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49th Annual Grammy Award Nominees Announced
I LOVE THIS GUY
"The Grammys are a circle jerk that no one is interested in. They're completely out of touch, NOT reflective of the heart and soul of music. They're just a mirror of what's wrong...................Mary J. Blige is good, but not new. James Blunt is no different from Christopher Cross. The Dixie Chicks should only be nominated if they agree to get up on stage and say YOU SEE, WE WERE RIGHT! Gnarls Barkley should get the award in the first fifteen minutes, building to this anticlimax is a waste of three hours. As for Corinne Bailey Rae, her nomination PROVES how out of touch and irrelevant these awards are. If you think this record or she is the future of music, then your future must suck. Talk to me in twenty years, when she's forgotten and some new Bonnie Raitt-type character will be lauded......" [Lefsetz]
Best Alternative Music Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm NotThe full list of nominees is here. The above video is "The view from the afternoon" by Arctic Monkeys. ALSO: Arctic Monkeys frontman NOT starting a new band
Arctic Monkeys [Domino Recording]At War With The Mystics
The Flaming Lips [Warner Bros.]St. Elsewhere
Gnarls Barkley [Downtown/Atlantic]Show Your Bones
Yeah Yeah Yeahs [Interscope Records]The Eraser
Thom Yorke [XL Recordings]
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I love Flaming Lips. I'd come to any show they have in town, but I've been seeing their new album in a lot of best album 2006 lists and there was better stuff by other bands this year.
Posted by Eduardo | December 7, 2006 1:06 PM
Good thing Steely Dan wasn't nominated.
Yes...I'm still bitter.
Posted by Chris | December 7, 2006 1:35 PM
The Grammies aren't brave enough. I've paid attention to them for years now and they're very soft in who they actually vote for. Gnarls Barkely is the most accessible here, so I expect them to win.
Posted by Heather | December 7, 2006 1:46 PM
Yeah, I agree with the Flaming Lips comments above. Show Your Bones was a very average album as well. I can hardly remember any of the songs on it. There's about 500 copies of Thom Yorke's solo album in the Tower Records 50%-off on 4th Street sale if anyone's interested.
Posted by Anonymous | December 7, 2006 2:17 PM
I liked show Your Bones..just sayin
Posted by Bob | December 7, 2006 2:53 PM
and I'm gonna come to Tower Records today.
Posted by Eduardo | December 7, 2006 3:16 PM
so who votes on these things anyways??
Posted by nick | December 7, 2006 4:16 PM
I'd say the yyy's have a good chance there - since they didn't include tvotr..
Or Awesome Color..
Posted by joly | December 7, 2006 5:07 PM
"I'd say the yyy's have a good chance there "
no way. Gnarls Barkley so have this in the bag - and I don't mean because they put out the best album. I just mean because.
Posted by Anonymous | December 7, 2006 5:17 PM
Category 7
Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
-I Will Follow You Into The Dark
Death Cab For Cutie
-Stickwitu
The Pussycat Dolls
Can Death Cab beat out the Pussycat Dolls?!
Can they be nominated in the same catagory?
how come music has to be politically correct?
Posted by sam | December 7, 2006 5:18 PM
at least they got thom yorke right. "the eraser" is one of my favorite albums of the year.
Posted by throatneedle | December 7, 2006 5:22 PM
I will follow you into the dark and stickwitu in the pussy cat death doll for cutie
Posted by Anonymous | December 7, 2006 5:23 PM
"James Blunt is no different from Christopher Cross"
I think Chris Martin from Coldplay holds that claim or is it the lead singer of Bread?
Posted by King of Zing | December 7, 2006 5:52 PM
I'm kind of disappointed that Neil Diamond was not nominated for 12 Songs.Not only because I love
the album (infact,"Save Me a Saturday Night" is playing as I type this-what a magical song),but also because it seems that the grammys love giving props to geezer comebacks,and Neil Diamond was the Steely Dan of the year.It would have been much more interesting to see the 65 year old legend from the 'Brooklyn Roads' in Coney Island up there getting 'Album of the Year' then another bored and indifferent Dixie Chicks exeptence speech,or another dumbed down Red Hot Chilli Peppers exeptence speech.Yawn
Posted by Billy | December 7, 2006 9:49 PM
Steely Dan rocks!
Posted by MD | December 8, 2006 11:07 AM
Thom is posting The Eraser remixes.
And Steely Dan can suck a nut.
Posted by Chris | December 11, 2006 2:38 PM