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Now that the Grammy’s have passed, I never discussed who I would vote for if I had a vote (as you probably guessed by now, I do not have a vote).  While there is a limit in the number of awards a voter can vote for, I am ignoring this for this post and making choices for several awards.   General Record of the Year I was fine with any of them winning except for “Now and Then”, though I also wouldn’t have been the biggest fan of “Texas Hold ‘Em” winning.   I largely went back and forth between “Birds of a Feather”, “Not Like Us”, and “360”, while going with the former due to the performance and production.   That said, I thought “360” was the best produced of the nominees. Choice:   “Birds of a Feather”, Billie Eilish   Album of the Year The one album in this award that I didn’t review was Chappell Roan’s (I didn’t think it would explode like it did when it was released in 2023).   I considered this year to be a weak year in this award; ...

This post is a recap of my predictions for the Grammys.  In addition to the winner, I ranked each in order by likelihood of winning in my opinion (note that this is not the order that I think they will finish in; rather, this is the order of who I think is most likely to win, which would most likely not match the final vote tallies, which are never released).  For more information about each award, check out the corresponding podcast episode.  I'll give the caveat that I was torn between a few for several awards, so it's entirely possible that the overall percentage of awards that I get right is not high; that said, I expect several that I get wrong will include ones where the winner was one I thought was possible.     General Field Record of the Year “Espresso”, Sabrina Carpenter “Now and Then”, The Beatles “Texas Hold ‘Em”, Beyonce “Birds of a Feather”, Billie Eilish “Not Like Us”, Kendrick Lamar “Good Luck, Babe!”, Chappell Roan “Fortnight”, Taylor ...

My last podcast episode discussed the top 10 albums of 2024, and this is a corresponding post.  I included the top 100 albums of the year, the best in several genres or conditions, and the worst of the year. All images are from Wikipedia.   Credit for the album cover belong to whomever owns the rights to the cover (likely either the record label, performing artist, or cover artist).  The album cover pictured is bolded in the list, as the album cover chosen is not always the number 1 album listed.   Top-100 Albums Evergreen , Soccer Mommy Las Letras Ya No Importan , Residente Frog in Boiling Water , DIIV She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She , Chelsea Wolfe Chromakopia , Tyler, the Creator X’s , Cigarettes After Sex What Now , Brittany Howard God Said No , Omar Apollo You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To , Knocked Loose Songs of a Lost World , The Cure Psykos , Yung Lean & Bladee Raw Blue , Whirr Come Ahead , Primal Scream Passage du Desir , Johnny Blu...