How much does the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame blow? 2007 edition

all those are great nominees!

Stop it, it's MY rock canon!

If they were there'd be a lot less for greyhaired punx to complain about and then where'd we be?

Oh, bullshit. I'll take Chic over those four bands, thanks.

And we'll still be here bitching about. *drum fill.. ouch my hand*

This is like starting a thread saying "Let's discuss how hot the sun's surface is"

seriously, why do people get bent out of shape about this stupid thing? does anyone really take umbrage at good musicians not being recognized and praised as such by a bunch of clueless asshole holdovers?

And as fun as it is to conflate the New York Dolls and Bert Blyleven, I pretty much think that the R&RHOF isn't a significant indicator of historical legitimacy like your typical sports HOF is.

Van Halen are noisy rock rubbish who had one pleasing hit, even though they had to ask Paul Anka to write it for them.

R.E.M. are masters of melodics meditations, they saved American musics from the tiranny of hip op gung, and should have been nominated in 1982.

The Stooges are noisy punk rock rubbish who are unable to play their instruments and increased the sales of ear muffs twenty folded. How fortunates Igipop was to find Bowie to write him some proper songs.

Patti Smith is a fail poet who pretended to be rock but fail to disguise her unsinging voice. She enjoyed her one-hit wonder thanks to Bruce Springstein, before she yielded for far more melodic rock derives with her group Scandal.

Chic were emperors of coloured musics when it was listenable, with their intiminitable melodics style which gave many hits to Diana Ross, Durand Uran and Supertramp.

Joe Tex was another one-hit wonder who ain't gonna bump no more with fat women. Why they want to give induce to novelty acts is not clearified.

Dave Clarke Five were second-string Beatles impersontators though at least they were melodics when you could hear the band through Clarke's tiresome noise drumming better suited to Avante Gard noise merchants like Albert Isla.

Grandmaster Flash is assassin of pop music, for it was he who stole from real musicians talent to inaurgurgate disasterous era of hip op. He should be hung from neck, not induced into Hall of Fames.

The Ronettes are perveyors of great melodics pop songs, though it is fortunates that they had Phil Specker to write their songs for them. No doubt they would have remain hotel maid chambers otherwise :)

Joe Tex has many many many great R&B slow jams, and he is funny and does the "slow the song down and do a funny spoken word breakdown in the middle of the song" better than anyone I know. "Happy Soul" is an amazing record as is "Joe Tex Sings With Strings and Things." Hope that clearifies things for you.

REM are ridiculously overrated even by people such as myself. Seriously, they have one and a half good albums that hold up after high school.

I shall not dignify what you right about Ye Stooges with any kind of response.

At least they never inducted Sugarhill Gang :)

Daydream Nation made the Library Of Congress. That's worth 100,000 times more veneration than a fucking rock hall of fame.

Surely "Daddy Pop" counts. ("Had U" should really count.)

So what if not every deserving artist gets nominated? It may end up being some stupid plaques and artifacts for tourists to gawk at in a museum, but at least the ceremonies themselves are a celebration of rock 'n' roll. I've enjoyed watching a few of them in recent years.

The Foundation’s nominating committee was founded in 1983, composed of “rock and roll historians.” It’s difficult to find out who exactly these people are, but they’re most likely middle aged white guys who wrote books about music. Jann Wenner is one of the founders, along with Dave Marsh. So the question is, will younger members be invited to join the committee? As more artists from the ‘80s become eligible, it’ll be a real culture clash of generations. Will they induct Mission of Burma, The Replacements, Hüsker Dü, The Minutemen, X, Sonic Youth, The English Beat, The Cure or The Jam? I think a few of them might, along with other previously passed-over artists like King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, Zombies, Small Faces, Tom Waits, Tim Buckley, MC5, Big Star, Modern Lovers, etc.

Would Faces and Small Faces be treated as separate entities?

please note that the zombies have already been eligible for significantly longer than jim rice has been eligible for the baseball hall of fame. and he's got a lot more defenders than they do.

please note also that my chemical romance are more of a lock at this point than tom waits is.

Are these knee-slappers?

Would Faces and Small Faces be treated as separate entities?

Possibly, but I cannot see how Faces would belong in the RRHOF. Small Faces, surely, but not Faces.

Bowie will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in January, 1996.He didn't attend the event because he was touring.

Bowie has been a vocal critic of the Hall of Fame, say music should not be treated like the Olympics. He told Reuters in Los Angeles: "I think it's very nice, I don't give it much thought actually".

He told MTV: " I don't really think I feel anything much. I just am very anti-institution, of any nature. I don't know ... Frankly, I don't know what it means."

Good call! hahhaha

As you may be aware, we are in the midst of a [spectacular comeback year/demeaning sequel to an otherwise perfectly serviceable career] which has already been acknowledged and honored in a profound and moving way - and [induction into the Hall/having been nominated, considered and ultimately rejected by you guys again] is certainly the icing on the cake for us.

Rest assured that we will be celebrating this momentous occasion by [lollygagging at our ranch with a dog named "Spot" and a boil on our face/skulking out to Starbuck's for a double decaf latte and a pistachio cone]. Of course we shall stand ready to [participate in/boycott] the festive induction ceremony at the pleasure of our fans, to whom we owe everything and whom we have vowed never to disappoint, [ever/or as infrequently as possible]. We shall be [wintering/falling back to lick our wounds] in Hawaii starting any day now, so please let us know as soon as possible [where we can pick up our trophies/that we should go fuck ourselves] and what, if anything, we should wear. Mahalo and aloha nui loha

Donald Fagen & Walter Becker
Founders, Steely Dan

Intelligent Design my ass.

xpost - yes, because by definition anything covered in Rolling Stone is "rock'n'roll." That said, I'm assuming we all agree that shit, the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame is even less rock'n'roll than the Hard Rock Cafe.

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BOOM BOOM!

Trust me, Vanilla Ice will be nominated. It'll be his turn one day. Just not now.

burn the muthafucka down a la Disco Inferno

or alternately, tear the roof off the sucker

and let's bomb the EMP while we're at it

The video programme shown on Hard Rock Cafes all over the world has an annoyingly high percentage of post-grunge acts dominating. It seems the entire thing is made for a US-based (non-R&B-appreciating) audience and then broadcasted all over the world disregarding the fact that post-grunge is only popular in the US.

Excellent food though, it must be added. :)

Everywhere we go, the kids wanna (eat at the hard) rock (cafe, edinburgh)

You have been misinformed.

I'm sure that's what Bowie was thinking. My goal is to not be appreciated by a canonical institution, he was thinking. That's why he took it as a sign that he has profoundly failed as an artist. Zappa would have felt the same way too, had he been alive at the time of his induction.

Class of 2008: Madonna, Leonard Cohen, Dave Clark Five, and the Ventures, along with Little Walter and Gamble & Huff.

Acts on the ballot that were passed up: Afrika Bambaataa, The Beastie Boys, Chic, and Donna Summer. Huh.

Isn't John Mellencamp in this year's group, too?

Oh right. Yes, he is.

RRHOF? KKKHOF morelike!

pathetic.

I wish Little Walter could have lived to see himself inducted. Hate to See You Go is just searingly great.

He could prolly also outdo Mike Love in terms of badass speeches.

"If you see PAT TRAVERS, tell that motherfucker he owes me MONEY."

"It's John COUGAR Mellencamp, fuckers!!"

Wow -- is that really the line-up? Absolutely no reason to watch this year, I guess. Although, seein' the DC5 belt out "Glad All Over" would be cool.

This line-up seems the least conducive to "ALL RIGHT, NOW LET'S JAM!" ever.

Don't even know why the usual rock fogies would bother to show up. "Hey, let's all get on stage and do Hallelujah."

Eric Clapton, Eddie Vedder, Tom Petty, Robert Plant and the GE Smith band will now do "Hurts So Good."

Herman's Hermits -- screwed again. Damn.

Think Chevrolet's sponsoring the event, or the tv broadcast? I would tune in to hear Cohen speak the lyrics to "This is Our Country."