2024 Rock & Roll HOF screechfest

I mean, if we're looking at people who had never been previously nominated and who also happened to pass away last year, Sinead O'Connor got the nod this year despite a very small window of popularity, while the hugely, lastingly popular Jimmy Buffett did not.

You could also point to a number of very popular eligible acts who not only aren't in, but in most cases have never even been nominated: Motley Crue, B-52s, Bad Company, Beck, Coldplay, Diana Ross (solo), INXS, Jethro Tull, Offspring, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, STP, Weezer, White Stripes.

 

Yes, Jimmy might have a tough time breaking through that wall. He never had any of his songs dissected for deep messages like Don McLean.

 

On the other side of that coin, the algorithm on Reels has adjusted to the point where I only get videos of golden retrievers. So that's good.

 

I think it's funny that a site filled with journalists and ex-journalists is taking shots at the "hoity-toity" in the music media.

Most people think we're the "hoity-toity" when it comes to sports. Those same people would and often do say the same thing about our credentials to write about sports as music fans do about music journalists/critics who write about music.

Most critics have to have a way with words and a mind to discern things beyond what's just popular. Otherwise, what's the point of even reading about music? Then it just becomes an exercise in reading a chart.

The best of them also understand that what is popular doesn't necessarily exclude it from being acclaimed, but that doesn't mean everything that's popular deserves to be acclaimed.

 

I kinda understood the critic's disdain for Grand Funk, even if they were extremely popular. OTOH, Creedence Clearwater got the same treatment, and I'll never understand that.

 

Music snobbery was around long before the Rock hall.

 

I thought only my 11-year-old daughter was having gigantic falling outs with people she professed to be her besties in the whole world. Apparently not. We had a good run, Huggy. A nostalgic tear will roll down my cheek everytime I hear "Kids Wanna Rock" or anything by Honeymoon Suite.

 

....or a guy doing Rod Stewart songs in some hotel lounge.

 

OK, that's fine ... I can't in any way dispute that sports journalists are looked upon that way.

Point remains.

 

Some of these posts read like scenes cut from American Psycho.

 

Lady Gaga.

 

In recent years, MGMT went after the Bowie look and sound.