Alabama Shakes<\/a>, I Must Be Dreaming<\/p>\n\t\tWho Will Win?\t<\/p>\n
\n\tPaul McCartney, The Boys of Dungeon Lane
Just two years ago, the Rolling Stones won Best Rock Album for Hackney Diamonds. The album not only racked up rave reviews, but it was also their first collection of original songs since 2005. It would be pretty impressive for the Stones to take it home again for Foreign Tongues, which is essentially a companion LP, but we don\u2019t think that\u2019ll happen. We instead think they\u2019ll give it to some guy named Paul who played bass on a Foreign Tongues song, and used to be in some other 1960s rock band. Paul McCartney\u2019s sole Best Rock Album nomination came in 2022 for McCartney\u00a0III, but The Boys of Dungeon Lane is an even stronger effort. Somehow or another, Andrew Watt gets the best out of the Mount Rushmore figures of rock. \u201cI thought it was the best McCartney album in a very long time,\u201d says Jason Squires, program director of KFRR in Fresno, California. \u201cIt\u2019s exactly what you\u2019d want from Paul McCartney in 2026. He wasn\u2019t trying to reinvent the wheel; just write good songs and put out good music.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\tWho Should Win?\t<\/p>\n
\n\tPaul McCartney, The Boys of Dungeon Lane
This could be one of those rare years where the best album actually gets the award. Paul McCartney\u2019s voice may not be as strong as it was in 1967 or even 2017, but songs like \u201cAs You Lie There,\u201d \u201cDays We Left Behind,\u201d and \u201cHome to Us,\u201d featuring Ringo Starr, show that his songwriting skills remain undiminished, even though he\u2019s less than a year from his 85th birthday. \u201cHe still got it,\u201d says SiriusXM DJ Justin Kade. \u201cHe wrote the book on how to tell a story, how to write a song, how to become a true singer-songwriter. Let\u2019s give the legends their flowers while we still have them, especially after losing Dolly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\tForecasting the Field\t<\/p>\n
\n\tThere are quite a few non-octogenarians who released albums this year, and some of them are quite excellent. Alabama Shakes reunited after an 11-year hiatus with I Must Be Dreaming. It was worth the wait. \u201cI think [Alabama Shakes bandleader] Brittany [Howard] was spot-on with this one,\u201d says Squires. \u201cIt might overtake the others since it\u2019s exactly what the voters perceive to be a rock album. And it\u2019s a great one.\u201d The Foo Fighters are almost guaranteed by law to be nominated for Best Rock Album every time they have a new one, but Squires doubts this one will top McCartney or the Stones. \u201cI personally am a little burnt on the Foo Fighters,\u201d he says. \u201cBut when you think of rock, you think of the Foo Fighters, and I like the fact that they never take themselves too seriously.\u201d The Strokes are also enjoying a pretty remarkable comeback, and they won Best Rock Album in 2021 for The New Abnormal, but most fans enjoyed that one much more than their new one, Reality Awaits. \u201cI think the Strokes\u2019 time has kind of come and gone,\u201d says Squires. \u201cI wasn\u2019t impressed with this record this time. It was just not connecting with me song-wise. But I could see them also getting a vote just because they\u2019re the Strokes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 16, \u201cRolling Stone\u201d is breaking down 11 different categories. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[278659,49,48,75,26809,291115,318171,341,9998,20534,224463],"class_list":["post-925477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alabama-shakes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-foo-fighters","tag-grammys-2027","tag-grammysfyc2027","tag-music","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-the-rolling-stones","tag-the-strokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}