Laugh at the Grammys- electronic/dance noms

[holden]

Ready for some, er, 'well-researched' industry nominations for best dance/electronic music of the year? 2006 Grammy picks:

Best Dance Recording
Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip for "Galvanize"
Deep Dish for "Say Hello"
Fatboy Slim & Lateef for "Wonderful Night"
LCD Soundsystem for "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"
Kylie Minogue for "I Believe In You"
New Order for "Guilt Is A Useless Emotion."

Best Electronic/Dance Album
Push The Button (the Chemical Brothers)
Human After All (Daft Punk)
Palookaville (Fatboy Slim)
Minimum-Maximum (Kraftwerk)
LCD Soundsystem (LCD Soundsystem)

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)
Adam Freeland, remixer (Sarah Vaughan)

Flashdance (Guetta & Garraud F*** Me I'm Famous Remix)
Joachim Garraud & David Guetta, remixers (Deep Dish)

Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
Jacques Lu Cont, remixer (The Killers)

Superfly (Louie Vega EOL Mix)
Louie Vega, remixer (Curtis Mayfield)

What Is Hip? (T.O.P.R.M.X.)
Meat Beat Manifesto, remixers (Tower Of Power)
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Her'es to pointing out the obvious:
Best Electronic/Dance Album - Human After All (Daft Punk)
Palookaville (Fatboy Slim)
(i can't find an emoticon for barfing up lunch)
Holden

[monkeyboy]

The Grammys have always been a laugh. I heard that Mariah Carey got 8 nominations

[the mongoose]

Are you sure that wasn't the worst album of the year award?

Go Chems....although my interest in Push the Button has dropped.....completely.

[holden]

Originally Posted by monkeyboy

The Grammys have always been a laugh. I heard that Mariah Carey got 8 nominations

Yeah, they're junk, mostly. But at least less mainstream categories like "alternative" or "electronic/dance" usually have someone i can get behind and cheer for, though they usually lose.

Yeah, go Chems, and maybe even LCD Soundsystem (though i thought the album was overhyped and one-paced). Isn't Kraftwerk's album a Live compilation? i mean, they're great, sure, and have been for 20+ years, but isn't there any newer artist with newer material to recognize? The list seems like it was made by reading a Rolling Stone magazine in 1996.

[joethelion]

well - I don't get how Kraftwerk can be listed... as it's not new material in any way, shape or form


and I REALLY liked Daft Punk's album, i still occasionally play it - at least more than LCD Soundsystem's one...

I can't believe Fatboy Slim's was even nominated... damn that was a horrible album.

my votes would go to:

Best Dance Recording
LCD Soundsystem for "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"


Best Electronic/Dance Album
Human After All (Daft Punk)

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)
Adam Freeland, remixer (Sarah Vaughan)

-or-

Mr. Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)
Jacques Lu Cont, remixer (The Killers)

although... I'd prolly want "Fever" to win over Brightside, as a lot of Jacques lu Cont's remixes kinda sound all the same... and this one sounds just like his remix of "Four to the Floor"

[gambit]

Well, that's the Grammys for you. Clearly, M.I.A. and Out Hud should've been nominated for Best Electronic Album in place of Daft Punk and Fatboy Slim. And while Minimum-Maximum is fantastic, that spot should be reserved for new material.

[Eikman]

go Fatboy!

roflcopter!

[den]

"Let's pick mediocre albums by the only electronic music artists whose names sound familiar and that we kind of recognize!"

[holden]

Well, at least they didn't put Moby's "Hotel" up there. i'm surprised it's not, though

[dubman]

human after all... human after all?

hum- WHAT?