10 Huge Artists Who Got Snubbed At The Grammys

Over the past few years, the Grammys have never been the most trusted source in music. If you look at some of the people who actually find their way onto the Grammys stage, you're looking at a 50/50 chance that they might actually be the best that the music industry has to offer. So before we get into music's big night, it's worthy to look through their more notable victims as well.

Because this isn't a new thing by any stretch, folks. As far back as the '60s and '70s, some of the most classic artists have been cast to the side in favor of what everyone thought was going to be the next big thing. What we see as some of the pillars of music nowadays has actually gone by the wayside, leading to many artists that look like a time capsule being called the future of music going forward.

Time is the biggest test of these things though, and as the years go by, people have started to separate the classic artists from the flashes in the pan, with most of these snubbed musicians going on to put out some of the best music of their career regardless of what the Academy says. To them, this isn't a business that's concerned about trophies or anything...but for the fans, these can be inexcusable to watch play out in real time.

There's a good chance that we will never see an act like Queen come into the limelight ever again. While there have been acts like the Struts who have definitely pulled a few notes from Freddie Mercury's playbook, this group of rock monarchs still have some of the greatest rock songs ever made for a damn good reason. It's just a shame that the Recording Academy didn't think so back in the day.

In their prime, Queen never even saw a Grammy in their active years, with most of the rock categories going to the more tasteful records from the likes of Steely Dan around the same time. Even Bohemian Rhapsody, which is universally considered one of the greatest rock songs of all time, never really saw its just due until a few years later, where everyone started to pick up on just how genius it is.

This may have just come down to the musical press not quite being ready for what Queen was at the time, thinking they may have been a bit too vaudeville for the traditional rock that was coming from the bluesier acts at the time. Granted, Freddie always seemed to take it in stride, never making anything for the press to latch onto and doing whatever the hell he wanted to regardless of whether there was a market for it. For a band that was all about being competent behind your instrument, there's almost something punk rock about that. In a world that aims to serve the critics, Freddie made music for himself and never apologized for it.