Did you watch the Grammys tonight?

Floydoid · 2010-02-02T01:02:40+00:00

What a sorry state of musical affairs in the world -rap rap rap = cr*p cr*p cr*p At least Slash had a tiny little spot and Green Day almost played - can anyone actually remember any of the other dregs? ??? The country bands were probably the best, especially those okes with the funny beanies and beards who looked like bergies. ?

Riaan-Combrink

Riaan C wrote Here we go ...

Better quality clip here:
http://www.shallownation.com/2010/01/31/zac-brown-band-leon-russell-grammy-awards-2010-video-performance/

MIKA-the-better-one

I understand why parlatoes are big in Sa, I ont think they are good, musicians, infact in my view they are crap..... ther videos, stupid kfc advert, and songs.....
But people like them..... fair enough... people like taylor swift........ Funny enough I think she is more legit than parlatones........ As well as most the rap.

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote
MIKA the better one wrote Everyone seemed to hate the grammys....... But I reckon they were pretty spot on.......... Rap is big and pretty much selling alot more than rock........... Taylor Swift is extremely big (especially in the USA) so seems fair..... Even if she sucked and beyonce sucked, there are a few million pop fans who loved it, and thats all they cared about.

This is from the man that cant understand why the Parlotones are big in RSA????

I'm in the same boat as Mika. I understand that some acts ARE big, but I can't understand WHY.

Squonk

@ Bob

I am with you and Mika on this as well. But when Mika had his whole parlotone rage issue he couldn't seem to understand in that thread, that it was what the people wanted. I was just pointing out that he used this to explain away the grammies! ?

Ray

X-rated Bob wrote
Ray wrote You know, I heard on the radio that Beyonce won the best album so I decided to laugh off watching. I remember this time last year there was quite a song 'n dance on this forum about the Grammies. But I did see something else quite interesting yesterday. It was called Across the Universe but I only caught the last half hr or so.
I caught some of that too.

It was soooooo bad. You could see the brilliant concept: "Let's take a bunch of Beatles songs that actually had nothing to do with each other thematically and try to work them into a story that shows that the Beatles were not a 60s band but actually were the sixties man."

They even had a girl named Prudence come in through the bathroom window. The heroine's name was Lucy and she had a brother named Maxwell who was always hitting things with a hammer. Etc etc etc

It was for the Beatles what we "We Will Rock You" was for Queen. It was better, but only slightly, and being better than "We Will Rock You" is not much of an achievement anyway.

Seems I may need to change the way I watch these things because the bit I saw was quite pleasant. Ag anyway, must have confused it for art or summin, ne.

Bob-Dubery

Ray wrote Seems I may need to change the way I watch these things because the bit I saw was quite pleasant. Ag anyway, must have confused it for art or summin, ne.

Well that was the thing about it, it was good in parts. But the good parts did not add up to a good movie.

WantzChas

I personally think Slash was awful. I only saw that part of the Grammies (that right Bob? ? ).

Bob-Dubery

Ray wrote
X-rated Bob wrote It was soooooo bad. You could see the brilliant concept: "Let's take a bunch of Beatles songs that actually had nothing to do with each other thematically and try to work them into a story that shows that the Beatles were not a 60s band but actually were the sixties man."

They even had a girl named Prudence come in through the bathroom window. The heroine's name was Lucy and she had a brother named Maxwell who was always hitting things with a hammer. Etc etc etc

It was for the Beatles what we "We Will Rock You" was for Queen. It was better, but only slightly, and being better than "We Will Rock You" is not much of an achievement anyway.
Seems I may need to change the way I watch these things because the bit I saw was quite pleasant. Ag anyway, must have confused it for art or summin, ne.

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Reinhard

WantzChas wrote I personally think Slash was awful. I only saw that part of the Grammies (that right Bob? ? ).

Slash sounded kak. I don't know if he was out of tune, in the wrong key or just not into it.

Tokai-SA

MIKA the better one wrote Everyone seemed to hate the grammys....... But I reckon they were pretty spot on.......... Rap is big and pretty much selling alot more than rock........... Taylor Swift is extremely big (especially in the USA) so seems fair..... Even if she sucked and beyonce sucked, there are a few million pop fans who loved it, and thats all they cared about.
I just want to say thank goodness greendat didnt play, I think they are freaking awful, I would rather watch beyonce play an ibanez, through a multi effects unit with satriani than see greenday, they died about 10 years ago!!!

lol, you're kidding, right?

Greenday are brilliant, and alive, it's Rap that's dead...IMO
Taylor Swift should be banned from performing live, she's a joke....she cant even sing in key.
At least Beyonce has a great voice, and a great ass,,,,did you ever see her do the unplugged with U2...she can sing big time, she was awesome.

Dave Matthews was brilliant...one of the best bands in the world, IMO......and the highlight of the entire show, thank G-d for that, was the tribute to Michael Jackson...."Earth song" is a work of art...IMO
Yep, I said it, I'm a HUGE Michael Jackson fan. ?

As for Slash, embarrassing to say the least....geez, what was he doing messing around on that stage with a little repeating lead riff and a guitar tone that sounded like a Line 6 modeller with speaker sims off...ridiculous what these guys will do for publicity.
And really, I think it's time for Slash to change the outfit, the hairdo and hat...come now, let's start growing up.

As for Jamie Foxx and his rap attempt....the guys a genius actor and a great musician, but that performance was shocking.

Eminem was pure genius...he's so far ahead of the other rappers it's ridiculous...I can listen to him all day long, I think he's amazing, gifted.

Finally, if I hear Bon Jovi do that song live one more time, I'll definitely go crazy...damn they've become boring...I really like them, a lot, but that song is so boring...not Living on a Prayer, the first one they did.

Tokai-SA

Reinhard wrote
WantzChas wrote I personally think Slash was awful. I only saw that part of the Grammies (that right Bob? ? ).
Slash sounded kak. I don't know if he was out of tune, in the wrong key or just not into it.

Good point, I failed to mention that.
At first it sounded like he was either out of tune, or out of key...really horrible...and it never got better. ?

G

greendays last albums all sound the same and the music videos all have the same vibe going on. there are some good hip hop artists but those aren't the ones MTV want you to see...

dan77

Slash was rubbish but I can understand why. His amp was probably far away, his wireless didn't work properly, couldn't hear well, had little control over his sound - there's a lot of reasons. Everyone knows if your sound is rubbish you will just play rubbish. ?

Dave Matthews has always been and will always be BOOOORRING!

I also stand by my original comment - RAP and HipHop is C**P, irrespective of what race or nationality the "rap artist" is from. It's definitely NOT music, and that's just the way it is! ?

Beyonce also SUCKS big time! ?

Bob-Dubery

dan77 wrote Slash was rubbish but I can understand why. His amp was probably far away, his wireless didn't work properly, couldn't hear well, had little control over his sound - there's a lot of reasons. Everyone knows if your sound is rubbish you will just play rubbish. ?

There are times when aspects of your performance that are beyond your control are not satisfactory, however you should still do what you can do (like playing the guitar) as best you can. Using a poor sound as a reason for poor playing is really not good enough.

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NorioDS

Your earlier post *was* racist, even if *you* are not. Please don't do that again.

Please respect the #1 rule of GFSA: Be nice.

dan77 wrote Slash was rubbish but I can understand why. His amp was probably far away, his wireless didn't work properly, couldn't hear well, had little control over his sound - there's a lot of reasons. Everyone knows if your sound is rubbish you will just play rubbish. ?

Dave Matthews has always been and will always be BOOOORRING!

I also stand by my original comment - RAP and HipHop is C**P, irrespective of what race or nationality the "rap artist" is from. It's definitely NOT music, and that's just the way it is! ?

Beyonce also SUCKS big time! ?

aubs1

I don't watch the Grammys, I have long ago thought it was "Back-slapping" crap. I like who I like, and don't like who I don't! And I also hate Rap and Hip-Hop, However............:

dan77 wrote Beyonce also SUCKS big time! ?

If me, you or most other people could rake in $169million (between her and her husband, whatever his name is, J-Zee i think) in ONE year dishing out crap........would you do it or not?? (Don't ask me to answer that question).......... so there........that's Entertainment, and clearly millions are buying!!!!!

inflames

While we are busy, what did you think of the host? That dude is a idiot!
I mean, how many lame jokes do you need to make before giving up!

His comment on Susan Boyls where funny as hell, but very disrespectful!
"Justin Timberlake brought sexy back, then Suzan Boyles sent it away again"

Renesongs

The Grammys are all about the music industry goons slapping each other on the back on much money they managed to funnel out of Joe Soaps pocket via their there gullible teenage children. IMO I find the sound of a dentist drill more musical and pleasurable than RAP. RAP is another music industry invention to exploit the poor undereducated ghetto class. In short the music industry is to music what a prophylactic is to procreation. >☹

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Grammies? Rap? Whats that? :-\
I havn't watched a good music awards show in a LONG time!

all this gangsta BS drives me insane

Face it, they dont make music like they used to.

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