2014 Grammy Awards - Nominees Announced
12-08-13, 10:02 AM
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2014 Grammy Awards - Nominees Announced
Wow, that was stealthy. Ever since they moved up the awards to February, the nominee announcement seems to get lost in the holiday shuffle. Here they are (highlights, full list in link):
1. Record Of The Year
Get Lucky
Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, producers; Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Track from: Random Access Memories
Label: Columbia Records
Radioactive
Imagine Dragons
Alex Da Kid, producer; Manny Marroquin & Josh Mosser, engineers/mixers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer
Track from: Night Visions
Label: Kidinakorner/ Interscope
Royals
Lorde
Joel Little, producer; Joel Little, engineer/mixer; Stuart Hawkes, mastering engineer
Track from: Pure Heroine
Label: Universal Music
Locked Out Of Heaven
Bruno Mars
Jeff Bhasker, Emile Haynie, Mark Ronson & The Smeezingtons, producers; Alalal, Josh Blair, Wayne Gordon, Ari Levine, Manny Marroquin & Mark Ronson, engineers/mixers; David Kutch, mastering engineer
Track from: Unorthodox Jukebox
Label: Atlantic
Blurred Lines
Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell
Pharrell, producer; Andrew Coleman & Tony Maserati, engineers/mixers; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer
Track from: Blurred Lines
Label: Star Trak/ Interscope
2. Album Of The Year
The Blessed Unrest
Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles, Mark Endert & John O'Mahony, producers; Jeremy Darby, Mark Endert & John O'Mahony, engineers/mixers; Greg Calbi, mastering engineer
Label: Epic Records
Random Access Memories
Daft Punk
Julian Casablancas, DJ Falcon, Todd Edwards, Chilly Gonzales, Giorgio Moroder, Panda Bear, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams & Pharrell Williams, featured artists; Thomas Bangalter, Julian Casablancas, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, DJ Falcon & Todd Edwards, producers; Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta, Guillaume Le Braz & Daniel Lerner, engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Label: Columbia Records
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Kendrick Lamar
Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Drake, Jay Rock, Jay Z, MC Eiht & Anna Wise, featured artists; DJ Dahi, Hit-Boy, Skhye Hutch, Just Blaze, Like, Terrace Martin, Dawaun Parker, Pharrell, Rahki, Scoop DeVille, Sounwave, Jack Splash, Tabu, Tha Bizness & T-Minus, producers; Derek Ali, Dee Brown, Dr. Dre, James Hunt, Mauricio 'Veto"" Iragorri, Mike Larson, Jared Scott, Jack Splash & Andrew Wright, engineers/mixers; Mike Bozzi & Brian 'Big Bass"" Gardner, mastering engineers
Label: TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
The Heist
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Ab-Soul, Ben Bridwell, Ray Dalton, Eighty4 Fly, Hollis, Mary Lambert, Baffalo Madonna, Evan Roman, Schoolboy Q, Allen Stone, The Teaching & Wanz, featured artists; Ryan Lewis, producer; Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis, Amos Miller, Reed Ruddy & Pete Stewart, engineers/mixers; Brian Gardner, mastering engineer
Label: Macklemore LLC
Red
Taylor Swift
Gary Lightbody & Ed Sheeran, featured artists; Jeff Bhasker, Nathan Chapman, Dann Huff, Jacknife Lee, Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift, Butch Walker & Dan Wilson, producers; Joe Baldridge, Sam Bell, Matt Bishop, Chad Carlson, Nathan Chapman, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Sam Holland, Michael Ilbert, Taylor Johnson, Jacknife Lee, Steve Marcantonio, Manny Marroquin, Justin Niebank, John Rausch, Eric Robinson, Pawel Sek, Jake Sinclair, Mark ""Spike"" Stent & Andy Thompson, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne & Hank Williams, mastering engineers
Label: Big Machine Records
3. Song Of The Year
Just Give Me A Reason
Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Pink Featuring Nate Ruess)
Track from: The Truth About Love
Label: RCA Records; Publishers: EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./P!nk Inside Publishing/Way Above Music/Sony/ATV Songs LLC/WB Music Corp./FBR Music/Bearvon Music
Locked Out Of Heaven
Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Bruno Mars)
Track from: Unorthodox Jukebox
Label: Atlantic; Publishers: Mars Force Songs, LLC/BMG Rights Management (US) LLC/BMG/Roc Nation Music/Music Famamanem LP/EMI April Music Inc./Toy Plane Music - Universal Music/Universal Music Corp.
Roar
Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter, songwriters (Katy Perry)
Label: Capitol; Publishers: When I'm Rich You'll Be My Bitch/Kasz Money Publishing/MXM/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Inc./Bonnie McKee Music/Where Da Kasz At?/Songs Of Pulse Recording/Oneirology Publishing/Prescription Songs
Royals
Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
Track from: Pure Heroine
Label: Universal Music; Publishers: Copyright Control/Sony ATV
Same Love
Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert)
Track from: The Heist
Label: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC; Publishers: Macklemore Publishing/Ryan Lewis Publishing
4. Best New Artist
James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran
1. Record Of The Year
Get Lucky
Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, producers; Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Track from: Random Access Memories
Label: Columbia Records
Radioactive
Imagine Dragons
Alex Da Kid, producer; Manny Marroquin & Josh Mosser, engineers/mixers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer
Track from: Night Visions
Label: Kidinakorner/ Interscope
Royals
Lorde
Joel Little, producer; Joel Little, engineer/mixer; Stuart Hawkes, mastering engineer
Track from: Pure Heroine
Label: Universal Music
Locked Out Of Heaven
Bruno Mars
Jeff Bhasker, Emile Haynie, Mark Ronson & The Smeezingtons, producers; Alalal, Josh Blair, Wayne Gordon, Ari Levine, Manny Marroquin & Mark Ronson, engineers/mixers; David Kutch, mastering engineer
Track from: Unorthodox Jukebox
Label: Atlantic
Blurred Lines
Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell
Pharrell, producer; Andrew Coleman & Tony Maserati, engineers/mixers; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer
Track from: Blurred Lines
Label: Star Trak/ Interscope
2. Album Of The Year
The Blessed Unrest
Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles, Mark Endert & John O'Mahony, producers; Jeremy Darby, Mark Endert & John O'Mahony, engineers/mixers; Greg Calbi, mastering engineer
Label: Epic Records
Random Access Memories
Daft Punk
Julian Casablancas, DJ Falcon, Todd Edwards, Chilly Gonzales, Giorgio Moroder, Panda Bear, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams & Pharrell Williams, featured artists; Thomas Bangalter, Julian Casablancas, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, DJ Falcon & Todd Edwards, producers; Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta, Guillaume Le Braz & Daniel Lerner, engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Label: Columbia Records
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Kendrick Lamar
Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Drake, Jay Rock, Jay Z, MC Eiht & Anna Wise, featured artists; DJ Dahi, Hit-Boy, Skhye Hutch, Just Blaze, Like, Terrace Martin, Dawaun Parker, Pharrell, Rahki, Scoop DeVille, Sounwave, Jack Splash, Tabu, Tha Bizness & T-Minus, producers; Derek Ali, Dee Brown, Dr. Dre, James Hunt, Mauricio 'Veto"" Iragorri, Mike Larson, Jared Scott, Jack Splash & Andrew Wright, engineers/mixers; Mike Bozzi & Brian 'Big Bass"" Gardner, mastering engineers
Label: TDE/Aftermath/Interscope
The Heist
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Ab-Soul, Ben Bridwell, Ray Dalton, Eighty4 Fly, Hollis, Mary Lambert, Baffalo Madonna, Evan Roman, Schoolboy Q, Allen Stone, The Teaching & Wanz, featured artists; Ryan Lewis, producer; Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis, Amos Miller, Reed Ruddy & Pete Stewart, engineers/mixers; Brian Gardner, mastering engineer
Label: Macklemore LLC
Red
Taylor Swift
Gary Lightbody & Ed Sheeran, featured artists; Jeff Bhasker, Nathan Chapman, Dann Huff, Jacknife Lee, Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift, Butch Walker & Dan Wilson, producers; Joe Baldridge, Sam Bell, Matt Bishop, Chad Carlson, Nathan Chapman, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Sam Holland, Michael Ilbert, Taylor Johnson, Jacknife Lee, Steve Marcantonio, Manny Marroquin, Justin Niebank, John Rausch, Eric Robinson, Pawel Sek, Jake Sinclair, Mark ""Spike"" Stent & Andy Thompson, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne & Hank Williams, mastering engineers
Label: Big Machine Records
3. Song Of The Year
Just Give Me A Reason
Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Pink Featuring Nate Ruess)
Track from: The Truth About Love
Label: RCA Records; Publishers: EMI Blackwood Music, Inc./P!nk Inside Publishing/Way Above Music/Sony/ATV Songs LLC/WB Music Corp./FBR Music/Bearvon Music
Locked Out Of Heaven
Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Bruno Mars)
Track from: Unorthodox Jukebox
Label: Atlantic; Publishers: Mars Force Songs, LLC/BMG Rights Management (US) LLC/BMG/Roc Nation Music/Music Famamanem LP/EMI April Music Inc./Toy Plane Music - Universal Music/Universal Music Corp.
Roar
Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter, songwriters (Katy Perry)
Label: Capitol; Publishers: When I'm Rich You'll Be My Bitch/Kasz Money Publishing/MXM/Kobalt Songs Music Publishing, Inc./Bonnie McKee Music/Where Da Kasz At?/Songs Of Pulse Recording/Oneirology Publishing/Prescription Songs
Royals
Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
Track from: Pure Heroine
Label: Universal Music; Publishers: Copyright Control/Sony ATV
Same Love
Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert)
Track from: The Heist
Label: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC; Publishers: Macklemore Publishing/Ryan Lewis Publishing
4. Best New Artist
James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran
Spoiler:
Last edited by Giles; 12-08-13 at 10:19 AM.
12-08-13, 10:15 AM
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Re: 2014 Grammy Awards - Nominees Announced
Some thoughts:
Album of the Year : Blessed Unrest by Sara Bareilles? Really? Look, I'm a fan of the song "Brave" (and appreciate the irony of using it in a commercial to sell Windows phones), but as an album? Terrible choice. If they weren't really going to honor an out-there but deserving nominee like Modern Vampires of the City or Yesus, they could have at least gone with the Timberlake album which was solid and respectable. Awful choice in that category.
Record and Song of the Year : No complaints. A little poppy-leaning, but that's to be expected. No clunkers there. All legit hits, except Same Love, which wasn't a big hit but is a nice song with a good message (there's always one song like that in the mix)
Best New Artist : Absolutely disgusting that Lorde isn't up for that award. They nominated here for just about everything else they could. It's like they thought she wrote and sang one of the five best songs of the year, she was one of the five best pop singers of the year. She created one of the five best pop albums of the year, but she's not one of the five best new artists of the year? WTF????
In other news, Led Zeppelin has two shots in the Rock category to win their first competitive Grammy for the recording of their 2007 Celebration Day concerts in London (they were the recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005).
Album of the Year : Blessed Unrest by Sara Bareilles? Really? Look, I'm a fan of the song "Brave" (and appreciate the irony of using it in a commercial to sell Windows phones), but as an album? Terrible choice. If they weren't really going to honor an out-there but deserving nominee like Modern Vampires of the City or Yesus, they could have at least gone with the Timberlake album which was solid and respectable. Awful choice in that category.
Record and Song of the Year : No complaints. A little poppy-leaning, but that's to be expected. No clunkers there. All legit hits, except Same Love, which wasn't a big hit but is a nice song with a good message (there's always one song like that in the mix)
Best New Artist : Absolutely disgusting that Lorde isn't up for that award. They nominated here for just about everything else they could. It's like they thought she wrote and sang one of the five best songs of the year, she was one of the five best pop singers of the year. She created one of the five best pop albums of the year, but she's not one of the five best new artists of the year? WTF????
In other news, Led Zeppelin has two shots in the Rock category to win their first competitive Grammy for the recording of their 2007 Celebration Day concerts in London (they were the recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005).
12-08-13, 11:56 AM
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It's weird seeing Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath up for Grammies along with all of the modern pop shit like Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift. 
12-08-13, 06:51 PM
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12-08-13, 08:26 PM
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12-08-13, 10:23 PM
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They should have Zeppelin open the show with Whole Lotta Love and then have it segue into Black Sabbath doing Paranoid. Then have Roger Waters walks out and say "that is what good music is, good night", fade to black and then show a rerun of Big Bang Theory.
12-08-13, 10:27 PM
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How about instead they have the grandchildren-great grandchildren of the blues musicians LZ stole from come on stage and beat the shit out of Jimmy Page-Robert Plant.
12-08-13, 10:29 PM
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Perhaps if the artists that were nominated had stolen from those same blue musicians their music wouldn't be shit?
12-08-13, 11:06 PM
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even Entertainment Weekly top albums seemed generic and utterly blah.
the Washington Post's top albums didn't impress me either - it just elicited a 'huh?'
Best Music of 2013
12-09-13, 12:07 AM
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Well, this seems a little better than previous years, but Katy Perry?? Best new album I heard this year was the Pet Shop Boys' latest, though it got zero airplay as usual because it seems most of the US has forgotten they ever existed.
12-09-13, 12:33 AM
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that's because they are fickle and brain dead, and the industry is mostly comprised of blow-hards
12-09-13, 06:33 AM
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I just noticed despite no radio airplay or chart success here in the US a band someone at work recommended to me a few months ago are up for an R&B grammy. This just might be my favorite song of the year and probably just the smoothest funkiest ditty I have heard in years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozr4KsZBTvQ
12-09-13, 05:45 PM
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12-10-13, 12:38 AM
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I've heard that when the Beatles were nominated, they lost to Englebert Humperdinck.
12-10-13, 01:42 AM
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The Grammys in the Sixties were absolutely terrible. That said, the Beatles were really the only artists of importance that decade who actually won meaningful Grammys : Best New Artist (1964), Record of the Year (Michelle), Album of the Year (Sgt Pepper). Of course they should have won way more than they did, but considering artists like The Who, the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin never won anything in their heyday, at least the Beatles got some recognition from the establishment. Almost nobody else did. I suppose Simon & Garfunkel were also important and won some major awards, but by and large the Grammys were a major disgrace back then, completely out-of-touch and ignoring almost every significant artist and trend. They still leave a lot to be desired even today, but I think they're much closer to legitimate popular music awards than they used to be.
01-21-14, 09:29 PM
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Bringing back this thread in anticipation of the awards this Sunday. Was very disappointed (but absolutely not surprised) to see that CBS is once again bringing back the worst awards-show host in America : LL Cool J. Why put on an entertaining product if you're not also cross-promoting one of your fifteen weekly hour-long procedural shows at the same time? He was SO terrible last year, and he still got asked back. I give up. At least I can make a drinking game out of every time I get reminded that he won a couple of Grammys back in the early Nineties.
Also a reminder that the 20th annual Grammy Nominees CD came out today. $9.99 at Amazon. I always like these collections, even if I don't dig all the songs. They serve as a pretty nice time capsule of some of the best music of the year.
This year's tracks:
I'm really disappointed that they went with Country Album nominees at the end instead of Rock Album, Pop Duo or Group or Alternative Album like in years past -- they always have Record, Album, Song and New Artist nominees and then end the album with one other category --, but at least they put those at the end of the album for me to ignore if I don't like the songs (and I probably won't).
Also a reminder that the 20th annual Grammy Nominees CD came out today. $9.99 at Amazon. I always like these collections, even if I don't dig all the songs. They serve as a pretty nice time capsule of some of the best music of the year.
This year's tracks:
Spoiler:
I'm really disappointed that they went with Country Album nominees at the end instead of Rock Album, Pop Duo or Group or Alternative Album like in years past -- they always have Record, Album, Song and New Artist nominees and then end the album with one other category --, but at least they put those at the end of the album for me to ignore if I don't like the songs (and I probably won't).
01-22-14, 09:09 AM
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01-26-14, 06:44 PM
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Untelevised Grammys continue to pour in prior to the show. Among the winners was my favorite - Modern Vampires of the City by Vampire Weekend as Best Alternative Album, Led Zeppelin winning their first Grammy for Best Rock Album for Celebration Day. Black Sabbath won for Metal Album. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis cleaning up the Rap Category Rap Album, Rap Song and Rap Performance for Thrift Shop 
Alicia Keys for R&B Album, Rhianna for Urban Contemporary Album and Daft Punk for Dance/Electronica Album. Imagine Dragons for Rock Performance. The (defunct) Civil Wars for Country Duo or Group, Darius Rucker (aka Hootie) for Country Solo performance
I wish CBS would televise the show live West of the Rockies, but they stubbornly refuse to do it even though the awards take place in Los Angeles.
Alicia Keys for R&B Album, Rhianna for Urban Contemporary Album and Daft Punk for Dance/Electronica Album. Imagine Dragons for Rock Performance. The (defunct) Civil Wars for Country Duo or Group, Darius Rucker (aka Hootie) for Country Solo performance
I wish CBS would televise the show live West of the Rockies, but they stubbornly refuse to do it even though the awards take place in Los Angeles.
01-26-14, 07:06 PM
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The censors are already busy, and it's just the first performance
01-26-14, 10:59 PM
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^ I loved the 'live' Grammy performance version of 'Get Lucky' more than the album version - Stevie Wonder you go!!
what the hell was that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 'Same Love' performance with Madonna - agh! Madge looked ... old. and sheesh I thought Queen Latifah was finally to come out tonight (but she didn't).
what the hell was that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 'Same Love' performance with Madonna - agh! Madge looked ... old. and sheesh I thought Queen Latifah was finally to come out tonight (but she didn't).