Grammies are about Music...Prince is music.

I understand how a pathetic public has slept on Prince's music, but
the "Academy" should know what's what in melodies and what-nots...

Prince got slept on once again...

Oh well, I still like ALL the stuff...

...and two of them are recent...Call My Name and FBM...

WTF?

He's good - but I'd have to agree with his grammy wins. He makes good music - but not grammy award winning each year. He's no Stevie Wonder (28 Grammies) or George Solti (31 Grammies). Other facts - Quincy Jones nominated for 79 - WOW. Love the fact that Herbie Hancock gets Record of the year.

chakah said:

Considering that Winehouse won 5 Grammy awards last night and John Legend won 4, I'd say it is absolute travesty that Prince only has 7.
I personally don't see anything special about Winehouse or Legend, but even if you do, you can't possibly believe that they should be any where near Prince in Grammy wins.
I love Stevie Wonder, and I can see him having more Grammys than Prince, but not 21 more! No fucking way.
Prince should have won 7 Grammys from the Purple Rain album alone.
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Britney Spears has a Grammy so that should tell you something about the Academy.

Accujack said:

That's for sure - he's been robbed!

.....think that 7 is bad ?????....music legend david bowie has never won a grammy to my knowledge ?????,,,,,wtf....

Correction. I was wrong. Kanye won 4 last night, and John Legend has won 5 over the last two years.

Here's your answer!

Top 5 Grammy Goofs!

Jethro Tull over Metallica (1989): Notoriously slow on the uptake, the Recording Academy didn't get around to adding a Heavy Metal Grammy until 1989. Even then, only two of the nominees made sense – Iron Maiden and Metallica. Def Leppard was one Aquanet can away from being a Hair Band, the Grateful Dead was hippie music, and prog-rock Jethro Tull was far too ponderous to be considered "hard," let alone "metal." Metallica was the obvious favorite. When it didn't, Jethro Tull was forced to accept its award under a shower of outraged boos. Meanwhile, in a "Dewey Wins!" turn, Metallica was saddled with thousands of "Metallica – Grammy winners" T-shirts. Tull's victory was so incongruous, it seemed the gods were punishing Metallica for its hubris. In 1992, when Metallica finally won the first of six Grammys, the '89 loss was not forgotten. In his acceptance speech, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told the audience, "Thanks to Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year."

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince over Public Enemy (1989): Turns out Grammy had a lot of catching up to do in '89, when along with Heavy Metal, it finally added a Rap category. Maybe the additions were too much for voters to process. One might consider giving props for the inclusion of notoriously antiestablishment Public Enemy in the nominees. But the final choice of a family-friendly rap twosome over hard-hitting innovators was a slap in the face. Will Smith and his pal were witty and accessible, and that's OK. But while the non-threatening duo brought hip-hop to the mainstream with "Parents Just Don't Understand," Public Enemy was changing the hip-hop landscape.

The New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral" (1966): Hey, who doesn't love good kitsch? But there's a time and a place. Written by Tin Pan Alley songwriter Geoff Stephens and recorded speakeasy jazz style by studio musicians, "Winchester Cathedral" became a surprise novelty hit. The touring version of Band featured a different set of musicians who worked the British shtick – the lead singer was billed as "Tristram, Seventh Earl of Cricklewood." This goofy song won over not one but five serious contenders: The Association's "Cherish," the Monkees' "Last Train to Clarksville," the Mamas and the Papas' "Monday Monday," the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" and the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby." Who should have won? Take your pick. (Yeah, yeah, the Monkees were a fake band too, but "Last Train to Clarksville" is a great song and you know it.)

Taste of Honey wins over Elvis Costello (1979): There comes a time in every young person's life when she discovers that the word is a random place full of injustice. For at least one budding music geek, it was the '79 Grammys. Back before "Frasier" guest spots and talk-show gigs, Elvis Costello was angry and passionate. His music was eclectic – playing with every genre from soul to reggae. His lyrics in "Allison" and "Watching the Detectives" spoke volumes in compact phrases. Elvis Costello sounded like the future. Turns out, he was. With the exception of some insidiously catchy tunes, disco was all but over. Case in point: Taste of Honey's big hit, "Boogie Oogie Oogie." Where exactly did Grammy think that road was going?

Milli Vanilli wins Best New Artist (1990): Here's a Grammy win so egregious, it seems the Academy can't admit it ever happened. Seriously! Go to the official Grammy Web site and search the database for Milli Vanilli. You won't find it. Long before Ashlee Simpson, Milli Vanilli was stripped of its win after handsome frontmen Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan were revealed as lip-synchers extraordinaires. While the practice was common in European disco (and among some U.S. pop stars), the red-faced Academy found it unconscionable. The repossessed gramophone wasn't handed to any of the other contenders: Neneh Cherry, Soul II Soul, Tone-Loc and the still-working Indigo Girls. Instead, the Academy blocked the incident from its collective memory, like some horrible trauma. Or maybe like any misguided dictatorship, Grammy is attempting to rewrite history. Either way, remember the wise words of George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Seacrest out!

In comparison to other artists(if we can compare him as they seem to use the word 'incomparable' about every singer on US tv these days! they love that word eh!) then yep he should have more but 7 is his fav number

ahead of his time: right before he was born, God accidently pushed the 1958 button instead of the 2008 button, (on his big space-time computer in the sky)

it's only now they hall of fame 1999, so that proves my theory.

Back when Prince was making his best music, the Grammy show was even more of a farce than it is now, but in a different way. Over the past several years, the biggest selling records win awards. Back in the 80's, it didn't matter much if a record sold or not. These days it's more commercial. The Grammys are useless though. I didn't think anyone still watched them or cared at all. I don't even watch network tv, and the last album I purchased was 3121. I don't buy music at all. Does anybody?

there are lots of amazing artists who have not won any grammies at all including Led Zeppelin, Queen, Neil Young, Doors etc. etc. - so not sure who wotes and how some artists don't get any grammies and others get only a few when they obviously derserve more - can anyone explain?

7 is a lot. too many actually. Prince is great, but there are too many other great artists that haven't won a single one.

quincy jones and stevie wonder each have 25 grammies, right? and they've been at it significantly longer than even prince has. so that just tells me that prince has more work left to do.

Accujack said:

Michael Jackson won 8 for Thriller, and same with Carlos Santana for Supernatural.

coolcat said:

First off. Fantastic music on your myspace page. Great stuff!
About Prince and the Grammys. For a mainstream artist like Prince is/was, and the string of great albums he had in the 80's, 7 is quite low. Some of the other artists mentioned here never achieved the mainstream pop success that Prince did at his peak.
Like I said, with the huge success and critical acclaim that Purple Rain had, he should have won 7 for that album alone.

Accujack said:

Thanks for the compliment! And you make a very good point. I didn't think about it that way.

raveun2thejoyfantastic said:

And since when do Grammys REALLY go to the most musically talented? It's all about marketing and airplay in the most popular categories, which is why Herbie Hancock's win last night is SOOOOO significant.
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Well i would LOVE to see Prince with all the Grammies in the world, but there are other people who deserve to be Awarded too, eventhough i think Prince is the BEST.

Little Richard the Architect of Rock n Roll has never won a Grammy either. So, Prince isn't doing all that bad...

Maybe its a popularity contest and Prince pissed off the wrong clique back in 82.

Bishop31 said:

Yeah, but I believe his biggest, most well known songs came a couple of years before the Grammy Awards started.

all u have to do is read off the winners. since when have the grammies been more than 15% about music? occasionally someone wins an opinion shaped like a phonograph that's deserved, but more often than not the person who should really win didn't even get nominated.

I believe the quirkest moment for him in Grammy history was when he didn't receive the Album of the Year Grammy for Purple Rain nor Sign O The Times. I mean if you look back at 1984-85, Prince ruled the whole pop scene with that whole Purple Rain project. Why in the hell did the folks at the Grammys vote Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down as AOTY? It was an amazing record and all, but PR was just a monument in music at that time. What do you all think?

I'm actually O.K. with U2 winning Album of the Year over Sign O' the Times. But it's inexcusable that he didn't win Album of the Year for Purple Rain!!!

I'm not saying that The Joshua Tree was a better record than Sign, but I can see the Grammy voters would vote for it. Purple Rain defintely has had a bigger cultural impact than Lionel's record.

You also have to remember, there weren't that many people who were bigger in 1984 than Prince & Lionel Richie.

Some of those grammmies that went to Miss Winehouse should have been for Prince.

gyro34 said:

Do you mean the Grammys that went to her should've went to him back in the day or last night?

silverchild said:

Last night. I think Winehouse is the new Nora Jones. Nora Snora

gyro34 said:

except amy is actually talented AND interesting. i thought her grammy performance sunday night was the best i've seen her yet.