Comments on: Thom Yorke’s Taste In Music Gets Made More Mainstream By The Man

By: LiquidHeaven

LiquidHeaven — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:24:43 +0000

^True, that also helps me know where to avoid.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:52:43 +0000

@moomintroll: I didn't mean that one should condescend to the Grammy audience; that's a rather dangerous level of condensation. Rather, they should take or fake pride in themselves and say "We're the frickin' Grammys, and these are the relevant things we've done in the past." Afterall, shouldn't the influences of a great artist be great, and therefore worthy of winning the award for outstanding achievment in their field? Unless, of course, the Grammys are a ridiculous farce trying to grab some sort of cultural relevance by tempting Mr. York with a trophy he can give to his mom. @Cam/ron: It's still a matter of personality over substance. Was he influenced by some specifics of the record of "Tumbling Dice", or did he just think Mick Jagger looked cool strutting around on the Voodoo Lounge tour? The two could, concievably, be two different animals.

By: moomintroll

moomintroll — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:10:11 +0000

@K-Rex: I get your point too, I suppose it's irrelevant to the specifics of who wins a Grammy what the nominees' influences are. However, if your ad campaign is solely about the nominees' influences, why would you cherry-pick what you think the Grammy audience would "get". It seems disingenuous, and really condescending. I just wish they would give the audience some credit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:35:57 +0000

@moomintroll: The secret to country music is to never buy or download an album. It works best in it's natural habitat: country radio.

By: moomintroll

moomintroll — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:10:29 +0000

@relaxing: ha! Country music got knocked out of contention in 2008 by early twentieth century calypso for me.
It's funny that a genre as ubiquitous as country can be ignored so easily.

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:03:24 +0000

@Maura Johnston: It its defense Raising Sand is a good album. I just don't think it's "Album of the Year nominee" material.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:38:07 +0000

@relaxing:

"Am I a bad person if neither I nor anyone I know cares about bluegrass?"

Not at all. Honestly, I doubt Grammy voters listened to any other bluegrass albums at all.

By: relaxing

relaxing — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:20:43 +0000

Hm, OK. I'm genuinely curious here because I listen to (and read about) a lot of music each year, so I'm wondering how a potential best album escaped my radar.

Am I a bad person if neither I nor anyone I know cares about bluegrass?

Not too long ago, Pitchfork did an article about how we should all give Country music a fair chance, and I sort of mentally filed that away for after I finish listening to these 1960's garage/psych comps leftover from that fad in the 90s. (Also on pile: Dub Reggae, Tropicalia, Javanese Gamelan.)

I guess I'm really asking if Bluegrass is the next thing, so I can jump on the bandwagon now before the rest of the hipsters get to it. I see Pitchfork has zero coverage of Krauss, which can only be a good sign.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:46:18 +0000

@relaxing: it's the alison krauss/robert plant bluegrass album. did pretty well. held up the led zep reunion, ha ha.

By: relaxing

relaxing — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:40:48 +0000

Should I have heard of Raising Sand?