[HANASHIR:13613] Re: What About Musical Fairness?

[sholom <sholom...>]

> As I watched the Grammy Awards last night, I often felt like someone
> should be saying Kaddish for the music industry.
>
> I've always prided myself on trying to keep aware of contemporary
> musical trends

> As I watched the Grammy Awards last night, I often felt like someone
> should be saying Kaddish for the music industry.
>
> I've always prided myself on trying to keep aware of contemporary
> musical trends

But why do you think that the Grammy's have much to do with contemporary
musical trends?

>the original
>Temptations and Marvin Gaye must be rolling over in their graves.

Naah, they never won a Grammy.

Look who else has never won a Grammy for an album or a song:

The Grateful Dead, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young,
The Who, Buddy Holly, Creedence Cleerwater Revival, Bob Marley, Jimi
Hendrix,
The Talking Heads, Sly and The Family Stone, Temptations, Diana Ross,
Chuck Berry, Jackson Browne, Byrds, Sam Cooke, Elvis Costello, Four Tops,
Supremes...

(Some of the above won for lifetime achievements -- well after their
careers had taken a nosedive).

Pink Floyd didn't win until 1994 when they took home one for Best Rock
Instrumental. The song was "Marooned." Forget about The Wall. Forget about
Dark Side of The Moon (on the charts for a record 700+ weeks!). Forget
about Wish You Were Here, Animals, Meddle . . .  They won for "Marooned!!"
What album was that off of again?

The only Grammys Elvis Presley ever won were for albums in the religious
categories!

The Allman Brothers Band, who were a pioneering Jam Band since 1969,
finally took home one Grammy in 1995 for "Jessica" - a song originally
recorded for the album Brothers And Sisters...in 1973!!

The Rolling Stones didn't win until 1994!!! The honor? Best Rock Album for
Voodoo Lounge!  Clearly their best and a groundbreaking album (not!). 
(OK, they did get a Lifetime Acheivement award in 1986 -- but nothing
previous to that.  Tell me how _that_ can happen?)  Steely Dan first won
in 2001!

Bob Dylan -- who singlehandedly revolutionized pop music in the 1960's and
1970's with such landmark albums as Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on
Blonde, Blood on the Tracks -- won a Lifetime Achievement in the 1990's --
but for nothing before that.

I have to conclude that the Grammy's have only little to do with the real
music scene.

-- Sholom


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