Grammys

The 56th annual Grammy Awards have come and gone, and Daft Punk, Lorde, Vampire Weekend and Dave Grohl are among those likely to look back fondly on last night's ceremony. All of the aforementioned artists left the Staples Center in Los Angeles with gramophone trophies, proving "music's biggest night" sometimes gets it right.

Everyone bags on the Grammys, that annual snooze-fest in which the record industry pretends its still relevant and honors a bunch of terrible artists for making horrible music only housewives and tween girls actually care about, but every now and then, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gets it right.

It’s been almost five years since remaining Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have performed together, but they will reunite at this year’s Grammy Awards. In addition to playing together, the duo will be honored with the Beatles’ Lifetime Achievement Award.

We rank our favorite moments from the Grammys.

For as long as they've existed, the Grammys have been called safe, predictable and out of touch, and the list of amazing artists that haven't won a single award certainly lends credence to such arguments. True, the Grammys sometimes get it right, but for every win by a worthy band -- Nirvana taking Best Alternative Album for 'MTV Unplugged in New York,' say -- there are dozens of inexcusable sligh

If nothing else, New Order deserve a Grammy for resilience. As everyone (except maybe your average Grammy voter) knows, the band rose from the ashes of U.K. post-punkers Joy Division, whose singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide in 1980. It took JD's surviving three a couple of albums to find their voice, but find it they did, fashioning a dance-rock sound well ahead of its time.

Sure, Patti Smith's music is an acquired taste -- she's a spunky punk poet, not a golden-voiced chanteuse -- but it's one a lot of people have acquired. She's beloved by peers and critics alike, and she's even a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Iceland's most famous export, musical or otherwise, made her name with the Sugarcubes in the '80s and emerged the following decade as an unlikely MTV darling, exposing Middle American teens to some of the weirdest pop ever to go mainstream.

Since forming in 1989, Blur have put out seven albums and won a grand total of zero Grammys on the back of only one nomination. Gorillaz, the cartoon offshoot band frontman Damon Albarn formed in 1998, on the other hand, has released three studio albums and won one Grammy over the course of nine nominations...

The deluxe edition of the Pixies' 'Minotaur' box set -- which included all of the band's studio albums on gold-plated 24k-layered CDs, a Blu-ray /DVD disc featuring live video of a 1991 Pixies concert and all of their music videos, packaged with a 54-page book -- scored a Grammy nomination for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package in 2011. The award would have gone to art directors Jeff An