This album snubbed "The Wall" from winning 'Best Album' in 1981.

What do you guys think, should've Pink Floyd's "The Wall" won the grammy, or was this better?
 

But....But....Its just sooooo smooth!

Really not liking what I'm hearing of this Christopher Cross guy. But I think that The Wall, while it was a great album, is definitely not Pink Floyd's best. I don't really know much other from 1981 (perhaps I do but don't know the exact year) but there was probably better music coming out.

Huh.  Really didn't like that song.  Definitely like Pink Floyd better.

@xyzygy said:

Really not liking what I'm hearing of this Christopher Cross guy. But I think that The Wall, while it was a great album, is definitely not Pink Floyd's best. I don't really know much other from 1981 (perhaps I do but don't know the exact year) but there was probably better music coming out.

Sounds as though you don't recognize who he is. You might know him more from one of his most famous songs. Maybe not.

BTW, Pink Floyd deserved it.

Hard to say. The Wall never was my favorite Pink Floyd album.

Nobody cares about the Grammy Awards.

Really not liking what I'm hearing of this Christopher Cross guy. But I think that The Wall, while it was a great album, is definitely not Pink Floyd's best. I don't really know much other from 1981 (perhaps I do but don't know the exact year) but there was probably better music coming out.

Trying to analyze Grammy winners is the road to madness.

Pink Floyd, ew.

I simultaneously don't know who Christopher Cross is, don't like Pink Floyd and don't think the Grammy's are anything of actual importance so...

Pretty much not qualified to argue this in any way then.

King Crimson's Discipline should have won.

It's easy to say Pink Floyd now because of the legacy, but without having lived in 1980 it's impossible to discuss this. You can't separate an award from the time period in which it was given.

For the record I though the other song was alright (no pun intended), though I would need to hear the entire album.

Cross also won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1981 for "Arthur's Theme (The Best that You Can Do)"
  

LOL the Grammy awards are the worst awards on the earf....and not just because of this but because of every year ever....

Music awards have always been weird, especially since there are so many likes and dislikes even within genres. For games and movies, usually an award means that you should check it out, but in that regard I find music awards useless.

I don't listen to Pink Floyd, so I can't really comment on which album was more deserving, but I do like to listen to some Christopher Cross every now and then.  

Also, Pink Floyd is just as boring as Christopher Cross most of the time.

This is 81's best album:

I would also accept No Sleep Til Hammersmith.

Not a fan of either, really.

The Grammy's are all about money, or more specifically, celebrating music that made a lot of money. Better records were released in 1981 anyways. The Wall's a pretty divisive album, not necessarily one of their seminal works.
 
Edit: I forgot that the Wall was actually released in 1979, my point still stands though.

Want to know what should have won the Grammy that year? Motherfucking Moving Pictures.

@PenguinDust: Then Billie Jean was recorded a year later & changed everything. 

@Spoonman671 said:

Nobody cares about the Grammy Awards.

Yeah, pretty much. I wouldn't get too bent out of shape. I know how it feels, though, to have your favorite artist snubbed. Metallica's "One" losing to Jethro Tull anyone?

Pink zzzzzz.  I'm not a fan of that boring type of music nor am I a fan of the artists of that era.  Bunch of pussies if you ask me.

Who is this Christopher Cross? I actually am kinda digging this music.

Damaged should have won.

Hootie and the Blowfish.

Taste, Americans have lots.

@PenguinDust said:

Billy Joel, Pat Benatar and Bob Seger

I like all of them, actually. And of the three, we still don't have Bob Seger in Rock Band WTF. Love Bob Seger.

And  "Chariots of Fire" beat out "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for best picture.  
Life is full of injustices.

The Wall should have won the Grammy but the Grammy's are a joke anyways so I don't really care

Aqualung beat Enter Sandman that was odd too

@Krampus said:

King Crimson's Discipline should have won.

GODDAMN, I am constantly amazed at how many King Crimson fans are on Giant Bomb.

Good, that'll show Roger Waters for shoving his head so far up his own ass that it destroyed the group. 

Damaged should have won.

Want to know what should have won the Grammy that year? Motherfucking Moving Pictures.

Van Halen's Fair Warning was the best album of 2011.

Neither, they both suck.

I like Pink floyd, but earliar stuff, mostly. Someone mentioned New Order, still check out The 'Perfect Kiss' on you-tube. Never watched the grammies, seem a pretty straight affair.

@DetectiveSpecial said:

And "Chariots of Fire" beat out "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for best picture. Life is full of injustices.

Well really, "Best Picture of 1981" is kind of a piddling award to give Raiders.

It doesn't matter? Its the grammies and it was 30 years ago.

Want to know what should have won the Grammy that year? Motherfucking Moving Pictures.

Floyd all the way.
 
Leave those kids alone!