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Benetar, Priest, Duran are obvious guarantees.

Fine if anybody else gets in. Not what I consider Rock, but Lionel Ritchie has been a huge icon since his days with the Commodores. So, I want him.

• Dolly stays in the Country Music HOF.

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I wouldn't be so sure about Priest. If you told me a few years ago that Def Leppard would be in before Priest, I would have said no way. Especially with the woke factor of Halford being openly gay in world of heavy metal.

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TAZ99 said:

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https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/01/the-great-rock-hall-purge-which-hall-of-fame-inductees-dont-belong.html

Interesting list of bands to be removed.

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selected ZZ top for removal.,

entire article invalidated.

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I didn't even make it that far. What a shiddy concept. Terrible list. Cleveland sucks.

Buck Turgidson said:

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Its usually a completely disappointing and often baffling field of nominees - why would this year be any different? RRHOF is run by people who wouldn't know a rock song from Mongolian cricket singing.

• Dolly Parton - NOT ROCK
• Eminem - NOT ROCK
• Lionel Richie - NOT ROCK
• Carly Simon- NOT ROCK
• Pat Benatar - YAWN. I GUESS ITS INEVITABLE.
• Dionne Warwick- NOT ROCK
• Duran Duran
• Judas Priest
• Rage Against the Machine - COMMUNIST AHOLES
• Beck - WHY?
• Kate Bush- WHO?
• DEVO
• Eurythmics - MEH.
• Fela Kuti - WHO?
• MC5 - ARE THEY REALLY DESERVING?
• New York Dolls - WHY? BECAUSE THEY INFLUENCED KISS?
• A Tribe Called Quest - WHO?

Judas Priest is WAY past due. DEVO are certainly deserving.

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You who'd Tribe...wow

What a stupid ****ing article.

Article was pretty dumb but I think they were trying to get hyper selective and stir up controversy. Some of the comments on the removed bands were almost comical. "They were really popular in the '50s and '60s but basically all our critics weren't alive then so they don't count".

Personal favorite was how they said Cat Stevens doesn't have any iconic songs that are relevant today. They literally used "Father and Son" and "If you want to sing out, sing out!"in big buy commercials in recent years. "Peace Train" has been used by virtually every Peace oriented movement and the Nobel Prize Committee. "Wild World" has been remade over and over. "First Cut is the Deepest" was remade by Sheryl Crow for one of her biggest hits. Saying Cat Stevens didn't have staying power is just ludicrous. Disqualify him for a short career or you just don't like his mellow sound I guess but dude is one of the most talented singer/songwriters ever. They also bagged on James Taylor for the same thing which is another WTF?

Personally I think they need to go easy on the folks who were "influential" but are super obscure as well as the pop type bands that didn't really have a lot of artistic/critical claim. The latter made a ton of money and they are good musicians but just not really HoF. I'd put the most value on how much they have stood the test of time and to the very few that you listen to and think, "Yep, that would still be a great song if it was released today". Length of time they played is also overrated. Music by its nature produces folks that are ridiculous talents that flash for an album or two and then are never the same. I'd rather take someone that burned super bright, people still recognize them now, and then faded vs the pretty good band that put out pretty good albums for 15 years. I will give this list some credit for sifting out a lot of the latter.

Buck Turgidson said:

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Its usually a completely disappointing and often baffling field of nominees - why would this year be any different? RRHOF is run by people who wouldn't know a rock song from Mongolian cricket singing.

• Dolly Parton - NOT ROCK
• Eminem - NOT ROCK
• Lionel Richie - NOT ROCK
• Carly Simon- NOT ROCK
• Pat Benatar - YAWN. I GUESS ITS INEVITABLE.
• Dionne Warwick- NOT ROCK
• Duran Duran
• Judas Priest
• Rage Against the Machine - COMMUNIST AHOLES
• Beck - WHY?
• Kate Bush- WHO?
• DEVO
• Eurythmics - MEH.
• Fela Kuti - WHO?
• MC5 - ARE THEY REALLY DESERVING?
• New York Dolls - WHY? BECAUSE THEY INFLUENCED KISS?
• A Tribe Called Quest - WHO?

Judas Priest is WAY past due. DEVO are certainly deserving.

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You really don't know Tribe or Kate Bush?

So basically the RRHOF is just the music hall of fame. Who gives a *****

I'm going to see the next RRHF inductee Pat Benatar tomorrow in Mesquite. Better late than never. Cannot wait.

Lock for 2023

Toni Tennille sang backup on " the wall" album. That's pretty rock and roll

Did not know that. Facinating.

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TAZ99 said:

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https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/01/the-great-rock-hall-purge-which-hall-of-fame-inductees-dont-belong.html

Interesting list of bands to be removed.

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Cut KISS, Rush, ZZ Top, Yes and keep Green Day.

It's almost like a Rolling Stone critics list.

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Wake Me Up When September Ends is the only song I've ever heard that will force me to get up and leave any room I'm in when it plays. It is physically painful to listen to something that bad. And I loved Dookie.

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Dolly Parton has removed herself from consideration

https://pitchfork.com/news/dolly-parton-declines-2022-rock-hall-nomination/

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Dolly Parton has removed herself from consideration for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which she announced in a statement on Monday (March 14). "Even though I am extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I don't feel that I have earned that right. I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out," she wrote.

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And she's still a baller.

drunk guy just yelled “i love you” to dolly parton and she said “i love you too but i told you to wait in the trunk” pic.twitter.com/ldNEf4oZS3

— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) March 19, 2022

Dolly is all class!!

Eminem over Rage Against The Machine is crap. And I'm not one to say rappers don't belong. RATM was groundbreaking.

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And here they are:

• Eminem
• Duran Duran
• Dolly Parton
• Pat Benatar
• Eurythmics
• Lionel Richie
• Carly Simon

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Judas Priest got in too.

Know Your Enemy said:

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Eminem over Rage Against The Machine is crap. And I'm not one to say rappers don't belong. RATM was groundbreaking.

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Tom Morello is on the committee I think, or has some other strong connection to it. He's not gonna push for himself over Priest. I doubt he had anything to say about and if he did, pushed hard for Priest and that's about. Wouldn't be terribly shocked if he pushed for Eminem too.

Interesting column I saw today..basically saying 80s/90s alt and indie in various forms have no chance and wondering why..


https://uproxx.com/indie/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-bias-against-alt-indie-rock/

3 paragraphs from the article..

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Maybe you like these artists, and maybe you don't. But this is not obscure music! They all were either popular or critically adored in their time (or both), and in many cases they continue to be relevant today as legacy acts or respected brands. In terms of music history, they are obviously significant to the continuum of rock music. But the museum that purports to honor that continuum seems to think outside of the most obvious heavy hitters that rock music mostly ended after the Eagles broke up.

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Here's the thing: The Rock Hall's record of honoring the icons of '80s indie and alt rock is even worse than it is for the '90s. According to the essential Future Rock Legends website, Jane's Addiction has been nominated just once, in 2012, and was passed over, while Fishbone has never even been nominated. But wait! It gets so much worse! Let me put it this way: Not a single band from Michael Azerrad's classic 2001 book about '80s American indie rock, Our Band Could Be Your Life, is in the Rock Hall. Black Flag, Minutemen, Mission Of Burma, Minor Threat, Hsker D, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi, Mudhoney, Beat Happening it's a big 0-for-13.

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Again, reasonable people can argue over whether some or even most of these acts are worthy of induction. But the collective neglect of this era is appalling to the point of being inexcusable, especially given how Rock Hall voters seem intent at the point on delving deep into the second and third tiers of '70s and '80s corporate rock and pop, while throwing an occasional bone to a multi-platinum rapper. What compounds the shoddy treatment of '80s and '90s alt and indie acts is that it will make it even harder for future alt and indie acts to be considered. Following the logic of that anonymous voter from the Vulture article, how can a future voter induct The National or Vampire Weekend if a band as foundational to the genre as Sonic Youth isn't even in the Rock Hall?

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I would make a case that weird Al should be in

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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Lock for 2023

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