Posted on 01/05/2026 3:51:17 AM PST by MarlonRando
n this episode, I compare this year's Grammy nominees for Song of the Year to the 1984 Song of the Year nominees.
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yes, the Robocop—“I’d buy that for a dollar.”
What the hell?
My Mom taught public high school for decades and left to teach at a trade school after integration. When someone asked her why she left public school she said, "Integration was supposed to raise blacks to a new level of academic excellence, Instead I saw whites descend to blacks' manners, music and morals."
Eh, award shows mean nothing. A lot of great music came out last year. But none of it was high profile enough to land in award land.
Nothing nowadays about it. That’s always been the dirty little secret of hip hop, the money is always in appealing to white middle class kids.
On top of that individual creativity creates different sounds and harmonies, different lyrics, actual music that some people will like and some won’t. Modern music producers don’t want that. They want a manufactured sound that they have tested and know will appeal to the largest number of listeners. Mass produced music for the masses. Good return on their investment. Screw creativity and uniqueness. Listen to almost any country song and you’ll hear it. They all sound vaguely similar because that is what producers have found sells. Taylor Swift in her early country days was the epitome of that. But the girl raked in the cash writing and singing the same song over and over.
The winner for Best Rock and Roll Song for 1964 was “Downtown” by Petula Clark, which, with its downtempo bolero beat, is most certainly not a rock and roll song. My choice would have been She’s the One by the Chartbusters.
Electric guitar is one thing, but the karaoke machine is en vogue with choirs if they’re still used. And the entertainment companies push “praise” music, or as my minister calls it, “Charismatic worship”.
The 2008 Baptist Hymnal was the worst offender. So many Charismatic Worship songs that it seemed the big entertainment giants had control. Big Entertainment has seized control of many churches. I lament that. Derek Thomas and Mark Ross are huge fans of Bach. As does Albert Mohler.
Not to mention all that Motown! Fantastic riches.
I would hope that a Baptist hymnal would contain a few hymns by some of the great Baptist hymnodists such as Howard Doane ("Near the Cross"), George Stebbens ("Meet Me There"), or Robert Lowry ("Marching to Zion").
They were trying to do that from the get-go. Billy Ford sings of how the music establishment waged a "musical war" against rock and roll, which they tried to kill by promoting calypso music, Hawaiian ballads, country western, etc., all in vain.
The Monster--Billy Ford & the Thunderbirds (1958)
Indeed, and all the Southern soul being cranked out by the Stax/Volt diskery in Memphis, Tenn.
The term describing them is
‘Whigger’.
And no standards. I learned the hard way. People with awful music influenced by MTV.
Vangelis. Enya. etc..
Napoleon marched his men to Waterloo.
What did he say to them?
"Vo do deo vo do do deo do"
Washington at Valley Forge,
Frostbit and cold, and up spoke George:
"Vo do do vo do do deo do."
And Simon Legree at Uncle Tom's cabin,
What did he say to Uncle Tom? I'll tell you what,
He took his whip and said to Uncle Tom,
"Come on and Charleston!"
And in the Senate the other day,
What did our President Coolidge say?
"Vo do do vo do do deo do."
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