With The Grammy's Ahead, Is America Being Robbed of Its Uniqueness by Corporate Culture?

[votesparks]

In this episode of The David Sparks Show, David talks about the only thing we Americans have left, the independent culture that still remains, un-eviscerated by the corporate borg.

So with the Grammy Awards approaching, David decided the highlight some artists that will never see the Grammy light of day, but who nonetheless are more talented than the entire lot of corporate whoreholes who will be paraded for consumption by the American public.

Listen the show: http://thedavidsparksshow.podomatic.com/entry/2014-01-25T19_47_36-08_00

Direct download link: http://thedavidsparksshow.podomatic.com/enclosure/2014-01-25T19_47_36-08_00.mp3

Links to musicians featured in show:

Billy Catfish - http://www.reverbnation.com/billycatfish
Wussy - http://wussy.org
Tom T. Hall - http://www.tomthall.net
The Altered Statesman - http://www.blacklabelempire.com/alteredstatesman/

[frazzled]

1. The Grammys have always been about industrial pop music

You think Velvet Underground ever won a Grammy? (The answer is obviously no.)

Neither did the Grateful Dead, the Who, Led Zeppelin, or, ferchrissakes, the Beach Boys. The Rolling Stones didn't even win one until 1994, like 30 years after they were even relevant.

If you're looking for American independent culture, you're definitely looking in the wrong place if you're looking to the Grammys.

Ditto for the Oscars: serious independent or avant-garde film has never been part of the program. Accept these things for what they are: the industry congratulating itself, with some good red carpet looks on the side.

[lolly]

3. Neither did the Beatles

I think some /all of them eventually got some sort of lifetime achievement thing--but nothing for their work when it was taking the entire country and culture by storm.

[msongs]

5. beatles won 6 grammies and an OSCAR during their active period nt

[Boomerproud]

7. Tonight will be the first time the Beatles have won the Lifetime Achievement Award.

That's the ONLY reason I'm watching.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. I love... Tom T Hall.

[votesparks]

6. If there is a book on how to write a great song just by listening to others

Tom T. will be in the credits.

[msongs]

4. the "unique" crowd would like to be "coroprate whoreholes"if they could just figure out how lol nt