Let's Watch the Grammys! (ca. 2011)

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um . . . LAST YEAR'S THREAD: Let's Watch the Grammys! (ca. 2010)

not looking forward to Eminem winning everything AT ALL

was Eminem's album really that big over there? i honestly had no idea. biggest seller of the year or something.

eminem's already lost in five or his 10 categories. he's won one (best rap solo perf, "not afraid"). jay-z on the other hand is cleaning up so far.

five OF his 10

God plz make Florence Welch shut up.

i don't fuck w/ her music but she kinda killed that imo

i missed the very beginning, is there any particular reason this random assemblage of women is opening the show with an Aretha medley?

I just hate the timbre of Florence's voice, especially when she's grouped with women who can actually sing instead of just wail.

They didn't say. I suspect it's because she has advanced pancreatic cancer? I mean. Not to be totally morbid but I 'm worried that they know something we don't and we'll be getting the news in the next day or two?

Aretha has pancreatic cancer and the Grammys marketing folks figured having a Brit, a country singer, a pop singer, a gospel singer etc would be the best way to pay tribute

Aretha!

SOme Dude's fave group

Well he liked "Hey Soul Sister"

wait did i hear that train won?

TRAIN? oh, the grammys.

hot for '11 = shoulder points

Think she made a mistake by releasing the single on Friday, because this is definitely how it should've debuted.

Nope. Still not any good. Even in an egg.

Think she made a mistake by releasing the single on Friday, because this is definitely how it should've debuted.

Apparently that was her original plan, but changed her mind because she couldn't wait.

SOme Dude's fave group

― curmudgeon, Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:22 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Well he liked "Hey Soul Sister"

― curmudgeon, Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i like "Drops of Jupiter" and "Meet Virginia" too! i'm reasonably certain there are some bands i like more than 3 songs by, though.

Washington Post on awards given out pre-show:

Some other notable winners from the early portion: A humbled and honored Mavis Staples took home the award for best Americana album for the Jeff Tweedy-produced "You Are Not Alone." Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" was good enough to be nominated for Album of the Year but not good enough to win Best Alternative Album. That award went to the Black Keys for "Brothers." The Black Keys made it two-for-two over Arcade Fire by besting them in best rock performance by a duo or group. Grammys logic at its finest. Neil Young won his first ever Grammy for music, taking home the award for best rock song. (He previous won for packaging.) Young lost out to Paul McCartney in the best rock solo vocal performance, though. Jay-Z and John Legend each scored three early trophies

Neil Young's first ever Grammy for music!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/13/AR2011021301011.html

Pre-show stuff. Mavis Staples' first ever Grammy

in the grammys' defense, neil young's packaging has always been fantastic

Muse is gross, y'all.

seriously

what's with those fake fan dudes running around on stage?

Fake rioters! They're so hip. And is that a "call Me" (Blondie) sample for this old Muse song

is this streaming anywhere

I'm watching it on c h a n n e l s u r f . e u / w a t c h - c b s . h t m l

lol @ the live version of hey soul sister winning

Is that really our own ILXer Jess harvell doing the official live blog (he looks different in that photo)

http://www.grammy.com/blogs/53rd-annual-grammy-awards-liveblog

Who are these children, really? They actually appear to all be in their 40s.

bruno mars iz sooooo dreamy :')

chick is hurting my ears

thank you!

I like Janelle although I think Jannelle Monae's closet contains only white blouses and black pants

janelle needs more autotune

JM is a void of corny contrivance and the most superficial definition of 'talent' imo

I thought she sounded fine Mr. Train fan

Answering curmudgeon a few posts back -- yep, that's him.

I thought she sounded fine Mr. Train fan

― curmudgeon, Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:59 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark

what's the dorkiest artist you've ever enjoyed 2-3 singles by so i can address you with some condescending bullshit like this whenever i disagree with you?

that picture of jess looks like its post-school shooting or something. ha! what the hell!?

gaga thing was cool.

that's what jess looks like IRL, guys

but then i'm a madonna fan who doesn't really wanna watch madonna too much any more, so she'll do in a pinch.

Was curious to find out if Janelle Monáe was actually ever out of costume, and I found a couple photos on google. She cute.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oWKQxM5qwbY/TRK9DvIYfaI/AAAAAAAAAKc/VtOs2X9ItYg/s1600/janelle+monae+01.jpg

plus, jess is exactly nine feet tall.

yay miranda! even though that performance was :(

I'm glad I'm not the only one who isnt a fan of Monae's schtick. Is she popular because swing-like music is some kind of lolnovelty to young kiddies? idgi. Her outfits are rad tho.

JM is a void of corny contrivance and the most superficial definition of 'talent' imo

This is the single most ridiculous thing I've ever seen you type. I can totally see how her schtick could come across as "corny", yeah, but to say she fits only under "the most superficial definition of 'talent'"??? That is on some willfully ignorant shit right there. Girl has loads of talent, even if she doesn't always use it in the best ways.

i love that bieber is a lefty

girl had trouble with pitch is all I'm saying xpost

Right. I'm not her biggest fan by a long shot, but she can sing and dance really well and came out of the gate with a fully manufactured persona a few years ago. xps

hey guys i just tuned in during bieber acoustic-- which performances did i miss?

what i said wasn't meant as "she has no talent" if that's how it was being read fwiw

but then anyone who apparently has kept a list of ridiculous things i have typed probably doesn't need to hear me attempt to explain myself in any kind of detail

jeff beck is a hottie

Jeff Beck just looked like Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's right there.

neil young slammed! screw you hippie!

thought he died for a second there xp lol

you missed lady gaga, muse, miranda lambert, janelle monae/b.o.b/bruno mars, and... maybe others?

what i said wasn't meant as "she has no talent" if that's how it was being read fwiw

right, but "most superficial definition of talent" doesn't sound much better than that either. I get her schtick being awful, but after seeing her open for Erykah Badu this year, I can assure you that she has tons of talent (fwiw, I missed her performance tonight, so maybe it was really awful or something)

Yay Gaga!

That's the cutest pic of JM I've ever seen! Wow!

What a babe.

BTW I also wasnt saying I dont think Monae is talented - she totally is - but I just find it bemusing that she's such a sensation with what seems effectively to be old time jazz standards style stuff. Well what Ive heard of hers anyways.

lol Grammy's, you don't play Gaga off. Gaga plays you off.

Wha she done now?

Oh, her acceptance speech was just going a little long.

but I just find it bemusing that she's such a sensation with what seems effectively to be old time jazz standards style stuff. Well what Ive heard of hers anyways

Which apparently doesn't include the singles from her most recent album.

JessicaSuarez
How many people out there think this is Arcade Fire?
50 seconds ago

larrybraverman
POHORETZ CALLS IT: MUMFORD AND SONS RULES RT @jpodhoretz: OK. 90 minutes in, a truly remarkable number from Mumford and Sons.

omg wtf

oh holy shit

Totally ws trucker cap banjo dude

Has Bob's voice been sounding this bad on recent albums? I haven't listened to anything since Love and Theft.

it's been sounding this bad in concert for at least a decade

Was that Mumford and Sons?
That was a good performance

Whoops, but now Avett Bros. are following Dylan and Mumford & Sons are not

(xp) but i'd rather hear him sounding bad than mick jagger sounding good

How do you like Dylan's cigarette-stained voice, Quincie

saw bob live at a festival circa 2006-07 and he sounded this bad there as well... so awful

i'm reading ilx commentary instead of watching this tbh

Well called, nabisco

i kinda like this super gravelly Bob more than the just vaguely weathered voice i heard the couple times i saw him live in the last decade

who is this "lady antebellum"?

they had one of the biggest singles of 2010 with this song they are singing now

in america anyway

Still laughing at "Grammy wimmers" tbh.

"Need You Now" is great but I thought they were gonna do more than 1 Teddy Pendergrass song

They also have one of the rock stupidest names ever.

also the 3rd highest selling album of the year (xpost)

i just got home from work & walked in the door to hear "please welcome the kings of leon & miley cyrus" to which i was like "ha, no thanks, it's cool"

(xp) and they've now played their hit at two straight grammy awards.

Really feelin' the Lady Antebellum girl tonight.

Thats a pretty impressive trick :P

I've been drinking and watching Naked Gun. What'd I miss?

plumage!

Now are there muppets?

"f u" muppets

wtf there's a peacock on stage and cee-lo is missing ¯\(°_o)/¯

Really feelin' the Lady Antebellum girl tonight.

so is justin bieber, backstage.

i hope one of the muppets get a vocal solo

I haven't had this much fun since I watched that YouTube video of Scissor Sisters at the BRIT awards

can someone get gwenyth paltrow to post on ilx so i can suggest ban her

George Clinton as Sam The Eagle.

i mean, i know music is music and you can play a character or whatever, but hearing a woman that literally lives in a castle in england being all "sorry that i'm broke so we can't be together" is just a tad bit too much for me to take

lmfao

big bird dipped in kool-aid body suit + transformers armored vest + peacock feathers + wilbur & orville wright flight mask = CEE LO GREEN

That wasn't bad at all.

the only way that the eminem/rihanna performance could be interesting is if rihanna's wardrobe person was accidentally told that she'd be doing "s&m"

hearing a woman that literally lives in a castle in england being all "sorry that i'm broke so we can't be together" is just a tad bit too much for me to take

unlike, say, cee lo, who lives in a one-room shack in alabama?

My mom just asked me if his song was called "Fuck You"

Paltrow makes a failed movie in which she sings, and now suddenly she appears on every award show singing. She was on the Country Music Awards a little while back. I don't care whether she's rich or poor.

unlike, say, cee lo, who lives in a one-room shack in alabama?

― fact checking cuz, Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

gwenyth paltrow singing that song puts it over the line for me, yes

i would've at least appreciated the irony if she & t.i. did "castle walls" (because of how gwenyth paltrow lives in a castle)

I know this was like an hour ago
But that some damage control on Gaga's part to thank Whitney for inspiring her Madonna cover

rich rappers are ok though Jordan

It's method, dude. She's Gwyneth on the outside, but feelin' it on the inside.

Is NPH going to sing a song? He should.

What else is left for Katy Perry to shoot from her boobs?

Katy Perry set-up is straight out of the Muppet Show.

They auto-tuned her face.

Stop staring guys

I keep forgetting how Grammys in the last eight years are just excuses to air pop mediocrities wearing plumage.

Does Russell Brand make fun of her at home?

does katy perry's hokey ballad have dick jokes in it?

oh my god Katy Perry would be a terror at any karaoke bar.

Wedding clips are instant doom for that relationship.

THIS GOES OUT TO AWWL THE BALENTINE LAHVERS

He tweeted a makeup-less photo of her, so yeah.
x-posts

This "Teenage Dream" sounds like getting fucked in the butt with an egg beater

As much as I appreciate stars famous and popular through sheer dint of will, I can't believe this person is headlining arenas.

because she broke through thanks to sheer dint of will?

rich rappers are ok though Jordan

― curmudgeon, Sunday, February 13, 2011 9:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes, i like when rich rappers rap about being rich? what's your point

The least exciting power trio ever.

Did Dolly just die? If not, this may kill her.

HOLY SHIT ARE THEY REALLY DOING THIS TO DOLLY PARTON?

Is this a telethon? It's paced like one.

"Radio Edit"

Mayer looking like Jack White.

lol @ mayer/urban/jones clusterfuck

wife: "why does john mayer want to look like ron jeremy w/ that porn 'stache??"

altho curmudgeon i apologize for besmirching the great honor of the carpetbagging multi-millionaire actress gwenyth paltrow, hopefully she'll be able to survive my vicious attack on her memorable grammy performance of "fuck you" with cee-lo green

Does Alan Parsons get royalties for this song?

yesssssss lady antebellum

I don't mind "Need You Now" winning everything in sight. It sounds like "Dreams" and "Go Your Own Way" compared to everything else.

x-post to Jordan---I didn't like her either but it had nothing to do with how rich she is

This "Teenage Dream" sounds like getting fucked in the butt with an egg beater

tmi dude

Wow, people itt unnecessarily rough on the Jones/Mayer/Urban version of "Jolene". I thought that was great.

well actually, i guess the real question is: electric egg beater? or hand mixer?

either way, happy v day honey
love katy

well actually, i guess the real question is: electric egg beater? or hand mixer?

wood, prev owned by Sandra Lee

At least Lady Antebellum song sounds built to last, at weddings at stuff.

How many past Grammy winners or performers have product tie-ins during these commercials?

Wow, people itt unnecessarily rough on the Jones/Mayer/Urban version of "Jolene". I thought that was great.

Yeah, I dug it too and 100% hate all involved otherwise.

I think the two guys could perform a convincing "Jolene" (Norah Jones is a cipher though) but this seemed too much like predictable Grammy filler unpredictability.

i think both lady ant and katyperry both did rilly rilly good versions of their huge hits. they kinda nailed it. and sold a million more!

x-post They should have had, you know, Dolly Parton do it.

Dylan, Mick & Babs fulfilled the old person quota.

The Green Hornet!

I like Norah Jones and Keith Urban already, but John Mayer didn't ruin it or anything.

Adam Levine, man.

I'm predisposed to like Mayer and Urban too but this environment is too easy for them -- those two will be Grammy perennials.

Wacky that Rihanna gets relegated to supporting player (featuring) on this song.

oh look Marshall shouting a lot

any wackier than a million other rap/R&B collaborations where the person whose album it's on is credited as the primary artist? (xpost)

you think i give a damn about a grammy? half of you critics can't even stomach me let alone stand me

god this fucking song

She just seems more prominent than the usual sing-the-hook cameo. Maybe not.

Who's that lurking in the smoke?

There's too many rap/r&b collaborations happening anyway. Impossible to know who gets credited where and on what album.

Is that woman a mere Rihanna sub?

so hectoring and abrasive. even for him. for em. and i like abrasive mostly. but i don't need to hear him often.

its just a chore.

and it never ends...

Jewel is painfully average-looking after getting her teeth fixed. Had character before at least.

WAHT?!!!!!!!!!!

okay guys ill admit ignorance: who the fuck is esperanza spalding?????

I youtubed her earlier she is great

lmfao i'm so glad this random esperanza spalding person that no one cheered for won.

Yeah, she's a'ight. But Beibz just got robbed in broad daylight.

x-post Yeah, what happened to her snaggle tooth?

She's good, but it's like they chose the artist least likely to sell a bazillion copies, so that she may yet fulfill the Grammy Curse.

is she the new jewel or the new john legend?

Depends. She's got real jazz cred, I think. Prince is a fan.

Spalding performed at the White House for Obama (and I think it might have been on PBS).

She is great, but I never in a billion years would have thought she'd win that one.

Even this guy gets an album?

"Don't download records, you assholes!"

why is a jazz band playing behind him? is he gonna scat?

did they just do an awful vocal version of don't stop believin'?

that was amazing

He's a hep cat

RIAA speech brought to you by Sharpie

Make him stop

is this a city council meeting?

downturms

wimmers

please, justin bieber, rush the stage and tackle the RIAA guy

aww, I really loved seeing Little Feat's Richie Hayward in the memorial montage and hearing a split second of "Dixie Chicken"

oh god make it stop

mick jagger's here to show young ke$ha fanz who he is (or black eyed peas, or twista)

omg mick jagger, so sexy!!!!!!!111 ***SWOOOON*** #oldschoolbieber

this won't help his case for contemporary relevancy.

This really isn't as bad as I was expecting

I bet most of these late performers never won grammys. I wonder if Solomon Burke was ever on the Grammys? I doubt it.

Kinda wished they wouldn't have played "My Sharona" over the Ronnie James Dio mention, but, you know, I guess it makes sense.

It seems like Mick hit a maximum old looking stage a few years back, and has since weathered surprisingly well.

he's been mummified since 2005.

he's not bad at all! He just looks isolated on that stage w/out a band.

lol @ Drake digging Jagger

he is bad.

sorry.

Naw, that was pretty good imo

Jagger's smugness is intolerable though. "I know I was great shit."

That was great.

He's just doing Mick Jagger. The same thing he's been doing since 1978, or even farther back

He's got his trademark stage moves and vocal flourishes and he's gonna stick with them, because they mostly work

I thought that was great. I had been expecting it to be a bathroom break though.

that was surprisingly fun!

i'm always afraid he'll fall down and break a hip.

Nah, Mick is fit. Keith looks like he's held together with pins and tape.

Yeah, it was the kind of performance that would look pneumatic on any other stage, on any other occasion, but worked.

lol

Is Gaga gonna duet with Babs?

Just in the off chance you got your hopes up that you'd hear something as good as "Me and Bobby McGee" ...

Mick Jagger singing "Evergreen"!

That is a very talented eggplant.

Was Guru in the RIP montage? If so, I missed it.

He was not.

Weird choice playing Joplin's version when they could have played Kristofferson's own, but whatevs Grammyz.

No GURU no Trish
I was surprised they remembered Malcolm McLaren honestly (and played Sex Pistols)

Did they do Chilton?

grammy president dude, mick jagger and barbra all in a row -- is anyone under 65 still watching?

They did. He got a music clip, too.

they did chilton, and they played "the letter"

I know Lady Gaga never wears pants but shots of her standing in her panties will never not be hilarious

wait, kanye isn't nominated for best rap album?

Missed deadline, no?

Nicki should present every award

His eyes are going to pop out and kill someone.

Kanye will be nominated next year

basically I'm just happy Drake didn't win

Yes, it is crazy.

I was thinking Nicki should get a show where she just stands there and smiles.

emineminem used to be funny

HI MY NAME IS

Em's got no time for funny anymore. He's an adult (you can tell by the dark hair and clothing).

:(

He's been to the edge. He stood and looked down.

best hip hop album was like an anti-goon poll-- blueprint 3, recovery, thank me later, etc etc.

As I noted before numerous times, I don't really get "Smang It"...but I'd have been rooting hard for it to win something if it had been nominated.

I haven't heard that Roots album but I'm pretty sure it's the only album in that category that doesn't make me want to puke.

So that's who I was rooting for.

I just started watching this.

@kanyewest. Damn... I can't find the words to explain how I feel about the best new artist award... Don't wanna say the wrong thing

lol esperanza spalding lucky she didn't get the taylor swift treatment

Lol they just called him "Puff Daddy".

grills?

diddy . . . seems . . . hesitant

Btw Esperanza Spalding is one of my favorite ppl. Glad she got some shine.

He might've changed his name back this morning. Who knows.

Acting!

oh please tell me they are going to burn Drake

god drake is so fucking lifeless

poor drake

also I am shocked that Rihanna is singing in tune tonight

So why did she cancel her tour again?

okay I spoke too soon

she is awesome and he is...man, i don't know what he is.

lol i've never heard drake before

she is hotttt

some moments soon to be memorialized in the "pictures of drake looking ridiculous" thread here

Backing tracks
Also: she is banging

Rihanna's thighs are making up for her voice and then some.

this arrangement of "What's My Name" is way livelier than the studio version (or the SNL performance) imo

She should have a Vegas show.

0wen: on live tv? wow, who's she banging??

mark anthony is short!

He and John Mayer and Jack White should star in a sitcom.

still hate the red hair, is Rihanna gonna keep that look until the next album or what?

ooh Na-Na, sit on my face

are these two married?

yes, weirdly

marc antony rockin the creepy internet paedo look

soooo... he's looking like Marc Antony?

Good for them.

I can live with this.

why is a band named lady-ante. . .

oh, forget it. this song is boring.

haha Marc Antony looks like a prematurely aged middle schooler next to them

j lo is god. and its nice to know that looks don't matter to her.

cee-lo sees them up on the stage w/ the grammy he loves & he's like..... "forget" youuuu

Did they say there's much more to come? Man, I'm going to sleep.

including the first-ever grammy performance by ilx beloved band ARCADE FIRE

you will miss arcade fire winning record of the year

I hope we all will.

I think next year they're gonna figure out a way to have Lady Antebellum do "Need You Now" for a third time. It will be a tribute song or something

maybe lady antebellum can duet with train.

arcade fire one of those groups that makes me fear for the future. we must save the children.

It will be Stevie Nicks, Tim McGraw, and Justin Bieber singing it after Lady A die in a fiery crash.

i HOPE lady ant do it again next year! they should do it every year.

they should have a daytime talk show where they do that song every day. with different guest stars.

Oh joy.

I am having epilectic seizures and it's not even Arcade Fire's fault.

arcade fire are like a noisy co-op.

arcade fire so fourth reich. we are doomed.

Great, they get this platform and then play arguably the worst song on the album.

i like the band fine, but this is an odd choice for their big performance?

you guys come on, i'm not an arcade fire stan but i'd take em over 2/3 of the trainwreck live performances tonight, easy

Seriously, the lighting man needs to chill the fuck out.

why are there ppl biking across the stage

Excite bike!

Arcade Fire, X-Treme!

okay this is the first time I have ever found Arcade Fire to be interesting

what song are they playing

Bikes must have something to do with "The Suburbs" and/or upcoming Spike Jonze movie about the suburbs.

"Month of May."

bringing out their inner nirvana, kinda.

This actually kinda rocks. Can't front.

xxpost thanks :)

markers: the one where they shout emotively over indie guitars

i kinda dig their girl drummer

you guys come on, i'm not an arcade fire stan but i'd take em over 2/3 of the trainwreck live performances tonight, easy

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:13 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

i agree w/ ilxor

man it's my side of the street I know but the Arcade Fire brought it in my opinion

cool performance, kinda "forget you" of them not to perform something intelligible or halfway catchy

D. Esq Otm.

lol ilxor

like, this huge grammy audience and they dont automatically play "we used to wait" or "sprawl ii"? props imo

Aero is back, yay!

he turned down the grammy performance offer i see

j/k welcome back aero!

yeah that was okay, performance-wise. and the energy made up for it not being the best song on the disc.

welcome back, aero. good to see you.

http://www.ilovethe80s.com/excitebike.jpg

Can anyone accurately predict the NEXT (third?) movie to be named after a song by Eddie Money?

i'm okay with every movie being named for an eddie money song.

Can anyone accurately predict the NEXT (third?) movie to be named after a song by Eddie Money?

Endless Nights, a tribute to Warhol's Empire

omg i love excitebike

fuck yeah great game

Barbra S: I worship you. If you are reading ilx, hit me up Babs

there it is.

WHAAAAT OMG

OMG wtf

HOLY SHITTT

Go Merge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lmfao

WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF

AMERICA'S GREATNESS RESTORED

that's what the Arcade Fire dude talks like? yikes

this is surprising?

anyway, congrats owen

"Wake Up!"

Wait- really?

alright gotta admit, arcade fire upstaging eminem and gaga is pretty O_O

I am lolling at The Grammys using that sappy, dippy song as their playover music after that performance.

grammys gone kredible

Why do they get an encore song?

can the ginger dude throw the helmet on for old time's sake & let someone beat him over the head w/ the grammy trophy

ned u jinxed us all

Why do they get an encore song?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:25 PM (18 seconds ago) Bookmark

i have a feeling it might have something to do w/ the fact that they won -- idk

Mac probably just spit out a glass of whatever he's drinking right now.

INDIE IS THE NEW MONOCULTURE

Why do they get an encore song?

because they were already onstage

scott probably offed himself, rite?

is this album going to go #1 again now

NAFTA

(xp) 'cause the show otherwise finished early!

ginger dude's mother is my boss i wonder how she feels abt this

ned u jinxed us all

I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate this fucking band.

So if Lady Antebellum won, they would have played?

woo arcade fire

Good for these guys, seriously.

haha why do u hate arcade fire?

i'd rank the nominated albums:

the fame monster >>>>>>> the suburbs >> teenage dream/need you now >>>>>>>> recovery

so i guess maybe the second-best album won? imo

that said, this is also arcade fire's worst album BY FAR -- but hey

And the boost AF will receive from this will be substantial, sales-wise.

So if Lady Antebellum won, they would have played?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:27 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark

hmm well the arcade fire played last & then before they left the stage they won the last award & were told to go play another song, it's almost as if it was planned

the grammys have seen enough and will now cut off arcade fire's encore song

gaga's gotta feel like she got the shaft

she'll win next year

I'd agree with ilxor's ranking...but this isn't Arcade Fire's worst album (that's Funeral).

Win B. didn't represent for Woodlands Tx. in the speech :-(

lol @ playing a second rockin, tuneless song that is not even near the most grammy-friendly thing in their arsenal

This other song is not nearly as good as the one they played earlier.

This second song is less energetic, but yes good for them.

regardless of how much I like/dislike the band, I fully endorse shameless attempts to cause epileptic seizures

They should have played "The Sprawl II" and won the hearts of millions.

they might've not had the right equipment/tuning etc to play "sprawl II" on a whim right after "month of may"

should have played "wake up"

so close tonight to having my dream combo of arcade fire fronted by barbara streisand come true.

I'm really happy for them.

yeah me too

Month Of May = easily my favourite track on the album. wish i'd watched that live now.

They should have played "The Sprawl II" and won the hearts of millions.

that would have been a terrible fucking idea; the only positive would have been the spontaneous generation of my psychokinetic ability to leap into a television and transmit myself to the location it displays, allowing me to kick a fool in the neck

I'm happy for Merge records

just received a text from Win Butler: "Get your fucking popcorn ready."
about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck
Retweeted by 60 people

hipsterrunoff

arcade fire fans: say goodbye to ever seeing this band in a small or medium sized venue ever again

;_;

I am perfectly happy for Merge Records.

can the ginger dude throw the helmet on for old time's sake & let someone beat him over the head w/ the grammy trophy

― J0rdan S., Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:25 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

Feel like this got lost in the shuffle. Appreciating this comment.

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#Arcade fire!!!!!!!!!! There is hope!!! I feel like we all won when something like this happens! FUCKING AWESOME!
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i guess we'll just have to adjust

lol @ people on Twitter claiming some huge "conspiracy" because they had their instruments set up already

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And also - it was possible to see the band in a small or medium-sized venue at any time post-Neon Bible? The pre-release Church shows in 2007 were small but they haven't played Montreal in anything smaller than a stadium since. Parking lots and islands, etc.

Hmm. Maybe the key is to go see them in Louisiana or something.

lady gaga winning would have been so dumb, it was decisively the least lady gaga year of the last three & that album came out 09

i guess we'll just have to adjust

― markers

looooooool A+

we get cool secret shows though alex

When has "chronology" ever mattered on the Grammys? Didn't Shelby Lynne have like seven albums out when she won Best New Artist?

Also, the cameras seemed ready for the performance as well, almost as if it'd been rehearsed. Which maybe it was, and they were told they could do another one if they won?

admitting: I saw arcade fire twice, once w/ like 200 people opening for the unicorns (remember them??? lol) and another time in a 700-800 person venue right around first album release? think it was before the pfork score hit tho, idk

Would have been funny if Arcade Fire got Best New Artist and Album of the Year.

this year.

arcade fire fans: say goodbye to ever seeing this band in a small or medium sized venue ever again

Yeah, because everyone who wins AOTY at the Grammys, every single one of them, has a long, successful career.

they should've played Neighborhood #3 for the encore song.. "wake up" is depressing

Wait, smaller than a stadium or smaller than an arena? Big difference there. xps

Okay jesus fucking christ at the haterade all over Twitter, I'm going to turn off the internet for the night. For people that claim to not give a shit about the Grammys, there seems to be a lot of you* all butthurt over them winning.

* - not ilx, really, just people on my Twitter feed in general

lol @ people on Twitter claiming some huge "conspiracy" because they had their instruments set up already

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:35 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Also, the cameras seemed ready for the performance as well, almost as if it'd been rehearsed. Which maybe it was, and they were told they could do another one if they won?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:37 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

guys i already explained this

they just played the single biggest venue in all of Europe in December up here (manchester arena) so that point is long past in the UK at least.

flopson: Grammy year runs October-September.

http://hipsterrunoff.com/2011/02/we-did-it.html

this almost makes up for steely dan winning over "kid a"

Maybe we have finally reached
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@arcadefire OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. Thank you EVERYONE.

i wonder if kanye will have lost all momentum by next year, kind of dumb of him not to put his album out in time would've been a shoe in right?

fucking ridiculous

we get cool secret shows though alex

― flopson, Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:36 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I know! I just meant...secret shows in 2007 meant 400 people in a Church. Secret show in 2010 means close to 10,000 people in a parking lot in Longueil. Hah.

Yeah, I think MBDTF lives squarely inside of 2010 never to be disturbed afterwards.

putting out albums right before xmas is usually smarter than releasing them to coincide with "the grammy year"

GaGa fans levelling accusations of 'pretentiousness' at Arcade Fire. you hafta laff.

a friend texted me abt the notman house one but my phone was off or something

I like Gaga, and I'm getting to where I like Bieber, but it's completely in spite of their respective fanbases.

yeah i guess there are other factors to consider, i bought the kanye album for my sister for xmas even, but seems like it would be cool to win a grammy idk

Wait, smaller than a stadium or smaller than an arena? Big difference there. xps

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:39 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

2007 was two or three shows at a 5000 person arena (not the biggest arena in the city.
This year, all the concerts they've done here have been outdoor venues/festivals, as much by necessity, I suspect, as anything else.
10,000 ppl in a parking lot and close to 25,000 on an island on the edge of the city.

But, again, Montreal is probably not the best barometer for this. We're the city where they pull 25,000 one day and still wander around our neighbourhood getting clowned by the dudes from the cafe down the street. \(o O)/

(@flopson I figured the notman house one was invitation only.)

Didn't watch the show, was at a show, but I really want to have Arcade Fire be the little indie band that could and the cynicism in this thread bummed be out.

I really want to have Arcade Fire be the little indie band that could and the cynicism in this thread bummed be out.

Yeah, this. I love pop music too, but the Grammys is such a predictable and stale exercise that when something different happens, regardless of the beneficiaries, it's more funner.

wtf the arcade fire have always been an aspirational arena band!

Quite. And I have no problem with aspirational arena bands, I just want to actually LIKE them if they become successful.

man a million cynical posts couldn't make me feel less stoked for the Arcade Fire, Kanye West otm, it's nice to have the one band you were pretty sure wasn't going to win get the trophy, go "what the hell?", give thanks in two languages and play a song that doesn't sound like what you'd expect to be hearing as the credits roll

did paramore really lose to train

because that just isn't acceptable at all

2010 the year indie broke (via watching the grammys via twitter)

is that guy in the Arcade Fire still wearing a football helmet? what an irritant.

it's super dope that arcade fire won. too bad they didn't win for neon bible though, because that's the real shit

markers is toasting the victory w/ a 72 oz vanilla coke

too bad they didn't win for neon bible though, because that's the real shit

high five, markers!

holy shit, a band Dr Morbius has seen live 3 times won Album of the Year! in 2011! APOCALYPSE NOW

maybe I'll buy this album now.

i'm going to go buy two slurpees in a few minutes tbh -- i will dub them celebratory slurpees thx 2 ur good idea

xposts

if people want to have a good time they should unban whiney for this thread, dude is really cracking open some vintage cranky ol' man on this one

*high fives Johnny*

best album by anyone this year, but NOT the best album by an alternative act this year, according to the grammys. strange.

if people want to have a good time they should unban whiney for this thread, dude is really cracking open some vintage cranky ol' man on this one

a vololcano of pent-up rage

You can not defeat the Grammy voters, you can only hope to contain them. xp

whiney is still on twitter guys

J0rdan that's what I meant, he's really kinda throwin' jabs there but if he were here, boy, he'd really let us know that the Butthole Surfers invented strobe lights

as a side note to Whiney being on Twitter, why do ILXors who want to Facebook-friend me think I know what their names are?

Yeah, can do w/o Whiney when this thread is already crabby enough as it is.

as a side note to Whiney being on Twitter, why do ILXors who want to Facebook-friend me think I know what their names are?

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 14, 2011 12:17 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

lol old man ye

lls at cloud, is otm

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J0rd, old bcz I don't have all the gossip or somthin on ppl's real lives, wtf?

u know, there can only be one jaymc

Morbius read J0rdan's posts together to realize you're not being insulted

J0rd, old bcz I don't have all the gossip or somthin on ppl's real lives, wtf?

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 14, 2011 12:25 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

no morbs i agree w/ you! i have bitched to other ppl off board about the exact thing you brought up

i wish kanye's twitter handle was 'old man ye'

one of kanyes tweets tonight was just an arcade fire hash tag fallowed by an exclamation point

i mean wtf

yeah that's weird, have never known him to be enthusiastic or inarticulate before

speaking of tweets. drake:

"Hilary from Lady Ant looks so right up there!!! I'm very aroused."

I think kanye is stoked that the winner was a surprise to everybody, also kanye is kind of on the record as liking indie rock pretty well, I know we had a dustup here about it at one point but it seems kind of clear that the bigger indie bands make music that he digs

eew, Drake and I were thinking the same thing. Now I have to wash my brains.

i get it, i just feel like hes finally gone too far

so far gone

you're really going to hate his EP of Atom & His Package covers

I had never seen a picture of Drake before and omg he looks like such a fucking douche

like these two guys I work with who actually start like grunting and doing pushups when a "sexy lady" walks in the store

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i really didn't know that this was such a huge shock to ppl

for loads of fun, check trending topic #proudofjustin

bieber v arcade fire is a p hilarious dynamic

Esparanza Spalding's career probably isn't going anywhere anyway, but it sucks that she's now the scorn of the same people who sent Selena Gomez death threats for dating the Biebz.

how come best new artists always have like four albums already

BieberFitch rt by aLeGaDeALoPeZ
RT this if you're SOOOO #proudofjustin and wish @justinbieber would DM you. Just something nice. For being a good fan.(:

same people who sent Selena Gomez death threats for dating the Biebz.

for real? i will never understand teenage girls.

Major Melb paper here runing big front page article on Grammys, it is 3/4 GAGA OMG EGG and there is 0 mention of Arcade Fire at all wtf?

LIke u would have no idea they'd won if u relied on the Age.

Fuck I hate the media in this country.

usher talking to bieber was hella creepy

aside from being will smith's son and never having to work a real day in your life, do you think jayden smith is cool w/ being resigned to solange of the family at age 11

You realize his Karate Kid movie made a bazillion dollars more than Willow's song, right

yeah but they just latched him onto a project that was prob gonna be very successful anyway -- willow is a different story

she whipped her hair back and forth

rip

Can anyone translate this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPb7rG2vMaA

"Ready To Start" was an interesting choice for their second song. Congrats to Arcade Fire, never saw that one coming.

Literally cannot help but lol my head off everytime I watch that video.

I almost spat my drink out at that clip JF posted, what in the HECK was that woman on!?

Including noms, a pretty good year for Canada! Rush wuz robbed.

I think it was mean of CBS to put Cocteau Twins lyrics on Serene Branson's cue cards

haha

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8322966/Serene-Branson-hospitalised-after-Grammys-speech-problems.html

I afraid it would turn out to be something like that. I feel like shit now for watching it 20 times and laughing.

Shit, same here.

anybody who had any kind of aphasia like that would be taken to a hospital immediately, it's not like people said "this instance of aphasia really calls for a trip to the hospital but somebody else talking like this we'd just tell 'em to walk it off"

Yeah, I was going to make a Mxyzptlk joke, but that's pretty sad. Hope she's OK.

Spalding was obv. a (v. pleasant) surprise (tho her latest album is kind of a snooze), but the award was never going to go to Bieber, anyway.

should have!

my condolences to you "p*pulists"

you're just mad that your run-ins with pre-teen boys in parking lots don't end up in grammy nominations. just tears.

whoa

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com

"whoa"

i get one zing a month. its in my ilx contract. 12 a year. no more and no less.

that tumblr is so great, indie rock needs to really step up and position itself as the style that's being persecuted for succeeding -- always a good look

that tumblr is at the very least a lot less depressing than the youtube video showing tweets post-taylor interruption that called kanye the n-word

yes, can we please put that tumblr in some sort of 2011 time capsule? (btw, love that Dog the Bounty Hunger weighed in on this)

I like that point that Tom Ewing made about the whoisarcadefire blog, in that the joy in looking at it isn't a "we won, suckers!" attitude, but marveling at the genuine incuriosity people have about music with which they're completely unfamiliar.

I don't know what the maker's intentions were, but that's my takeaway.

Surely the incuriousity of modern America isn't a surprise to anyone at this point...?

(just assuming that those posts are mostly American; can't access Twitter at the moment)

Surprising? No. Still fun to watch? Yes.

extremely elaborate performance art bit here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj1Xm4VjCw4

good luck USA

thinking abt arcade fires win and how they got the votes - ive noticed indie rock has to some extent become the popular music for people in certain industries - a lot of the tech/journalist/design people i read put up year end lists and they were inevitably indie centric - i guess the same is true for music professionals at this point

i remember talking to some people who didn't know who herbie hancock was when he won a couple years back. and that dude's sold bazillions of records

don't want this to get lost in the mix

Dog the Bounty Hunger

i mean look at this shit, robert scoble and fred wilson, not hip young people

http://grab.by/8WXP

scott, pedophile jokes abt a board(bored) faggot nagl... It's not like I really expect music writers to stop validating the taste of 13-year-olds.

there's something depressing about Rosie O'Donnell not hearing about the Arcade Fire?

There are conflicting reports about the stroke. Here is something that claims it wasnn't a stroke:

http://news.lalate.com/2011/02/14/serene-branson-grammys-report-culminates-peculiar-night/

So it is possible we won't go to hell for laughing at that clip.

But if we are going to hell, here's the soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHc-yIAPbg

I like that point that Tom Ewing made about the whoisarcadefire blog, in that the joy in looking at it isn't a "we won, suckers!" attitude, but marveling at the genuine incuriosity people have about music with which they're completely unfamiliar.

absolutely true -- this is kind of a re-underlining of a point music obsessives learn early, right: for a small subset of music listeners, "______ won a Grammy, I've never heard of them" immediately makes you feel: curiosity, interest, maybe slight shame for not knowing more about your field of interest. for plenty of people, though, I think, once they've identified the type of music they like, that's the end of the hunt, after which a team sports "LOL @ other types of music, obv. the type I like is best, LOSERS" aspect to it

It may not have been a stroke, but now when I watch that clip it's very clear that her brain has some wires crossed which makes it not all that funny. I mean, if she just had her tongue twisted or whatever, that's one thing, but signals weren't getting processed correctly and that's another.

i'm not sure the cool kids groaned this much when Toto won Album of the Year.

I was just sort of astonished when I overheard a group of people at work who were not even able to remember Arcade Fire's name this morning. And I'm sitting there thinking how this is a band that I don't like at all but are at least overwhelmingly omnipresent to me.

xxxp Yeah, it reminds me of how certain people, if you criticize a band like Linkin Park, will automatically assume you are a Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift fan, as though there's this inherent competitive dichotomy there.

do cool kids even CARE about the grammys? do they watch them?

whoooole lotta kids are pissed justin bieber didn't win

or, okay, not cool kids, but arcade fire fans. do they follow the grammys? um, obviously last night they did...but in general do they?

I was sort of reminded of the time ethan couldn't believe that shakey mo's girlfriend had never heard of Kevin Smith.

It's not like I really expect music writers to stop validating the taste of 13-year-olds.

I'm not sure you realize that this zing works for movies not music.

no, I don't realize it, and don't want to.

Music and movies work differently.

Yeah, that's why I gave one up.

this is a band that I don't like at all but are at least overwhelmingly omnipresent to me.

Not a precise analogy, but now you can relate to the reactions I get when I tell ppl the best Oscar-nominated film is Dogtooth.

or, okay, not cool kids, but arcade fire fans. do they follow the grammys? um, obviously last night they did...but in general do they?

every music person I know follows the grammys. a fair % of the music ppl I know intersect w/posited "cool kids" demographic. I'm not sure how "people who are into music take in an interest in the Grammys" is that weird an assertion

i dunno, i'm a 100% music obsessive and (thankfully) never heard of Mumford & Sons before

okay, dogtooth does sound intriguing:

"With no outsider to satisfy the son's sexual urges, the parents allow him to choose one of the daughters for his carnal needs. After fondling both sisters simultaneously in the bath with his eyes closed, he chooses the elder, who is later dressed and prepared by the mother for the sexual encounter. The elder daughter is visibly uncomfortable during intercourse, and afterwards recites a threatening passage from Rocky to her brother."

xp then you missed out on a great Mark E Smith tirade last year

Aerosmith, but I think a lot of "music people" have also discredited the Grammys for being too MOR and don't really pay attention or give the awards much weight anymore.

The Grammys are basically a once a year common thing for music people to bitch about.

some amazing comments under that Quietus article

xxp lolz, i had the same exact reaction!

im 'extremely cool' and 'into music' and was only vaguely aware the grammys were on until i got home and checked twitter and ilx

when i looked at twitter and everyone one was talking abt ceelo i thought 'is this abt glee'

forgot it was on until we flipped past the Beib. was so disappointed that Usher wussed out on the boobies verse in OMG

Even though I'm probably more of a music person than a film person these days, I am WAY more into the Oscars than the Grammys. Like, I forgot that the Grammys were on last night until my girlfriend noticed some headlines on the Internet after we ate dinner. Whereas I specifically scheduled an 11 PM overnight flight back home after EMP weekend so I wouldn't miss the Oscar ceremony.

Yeah, I don't know why it is. I try to see some movies over the course of the year, but never really discuss them in any detail or anything. But I get down to the Oscars ceremony every year with a passion.

Before last night, I hadn't watched a Grammy ceremony in over a decade.

the grammys has a rep for being extremely lame, no

like even compared to other award shows

The Grammys, lame? Whatever do you mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bko74T0K15Q

I don't even keep up with the Grammys enough to know if they're considered lame or not.

Even though I'm probably more of a music person than a film person these days, I am WAY more into the Oscars than the Grammys.

I have marginally more respect for the Oscars. About all I appreciate the Grammys for: (a) wtf performances (b) a bizzer suddenly shipping multiplatinum (e.g. Bonnie Raitt).

the Oscars are the thing I don't even give a tiny dry shit about. "awards for a bunch of movies I didn't see and wouldn't like if I saw 'em, plus wait all night to see the best song performances...no thanks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZEGHnAxEpo

wait all night to see the best song performances...no thanks

heard of tivo...?

my god that john denver clip!

Didn't they drop the Oscars song performances last year, or did they just do them differently? I can't remember.

I was at an Oscar party last year and I don't remember a Best Song bathroom break.

The Oscars' choices have been edging vaguely toward defensible (vs the Grammys) in recent years, but that'll all be down the drain in a couple weeks.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgmdgoIOlG1qh8gp5o1_500.png

here i go again on my own

tawny otm. as usual.

doesn't the diff between the oscars and the grammys come down to 20 awards vs. like a billion awards?

Spousal abuser Tawny Kitaen, ladies and gentlemen.

pwny kitaen

doesn't the diff between the oscars and the grammys come down to 20 awards vs. like a billion awards?

That's one big difference, sure. AMPAS doesn't divide their awards into dozens of different genres.

whoistawnykitaen.tumblr.com

That's what the Golden Globes are for xxp

lol tyler

that Tawny Kitaen is doing the "arcade fire? who?" schtick kinda underscores that people doing that sound like cranky old people

they sound like people who were blessed to live in an arcade fire-free universe up until last night

Tawny Kitaen is a magical name. is it real?

hah tamtam

oh goddammit, tawny's real name is Julie. ;_;

I think it's the ppl of Tawny's generation who started giving their kids ready-made stripper names.

my wife was all like "the grammys are on tonight!!!" and then she remembered who she was talking to

I did some work, watched a movie, suspect this thread is more entertaining than the show was

my wife made me turn off the PS3 streaming my digital music through our home theater for the Grammys

and this is why I will never forgive her for inflicting Biebusher on me

hahahahaha

I think the last performer/group I saw on television that made me that irrationally angry was either Sugarland or Ashanti

although Ashanti now sounds like a legit spinto singing Puccini compared to some of the "artists" out there today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5P6RUvbVM

Arcade Fire didn't speak with print journalists after the ceremony. Instead, they went to the photo room to have their picture taken -- and then they beat it.

There was lots of grousing about this in the print media room, with critics having given the band such a boost and all.

from the Washington Post Click Tracks blog

Sugarland makes me angry because people in the deepest darkest most remote huts in the south don't sing with as much twang as whatsherface does in every Sugarland song.

whoops, johnny posted that already!

Yeah, then it was reported it was a stroke and she was hospitalized, then it was reported that it wasn't a stroke and she wasn't hospitalized but was checked out by a paramedic on the scene and sent home okay. Either way, not as funny as it seemed originally. xps to poly

But it did give me an excuse to post an awesome Billy Squier song.

So there's that.

The woman in Sugarland strikes me as one of the most ingenuine people on the face of the Earth.

I mean, I hate Carrie Underwood too, but I've never actually entertained the thought that she walks of stage, rips off her human skin to expose the lizard face underneath, and satiates her ravenous hunger on babies.

I was in a Lady Antebellum-free world, and still am if not hearing em is the test.

anyway, now that a Canadian indie band has won the top Grammy I feel that anything is possible. [WinButlerHOPE.jpg]

Arcade Fire didn't speak with print journalists after the ceremony. Instead, they went to the photo room to have their picture taken -- and then they beat it.

ew

all over their neon Bible

feel like aids wolf really has a chance in '12

The band that wins next year is one that hasn't even formed or recorded anything yet.

Johnny's Fever Band

I came up with a good band name in scrabble yesterday: PANDA ASSAULT

So wrong/right/brilliant.

you could open for death sentence: panda!

and bloody panda

make panda the wolf of 2012

Spousal abuser Tawny Kitaen, ladies and gentlemen.

is she really? tell me more.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/tawny-kitaen-major-league-hitter

http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/imagecache/750x970/documents/kitaen1.jpg

Ever had an intense fantasy about actress Tawny Kitaen, the comely star of films like "Bachelor Party," and "Hercules in the Underworld"?

YES

After seeing this sad mug shot, those fantasies will likely end.

yes

bummer

oh man guess you shouldve thought abt the fact that tawny was gonna get old some day before you beat off to her when u were 15

it's true, i should have been more forward-thinking.

thank you for making this crucial point. i will consider it when i now think of gabrielle union.

man i cannot believe an album on merge won best album at the grammys

On the who the hell are arcade fire but slightly next level is this FB status update from one of the girls I worked with last year:

"Who in the hell are the suburbs n how did they win best album of the year over frekin LADY GAGA n EMINEM!! In complete shock! Good show tho the best was rihanna and sexy drake yummy lolz nite fbgz!!"

'the suburbs'

people who think arcade fire is named 'the suburbs' are heroes to me

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgltb8zSgH1qh8gp5o1_500.png

i can't believe The Suburbs won best album and they don't even have a facebook group i can join

lol yes they are heroes of mine as well magicdawnjaun should meet my bby girl Alycia. Feel like they could kick it.

surely there mustve been a dozen bands called The Suburbs, pick one

"Who in the hell are the suburbs n how did they win best album of the year over frekin LADY GAGA n EMINEM!! In complete shock! Good show tho the best was rihanna and sexy drake yummy lolz nite fbgz!!"

america is doomed.

http://hipsterrunoff.com/2011/02/indie-gone-mainstream-grammy-2k11-recap.html

would read alterna-history fiction about 69 Love Songs winning a Grammy

http://i52.tinypic.com/24digs6.jpg

people who think arcade fire is named 'the suburbs' are heroes to me

They are total villains to me because there was already a great MPLS band from the 80s named The Suburbs who were, in pretty much every way better than Arcade Fire.

who r beiber

xp did they release a record called Arcade Fire last year? cos if so, i have some big news for them.

did u hear suburban lawns won a grammy for song of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1PgP9gWXeA

i hope the real suburbs cash in on this mixup!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRaRrnnmPZ0&feature=related

^^one of the great new wave singles

omg i love that band suburban lawns janitor

Industry blogger Bob Lefsetz and his Mumford & Sons versus Arcade Fire battle:

This is all good publicity for Arcade Fire, but know that the Grammy show is now bigger than the acts. And that you can enjoy the winning, but the days of Bonnie Raitt becoming a national hero in wake of her victory are done.

Arcade Fire does not make mainstream music. The mainstream will not embrace them.

That's not a problem. I'm just saying their win is a private moment amongst fans. A good one, but despite winning on a mainstream telecast, it does not make them mainstream.

Mumford eclipsed Arcade Fire on the show. Because they realized on TV it's all about being simple and intimate. You go broad, with explosions and spectacle, live. But not on TV.

Meanwhile, Mumford & Sons' album is $9.99 and Arcade Fire's is $7.99. When you're hot, price is irrelevant.

This seems to transgress even the Mail's skewed version of the good/bad taste border: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1356876/Grammys-2011-Aretha-Franklins-surprise-weight-loss-receives-tribute.html

ah yes, bonnie raitt, national hero. those were the days.

lol DJP/m@tt mind meld

fun six degrees of separation fact: I sang with Chan Poling's cousin for a while

i fondly recall my towns bonnie raitt day parade, it was sure something to talk abt

i still don't get the grammy thing of arcade fire, muse....jeff beck? how does that even happen? is it just label muscle or something? who, other than jeff beck and his family, even knew that jeff beck had an album out last year?

Oh yay.

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fun six degrees of separation fact: I sang with Chan Poling's cousin for a while

― DJP, Monday, February 14, 2011 2:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh word? that's cool, in a choir thing?

chan's new thing, the new standards, does pretty well i think...kinda like bryan ferry fronting the modern jazz quartet but doing kinda gimmicky version of new wave/alternative/classic/indie rock covers

http://www.thenewstandards.com/index.html

nagl fire

arcade fire are really the most uncool people, it pains me

especially the wife one

who the hell are arcade fire

stop comparing em to yrself and use a more reasonable standard, icey

youre right that was unkind of me

who the hell are arcade fire

― tylerw, Monday, February 14, 2011 3:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a band from the suburbs