So where were the Radiohead Grammies last night?

[sulawesigirl4]

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[Sicy]

I think they won like best packaging or some crap.

 

[The Wanderer]

I'll assume for a moment this is actually a serious question and answer: Amnesiac didn't receive much radio play at all, the videos (despite being creative and original) were not played on MTV or VH1, and the album itself didnt sell in large volumes. It may not have been Album of the Year, but it certainly was worthy of at least being nominated for Best Alternative Album, and Radiohead as a band were certainly worthy of being nominated for best rock performance.

 

[foray]

Amnesiac for a Grammy? ... I think since it is like Kid A part two, the academy didn't think they needed to award Radiohead another one? Who knows how their reasoning works. *mutter mutter steely dan mutter*

foray

 

[zooropamanda]

Radiohead only won 1 award at the Brits for best art work so theres no way theyd be getting any Grammy's this time around.
I'm actually surprised Coldplay did as well as they did.

 

[Zoomerang96]

coldplay is highly overated in my opinion.

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[foray]

Originally posted by Zoomerang96:
coldplay is highly overated in my opinion.

That's because you heard them after the hype and not before like I did

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foray

 

[zooropamanda]

Thats HairymanThom on the right

 

[Calluna]

Thom looks wierd!

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[Sicy]

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[The Wanderer]

Thom looks like a pimp.

He could be the new-age Ludwig Van of rock.

 

[The Wanderer]

actually he could pass as Axl Rose in that pic

 

[zooropamanda]

no i do think he was trying to take over where Michael jackson left off at the start of the Thriller vid.

 

[LOVE MUSCLE]

Originally posted by The Wanderer:
actually he could pass as Axl Rose in that pic

"I'd like to thank my motherf*****g mom, my motherf#####g dad, my F#####g grandma, F***, my motherf^^^^^g...."

Ohhhhhhh which G'nR bandmember was it that said all that a few years back...

 

[A|catura]

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[LOVE MUSCLE]

Don't give me that face

I think it was Axl when they accepted a Grammy back in ??? I'm not sure what year, he was slurring real bad cause he was loaded. Idon't think they ever got any more grammy nominations after that

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[zooropamanda]

this guy could give hairythom a run for his money

 

[brettig]

They both look like theyve just got back from competing in Survivor.

 

[z edge]

Really?

 

[brettig]

nah

 

[sulawesigirl4]

Originally posted by The Wanderer:
I'll assume for a moment this is actually a serious question and answer: Amnesiac didn't receive much radio play at all, the videos (despite being creative and original) were not played on MTV or VH1, and the album itself didnt sell in large volumes. It may not have been Album of the Year, but it certainly was worthy of at least being nominated for Best Alternative Album, and Radiohead as a band were certainly worthy of being nominated for best rock performance.

yes of course I was serious. I didn't post this facetiously. I really do wonder why it is that Radiohead continues to be overlooked. Granted, I'm not a huge fan the way I am with U2, but I really appreciate what Radiohead does artistically, and I don't understand how they can be passed over for recognition.

 

[brettig]

Originally posted by sulawesigirl4:
I'm not a huge fan the way I am with U2, but I really appreciate what Radiohead does artistically, and I don't understand how they can be passed over for recognition.

I think u need only look as far as the band that won the best alternative album- coldplay, to see that radiohead are too 'out there' for the academy. Coldplay are a good band but their music is mainstream and radiofriendly in the extreme...


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[foray]

The Grammies get worse every year. I don''t understand why someone on the forum said that the Grammies are starting to support indie acts and recognise good music instead of pandering to record companies. It doesn't make sense to me, from what I've observed.

foray

 

[brettig]

Originally posted by The Wanderer:
all you need to know really is that when OK Computer was nominated for Best Album in 1998, the Grammy organizers refused to let Radiohead perform live on the show

Yes i can imagine Academy members thinking 'no surprises, beautiful brit sounding...oh hang on hes not singing about an english tea party!!'

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[The Wanderer]

yes, well the esteemed Academy once annointed U2 with "Best Alternative Album"

if Coldplay is "alternative" it may be time for an "ultra-alternative" category, or "music that is 'out there' that we admit we have never actually listened to but we hear from our sources that it's innovative and original so maybe we should recognize it" category (oh I could see Thom gleefully accepting that award)

all you need to know really is that when OK Computer was nominated for Best Album in 1998, the Grammy organizers refused to let Radiohead perform live on the show

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[Saracene]

I actually thought that Radiohead would be a shoo-in in the Alternative category: they're a well-known, artistically "hot", respected band, and I thought that Amnesiac was way more accessible than Kid A which has won that Grammy last year.

 

[Salome]

Radiohead did lose some critical aclaim due to Amnesiac (it seems that the critics didn't think of the album as a progression, while 'progression' does seem to be what Radiohead is aiming for)

but critics tend to suck anyway

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[DebbieSG]

Originally posted by The Wanderer:
yes, well the esteemed Academy once annointed U2 with "Best Alternative Album"

if Coldplay is "alternative" it may be time for an "ultra-alternative" category, or "music that is 'out there' that we admit we have never actually listened to but we hear from our sources that it's innovative and original so maybe we should recognize it" category (oh I could see Thom gleefully accepting that award)

all you need to know really is that when OK Computer was nominated for Best Album in 1998, the Grammy organizers refused to let Radiohead perform live on the show

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too bad. I didn't even get to see that show, anyway.


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[Don Vito Corleone]

Ladies and gentlemen:

Let's make them some awards out of plasticine!

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