Live at the GRAMMYS 2012!

Springsteen and his yellow guitar.

McCartney clapping.

Skrillex, Tinariwen, Foo Fighters and others have already won awards in the pre-telecast portion

Oh man I can't wait for LL's version of "Someone Like You."

aw taylor and nicki are sitting next to each other :)

who wrote LL's opening speech..."the power of music...

surprised Raphael Saadiq wasn't called to give Bruno Mars and his goddamn esophagus some muscle.

Aww -- what are Gaga and Miranda Lambert discussing???

was rebirth brass band's grammy win televised? i'm guessing not.

They did not even get to sit in with Springsteen

Bonnie Raitt!! She looks great!

she looks graitt!

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

lol when ll said "who MOOOVES like no other" i thought he was gonna be introducing mick jagger

I thought he was gonna introduce Adam Levine.

tbh i was more impressed with bruno mars's dancing than chris brown's

also chris brown needs to stop trying to make "beautiful people" happen in this country, it is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN

have they cut to jay-z yet

fucking Chris Brown.

Is this streamable somewhere on the interwebs? CBS.com and Grammys.com are not helping.

watching here from UK but is very laggy http://www.phstream.com/2010/10/watch-cbs-live-stream.html

steampunk set design

steamcountry

lol @ jason aldean checking his mic because it seems to be off

what time does Macca perform "Pumped Up Kicks"?

Dave Grohl wearing a Slayer t-shirt

this fucking guy

his voice is sounding a bit rough tonight

uh nuh nuh nuh nuh

Get off the stage, dude.

jesus. That noise

whoa Chipotle TV ads?

I'm done, idk why I thought this would be even mildly interesting to watch

Why Willie, why?

whoa -- "The Scientist"

oh dear that chipotle ad.................

smfh

hey this ad is almost making me a vegetarian... oh.

nobody said it was easy

LOLOLOL this show is so fucking great

when are they going to present some awards?

3.5 hr vic cruz salsa would be a huge improvement 2 this show imo

if fucking bumford & sons wins this...

"Rock"

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earlier today

MICROPHONES

TAPE

MUSIC

Dave Grohl, you are now the most repugnant person in the world.

Tell em Dave Grohl what's it's really about. Think I'll switch to Walking Dead.

HOLY SHIT Seacrest's hair!!!

love that LMFAO came in directly after his speech

kids get off my lawn with your computers and stuff

wonder how Dave feels about Maroon 5 and Foster the People helping Brian Wilson sound more real.

during his speech. it was perfect. also fuck him for dismissing fancy studios and computers but thanking "the best producer in the world" in the same sentence.

He would like to thank Alan Moulder, who produced Smashing Pumpkins using tin cans and an exact-o-blade instead of computers to mix the record.

Foster The People >>>> Maroon 5 at this Beach Boys covers kitsch

was that Sting standing up?

gotta say yeah, Foster the People guy's voice was perfect for that song.

how the fuck did Arcade Fire age so badly?????

who is Foster the People?

Levine looks really uncomfortable with this whole situation.

Mike Love appears to keep threatening Glenn Campbell in audience.

Maura:

9:19 p.m. And now Foster the People is doing "Wouldn't It Be Nice," transposed into a different key that's just making everything sound extra-awkward. I guess the backing vocals are nice, but the lead Person's voice is just not suited to this particular song. It's too... quacky? Is "quacky" the right word? My mind is conjuring up a duck when listening to him.

Baha hair guy bumping into M. Love while praying or meditating or whatever that was

That Mike Love, whatta guy. Brian is clearly somewhere else, or wishes he was. Poor fella.

that's how he's looked in every performance for 30 years

So that was my first time to hear the foo fighters, I'm really surprised at how run of the mill the music is. I thought it would be more...I dunno something, I mean he was in a good band once. Wearing a Slayer shirt doesn't hide the bad music.

Fulfillingness First Grammys!

Why the hell isn't Stevie performing for real? Fuck. He should host.

Why is Macca in a straitjacket?

musical?

Joe Walsh doing G.E. Smith Serious Guitar Hero muscle flexing.

If Stevie wasn't so amazingly talented he would be really, really creepy

creepy anyway

actually fuck off Chris Brown

ignoring chris brown to wonder why the girl from the civil wars is a future entertainment tonight host

so a guy beats on his girl, performs the same show as her and wins a grammy?

Taylor's making all this seem worthwhile

lol banjos = dustbowl nightgown

So that was my first time to hear the foo fighters, I'm really surprised at how run of the mill the music is

I'm surprised how a band gains more fans with no songs

People who became FF fans with the 00s material are the weirdest on earth

Didn't Taylor use that same set on another award show?

Why does Chris Brown gotta be so mean?

Ye Olde Tyme White People Revue

Didn't Taylor use that same set on another award show?

Oh. Is this her schtick?

She wears her old-timey depression era dress and uses that set for her banjo numbers, it seems

Mike Love's been wearing that same baseball cap for decades

Adele should pull out her chewing gum and put it on the trophy

Paul Epworth is a genuinely nice dude

are they really redoing Total Recall?

ugh that voice

she's very sibilant tonight

what the fuck is going on

Why doesn't she just lip sync at these shows? I mean, compared to this, Rihanna is Aretha Franklin.

Every time I hear that one Katy Perry song (E.T.?), it just makes me want to listen to tATu.

oh fuck if Paltrow sings I'm gonna kill myself

phew

Bullet dodged.

would have been funny if Paltrow had gone on for ages about 'that voice' etc then it turned out she was talking about herself and launched into 'forget you' again

for like 1 second I mean

Paltrolled

Adele owning this really. Hard to hate, even if I have heard this song 10 times a day for months.

Why wasn't Glen Campbell on stage with the Beach Boys?

I think Mike Love wouldn't allow him up there.

Looked like Rihanna was trying to communicate with Adele telepathically.

Adele sounded flat imo

Yeah, but when the bar is set at Rihanna and Katy Perry and even Taylor Swift, Adele is Aretha.

Swift was fine!

She was! It's just easy to make fun of her.

i love rihanna so much

she did the WILLIE BOUNCE during her performance

she is just perfect.

Adele always sounds a little flat, but that was pitched down a half step so she actually sounded more relaxed and comfortable singing that than I've ever heard her before.

Adele did own in comparison. But yeah she did sound a little unlike Adele to me. dunno. this stream is pretty shit.

yeah Adele's performance was very tempered.

The tribute John Hartford never got....

Thought she should have done a LOL 'O no my voice is broken' like Katy Perry's backing track

meanwhile over on the NPR live blog of this, from earlier:

Naturally, I'm pulling for Bon Iver, given that I freaking love Bon Iver.

by the way, Chris Brown can fucking die

just thought I'd throw that out there

Liking these Campbell tributes. Country cats got class.

Brian Wilson is in the audience.... Glen should sing "Guess I'm Dumb", which isn't on the setlist on his farewell tour.

adele sounded worse than usual i think. but she hasn't been performing lately, so i guess it is excusable

Blake Shelton always looks like someone's pulling his strings. He's like a replicant on steroids.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzba8v28bj1r41u44o1_500.gif

He was insufferable when I saw him last summer. Covered "My Prerogative."

While I'm happy the Grammys are happy to explore dusty avenues of history, ceding ten minutes to a Glen Campbell tribute is a bit much.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzba8v28bj1r41u44o1_500.gif

Miranda Lambert photobomb

He was insufferable when I saw him last summer. Covered "My Prerogative."

Blake Shelton? Not when he's Mr. Lambert!

The tribute John Hartford never got....

was Gaga punched by an invisible man

that shit is making me dizzy

how much longer is this on for by the way?

till Whitney Houston is resuscitated by sheer force of good vibes from the audience

"Adele's doctor tells us how he brought her voice back to life ..."

Didn't she have nodes? Or something?

Tony Bennett, Best New Artist!

Upset!

Not upset to be there, Vernon. Was he tipped off?

Bon Iver...Now the NPR website guy doesn't have to kill himself

oh dear bon iver

thanks to all the non-nominees!

Did he thank Kanye

"Dear Justin. Stop. Please show up. Stop. You might win something. Stop."

he should have just recited his blog post about the vmas

"Please don't steal music."

wtf

This is the please don't steal music guy.

Nnnnnooooo Not him. Not the Grammy guy. Every year he has to be on

is this a Chris Morris thing?

what's the name of the actor who looks like this dude

But ... but ... the Grammys just gave me all this great music, for free.

"Please don't steal music."

There you go....

Co-executive producer, longer tribute than Whitney.

lol. Not really a great posterboy for actually paying for music is he

Nate Dogg - Rap Singer

Man, I say this every year, but pop music is so relatively young that every year the death toll of notables will get longer and longer.

Huh, didn't know Milton Babbitt or Gary Moore died.

Bon Iver manages to give Adult Contemporary a bad name. But of all the other choices for best new artist he was hardly the worst (and I strongly dislike his music).

WTG America

I hope they keep this vox only.

I had no idea Gary Moore died either (kind of assumed Milton Babbitt already had)

Cool to hear a little Milton Babbitt on the grammys

bleepbipblibble

Hadn't heard about David Mason, the trumpet/flugelhorn guy on some Beatles records. Me neither re: Gary Moore, he was great.

Fader Magazine tweet:

In Memoriam: Megaupload

that's hilarious!

They forgot Gil Scott Heron. Fuck a grammys.

Common and whatsername paid tribite to Gil Scott earlier.

Guess Gary Moore died last week.

shoulda played regulate

And Poly Styrene. (Unless she was in the first 45 seconds.)

damn, Jennifer

xxp. oh.. missed that sorry never mind.

J. Hud killed it softly.

yeah, beautifully done

also goddamn would smash

this is going to fucking suck

chris brown can die

FUCK YOU CHRIS BROWN

lol @ introducing "deadmau5-five"

David Guetta, high as fuck.

my kingdom for a sniper

the deadmau 5

thank god for Family Guy

What year is this?

Why does dude get to perform twice?

this is one of those dance clubs without dancing

Wow Wayne sounds awful

is he done yet?

I'm so glad you guys are all doing this so I can fuck off and watch an SVU re run

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSm0eujKlu--T-JzrKDFOrdQz6cTcwc-5i6JkTSxbM9u2QRaX_V

allowing chris brown his 'second chance' (fuck off) is one thing but saturating the show with him is taking the piss a little

Why do the Foo Fighters get to perform twice, too?

wtf is even going on? Is this 'dance music'???

Why do the Foo Fighters get to perform twice, too?

the other option was Mumford and Sons

It's dance-rock ... fusion!

That's it. fuck this

is the point of this to squeeze as many detestable people as possible into one performance slot???? get OUT of the "dance" tribute dave grohl

this is v.surreal

Get out of the rock tribute, Deadmau5!

Glad they cut out awards so they could find time for more Foos

LOL

And the winner of best Deadmau5 performance is ... Deadmau5!

someone gif grohl dancing to dubstep

Wait, this is still going? I thought it was over.

Grohlstep.

I'm beginning to think all of the Grammy cross-genre collabs are the result of end-of-the-night coke-binge meetings between very powerful execs, tho I think that's how most things get done in Hollywood anyway

I would love the opportunity to fart into Deadmau5's headpiece right before his set

someone gif grohl dancing to dubstep

― owenf, Monday, February 13, 2012 3:59 AM (1 minute ago)

please

Drake is in the house

yeah they all sound like coke bets 'ok ok ok ok but YOU. YOU have to book deadmau5 and foo fighters to play together'

'ok ok ok RIGHT but YOU have to make chris brown AND Rihanna perform on the same show... and chris brown has to perform.... TWICE!'

Drake is psyched to not be the most hateable person in the room

...

hahaha that was great

FUCK YOU GRAMMYS, XOXO NICKI

That was just really, really great. All it needed was a two-foot tall Stonehenge.

fucking mental

it was amazing

i feel like nicki minaj was planning that performance her whole life

it was EVERYTHING

watching all of the perplexed reactions on Facebook is making my night

it's like she just single-handedly annihiliated, you know, every pop bitch in the building

^^^^^

go home gaga

I think there's still time to bring Chris Brown and the Foo Fighters once more.

Adele thanked Rick Rubin more than her producer Paul Eppworth

my homie paul mccartney

fucking chris brown

GROHL GETS THE HAT TRICK

YEAR OF THE GROHL

FUCKING DAVE GROHL

Adele thanked Rick Rubin more than her producer Paul Eppworth

rick rubin produced more songs on that album than paul epworth did

that is far more guitars than necessary onstage

Would be w cool if just when everyone's expecting to go to commercial break, Macca crashes the piano and rips into "Her Majesty"

and Epworth got Producer award and got to speak earlier on

fucking wish prince was there

How many old white male guitarists can we get on a stage

girlyscream

His Little Richard scream.

How many old white male guitarists can we get on a stage

― curmudgeon, Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:29 PM (36 seconds ago)

Broken Social Security Scene

lol

How many old white male guitarists can we get on a stage

― curmudgeon, Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:29 PM (36 seconds ago)

Geriatric Spree

Godspeed You Gray Emperor

for those not watching the stream have there been any good performances yet that are worth You Tube-ing later?

SEE NICKI ASAP

currently trending on UK twitter:

United Kingdom trends

#Grammys
#WomanBeater
#proudofchrisbrown
R.I.P Whitney Houston
Rihanna and Coldplay
WTF is Nicki Minaj
Best Rap Performance
Where is Lady Gaga
T. Swift

xp ok thanks!

depends how into dave grohl you are really

grohling in the deep

Dave Grohl, you are now the most repugnant person in the world.

Whatever he did to get Soto to say this RULES

I was watching The Devil's Cleavage

ok yeah Minaj was insane. why does nothing like that ever happen at the Brits?

thought taylor swift and rihanna were v good as well

someone points out on twitter that 25 years ago the winner of Best New Artist was Bruce Hornsby.

symmetry!

I guess in another 25 years, Justin Vernon will be touring with whoever is left alive from The Grateful Dead.

Apt.

@hipsterrunoff Somewhere in heaven, Whitney Houston is smiling bc of Nicki Minaj's tribute to her 'crack junkie' years.

someone points out on twitter that 25 years ago the winner of Best New Artist was Bruce Hornsby.

it gets worse:

1977 - Starland Vocal Band
1978 - Debby Boone
1981 - Christopher Cross
1990 - Milli Vanilli (later revoked)
1991 - Marc Cohn

that was mostly awful but there was something almost klf-grade wtf-bomb about the nicki minaj performance that i have to applaud.

also chris brown making me think our medieval ancestors had it right with the public stocks and rotten fruit thing.

that was mostly awful but there was something almost klf-grade wtf-bomb about the nicki minaj performance that i have to applaud.

That is indeed prime. As donut bitch said elsewhere just now, "I LOVE THIS!...I mean, it's totally B.I.M. from The Apple, which is why I LOVE THIS!"

And if you haven't seen it:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xolh0s_21221223435_lifestyle

the performance was cool i guess but that sounded kinda ass

also why is she carrying on with this "roman" thing as if it's something ppl care about? at least beyonce had the sense to drop sasha fierce after one album

McCartney doing the final side of 'abbey road' >>>>>>>>>>>>

at least until Dave Grohl showed up

Adele sounded flat imo

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I say this all the time. She sings EVERYTHING flat idgi

nice to see Nicki going witchhouse

expected Ringo to make a surprise cameo during "Carry That Weight."

Oh well.

I thought Ringo was going to show up too. Wish he'd picked a better song. And I'm still puzzling out why Joe Walsh was up there.

Nicki Minaj was preposterous beyond words. I mean, there's a part of me that can appreciate audacity for audacity's sake, but when your mind starts drifting back to Rick Wakeman and Meat Loaf and stuff like that, that's not really a good thing. If the song's any good, I'm okay with pretty much anything, but the song was awful!

I wanted her to segue into " Stupid Hoe"

Also, Lauryn Hill performed at the Grammys in 1999, right? Why are ppl claiming Nicki is the first solo female emcee to perform on the Grammys?

"Stupid Hoe" would have been so much better. I don't mean to come across as a drudge. Usually I think Nicki Minaj is great. It was just such a horrible song.

Also, Lauryn Hill performed at the Grammys in 1999, right? Why are ppl claiming Nicki is the first solo female emcee to perform on the Grammys?

ironic considering how often newer r&b singers are mislabeled as rappers in the media

I thought Adele was sharp, actually. (I think I have trouble distinguishing between sharp and flat sometimes.)

Lauryn performed "To Zion" at the Grammys that year, i.e. she was singing onstage, not rapping

shoulda known ilm would be the one place desperate enough to think nicki was great

I thought it was pretty out-there for live network TV, and for that, I was glad that she did it instead of "Super Bass." Don't know if it was "great."

It was a great disaster that sounded horrible and was neither visually nor narratively coherent. Basically, delivered as promised. Though I bet even Gaga was a little non-plussed if not outright bored watching it. I know I was.

Also, there was not nearly enough Dave Grohl in it.

it's just...i feel like i've said this before, but even her idea of 'out there' is so pedestrian and unimaginative

totally drove the point home that really, nicki = high school theater kid

in high school she was working on being the next remy ma, seems like she stumbled into wacky affectations well into her career

didn't she say she used to make up characters as a kid? like roman's been around a long time, or is that just a story she tells

every kid makes up characters. and of course her interviews are prolly bull.

People who became FF fans with the 00s material are the weirdest on earth

and i'm am fairly anti-deadmau5 but i like their collaboration as some sort of logical conclusion to two illogical scenes

Also, Lauryn Hill performed at the Grammys in 1999, right? Why are ppl claiming Nicki is the first solo female emcee to perform on the Grammys?

did hill do anything other than "to zion" at the '99 with carlos santana? what i saw of that it was just singing - first solo mc to mc at least.

i didn't even like minaj before this, aside from some remixes, but she sold me - grabbed it / took it / ran with it, that was an all-caps PERFORMANCE, i literally forgot how stale and desperately clinging for relevance this show is for those five minutes, forgot about everything really. is the original track "roman's holiday" as it was in that? the beat was sick - i kept looking for kingdom or other night slugs crew behind a dj booth.

lol bon iver

i literally forgot how stale and desperately clinging for relevance this show is for those five minutes and only thought about how stale and desperately clinging for relevance nicki minaj is instead

every kid makes up characters. and of course her interviews are prolly bull.

― some dude, Monday, February 13, 2012 9:19 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

I'm glad you're really committed to this

http://who-is-bon-iver.tumblr.com/

i'm having fun searching 'bonnie bear' on twitter

charitymay105 Charity May✌
who the f is bonnie bear i hate chu... i wanted j cole or skrillex

oh THIS is where you're talking about minaj. i thought it was an amazing performance, thematically on point (catholic/exorcism imagery for a gay male alter ego, good work) and the song sounded GREAT. "i am the ultimate svengali / them chickens can't even spell that"

bonnie bear is a better name than bon iver

god, i hate those blogs

you could very easily make the argument that it's more embarrassing to know who bon iver is than not

i thought it was an amazing performance, thematically on point (catholic/exorcism imagery for a gay male alter ego, good work)

oh lord... i guess this is true if you're one of the .5% of ppl in the world invested in "roman" but otherwise i think it came off as "catholic imagery! ain't it a shock?!"

and the song sounded GREAT

granted it was hard to hear any of the rapping at least live but that chorus was fucking terrible

who-is-bon-iver.tumblr.com is borderline "is this racist?" thread category

the same ppl who find that shit funny/start those blogs are the same ppl who went "WAIT, WHO THE HELL IS NE-YO" when he was nominated in the same category as radiohead

i'm not "invested" in roman but unlike sasha fierce and whatever gaga's male alter ego is, it's a character that actually has a tangible effect on minaj's material. characters and alter egos are par for the course in pop, i kind of admire it when someone commits to one.

i heard the rapping fine on the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR2U-sGQX8M

i thought the tumblr of "who is bon iver" tweets was celebrating them, not laughing at them :(

thematically i think it was just the standard moron rapper "i saw a movie, let's base a video/album title/performance around it" schtick. i wouldn't even know 'roman' is supposed to be a gay male character based on her songs if lex didn't bring it up all the time.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/horrible-reactions-to-chris-brown-at-the-grammys

i think that tumblr is worthwhile if only because it has cracked me up for a long time to say 'bonnie bear' and i'm ready for that to go mainstream

^^^ first thing the outraged local newscaster mentioned this morning

xpost

NICKI RULZ U JUST JEALOUS!

gotta say it really did work out well that Adele wasn't able to sing "Rolling In The Deep" on every show on television for the past 12 months so that performance actually felt climactic and anticipated. also girl kinda has swag.

She reminded me a bit of an awkward Alison Moyet.

her interview with anderson cooper on 60 mins was cool, i'd totally kiw her

on the other hand i was kinda rmde at them acting like she had some life threatening condition

also was a bit butthurt that she didn't sing "someone like you"

"rolling" >>>>>>>> "someone" and she already got to do "someone" at a big US awards show

wish drake's nicki introduction was just "her verses turn me on and her pants are mighty fitted UH"

lol

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzbgn5y1JX1r7xwe7o1_500.png

lol (besides kanye)

"rolling in the deep" is so much better than "someone like you"

It's taken massive airplay of "Someone Like You" on the local radio station for me to realize how much it creeps me out.

it kinda blew my mind that "someone" was top 10 on p&j because i didn't think ANYONE would vote for it over "rolling"

Science explains "Someone Like You"

I still don't get Nicki Minaj

i didn't realize that bon iver tumblr was pro-iver but it still works for me as anti-iver

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/who-is-paul-mccartney

mal iver

Nicki's performance didn't need to be good, it just needed to be unlike all of the other performances in a manner to be totally baffling to everyone who only knows about "Super Bass"; ergo SUCCESS

actively boycotted Chris Fuckface, Taylor Screech and Carrie Caterwaul; of the performances I saw, the best was clearly JHud followed by Adele and Nicki

"Who is this Paul Mccartney guy? Bring out @LILBTHEBASEDGOD"

not sure how i felt about hudson... kinda thought her voice was too deep to be singing whintey, but maybe that's totally invalid idk

the grammy's would be so much better if @LILBTHEBASEDGOD interrupted every performance

xp: well, it's not like she was doing a Katy Perry/Jessie J contraloblast all over the song; JHud showed me last night that she is, in my opinion, the best female singer out there right now in the pop/R&B scene. Not only was she able to sing that song while on the verge of tears, she was able to do so while switching back and forth between her head voice and her belt, with breath support intact, and with all of the emotions inside of her pouring through the song. It was a clinic in how to sing.

i watched the chris brown performance only out of a dance interest and it was lame, thought it was cute that rihanna's team outdid his on tha - of course none of that mattered once the minaj team took stage - turns out the choreographer was laurieann gibson who's done most of lady gaga's videos - i've never cared for gaga's music but i do sit through them for the choreo, this gibson person is on point

Laurie Ann Gibson is totally insane but is a great choreographer

the choreography for chris brown's performance was kind of remarkably boring

it sounded kinda cool went it went all conga line but visually speaking it was really unremarkable

Then they brought him out the second time too

the only way a Chris Brown performance could interest me is if his female dancers all turned on him in the middle of it and beat the shit out of him

seriously at some point i zoned out and just looked at the light show

yeah actually him dressing up like run dmc was maybe the low point of the night

well actually the lowest point of the night was ?UESTLOVE getting baited into introducing that horrifying guetta/deadmau5 thing by calling it a tribute to don cornelius or some shit

?uestlove of all people!

?uestlove saying Chris Brown deserves a 'second chance' on twitter worse

so massively indifferent to big choreographed performances... I sorta wish someone would just sit on stage at the Grammys with an amplified blender or something and not sing. it'd be a lot cheaper, and it would sound a lot cooler than Chris Martin or The Deadmau Five.

well actually yeah you're right about that xp

so massively indifferent to big choreographed performances... I sorta wish someone would just sit on stage at the Grammys with an amplified blender or something and not sing. it'd be a lot cheaper, and it would sound a lot cooler than Chris Martin or The Deadmau Five.

― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Monday, February 13, 2012 10:55 AM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

real talk an annual novelty avant garde instrumental performer would be fun

Quest has that massive collection of Soul Train episodes that he has blogged about showing to other musicians, so the Grammys must have done a bait and switch on him--ok you can do the farewell to Don Cornelius but hey while you're up there can you then introduce these other folks. And no, we are not gonna make time to show any footage of old Soul Train episodes-- we need to show Dave Grohl a few more times.

is there any way to revoke chris martin visa a la u.k. not letting chris brown in the country?

Cosigning this.

Weird Al would be fun. Every year he could do his polka medley.

restraining urge to post horrible joke about how chris martin's crime is not hitting his wife

haha I would definitely watch an annual weird al polka medley

an annual Weird Al polka medley of nominated songs OTM

restraining urge to post horrible joke about how chris martin's crime is not hitting his wife notes

Mike Love's been wearing that same baseball cap for decades

You seriously underestimate Mike Love's baseball cap collection

Why the fuck do the Foo Fighters need 20 guitarists

Anyone else catch that Alison Krauss's win now means that she has more total Grammy wins than anyone else, besting Quincy Jones?

that guy from foster the people had a really weird face, too

each one plays the same power chords run through a slightly different EQ xxpost

one guitarist quit and they didn't have the heart to fire the replacement when the old guy came back

Josh: she hasn't beaten Georg Solti, who won a total of 31 Grammys.

solti's family secretly masterminded the elimination of a bunch of categories this year to slow krauss's roll

Most of any living, then.

Fuck Solti, that Grammy whore.

salty over solti

Why the fuck do the Foo Fighters need 20 guitarists

I just assume they brought Pat Smear back in for morale

an austrailian named mike shipley won a grammy for engineering an allison krauss record last night so i would like to thank krauss for furthering the shipley cause, we will take on any soltis

that Shipley was involved with Belinda Carlisle records in the eighties. I hope you're related.

Looking forward to HRO's takedown of this.

i think dave grohl might even surpass ron wood in the luckiest man alive sweepstakes by now. at least the dopey bass player was kind enough to go away after the talented guy died. wait, mike love was on this last night too, right?

i'll take any zings for not knowing this, but who were the other dudes on stage with mccartney at the end aside from bruce and grohl

is the one blonde dude that was all the way to our right also in the foos?

also was it just me or did bruce's guitar sound kinda jacked?

ok let's not act like grohl is completely talentless just because most of the time we see him now he's not playing drums

I thought Springsteen played a shitty solo tbh

unless i'm forgetting someone the only other person i recognized was joe walsh (and i might not have easily spotted him if he wasn't introduced before playing on paul's first performance), so i'm not gonna clown you

Those two guys you didn't know were Macca's regular dudes. And Joe Walsh was there, too, for some reason.

Boss guitar was jacked. But Bruce knows how to lay low when it comes to jamming.

ok let's not act like grohl is completely talentless just because most of the time we see him now he's not playing drums

capt save-a-grohl

none of those guys except Walsh are really guitar solo guys anyway, but i thought the over all energy was good, Springsteen and Grohl both have a flair for the flashy do-nothing 2-note solo

Witness, Springsteen laying low vs. James Burton (sensibly):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la2H9OCOlrQ

Springsteen can solo though! He's often been the best part of a song.

bruce plays well with others.

and I forget how good a lead guitarist Macca can be on the rare moments he lets himself play.

Springsteen can solo though! He's often been the best part of a song.

^ this. His guitar strangulations are a wonder to behold. He and Neil Young should do a one-note-with-crazy-vibrato-solo duel.

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

All time Bruce in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3vUKBOJ5sU

"Badlands," "Cover Me" – great solos in each.

And just for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q_ZXwVr9qY

http://i.imgur.com/nhTNs.jpg

i approve, maybe the beatles' pernicious hold on pop culture is finally dying

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODcwMTYzMzQ5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjI5MTkxMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR7,0,214,317_.jpg

i approve, maybe the beatles' pernicious hold on pop culture is finally dying

will you continue saying this when they are replaced by Chris Brown

i just want to say i appreciate you going extremely hard on Chris Brown itt, Dan

Christgau kinda agrees with lex:

Just watched the Grammys start to finish for the first time since I wrote about them for the VV the year Elton met Eminem. I agree they were bizarre, but mostly because they were so death-oriented: Whitney Houston of course, but also the Beach Boys' none-too-sentient-re​union (Brian bravely hanging in there he knew not why), the not-Beatles-but-Abbe​y-Road guitar jam saying goodbye to a moribund way of making music (although it was pretty good, Bruce and Sir P especially, and gotta admit Dave Grohl was better than that meaningless album or the FFs' utterly silly cameo in the weird dance segment would make you expect), and of course Glen Campbell (movingly) living out the nightmare of every old person with a brain in America--an entire industry was gazing at its future. I thought the Minaj segment was a mess, unfortunately--was really looking forward to it. Would never have believed I'd root for Radiohead to win the rock award, either.

the nicest thing I can say about Chris Brown is that he isn't Joseph Kony

Why wife asked me who Chris Brown is and what it is that he does, so I told her he beats women.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OMpeRyCCzAU/TtjkdJKw5GI/AAAAAAAAFK0/WDAgGXykYXM/s1600/who-the-fuck-is-mick-jagger-keith-richards.jpg

omg gj!

xp

had a good time watching this, tho the 8 to 9 hour was primarily downton abbey

real talk an annual novelty avant garde instrumental performer would be fun

― some dude, Monday, February 13, 2012 9:57 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm a little ashamed to say this, but in the "people we lost" photomontage segment, i laughed when the one 20th cent avant composer was featured (doubly ashamed for not remember who it was) along with like a 4 sec clip of bleeping clanking music.

christgau otm, the minaj bit was not so good

i enjoyed seeing bonnie raitt subtly cut the hell out of alicia keys

"will you continue saying this when they are replaced by Chris Brown"

woman beaters replacing woman beaters

I was in another room when Alicia Keys started singing so all I really heard was what sounded like a woman yelping in pain after being punched in the stomach

Not enough Raitt, and, yes, she made Alicia Keys look like the unsubtle bellower she is.

I missed Keys too. Did she play the piano? She can play the piano did you know

My wife was all "woah Bonnie Raitt sounds GREAT"; I asked "when does she ever not sound great" and she said "well she's like 500 years old, I was afraid her voice might have gone like Paul McCartney's"

fucking Alicia Keys plays piano like she's giving CPR.

Bonnie Raitt not only sounded great – she looked great.

sirpol sounded ok?

i had an unaccountable affection for his two cadaverous guitar players, why the camera loved his drummer so much idk

xgau kinda dumb there; whole awards were 'death-oriented' because one major artist died right before the awards BUT WAIT also the same number of old veterans perform as every year? i mean if he thinks about death every time he sees someone his own age singing on TV that's on him.

Sir Paul sounded at times like he was having an emphysema attack

He wasn't awful but his voice was thick and mucousy.

when will alicia keys get the hairdo intervention she has so desperately needed all these years?

paul lives on muslex. and mucous.

and weed.

I will say that the last line my homie Paul McCartney sang was great, but then he went back to phlegmy bellowing

leeshakeez had a weird star trek look going on too

ha i read that as 'star trak'

yeah and "Reba" sounded like she was trucked in from a psychic network.

btw lol at dude Kelly Clarkson was duetting with

dear Grammy sound guy, don't turn off the mic of the person singing the melody, no matter how freakishly bloated his head is

i laughed when the one 20th cent avant composer was featured (doubly ashamed for not remember who it was) along with like a 4 sec clip of bleeping clanking music.

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole)

Milton Babbitt. and yeah that bit was great! I didn't know he had died. and I somehow missed the fact that Ferlin Husky had died last year :(

"Woman-beating rage-broccoli Chris Brown lip-synced his single “Turn Up the Music” (without being threatened by Sir Elton John) and danced roughly as well as a third-rate Chicago footwork dancer. He ended his performance by back-flipping off the stage, though sadly not off the earth."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/02/the-grammy-awards-what-was-that.html#ixzz1mHk4MEES

completely wrong re: JHud

Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt mentioned both Houston and the late Etta James and then chose to do a brief and luminous version of James’s standard, “A Sunday Kind of Love.” (If anyone sang more confidently than Bonnie Raitt, still a mean guitar player, we missed it.)

Woman-beating rage-broccoli

amazing

17 comments on a newyorker blog post! that's gotta be a record...

this one is p funny

"though sadly not off the earth"? Really? It's clear no one edits these things, but tell me: is that supposed to be funny? Are we all supposed to hi-five you after the brilliant turn that phrase took? Most of your blogposts are snarky, irresponsible, ill-informed, or risible ("MIA is the most important artist of the oughts"), but this one is all of them. I'm done reading your "criticism", as I suspect are those sensible people who aren't subject to the New Yorker's gravity well. No critic more than you unwittingly dramatizes Martin Mull's statement about writing, music, dancing and architecture. Look it up.

Posted 2/13/2012, 12:08:54pm by radhakrishnabettadapura

um, martin mull?!?

we've all seen that dumb quote attrib'd to a bunch of ppl of course, but... martin mull.

I would love to read a Martin Mull treatise on writing, music, dancing and architecture

sasha fierce jones

maybe the beatles' pernicious hold on pop culture is finally dying

Romney would be worse

the kanye stanning in that piece is hilarious

West, perhaps taking the high road or simply practicing realpolitik, didn’t bother to attend.

ah yes, kanye west, famed practitioner of the high road

Martin Mull was the first person I ever heard say that thing btw

The "impatient, airy visions" of Kanye West.

The impatient, airy farts of Alicia Keys.

I think that S F-J piece is funnier and more lively than any of his (edited? more close edited?) magazine pieces in eons, if ever, even I disagree on a couple of points.

this was mostly enjoyable. i liked taylor swift playing banjo. i liked glenn campbell a lot. beach boys weren't an embarrassing as I thought it would be. niki minaj was awesome. could have done without fucking katy perry. Is the basically tailored to appeal to people who are really into superheroes? I think my 5 year old would have loved that if he were still awake at that point. Paul was Paul, he gets more marble-mouthed every year but I actually like his new old person album. fucking hell bruce springsteen cannot play guitar AT ALL though, I think I could solo on the End better than he did.

haha the people at work that i was talking to about the grammys kept referring to katy perry's 'x-men outfit'

https://twitter.com/#!/_bonny_bear

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/horrible-reactions-to-chris-brown-at-the-grammys

horrible reactions to that being posted for the third time already

I feel kind of stupid for twice saying "that's a horrible tan" when Nicky Minaj was performing at Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin Eve

...

I should of realized that her hair was bleached but I guess I figured pop stars wouldn't be so ghetto

...

http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/1008/please-demotivational-poster-1280707706.jpg

oh dear

how about dem nuts?

"And then, in early 2012, after ILX did away with the 'Suggest Ban' feature, user CaptainLorax said, in reference to Nicki Minaj, that he 'figured pop stars wouldn't be so ghetto.' It's widely believed that statement swayed public opinion and eventually led to the 'Suggest Ban' feature being reinstated."

(not that all bleached hair turns out ghetto looking)

just if it's on a black person

oh, wow

It's like I wandered into CPAC and watched Andrew Breitbart vomiting on a photo of Joe Biden.

and to think that a sentence where one reveals that he watched dick clark's new years rockin eve could actually contain something more depressing.

loraxbs

have 51 people pressed permalink yet?

WTF, I had no idea that Adele ballad was co-written and produced by the Semisonic guy, Dan Wilson.

I thought nicki was doing that ganguro fad from japan

Wilson also co-wrote the Dixie Chicks song that won a ton of Grammys a fwe years ago

can someone tell me if it's okay to google "ganguro" at work

not on Cuban browsers

j0rd: yes

ganguro <--- I thought she was doing that

to be fair, that girl does look incredibly ghetto

compare with this picture

Dan Wilson, rolling in the deep wells of cash.

http://why-is-bon-iver.tumblr.com/

I should of realized that her hair was bleached but I guess I figured pop stars wouldn't be so ghetto

― rubber belly hand necker (CaptainL0rax)

I take back this statement. I worded it badly.

Furthermore of course her hair was bleached, regardless of race.
I had a fuzzy memory of what nicky minaj looked like because any picture tells that she had bleached hair. The first time I saw her was New Years fwtw

loving 'why is bon iver'

J0rdan, look at the Simple Joy of Yahoo Answers thread. I posted about you

thanks dawg

this thread just got really good

Pretty good show on the whole this year, but 3 1/2 hours is too long.

hey, Oscars are still about that long, and don't have nearly as many musical performances

Well, this year they don't have any.

I'm sort of torn between being glad that the Grammys offer so much spectacle and being annoyed that the broadcast ignores dozens of winners in non-televised categories in favor of two Foo Fighters performances.

they should make all of the nominees of a category play a medley before announcing the winner

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc8uy2FOM1r7xwe7o1_500.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBlBWeGQDL4

The bonnybear report on hispterrunoff is hilarious.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2012/02/bonny-bear-trends-twitter-after-winning-grammy-has-bonny-bear-gone-mnstrm.html

Recent research in the field has been pretty much definitely attributed the dancing about architecture quote to Martin Mull

oh boy he says 'coloreds' ironically, how hilarious and edgy

haha i posted the why-is bon iver on my facebook and it got lumped in with X amount of friends' posts fawning over bon iver

a girl at work said Adele's name like 'a-dell-ee' this morning, which is crazier if not funnier than 'bonny bear'

i was all excited to have found that bonnie bear vid and carles posted it first I JUST CAN'T WIN

like that theme song is better than most justin vernon songs

They really do make a nice couple.

http://cbswomc.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/138838182.jpg?w=385&h=240&crop=1

I just saw the condensed highlights of this and thought - Grammys, you done good.

I mean, any TV show that holds out the prospect of Tony Bennett pretending to be happy for Skrillex has something going for it.

I also loved how assiduously INDIE the Bon Iver guy was trying (and mostly succeeding) to be.

Are you guys pronouncing in Bone-y Bear too?

I'm sure if the Pope saw the Minaj debacle even he would have been all wtf?

i was listening to the baltimore rap station the way home and one of the DJs says that j cole and nicki minaj lost a grammy to "the swedish band bon iver" (pronounced like it rhymes with 'liver')

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/bikernicz/pope_palpatine.jpg

I totally fell for Adele. She was humble and off-hand and gracious and loose. When she got her trophies it was like a joke she was sharing with us.

(I'm probably not the first to say this, but I hear "Hot Stuff" in "Rolling in the Deep" just as much as "Gimme Shelter"..)

Contrast with the guy from Bon Ee-VARE who, despite his multiple insinuations that most of the real deserving artists weren't at the Grammys, would never be at the Grammys, you could see had worked himself up into feeling this was a real Moment of Great Importance, and was taking it very seriously. Watching him I almost felt that he was talking to the principal, explaining that he wasn't sorry for passing that note to Sally, because he meant every word of it.

LL did a great job. I was impressed with how quickly they changed the show.

I loved the retro 70s set. Was it deliberately supposed to echo Soul Train? In any case it looked great.