Are the Grammys Obsolete? (Awards have never really been hip, they're falling even further behind)

Chicago Tribune ^ | Published February 4, 2007 | By Greg Kot

[Severa]

Yep, picked them over METALLICA. I've not watch the Grammys since that fiasco.

[Mr_Moonlight]

And wasn't it the Grammys that gave Jethro Tull an award for best heavy metal band?? LOL

OK, I'm coming in a bit late to this thread, but as a long time Rock n Rool fan, I've never watched nor cared for what the Grammy's say, it just doesn't interest me what sorts of 'awards' that these industry types fawn out to each other. I like what I like, simple as that.

That being said, I've got over 500 LP's of Rock records dating within the 60's, 70's, and some 80's, and made a bet with a co-worker (a Deadhead) that out of those 500 there is probably not ONE 'Grammy' winner within my record collection!

I lost that bet. Beatles "A Hard Days Night" and "Sgt Pepper" both won Grammys, as well as Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" ... OK, that makes 3 out of 500 albums that I own :)

Otherwise, where is "Boston"? A tremendously powerful and commercially successful album from 1975, and where is "The Wall"? Likewise for the Floyd, tremendously powerful and successful? And as a Tull fan, where is "Aqualung" or even "Thick As A Brick" in the Grammy scheme of things?

It really doesn't matter though, I like what I like, and who really gives two doinks what some televised 'awards show' says. It's all internal music industry politics anyway, so who cares?

/shrug