Grammy Showdown: 2012

Best Rock Album

Rock 'n' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul Jeff Beck

Wasting Light  Foo Fighters

Come Around Sundown  Kings of Leon

I'm With You  Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Whole Love  Wilco

The Experts Say

Mark Hoppus Foo Fighters are the quintessential rock band. They came back with the same energy and charisa on Wasting Light.

Kelly Clarkson The Foo Fighters album was good, but Kings of Leon's sound feels a little more classic.

Adam Lambert The Chili Peppers album had disco bass lines, double claps and Anthony Kiedis being cool. They're timeless.

Vegas Odds Favor

Wilco 8-5

Who Should Win: Foo Fighters

Dave Grohl and Nevermind producer Butch Vig delivered a supercharged blast.

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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