2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees POLL

Not as funny as when it was the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

no it will be way funnier

have you ever heard a nine inch nails song

All-Star jam on "Closer"! Steve Miller sings the naughty part!

trent doesn't even have the "fuck the hall of fame" real-rock-doesn't-belong-in-a-museum option. you can't accept an oscar and then do that.

most badass thing he could do if he gets in would be have the band dress like kraftwerk and cover "cars"

"alright you fuckers, welcome to the stage robert smith, martin gore and thomas dolby!!!!!"

haha

that would be legit great, the stuntcasted 'statement' performances are the best trend in HOF induction ceremonies, lady-fronted Nirvana and Stooges doing Madonna were awesome.

reprise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4p7VIE9jQk

I mean I like a lot of the acts on here, but at least 5 of 'em owe their existence to the JBs rhythm section

― Οὖτις, Thursday, October 8, 2015 4:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol NWA somewhat literally

haha alfred my adding dolby was totally in ref to that

lady-fronted Nirvana and Stooges doing Madonna were awesome.

i love how those were both legit subversive, not just middle-fingers - most pop inductee ever brings out a group (at the time) too non-pop to be inducted to pay tribute, nirvana dignifying its "moved rock forward" status by reaffirming its anti-machohood.

some good comments on that Synthesizer Showdown video

Xyshom Avazax 1 year ago
Sad to see these legends pantomiming so.

Stevie Wonder is the only one of those four to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thus far

obviously yes

can't remember the last time the rnrhof actually meant something

Be sure to vote here, as your vote can actually count!

http://rockhall.com/voting/2016-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-nominees-vote/

Voted Yes, Smiths, Deep Purple, J. B.'s, and NIN here. (Sorry Cars.)

I don't mind writing about the HOF. The only thing is, like the baseball HOF, people are very protective about who they think they should go in. So I don't enjoy how the arguments can touch nerves.

The only absolute yes for me is again the Spinners.
Subjectively yes, objectively I'm not sure: Cheap Trick.
Put them in--they deserve it, plus everyone will stop complaining: Chic.
There's a case: Janet Jackson.
One guy for sure, maybe two, not so sure about the whole group: NWA. (If influence was all that mattered, yes.)
Beyond old-guy nostalgia for the first four or five hits (and nothing past about 1974), no real case: Chicago.
For just the pop hits, no, if you include a couple of early albums, maybe: Steve Miller.
In a British HOF, probably, but not this one: the Smiths.
Don't really see a case: Chaka Khan, Los Lobos.
Did the JB's have non-James Brown hits? I honestly don't know.
For me, the worst kind of inductee, and they'll probably go in: the Cars.
Silly: Nine Inch Nails.

what makes the Cars the worst kind of inductee? They got the hits, the acclaim, the influence.

i doubt the smiths will get in but man if they did its gotta be cuz of johnny marr, lotta bigger Beloved By Wimps And Nerds 80s bands not in yet, but the smiths might have the most prominent guitarist

(xpost) I have a very subjective hatred of middling '80s new wave bands.

curious about how the move from Fuse to HBO has influenced the induction choices (if at all) - 2012 was the first one on HBO and had the beasties and peppers get in after previously being passed, g'n'r getting in their first year. 2013 didn't have any big gen-x arena-friendly headliners but none were nominated. 2014 had nirvana get in after being nominated for the first time, and older big acts like kiss and hall & oates get in without having ever been nominated before.

if this year features NWA, Cheap Trick, The Cars and Nine Inch Nails, feels like they're potentially setting a template.

oh - and speaking of gen-x friendly arena headliners - Green Day got in last year.

2017 belongs to pearl jam, obv

wait wait wait i just realized pearl jam was eligible THIS year...i can't believe they're making them wait one

and nine inch nails was eligible last year. maybe they're spacing them out.

this guy who's been writing a regular column in my local free weekly since like 1980 has done at least two columns in my lifetime dedicated to complaining that chicago isn't in the R&RHOF

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/danehy/Content?oid=3436903

Bands are eligible after 25 years...or 6 to 4 decades

Very little discussion of Yes in this thread. Is the assumption that they're gonna make it?

I would have never assumed that.

Maybe the low level of discussion has to do with that they're the sort of band that a lot of people love and a lot of people hate and neither side wants to argue with the other?

i feel like Yes's odds are good because they seem to like these things to have eventful timing, so things like Squire's death, NWA's movie and Janet's comeback made a lot of people go 'well, this is their year.' and now that Rush is finally in, the prog stigma presumed to be a big factor against Yes's induction has softened.

i'm usually the one in these threads arguing that whatever alt-rock critical touchstone probably won't get in, but i think The Smiths could do it. they never crossed over in the US and sold a ton of records like The Cure or Depeche Mode but at this point it feels like they might as well have.

Now The Cars are in the lead with 13.5 million votes over Chicago, and Yes and Deep Purple aren't far behind with 13.3 and 13.2 mil. That's a lotta votes.

I like to check the stats once in a while to remind me of how massive The Cars were: the debut and most famous jukebox comp are 6 x platinum, Candy-O and Heartbeat City at 4, the rest at least platinum except for Door to Door.

Candy is 4xplat? Not shocked by debut and heartbeat but daamn

They were hugely important in terms of aor/new wave crossover but didn't think they'd have THAT many multiplatinums

In a British HOF, probably, but not this one: the Smiths.

Yeah, if there was a UK equivalent to this nonsense, The Smiths would probably get in no questions asked. On the flipside, The Cars and Cheap Trick wouldn't stand a chance.

Though apparently the first four foreigner albums are at at least 5x platinum so it matches up in terms of scale

And they ain't even nominated

"alright you fuckers, welcome to the stage robert smith, martin gore and thomas dolby!!!!!"

― da croupier, Friday, October 9, 2015 8:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This would just be the best thing!

I like to check the stats once in a while to remind me of how massive The Cars were: the debut and most famous jukebox comp are 6 x platinum, Candy-O and Heartbeat City at 4, the rest at least platinum except for Door to Door.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:02 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

None of their albums made the Top 20 here, the highest charting was Heartbeat City, which made it to #25. Only two of their singles made the Top 10: 'My Best Friend's Girl' (#3) and 'Drive' (#4) - only three other singles charted: 'Just What I Needed' (#17), 'Let's Go' (#51) and 'Since You're Gone' (#37) ... they really were not a big deal here, so I always find the huge amounts of praise for The Cars on here a bit weird, if understandable: they were clearly an American thing.

Whatever New Wave means as sub-genre and marketing decision, The Cars fit it.

what makes the Cars the worst kind of inductee? They got the hits, the acclaim, the influence.

I can't think of bands influenced by the Cars.

Whatever New Wave means as sub-genre and marketing decision, The Cars fit it.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They do, if a certain strand of it.

I can't think of bands influenced by the Cars.

― timellison, Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's Weezer, I guess. I certainly can't think of any British bands influenced by 'em.

Whenever people do the are they/aren't they influential thing on ilx we start really looking for imitations rather than influence. So while I can't off the top of my head name a band clearly imitating the cars, they were a big deal in giving aor bands a road map into the 80s

I was gonna say: The Cars were responsible for more DX-7 purchases by .38 Special and ZZ Top than any magazine ad.

That's actually what I was thinking, that moves by older bands toward contemporary production and pop-rock composition structure might well have been Cars-influenced.

DX-7s were first made in '83, btw Alfred. Hawkes used a Prophet-5 according to Wikipedia.

As Chuck Eddy described the scene (from a piece I wrote but I think this line was at least partly his) - "Queen and Rush tightening up for a world of Cars and Police."