Has a Prog album ever won a Grammy? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

but Peter Gabriel is one of the most winninh MT-V award winners of them all, alongside Madonna.

The Dark Elf wrote:

Yes never got a nomination in their heyday (although later songs like "Blower of a Wicked Fart" and albums like Big Generator were nominated), Genesis was never even nominated until they started playing Broadway show tunes and romantic movie melodies, and Tull was nominated once for Heavy Metal, of all things, but never for any album from the 1970s.

Made my day (Trevor Horn samples Yes for.... their own song) LOL

BarryGlibb wrote:

The Dark Elf wrote:

How exactly do you expect a prog album to win a Grammy when not even Pink Floyd has won one for albums like DSotM, WYWH, Animals or The Wall? The only one that was even nominated in the year it was eligible was The Wall, and that lost to Lennon's Double Fantasy. Floyd received a Grammy for the instrumental "Marooned", and 2 "Hall of Fame" awards for DSoTM in 1999 and the Wall in 2008. I guess Grammy's "Hall of Fame" awards are actually "We Admit We F*cked Up" Revisionist awards.

Yes never got a nomination in their heyday (although later songs like "Blower of a Wicked Fart" and albums like Big Generator were nominated), Genesis was never even nominated until they started playing Broadway show tunes and romantic movie melodies, and Tull was nominated once for Heavy Metal, of all things, but never for any album from the 1970s.

Just for clarification; Tull's Grammy was for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Recording not just Heavy Metal. 6 out of the 9 tracks you would classify as Hard Rock.....and it's a brilliant album IMHO. So good on them.

But it was the first time there was a Grammy to be given which had the name "metal" written on it, and it's generally seen as a shame that the first Grammy that could've potentially been awarded as a metal grammy for a metal album went as a non-metal grammy to a non-metal album.

Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)

The Dark Elf wrote:

BrufordFreak wrote:

PAT METHENY has won a bunch (20 wins, 36 niminations)--including:

1982's Offramp,

1984's First Circle,

1987's Still Life (Talking),

1989's Letter from Home,

1993's highly acclaimed (here on PA) Secret Story,

1995's Imaginary Day, and

2005's The Way Up.

So, you're saying if Yes was put in the jazz category like Metheny for most of his nominations, they'd have probably won? What are the chances the Grammy voters would have even nominated any of Metheny's albums if he was considered for the rock category? I would say zero.

Actually, Greg, I don't think I was saying anything. (I hadn't even seen your post--the one that preceded mine--when I was writing mine.) If I was implying anything, it might be that polished Jazz-Rock Fusion has had a better chance in the Grammy's cuz Jazz is a genre that voters like to hear in a watered down, melodic, classic rock-like, easy listening format. (Even Miles is easier to listen to that say 'Trane, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, or Ornette Coleman, thus Grammy award wins.) So, in effect, I agree with you: Metheny would never get nominated in the Rock categories (but then, he's not really rock, is he?)

Drew Fisher
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I remember even as a kid viewing the nominations lists and wondering who the heck the voters were cuz none of the music being nominated (other than Stevie Wonder) was either the most popular (according to Billboard), innovative, or, in my opinion, interesting. The "white bread" of music was winning most of the awards. It was as if people were voting for insider members--to recognize "their own"--people who were playing by the corporate rules (though there are always exceptions).

Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/

Grammies are even more of a joke than the rock hall.

PROGMATIC

It is kind of nice, though, when one of ours slips through ...

King Diamond, the band and the man I totally disagree with ideologically, never got any mainstream awards for his classic stuff like Abigail or The Eye. I personally like (musically and artistically!) only one his album - Graveyard, far from what is reckoned his classic. But even that album never won anything of the aforementioned kind. Finally, he was nominated with the track Neverending Hill, but even then lost to Slayer. Slayer and Grammy seem more compatible then.

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When I saw Vanilla Ice get nominated for Ice Ice Baby, I gave up on the Grammy awards because it wasn’t original music but rather a sampling of Queen/Bowie. I don’t have a problem with sampling, per se, but I do have a problem with people winning awards off of the merits of others. Nowadays there are entire armies of writers backing popular artists, so there is no point in watching the charade.

There is a lot of biz politics involved with the Grammy's that have little or nothing to do with the actual music. The organization is more about rewarding album sales than musical ability or innovation, and I question the extent of what those that vote know (which means that a Prog category would be a nightmare).

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