Rolling GRAMMYS 2007 Thread

The Herbie Hancock thread is going to need to get redone again.

poll, I mean

wtf at wtf? Is this really surprising in any way?

never mind...

WTF is with that Album o0f the Year category...

thank you. And I'd like to thank the Academy for reminding us that there's a Herbie Hancock tribute to Joni.

Vince Gill's four-disc set ''These Days''

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Part of me really hopes Herbie wins. It's sort of a win-win for everyone.

Did Magic miss the cut-off date?

Grammy members like albums with attractive covers, JN$OT.

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wtf with the Foo Fighters? I mean, the Grammys are always disappointing, but I didn't realize anyone had heard this album. Anywhere. Ever.

+ I never understood the Best New Artist category. Obviously if Amy got nominated for all these other awards, she's gonna win Best New Artist. Like, duh. None of the other Best New Artists got nominated for Best Album.

His scarf is fierce.

Except for Winehouse, expert predictors pretty much strike out.

I'm just glad there's stuff less signif than the Oscars

x-post.

wtf with the Foo Fighters? I mean, the Grammys are always disappointing, but I didn't realize anyone had heard this album. Anywhere. Ever.

-- Mordechai Shinefield, Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:08 (1 hour ago)

In the non-teen-pop, non-indie-rock, non-rap, non-r'n'b world of corporate rock radio which some people still listen to (plus on MTV and VH1 and in Rolling Stone) these guys are huge. There's at least one good single here I think, even if I understand the the album as a whole is rather blah. Sure I'd rather have Youssou N'Dour getting some attention, but that's not to be, especially with the Grammys.

yeah, I was personally surprised by the Foo Fighters' nom, but not because I didn't think anyone had hear it anywhere ever. it's probably neck-and-neck with Winehouse for the 2nd biggest seller out of the AOTY nominees.

Nice to see Feist (Let It Die released 2004) and Amy Winehouse (Frank released 2003) in the Best New Artist category.

those preceded "the first recording which establishes the public identity of that artist"

to, you know, ppl in the RIAA

Oh I know, it's hardly without precedent.

"Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)" is nominated for best Rap Song, but NOT best male rap performance.

Two of the five nominees for best rock performance by a group are from the same John Lennon covers album.

Ledisi, in case you were curious.

Best Traditional World Music Album: Go Rahim (AlHaj)! One of my favorite albums from last year. (Competing against Konono Nº1, in Best Traditional World Music Album category. Does Konono Nº1 belong in that cateogry?)

The best tropical album nominations seem okay (what can you say, it's been kind of a bad year for that), although I don't think I've heard a single thing about that Cubanismo album. I'd like to see El Gran Combo win. It will probably be boring Juan Luis Guerra. Surprised to see Fulanito got nominated in the Best Latin Urban Album category. Again, that's not an album I've seen much mention of. That looks like a tight race, although if I had to guess I'd go with Calle 13. But with the Mexican-American vote, Akwid could surge ahead.

Depressing. (Legalize drugs (at least a lot more of them), take away much of organized crime's strength. I really think it's worth it.)

Friday, December 07, 2007
Murdered singers among Grammy noms
BY JOSE MORENO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, December 7th 2007, 4:00 AM

The late Sergio Gómez, lead singer of the norteño band K-Paz de la Sierra.
Two Mexican singers killed over the last year — including one this week — are among the nominees for the Grammy Awards announced yesterday.

Sergio Gómez, the lead singer of the top-selling group K-Paz de la Sierra, was tortured and strangled Sunday in Morelia, a city in the western state of Michoacan.

His “Conquistando Corazones” (Conquering Hearts) got a nod for Best Banda Album. Valentín Elizalde, who was murdered in November of last year, was nominated in the same category for “Lobo Domesticado.” (Domesticated Wolf).

Both deaths are part of a recent wave of organized crime violence terrorizing entertainers in Mexico.

Although not known for songs glamorizing the drug business, Gómez had reportedly received death threats by drug cartels urging him not to appear in Michoacan, a hot bed of the drug trade.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said Puerto Rican reggaetón star Daddy Yankee who played with K-Paz last July in Mexico City. “It hurt me so much.”

“I immediately prayed for his him, his family and the people of Mexico,” added Yankee who was nominated yesterday for Best Urban Album.

Gómez’s manager, who is also named Sergio Gómez, said the singer had no ties to drug gangs.

The murders has singers worrying that they may become targets by becoming identified with one or another of Mexico’s warring drug gangs.

“What can I say? We are dismayed about this. I mean, we are all in the same boat,” said Javier Díaz, representative of Los Tucanes del Norte, a popular group that often poses with assault rifles to promote its songs and violence-filled videos.

After leaving the concert Sunday, Gómez was intercepted by 10 Chevrolet Suburbans. His body turned up on a rural roadside with signs of strangulation and severe bruising on the thorax and abdomen as well as burns on the legs.

Hundreds of people mourned Gómez Tuesday in his native Ciudad Hidalgo. About 200 more also gathered in Mexico City, where Gómez’s body was transported Tuesday night. People sang the group’s best-known songs and some cried holding flowers and photographs.

Another lesser-known singer, Zayda Pena, 28, was shot in a hospital in Matamoros Saturday, while recovering from a gunshot wound she received a day earlier.

Like Gómez, Pena had no known drug associations.

While Gómez was famous for his up-tempo “Pasito Duranguense” rhythm and Pena wrote more in the ballad-like “grupero” style, both essentially sang songs whose themes went little beyond love.

Earlier slayings involved musicians who sang about the criminal underworld. Elizalde, who was killed after performing across the border from McAllen, Texas, became popular with “To My Enemies,” a song frequently seen as a drug lord’s anthem.

Many musicians are now worried that becoming associated with a drug gang may be as easy as waiting for someone to use their song as the soundtrack to a homemade video.

“More than anything else, the point is that musicians make music, they don’t belong to any group,” said Diaz, the representatives of Los Tucanes. “Nobody has the right to take anybody else’s life.”

With Carlos Rodriguez Martorell, Associated Press

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