Arcade Fire just took home the Grammy award for Album of the Year for last year's The Suburbs. Watch the videos of their performances below, courtesty of The Audio Perv.

- Fans of Arcade Fire may be prone to say: "Arcade Fire won Album of the Year? Oh, shit." The members of Arcade Fire seemed to have about the same reaction. Win Butler opened his thank you speech with, "What the hell?"

- Non-fans took to the internet's tubes to express similar sentiments.

- The Grammys are generally rather awful, but this is very cool. I'm sure there will be plenty of naysayers who thought Lady Gaga really deserved it this time, but maybe others who don't know the band will go pick up one of their records, and then research the Merge catalog, and then check out Superchunk and The Magnetic Fields and Neutral Milk Hotel and Polvo, as well. So congratulations to Merge, too.

- Anybody know the stats on independent labels releasing albums that win the Grammy of Album of the Year? The winners of the last decade - including Santana, Alison Krauss (twice), U2 (ughh), Taylor Swift, Ray Charles - were all major releases of that year. Far as I know, the only nominee of the last ten years on an indie was The White Stripes, for Elephant (V2) in 2004. I guess Radiohead's In Rainbows might count, too, since they originally self-released it.

- They played "Month of May" before the announcement. Not an especially catchy song and a pretty chaotic performance with lots of blinding flashing lights, noise, and Mat Hoffman and others biking around the stage for some reason. It was pretty great. After they accepted the award, they closed the telecast with "Ready to Start", and there was much smiling.

- Arcade Fire Tweeted: "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. Thank you EVERYONE."

- Kanye is stoked, too.

- Other fun winners: The Black Keys for Best Alternative album; Danger Mouse for Producer of the Year; excellent young jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding for Best New Artist (sorry Biebs); and Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" for best music video, which I can totally get behind.