Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance , in German "Grammy Award for the best hard rock performance", is a music prize that was awarded until 2011 at the annual Grammy Awards . Musicians or bands are honored for particularly high-quality works from the hard rock music genre . The band Living Color received the first Grammy Award in this category in 1990, the Foo Fighters , Living Color and The Smashing Pumpkins received the award twice each. Since 2012, this award has been added to the Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance category.

Background and story

The Grammy Awards (actually Grammophone Awards), which have been presented since 1958, are presented annually in numerous categories by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in the United States of America for artistic achievement, technical competence and excellent overall performance regardless of the album - Honor sales or chart position.

The band Alice in Chains has been nominated seven times, but has never won the award.

A separate Grammy Award for Hard Rock was first awarded at the 31st awards in 1989 together with the Metal division as the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental . In the same year, the first award for rap took place in order to honor two popular music fields of the 1980s. The award went to the rock band Jethro Tull for the album Crest of a Knave , which won against Metallica with the album … And Justice for All . The decision led to widespread criticism of NARAS, as many journalists believe that Jethro Tull's music cannot be classified as hard rock or heavy metal. As a result, NARAS set up the two categories Best Metal Performance and Best Hard Rock Performance , which have been awarded separately since the 32nd awards in 1990.

At the Grammy Awards 2012, this award was no longer awarded because it was added to the category of Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance .

statistics

The first award for the best hard rock performance went to the band Living Color in 1990 , which also received this award the following year. From 1992 to 1994 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal . Until 2011, the bands Foo Fighters , Living Color and The Smashing Pumpkins shared the position for most of the Grammys in this category, each with two prizes. Most of the Grammys went to American artists, but so far the award has been given twice to an Australian band and once to artists from Armenia and Great Britain. With seven nominations, Alice in Chains is the band with the most lineups without a win.

Winner and nominated artist

year	Artist / band	nationality	plant	Other nominated artists	Pictures of the artists
1990 February 22, 1990	Living Color	United States	Cult of Personality	Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator Great White - Once Bitten, Twice Shy Guns N 'Roses - G N' R Lies (Album) Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feel good
1991 February 20, 1991	Living Color	United States	Time's Up (album)	AC / DC - The Razors Edge (Album) Faith No More - Epic Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo habitual (Album) Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
1992 February 25, 1992	Van Halen	United States	For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge	AC / DC - Moneytalks Alice in Chains - Man in the Box Guns N 'Roses - Use Your Illusion I (Album)
1993 February 24, 1993	Red hot chili peppers	United States	Give it away	Alice in Chains - Dirt (Album) Faith No More - Angel Dust (Album) Guns N 'Roses - Live and Let Die Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Pearl Jam - Jeremy
1994 March 1, 1994	Stone Temple Pilots	United States	Plush	AC / DC - Highway to Hell Living Color - Leave It Alone Robert Plant - Calling to You The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
1995 March 1, 1995	Soundgarden	United States	Black Hole Sun	Alice in Chains - I Stay Away Beastie Boys - Sabotage Green Day - Longview Pearl Jam - Go
1996 February 28, 1996	Pearl Jam	United States	Spin the Black Circle	Alice in Chains - Grind Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Van Halen - The Seventh Seal
1997 February 26, 1997	The Smashing Pumpkins	United States	Bullet with Butterfly Wings	Alice in Chains - Again Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade Soundgarden - Pretty Noose Stone Temple Pilots - Trippin 'on a Hole in a Paper Heart
1998 February 25, 1998	The Smashing Pumpkins	United States	The End Is the Beginning Is the End	Bush - Swallowed Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug Rage Against the Machine - People of the Sun
1999 February 25, 1999	Jimmy Page and Robert Plant	United Kingdom	Most high	Kiss - Psycho Circus Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show Metallica - Fuel Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
2000 February 23, 2000	Metallica	United States	Whiskey in the Jar	Alice in Chains - Get Born Again Buckcherry - Lit Up Kid Rock - Bawitdaba Korn - Freak on a Leash Limp Bizkit - Nookie
2001 February 23, 2001	Rage Against the Machine	United States	Guerrilla radio	Kid Rock - American Bad Ass Limp Bizkit - Take a Look Around Pearl Jam - Grievance Stone Temple Pilots - Down
2002 February 27, 2002	Linkin Park	United States	Crawling	Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal POD - Alive Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk Saliva - Your Disease
2003 February 27, 2003	Foo fighters	United States	All my life	Godsmack - I Stand Alone POD - Youth of the Nation Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows System of a Down - Aerials
2004 February 8, 2004	Evanescence and Paul McCoy	United States	Bring Me to Life	Audioslave - Like a Stone Godsmack - straight out of line Jane's Addiction - Just Because Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow
2005 February 13, 2005	Velvet revolver	United States	Slither	Incubus - Megalomaniac Metallica - Some Kind of Monster Nickelback - Feelin 'Way Too Damn Good Slipknot - Duality
2006 February 8, 2006	System of a Down	Armenia United States	BYOB	Audioslave - Doesn't Remind Me Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds Robert Plant - Tin Pan Valley Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
2007 February 11, 2007	Wolfmother	Australia	Woman	Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly the Same System of a Down - Lonely Day Tool - Vicarious
2008 February 10, 2008	Foo fighters	United States	The Pretender	Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Wanna Stop Queens of the Stone Age - Sick, Sick, Sick Tool - The Pot
2009 February 8, 2009	The Mars Volta	United States	Wax simulacra	Disturbed - Inside the Fire Judas Priest - Visions Mötley Crüe - Saints of Los Angeles Rob Zombie - The Lords of Salem
2010 January 31, 2010	AC / DC	Australia	Was machine	Alice in Chains - Check My Brain Linkin Park - What I've Done Metallica - The Unforgiven III Nickelback - Burn It to the Ground
2011 February 13, 2011	Them Crooked Vultures	United States	New catch	Alice in Chains - A Looking in View Ozzy Osbourne - Let Me Hear You Scream Soundgarden - Black Rain Stone Temple Pilots - Between the Lines

supporting documents

1. ↑ “ honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position ” Overview . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Retrieved September 11, 2014.
2. ^ Grammy Awards at a Glance . In: Los Angeles Times . Tribune Company . Retrieved July 19, 2010.
3. ↑ Jon Pareles: Grammys to McFerrin and Chapman . In: The New York Times . February 23, 1989. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
4. ^ Frank Hoffmann: Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-L . Routledge, New York, NY 2005, ISBN 0-203-48427-4 , pp. 1080 ( books.google.de ).
5. ↑ Stephen Holden : The Pop Life . In: The New York Times . February 14, 1990. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
6. ↑ Awards Category Comparison Chart (PDF; 80 kB) National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. S. 1. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
7. ↑ Grammy nominees 1993. The Baltimore Sun, January 8, 1993. (Nirvana does not appear in the Rock on the net list.)

Web links

• Official site of the Grammy Awards
• Grammy Awards: Best Hard Rock Performance . Rock on the Net. Retrieved January 9, 2011.

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