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PODCAST: Episode 912 - Why do the Grammy Awards Hate on Metal? · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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something. So I did a poll tonight in our
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community tab on ghostcultbank.com and seemed
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like the voting was going for the Grammys.
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We recap all the things of the week, the major stories.
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There's a lot of crazy shit going on, and this is one of
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them. So the Grammy Awards for this
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past weekend and, you know, Grammys have a sordid history.
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Do award shows really matter to metal heads and punks?
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I don't. I mean, you know, very self
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congratulatory, but you know, we like debating and complaining
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about these things, right? So November official is here.
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What's up? And Ena is here, I think, and
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Robert Hood is here. So Grammy Awards happened.
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Some things were metal and cool, some things were absolutely not
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cool, just bizarre. And so, yeah, I'm here to talk
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about it because do the Grammys actually hate metal?
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Is it? I'm not going to lie, it's a
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little, I'm, I'm baiting a little bit with that title.
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But I think it's clear that they don't understand metal.
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And I'll make a point as to why I I'm not one of these people
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that's like Metallica should play the Super Bowl and metal,
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we deserve more respect. It's like we actually don't.
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It's outsider music for outside. But at the same time, it'd be
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cool if we were treated with the modicum of respect.
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So I'm here to talk about that. I haven't been live streaming a
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lot. Like I said, been suffering a
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lot of burnout. I did a Megadeth album review a
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couple weeks ago, seemed to be very well reviewed and and
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received. We probably gave it one of the
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better marks of any of the major websites.
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I consider us a major metal website.
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interviews. I used to photograph bands all
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So the Grammys. Why are we talking about this?
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Do award shows even manner? Why are we talking about the
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Grammys? Because the Grammys like, you
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know, we want them to do, you know, like I have a long history
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with the Grammys. I actually met Grammy people
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like when I was in high school and I'm.
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I went to a predominantly deal all the way back to this deal in
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the profits days. Nice work.
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Upstate New York, my home state. So yeah, by the way, Cortland,
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which is his original hometown in upstate New York, the school
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in Cortland has his original microphone and microphone stand
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that they found in his parents house when they when they moved
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out or moved the house out. So the Grammys, why are we here
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talking about that? You know, just like the Hall of
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Fame, some of these things are very congratulatory.
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Real metal heads don't need awards.
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We don't need halls of fame. But let's just talk about why
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the Grammys fail time and time again when it comes to heavy
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music. They just fail and we'll talk
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about why. So this is kind of in a way a
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follow up to a live stream I did, and it's on our podcast
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now. Hey, Lorna is here.
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What's up? Lorna, Ghost cultist is in the
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house over on the Instagrams. You know, I did a show a while
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back about Rick Biano, who generally speaking, I like.
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He's actually one of the few, one of the few music Youtubers
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or content creators about music that has produced albums that
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have. So you've heard Stone Temple
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Pilots, Shinedown, a bunch of other bands, you know, Marvelous
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3 Lit, whatever, a lot of stuff he worked on and you know, but
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also he always talks about metal being dead and it's rage bait.
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He's kind of a boomer. He has boomer takes.
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You can't compare metal bands to pop stars like Charli XCX and
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Billie Eilish and Beyoncé. Just not apples to apples.
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You can't measure an underground art form like metal or punk.
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Even the pop punk is not at the same level on streaming
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platforms as the biggest pop stars in the world.
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It's kind of dumb, but OK. So I did AI did a thing on Rippy
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Otto. Here's the thumbnail.
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Rippy Otto is wrong about metal. And that's kind of reminded me
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of the Grammys list, the, you know, kind of watching the
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replays of the Grammy stuff. I'll talk first about what they
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got right, and then we're going to talk about where they go off
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a Cliff. And, you know, by no means am I
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criticizing necessarily any of the winners.
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I'm just calling out into question what I see as a failure
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of them to understand the genre. And they have voting members
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from metal bands. So it's obviously political.
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It's obviously on purpose. It's obviously like, oh, metal
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is not going to get a lot of reacting.
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All you know. On the plus side, Spirit Box was
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nominated and Lost perform live on the show.
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They perform soft spine. I get no little amount of joy of
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watching Spirit Box play a song destroying Ronnie Radke, who was
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not nominated for one Grammy. I will also say, like late in
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the year, you know, the so like, it's murky about like what the
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parameters are, to wit, to be nominated.
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You see a lot of labels, not bands, but labels campaigning to
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get nominated, especially in underground music.
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Because we are an X Factor. We are an unknown.
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Oh, that's cute. The screamy people, the dark and
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scary people, you know, but it was cool to see Spirit Box
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perform on the show and they killed it, of course.
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And then the host who honestly have no, you know, I have no
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basis for the host, but you know, the host was like, well,
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that was fierce AF. And I was like, God, so cringy.
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Like, you know, even Courtney heard the quote probably and was
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like, I don't know why he just said that.
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That shit sucks. But all right, fine.
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You know, it is just what it is, dude, following us.
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just like TikTok. We'll follow you back at the end
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of the show when I get my bearings and do my little post
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show review. So spare box performed and they
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were awesome. And then the Post Malone tribute
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to Ozzy with Ozzy's band, basically basic the basically
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his band from back to the beginning.
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Chad Smith of the Chili Peppers. I see Slash there, the Mckagan
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and Watts wearing like a full length Glammy for a coat.
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But you know, he's proven himself to be a pretty solid
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guy. I think we learned from those
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Aussie documentaries late in the year what a close friend Ozzy he
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was and how Ozzy and him had a really cute relationship.
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You know, the tribute was nice. They did pay tribute to Ace a
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little bit also. It was nice to see that,
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although I have gripes with the immemorium section always and
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especially in a minute. So you know, Posty, he's a huge
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pop star and he happens to love rock and I think he's in his
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kind of country era right now. It'd be kind of fun to see him
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pivot to metal or rock. You know, he's obviously he
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played with Nirvana a couple of times or reformed version of
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Nirvana without Kurt. He's done covers of Alice In
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Chains. There's videos of him rocking
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out to metal core and and death metal and Biohazard rapping
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along to Biohazard with Biohazard.
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Kind of fun. But I would make a case also
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that as much as Ozzy is the icon for the entire metal genre, he's
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more of a pop culture figure more than anything else.
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And he had won recent Grammys for his two last albums with
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Post Malone also contributing. So I think it was like super
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interesting that, you know, obviously, look, Ozzy has
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transcended rock and metal to like pop cult icon status.
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So of course they were going to do a tribute to him.
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That was nice that that was in the works and they were
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rehearsing and planning that and it was cool.
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So I thought that was well done. Like, you know, for what it's
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worth, at least they had something that's nice.
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Young Blood is having a moment again.
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What is what constitutes eligibility for a Grammy?
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It's just like any other award show.
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There should be a sort of a finite point, like an album came
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out here, a single came out here.
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Nothing can be, you know, credited.
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I don't want to be super cynical, Mimi writes.
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I knew that shit the moment he even considered doing stuff with
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Young Blood, right? I knew, you know, a cynic in me
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is like, of course all these bands covered Black Sabbath and
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then put out Black Sabbath singles from their covers.
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Lamb of God did it. They're not nominated for a
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Grammy. Tool has been playing their
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Black Sabbath cover on tour, Hand of Doom and well in their
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late end of the year, beginning of this year tour dates, which I
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think is fresh, you know, so Youngblood kind of really, first
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of all, the song changes is about Bill, the end of Bill
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Ward's first marriage and Youngblood killed it.
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It was really nice to see him win and he won.
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You know, it kind of got Frank Bellow from Anthrax a a Grammy
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award-winning, you know, moment where he was on 70 tons of medal
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with anthrax, played one gig and then left the boat to go to the
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Grammy Awards ceremony, which is insane.
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So you know, I'm I'm not mad at youngblood.
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I know people feel like, you know, why did they anoint this
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guy in any way? Why did he get Andrew is here?
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What's up brother Danzig 5 handed doom.
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Exactly. But I'm just talking about the
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Grammys and just the relationship the Grammys have to
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metal and not complaining but just kind of noting why they
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don't get it right year after year.
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And it's I could easily go back to Metallica and Jethro Tull but
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other times they also got it wrong.
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Like Motörhead won a Grammy for a Metallica cover, not one
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Motörhead song. Grand Delight Motörhead is not,
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you know, necessarily the first thing of mind when you think of
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these grandiose greatest bands ever.
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But I think a Motörhead is one of the greatest bands ever.
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But again, award shows Aerosmith and Suicide Boys actually
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embarrassing, right? Give props to people that they
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have some fair takes, but he is taking the Grammys.
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Don't like medal Leonard I agree, man.
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That's my point here. Black artists.
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Oh, of course, man, of course, like that's beyond the shadow of
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a doubt as we're in Black History Month that like again, a
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lot of people are like rock music is white people stuff
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stupid. But yeah, yes, High On Fire one.
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I agree. And I love High On Fire 1
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Grammys. But you know, again, there's a
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push, you know, don't get mad at bands like a lot.
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I know that people like bands a lot of times don't even run
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their own social. So like there was a big backlash
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in like October, November. For your consideration, if
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you're a voter for the Grammys, please think of Fit for an
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Autopsy on Nuclear Blast Records.
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And people like shitting on this band that has been like a
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legendary underground band for 20 years and it really took them
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20 years to make it and you know, they're doing about as
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well as ever their last few albums. 100% Mimi, I agree
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Motörhead is great. Awesome.
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Mimi, I really appreciate you. Thank you for being here and
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dropping those comments. 100% So you know you're good for
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Youngblood. I don't care about the word, you
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know, industry plant is not a real thing for me because in
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that way, every artist that leaves a band to go solo is an
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industry plant. So like, you know, they do.
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People like to throw around hatred and dumb shit.
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Witness Metallica. Yes, we also have Metallica and
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Jethro Tull. But like the Grammys just don't.
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Like, I'm going to get to a point here in a second where I
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talk about like, why they don't get it.
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But good for Youngblood and good for the people in the band, you
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know? You know, I'll shout it out in a
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second. It was like Nuno Betancourt, who
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I think has been nominated for a Grammy with Extreme and Rihanna,
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but #1 Adam Wakeman, Sleep Tokens drummer, Sleep Tokens
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drummer was the only Sleep Token member to get a Grammy Award so
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far. And Frankie Bello, one of my
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heroes from my hometown boys in Anthrax.
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Anybody who's seen my vest, my patch vest, Anthrax is my
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Backpage. So good for young blood, but
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also, like, you know, I don't want to.
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On one hand, it's like, yeah, he's a relatively new artist.
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This picture of him is from, like, Warped Tour 2019, before
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they went on the hiatus, before they came back.
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But that being said, if anyone wants to nominate Sundial Shine
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for a 2026 album of the year, hell yeah, brother, you know,
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that's coming. You know, that's possible.
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It feels like a cat with a stunt.
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Yeah, of course, Of course. Of course.
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I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that.
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So Youngblood, good for Youngblood and good for the
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people who just, you know, again, like, was it calculated?
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He, you know, he did an incredible job.
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You couldn't know before the show what he was going to do.
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No one knew except the people making the record.
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Did his record label say, hey, let's record this and if it
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comes out great, we'll put it out.
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Doesn't mean you're going to win a Grammy.
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You know, it's very cynical and jaded to be like, it's a
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calculated thing. It happened last summer.
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We'll talk more about that, too. Let me send you for birth.
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Yeah, brother from from Brooke. Yeah.
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Yeah. We send me the promo.
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We're doing vinyl unboxings, a whole bunch of shit.
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This year. We're doing all.
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We're stepping up our game, The Cure.
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The Cure has been nominated for a Grammy several times,
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definitely in their big era of the late 80s, early 90s.
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Ben's been around for 50 years. Finally won two Grammys.
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This is a picture we captured the Cure at at Wyatt Fest 2023,
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which I attended and I I've seen the cure a couple of times and I
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left early to go see Danzig headline on my birthday.
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Sorry, but like this is we still covered the we covered the
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festival, we covered the you know, we got photos, we got a
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review of the cure's career spanning set, you know, good for
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the cure. I'll talk about that.
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You know the alternative, You know the alternative category
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and 9 Inch Nails winning for, you know, best rock song for As
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alive as You need Me to be from Tron eras, one of my favorite
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top five records of last year. Kind.
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You know they didn't acknowledge it on their socials.
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They didn't come even though they are in LA prepping for a
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tour. They did not come to, You know
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they have not acknowledged the win.
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They don't care. They appreciate their fans.
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They love doing the soundtrack. Trent has a very sordid history
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with the Grammys of distaste and dislike and has slammed them.
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So a lot of a lot of wild shit, but OK, good for them.
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And then it brings us to Turnstile.
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And these Turnstile photos you're seeing associated with
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this live stream are courtesy of our homie Annie Atlasman.
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She photographed the band at a headline show in Greece that was
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like thousands of people. And the band put on an
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incredible ripro and show. And this is where I'm absolutely
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not picking on Turnstile. We love them.
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Respect to them, you know, never enough.
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Great album. Is it metal?
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Is it metal? It's kind of punk adjacent and
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punk adjacent is metal adjacent. You know what if you start
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calling everything metal, nothing is but like turns out,
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definitely not metal. Are they heavy as shit live?
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Are they fun? Are they righteous?
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Are they like, you know, whatever you want to say about
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them, like one of the highlights of of the younger generation of
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bands right now? You know, I saw that on the list
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of the 202025 music of Loudwire. Yeah.
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Well, you know, they are putting stuff out.
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But yeah, so these photos are from Greece where they, you
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know, they're literally a headline act now.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they started headlining festivals and
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they had an, their documentary came out at Tribeca Film
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Festival, extremely prestigious. I've got to cover it before for
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a ghost cult and other things. And so just, you know, man, like
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in turn style metal. So let's just take a second.
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I'm going to take a beat and I'm going to run down these winners
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and these categories. So like, on one hand, Spirit Box
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playing on the show. Rarely does metal get to play
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live. So we had two metal performances
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on the show. Grant, you know, Ozzy's tribute
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made the Osbournes cry. You know, they're broken by all
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this. Youngblood was there to, you
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know, accept his award. All the guys were there.
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It was really cool. If you like Jelly Roll, he won
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the best contemporary country artist.
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Country's a kind of horrible genre.
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Jelly Roll's pretty talented. And then he went on like a, you
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know, yeah, he he's he's solid. I, I had was looking forward to
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interviewing him and he was, he missed the festival date I was
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at because he had my vaginas, which sucks.
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But anyway, anyway, let's, let's talk about these things.
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So best rock song was 9 Inch Nails for As Alive As You Need
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Me to Be from Tron Errors up against Caramel Sleep Token Glum
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by Hayley Williams. Good solo album, but certainly
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like that more than the last Paramore album which I did not
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enjoy but OK Good for Haley, Never Enough by Turnstile and
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Zombie by Young. All right, cool Beth rock
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performance was the aforementioned Youngblood
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victory Changes live from Villa Park.
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Youngblood featuring Nuno Betancourt, Frank Bellow, Adam
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Wakeman and two from Sleep Token up against Amalinda Sniffers.
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Pretty good punk rock band. You should not be doing that.
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The Emptiness Machine from Linkin Park, big hit single from
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their comeback album Never Enough Again by Turnstile and
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Mirtazapine by Hayley Williams. Also a pill I used to take.
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It's an anti anxiety medicine Beth rock album and this is
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weird turnstile one for never enough which like OK rock is
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better than metal in terms of what describes their genre.
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They won over I think in an upset over Private Music by
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Deftones. I quit by Haim.
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I don't really consider Haim a rock band.
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Maybe like an alternative indie rock band that has become big
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but like certainly not rockin in my opinion.
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From zero Linkin Park, turnstile wins and idols, which was
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Youngblood's album earlier last year and then here's like best
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metal performance birds by turnstile killer track, best
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track on the record just about and they beat out absolutely
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much more metal bands than Turnstile, Dream Theater, Ghost
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sleep Token and Spirit box. Spirit Box nominated for Soft
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Spine and losing. So I don't know, you know, this
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turnstile best metal performance is that I was actually really
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surprised that Ghost Sleep Token or Spirit Box didn't win.
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I didn't think Dream Theater would win.
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They have won a Grammy before Best alternative music album.
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So here's where The Cure comes in.
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The Cure won both of these alternative categories.
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So there's one metal category and a metal band as far as I'm
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concerned, Much more closer to hardcore and pop punk and indie
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rock, but heavy. And they still play their
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earliest material live. Their heaviest shit.
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But that's alternative music album Sable Fable by Bon Iver.
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Sure. Songs of the Lost World, which
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technically came out and the awards were last weekend.
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The album came out in November of 2024.
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Don't tap the glass tile of the creator, OK?
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Moisturizer by Wet Leg. I love Wet Leg only for coming
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out and like destroying Oasis and Oasis fans and ego death at
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a Bachelorette party. Hayley Williams solo out again,
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much better than Param and so the Cure one.
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And again, it's their first couple of Grammys ever.
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But what that's for what it's worth, feels a little
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performative to give them the Grammy.
25:41
Randar the barbarian says Megadeth Word.
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I did a Megadeth review of their new album on my last live
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stream. Have not done a live stream in a
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few weeks to be honest. Best alternative music
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performance again. Everything is peaceful.
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Love Bon Iver alone by the Cure, Seeing stars by turnstile mange
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out by Wet leg and Parachute by Hayley Williams.
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So not for nothing Turnstile not criticizing the band but to see
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them nominated over like 3 or 4 whole categories, best album,
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different singles, best metal performance just doesn't track
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and it just feels like the Grammys don't get what makes a
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metal band and I'm not. And again like I know sleep
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token fans and Deftones fans are up in arms.
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They really got passed over. I think Private Music was easily
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an incredible outlast and certainly much more metal than
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Turnstile or What is metal. I'm not trying to gatekeep
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things, I'm just trying to say if you're going to have an award
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show, understand what the metal bands are doing and what they
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are. What constitutes a real metal
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band? If you wanted to give the
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Alternative Music Awards to the Cure, then say that, but really,
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Turnstile should have won for those categories and the one of
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the metal bands should have. Now we're down A1 metal
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category. Not best metal song, not best
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metal album, just best metal performance, whatever the fuck
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that means for a single song and not to give it to a metal band
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is weird to me. And then the real band.
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So that's not, I'm not mad about it.
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I'm just, I'm just confuzzled. You get me people.
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I'm just confused. I'm just confused, but OK.
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And then this shit. So again, the immemorium you had
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Roberta Flack very, you know, hugely inspirational female
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singer from the 70s D Angelo died, you know, super
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inspirational artist from the last 30 years.
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And then they, you know, they in memoriams and then they leave
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out my man Dirty B Brent Hines, a master then who has won a
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Grammy. They were nominated for three
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Grammys and won once and like to not have him in the immemorial
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is insane to me. Should they at least not be
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tracking who has won a Grammy in the past and if they passed away
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to mention them? It took us, it would have took a
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second. Just embarrassing for music's
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biggest night. That's to me kind of
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unforgivable. There are other ones people were
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mad about like that not being mentioned.
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They won a lifetime achievement Grammy.
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Some comments in this live on TikTok were filtered out to
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protect the community's experience.
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As always, someone in the comments is being a Jackass.
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Dillinger Compound is here very late at night.
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What's up brother? I'll be back tomorrow with my
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weekly show. I'm just complaining about the
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Grammys and their overall failure to understand metal.
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Metal fans, the metal genre. I like Turnstile a great deal.
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I bought that album. I'm really a big fan of it, of
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them and what they do. But also to not have a metal
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band win the 1 Grammy Award that is actually for metal is insane.
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And again, the slight to Mastodon hurts my feelings.
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New Mastodon album this year. Gorley will probably get
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nominated again. Maybe they will win.
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I hope they dedicate it to Brent.
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And then again, here's this huge turnstile live photo I just
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wanted to bring up one last time.
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You know, pretty damn amazing. And you know, surely one of the
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biggest bands right now in modern heavy music.
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You want to call it all heavy metal?
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You want to cut a pumpkin metal all under one big congealed
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horrific jello mold with fruit in it from the 70s?
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Sure. No shade on U-turn style.
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I just don't think the Grammys should be giving bands that are
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not actually metal a metal award when there's only one left.
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29:59
late night. Thank you, Mimi, thank you
30:01
Dillinger Compound. Thank you Andrew, everybody
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that's a homie. I'm grateful and I'm out.
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I'll be back tomorrow. Much love to you all and more to
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come on this and more and and all the drama of the week in
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rocket metal later today. Thank you.
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CBE Hood TV. What's up, brother?
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Good to see you peace out. Grammys do better or don't do
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any. You know, might as well like it
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better when they didn't have any metal at all on the show and
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then at least I felt better. But all right, I'm out.
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Peace.