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The Grammy Awards (AKA Crappy Awards)
Yesterday I continued a tradition I am proud of, I didn't watch the Grammy Awards for the probably the 10th consecutve year. They are long, the music sucks and they don't award the best music, they award the music that sells. Its a popularist contest and nothing more.
All due respect to Taylor Swift but he album was not album of the year, there had to have been better music out there somewhere, they picked it because it sold the most, I don't have the numbers in front of me but I will bet everything I have that that is the case.
Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown as Best Rock Album? Come on, I like Green Day, but Im sure there was something better, it sold a lot.
The Grammy Awards have become totally controlled by the cooperate world both music and mass media and they award the music that sells plain simple, no one bothers to dig deep anymore to find the truly quality music out there, we just settle for what coorporately owned, mass media radio stations throw on their high rotation playlists and accept it for what is "good" and "acceptable" to listen to.
So, until the Grammy Awards gets honest with music fans and themselves Im not going to bother tuning in. They should rename it to the Award Show for Top Selling Music and just hand out gold dollar signs to each artist.
Driven To Tears
This song takes on whole new significance after watching 60 Minutes tonight. Sting actually wrote this in hotel room after watching some of the horrid pictures of poverty on TV.Category: Music
Neil Peart Re-Records Hockey Night Theme
I'll have to find out when this is being debuted! Apparently this also comes just prior to the announcement of a new Rush album set for a summer release and possible summer tour. They are like wine these guys, getting better with age.Category: Music
Seven Years Since Strummer Left Us
In my top five favorite musicians of all time, Joe Strummer ranks number one. He was the complete package. He wasn't in it for the money, he was in it to entertain and provide kick ass rock and roll shows to fans of all ages.The man was the driving force behind the most important rock band probably in the history of rock and roll, I would take arguments on the Stones, Beatles, Velvet Underground or Beach Boys, but what other band influenced musicians like the Joe Strummer and The Clash did? Not many.Category: Music
Christmas: Humble and Fred Style
I have been hanging onto this since I started this blog, waiting for the chance to convert this cassette full of Christmas cheer to MP3. It is the 1998 Humble and Fred Christmas Spectacular featuring the Barenaked Ladies. Humble and Fred can correct me if I am wrong but 1998 was the last year that the band played. Stephen made appearances after Humble and Fred switched to MOJO but for the most part that was it.
So, enjoy and Merry Christmas! I hear the guys are working on Humble and Fred Podcast #5 so this should provide some fun listening until that is up and running. There are 6 parts so have a listen!
Humble and Fred Teaser
If you didn't notice with my last post I had to switch to a new audio player. No its not as nice and detailed as the Imeem one but Houndbite will suffice. Mike Boon super technical guy referred me to Houndbite to get the audioclips running again as Myspace ate up Imeem. Above is a teaser, a week from Friday I will post a little treat for Humble and Fred fans for the Holidays.....You may use the comments section to guess and if you are a true fan you will guess without a problem...if you know, stay tuned, Im in the process of recording it and sometime next Friday I'll throw up some classic H&F.Category: Christmas | Humble and Fred | Miscellaneous | Music
Nirvana Live At Reading
If you have a music lover in the family the new release Nirvana Live at Reading is just awesome. Its one of the most electric, raw and downright bad ass rock and roll concerts I have ever listened to. You can see a few of the cuts on Youtube including one of my favorite Nirvana songs of all time Sliver. Of all the live albums I have gotten my hands on over the years this one ranks in my top 5 live performances ever, check it out:
Category: Music
I'm Not That Talented
That will be the title of the next Britney Spears album. Here is one from the land of No Shit Sherlock, the cat is out of the bag on the little tramp, she lip sync's for her live shows.
First of all, Im really disappointed, I thought everyone knew that she did that already, have you seen her on MTV perform live? She is currently touring Austrailia and the Austrailian government is thinking about passing a law that would force artists notify the ticket buying public in advance if they are lip syncing. I say go one further, put a limit on how much those artists can charge because obviously if they are unable to perform their material and prance around on stage then they aren't talented enough to warrant huge ticket prices. When I go to a concert I want to hear that artist sing and if they can't do it then maybe they shouldn't even bother touring. In the past its ruined acts, Milli Vanilli comes to mind. Once people caught wind of them lip syncing it was over. The same should go here as well. Why bother going to her shows if you aren't even going to hear the slut sing? I would be asking for my money back if I were a fan.Category: Music
The First Christmas Song
I haven't separated the Christmas songs on my Ipod from the regular play list, I basically have a massive collection of 7600 songs at this point and if a Christmas song pops up from time to time I just skip right over it.
Well, after November 1st as long as its a good Christmas tune I let it fly. Today was the first of the good ones to come up while in the car so I let it go. It was Little Saint Nick by the Beach Boys. This is on my terms, not on some crazy radio stations terms who think they have to play Christmas music 24/7 starting November 1st.
Last year I let the first one play on November 12th, this year its 8 days earlier but I figured what the hell, after the crappy ass, rain filled summer we had we might as well push the cheerful part of winter into high gear because once the holidays are over its about 2+ months of hopelessness and nasty snow, sleet, ice and freezing rain.
So after today I will let the good Christmas songs that come on the Ipod play
