2023 Rock & Roll HOF screechfest

I voted for Warren Zevon.

 

Ibid to all of this. I saw them in Hartford on the same tour and they were fucking gigantic. Best seats I'd ever had to that point at a show (just off the floor) and the first show where I knew the words to every song. My late great Mom rocked for taking my dumbass 14-year-old self there.

Speaking of my dumbass 14-year-old self: The merch table ran out of the shirt I'd bought and a pretty girl asked if she could buy it off me. I said no. Today my dumbass 14-year-old self would say yes and be sliding into her DMs by the time we all got home. (Still got the shirt at my Dad's though)

Kick is a perfect album. The A side had almost all the hits (except "The Loved One," which was my favorite song ever for like three years in high school) and the B side was fucking loaded. Listen Like Thieves was almost as good. And "Good Times"--what a terrific rollicking song. AND EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT!

 

Man, INXS definitely didn't own the 1980s. They were lucky to rent a few months here and there.

 

If that's the case then Springsteen lived in Section 8 housing and chugged cans of Spaghetti O's.

 

Pretty much every measurable data point disagrees with you.

 

Tunnel of Love went triple-platinum and was released late enough ('87) to give Bruce ownership of the complete decade. His other '80s albums speak for themselves.

 

INXS owned a part of 1988 or so. Then swept aside by the worst summer for pop music I'd ever seen. There were many more to follow.

 

Sir if you're gonna disparage a summer that included Rick Astley taking the nation by storm, Cheap Trick whoring out for a no.1 hit and the likes of Breathe and Johnny Hates Jazz angling for no. 1 hits, we're gonna have a problem!

 

Years ago, in the confusing year of 2021, I kind of got into this song.

Not the song on a whole but the music of the transition into the chorus ... "I thought it was you" ... nicely done.

 

Was 1988 the worst year for music ever? Discuss.

 

And, nothing Bruce did in the '80s approaches the greatness of this.

The RnRHoF really needs a 1-hit wonder wing.

 

For a kid who did everything with a radio nearby, 1988 was the worst.

Although, quite an eclectic list. Even a Patrick Swayze sighting. 1988 didn't know what the hell it wanted to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1988