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Hey discos need a little more disgrace land in your life just a touch to get you through yeah me too this is the podcast that comes after the podcast welcome to disgraceland the afterparty welcome to the disgraceland bonus episode a little thing we like to call the after party this is the show after the show the party after the party the bridge to get you from one full episode of disgraceland to the other the backyard to dig into the dirt our mission to uncover the truth to confront the myth to reclaim the story on this bonus episode we're discussing some wild grammy snubs what's up natalika and talking run run run runaways hello joan jett lita ford in our exclusive section for all access members we dive into some of the more scandalous award shows past and we get into your emails comments dm's and as always a whole lot of rosie this is the podcast for the musically obsessed the outsiders the independent thinkers who know that the best history is the history that gets buried disgrace land is where i tell the stories they didn't want told the kind you'll end up telling someone else all right discos let's get into it joan jett of the runaways was nominated at the nineteen eighty nine grammy awards in the category of best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal for her song i hate myself for loving you she did not win that award u two song desire from the album rattle and hum took it home other artists nominated though were in excess little feet and midnight oil i mentioned this because joan jett was part of the group the runaways who we cover in this week's full episode of disgraceland and because the grammys are coming up now the runaways were never nominated for a grammy they were much too fringe lita ford another runaway however was nominated one more time actually than joan jett for best rock performance female and best single she lost both times the grammys are on my mind like i said because they're coming up in a couple weeks and i find the grammys most interesting when they mess up like jethro tull being chosen over metallica so i was kind of surprised to see that not one but two runaways were eventually nominated now in this week's rewind episode of disgraceland we feature nwa in nineteen eighty eight the compton group of mc's released the incredible album straight outta compton not surprisingly given how subversive and controversial the group was at the time the grammys did not touch straight outta compton or nwa despite how well the band in that record sold and despite how impactful that album was at the time straight outta compton went platinum and it hit the top forty despite being an independent album and that's an incredible accomplishment but that shouldn't matter the twelve thousand plus voting members a group of music professionals including performers songwriters producers and engineers are supposed to nominate and award winners based solely on artistic and technical merit by what technical measurement is the right hand rhythm guitar playing of martin behr from jethro tull better than james hetfield's from metallica in what world is jethro tull's album crest of a nave better than metallica's and justice for all it's been thirty nine years guys and i'm still not going to let this one go but back to nwa's straight out of compton sales aside you can't mess with the album's artistic or technical merit and making the snub even more egregious is the fact that in nineteen eighty nine that was the year that they added the best rap performance category now the nominees for that dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince with parents just don't understand supersonic by jj fad wild wild west by tone loke going back to cali by ll cool j push it by saul and pepa now all of these songs or performances as they term them are capital g great especially jj fad supersonic dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince one and i can accept that because parents just don't understand was everywhere the year that it was released but come on the grammys couldn't make tone lokes wild wild west just you know go hang out somewhere else and let straight out of compton be on the ballot i don't understand that i mean i guess i do i guess i do would never happen now but then nineteen eighty nine much different time nineteen eighty nine was a weird year for the grammys george michael's faith won album of the year beating out tracy chapman's self titled album bobby mcferrin's simple pleasures stings nothing like the sun and steve winwood's role with it pretty much lame city all around aside from the greek god of tight fitting blue jeans and his record faith lita ford did present an award that year though along with alice cooper for another new category best hard rock metal okay another new category in nineteen eighty nine best hard rock and metal and lita ford and alice cooper gave that award to like i said jethrotel not metallica have i mentioned yet how ridiculous it was that the grammys gave the award to jethro tell that year and not metallica again i'm not over it this of course wasn't the first or the last time that the grammys messed up during their entire long strange trippy run despite being arguably the greatest american rock and roll band ever the grateful dead were never nominated for a grammy even when their single touch of gray cracked the top ten on the billboard hot one hundred bob marley global superstar revolutionized music at the time no aw jimi hendrix arguably actually no there's no argument definitively the greatest guitar player to ever be involved with popular music no grammys for hendrix all these artists including the who and diana ross they were all eventually awarded something called the lifetime achievement grammy award after their quote unquote active careers in pop music had slowed down and the grammys did the same thing for nwa in twenty twenty four they gave them the lifetime achievement award the lifetime achievement award at the grammys is kind of like the oh shit we fucked up and we're making it right award i kind of like it it's better than nothing this year's lifetime achievement award nominees at the sixty eighth annual grammys are carlo santana chaka khan cher fela cootie paul simon and whitney houston carlos santana already has ten grammys in two thousand he won eight on the same night paul simon has sixteen grammys shaka khan has ten whitney houston has six cher has one fela cootie has zero so you can pretty much guarantee fela cootie is going to win this award in a couple of weeks again the lifetime achievement award kind of like hey we messed up we're gonna we're gonna fix it and again i like that what kind of award though are they gonna give for messing up that whole milli vanilli thing you know that time they gave the vocal duo the best new artist award in nineteen ninety only for it later to be revealed that milli vanilli didn't actually sing their own songs well that award was eventually stripped by the grammy recording academy's board of trustees so you know bad milli vanilli no award for you unless you wait long enough unless milli vanilli you wait until twenty twenty six because that's right ladies and gentlemen in a world where the most ridiculous and or ironic outcome is almost always guaranteed fab morvan if i'm pronouncing that correctly one of the air quotes singers from milli vanilli is nominated for a grammy this year for best audiobook narration and storytelling for his memoir you know it's the real story of milli vanilli and yes before you ask it's definitely his voice used in the audiobook so please god let the grammys give the award to the milli vanilli guy it is right and just i don't know why it just is now the milli vanilli story is one of the most shocking things to have ever happened at the grammys and it's kind of why i love award shows for the unexpected for the mess ups for the screw ups so on that note szeth and i are going to be discussing some of the wildest award show events that have ever happened from dust ups with soyboy and dylan to jarvis caulker and michael jackson to courtney and axel and david niven and the naked dude go to disgraceandpod dot com to sign up for disgraceland all access to unlock this content and more all right i really kind of wish i did a milli vanilli episode for grammy week maybe next year instead though this week we've got a two part story on another grammy nominee lady gaga and if you're a fan of german sex clubs and the bavarian illuminati not to mention dangerous hangs on the roof of the staten island hotel you are not going to want to miss this story these gaga episodes deal almost entirely with the wild conspiracy theories surrounding the global superstar and when you're listening be thinking about those theories and whether or not you think that there's any truth to them any evidence evidence that you think supports them evidence that you know i kind of well i put it all out there you'll hear lots of people believe this stuff and i'm not judging i mean i'm judging by the facts i'm not judging the people who believe what they believe anyways when you're listening i want to know do you find any truth in these theories and if so why hit me up at six one seven nine zero six six six three eight to discuss leave a voicemail or send me a text and you might hear your voice and or your texted answer on next week's afterparty before lady gaga though coming up in the rewind slot right after this after party is like i mentioned those two nwa episodes be sure to give those a spin you're gonna dig them and i'll be back right after this with you guys with your voicemails texts emails and more.
