Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations: Still Ridiculous after All These Months

By Gustavo Turner Thu., Feb. 10 2011 at 2:32 PM

Grammys: they're nuts!

[Originally published December 2010]

It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year."

Here's a handy Top 20 List of the Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations:

20. Best Pop Instrumental Album: Heart and Soul, Kenny G

19. Best Rock Album: Emotion and Commotion, Jeff Beck

18. Best New Artist: Florence & The Machine (new? dear Florence has be toiling around with this material since 2007!)

17. Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: "Don't Stop Believin' (Regionals Version)" The Glee Cast. (O, Karaoke, what have you brought upon us...)

16. Best Pop Instrumental Performance: "Orchestral Intro," Gorillaz (this is just perverse--it's just the throaway intro track to Plastic Beach!)

15. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: "Crossroads," John Mayer

14. Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: "Helter Skelter" (live in New York), Paul McCartney (Helter fucking Skelter in 2010????--ok, now they're just messing with us)

13. Best Metal Performance: "Let The Guilt Go," Korn

12. Best Rap Song: "Empire State of Mind," Jay-Z (what? this track is so 2009 it's not even arguable otherwise--WTF?)

11. Best Female Country Performance: "Satisfied," Jewel (first she's the best-selling American poet of the 90s and now she's taking over Nashville? Is anybody gonna stop this one-hit yodeler at some point?)

10. Best New Age Album: Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Volume 4, by Kitaro (Kitaro is still around? Making sequels? Is there a virtual dollar-bin in the e-commerce world?)

9. Best New Age Album: Instrumental Oasis, Volume 4, by Zamora (a challenger arises! Note to self: look into corruption at the Grammy New Age Category--is there a nefarious group of one-name artists that will keep releasing sequels every year just for Grammy nomination purposes? Do they meet at a tiki bar to plot?)

Tags:

Grammy, Grammys, Jewel, Justin Bieber, Kitaro, Maroon 5, Selma Blair, Theater of the Absurd

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Tom

Have you ever listened to Jeff Beck before? Or, are you dismissing based on his age alone? He's playing as well as he ever has, and his new releases continue to challenge himself and his audience, and not just copy his previous releases. As a matter of fact, Jeff Beck may be one of the most qualified musicians to earn Grammy recognition, this year or any. He doesn't go to your job and knock the broom out of your hand.

Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet

The Grammy Show was pretty good this year. Even all the old people, who did their best work 40 years ago, were a welcomed relief to what we had last year. No one wants to sit through the Taylor Swift Show, now or 40 years from now, when Captain Kirk will complain that, she did her best work in 2009.

Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet

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