Grammy Record of the Year Quiz

Year	Winner	Song
1959		Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
1960		Mack the Knife
1961		Theme from A Summer Place
1962		Moon River
1963		I Left My Heart in San Francisco
1964		Days of Wine and Roses
1965		The Girl from Ipanema
1966		A Taste of Honey
1967		Strangers in the Night
1968		Up, Up and Away
1969		Mrs. Robinson
1970		Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
1971		Bridge over Troubled Water
1972		It's Too Late
1973		The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
1974		Killing Me Softly with His Song
1975		I Honestly Love You
1976		Love Will Keep Us Together
1977		This Masquerade
1978		Hotel California
1979		Just the Way You Are
1980		What a Fool Believes
1981		Sailing
1982		Bette Davis Eyes
1983		Rosanna
1984		Beat It
1985		What's Love Got to Do with It

Year	Winner	Song
1986		We Are the World
1987		Higher Love
1988		Graceland
1989		Don't Worry, Be Happy
1990		Wind Beneath My Wings
1991		Another Day in Paradise
1992		Unforgettable
1993		Tears in Heaven
1994		I Will Always Love You
1995		All I Wanna Do
1996		Kiss from a Rose
1997		Change the World
1998		Sunny Came Home
1999		My Heart Will Go On
2000		Smooth
2001		Beautiful Day
2002		Walk On
2003		Don't Know Why
2004		Clocks
2005		Here We Go Again
2006		Boulevard of Broken Dreams
2007		Not Ready to Make Nice
2008		Rehab
2009		Please Read The Letter
2010		Use Somebody
2011		Need You Now
2012		Rolling in the Deep

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Grammy Record of the Year Quiz

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Created Feb 7, 2009 in Music
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	Shaft41:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 04:43 GMT	10 points
	It's remarkable how many songs on this list I absolutely hate.

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	danzam:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	9 points
	The Beatles don't have a Record of the Year and Amy Winehouse does? Proof that the Grammy's are worthless.

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	debbiedoesnothin:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 06:27 GMT	1 point
	I kept thinking This Masquerade was Al Jareau. You wouldn't believe how many different spellings I tried.

	Jon:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 07:19 GMT	-4 points
	everyone knows hotel california is by the eagles, and nobody cares about "the eagles"...mellow out joyce

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	estivator:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 12:29 GMT	0 points
	every time I see the list of Grammy winners over time I marvel at just how loathsome a compilation it is. You have to wonder what the decisionmaking process was for some of these things. Not all are unworthy songs, don't get me wrong, although "record of the year" seems a stretch for even those I like. But for the most part, we're talking lowest common denominator or criteria that defy comprehension - two very different things, but still resulting in highly questionable winners.

	Kicking222:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 12:33 GMT	-1 points
	First, good quiz. Second, The Fifth Dimension? Really? Twice? Jesus christ. Third, the first winner beat out "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" for the award, which goes to show what good taste they had back in the day.

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	johnlk:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 13:21 GMT	8 points
	Chill the **** out, Brian. Yes, there's a number of ways this quiz would be good. For those who know a great deal about music, I'd imagine reversing the quiz would be more fun. Personally, I enjoyed this a lot, as I'm sure I was able to get more. And, yeah, "it's just name who sang these 50 songs." (well, and who won a Grammy for singing them) So what? That's a perfectly legitimate quiz. And ditto to the loathsomeness. These guys pretty uniformly miss the point. It's rather incredible.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 14:05 GMT	3 points
	@DanZam: You could list many artists who don't have a song on there. The Beatles, The Rolling Stone, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix....etc

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	Massagraf:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 17:07 GMT	7 points
	@ joeblow: How do you think?

	Havok3595:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 18:24 GMT	6 points
	Dangit, I knew 1976 and 1989 but couldn't spell them. And the members of the group who sang Hotel California will correct people who refer to them as "the" Eagles, specifying that the band's name is simply Eagles. Then again, there's other bands consistently referred to incorrectly, such as Live (which is supposed to rhyme with "give"), and it's turned into a joke with great success in the movie "That Thing You Do!"

	Etheridge2:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 18:49 GMT	3 points
	@Kyle I totall agree..and I got 44/50 would ahve been 45 but I kepty trying Quincy Jones for We are the World instead of USA for Africa...heck he was the one who accepted the grammy right?

	Foghorn:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	-1 points
	I agree with the Beatles comment, but as the example the jerk picks "Rehab"?? The ONE time they actually DID pick THE Record of the Year? -1.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Feb 7th, 2009 at 23:12 GMT	2 points
	What a load of tripe. Where are all the insane Grammy defenders from the other Grammy quiz? All the amazing recordings from the past 50 years, and this bunch of garbage was honored as the best. Grammy ought to be mighty proud of herself.

	pr:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 00:40 GMT	2 points
	The best years on this list are 1959-1967, when the Grammy's basically excluded Rock records from the award (Mack the Knife being the lone exception.) As soon as rock records began receiving the award, the list just turns to crap. Rock is good but the Grammy's taste is, with few exceptions (King, Flack, Beat It) very very bad.

	donruss:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 04:01 GMT	3 points
	Yeah, the Grammys are crap!!! Who will ever forget the 1st award for Heavy Metal went to Jethro "Freakin" Tull instead of Metallica.

	pr:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 04:02 GMT	2 points
	Whoops. Mack the KNife isn't a rock record. So what I said stand even more. Always associate Bobby Darin with rock and roll for some reason.

	dallastim:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 10:19 GMT	5 points
	I always associated Moon River with Andy Williams. I must have tried his name fifty times. Goes to show you what I know about this.

	JAJDH:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 13:45 GMT	5 points
	For 1986, I tried Michael Jackson, Lionel Ritchie, Quincy Jones, Various, and Everybody...poop. And for having won 3 Albums of the Year within 4 years, I was very surprised Stevie Wonder wasn't on here.

	isaac:	Feb 10th, 2009 at 18:21 GMT	4 points
	Up Up and Away was, indeed, the best song of 1968. HAHAHAHAHA! Not Dock of the Bay, Sympathy for the Devil, Hey Jude, Born to be Wild, Folsom Prison Blues, or Heard It Through the Grapevine. Or about 500 other songs.

	Tokyo_Sexwhale:	Feb 17th, 2009 at 16:50 GMT	2 points
	A good quiz yet again exposing how useless the Grammys are as an arbiter of excellence in popular music.

	leviper:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 04:26 GMT	3 points
	You switched around the song and artist for 2010.

	wesjohnson96:	Feb 4th, 2010 at 22:13 GMT	2 points
	I see leviper beat me to it, but just to reiterate: Kings of Leon is the artist; "Use Somebody" is the song. They are currently swtiched.

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	tillyandchuzzy:	Apr 1st, 2011 at 17:58 GMT	1 point
	Who the **** is Lady Antebellum?!

	ilovekelly75:	Jun 10th, 2011 at 02:29 GMT	1 point
	@danzam All it proves is that you disagree with them.

	StuPot:	Dec 12th, 2011 at 21:42 GMT	1 point
	I find it hard to believe that, even in 2008, there was THAT little competition.

	EricsAccount:	Jan 19th, 2012 at 02:29 GMT	3 points
	Why won't it accept The 5th Dimension? That's how I've almost always seen it.

	MrMN:	Feb 7th, 2012 at 05:49 GMT	1 point
	This list explains why Homer's Grammy got thrown back at him when he tried to get rid of it.