Grammy history, some bad choices?

[javasaurus]

Here's a link to an interesting article on Grammy gaffs, choices made by the Grammy people which didn't stand the test of time.

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[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I gave up on it when the "song of the year" went to the Natalie Cole "Unforgettable" (produced by David Foster, getting to to sing it "with" her long dead father).

Now record of the year? possibly.

Producer of the year? probably. For the time that was some serious technical crap going on.

but "Song of the year"? That's the *songwriter's* award.

Basically the grammys insulted every single songwriter who wrote *NEW* material for that year, because they bluntly told them to "piss off" because nobody can write a song as good as someone did in 1951.

Song of the year should be restricted to songs *newly recorded*, not to cover versions of standards that have already established their emotional credentials and are therefore automatically biased in the voters minds.

between that and the giveaway grammy to Metalica the year after the Tull gaffe, where they got it for a single from the same album that *lost* to Tull (meaning it wasn't actually a new recording; it was just released as a single within the qualifying time), i gave up on the grammys as having any connection to reality.

then, of course, there's the "best new artist" award, affectionately referred to by Colin Hay of Men at Work as the "Kiss of Death" award.