The Grammys

The album deserves to be nominated. Good to see The Crowes on there as well. That may be the best Jack White solo record ever too.

Do they still automatically give the Best Rap grammy to Will Smith every year?

Big year for Fontaines D.C.. That new song on alt-nation Favourite is excellent.

igotid88 said:

mr bungle said:

I haven't watched the Grammys in a long time.  Do they show the Rock categories on the telecast?

No. The pre-show 

Thanks!  Hopefully there will be a live stream or something.

igotid88 said:

mr bungle said:

I haven't watched the Grammys in a long time.  Do they show the Rock categories on the telecast?

No. The pre-show 

What a fucking joke. 

Be cool to win....but who fucking cares? 

I used to be a member of the Recording Academy.  I was able to submit one of my former clients for nomination consideration.  The artist ended up winning a Grammy that year! (Due to an NDA, I can't name the client, but it is not a rock act).

A few years ago, the academy started purging members who did not handle enough music clients, so I wasn't allowed to renew my membership.

The Grammy show used to have some great performances, so it was fun to attend.

Now, it is very different, with very few / almost no rock acts performing.

JOEJOEJOE said:

I used to be a member of the Recording Academy.  I was able to submit one of my former clients for nomination consideration.  The artist ended up winning a Grammy that year! (Due to an NDA, I can't name the client, but it is not a rock act).

A few years ago, the academy started purging members who did not handle enough music clients, so I wasn't allowed to renew my membership.

The Grammy show used to have some great performances, so it was fun to attend.

Now, it is very different, with very few / almost no rock acts performing.

There's usually at least one rock performance, often combining a newer artist with a legacy artist. Last year, you had U2 doing "Atomic City" from Sphere, Joni Mitchell and friends doing "Both Sides Now," and Billy Joel doing two songs, his new one and "You May Be Right." Olivia Rodrigo also performed. She is a pop artist but most of her songs are basically alt-rock. And they had the Tracy Chapman/Luke Combs duet on "Fast Car." 

The Grammys have had a lot of great performances in recent years, albeit fewer of them are rock performances. For several years now, the show has deemphasized the awards in favor of performance.

Whether the rock album award gets handed out on the telecast varies from year to year. It likely depends on who's performing on the show.

What does ‘best rock performance’ mean? What performance is that for?

Force Of Nature said:

What does ‘best rock performance’ mean? What performance is that for?

Seattle shows 

igotid88 said:

mookeywrench said:

Force Of Nature said:

What does ‘best rock performance’ mean? What performance is that for?

Seattle shows 

It's not usually for a live performance unless it specifically says so

Or if Stone Cold says so

Force Of Nature said:

BF25394 said:

Force Of Nature said:

What does ‘best rock performance’ mean? What performance is that for?

For the song "Dark Matter" as it appears on the album.

How does this work? How is it different to the song category?  e.g. you could have a bad song that is a good performance or vice versa?  Just not sure how you judge a performance on an album

Grammy for best song is given to the songwriters.

Grammy for best performance goes to everyone involved with the song.

It gets blurry when entire bands collaborate towards their own songs, but if Dark Matter was nominated and won best song, Andrew Watt would win in addition to all the band.

Or for example, if only Jeff Ament wrote the song Dark Matter, only he would win rather than Pearl Jam collectively.