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Just tuned in to the Grammy's. This song is long and BOOOORING!

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay, it's over!

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

John Mayer - Best pop vocal

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

His mind is blanking.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw the Police opened the show with one whole song. Are they expected to do more tonight?

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Monday, 12 February 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Dunno, but glad the Dixie Chicks just won Song of the Year for Not Ready to Make Nice.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ornette coleman giving carrie underwood her grammy: no words... should've sent... a poet...

― Goodtime Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great Frisco Freakout (bernard snowy), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

His mind is blank~~ing~~. FIXED

Or fuxed, depending on whether my html works out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh hey look at that. It worked!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

of course it's blank, overexposure to jessica simpson

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 12 February 2007 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMP

― a.b. (abanana), Monday, 12 February 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

check it out

― maura (maura), Monday, 12 February 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Jethro Tull once won a Grammy for best metal album. Once upon a time in the the days of phonographs, some critic said the Grammys should be called the Phonies, but that would make too much sense.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

how the hell could gnarls barkley not win?

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

racism

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

And they didn't even have to use MS Paint!

― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ornette coleman giving carrie underwood her grammy

Okay wait...what?!?

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

it seemed kind of like torture to make him stand up there and read off nominees.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Gnarls won best alternative album!!! No nominations for Scritti Politti or Ghostface---I'm shocked.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

oh okay I missed that. The show was too long and too crap to watch continuously. they didn't perform did they? (guess I could check you tube).

Dixie Chicks and Rick Rubin, overrated.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I found that most of the performances were flat. Except Christina Aguilera, who I'm not usually crazy about.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Somebody needs to find the names of the NARAS people who vote for these Grammys and make them repent.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

everytime I turned this on some fat guy was STILL singing an Eagles song, for like, hours.

― akm (akmonday), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Evanescence won a grammy once.
I actually gagged, turned off my TV, and left my house.

― Geza T iz tha Rainy G. Toronado (The GZeus), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

giving ornette the 5 minute, one clip treatment while he was already onstage to give carrie underwood an award was beyond bush league. nice job grammys.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

At least Smokey Robinson pwned.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder if he ever received a Grammy in his prime? I doubt it.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Jethro Tull once won a Grammy for best metal album.

I think classic Tull is kind of metal in the 70s sense. Whether they deserved to win any award (and beat Metallica) in 1989 is another question. (I haven't heard the 1989 Tull album in question but still.)

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

In 1989, no.

http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx

As for Smokey, the answer is no. Let's see the Beatles got awards in 1964 and in 1967, but nothing in between. Who are these NARAS people anyway?

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

they didn't perform did they?

Gnarls Barkley? Yeah, they did a real slow version of Crazy.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

that's what they usually perform live.

boo. . . Off to youtube for me.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The slow version of "Crazy" is better than the regular version. Waaaay better!

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I DVRed this thing- but it seems like it's still gonna take me 2.5 hours to fast forward through it!

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 03:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Xgau:

John Mayer
"Continuum" (Aware/Columbia)
Saying in so many words what his less-gifted, more-pretentious contemporaries think it's cool to camouflage ("Waiting on the World to Change," "The Heart of Life").

― nuneb (nuneb), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys are doing awesome impressions of above-it-all indie freeeeks, keep it up!

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The slow version of "Crazy" is better than the regular version. Waaaay better!

over on the real ilx you can find MULTIPLE POSTS of me saying that the problem with "crazy" is that it's TOO FAST.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post to Matt

Alright Mary J. Blige and Smokey were awesome and Justin and Corrin Bailey Rae weren't bad, but call me indie but I did not like John Mayer and those facial expressions and that mediocre "Gravity" song(I kinda like "Waiting on the World to Change" musically, but he did not do that one), Lionel Richie, those lame versions of Eagles songs, the RHCP 4th rate photocopy of what they've done before, and awards to the most popular older or better known people nominated (whether they deserved it or not--Tony Bennett, Ziggy Marley, Red H. C. Peppers). Surely you are not also defending the Grammys historical record?

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I liked that version of "Crazy" too.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not talking about one's views of the performers, but the sniffy way in which everyone is talking about the Grammys like they have to prove they are so far above such a horrible commercial thing. The Grammys are what they are, they've always been this way, so what good is it to be all like 'I had to throw my TV out the window because someone I don't like very much got rewarded by a bunch of old white record company executives'? They're crap, sure, but that's hardly news. And what's the harm of them anyway? Did it affect the Beatles negatively when they only won a couple of awards? They sucked anyway and you know it. :-]

Plus Chris Brown ruled! My daughter and all her friends love him, and he tore shit up two different times! EMBRACE THE CHRIS BROWN YO.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Who threw their TV already? I fast-forwarded through the bits I didn't like, and if anything got under my skin it was the ATROCIOUS sound mix that occurred whenever more than three musicians were playing at once.

Plus, I had no idea T.I. was so short. It's cute.

― Got my guitar burned while I was clownin' (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Matt,

Chris Brown's dancing was fun, you're right. But he did not have to come back onstage and imitage James Brown's dancing below the film of the Godfather. The footage was enough.

I'm not with you on excusing the Grammy's long record of ignoring worthy efforts. It's not right that they never gave Smokey his due in his prime, and that they're making similar mistakes now.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I couldn't find the Gnarls Barkley on You Tube. bummer. I swear I watched nearly that whole stupid show and the half-hour or so I went away to do something else is when who I really wanted to see came on. Figures. Was their performance at all linked to Ennio Morricone? I thought I had read he would be honored (along with the Eagles and eleventeen others) and that song samples him.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Matt, I think you're totally projecting this: like they have to prove they are so far above such a horrible commercial thing. Nobody said anything of the sort.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Personally, I am certainly not a snob. I watch 2 and a Half Men with gusto. I just thought the performances were somehow muted or cautious or toned down. Chris Brown did rule, though.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

chris brown is the one who started with a mini-step show right? hott!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The NRO reviews the Grammys. Oh dear:

Insignificant musical talents like Bob Dylan, John Williams, the San Francisco Symphony, Randy Newman, and more than 90 others were not of sufficient caliber to be featured on the Grammy telecast, though they all took home prizes. The airtime had to be saved for the real talent out there: Shakira, the Chicks, and Ludacris, and their scintillating performances. Ludicrous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Maria I was not talking about you. I was just talking shit and I didn't really mean it either. I think I had had a couple of beers and was in a bad mood. I thought a lot of it was lame too, for what it's worth.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

it is lame!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Ned, thanks for keeping us informed of the right-wing take. While I don't agree with whom they're dissing, I would have been happy with one less Justin song or a shorter Eagles medley so they could have added in another performer or 2 or 3. Before the days of multiple cable stations and carefully marketed attempts to maximimize viewers, I have vague memories of the Grammys including some non-pop performances (or even more pop performers).

x-post
Gnarls Barkley were dressed like commercial airplane pilots. I don't recall any tribute to Ennio Morricone, but maybe I missed that.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

they've used that outfit before! I'm highly disappointed in their recycling of costumes. In the beginning each performance was unique. I expect more from my multi-platinum grammy-winning artists.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"Given this one night’s collective assault on the ears, the eyes, and decency itself, is it any wonder that record sales have plummeted?"

Another quote from that Raymond Arroyo National Review online article! That opening line in the article is pretty questionable as well.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

that article is hilarious.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the grammys should have let Stewart Copeland solo for an hour

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Gnarls Barkley @ The Grammies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXSWHp1GdKg

― Outcast Lemon Mode (sandglocks), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

hooray! thank you. will watch when I return from crap mtg.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

not an above-it-all indie freak, just didn't have one three-hour block of time readily available

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

that perf. makes me v.v. happy

― The RealJTMod (Real JT Mod of Team Courage), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

dammit ken i wasn't talking about you either, i did the same thing. i was being a jerk and i've already apologized to y'all. IF I PROMISE NOT TO BE AGGRESSIVE CAT WILL EVERYONE STOP BEING DEFENSIVE CAT?

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i gotta take some time off from this place, my personal issues are spilling over into my fake internet life and that just aint right

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's another good one: why the dixie chicks were just being paranoid. Somehow includes lines from Madonna, Solzhenitsyn's _Gulag Archipelago_, and none actually talking about the multiple death threats that they got.

Oh yeah, and compares Soviet-style oppression w/ people attacking climate change deniers and Myspace.

Really.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

This is corny and probably somewhat patronizing/racialist, but I am so incredibly proud of Cee-Lo.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know if I would say proud, but maybe happy? His solo work's so good and underappreciated this def. gives him a bigger platform for it.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Was their performance at all linked to Ennio Morricone? I thought I had read he would be honored

He's being honored at the Oscars this year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Nicka and Samm OTM about Cee-Lo. It is not often that someone so very strange ends up becoming so very omnipresent. I wouldn't be surprised if he never makes any more solo records though -- just a succession of weirdo collab "bands" like Gnarls Barkley, etc.

― Matt Cibula (Formerly, the Haikunym), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe Atlantic is repackaging his existing solo stuff.

xpost, ahh, good to know my mind isn't just making stuff up.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

AP: Country radio still cold to Dixie Chicks

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Shakira is... a very good dancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ppFWhKD_N0

― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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