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https://www.yahoo.com/music/beck-respon ... 53256.html

Can ye come up with something different. Ask Kim for some help.

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I think they should give him a Grammy just so the entire audience can rush the stage in protest.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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One compared the number of songwriters on Hansen's new-folk album, Morning Phase (which has now topped the iTunes chart in the United States) to Beyonce's self-titled album.
Beyonce used a team of 25 writers and 16 producers,. Beck just one: himself.

Another comparison was the number of instrumental credits each artist received. Beck sang and played 17 instruments on Morning Phase including a charango and a zither.
Beyonce sang.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/gra ... z3RNl30WR3
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Who are all these people?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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I have a distinct memory of the last time I watched the Grammys - it was the year Tracy Chapman won best new artist.

I bought Morning Phase for my devices as soon as it released.

I have never bought a Beyonce or Kanye album, nor listened purposefully to one of their songs. Maybe they are good? Certainly they make money. I tend to shy away from trends until they become classics - Beck is an instant classic.
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Beyonce is good at wiggling her ass and miming to other people's songs. Which, I suppose, is as good as it gets in pop music these days.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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I guess I should have said, although I don't watch the Grammys anymore, I do 'get' that awards shows are meaningful to the people who toil in the industry - especially the ones who don't get wildly wealthy like trendy musicians do.

I think it's shit that Kanye did that to Beck. I think it's ridiculous that the Grammys are probably gladder for the publicity of it than they are regretful for the ruination of Beck's moment of glory.
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Never watched the Grammy's nor the Oscars, nor the Tony's nor the Emmys even though the engineering team I was part of won two Emmy's. They were for engineering and were not part of the broadcast awards.

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jeff beck, meade, one of the greatest guitar players of all time.

ring a bell?

sheesh man, you gotta keep up with modern music man, get with it!

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Silly wesw...

It was Glen Beck not Jeff Beck!!

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truth.

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That's Glenn Beck
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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baby when you walk, you know what, you shake just like a wil-low tree....

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I'd like to join my colleagues and say, "That's Glenn Beck". But who he?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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you and me, we sweat and toil, our bodies all naked and wracked with pain.... ...now listen to me...

you better lift that barge, you better tote that bale, and if you get a little drunk, you ll la-and in ga-ol

ba da da dunt da dah da daaah

I m so weary, I m sick of tryin' , I m so tired of livin' but I m afraid of dyin, and that gosh- darned old river....

.... he just keeps, rollin' a-long.....

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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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