Foo Fighters rocked out pretty fiercely with "The Pretender." Good call to have them play outside to a more rock-friendly crowd than inside at the more formal proceedings. Next to Prince, Dave Grohl has rock's best scream.

Per usual, only a few actual awards get dished out during the telecast. Justin Timberlake beat out John Mayer, Paul McCartney, Seal and Michael Buble for best male pop vocal performance. And Tony Bennett hardly ever loses a Grammy, but he and Christina Aguilera's "Steppin' Out" collaboration lost out to another Grammy darling -- Alison Krauss, with Robert Plant -- for "Gone Gone Gone."

Winehouse is shaping up as the night's big winner, with two wins for "Rehab," plus a best Pop Vocal Album award for "Back to Black." Though Bruce Springsteen was shut out in the major categories, he did pick up wins for "Radio Nowhere" (best solo rock vocal performance, best rock song) and best rock instrumental.

White Stripes also picked up two awards, taking best alternative album for "Icky Thump," beating out Arcade Fire, and best performance by a duo or group with vocals for the title song.

Grammy always likes a comeback, too. So Chaka Khan took home best R&B album for "Funk This," while the Eagles won a country performance for duo or vocals for "How Long."

And though the award wasn't televised, let's all toast Erie and Docksider Tavern favorite Terrence Simien, who beat out six other artists for the Best Zydeco or Cajun Music award for "Live! Worldwide."

Kanye West's win for Best Rap Album ("Graduation") was hardly a surprise: He was also nominated for Best Album. "I wanted to cross genres and show how we could express ourselves with something fresh and new," he said. Cool how he made them back off the get-off-the-stage background music so he could finish his speech. He gave Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" props, saying if he didn't win -- she should.
Plus, how could he step away without saying a word about his mom, who died late last year?