7 Most Unforgivable Grammy Snubs
With last’s night’s announcement of this year’s Grammy nominees (which is really just an encyclopedic list of music industry goings on), there are some surprise names to be found, and others strangely absent. On the one hand, the big award nominees make for a compelling Radiohead-Coldplay art rock showdown to be played out on Grammy night (with M.I.A. as a potential balance-upsetter, yay!).However, what about the fact that aside from Lil Wayne being all over the nominee list, there are no other rap artists outside the rap section? Even Snoop Dogg’s Ego Trippin’ (barely a rap album) gets stuck in the genre category. Compared to years past, though, there aren’t any glaring problems here.
The serious snubbings probably won’t come until award night, so to quench our immediate need for dedicated fan-outrage, we turn to Cracked.com’s list of the 7 Most Unforgivable Grammy Snubs of All Time. The top 3 is blah (Beatles, Metallica, Barbara Streisand, whatever), but the rest of the list is gold:
- 7. Eric Clapton wins Best Rock Song in 1992 for “Layla”, Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” gets snubbed.
So you basically killed Kurt Cobain, Mr. Clapton, nice going.
- 6. Steely Dan wins Album of the Year in 2000, snubbing Radiohead’s OK Computer and Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP.
Steely stare from Steely Dan.
5. A Taste of Honey (who?) wins Best New Artist in 1978, snubbing Elvis Costello.
Haven't been seen since.
4. DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince win another rap Grammy for “Summertime”, making it the fourth snubbing in a row for Public Enemy.
"I'll give my Grammy to whoever can guess what city we're from!"
Glaring Omission: U2’s Joshua Tree wins Album of the Year in 1987, snubbing Michael Jackson’s Bad.
Who's bad?
Other Grammy gripes to vent? To the comments section!
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