Will anybody notice the LL Cool J looks like Christopher Dorner?

idc because I will be watching the Downton Abbey 2-parter that airs opposite

but how ''Johnny B. Goode'' (which came out during the first year the Grammys were handed out) didn't sweep that first show is anybody's guess.

He obviously took himself out of the running because he felt guilty about getting the song during a phone call from his cousin about some white boy performing it.

And Guns n Roses should have gotten a Grammy for something. Appetite was one of the best rock albums of all time and half of Use Your Illusion 1&2 were pretty good too.

/commence flaming

Will who usurp what from whom?  The what code, you say?.  NO!

The no side boob memo was a deal breaker. I'm watching the Walking Dead.

WhyteRaven74: Johnny B. Goode didn't sweep the show because the Grammy Awards are notoriously conservative and aren't really about trying to reward the best music, just what's the best without rocking the boat. And yes part of that conservatism has been hints of racism at times. And it's not that the musicians, song writers etc are that way, it's the people who actually make the awards happen that are.

I'd also add that moneymaking acts are more the types of acts they want to push.  I mean, some years, there are acts that are so obviously going to sweep it that they could be named "Hitler Anal Raped Zero Mostel" and still win it all.

The Grammys might be the best Twitter night of the year. Musicians taking themselves too seriously is comedy fodder.

I'm rewatching Lost on Netflix. So....yeah.

EvilEgg: The no side boob memo was a deal breaker. I'm watching the Walking Dead.

Between Walking Dead, BSG and Bob's Burgers I think I'm gonna pass on the Grammys.

worlddan: If either Mumford and Sons or the Lumineers win anything I'll declare music dead.

/Must be the only TCW fan who despises both groups.

I like Mumford and Sons but Frank Ocean deserves to win everything this year. I don't even really like his genre (R&B makes me feel cranky for some reason), but Channel Orange was a great album.

Somebody let me know when the Black Keys perform.

I'll be watching Once Upon a Time and then The Walking Dead.  I'll catch any of the scandalous Grammy stuff on Fark later.

Mugato: And Guns n Roses should have gotten a Grammy for something

They didn't start winning awards and accolades for Appetite until two years after the album was released. Because unlike the Oscars/Emmys/Golden Globes, the Grammies, Brits, AMW, MTVA and PCA don't recognize when music is released, they always recognize when it gets popular. Appetite for Destruction actually sat on the shelves for 10 months collecting dust until MTV discovered Sweet Child o' Mine and began caning it incessantly.... AND THEN the album shot to another one. AND THEN sports arenas wore out Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City incessantly. AND THEN the brass start noticing.

So you have Slash and Izzy absolutely shiatfaced winning awards in 1990 for an Album they released in 1987.

The music industry is farked and has always been farked, and it's never been truly representative of what the people actually like and listen to (I suppose you could say that about all awards shows, but at least the Oscars tries to have some integrity). It's been farked ever since the very first year when Alvin & The Chipmunks won three awards.

That's right. The 1950s equivalent of the farking jingle cats took home the most Grammies in its inaugural year.

Seth'n'Spectrum: Popcorn Johnny: Somebody let me know when the Black Keys perform.

Funny band. Brilliant live, boring as hell on a record.

They're just...toogeneric sometimes.  Not that they're bad per se, just...generic.

All I know is that MCA better be the anchor in the death montage.

Will Katie Perry's shirt buttons hold for the whole ceremony?

Well, Taylor Swift discovered drugs, so that's something.

JerseyTim: Well, Taylor Swift discovered drugs, so that's something.

That thing looked like a bad acid trip.

LL has already licked his lips three times.

Sodomite! I would have soiled Taylor Swift twice by now.

JerseyTim: LL has already licked his lips three times.

Very nice of Jack White to bring Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas.

That was terrible.