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...Colin Greenwood, guitarist for Radiohead, said to me: "I think he [Eminem] should win. He sold the most records and people are talking about him. Isn't than why these awards are given out?" It was hard to tell if he was being serious, ironic or just British. In any case, Greenwood changed the subject quickly. "Look at that room over there - I've never seen so many power books in my life...
...Steely Dan for their boring, old-school album "Two Against Nature." Grammy had passed over D'Angelo and Fiona Apple, sided with the bigoted but talented Eminem, and ended up with a winner that was several decades out of date. At an afterparty, Phil Selway of Radiohead suggested he was glad his band didn't win Album of the Year. "It was really Eminem's award. Nothing against Steely Dan, but people were expecting Eminem...
...expression, never fully embracing the proudly incompetent Sex Pistols or the proudly impersonal technowizards like the Orb and Aphex Twin, all beloved by Europeans. What could most rankle American rock audiences is the Chicks' rejection of the notions that 1) good rock music is either soulful, finely wrought craftsmanship (Radiohead) or cathartic guitar bombast (Nirvana) and 2) letting producers help compose your songs is only for teenyboppers like Britney Spears. "Bands don't give the producers credit for actually taking part creatively," says Logan. "With technology it's possible to do a lot of different things and do them really...
...cool, there a good chance they might hand you crappy stuff like 'N Sync, Brian McKnight and Eminem. Or they might give you good stuff like Beck, D'Angelo and OutKast. So I usually buy a lot to maximize the chance I'll end up with the South American Radiohead rather than the South American Mandy Moore. One Mandy Moore per continent is plenty...
...justify the expense of my editors' sending me down here. I was going to use the concept that Rock in Rio was about saving the soul of rock 'n' roll, but I think I used that one a few months back when I went to Glasgow to interview Radiohead...