I don’t know why, but I watched (most of) the Grammys last night. Now, I think the Grammys have about as much to do with music as Limp Bizkit, but I did find a few things that made me happy in last night’s broadcast.
- The Flaming Lips won a grammy. Yeah! The wife brought up a good point about the Lips last night as we were watching a TiVo’d performance of them performing on David Letterman: “whatever Wayne does just makes me smile.” True. That guy is just infectious with his positive vibe. Or, as he put it in Five Stop Mother Superior Rain: “And all my smiles are gettin’ in the hate generation’s way”.
- Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello and Little Steven performing the Clash’s London Calling. I know, it sounds terrible, but they did a pretty good job.
- Eminem’s performance. This actually got some props from the wife as well.
The rest of the Grammys sucked as usual.