Last night, Amy Winehouse tied the record for most Grammy awards won on a single night with five-- but she was shut out of winning the big one (Album of the Year) by yet another instance of moronic voting by the Grammy voters.
In mind-boggling fashion, the voters decided that the best album last year was Herbie Hancock's CD of Joni Mitchell covers (Huh?). This is the same lame-brained group that thought a weezy collection of Ray Charles duets was better than Green Day's "American Idiot"; that a movie soundtrack of folk tunes was better than Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft" or U2's "All That You Can't Leave Behind"; that a chilly re-union CD by Steely Dan was better than Radiohead's "Kid-A"; and that a slap-dash Celine Dion collection (14 producers!) was better than Beck's "Odelay"-- and I'm only going back ten years.
And these ding-a-lings give out almost 200 awards every year (over 20 in the gospel category alone-- who buys gospel albums anyway?). Surely there must be another way to recognize the recording academy's special darlings and let the big awards go to more deserving, truly memorable work. Jeez!
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