Grammys 2009: Core Four

Brent's Groove · #1 02-07-2009, 06:26 PM

Who do you think will be the winners of the Core Four awards? Or, better yet, who do you want to win?

Record Of The Year

Chasing Pavements
Adele

Viva La Vida
Coldplay

Bleeding Love
Leona Lewis

Paper Planes
M.I.A

Please Read The Letter
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Album Of The Year

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Coldplay

Tha Carter III
Lil Wayne

Year Of The Gentleman
Ne-Yo

Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

In Rainbows
Radiohead

Song Of The Year

American Boy
William Adams, Keith Harris, Josh Lopez, Caleb Speir, John Stephens, Estelle Swaray & Kanye West, songwriters (Estelle Featuring Kanye West)

Chasing Pavements
Adele Adkins & Eg White, songwriters (Adele)

I'm Yours
Jason Mraz, songwriter (Jason Mraz)

Love Song
Sara Bareilles, songwriter (Sara Bareilles)

Viva La Vida
Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay)

Best New Artist

Adele

Duffy

Jonas Brothers

Lady Antebellum

Jazmine Sullivan

Here are who I want to see win: ROTY-Viva La Vida, AOTY-Carter III, SOTY-Viva La Vida, BNA-Lady Antebellum.

I'll never listen to music ever again if the Jonas Brothers win anything other than Lamest Teenie-Bop Band of the Century.

tplyons · #2 02-07-2009, 06:32 PM

Wow, I think I've been under a rock for a year.

Brent's Groove · #3 02-07-2009, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by tplyons

Wow, I think I've been under a rock for a year.

Don't sweat it, this is a pretty weak Grammy season.

tplyons · #4 02-07-2009, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Brent's Groove

Don't sweat it, this is a pretty weak Grammy season.

Out of those albums, I only know the Coldplay album because of the whole Satch thing, I've only heard the Sara Bareiles album, and the only new band I've heard of is the Jonas Brothers.

This IS a weak Grammy season.

Amitio · #5 02-07-2009, 06:48 PM

Hopefully In rainbows wins best album! the rest i dont care about!

Lady Kayri · #6 02-07-2009, 08:30 PM

Aren't the Eagles up for something too? Don't remember what category..."In the Weeds" I think is the tune?

Bob Lee (QSC) · #7 02-07-2009, 09:15 PM

I gave up trying to pick the winners of Grammy votes back when the Starland Vocal Band won Best New Artist.

When you watch the Grammys telecast, when they show the audience I'll be one of the little specks up in section 305.

Dfinch · #8 02-07-2009, 09:50 PM

Wow. Weak list.

Let's see....(starts flipping coin)

ROTY: Leona Lewis

AOTY: Radiohead

SOTY: Sara Bareilles

Newcomer: Lady Antebellum

baalroo · #9 02-07-2009, 10:01 PM

The Radiohead album is the only thing on that list that I've heard and it wasn't even close to some of their other work. Out of ALL the music that gets released in a year, I don't understand why the same few boring sort of albums get picked for everything every year... well, actually yes I do understand. It's a BIG COMMERCIAL for mass produced pop music created and hyped by the industry to sell more pop albums. I could name 20 different outlets that give years end lists that give a better representation of what's going on in the world of music than what the grammys have to offer.

scottice · #10 02-07-2009, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Amitio

Hopefully In rainbows wins best album! the rest i dont care about!

+1

Valerus · #11 02-07-2009, 11:02 PM

snoozefest

Aged_Clayman · #12 02-08-2009, 06:59 AM

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Adele
Coldplay
Leona Lewis
M.I.A
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Who are all this people?

Syeknom · #13 02-08-2009, 07:52 AM

In Rainbows!

Valerus · #14 02-08-2009, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Aged_Clayman

Who are all this people?

Robert Plant=lead singer of Led Zeppelin

Bob Lee (QSC) · #15 02-09-2009, 12:07 AM

I thought Robert Plant and Allison Krauss's "Raising Sand" was a good choice, though I could've seen it go to "Viva la Vida" and "In Rainbows" too.

When RP and AK performed, T-Bone Burnett was playing a really cool looking guitar. Anyone recognize what kind it was?

JimmyM · #16 02-09-2009, 03:50 AM

Music is dead. I used to think just rock and roll was dead. But it's all music. The lawyers and accountants took over from the musicians and killed the industry. If all the Grammy nominees went over the side of a mountain in a bus (except Robert Plant and Alison Krauss), it wouldn't make a lick of difference to the history of recorded music.

And where the hell was AC/DC??? They had the biggest selling rock album of the last two years and no Grammy nomination??? No wonder the music industry is in the crapper, and good riddance.

KJung · #17 02-09-2009, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by JimmyM

Music is dead. I used to think just rock and roll was dead. But it's all music. The lawyers and accountants took over from the musicians and killed the industry. If all the Grammy nominees went over the side of a mountain in a bus (except Robert Plant and Alison Krauss), it wouldn't make a lick of difference to the history of recorded music.

And where the hell was AC/DC??? They had the biggest selling rock album of the last two years and no Grammy nomination??? No wonder the music industry is in the crapper, and good riddance.

The Grammy's continue to be a strange thing. That organization always has seemed rather clueless, and typically either 5 years behind what is going on, or worse.

I try VERY hard to stay up with what's going on musically, even though I'm getting up there in age at this point. I try to keep my playing style up to date, and try to at least be aware of what is happening in the business. That being said, I agree with you, things seem to be in bad shape. The R&B category seems to be made up at this point of watered down, vanilla sounding, derivative Soul, the rap category seems to have lost its edge, the jazz category is REALLY pathetic (talk about a combination of smarmy smooth jazz, rehashed post bop, and watered down fusion.. god help us).

This is literally the first time I've really felt like this. I do hear some cool stuff on various Sat. radio stations, but they never seem to see the light of day on any mainstream radio.

Sorry for the rant!

baalroo · #18 02-09-2009, 11:55 AM

Music is alive and well, you're just not gonna see or hear any of it on the 2 hour commercial for radio jingles and fashion designers that we call The Grammys. I can't even manage to see all the great, exciting, vibrant shows that come through my mid-sized city here in the middle of the US let alone keep up with all the great albums that get released around the world every month. Music is just fine guys.

KJung · #19 02-09-2009, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by baalroo

Music is alive and well, you're just not gonna see or hear any of it on the 2 hour commercial for radio jingles and fashion designers that we call The Grammys. I can't even manage to see all the great, exciting, vibrant shows that come through my mid-sized city here in the middle of the US let alone keep up with all the great albums that get released around the world every month. Music is just fine guys.

Thanks for this post. I agree 100%. I just get so bummed out at the Grammy's, that I tend to view that organization as a reflection of the music business. I guess it really isn't. Whew!

The Grammy Awards always puts a two or three day stink on music in general with me

Psychicpet · #20 02-09-2009, 11:59 AM

I was happy to see the Allison Krauss/Robert Plant CD get the awards it did, it's a fairly genuine and fresh recording... not to mention a great example of what can get accomplished in a studio in 3 days

as for the rest of it, I dug U2... and seeing Charlie Haden with jack Black, that was great!