Grammy's Most-Awarded Albums

will never understand why otherwise smart people care about the Grammys

Oh, make no mistake. I'm an idiot.

S&G or MJ depending, no strong feelings beyond those

If there is one thing no one can take away from these records is that they each SO WELL ENGINEERED, for non-classical music I mean

Wow, great Mission of Burma nod, fair play

will never understand why otherwise smart people care about the Grammys

― Οὖτις, Monday, February 9, 2015 5:04 PM

stfu and get in line, bitch

In retrospect, should've left Thriller off to see what everyone's second choice is.

heh

fuck Thriller

Only like half of these even deserve to be called albums

BOTB's been forgotten but it's a solid comp of QJ's late eighties listening habits. plus "The Secret Garden."

I have the vinyl. Can't wait for our honeymoon to cue that one up.

i mean even i would vote for Thriller

(and the only other one i've ever heard is Bridge Over Troubled Water)

Man, Roger Miller sticks out more than usual in this bunch.

By itself, the track won five Grammy awards for Miller including best Rock and roll single. By comparison, the whole album won only one, for best country album.[3]

Are we voting for best or worst here? Because if we're voting for the best, then this is frighteningly piss easy, and if we're voting for the worst then shit, I don't even know where to fucking begin.

Seriously, I really like that Santana album. Anybody with me?

I voted for what I consider to be the 3rd "best" because the top two seemed so obvious it was boring.

Here's a relevant, fun list:

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/02/07/57-artists-somehow-never-won-grammy

57 Artists That Somehow Never Won a Grammy…
1. Bob Marley

2. Tupac Shakur

3. The Doors

4. Queen

5. Jimi Hendrix

6. Curtis Mayfield

7. The Who

8. Snoop Dogg

9. Björk

10. Chuck Berry

11. The Grateful Dead

12. Diana Ross

13. Nas

14. ZZ Top

15. Queens of the Stone Age

16. Katy Perry

17. One Direction

18. PSY

19. Justin Bieber

20. Janis Joplin

21. Buddy Holly

22. Notorious B.I.G.

23. (Eric B. &) Rakim

24. Rush

25. Run D.M.C.

26. Guns n’ Roses

27. Boston

28. Sam Cooke

29. Talking Heads

30. The Ramones

31. The Everly Brothers

32. Patti Smith

33. Public Enemy

34. Sly & the Family Stone

35. The Sex Pistols

36. Parliament &/or Funkadelic

37. The O’Jays

38. Creedence Clearwater Revival

39. The Stooges

40. Motley Crue

41. Kiss

42. Deep Purple

43. Journey

44. Jackson Browne

45. The Pretenders

46.Toby Keith

47. New Order

48. Depeche Mode

49. Tiesto

Update: Tiesto just won for the first time last night (see the complete winners list here).

50. The Kinks

51. Morrissey

52. The Smiths

53. ABBA

54. Dusty Springfield

55. Teddy Pendergrass

56. Oasis

57. Busta Rhymes

lol old people

will never understand why otherwise smart people care about the Grammys

― Οὖτις, Monday, February 9, 2015 10:04 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously

It's not a matter of caring about it. It's like caring about "American Idol." It's there, it's got music, and it inspires polls like this. More tiresome are people on Facebook expecting a cookie for posting the depths of their supreme indifference.

i rate

Taking the Long Way, Dixie Chicks (6)
Thriller, Michael Jackson (8)
Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel (6)
Back To Black, Amy Winehouse (6)
All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2 (7)

voted for dixie chicks

kind of intrigued by that roger miller album

Dixie Chicks record could've been better with some editing; with a producer who was actually present during the recording; and with any drummer in the world other than Chad Smith. Despite those formidable obstacles, it's a good record. But how can anyone not vote for Thriller?

But how can anyone not vote for Thriller?

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, February 9, 2015 11:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup. Pretty much stuck out immediately as the one to go for, with the Simon & Garfunkel album running it close.

kinda amazing to me that taking the long way took four years after home since i often feel like home + best tracks from long way (particularly easy silence) would be a perfect album. obv some of the grammy credit was residual from home not getting the due it deserved (plus all the bush controversy in the interim) but still so many amazing moments and probably despite (or bc of) so much grammy recognition i feel like long way is sorta underrated?

obv thriller is a classic (as is bridge over troubled water which is - despite the pretty saccharine -- tho still gorgeous -- title track - chock-full of amazing tracks, cecilia, boxer, only living boy ok i just realized the voted for the wrong album here but i stand by my vote)

who knew adele had more than one song on that album

ironically, Blueprint 3 lost Best Rap Album to Eminem's Recovery - those six nods are for singles (2 for "Empire State" 2 for "Run This Town" 1 for "DOA" 1 for "On To The Next One")

All That You Can't Leave Behind got Best Rock Album, and is the only album two ever have two tracks win Record Of The Year ("Beautiful Day" and "Walk On") but lost Album Of The Year to the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.

Bridge Over Troubled Water just over Thriller on account of BOTW's lack of a "The Girl is Mine"-level dud.

haven't heard BOTW but i don't belieeeeeve it

Voted Plant/Krauss. Thriller is good, and I loved it as a kid, but I never think to put it on by choice and it doesn't need my help. "Beat It On" is the greatest thing ever, though.

A lot of you kids are too young to remember what it was like when Toto IV cleaned up at the Grammys, but let me tell you it was a magical, once in a lifetime cultural watershed event.

Shares a lot of personnel with Thriller! No "Hold the Line", no credibility, though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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I wasn't expecting three people to agree with me!

Really a crime that Motley Crue never won a grammy. /jk