Topic: Grammy winners 2009
Results stolen from VH1, then mercilessly edited.
Album of the Year
WINNER: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
· Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His FriendsRecord of the Year
WINNER: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - "Please Read the Letter"
· Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
· Coldplay - "Viva la Vida"
· Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love"
· M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"Song of the Year
WINNER: Coldplay - "Viva la Vida"
· Estelle (featuring Kanye West) - "American Boy"
· Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
· Jason Mraz - "I'm Yours"
· Sara Bareilles - "Love Song"Best New Artist
WINNER: Adele
· Duffy
· Jonas Brothers
· Lady Antebellum
· Jazmine SullivanBest Female Pop Vocal Performance
WINNER: Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
· Sara Bareilles - "Love Song"
· Duffy - "Mercy"
· Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love"
· Katy Perry - "I Kissed a Girl"
· Pink - "So What"Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
WINNER: "Gravity"
John Mayer· "I Saw Her Standing There"
Paul McCartney· "Girls In Their Summer Clothes"
Bruce Springsteen· "Rise"
Eddie Vedder· "No Hidden Path"
Neil YoungBest Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals
WINNER: Kings Of Leon - "Sex on Fire"
· AC/DC - "Rock N Roll Train"
· Coldplay - "Violet Hill"
· Eagles - "Long Road Out of Eden"
· Radiohead - "House of Cards"Best Hard Rock Performance
WINNER: The Mars Volta - "Wax Simulacra"
· Disturbed - "Inside the Fire"
· Judas Priest - "Visions"
· Mötley Crüe - "Saints of Los Angeles"
· Rob Zombie - "Lords of Salem"Best Metal Performance
WINNER: "My Apocalypse"
Metallica· "Heroes of Our Time"
DragonForce· "Nostradamus"
Judas Priest· "Under My Thumb"
Ministry· "Psychosocial"
SlipknotBest Rock Song
WINNER: "Girls In Their Summer Clothes"
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)· "House of Cards"
Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway & Thom Yorke, songwriters (Radiohead)· "I Will Possess Your Heart"
Benjamin Gibbard, Nicholas Harmer, Jason McGerr & Christopher Walla, songwriters (Death Cab For Cutie)· "Sex on Fire"
Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)· "Violet Hill"
Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay)Best Rock Album
WINNER: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Coldplay· Rock N Roll Jesus
Kid Rock· Only by the Night
Kings Of Leon· Death Magnetic
Metallica· Consolers of the Lonely
The RaconteursBest Alternative Music Album
WINNER: In Rainbows
Radiohead· Modern Guilt
Beck· Narrow Stairs
Death Cab For Cutie· The Odd Couple
Gnarls Barkley·Evil Urges
My Morning JacketBest Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
WINNER: Juno
(Various Artists)·American Gangster
(Various Artists)·August Rush
(Various Artists)·Mamma Mia!
Meryl Streep (& Various Artists)·Sweeney Todd -- The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
(Various Artists)Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
WINNER: "The Dark Knight"
James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer, composers· "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
John Williams, composer· "Iron Man"
Ramin Djawadi, composer· "There Will Be Blood"
Jonny Greenwood, composer· "Wall-E"
Thomas Newman, composerProducer of the Year, Non-Classical
WINNER:Rick Rubin
· Death Magnetic (Metallica)
· Home Before Dark (Neil Diamond)
· Mercy (Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy)
· Seeing Things (Jakob Dylan)
· Weezer (Red Album (Weezer)Danger Mouse
· Attack & Release (The Black Keys)
· Modern Guilt (Beck)
· The Odd Couple (Gnarls Barkley)Nigel Godrich
· In Rainbows (Radiohead)Johnny K
· Big Bad World (The Black Keys)
· The Illusion Of Progress (Beck)
· Light From Above (Black Tide)
· 3 Doors Down (3 Doors Down)will.i.am
· "American Boy" (Estelle featuring Kanye West))
· "Encanto" (Sergio Mendes)
· "Funky Bahia" (Sergio Mendes featuring will.i.am & Siedah Garrett)
· "In The Ayer" (Flo Rida featuring will.i.am)
· "Pick It Up" (Fergie)
· "Picture Perfect" (Chris Brown featuring will.i.am)
· "What's Your Name" (Usher featuring will.i.am)Best Short Form Music Video
WINNER:"Pork and Beans"
Weezer
Mathew Cullen, video director; Bernard Rahill, video producer· "Honey"
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu & Mr. Roboto, video directors; Megan Gutman, video producer· "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
Gnarls Barkley
Chris Milk, video director; Anne Johnson, video producer· "Another Way To Die"
Alicia Keys & Jack White
PR Brown & MK12, video directors; Dexton Deboree, Lance Ebeling, Mick Ebeling, Sheira Rees-Davies & Jane Tredget, video producers· "House of Cards"
Radiohead
James Frost, video director; Dawn Fanning, video producer
Apologies for the srsly long quote. I cut out a lot, if you don't believe me czech vh1. :>
So. I think Coldplay was cheated out of a number of categories, Best Album and Best Record surely. Plant and Krauss are a stellar duo, but Viva La Vida was fucking fantastic. I used to be fairly ambivalent towards Coldplay, but that album man. Brian Eno sure didn't hurt either (if you can't hear his influence, well...)
I'm so glad Weezer got best "short form" (wtfever) music video for Pork and Beans. If you haven't seen it (mute if you don't like weezer), go to youtube now. I guarantee you will enjoy what you see.
The Dark Knight had a fantastic score, if anyone could hook me up with mp3s I'll make it worth your while. PM me.
I like that John Mayer is getting recognition for his vocals, and dislike how much attention Metallica is getting for Death Magnetic. (It's good, but not great. There's a lot of amazing metal being released, let Metallica go. [They're more thrash metal now anyway.] Disturbed should get more love I think, they've really tightened up. I'd like to see them live, but I have no interest in the bands touring with them or the fanbase they'd bring along. >_>)
Also, it cracks me up that "I Kissed a Girl" got nominated for best vocal performance. Really?! The song is catchy enough, but wow, those vocals aren't much to write home about.
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals... I could see Violet Hill getting edged out on this one (the song isn't friendly, I'd say.) but not THIRD. Long Road out of Eden should be first or second, too. Sure, The Eagles got back together for the money. They (Joe Walsh, I think) admitted to it on 60 Minutes. They're still very good at what they do, and that song was one of the "best rock performances" of the year. (Personal bias does weigh in here: Kings of Leon never have done much for me, and I think AC/DC would have been better off if they hadn't recorded another damn album)
Sorry for babbling so much. Your thoughts?
How she does it is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma-stuffed mystery. Or, y'know, a mystendrum.
