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I want to have a little contest. I have some of the top Grammy nominations. I will list the category and the nominees. I want to see who you think will win in these categories. The 49th Annual Grammy Awards will be aired on February 11th. I will make my predictions and you make yours. The person with the most matches next month when the awards are handed out will win the contest.
1. Album of The Year: Taking The Long Way (Dixie Chicks), St. Elsewhere (Gnarls Barkley), Continuum (John Mayer), Stadium Arcadium (Red Hot Chili Peppers), FutureSex/LoveSounds (Justin Timberlake)
2. Best New Artist: James Blunt, Chris Brown, Imogen Heap, Corinne Bailey Rae, Carrie Underwood
3. Song of the year: "Be Without You", "Jesus, Take The Wheel", "Not Ready To Make Nice", "Put Your Records On", "You're Beautiful"
4. Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group with Vocal: "My Humps" (Black-Eyed Peas), "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" (Death Cab for Cutie), "Over My Head (Cable Car)" (The Fray), "Is It Any Wonder" (Keane), "Stickwitu" (Pussycat Dolls).
5. Best Rock Album: John Mayer Trio's Try!, Tom Petty's Highway Companion, the Raconteurs' Broken Boy Soldier, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Arcadium, and Neil Young's Living With War.
6. Best Rap Performance by Duo or Group: "Ridin" (Chamillionaire featuring Kyrazi Bone), "Georgia" (Ludacris & Field Mob featuring Jamie Foxx), "Grillz" (Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp), "Mighty "O" " (Outkast), "Don't Feel Right" (The Roots)
7. Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Smack That" (Akon featuring Eminem), "Deja Vu" (Beyonce featuring Jay-Z), "Shake That" (Eminem featuring Nate Dogg), "Unpredictable" (Jamie Foxx featuring Ludacris), "My Love" ( Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.)
8. Best Country Song: "Every Mile A Memory" (Dierks Bentley), "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today" (Gretchen Wilson), "Jesus Take The Wheel" (Carrie Underwood), "Like Red On A Rose" (Alan Jackson), "What Hurts The Most" (Rascal Flatts)
9. Record Of The Year: "Be Without You" (Mary J Blige), "You're Beautiful" (James Blunt), "Not Ready To Make Nice" (Dixie Chicks), "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley), "Put Your Records On" (Corinne Bailey Rae)
10. Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: 'Ring The Alarm' (Beyonce), 'Be Without You' (Mary J Blige), 'Don't Forget About Us' (Mariah Carey), 'Day Dreaming' (Natalie Cole), 'I Am Not My Hair' (India.Arie)
11. Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: 'Heaven' (John Legend), 'So Sick' (Ne-Yo), 'Black Sweat' (Prince), 'I Call It Love' (Lionel Richie), 'Got You Home' (Luther Vandross)
12. Best Rock Song: 'Chasing Cars' (Snow Patrol), 'Dani California' (Red Hot Chili Peppers), 'Lookin' For A Leader' (Neil Young), 'Someday Baby' (Bob Dylan), 'When You Were Young' (The Killers)
Okay gang, instead of copying and pasting you can just give you predictions for 1, 2 etc. The winner of the contest will get to chose next post topic.
Sources cited from www.Grammy.com
Shirley Temples' P...y was the name of the band that we know as "The Stone Temple Pilots". I was told this years ago when they first came out, but I believe its true. I decided to make them my artist of the week. They changed their name a couple of times before coming up with the "Stone Temple Pilots". They stayed with the "STP" because they liked the "STP motor oil" logo.
I put them in my CD player last night and it's still in there. I have Core and Thank You which is their greatest hits. I suggest their greatest hits to everyone. 'Plush' is a great song, the original or acoustic version. There is also the Tinkster version which isn't bad. I was in Florida with my sister and we decided to go out one night. We went to a bar on the beach, and a two man band started playing "Plush". I immediately was on the floor jammin. The next thing I know they motioned me to come on stage with them, and I sang the song while they played. It was very cool. I want to give you the lyrics to a different song though. I like the seduction of this song and I wanted to share it with you.
'Sex Type Thing'
"I am, I am, I am
I said I wanna get next to you
I said I gonna get close to you
You wouldn't want me have to hurt you too? Hurt you too?
I ain't, I ain't, I ain't
A buyin' into your apathy
I'm gonna learn ya my philosophy
You wanna know about atrocity, atrocity?
I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know, you know, you know, you know
I am a man, a man
I'll give you something that you won't forget
I said ya shouldn't have worn that dress
I said ya shouldn't have worn that dress
I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know, you know, you know, you know
Here I come, I come, I come
I am, I am, I am
I said I wanna get next to you
I said I wanna get close to you
You wouldn't want me have to hurt you too? Hurt you too?
I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know, you know, you know, you know
Here I come, I come, I come"
I was lucky to see the "Stone Temple Pilots" before they broke up. I saw them and others at the Hard Rock Festival in Chicago,Il. They played 4 songs. They played 'Plush', 'Sex Type Thing', 'Vasoline', and 'Interstate Love Song' . I was delighted.
Scott had trouble with heroin like many other artist, and it eventually caused the band to break up. He is now with "Velvet Revolver" and I hear that he has cleaned up his act. Good for you Scott! I have not gave "Velvet Revolver" a listen and I am not sure why.
Okay people let me know some of your favorite "STP" songs or lyrics. If you like them or hate them? Do you like the new band that Scott is in? Am I stupid for not buying a "Velvet Revover" CD? Come and talk to me
Information sited from www.stonetemplepilots.com
In 2005, I had probably heard this one song every other morning on the way to work. There was only one station I would hear it on, and I would never hear the whole song. I didn't have to...I loved this song just from the little bit of it that I got to hear! It had a great melody with piano and the only lyrics I knew were 'Everyone knows I’m in over my head...’ and at the time it was fitting for me. When the song ended the damn radio station would never tell who it was.
A couple of weeks later I was out at the local pub and checking out the jukebox. I was looking at a “hits” CD, and I found it….it said ‘Over my Head’ so my eyes searched over to see who sang it. I looked in disbelief, as I read it. 'The Fr'. That’s all the tag said. 'The Fr'?? The edge of the tag in the jukebox had been torn off. Perfect.
“Who the hell is ‘The Fr’???” I was so mad. I still didn’t know who sang this song, but at least I finally knew what the title was!
My sister and I were out Christmas shopping a few days later and I went straight to the CD section and to the F’s. I found it immediately. They were ‘The Fray’ and 'How to Save a Life' was the CD’s title. I bought the CD and fell in love. The lyrics to ‘Over My Head’ were incredible.
‘Over My Head’, How to Save a Life, The Fray
“I never knew, I never knew that everything was falling through
That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue
To turn and run when all I needed was the truth
But that’s how it’s gotta be, it’s coming down to nothing more than apathy
I’d rather run the other way than stay see
The smoke, and who’s still standing when it clears
Everyone knows I’m in over my head, over my head
With 8 seconds left in overtime she’s on your mind, she’s on your mind
Let’s rearrange, I wish you were a stranger I could disengage
Just say that we agree and then never change
Soften a bit until we all just get along
But that’s disregard, you find another friend and you discard
As you lose the argument in a cable car
Hanging above as the canyons come between
And everyone knows I’m in over my head, over my head
With 8 seconds left in overtime she’s on your mind, she’s on your mind
Suddenly I become a part of the past
I’m becoming the part that don’t last
I’m losing you and it’s effortless
Without a sound, we lose sight of the ground in a throw around
Never thought that you wanted to bring it down
I won’t let it go down until we torch it ourselves
And everyone knows I’m in over my head, over my head
With 8 seconds left in overtime, she’s on your mind, she’s on your mind
Everyone knows she’s on your mind,
Everyone knows I’m in over my head, I’m over my head, I’m over my
Everyone knows I’m in over my head, over my head
With 8 seconds left in overtime she’s on your mind, she’s on your mind”
…and let’s not forget the incredible skills of Isaac on the piano. These guys were intelligent songwriters, incredible musicians that I haven’t experienced in a long time. A band with guitars, drums, and piano; they belong with the like of the 'Police', 'Ben Folds Five', and the fuckin’ 'Beatles'…
IT WAS ON! I had to see them. They soon came to Indianapolis, I took 3 friends and we fell in love with this band. It was a small venue and it was great….I felt so good that I had found this band and turned my friends on to them. I like doing that a lot, I get off on it.
I can say, 'The Fray' has a home in Indiana. One of my friends had her Father/Daughter dance at her wedding to ‘Look After You’ while ‘Over My Head’ helped another friend with problems she was having with her brother, after finding out the song was written about the singer and his brother.
Now, today, just one year later, they have been nominated for Best Pop/Rock performance by Duo or Group w/ Vocal for ‘Over My Head’, the song I just had to have!
Other nominations for 'The Fray' include:
Best Pop/Rock performance by duo or group w/vocal for album “How to Save a Life”,
‘Over my Head’.
Best Pop/Rock performance by duo or group w/vocal for album “How to Save a Life”
I am so proud of the band that I discovered for me and my friends...
...so tell me…do you love them? Have you heard of them? Has this ever happened to you with certain song or group that you heard on the radio and knew you had to the leg work to find everything out about the song, the group, the concerts, etc??? Do you get off on turning people on to bands they don't know?
Hello, everyone this is Tinkster. I am very happy and grateful to be doing Muzikal Mafia.
My interest in music came at a very early age, thanks to my parents and my siblings. I was a young child when my sisters and my brother were in high school. Instead of Sesame Street, I was doing 'Houses of the Holy' with one sister, 'Baby I Love Your Ways' with another, and 'Carry on my Wayward Son' with my brother. This was quite the sing along
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This is my final post as the moderator of Muzikal Mafia.
My friends, my family, it is time for me to hand over the reins to someone else. My schedule has gotten the best of me. I am unable to keep my committment to Orble regarding posting on this site
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I am emotionally worn out from the events of the past several days. I went to work today and didn't take my usual suitcase of cd's with me. I didn't have anything in it that really fit my mood, anyways.
As I was sitting at work, thinking, as I tend to do way too much of, I realized I needed to listen to something. I had to stop thinking so I could focus on my job. Well, that requires a lot of thinking, too. Just not the kind I was doing. I was depressed. Angry. Let down. Frustrated
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There is nothing that aggravates me any more than for someone to discuss music with me and to express their opinions of groups or bands without any basis on which to form their opinion.
I was talking to someone tonight and Alice in Chains came up in the conversation. (No, I didn't bring it up.) This person I was talking to did and said, "I hate them, a bunch of queers
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Deorre recently had a post about a good old-fashioned ventilation of anger. I participated and it got me to thinking about...of course, music. I was thinking that music is really the backdrop to our lives. Right now, my backdrop is very loud, very angry Godsmack.
When I am highly pissed off, I need good, loud, angry music. Alanis Morrisette pre-naked in a grocery store thanking India...Godsmack, Alice in Chains...I need someone to scream for me. I can't do it
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The Seattle Sound Series Update:
Most of my readers know I am passionate about music, in particular, the Seattle sound and the groups which contributed to it. I still have a long way to go before I will be upto the task of paying tribute to the genre. A friend was going to help me out with the series but that has fallen through. It's just not meant to be right now. I will school myself a bit and get back to you later on with a series that will do it justice, I promise
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