{"id":31,"date":"2004-02-09T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2004\/02\/09\/grammy_postmortem\/"},"modified":"2004-02-09T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:04:55","slug":"grammy_postmortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2004\/02\/09\/grammy_postmortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy post-mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snarking on the Grammys<\/a> is a fun, easy, popular exercise, which means another blog post bemoaning who lost and who won is, well, pointless.<\/p>\n

Instead, I’ll enumerate how many winners just happen<\/i> to be in my music collection already. That’s probably a better gauge on how little the awards really affect my listening habits.<\/p>\n

Of all the winners from the 2004 awards<\/a>, the only albums I already possess are:<\/p>\n

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OutKast, Speakerboxxx\/The Love Below<\/a><\/i><\/b> — OutKast deserved anything they won, but for all the ink spilled on how Andre 3000 made a really, really<\/i> far-out record, I don’t think neither he nor the Flaming Lips could ever imagine anything that sounds like Shiina Ringo’s Karuki Zaamen Kuri no Hana<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Café Tacvba, Cuatro Caminos<\/a><\/i><\/b> — Molotov’s Dance and Dense Denso<\/a><\/i> and Yerba Buena’s President Alien<\/a><\/i> were both nominated in the same category (Best Latin Alternative Album). All three deserved an award.<\/p>\n

Kronos Quartet with Dawn Upshaw, Alban Berg: Lyric Suite<\/a><\/i><\/b> — Kronos Quartet tends to win Grammys for albums I don’t really like. And this isn’t even an album — it’s a single<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Missy Elliott, “Work It<\/a>“<\/b> — This song is so<\/i> 2002.<\/p>\n

Various artists, The Neptunes Present … Clones<\/a><\/i><\/b> — Hell ya, they’re the producers of the year.<\/p>\n

So — given all that intersection, does this mean I’m getting into hip-hop?<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous comments …<\/p>\n