Judging by the reactions from my living room, my instant-messenger conversations, and the comments section on our Grammy liveblog, people were more than a little surprised when the Album Of The Year winner was announced… and said winner wasn’t Kanye West or Amy Winehouse, but Herbie Hancock, whose Joni Mitchell homage River: The Joni Letters took home the night’s final prize. I actually wasn’t too surprised by Hancock’s victory–to quote myself, “if you didn’t at least think that Herbie Hancock paying tribute to Joni Mitchell would sway at least half the people who voted for Steely Dan over Eminem a few years back you haven’t been paying attention”–but apparently a lot of people were! (Perhaps they forgot that Norah Jones and Corinne Bailey Rae and Tina Turner and Leonard Cohen were also on the album.) So let’s put it to all of you: If you had a vote in the Grammy balloting, what would you have chosen as this Grammy year’s Album Of The Year? Poll after the jump.
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6) Panda Bear.
(haha. I kid.)
Wilco wuz robbed.
So that’s what happened after I turned off the TV. Huh.
BREAKING NEWS: KANYE WEST HAS SET FIRE TO THE STAPLES CENTER.
I’m a little happy that Herbie won since it will cause people to be more critical of the Grammys. Anyhow, I learned how to play funk in my high school band when we covered Herbie’s “Chameleon.”