Elvis nominated for two Grammys

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:06 pm

In what is otherwise a ridiculous list of nominations that in no way reflects what was truly the best of the past year in music, Elvis has managed to score two nominations.

Category 11

Best Pop Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

Back To Basics
Christina Aguilera
[RCA Records]

Back To Bedlam
James Blunt
[Custard/Atlantic]

The River In Reverse
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
[Verve Forecast]

Continuum
John Mayer
[Aware/Columbia]

FutureSex/LoveSounds
Justin Timberlake
[Jive Records/Zomba Label Group]

Category 85

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
(An Arranger's Award. (Artist names appear in parenthesis.) Singles or Tracks only.)

For Once In My Life
Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder)
Track from: Duets: An American Classic
[RPM Records/Columbia]

Good Morning Heartache
Gil Goldstein & Greg Phillinganes, arrangers (Chris Botti & Jill Scott)
Track from: To Love Again â€” The Duets
[Columbia Records]

My Flame Burns Blue (Blood Count)
Vince Mendoza, arranger (Elvis Costello With The Metropole Orkest)
Track from: My Flame Burns Blue
[Deutsche Grammophon]
Stardust
Slide Hampton, arranger (Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band)
Track from: Dizzy's Business
[MCG Jazz]

Suninga
Gil Goldstein, arranger (Gil Goldstein)
Track from: Under Rousseau's Moon
[Half Note]

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:25 pm

I am surprised there was no nomination for best collaboration with vocals. That's the one I figured they had a lock on.

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:37 pm

It's gotten to the point that if EC releases anything in a given year, it will be nominated for a Grammy in some category. He won't win though. He's the eternal high water mark that makes winning for the other guy all the more sweet. My guess is that Blunt or Mayer will walk away with Best Pop Vocal Album. I won't even venture a guess in the other category.

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:20 pm

I think the Grammies are so funny.

They have soooooo many categories it's hysterical.

How about Cat 176:

Best use of the word 'homocucksucker' by a contemporary rap artist (international)

Or Cat 372:

Best sounding Pan-European pseudo american wanker doing doo-wop without backing vocals and extra snare drum (male)

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:26 pm

Which begs the question, dear Jackson, "Who was nominated in those two categories?"

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:41 pm

There's no vote

James Blunt wins both of them

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:46 pm

And No Coffee Table · Post by **And No Coffee Table** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:09 pm

BlueChair wrote:Best Pop Vocal Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

Back To Basics
Christina Aguilera
[RCA Records]

The River In Reverse
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
[Verve Forecast]

Odd coincidence: The Christina Aguilera album includes a track which samples Betty Harris' original version of "Nearer To You."

So two albums in the same category include the same 39-year-old (and not even particularly well known) song.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:54 pm

Back To Basics
Christina Aguilera
[RCA Records]

Back To Bedlam
James Blunt
[Custard/Atlantic]

The River In Reverse
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
[Verve Forecast]

Continuum
John Mayer
[Aware/Columbia]

FutureSex/LoveSounds
Justin Timberlake
[Jive Records/Zomba Label Group]

Man , thats some scary company our boy is keeping.

sweetest punch · Post by **sweetest punch** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:38 am

http://www.projo.com/music/content/arts ... 2a844.html

....
From a tour stop in Memphis last week, Robillard pronounced himself â€œvery excitedâ€

sweetest punch · Post by **sweetest punch** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:47 am

Seems that our man will be there!

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/en ... 664205.htm

...
He's thrilled that Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello, two of his idols, also will be there. ''I don't like to bother celebrities,'' he says. ``If I get to talk to them, I'll just thank them for being so amazing for such a long time.'' ...

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:08 pm

It's on now. . .it's a farce.
No sign of Elvis yet.

Dr. Luther · Post by **Dr. Luther** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:24 pm

migdd wrote:It's on now. . .it's a farce.
No sign of Elvis yet.

If you would be so kind -- let me know what time EC & AT are on so that I don't have to record the whole stupid exercise.
(I'm on the WestCoast...)

Thanks.

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:58 pm

It's 10:53 here on the east coast and I'm about to give up. I think I'm going to shut off the TV, run upstairs, pull a few teeth, cut off a limb or two. . .oh, God. . .Justin Timberlake just came on. . .

. . . .if there was ever a time to commit suicide, this is it!

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:01 pm

Dixie Chicks just won Record of the Year!
I'll save the cyanide for another day!

Dr. Luther · Post by **Dr. Luther** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:14 pm

Yeah -- I'd go with just one of the limbs...

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:14 pm

migdd wrote:It's 10:53 here on the east coast and I'm about to give up. I think I'm going to shut off the TV, run upstairs, pull a few teeth, cut off a limb or two. . .oh, God. . .Justin Timberlake just came on. . .

. . . .if there was ever a time to commit suicide, this is it!

Elvis appearing there would be EXTRA farcical, it's time for him to appear looking nonplussed via satellite slouching on a piano with dark sunglasses mumbling a few words like "uh, yeah, thanks... see y'all out on the road kids. Over and out, the Costellomeister <wink>"

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:25 am

well that was mostly painful. the neverending agony of rascal flatts performing eagles songs or don henley worship or whatever that was. i began praying don henley would come out. and he did, but for the wrong reasons. does smokey robinson sleep with his eyes open? andy summers looks good for 64 though. justin has become the hardest working man in show biz, you gotta give him that. mary j blige sings better since she found jesus. gnarls barkley was quite a production; it scared the children however. leo sayer immediately following a big production number was dreamed up by the same guy who decided desparado could get better. excuse me, james blunt, who's next record will sell 14,000 copies. i liked christina doing james. the performance of the rhcp is not what i will be talking about on monday, as the commercial promised. it was anti-climactic and should have been dani california, which is such a good song. i'm a big ludacris fan now, after this and his SNL performance. i think he is really just martin lawrence though. and then there is shakira.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:12 am

Are there ANY of the awards given last night that ANYONE here would celebrate as an excellent choice (outside of the more obscure categories?). The show has now grown entirely meanlingless to me. When Mary Blige remarks: "It is only through total success that you gain a true understanding of who you are" I almost hurled, because that remark represents the antithesis of the true human condition and how we grow as individuals and society. If our personal and societal growth was a function of our unbridled success, what a boring lot we all would be.

I am not boring because my identidy (Maslows Hierarchy of Piaget or other) is a function of overcoming extreme adversity, not through overt success.

Grammys for the first time have not delivered anything of value,and pearl that I can latch onto to get excited about music today. So I will continue to buy the older, stock stuff that has stood the test of time, and leave the Dixie Chicks schlock pop country alt crossover rehashed and regurgitated "It's all been done a million times before" crap to the masses that either buy it in protest, or because they think the girls are hot, or they are countrified chicken-fried steak who like the twang and those sassy vixens.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:41 pm

hello? just me and dan with thoughtful commentary? this is becoming a footy site.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:36 am

Nah, dude, it's not really rude enough for that. And I think you're giving yourself waaaaaay too much credit for thoughtful commentary.

No hierarchies at all.

I enjoy the spectacle of the whole thing and watched every single minute. I'm just that boring. This year was all about the bosoms. I thought Shakira's top was painted on. Seriously. The Dreamgirls girl in the red dress needs to have her right one downsized or her left one upsized. Or wear a different dress. Samuel L. Jackson appeared to have manboobs, so he might want to rethink that sweater. Christina was great, but she gets on my nerves because she has to do every single vocal trick she knows every single time she opens her mouth. This was her best grammy performance yet. The Justin-cam thing was stupid, as was the vote-for-some-chick-to-sing-with-Justin. Really, I think there were too many performances and not enough awards given out! RHCP were ok. I wondered how much snow went down Queen Latifah's cleavage and if Flea was shouting out the Gals or the Crew. I loved Natalie's HA-ha and her speechlessness, but somebody needs to get her a stylist. Ruffles + white = big hips, even if you're Lara Flynn Boyle.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:50 am

how about stevie wonder, he is getting bigger by the minute.

and i vote for having the left one upsized

.

and i looked at the footy thread for the second time in years the other day and you're right. it is no wonder people beat the shit out of each other at soccer stadiums. what a nasty bunch of thugs. you need to hang out with a better crowd.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:37 am

oily slick wrote:you need to hang out with a better crowd.

I'm sure this has only happened since Moody came onto the site. I've tried to edjukate her but she reverts back to being Moody.

I would love to speak about the show but I didn't see it but have enjoyed your thoughtful commentary. Particularly about the breasts.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:23 pm

For the briefest of moments, I thought Natalie Cole was a man in drag.

I was thrilled to learn that Ornette Coleman still walks amongst the living; who knew?!

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:00 pm

Goody2Shoes wrote:For the briefest of moments, I thought Natalie Cole was a man in drag.

I was thrilled to learn that Ornette Coleman still walks amongst the living; who knew?!

Many years ago I flew from LA to Atlanta first class sitting next to Bobby Columbi, one of the greatest trips ever. What an engaging guy, the founder of Blood Sweat and Tears and, at the time, EVP of Creative Development for Sony Music.

We talked nonstop about Jaco, Miles, Al Kooper and just so many others. He quizzed me and I did okay. About half way through the trip he told me he was taking one of 'his singers' to the Super Bowl to sing the National Anthem. I asked who, and he turned and introduced me to a very antisocial and unfriendly Natalie Cole, who is indeed built like a very powerful man. She has an intimidating presence, especially when she would have rather been in a dentists chair them being introduced to some schmuck chatting with the fast-talking Bobbi Columbi.

So the man-in-drag thing works perfectly.

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