The Grammys

The Grammys... suck!!!
every year gets worse and boring...

You're not correct about Neil Young never being nominated. He was nominated in 1989 for "This Note's For You," 2007 for "Prairie Wind" 2008 for "Looking for a Leader" and last year for "Chrome Dreams II."

And he won last night for his box set.

all I know is that pink's ass stole the show

the grammys are about pop music-which is dominated by R&B, rap, pop rock, and nowadays, country.

its quantity over quality, for the most part

hedave wrote:

I'm curious! By what process are the bands and artists nominated? Last night, U2, Green Day and AC/DC were nominated. AC/DC? really? WTF! Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Who, just to name a few, have never been nominated, but Taylor Swift gets one. What the hell! What about The Decemberists, Wilco, The Killers and "Backspacer"?

"Backspacer" was not eligible for this year's Grammys. Released too late.

Wilco has been nominated multiple times, and won.

Voting is by members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Ya, don't hate the grammys, just most of the music on them. I do not think any music that appeals to adults will be on the Grammys for most part, I was surprised PJ's Fixer even got nominated. My daughter 12 and wife watched them, I told them come get me when somebody plays some music and not some elaborate stage show with lipcinking! Can not believe some moron's compared Elton John to Lady Gagme! Enough said on this non-issue for real music fans!

NARAS votes, there's no bribes/payola. Even if there was bribery, there's too many members of NARAS to flip the majority. All it takes is to have a job in the audio industry and to pay your dues (i think there's one tiered fee to become a member and another (more expensive) tiered fee to be a voting member.

The voting is based on majority rule rather than a judgement panel, use some common sense and you would be able to tell that indie artists don't stand a chance versus popular artists since the majority of the people aren't going to know the indie artist.

One problem with the voting process is that you have to vote on every section of the ballot whether you're knowledgable of the person's body of work or not, so when people come across a portion that isn't of interest to them they just vote for whoever they've heard of which is usually the biggest name on the ballot.

Nominations are announced tomorrow morning. Do our guys get shutout again? They deserve more than one or 2. Also hoping they get one of the main categories. But that's a long shot

igotid88 said:

Nominated for Best Rock Album so far. Hopefully more to come

Nice, well deserved!

RiotAct10 said:

Best Rock Performance
The Beatles - Now and Then
The Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High)
Green Day - The American Dream Is Killing Me
Idles - Gift Horse
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
St. Vincent - Broken Man

Best Rock Song
The Black Keys - Beautiful People (Stay High)
Green Day - Dilemma
Idles - Gift Horse
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
St. Vincent - Broken Man

Best Rock Album
The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
Fontaines D.C. - Romance
Green Day - Saviors
Idles - Tangk
Jack White - No Name
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

Great but I was hoping they would get into the main categories 

And Earl Jam by Tony Trischka was nominated for Best Bluegrass Album.

I agree with igotid about "Wreckage," but I suspect the label pushed "Dark Matter." Grammy nominations are generally pretty lazy. I dig the "new" Beatles song, but Record of the Year? And I love Taylor Swift, but "Fortnight" as the song from Tortured Poets that gets Record and Song nominations? It's like, this was the lead single from the year's biggest album and it hit number one, so let's mail in the nominations for it.