Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album

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The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album has been awarded since 1991. From 2001 to 2003, the award recipients included the producers and engineers as well as the artists. In 1990, and from 1994 to 1999, the award was known as Best Alternative Music Performance.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year.

The White Stripes hold the record for wins in the Best Alternative Music Album category, having won this Grammy three times for their last three albums. Radiohead have two wins, and 3 more nominations, Radiohead's front man, Thom Yorke was also nominated for his solo album.

[edit] 1990s

Year	Winner	Nominations
1991	Sinéad O'Connor for I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got	Laurie Anderson for Strange Angels Kate Bush for The Sensual World The Replacements for All Shook Down World Party for Goodbye Jumbo
1992	R.E.M. for Out of Time	Elvis Costello for Mighty Like a Rose Jesus Jones for Doubt Nirvana for Nevermind Richard Thompson for Rumor and Sigh
1993	Tom Waits for Bone Machine	The B-52's for Good Stuff The Cure for Wish Morrissey for Your Arsenal XTC for Nonsuch
1994	U2 for Zooropa	Belly for Star Nirvana for In Utero R.E.M. for Automatic For The People The Smashing Pumpkins for Siamese Dream
1995	Green Day for Dookie	Tori Amos for Under The Pink Crash Test Dummies for God Shuffled His Feet Sarah McLachlan for Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Nine Inch Nails for The Downward Spiral
1996	Nirvana for MTV Unplugged in New York	Björk for Post Foo Fighters for Foo Fighters PJ Harvey for To Bring You My Love The Presidents Of The United States Of America for The Presidents Of The United States Of America
1997	Beck for Odelay	Tori Amos for Boys For Pele Tracy Bonham for The Burdens of Being Upright R.E.M. for New Adventures in Hi-Fi The Smashing Pumpkins for Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
1998	Radiohead for OK Computer	Björk for Homogenic David Bowie for Earthling The Chemical Brothers for Dig Your Own Hole Prodigy for The Fat of the Land
1999	Beastie Boys for Hello Nasty	Tori Amos for From the Choirgirl Hotel PJ Harvey for Is This Desire Radiohead for Airbag/How Am I Driving? The Smashing Pumpkins for Adore

[edit] 2000s

Year	Winner	Nominations
2000	Beck for Mutations	Tori Amos for To Venus And Back Fatboy Slim for You've Come A Long Way, Baby Moby for Play Nine Inch Nails for The Fragile
2001	Nigel Godrich (producer & engineer/mixer) & Radiohead (producer & artist) for Kid A	Fiona Apple for When the Pawn... Beck for Midnite Vultures The Cure for Bloodflowers Paul McCartney for Liverpool Sound Collage
2002	Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin, (producers), Ken Nelson (producer & engineer), Michael H. Brauer (engineer) & Coldplay for Parachutes	Tori Amos for Strange Little Girls Björk for Vespertine Fatboy Slim for Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars Radiohead for Amnesiac
2003	Ken Nelson (producer & engineer/mixer), Mark Phythian (engineer/mixer) & Coldplay (producers, engineers/mixers & artists) for A Rush of Blood to the Head	Beck for Sea Change Clinic for Walking With Thee Elvis Costello and the Imposters for Cruel Smile The Soundtrack Of Our Lives for Behind The Music
2004	The White Stripes for Elephant	The Flaming Lips for Fight Test Radiohead for Hail to the Thief Sigur Rós for ( ) Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Fever to Tell
2005	Wilco for A Ghost Is Born	Björk for Medúlla Franz Ferdinand for Franz Ferdinand PJ Harvey for Uh Huh Her Modest Mouse for Good News for People Who Love Bad News
2006	The White Stripes for Get Behind Me Satan	The Arcade Fire for Funeral Beck for Guero Death Cab for Cutie for Plans Franz Ferdinand for You Could Have It So Much Better
2007	Gnarls Barkley for St. Elsewhere	Arctic Monkeys for Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not The Flaming Lips for At War with the Mystics Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Show Your Bones Thom Yorke for The Eraser
2008	The White Stripes for Icky Thump	Lily Allen for Alright, Still The Arcade Fire for Neon Bible Björk for Volta The Shins for Wincing the Night Away