That’s not critics, though. Grammy voters are people who work in the music industry. To qualify you even need creative or technical credits. I bet that critics

That’s not critics, though. Grammy voters are people who work in the music industry. To qualify you even need creative or technical credits. I bet that critics in 1989 overwhelmingly preferred Metallica’s album to Jethro Tull’s, which at this point was kind of a has-been.