The Top Five Record Of The Year Winners / 411mania

Bonnie Lamrock January 29, 2014 News

This article is from 411Mania, In our opinion, (MJ-Upbeat), Michael Jackson is #1:

Criteria: The Grammy Awards were held on Sunday, and being as it’s one of music’s biggest nights of the year we in the Music Zone have turned our attention to the Award Show. One of the chief awards is for Record of the Year, an award that has been given out since 1959 to “honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to sales or chart position.” This week we’re looking at a finite list in the top five winners of that particular award.

5. Coldplay - “Clocks”
I don’t know if it’s cool to like Coldplay or not, but Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head are both outstanding albums and “Clocks” is the masterpiece of the latter. Inspired by Muse, who obviously weren’t quite as big at the time, the record nearly never made it onto the album due to timing, but after a reworking it made the cut and won Record of the Year in 2004 against stiff competition from Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”, Outkast’s “Hey Ya”, Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love” and Black Eyed Peas’ “Where is the Love,” a stellar field to say the least.

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4. Adele - “Rolling in the Deep”
I got over the Adele craze pretty quickly and I’m genuinely not a fan of hers, but I respect her talent and I have to give her and this song the credit they deserve. “Rolling in the Deep” was the winner in 2012, beating the likes of Bon Iver and Mumford and Sons, worthy contenders. Truth be told all of the nominations that year could’ve just been Adele songs and I don’t think there’s too many people that would argue that. As it goes, Adele’s original is probably my third favourite version of the song I’ve heard, so the video I’m positing is the amazing live Linkin Park cover, just because.

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3. Simon and Garfunkel - “Bridge Over Troubled Water”/”Mrs. Robinson”
I’m lumping these together purely because I don’t want to fill up two spots with the same artist and there was no way I could pick just one. Paul Simon is the only three-time winner of the Record of the Year gong (the third being his solo track “Graceland”) and with good reasons. Both of these tracks, winners in 1971 and 1969 respectively, are iconic songs that have stood the test of time as is evident by the fact that I wasn’t even born upon their release, and yet I have such a fondness for them. Two more iconic songs kept Simon and Garfunkel off the top spot though.