The two albums whose covers are shown in the first two visuals were embroiled in a controversy. The third visual is an ad which refers to this controversy while supporting the first album. Identify the albums, bands and the controversy.
Answer: The albums are Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull and And Justice for all by Metallica. The controversy was that in 1989, the Grammy for the best hard rock/metal performance was given to Tull over Metallica. Jethro Tull isn't exactly a heavy metal band which ticked many people off. The ad features Ian Anderson's flute prominently and supports Tull's status as a heavy metal band. The next year, when Metallica did indeed win a Grammy, they thanked Tull for not releasing an album that year. Arvind, anon, Mekie, Raghu, Keshav, Hirak, Iam, Terms of Service, Rajeev, Ashwin, Pi, Manix, Anshul, Shreya, Vetti, Rajesh, Sha, Avinash and Pappu got this one making this one of the most answered questions. Well done.
Answer: The albums are Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull and And Justice for all by Metallica. The controversy was that in 1989, the Grammy for the best hard rock/metal performance was given to Tull over Metallica. Jethro Tull isn't exactly a heavy metal band which ticked many people off. The ad features Ian Anderson's flute prominently and supports Tull's status as a heavy metal band. The next year, when Metallica did indeed win a Grammy, they thanked Tull for not releasing an album that year. Arvind, anon, Mekie, Raghu, Keshav, Hirak, Iam, Terms of Service, Rajeev, Ashwin, Pi, Manix, Anshul, Shreya, Vetti, Rajesh, Sha, Avinash and Pappu got this one making this one of the most answered questions. Well done.
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Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave.
Metallica's And Justice for All.
The Grammy Award controversy.
Crest of a knave - Jethro Tull
Ans justice for all - Metallica
Separate Grammy awards for Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance were introduced because of this controversy...
jethro tull -crest of a knave
metallica - and justice for all
JT's album (not rock! not metal! filled with flute solos!) won the very first Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance over Metallica.
Hence the ad - The Flute is a heavy metal instrument.
Jethro tull's Crest of a Knave shockingly beat Metallica's .. and Justive for all for the heavy-metal album Grammy. Since Ian Anderson plays the steel flute, they put out this ad in support of their award.
think it's the jethro tull/metallica controversy. jethro tull( maybe the jury was as 'thick as a brick'!!) received the first ever best heavy metal act grammy, beating out metallica's awesome 'and justice for all...'. when metallica did win the best metal act grammy(the very next year), they thanked jethro tull for not having released a heavy metal album!!
Metallica and Jethro Tull. Tull won the best heavy metal album when Metallica was the favorite at the Grammy's.
Yeah, I agree the flute is a metal instrument.
the album was of course - Crest of a Knave
'Sad but true'
'The unforgiven''Too old to rock and roll, too young to die' cheats 'The One' 'For whom the bell tolls' and 'Fade(s) to black'
Hard to 'Turn the page' when the 'The memory remains'
Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave, steals 1989 Grammy for Hard rock / Heavy metal, from Metallica's And Justice for All
The controversy was Jethro Tull (Krest of a Knave) winning a Grammy over Metallica (And justice for All).
Crest of a Knave beating ...And Justice for All at the Grammys.
The first album is by Jethro Tull, I dont know the name of the album. The second one is ...And Justice for All by Metallica. The former won a Grammy in the Heavy metal category. The controversy was of course that Jethro Tull wasnt heavy metal. As an Aside, the next time Metallica was nominated for a grammy (for the Black album) they won and in his thank you message Lars said... We thank Jethro Tull for not coming out with an album this year
The first picture is Crest of a knave by Jethro Tull. Second is the Metallica album cover "And justice for all". The controversy was over Jethrotull being perceived as a hard rock band during their Grammy win in 1989 for their album "Crest of knave". In response to this controversy, and criticism they received over the award, their record label took out an advertisement in Billboard magazine which is the third picture.
(a) Crest of a Knave
(b) Justice for All
(c) Tull's ad in Billboard mag
Pretty cool ad with a flute lying amongst reinforced steel bars!
Basically, the controversy about the only ever Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance... most thought that Metallica would get it, but was given to Jethro Tull. Happened in 1989, when most of you were still sucking on your thumbs :-)
BTW, Ian Anderson's silhouette in the last clue gave it away. Nonetheless brilliant question! Was it inspired by IamBetweenAHardRockandASoftC**k?
Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull and And Justice for All by Metallica. The controversy was because Jethro Tull was largely considered heavy metal but it still won the Grammy in the category for Crest of a Knave. The band came out with the ad as a response to the controversy.
Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave won the 1989 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Peformance over Metallica's Justice for All; The ad was in response to the criticism in some Brit music periodical;
Metallica's "And Justice for all"(pic2) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989, but with much controversy, it lost to Jethro Tull's "Crest of a Knave" (pic1)
Jethro Tull's published an ad in Billboard magazine (Pic3).
Metallica in response added a sticker to his album reading "Grammy Award LOSERS", with the word "Losers" appearing in graffiti over a scratched out "winners"
Jethro Tull's Crest of a Knave, Metallica's ...And Justice for All and the 1989 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance
albums are
Crest of a knave (Jethro Tull)
And justice for all (Metallica)
The adv 'The flute is aheavy metal instrument' is in response to the controversy over whether Jethro Tull was a heavy metal rock band.
Crest of a Knave - Jethro Tull;
...and justice for all - Metallica
Jethro tull was given the Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal album which Metallica was the favourite to win. The controversy was because Jethro Tull weren't exactly considered hard rock let alone Heavy metal..
The Ad obviously supports Jethro Tull.
Crest of a knave - Jethro Tull
And justice for all - metallica
Grammy awards 1989
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