Blind Item #13 - Grammy Awards
This group was nominated for a Grammy, but lets be honest, their time to shine was over a decade ago. Their public face still thinks the band is A++ list and treats women like it. At a party last night he got rejected from woman after woman. He finally managed to hook up with a woman who remembered the band and also thought they were still relevant. She was drunk, so maybe that is why she thought they were still good.
Blink 182/Travis Barker
ReplyDeleteDave Mustaine\Megadeth or. James from Metallica.
ReplyDeleteIf it's Blink 182, it was their first ever Grammy nomination for 2016's Best Rock Album, so I wouldn't relegate them to the has-been pile just yet.
ReplyDeleteGreat guesses. I'm not much into heavy metal so I never think of them.
ReplyDeleteThe guy from Metalicia.
ReplyDeleteMetallica just announced a major stadium tour, and they are probably among the two/three biggest names in metal. No way it's them.
ReplyDeleteYou aren't missing much these days, metal has jumped the shark.
ReplyDeleteTribe Called Quest Q Tip
ReplyDelete...or the drunk woman, thought, hey, he's an old musician and he's the only guy hitting on me. How bad could it be?
ReplyDeleteYa. Metallica will always be relevant and have cemented a place for themselves in rock n roll history. This is more along the lines of a Blink 182
ReplyDeleteWeezer?
ReplyDeleteMetallica is James and Lars. Dave Mustaine actually won last night. Plus we re talking
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking Disturbed, Korn, Blink or Weeezer. Those are groups who had the limelight 10 years ago and faded.
Huh, Radiohead was nominated too so there is another contender. I didn't even know they were still around.
ReplyDeleteMetallica doesn't make sense at all. First, they've been relevant for a long, long time (and saying their heyday was 10 years ago is like saying "Paul McCartney was relevant in the 70's and 80's" ignoring that he became a global icon in the 60's). Second, they've won tons of grammys over the years (first win being in 1990, most recent been in 2009), so a nomination this year isn't particulary surprising. Third, Hetfield (the face) has been sober for a couple years. The story would be more about him falling off the wagon if he was drinking, not on him trying desperately to hook up with women.
ReplyDeleteBlink 182 does make a lot more sense, imo. Tribe Called Quest's hey-day was late 80's to early 90's, when they put out their 3 truly big-time albums). Weezer was really at their peak 16-17 years ago, having emerged over 22 years ago with their big debut album. Korn was also more of a 90's sensation. Blink 182 started in the late 90's, but they were at their peak in the early aughts, when they were all over MTV, etc. They were last truly relevant around 2003-04, as they broke up after that and Tom DeLonge left, but Barker kept his name and the band 'relevant' by being on reality shows, etc. for several years after the split.
Metallica willl aways be A+ . Blink 182 sounds right
ReplyDeleteHeh, De La Soul. There is another blast from the past.
ReplyDeleteDon't know that they've been irrelevant for over a decade. In Rainbows (released late 2007) went Platinum. King of Limbs (released 2011) went Gold. A Moon Shaped Pool (their 2016 album) went Platinum.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Blink 182's album, California, went 'silver' with 186,000 units sold. Even in the modern digital sales world, that's fairly small-time by comparison.
I think it's Weezer or maybe Blink 182.
ReplyDeleteWeezer.
ReplyDeleteYep
ReplyDeleteRadiohead were not there! And irrelevant is not a term I would use for a band who's every rare show sells out in minutes or less and nearly every album since OK Computer has been been nominated for or won a Grammy. Just bc they're not as commercially minded as Coldplay for example doesn't mean they're not hugely successful and beyond relevant (and also Coldplay is terrible).
ReplyDeleteTribe is so relevant they gave the most relevant performance of the show last night, a song written prior to our current political nightmare but yet eerie in its message. Watch them win next yr when they are eligible.
That said the only guess that truly makes sense is Korn given the clues. Not my cup of tea but Metallica, Weezer, Blink and Megadeth don't tick all boxes.
@Lurky McLurkster how dare you! I'm sorry everyone has a right to their opinions, but it is hard for me to see someone lightheartedly joking about a band I have loved for literally my entire life...
ReplyDeleteRadiohead is very much alive and well and still relevant, have been since their breakout album. In Rainbows was critically praised, along with the King of Limbs album and their most recent, A Moon Shaped Pool.
Just because an artist is hot at the moment doesn't mean their music is actually good. I don't follow trends. There are so many shitty faces pushed out there every other week for the manufactured bubblegum pop machine... Sorry but I will take real, meaningful music over the artist of the minute any day.
So many one-hit wonders get awards now. Grammys have been a joke for years. History will remember those who had a message and emotion behind their music, not just those who made an impact on sales alone.
Ugh... I hate modern pop culture. It has been on the decline for the past ten+ years.
Metallica are forever A list. Their last album hit #1 in Billboard. So the answer is Blink 182.
ReplyDeleteHey! i just got tickets for system of a down at download this year. 100k+ drunk metal fans in a field! Heaven.
ReplyDeleteYou should hold out for the Metallica, Avenged 7fold, Volbeat summer stadiums tour.
ReplyDeleteweezer
ReplyDeleteLet's keep in mind that Enty's music blinds always suck but logic says Blink.
ReplyDeleteIf it is Metallica, their public face - interviews etc. - is Lars. James barely talks to anyone.
[…] February 13, 2017 […]
ReplyDelete