10 Huge Artists Who Got Snubbed At The Grammys
2. Pink Floyd
Just like the end of the '60s marked the fall of the Summer of Love, the end of the '70s was also in a bit of a transition as well. Though disco was starting to wane from relevancy and MTV wasn't quite ready for prime time yet, there was a weird dead zone where it wasn't clear what the next decade really had in store. And just when it looked like Pink Floyd would point the way forward, the Recording Academy had something else in mind.
When getting together the picks for Album of the Year, Christopher Cross ended up walking away with the trophy, having had one of the breakout songs of the time with his track Sailing. While it might have been a great tune both then and now, an award like this is meant to capture the entire record, and you can't get a more bombast album experience on what happened with the Wall.
Across two different discs, this could probably be considered the definitive Pink Floyd record by many, with Roger Waters laying out all of his grievances with the world and dissecting his own sanity across this album. There are even nods to the modern sounds at the time as well, with the single Another Brick in the Wall having a passing nod to the disco sounds that were starting to fade away. Then again, prog rock isn't for everyone, and even if you perfect every bit of it that you can, some people are still going to turn their back on it.