Talk about the Grammys

What was with the big honking Eagles tribute? Did somebody die? Like the Prime Minister of Good Taste?

What's worse is the whole thing was performed by a bunch of country music people no one that lives within 800 miles of an ocean has ever heard.
The best hair of the evening clearly went to best new artist contendor Imogen Heap. It looked like she had been growing a full fern in there for at least the past six-months.

For some reason, Gnarls Barkley decided to take a perfect song - "Crazy" - and slow it down so much that it almost sounded like Seal's "Crazy." Were they pandering to Grammys' target-demographic - AARP subscribers? Speaking of which, did anyone catch Seal and Burt Bacharach onstage together?

Burt looked younger and hipper than old Trousersnake.
"This next band had their c--- in socks long before Justin put his d--- in a box."

Kindly remeber when writing about the Police, is that THEY are a group.

.. It is insulting to see a photo of just Sting, he is 1/3 of the group.

People.. opps crrection, hardcore fans dont' give a flying left toenail about "Sting" by himself.

It's about Stu, Sting, and the again Andy [your perceptions of aging were off...

Andy and Sting look, well...

senior. Stewart aged gracefully as he is goofy] They should have played at least two songs or came back later int he show.
Will the world see a Police revival tour, perhaps.

Does Sting deseve the money it will generate...

"F" no! he deserves to loose 10mil for every year he put it off! Simply put.

. the three best bands of all time for their influence on musicians are Rush, Yes..

. and the Police. I saw Rush's 30th Anniversary show.

.. it rocked, Yes [with Tony Kaye and Trevor Rabin,,, sorry Howe/Wakeman fans] would be a hell of a show.

...

No, the grapes have aged on Stings vines, and is well overdue to produce something of social significance beside off-color,nonsensical nutter comments about nukes and friggin rainforrest bullcrap. A great song writer and story teller he is, but shut the "F" up on politics, and produce something more that bitterness in your senior years and show the love you elude to in songs like "let your soul be your pilot" and guide you to restoring the peace in the Police and let younger generations a peice of real song writing from veteran players with class..

. that is their gift, not this pie pan deep Blink 182 bull crap, give me a break!

Your emotional postulations are tyical liberal.

O'Rielly and other conservatives [my self included] are hardly effected by the open adulation of the left in their forum celebrating one of their own, so there is your zietgiest placebo...

Einstien. However, I will whole-heartedly agree with you on this point, watching the grammys is disgisting, it is a bloated ego fest obviously infected by the global narcissia going on by the TV/Film people onthe Oscar side of the fence.
On this point however you stand to be severely corrected.

Rush and Yes, regardless of your irrelevant opinions of their musical abilities...

still [the relevant comment] influenced more players. Rush and Yes are Prog rockers and too some degree so are the Police. That is all the comment meant, and is still true today of those influenced in those days by these varying talents.

I love the Police, but am a realist and dont' throw accolades when I know the are not deserving. Rush, Yes, and the Police are highly "polished" bands they used some of the same engineers and producers, so apparently the polish must have worked on more than one shoe.
Only nutters care about the Dixie Chicks.

.. they are waste of airspace and no one invited the comment on them.

This was the social engineers on the left chance to [and you obviously got their twisted invitation] think that they were somehow sending a message by lashivshing the unpatriotic, assinine trio of dim-witted,bottle tinted, trailer-crats their top honor...

for that -- another notch in the nutter belt for the academy. They obviously went for the style points this year!

The Grammy's (especially when I was growing up, in the late 70's) used to be E-X-C-I-T-I-N-G !

! Now ? ZZzzzzzz's
The 80's, and Music Videos, were FRESH and EXCITING !

Now it's a bunch of middle-aged (I am one too), borderline chubby dull performers (Tony Bennett is 80 !!!

!!!

! WhEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!

!)
I'm 47, so am I their "target demographic" ? If so, FORGEDDAABOUT !

There's NO NEW ACTS ! No NEW "Whitneys" or "Mariahs" or "Boy Georges" -- in fact, the entire evening looked like a tasteful Dinner Party at the De Young.
Isn't there Chomsky book you be using drool and a bookmark for?

Just stop because you're going somehwere you dont' have a clue of. Secondly..

. I have a clear command of the english language and use of the word "placebo" in context to your ziegiest comment should have cleared that little sarcasm right up, but because you are so outward looking you couldn't figure that one between your ears..

. so? we'll just move on.

..[and no, not dot org]
Punk rock had nothing to at all to do with the so-called demise of prog rock.

.. those nutters killed themselves off quite effectively without anyones inteference.

Bands like the Cure and Prince helped create that "crossover" market out of the obscure and into the mainstream for your information, so your comments are chronologically challenged. Prog rock lives on as long as the genre continues to produce the product..

. which it still has that would be Rush, Yes, Fripp, Belew and a few others. Punk has resurfaced in the form of lighter hardcore metal groups of very little social or musical significance whatsoever.

Being a songwriter and producer of that time...

I can tell you this, the 80's were ecclectic and experimental, many bright stars were consumed by the technology of the day and got on the tech side of things.. names like Thomas Dolby and Mark Mothersbaugh.

.. myself.

Your drippy-nosed analysis is hardly accurate nor relevant...

and I am not a die-hard conservative, just someone who knows right from wrong, and doesn't [out of convenience] confuse the two. My yes is yes, and my no is no. The funde[mental] differences
I do not suffer from an existential accountability set that somehow allows me to believe that I am somehow not responsible therefore accountable for my actions.

.. and their collective effects on those around me.

.. and your smart ass retorts are as trite and dissmissable as your are; and are hardly the brightest lightbulb in any room you enter.

.. so I would just shrink back and go somewhere and put a sock in it.

If you didn't participate in a given thing...

don't comment on it as if you had something to bring to the table. Simply put, talking off the top of an already empty head is a pointless gesture..

. so stop pointing.

I hadn't seen the Grammy's in years and now I know why.

..yuck.

The saddest moment for me was when they had Ornette Coleman presenting an award to Carrie Underwood who took the trophy from him w/o batting an eye like he was some greeter at Wal-Mart.
I'd reckon she didn't have a clue who he was.

I was thrilled the Police played Roxanne, that was exactly what I wanted to hear from them.

I was disappointed in Sting's voice. Thank the gods it didn't turn into a medley! That would have been too cheesy.

Why didn't the Eagles perform the Eagles songs? I can think of 20 other singers I'd rather hear perform Desperado than Carrie Underwood. It all went downhill from there.

I hung around to hear the Chili Peppers but Anthony cannot sing that song.
Those Dixie Chicks need to jot some interesting things to say down on a slip of paper the next time they are nominated. The giggling and "ums" were really a waste of our time.

Christina was the highlight. All in all, I'd like those two hours of my life back again.

couldn't agree more.

For some unkown reason, Variza comes across as very bitter and very disillusioned. Way out of touch with the Chron subscriber base. Plus seems he plagarizes.

He stole the John Mayer 'orgasm face' line from Perez Hilton.
Perez writes "Beyonce may have her signature armpit pose.
And John Mayer's token move is his orgasm face!

"
Sting looks great for pushing 60, but who wrote this article?
Does every sentence really need its own tagline?
Chicks got their awards for political activism not musical talent, but hey the Grammy's have never really stood for talent over commercial success.

Great interview on 60 minutes with Norah Jones last night, FYI

Yeah, Sting looks ok, but there are two other members of the group as well. Do you remember who they are?
I do agree with your comments on the academy of recording arts and sciences, they are infected with silliness as well.

.. so expect nothing bold and sensible from them, it's an entertainment venue now, no longer satisfied with letting AMA's be the democratising factor in music accolades, here come the Grammys with their upgraded allure package.

.. at no additional charge.

The trade in was quality.
Yes, the wise [or otherwise distracted] ignored Kouric and her anti-climatic interview Snora Jones..

. truly a cutting edge indifatigable bore.
Kouric called her release "pedestrian" Jones didn't take it on the chin lightly[I'll give her that].

There is nothing attractive about a memeber of the MSM who self-percieves their own social relevance the way Kouric does. If ratings don't lie and they almost fall alsleep when she's at the helm, someone up top must be smelling their own fumes to believe there is a value outside her own..

. cut her loose, please.I'd just assume watch Janet Reno over her.

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Truepolicefan you are so wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start.

First, I don't own a Chomsky book at all (your sarcasm falls flat yet again). Two, your command of the English language seems to be nullified by your problem of perception. You see, my Zeitgeist comment had everything to do with music and nothing to do with politics, which is why your response, sarcastic or not, was completely off base and ineffective.

Out of context is automatically wrong. Punk Rock had everything to do with the death of Prog Rock. Prog Rock was dead as a motivational force in music by the 1980s, only staid old farts like you bother with them anymore.

Punk and New Wave were responsible for the explosion of creativity in the 80s. Prog Rock had nothing to do with that. Prog Rock belonged to the seventies, your drippy-brained analysis not withstanding.

The Clash, who were opening up for the Who by 1982, as well as the Police actually hepled create the 'cross-over market' that bands like the Cure and Prince later took advantage of, so you are the one 'chronolgically challenged.'
"Punk has resurfaced in the form of lighter hardcore metal groups of very little social or musical significance whatsoever."
Um, excuse me but in case you didn't notice The Red Hot Chili Peppers won TWO awards at the Grammy's.

They came out of the LA punk scene. Slayer got one too and you can bet they owe much more to the Sex Pistols than Fripp. Not one act in the top 40 or at the Grammy's shows any influence from those lame prog rockers.

As for your final comment, I doubt you suffer from any accountability, existential or otherwise. So, I assume you support the war in Iraq. Where is your accountability?

The blood of all those soldiers and Iraqis is on the hands of everyone who support this war, including YOU! The lies that were told about phony yellowcake orders from Nigeria were swallowed whole by people like YOU! Where is YOUR accountability?

I noticed you used a great deal of empty verbosity to call me stupid. I won't be so pretentious. You're just not as smart as you think you are, and nowhere near as intelligent as myself.

In fact, let me simplify further, your an idiot.
Wisdom dictates, better to keep YOUR mouth shut and let everyone think your a fool, than open it and prove them right.

Once again you've proved absolutely nothing.

.. but quantum ineptitude.

It took hours to reply so I hope your guided tour of a baic dictionary helped [I'd tell you don't waste your time] your crass rhetoric is coffeehouse at best. You are the last I would hold court with any opinion of any level of revelance..

. as you simply are grossly misinformed about a great many things. Your zeal to defend a genre of music best suited for straight-jacket wearing social misfits is as off as your comments confusing The Chilipeppers with punk!

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The Chilipeppers don't considered themsleves "punk" you ignorant fool. Tony K.

is a very good friend of a engineer friend of mine...

they went to High School together and Flea used to be a client of mine and I'll tell you this you have nothing to support that latte sipping angst ridden delusion you ratteled of in the support of the ill concieved response you want to justify. You are well as Punk music are useless, but had it's blip on the radar..

. keep your idle-minded, reprobate political comments to yourself..

. the one's you do have dont' serve anything anyhow,and those of us who actually wake up and make productive contributions will continue to dismiss input such as yours such blatantly contrived sense of relevence.
"Wisdom dictates, better to keep YOUR mouth shut and let everyone think your a fool, than open it and prove them right.

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I couldn't have said it better to your case...

Only fools like you make the unfounded claims you have with no evidence to support them. You are an idiot blogger and even worse pundit. You're up past your bed time, shut up and go to sleep.