Even if Linda Chorney doesn’t take home an award for Americana artist of the year or whatever she’s been nominated for and despite the three and a half hours of televised multi-national major music corporation and record label masturbatory love fest, with staged and over-produced performances that will have many of us running from their homes and into the streets to escape a monster much larger and scarier than Godzilla…I have now discovered courtesy of Digital Music News another 54 reasons to hate the Grammys.
Here is the list of those artists who have never taken home one of their silly pieces of plastic:
1. The Doors
2. Queen
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Led Zeppelin*
5. The Who
6. Tupac Shakur
7. Snoop Dogg
8. Bjork
9. Chuck Berry
10. The Grateful Dead
11. Diana Ross
12. Nas
13. The Beach Boys
14. Bob Marley
15. Janis Joplin
16. Buddy Holly
17. Notorious B.I.G.
18. (Eric B. &) Rakim
19. Rush
20. Run D.M.C.
21. Guns n’ Roses
22. Boston
23. Sam Cooke
24. Talking Heads
25. The Ramones
26. The Everly Brothers
27. Patti Smith
28. Public Enemy
29. Sly & the Family Stone
30. The Sex Pistols
31. Parliament &/or Funkadelic
32. The O’Jays
33. Creedence Clearwater Revival
34. The Stooges
35. Motley Crue
36. Kiss
37. Deep Purple
38. Journey
39. Jackson Browne
40. The Pretenders
41.Toby Keith
42. New Order
43. Depeche Mode
44. Tiesto
45. The Kinks
46. Morrissey
47. The Smiths
48. ABBA
49. Dusty Springfield
50. Teddy Pendergrass
51. Oasis
52. Curtis Mayfield
53. The Byrds
54. ZZ Top
And the really sad thing is, if someone had the time and took the effort, I bet we could easily list another several hundred (if not thousands) to this. Like the various hall of fames (Rock and Country come to mind), I hate the institutionalization, commercialization and minimization of the art I love. And even the art I don’t.
I could keep ranting, but the hell with it. Here’s some worthless losers to listen to.
