, Ben. Not dissonant enough?
This is also pretty choice.
Many years ago we would often attend a Hanukkah dinner at some liberal-ish synagogue with friends who would also invite another "mixed" couple. The wife in that couple always brought a very tasty split pea soup. It might have been about the fourth year when our mutual friend asked what her secret was and she revealed that it was of course (d'oh!) cooked with ham.
36: That's why I always bring lobster bisque.
I love Cee-lo's song. I often find myself silently singing portions of it while in court listening to opposing counsel.
Me, too (except without the listening to opposing counsel part). There's a parody version on youtube about blocking obnoxious comments that includes the lyric, "Oops, he's trollin', jus thought you should know this."
Florence and the Machine is a new artist? Her album came out in 2009! And not even late 2009.
Lots of the albums/tracks/whatevers that have been nominated came out in 2009.