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25 Artists Who Have Never Won a Grammy  

February 9, 2016

On February 15th, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj will both be returning to the Grammys — and both will be vying to take home their first trophy. Like Patti Smith (one nomination), Nas (11) and Snoop Dogg (17), neither has won a gramophone of his or her own. Here's a rundown of the pop stars, punk icons and rock geniuses whose work has never been recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.  

Guns N' Roses

Times nominated: 3

GN'R have gotten a measly three nominations in their entire career – with the same number of those nominations going to Appetite for Destruction as to Chinese Democracy (that would be zero both times). And none of those three resulted in a win. Even former members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum did better with Velvet Revolver, who took home a Best Hard Rock Performance trophy for "Slither" in 2005.  

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10 Best Grammy Performances

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1989 Guns N’ Roses    

A few years before their history-making (and trouble-making) co-headlining tour, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses both played the same 1989 Grammys. But rather than trying to fight fire with fire, Axl Rose and company showed their superior range by performing this tender acoustic ballad.  

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-grammy-performances/

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3 hours ago, Funky.Monkey said:

They made this list...

10 Best Grammy Performances

1 Day Ago

1989 Guns N’ Roses    

A few years before their history-making (and trouble-making) co-headlining tour, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses both played the same 1989 Grammys. But rather than trying to fight fire with fire, Axl Rose and company showed their superior range by performing this tender acoustic ballad.  

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-grammy-performances/

EPIC!

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4 hours ago, Funky.Monkey said:

They made this list...

10 Best Grammy Performances

1 Day Ago

1989 Guns N’ Roses    

A few years before their history-making (and trouble-making) co-headlining tour, Metallica and Guns N’ Roses both played the same 1989 Grammys. But rather than trying to fight fire with fire, Axl Rose and company showed their superior range by performing this tender acoustic ballad.  

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-grammy-performances/

That's not a Grammy performance though, that was the AMAs:blink:

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13 hours ago, Slash787 said:

GNR was nominated for which Category? 

GnR Lies (1990) and UYI 1 (1992) for Best Rock Performance. Lost to Living Colour for "Cult of Personalty" and Van Halen's "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" respectively.

Live and Let Die was also nominated in 1993 for the same category (I guess they nominated both albums and songs) but lost to "Give It Away" by RHCP

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The one issue with saying "AfD didn't get any nominations" is that they kind of missed the nomination window. The 1988 awards were in March 88, and AfD hadn't really taken off then. For 1989 AfD was no longer eligible for the Grammys, because their eligibility window is only a year.

 

Also, there wasn't even a dedicated hard rock category at the Grammys until 1990. The genre was kind of ignored until then. In 1989 they had a combination hard rock/heavy metal award for the first time ever, and it was obvious that they didn't know what the hell they were doing with it. Jethro Tull actually won...beating out Jane's Addiction, AC/DC, Metallica and Iggy Pop. It was considered a complete clusterfuck, and a lot of people were upset about it. There was a great article in, I think, RIP, about how giving the award to Jethro Tull showed that hard rock and metal were still neither respected nor understood by the mainstream music establishment.

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