Herbie Hancock Just Won Album Of The Year

[sweetcell]

good for hancock.
 
 can someone explain to me the difference between album of the year (won by hancock) vs. record of the year (won by winehouse)?  are they just double-dipping here?
 
 i didn't watch the show last night, but just caught the youtube of a few performances, including amy's acceptance speech (reminded me a little of benigni at the oscars) and kanye's "stronger" - with daft punk, who as far as i know were not announced as being part of the show.  way cool seeing them in action inside of the pyramid.

[Sage 703]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  good for hancock.
 
 can someone explain to me the difference between album of the year (won by hancock) vs. record of the year (won by winehouse)?  are they just double-dipping here?
 
 i didn't watch the show last night, but just caught the youtube of a few performances, including amy's acceptance speech (reminded me a little of benigni at the oscars) and kanye's "stronger" - with daft punk, who as far as i know were unannounce.  way cool seeing them in action inside of the pyramid.

I'm convinced that everything going on inside the pyramid was fake.  I'm not even convinced it was actually Daft Punk - the two guys were moving FAR more than Daft Punk seems when they perform as part of the ALIVE tour.  I think they just designed that so it would look cool on TV.  It didn't look as though they were actually doing anything legit.

[eros]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
 
 can someone explain to me the difference between album of the year (won by hancock) vs. record of the year (won by winehouse)?  are they just double-dipping here?
 

Truth by consensus
 
 Many wonder what the difference is between Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year:
 
 Record of the Year is awarded for a single or for one track from an album. This award goes to the performing artist, the producer, recording engineer, and/or mixer for that song. In this sense, "record" means a recording of one song, not the composition or an album of songs.
 
 Song of the Year is also awarded for a single or individual track, but the recipient of this award is the songwriter who actually created the song in the first place. Thus, "song" in this context means the song as written, not its recording.
 
 Album of the Year is awarded for a whole album, and the award is presented to the artist, producer, recording engineer, and mastering engineer for that album. So, in this context, "album" means a recorded collection of songs (a multi-track LP, CD, or download package), not the individual songs or their compositions.

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  can someone explain to me the difference between album of the year (won by hancock) vs. record of the year (won by winehouse)?  are they just double-dipping here?
 

The Grammys really haven't gotten with the times.  They still think it's 1977 and Billy Joel just released "The Stranger."
 
 "Album of the Year" is what I think, used to be called an "L.P."  Trippy graphics you could stare at for hours, bad ninth-grade English liner notes...somewhere to separate the stems and seeds.  A collection of songs that you illegally download.
 
 "Record of the Year" is what I think used to be called a "single."  45?  33?  Something.  A single song that you illegally download.  Nevermind, that "Rehab" wasn't actually released as a commercial single in the US (and even in the U.K. it was released in 2006) just be glad they didn't give an another award to Quincy Jones or Paul Simon's "Graceland."
 
 Brian

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
 
 can someone explain to me the difference between album of the year (won by hancock) vs. record of the year (won by winehouse)?  are they just double-dipping here?
 

Album of the year is for best full length album. Record of the year is for best single-track recording.
 
 Now, of course, your next question is obviously going to be: what's the difference between record of the year (won by Winehouse) and song of the year (also won by Winehouse)? In theory, the record award goes to the performer and is based on the preformance whereas song of the year is judged on the songwriting and is actually awarded to the song writer (who may not appear on the recording at all). I have no hard statistics to back this up, but from my recollection, at least of late, they're usually awarded to the same song so it is kinda double dipping.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Oh man, I got double beat to the punch that time. Julian's slowing in his old age.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
   

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  can someone explain to me the difference between album of the year (won by hancock) vs. record of the year (won by winehouse)?  are they just double-dipping here?
 

The Grammys really haven't gotten with the times.  They still think it's 1977 and Billy Joel just released "The Stranger."
 
 
 Brian [/b]

Translation... None of the over produced pro-tooled to death artists i think every hipster should burn their Fuck Buttons records and listen to instead got nominated...

[Frank Gallagher]

So I was hanging out with Tico Torres last night and wished him good luck on the grammy nomination......I'm assuming they didn't win shit huh?
 
 BTW, I really was hanging out with Tico Torres last night. Did you know he's only about 5 feet tall???

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by callat703:
  I'm convinced that everything going on inside the pyramid was fake.  I'm not even convinced it was actually Daft Punk - the two guys were moving FAR more than Daft Punk seems when they perform as part of the ALIVE tour.  I think they just designed that so it would look cool on TV.  It didn't look as though they were actually doing anything legit.

yeah, true dat - nail in the coffin is comparing the grammy video to  this view of what the real pyramid looks like.  unless DP radically redesigned their IU (and, one assumes, the underlying tech too), that was indeed all for show.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'll bite. Is he in one of those Contemporary Latin bands?
 
 
 

Originally posted by Brain Walrus:
  So I was hanging out with Tico Torres last night and wished him good luck on the grammy nomination......I'm assuming they didn't win shit huh?
 
 BTW, I really was hanging out with Tico Torres last night. Did you know he's only about 5 feet tall???

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I'll bite. Is he in one of those Contemporary Latin bands?
 
 
   

Originally posted by Brain Walrus:
  So I was hanging out with Tico Torres last night and wished him good luck on the grammy nomination......I'm assuming they didn't win shit huh?
 
 BTW, I really was hanging out with Tico Torres last night. Did you know he's only about 5 feet tall???

[/b]

Are you kidding?  The drummer for Bon Jovi?!?!
 
 He used to be married to this:
 
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 Brian

[alex]

Originally posted by Mobius:
 The Grammys are an award for music.  Its not a pop culture coronation like the VMAs.

The fact that Fergie has won three Grammy's pretty much nullifies this point.

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by RonniStar:
  I heard it for the 1st time, and I was not impressed. I did hear Clint Black take jabs at Kanye West. That was funny, and I'm no country fan.

that was vince gill. . .unless clint black won something earlier in the broadcast. . .

[Mobius]

Originally posted by Brandon Brendall, the thief:
   

Originally posted by Mobius:
 The Grammys are an award for music.  Its not a pop culture coronation like the VMAs.

The fact that Fergie has won three Grammy's pretty much nullifies this point. [/b]

I think that nullifies all points.  I think that nullifies western civilization.

[Darth Ed]

Originally posted by Merlin Mann on Twitter.com:
 Breakdancers we spoke with say Hancock's win won't affect their 24-year boycott of the artist's "whack post-Rockit" work. Back to you, Tom.

If you're on Twitter, I highly recommend following Merlin Mann ( http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies  on Twitter). His postings are hilarious.