The Grammy nominees were announced not too long ago and I finally got around to putting up Grammy Picks on Ice Cream Helmet. With the Emmys I set it up to easily add award games to ICH. Turns out I got a little lazy in that effort. But now, it is easy. So look forward to the Oscars again plus the Golden Globes. If you think other award shows are worthy, then drop a comment and let me know.
For Grammy Picks, I picked the 35 categories I though most people might care about (there are 78 total categories). I’m still not entirely sure the different between Performance and Song. I can kind of guess, but I’m not sure which is which. I also went with some interesting categories from the bottom of the list for Spoken Word, Music Videos, Historical, Boxed Sets, Liner Notes, maybe some other I forgot about.
The Grammys are on February 12th at 8pm Eastern on CBS (hint, that’s the deadline). You can create your groups and make your picks now.
The Pearl Jam Twenty documentary has seemingly been everywhere the past few months. I caught it on PBS. I’m not a Pearl Jam diehard. I appreciate them but I don’t listen to them regularly. I have some friends who are diehards, so I know what it means to be truly committed. I’m saying that you can just like them a little bit and still be drawn into this doc.
I’ll admit, most of the reason I love this video is that it’s filmed around home. Lansdale. Hatfield. Then some Philly. But I do like me some Wonder Years (both the band and the TV show which I can finally watch completely now that it’s on Netflix).
Yellowcard released an acoustic version of their last album, “When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes”. I’m of the opinion that the special edition of any Yellowcard should be the non-acoustic version. Just go ahead and release the acoustic edition first. Same goes with posting music videos, post on Vimeo first, then get around to YouTube.
“You and me driving with a Saves the Day record on”
I mentioned I listened to the new Matthew Sweet album the other day. It wasn’t very good. But when I found it on Spotify it let me to his old catalog, which included this gem. I’m sure you have a mixtape somewhere with this song on it.
Bonus bonus points for what looks like a VHS of this video from MTV.
Oddly, I haven’t listened to much Man Overboard much. This album probably came out a few weeks ago, but along with most things, I’m behind. Listened to the whole album, which is self-titled, and the whole thing was added to my daily playlist. This is the first track and at the very start I didn’t think I was going to like it, but once this song got rolling, I knew I’d be in for the whole album.
Other stuff I listened to today while I worked on some things: Madina Lake, The Frantic, The Cab, Divided By Friday, Jason Derulo, Letters From Home, and Matthew Sweet. Wow, I listened to a ton today. Besides Man Overboard, the Divided By Friday EP made the playlist.
Wow an official video for this song? The line popped into my head this morning, as songs do but I’m usually not by the computer or I don’t want to share that it was an Avril song the finally got a Selena song out of my head (which happened this week).
“We should get jerseys cause we make a good team.”
The obvious next step, figure out what Oasis songs I had in my playlist. I had three. And it wasn’t very interesting: Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, and Don’t Go Away. After some digging, I’m up to about 10.
Oasis was my favorite band at one point, somewhere around 8th or 9th grade. Oasis was my first concert. The past 10 years or so? Not so much Oasis. Except for my two years at work when I could only listen to CDs (no internet or iPod), I’m pretty sure I spun a lot of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
So here is a less than a huge hit, which is one of my favorites. It’s off The Masterplan, which if you don’t remember, was an album of B-Sides which was better than almost everything else out at the time.
Not sure this is peppy enough for the summer soundtrack. But just listen. It’s so familiar and catchy. A few seconds in, it sounds like you’ve heard it a thousand times before.
I was a big fan of this song a few months ago, but couldn’t find it anywhere online to share. The other day I was catching up on my feeds and this popped in. Enjoy.
