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StarTribune article on Prince's Grammy win, Time reunion http://www.startribune.co...99751.html
A taste of the 1980s Minneapolis Sound
February 10, 2008 Minnesota was in the house at Sunday's Grammys. In fact, Minnesota dominated the first 20 minutes. Prince presented the first prize, and then Jimmy Jam, chairman of the Recording Academy, started to give a speech, only to be interrupted by fellow members of the Time, Morris Day and Jerome Benton. It was time for the Time's first performance in 18 years, an abbreviated rendition of "Jungle Love" (from "Purple Rain") that segued into the Time backing Rihanna, one of today's biggest stars, on "Umbrella" and "Please Don't Stop the Music." Cool. As it turned out, Prince was the only Minnesota resident to go home with a Grammy. Nominated for two trophies, Prince earned one, for "Future Baby Mama," a track on his "Planet Earth," honored as best male R&B vocal performance. It is his seventh Grammy. The Minnesota Orchestra and music director Osmo Vänskä, nominated for best orchestral performance for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, saw the trophy go to Leonard Slatkin, former Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest artistic director, now with the Nashville Symphony, who landed three Grammys Sunday. Minneapolis guitarist Brian Setzer missed out in the classical crossover category, as his "Wolfgang's Big Night Out" lost to Turtle Island Quartet's "A Love Supreme." But Hopkins High School graduate Andrew Dawson practically couldn't miss in the best-rap-album category since he served as engineer on four of the five nominees. He merited a Grammy for his work on Kanye West's "Graduation." Windom native and University of Minnesota graduate Maria Schneider, a celebrated New York jazz composer/conductor, captured her second Grammy, for best instrumental composition for "Cerulean Skies." However, she struck out for best large jazz ensemble recording. JON BREAM | |
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Congrats to Prince | |
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He gets it! That's why the ladies love him...  | |
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Beautiful song, congrats!!
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Congrats to P!
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Prince.org is a cemetery where folks mourn Prince instead of celebrate him and his music. Last time I checked, Prince isn't dead yet.
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great song - P deserves the grammy
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Still winning awardz after all these yearz. | |
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I'm not a huge fan of the song myself, but We are stardust. We are golden.
Feb. 12th -28th: Two weeks of corporate and nationalistic dick-stroking in the guise of a sporting event. I can not wait. | |
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Prince: a thirty year career, One Oscar and seven Grammys
EXPENSIVE SHIT | |
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UncleGrandpa said: Prince: a thirty year career, One Oscar and seven Grammys
Alicia Keys: a six years and counting career and eleven Grammys Amy Winehouse: A four years and counting career and five Grammys Do I detect some type of imbalnce here?  Well, the competition back then was much more fierce. | |
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Perhaps we should have 'PrinceFans/FamsUnited' against the injustice of his lack of Grammy awards! Wake up children, dance the dance electric... there isn't much time.... who screamed? Was it U...? | |
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please, "FBM" sucks rotten eggs. | |
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Bloomsday1 said: please, "FBM" sucks rotten eggs.
I'll give u a little more time and u will be starting a thread talking about it hit me, it finally hit me, what was I listening 2 when this came out (FBM)  | |
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Hi Anxiety! Great article... I see your city/state was all over the Grammy's this year | |
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pennylover said: Hi Anxiety! Great article... I see your city/state was all over the Grammy's this year
 
what can i tellya - where i'm at is where it is  | |
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UncleGrandpa said: Prince: a thirty year career, One Oscar and seven Grammys
Alicia Keys: a six years and counting career and eleven Grammys Amy Winehouse: A four years and counting career and Ten Crackpipes Do I detect some type of imbalnce here? fixed 
But good on P this song is a good one Receiving transmission from David Bowie's nipple antenna. Do you read me Lieutenant Bowie, I said do you read me...Lieutenant Bowie | |
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kcwm said: UncleGrandpa said: Prince: a thirty year career, One Oscar and seven Grammys
Alicia Keys: a six years and counting career and eleven Grammys Amy Winehouse: A four years and counting career and Ten Crackpipes Do I detect some type of imbalnce here? fixed
But good on P this song is a good one NO, NO, NO,  EXPENSIVE SHIT | |
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Absolutely Fantastic!! Well done Prince "Mo chuisle mo chroí" 
All day, all night...You can be my baby, I'll make you feel alright... | |
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Purple Fact #542: Prince can make a Weeble™ fall down. | |
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That did NOT look like Jerome with the mirror.....was that him? Ludwig: You find yourself amusing, Blackadder.
Blackadder: I try not to fly in the face of public opinion. | |
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MrsGoodnight said: Absolutely Fantastic!! Well done Prince
But.... why, oh why, OH WHY didn't we get to see Prince receiving this prestigious award?! He looked fab-u-lous! I had to stop myself from licking the screen and had to make do with shoving my fist into my mouth and squealing 
The Time were brilliant - right up until Rhianna started sqwaking that fuckin umbrella song  Now I have nothing against Rhianna, I quite like her (apart from the aforementioned 'fuckin umbrella song') but this collab just didn't work at all.YES he was lookin "2 sexy" for the crowd hair was sumthing new but i liked it havent seen him in a complete red suit since 94 hav u had ur + sign 2 day.
 wish u heaven
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Se7en said: UncleGrandpa said: Prince: a thirty year career, One Oscar and seven Grammys
Alicia Keys: a six years and counting career and eleven Grammys Amy Winehouse: A four years and counting career and five Grammys Do I detect some type of imbalnce here? Well, the competition back then was much more fierce. This is true. Funny that the talent is so lacking nowadays that shit like "My Humps" gets nominated for a Grammy. The Grammys are shit anyway. Remember, they gave one to Milli Vanilli back in the day, while music from people like Ani DiFranco, Damien Rice, Sufjan Stevens, Beth Orton, and Andrew Bird has been ignored. I expect that Prince will receive more Grammys if he continues to put out albums. I think folks are starting to realize the he's one the of few genuine, time-tested talents out there, and they're going to start giving Prince Grammys for just about anything to sort of make up for the fact that he was passed over back in the day. The same thing happened to Joni Mitchell. She didn't get her due back in her prime, and then they started showering her with awards all of the sudden. Joni herself lamented that she felt they were only giving her awards because they felt like they should honor her for SOMETHING. The fact that Prince's most recent Grammy wins were for songs that rank about average in his body of work (e.g., "Future Baby Mamma", "Call My Name") confirm my thoughts on this matter. - [Edited 2/11/08 18:46pm] "I Was FINE Back in the Day!" | |
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PicassoFace said: Se7en said: Well, the competition back then was much more fierce. This is true. Funny that the talent is so lacking nowadays that shit like "My Humps" gets nominated for a Grammy. The Grammys are shit anyway. Remember, they gave one to Milli Vanilli back in the day, while music from people like Ani DiFranco, Damien Rice, Sufjan Stevens, Beth Orton, and Andrew Bird has been ignored. I expect that Prince will receive more Grammys if he continues to put out albums. I think folks are starting to realize the he's one the of few genuine, time-tested talents out there, and they're going to start giving Prince Grammys for just about anything to sort of make up for the fact that he was passed over back in the day. The same thing happened to Joni Mitchell. She didn't get her due back in her prime, and then they started showering her with awards all of the sudden. Joni herself lamented that she felt they were only giving her awards because they felt like they should honor her for SOMETHING. The fact that Prince's most recent Grammy wins were for songs that rank about average in his body of work (e.g., "Future Baby Mamma", "Call My Name") confirm my thoughts on this matter. - [Edited 2/11/08 18:46pm] 
I think they're guilt-Grammys, really. In these past few years people have been falling all over themselves to praise Our Hero and work with him and shower him with accolades and awards and claim they've always been fans and that the Symbol was a great statement. But where the hell was everybody before 2004? I think it's finally caught up with the movers and shakers in the industry that not only is he a force to be reckoned with at the business table, but that he's been largely ignored and brushed off as a musician when he didn't deserve it. They're trying to retroactively make up for things like SOTT being robbed of it's award-deserving status, and Prince being made the butt of jokes for years. We are stardust. We are golden.
Feb. 12th -28th: Two weeks of corporate and nationalistic dick-stroking in the guise of a sporting event. I can not wait. | |
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4EVER ~ ~ | |
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yeah i remember when they started giving them to JB, sort of a thanks for sticking around grammy.when i was young and JB won a grammy over prince i was pissed and nowadays i wouldnt blame fans of chris brown and ne-yo for feeling the same. BET seems to be kissing purple asscheeks as well | |
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BlackAdder7 said: That did NOT look like Jerome with the mirror.....was that him?
Yeah, that was definately Jerome. And the article said that it was the first time The Time had performed together in 18 years?!!! Surely that's not right...they are on the Prince Rave Into The Year 2000 dvd doing Junglelove and The Bird!! | |
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DaveT said: BlackAdder7 said: That did NOT look like Jerome with the mirror.....was that him?
Yeah, that was definately Jerome. And the article said that it was the first time The Time had performed together in 18 years?!!! Surely that's not right...they are on the Prince Rave Into The Year 2000 dvd doing Junglelove and The Bird!! And they did Jungle Love at the end of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back....unless the lineup was different then. I don't know.  All I know is that both Morris and Jerome made appearances.We are stardust. We are golden.
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