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March 4, 2021 at 4:24 am #1204081573
The Suburbs A-
The Fame Monster A-
Recovery B+
Teenage Dream B
Need You Now C-I find The Suburbs weaker than Arcade Fire’s previous records, but it’s still an excellent record and deserved the win easily. Gaga’s follow-up doesn’t contain the multitudes of her persona quite as well as her better efforts, but the amount of good songs in its limited length makes up for it. Lady Antebellum’s spot belonged to Miranda Lambert.
ReplyMarch 3, 2021 at 3:23 pm #1204080788The END A
The Fame A-
Fearless A-
I Am… Sasha Fierce B
Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King CThe END is simply wondrous, sampling classic rap rapaciously and cooler with auto-tune than Kanye ever was. The Fame and Fearless are definitive in their own ways, while instrumentation may age, melodies and hooks seldom do, and both records have plenty. Sasha Fierce is by a substantial margin my least favorite Bey album, most of her ballads fail and the dance disc is often all-attitude (not directed at Single Ladies). Dave Matthews Band… why. A personal favorite from that year was Brad Paisley’s American Saturday Night, which was shamefully shut out of even the genre field, a situation that I’m sure has nothing to do with the fact that it’s a pro-Obama country record.
ReplyMarch 2, 2021 at 10:54 am #1204077021Tha Carter III A
In Rainbows B+
Raising Sand B+
Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends B
Year of the Gentlemen BRaising Sand is… fine, really, if a vanilla ice tea record you must have I’ll take the one featuring two great vocalists over Norah Jones any day. Lil Wayne easily has my vote here, although general opinions on the record seem mixed. Coldplay and Ne-Yo made good records by their standards, but I’ll happily live without both. Don’t know what I would’ve nominated that was on their radar apart from The Way I See It, which is still an obscure pick, and Rockferry, which I personally prefer to Back to Black.
ReplyMarch 1, 2021 at 1:17 pm #1204074874Graduation A-
Back to Black A-
River: The Joni Letters B+
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace BPersonally fine with River‘s win because not only does it give Joni Mitchell a GF trophy, it’s the most artistically courageous piece of work in the field. Kanye’s is a stepdown from his previous efforts and Winehouse’s functions best as background music. Foo Fighters tried to recapture the triumph of The Colour and the Shape and fell mediocre, and Vince Gill is too bland to endure the course of a studio album, let alone a fucking boxset. The main snub is Kala, aka greatest record of the 21st century (although M.I.A. does get her due next year with Paper Planes). Amongst the nominees that year, Neon Bible, Alright Still, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend all stand a class above this lineup.
ReplyFebruary 28, 2021 at 7:59 pm #1204070591NOW HOLD ON A DAMN MINUTE
February 28, 2021 at 7:14 pm #1204069711I mean… what?! but also like, YES?!
February 28, 2021 at 6:42 pm #1204069302I had a gut feeling Pike was winning this but still put Bakalova lol, the way I flopped
February 28, 2021 at 6:57 am #1204066247FutureSex/LoveSounds A-
St. Elsewhere B+
Continuum B+
Taking the Long Way B
Stadium Arcadium B-I like the Chicks as much as the next sane person, but they’ve not recorded enough good songs to justify that love until Gaslighter. Timberlake’s makes up for what it lacked in sincerity with experimentality and some of the finest pop songs of that decade. Major snub of the year is Dylan’s Modern Times, and I would definitely take B’Day and Oral Fixations Vol. 2 over any of the non-Timberlake nominees.
ReplyFebruary 27, 2021 at 8:59 pm #1204065644Late Registration A+
The Emancipation of Mimi A-
Love. Angel. Music. Baby. B+
How to Dismantle an Automic Bomb B
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard C+Late Registration is nothing short of perfection, one of the greatest records ever made. Gwen’s first solo effort revealed that the problem was the band all along and promised fun and edgy pop diva on the rise that never quite came true. U2 and McCartney get their usual spots, will take Funeral and Extraordinary Machine over them any minute.
ReplyFebruary 26, 2021 at 7:39 am #1204062702The College Dropout A
Genius Loves Company A-
Confessions B
The Diary of Alicia Keys C+
American Idiot C+The nature of his win shouldn’t diminish what Ray accomplished with his first good album since the 70s. Though had it not been for his death the “legacy” nod that year could’ve gone to Brian Wilson’s SMiLE, which may well be the best album released during the eligibility period. Alicia’s formula of Idol ballads + atmospheric R&B was a major dud, and Green Day’s was all visual and no substance.
ReplyFebruary 25, 2021 at 5:40 pm #1204061885Elephant A-
Speakerboxx/The Love Below A-
Justified A-
Under Construction B+
Fallen B-My personal taste favors Elephant, but would give it to Outkast since they lost for a damn great record. The Timberlake on Justified was a pop protege whose vocal ability was fast approaching Al Green territory, but now that he’s lost any bone of sincerity there’s no point to argue a case for him to win. “Work It” remains one of the greatest songs recorded this century but the album left me relatively underwhelmed. Evanescence is better than your regular goth metal trash, which just means when I listened to that record I actually wished they weren’t goth metal.
ReplyFebruary 24, 2021 at 5:40 am #1204058361The Eminem album is the only truly noteworthy nominee. Springsteen’s had a few really great songs but was overall lackluster, and the eventual winner is just plain dull.
ReplyFebruary 23, 2021 at 4:47 am #1204056059Love and Theft A+
Stankonia A
All That You Can’t Leave Behind A-
Acoustic Soul B-
O Brother Where Art Thou? B-Love and Theft is as profound and humorous a record as Dylan has ever made, although the Outkast record also easily takes a spot in my top 30 of that decade. India Arie’s nomination over Alicia Keys never made much sense to me, and while the soundtrack isn’t the worst thing they’ve nominated, Lucinda Williams’ Essence would’ve been my choice by a mile.
ReplyFebruary 22, 2021 at 3:48 am #1204054013The Marshall Mather LP A
Two Against Nature A
Kid A A
Midnite Vultures B
You’re the One B-Three stellar nominees, though only Steely Dan feels like a truly inspired pick given the inevitability of the other two. Beck’s album does eventually hit some high points but it’s no match for his other 90s work. Voodoo, Music, and When the Pawn... were all recognized by them that year and would’ve made much better nominees, and if they really wanted to have a veteran in the lineup, Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now was right there.
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