2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees

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Will Rosy Music ever get in?

no way

it's nuts

Curious awards these. Has anyone ever turned them down? Always makes me laugh the anti establishment only really anti until someone invites them in. Like they both secretly wanted each other in the first place.

The Spinners are as deserving as anyone on that list. Nominated once before in 2012.

― jetfan, Thursday, October 9, 2014 9:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Spinners blow chunks.

Just kidding never fucking heard of them.

No Maiden, no Priest, no Purple, then go fuck yourself "Spinners"

you've never heard of the spinners you're fucking yourself

Fuck the Spinners

Fuck em

If you were a heavy metal fan in the early '70s, you almost certainly would have known who the Spinners were--might have even liked them. They were all over Top 40 with a number of brilliant singles.

"Could it be I'm falling in love" ?

Dunno could it

no maiden no priest no purple then go fuck yourself spinners - sounds like a Fall song.

If it was a Fall song, it would be "go fuck yourself DETROIT Spinners" unless Mark E. has issues with the British Spinners (and he probably does).

A band I've never heard, nor heard of, should not be in an institution I don't care about.

There are clearly better acts here, but NIN are the most important to my personal musical history, so I'm voting for them.

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No one voting for SRV?

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I'm voting for the Smiths just because I'd like to see Mozz and Johnny Marr together in a stage exchanging uncomfortable looks. Anyway Reed will get in eventually, and even though I like NIN, I'm not really interested in extending Reznor's upcoming award ceromony tour.

Kraftwerk
Chic
The Smiths
Bill Withers
NWA

Re the S-K talk, I mostly meant it in the context of Joan Jett -- and I wouldn't be surprised if they at least get nominated for similar token-lady-rockers reasons. But yeah who knows.

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At least this thread got Sleater-Kinney to reform.

lol

The objective was to get Sting to reform. That's fine, though.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDU8BrIhHvw

Aren't Radiohead eligible in the next few years? They seem like a shoe-in. Is Jann Wenner still the main person behind who gets in? I doubt he's even heard of S-K.

Dont see why the Bangles arent in there in the mix

I will personally upper deck the toilet of anybody who claims to love Maiden more than me but the Spinners kick ass and deserve the hall whether Maiden's in or not. fuck anybody who doesn't love the Spinners more than life itself

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/green-day-lou-reed-joan-jett-ringo-starr-lead-2015-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-20141216

Still no Chic, to save you the click.

I bet Johnny Marr breathed a sigh of relief now he knows he won't have to put up with Mozz for another uncomfortable evening

at first I was bummed nine inch nails didn't get in, despite being nominated...then I thought about it and was like "wait why would I be bummed about that"

Chic and Kraftwerk are OK I guess but they're no Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

i have never heard of paul butterfield blues band or double trouble. i fail as a fan of rock and roll?

While several generations of geniuses vie for SRV's guitar god crown on stage, Bill Withers will sip neat single malt scotch at the bar.

You guys have heard Butterfield Blues Band, that's the version of "Mary Mary" that Run DMC sample

They also back Dylan on his first electric show at Newport

Their guitarist Mike Bloomfield is way better than Clapton and he's in there like 3 times

Green Day is in. Deep Purple and BOC are not. THis whole thing is hilarious, I love it.

goddamnit I forgot that Blue Oyster Cult wasn't in yet....forget my measured tone upthread, i'mma roll up and str8 Magill these motherfucks in the turning lane

As contentious as baseball HOF arguments are, at least you have some ground beneath you--there are numbers there that shape the arguments. Arguing about the Rock and Roll HOF, there are no numbers, and any complaints just anger fans. I could say that Joan Jett and Stevie Ray Vaughn and Green Day and Bill Withers shouldn't be in there--especially Bill Withers over the Spinners--but it's not an argument you can really have.

as long as i'm cap'n save a butterfield i will say i think that the sidelong title track to "east west" is p influential in the development of 60s psych/raga/free rock jams, released all the way back in 66 and written in 65 after bloomfield did acid, pretty ahead of the curve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaV-S5ivX3E

Well, that is probably true, but I'd equally argue some Kraftwerk tracks were pretty influential and ahead of the curve ;)

And yeah, complaining about the RaRHoF is silly, but their choices do seem especially silly this year. Oh well.

Kraftwerk should totally be in, as should Deep Purple and Chic and BOC and a bunch of other artists! I'm not necessarily even arguing that hard for Butterfield Blues, but ppl seemed to be clowning them for no reason other than they aren't that famous outside of trv classic rock headz

The first three butterfield blues band albums are genuinely classic. Some of the later stuff isn't bad either.

I don't have much of a problem with green day but their inclusion seems like a joke and it makes me realize foo fighters will be in the hall for fifty years before thin Lizzy or blue oyster cult or deep purple even get a decent shot.

I don't mind PBB…but you gotta chuckle that this crop seems to reinforce the cynical view of the Hall. SRV and PBB = white bands, blues scales played on guitars (not on "East-west," but did SRV and dubba-trubba ever deviate as such? doubtful) moanin' about women done 'em wrong…through someone's else's FB RRHoF thread a few years ago, I saw the grizzled boomer likes of Goldmine's Jeff tamarkin complaining that they would never EVER respect the Hall unless the PBB is in.

Lou? you die, you get in the next year (see: R. Asheton). As for Bill Withers, never fucked with him. always had the sense that he seemed to be the kind of african-american artist that, like, the james taylor/cat stevens/jackson Browne cohort could ride for. like, he's a singer-songwriter, not "commercial" the way that Afr-Am exponents like say the Spinners were. and as much as everyone likes Joan, her thing is not based on, like, a deep bench of music. It's based on a need for a woman to stand up for rockist values.

butterfield blues band had african american members fyi