POISON SCOOTER

The Grammys

For the past ten years I've been slipping further and further off the map of what is good music according to the prestigious Grammy awards. Now with the most recent batch of nominees being announced yesterday I can see that I am completely shut out from what is mainstream. I think the Grammys shoud change their name to the Worst in Music awards. What do you think?

Even though I'm less than impressed I still took the time to handicap the race a little. My predictions are in bold.

Nominations

Album

•Dixie Chicks; Taking The Long Way
•Gnarls Barkley; St. Elsewhere
•John Mayer; Continuum
•Red Hot Chili Peppers; Stadium Arcadium
•Justin Timberlake; Future Sex/LoveSounds

Record

•Mary J. Blige; Be Without You
•James Blunt; You're Beautiful
•Dixie Chicks; Not Ready to Make Nice
•Gnarls Barkley; Crazy
•Corinne Bailey Rae; Put Your Records On.

Song of the Year/Writers

•Be Without You; (performed by Mary J. Blige)
•Jesus, Take the Wheel; (Carrie Underwood)
•Not Read to Make Nice; (Dixie Chicks)
•Put Your Records On; (Corinne Bailey Rae)
•You're Beautiful; (James Blunt)

New artist

•James Blunt
•Chris Brown
•Imogen Heap
•Corinne Bailey Rae
•Carrie Underwood

Pop album

•Christina Aguilera; Back to Basics
•James Blunt; Back to Bedlam
•Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint; The River in Reverse
•John Mayer; Continuum
•Justin Timberlake; FutureSex/LoveSounds

Rock album

•John Mayer Trio; Try!
•Tom Petty; Highway Companion
•The Raconteurs; Broken Boy Soldiers
•Red Hot Chili Peppers; Stadium Arcadium
•Neil Young; Living With War.

Contemporary R&B album

•Mary J. Blige; The Breakthrough
•Jamie Foxx; Unpredictable
•India.Arie; Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
•Prince; 3121
•Lionel Ritchie; Coming Home

Rap album

•Lupe Fiasco; Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
•Ludacris; Release Therapy
•Pharrell; In My Mind
•The Roots; Game Theory
•T.I.; King

Country album

•The Dixie Chicks; Taking The Long Way
•Alan Jackson; Like Red on A Rose
•Little Big Town; The Road to Here
•Willie Nelson; You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
•Josh Turner; Your Man

Alternative album

•Arctic Monkeys; Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
•Flaming Lips; At War With the Mystics
•Gnarls Barkley; St. Elsewhere
•Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Show Your Bones
•Thom Yorke; The Eraser

posted by Scooter @ 8:13 AM