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Post by steveternal on Dec 8, 2006 14:10:47 GMT -5
The Grammys are the most rediculously arbitrary of all awards programs. They pretty much base all their nominations and winners on sales, and sit proudly in the pockets of the major labels. They don't even remotely base their decisions on actual artistic quality, like the Oscars and Emmys and Tonys kind of try to do. They are a cancer on the music community, and they need to shove their trophies you-know-where.
But nothing against you, deathreau. I just really hate the Grammys.
I have to say out of all the music awards, the Grammys is the most creditble. They do have their cons with favoring vetern performers and sometime album sales, but they do have this shining moments when someone like a John Legend or a Corinne Bailey Rae are thrown into the mix. I'd take the Grammys any day over the Billboard Awards
Post by Hipster Doofus on Dec 8, 2006 15:09:46 GMT -5
steveternal said:
The Grammys are the most rediculously arbitrary of all awards programs. They pretty much base all their nominations and winners on sales, and sit proudly in the pockets of the major labels. They don't even remotely base their decisions on actual artistic quality, like the Oscars and Emmys and Tonys kind of try to do. They are a cancer on the music community, and they need to shove their trophies you-know-where.
But nothing against you, deathreau. I just really hate the Grammys.
I will NOT allow any criticism of my precious Grammy's!!
Just kidding. I'm pretty much with Liguy on this one. Could be better, but it's better than the others.
Best Alternative Album nominees; Arctic Monkeys, Flaming Lips, Gnarls Barkley, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Thom Yorke.
I'm pleasantly surprised that those are the nominees. I'm half surprised that OK Go and Justin Timberlake weren't nominated for best alternative. Outside of maybe the Mercury Prize, I don't put any weight on music awards. For the most part, I think they're just a chance for the major labels to whore out their artists.
Anyway... I personally would have to vote for the Arctic Monkeys. But yeah, Gnarls Barkley will probably win it because of their "crossover appeal."
i don't really care for any music awards show. Whatever sells decides for pretty much all of them, except the alternative awards shows (jammys, etc.), which for the most part, i don't care for either.
to me it just doesn't serve a purpose, other than putting artists that don't even write their own songs on pedestals.
"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, movie gods, and rock stars. But we wont, and we're slowly learning that fact & we're very, very pissed off......."
Post by steveternal on Dec 10, 2006 18:26:22 GMT -5
Haha! Yeah, I wanted to point out that it's not that the Grammys invariably choose the people who don't deserve it-- hell, I loved 3 of those 5 nominated alternative albums! But when the Grammys choose a nominee/winner, it is for commercial reasons, and any accompanying artistic talent is completely coincidental.
I think CeeLo and DangerMouse take this one, but I'm rooting for Mr. Yorke of course.
Where's my prize?
Really, I resurrected the grammy thread because I can't believe Tool (Adam Jones) won for best recording package. I love Tool, but come on, I thought the whole 3-D thing was pretty stupid. Maybe it's just me.
Also, Flaming Lips won two, for best rock instrumental "the wizard turns on...", and best engineered album along with Fridmann.
^^^Yeah, it was pretty awful. And I didn't quite understand why they insisted on doing so during a Bob Wills tribute. Probably the worst part of the evening peformance wise.
As a side note, I have a friend whose pretty involved in the country swing scene here in Austin and apparently when Carrie Underwood asked Johnny Gimble and Ray Benson to play with her during the Bob Wills tribute, she specifically asked them not to look too "country western" and then asked them not to holler during the performance "like that guy on the record."
