The 15 best albums that never won a Grammy

Sure, "Illmatic" came out before the award for Best Rap Album was even established, but looking back, it was one of the year's best and most influential albums. It set the stage for what rap music would become, and is rightfully legendary today.

Yeah, I'm as surprised as you. Apparently the strength of "You're My Best Friend," "I'm In Love With My Car," and oh yeah, "Bohemian Rhapsody," weren't enough to get Queen a Grammy for this amazing album.

There were, like, a gajillion #1 hit songs on Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" -- and even that wasn't enough to win it a Grammy for overall Album of the Year. It wasn't even enough to give it a win in its own category. It got a nomination, sure, but it lost out to Arcade Fire.

I'm sure she was devastated when she went home without a single Grammy win that year, all the way up until she took a bath in the pile of money from "Teenage Dream's" album sales.

Again, yes, this is before rappers had an album of the year category to themselves, but Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" was one of the most influential albums of all time -- not just in its own genre, but in any genre. It wasn't even nominated in the year of its release (1988), which is absolutely crazy.

The Grammys are notorious for missing the mark on rock albums, and they really screwed up here. No matter how you feel about Guns N' Roses's cheesy brand of rock music, "Appetite for Destruction" deserved recognition. I mean, for real? "Paradise City"? "Sweet Child o' Mine"? "Welcome to the Jungle"? What else were they supposed to do?

This one -kinda- makes sense. The Talking Heads were always just a bit too weird for the Grammy awards. Now, that doesn't make "Remain in Light" (that's the one with "Once In A Lifetime" on it, if you weren't clear) any worse of an album, it's more of a reflection on the Grammy awards themselves than anything else.

The same argument could be used for this album, I suppose. That said, this legendary David Bowie album was much more accessible, and set the tone for the future of rock music as a whole. Oh, and by the way, it pretty much originated the genre of glam rock. Can we give it Album of the Year in retrospect?

I really could have picked any Bob Marley album here -- the man never won a Grammy. But the fact that "Exodus," the album with both "One Love/People Get Ready" and "Jamming" on it was not honored by the Grammy committee is particularly egregious.

The Grammys just don't like rock that's any harder than, say, Bruce Springsteen. There's no other explanation for the fact that AC/DC's best album never won a Grammy.

The Fab Four won themselves their fair share of Grammy awards, but at the same time, it's odd that their (arguably) best album couldn't take home Album of the Year awards in 1970. The honor went to Blood, Sweat & Tears instead.

You all know the story here. Nirvana's masterpiece was utterly snubbed by the Grammys when it released, despite the fact that, in retrospect, it not only established grunge as a genre but also killed hair metal at the same time.

Remember what we said about the Grammys and rock music? Yeah. Apparently releasing what was, arguably, the best rock song of all time in "Stairway to Heaven" (alongside countless other classics) was not enough to snag Led Zeppelin a Grammy for the album.

For some reason, "Some Girls" was never as popular with the Grammy committee as it should have been. From "Beast of Burden" to "Shattered," many of the Stones' best songs found a home on the album, but apparently that was not enough to win them a Grammy for the record.

"Discovery." Yup. The album with "One More Time," "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," and countless other classic Daft Punk tracks couldn't even take home Album of the Year honors in the dance category. The robots would simply have to make do with revolutionizing the house music genre. 

Wait, this can't be right.

*furious typing*

This has to be an elaborate prank. One that is apparently being put on by Google, Wikipedia, the people that run the Grammy website, and... it looks like... pretty much every other website out there. That's impressive! 

Because the alternative, that "Dark Side of the Moon," one of the best rock albums of all time from front to back, did not win a single Grammy, is just... well... that's ridiculous. That can't be right.