The 48th Annual Grammy Nominees

[CBright7831 0]

Record of the Year: "We Belong Together," Mariah Carey; "Feel Good Inc.," Gorillaz featuring De La Soul; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," Green Day; "Hollaback Girl," Gwen Stefani; "Gold Digger," Kanye West.

 

Album of the Year: "The Emancipation of Mimi," Mariah Carey; "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," Paul McCartney; "Love. Angel. Music. Baby.," Gwen Stefani; "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2; "Late Registration," Kanye West.

 

Song of the Year: "Bless the Broken Road," Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna & Marcus Hummon, (Rascal Flatts); "Devils & Dust," Bruce Springsteen, (Bruce Springsteen); "Ordinary People," W. Adams & J. Stephens, (John Legend); "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own," U2; "We Belong Together," J. Austin, M. Carey, J. Dupri & M. Seal, (D. Bristol, K. Edmonds, S. Johnson, P. Moten, S. Sully & B. Womack) (Mariah Carey).

 

New Artist: Ciara, Fall Out Boy, Keane, John Legend, SugarLand.

 

Pop Vocal Album: "Extraordinary Machine," Fiona Apple; "Breakaway," Kelly Clarkson; "Wildflower," Sheryl Crow; "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," Paul McCartney; "Love. Angel. Music. Baby.," Gwen Stefani.

 

Electronic/Dance Album: "Push the Button," The Chemical Brothers; "Human After All," Daft Punk; "Palookaville," Fatboy Slim; "Minimum-Maximum," Kraftwerk; "LCD Soundsystem," LCD Soundsystem.

 

Rock Album: "X&Y," Coldplay; "In Your Honor," Foo Fighters; "A Bigger Bang," The Rolling Stones; "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2; "Prairie Wind," Neil Young.

 

Alternative Music Album: "Funeral," The Arcade Fire; "Guero," Beck; "Plans," Death Cab for Cutie; "You Could Have It So Much Better," Franz Ferdinand; "Get Behind Me Satan," The White Stripes.

 

Rap Album: "Be," Common; "The Cookbook," Missy Elliott; "Encore," Eminem; "The Massacre," 50 Cent; "Late Registration," Kanye West.

 

Country Album: "Fireflies," Faith Hill; "Lonely Runs Both Ways," Alison Krauss and Union Station; "Time Well Wasted, Brad Paisley; "All Jacked Up," Gretchen Wilson; "Jasper County," Trisha Yearwood.

 

You can view the rest of the nominees here.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Record of the Year: "Hollaback Girl," Gwen Stefani

 

um...they do know that's the most obnoxious song of all time, right?

 

The grammys suck, but it's nice to see Death Cab get a nomination

[Special K 0]

God, award shows make me mad.

[Phoenix Fury Legdrop 0]

The grammys suck, but it's nice to see Death Cab get a nomination

 

It would have been nice to see them get nominated for something other than a half-assed record, but oh well.

[Guest Damn You Helmsley]

Album of the Year: "The Emancipation of Mimi," Mariah Carey; "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," Paul McCartney; "Love. Angel. Music. Baby.," Gwen Stefani; "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2; "Late Registration," Kanye West.

 

I'm not even a big Kanye West fan but he's gotta beat that bunch of shit.

[Black Lushus 0]

Gwen Stefani's album getting nominated for anything completely negates the credibility of the Grammies and all of its 48 year history...

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

The Grammys only have credibility as a measure of quality at the rare moment when the most popular music is also the best. This hasn't happened a lot.

[cbacon 0]

But it's a bit closer this year. Nice to see The Arcade Fire and Death Cab up there. In fact the entire Alternative Album category is pretty solid.

[The Czech Republic 0]

How To Dismantle sucked but I'd still give it to them over Late Registration

[Dangerous A 0]

Record of the Year: "Hollaback Girl," Gwen Stefani

 

um...they do know that's the most obnoxious song of all time, right?

 

The grammys suck, but it's nice to see Death Cab get a nomination

 

 

 

No.

 

 

The most obnoxious song of all time is "Laffy Taffy".

 

 

That is all.

[The Czech Republic 0]

My Humps is the worst

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

The alternative category is usually pretty good. You usually get Beck, Radiohead, or Bjork, and a few others. Album of the Year is always funny though, because who the hell notices when Paul McCartney puts out an album except for the Grammy committee.

[Annabelle 0]

My Humps is the worst

 

you're the worst.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I need to regroup.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Record of the Year: Boulevard of Broken Dreams," Green Day

 

Album of the Year: "The Emancipation of Mimi," Mariah Carey

 

Song of the Year: "Devils & Dust," Bruce Springsteen

 

New Artist: John Legend

 

Pop Vocal Album: "Love. Angel. Music. Baby.," Gwen Stefani

 

Electronic/Dance Album: "Human After All," Daft Punk

 

Rock Album: "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2

 

Alternative Music Album: "You Could Have It So Much Better," Franz Ferdinand

 

Rap Album: "The Massacre," 50 Cent

 

Country Album: "All Jacked Up," Gretchen Wilson

 

My picks.

[cbacon 0]

I know this has been asked before, but what the hell is the difference between best record and best song?

 

And Blvd. of Broken Dreams came out in '04.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

As always, the people at the Grammys confuse "heavy music" with "metal."

 

Best Metal Peformance:

• Ministry - "The Great Satan"
• Mudvayne - "Determined"
• Rammstein - "Mein Teil"
• Shadows Fall - "What Drives The Weak"
• Slipknot - "Before I Forget"

Ministry is, and always has been, industrial. Mudvayne is hard rock. Rammstein is borderline industrial, borderline metal, so I can see them being nominated. Shadows Fall is metalcore, a subcategory of metal, so I definitely see them here. Slipknot is shitty radio-friendly hard rock, and always has been.

 

...so, of course, Slipknot is going to win this...so it won't be the first time a non-metal band wins the Best Metal Grammy.

 

Meh...I shouldn't care about this shit anymore, but it still sorta bugs me that the people to nominate songs usually don't even listen to the category of music they're nominating artists in.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

How To Dismantle sucked but I'd still give it to them over Late Registration

 

I'm not 100% on this but if the board voted on a "Banned from ___ folder" you'd probably get Music in a walk.

[gWIL 0]

Record of the Year:"Hollaback Girl," Gwen Stefani

I want this to win, just because.

 

Album of the Year: "Late Registration," Kanye West.

But only if they give him a live mic.

 

Song of the Year:Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own," U2

 

New Artist: John Legend

 

 

Electronic/Dance Album: "Human After All," Daft Punk

 

Rock Album: "In Your Honor," Foo Fighters

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Alternative Music Album: "Get Behind Me Satan," The White Stripes.

 

Rap Album: Late Registration," Kanye West.

[Youth N Asia 0]

It SHOULDN'T annoy be, but it does seeing a band like Fall Out Boy up for best new artists...for their second major release.

[Ripper 0]

Emancipation of Mimi is the best of those albums. That is a damn good R&b album. Kanye comes in second. But yeah, there had to be better albums than that this year.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

I know this has been asked before, but what the hell is the difference between best record and best song?

Record goes to everyone involved in producing the song--performer, engineer, writer, etc. Song just goes to the songwriter for lyrics and music as writ.

[Ripper 0]

Best Hip Hop album SHOULD be a two album race between Be and The Minstrel Show but Little Brother gets screwed.

[snuffbox 0]

Songs from '04, bands that have been around for years are 'new artists', and Gwen Stefani's coathanger abortion of a solo record nominated repeatedly...sounds like a good Grammys to me.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Hollaback girl is a wicked song, I don't know what you guys are talking about.

[The Mandarin 0]

My Humps is the worst

 

That song kinda died after Fergie pissed herself.

 

Moby didn't get any nominations for Hotel this year, and when that's compared to the nominations other really horrible albums and songs got, it shows you just how bad and flat Hotel was. And I really like Moby (well, everything else).

[The Czech Republic 0]

How To Dismantle sucked but I'd still give it to them over Late Registration

 

I'm not 100% on this but if the board voted on a "Banned from ___ folder" you'd probably get Music in a walk.

I'm not gonna be the nerdy white guy who feigns an interest in hip-hop to prove how eclectic and diverse my music tastes are. Sorry. It's just not a very good album. Even the good reviews kind of briefly gloss over the fact that he's not very good at what he does

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Late Registration is great. I mean, you haven't even heard it, have you? Your lack of interest in hip-hop probably makes it not worthwhile for you, though. Still, that U2 album is ass. Maybe talk about Mariah or something.

[The Mandarin 0]

How To Dismantle sucked but I'd still give it to them over Late Registration

 

I'm not 100% on this but if the board voted on a "Banned from ___ folder" you'd probably get Music in a walk.

I'm not gonna be the nerdy white guy who feigns an interest in hip-hop to prove how eclectic and diverse my music tastes are.

 

Oh shit, I do that, except it's just to make ("@$%#") friends at work.

 

Interesting.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Late Registration is great. I mean, you haven't even heard it, have you? Your lack of interest in hip-hop probably makes it not worthwhile for you, though. Still, that U2 album is ass. Maybe talk about Mariah or something.

I tried to listen to it, and I really didn't see the appeal. I don't know what constitutes a classic rap album, though. I can't tell good production from bad production. I can tell that Kanye West isn't the best rapper, and he seems to say UNH! a lot. As I mentioned, even the reviews that are glowing make note of the fact that he's in over his head. It feels like he was deemed The Next Big Thing In Rap because somebody had to be. Just explain to me why this deserves its praise.