Yearly Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Debate Thread

You're going to be in Cleveland? Go to the RRHOF ... and listen to Rush music during your entire trip through the museum.

 

After the first 3 releases, Run-DMC really fell off the map, no?

 

If I ever go, the Rush t-shirt will be worn, loud and proud.

While we're here: Slayer deserves consideration as well for being one of the progenitors of death metal. And what about Iron Maiden/Judas Priest, etc.? Seems they should at least nominate those guys before they start putting in people who aren't, you know, rock and rollers. All of these bands still tour and release albums more than two decades after their birth. Why doesn't longevity matter?

But of course, the old dudes who run the show find that kind of music displeasing.

 

Spot on, that. Their albums through El Loco are tremendous. Deguello is a first-rate white blues album and Fandango is a great live album.

AC/DC stuff through Back In Black was great too.

Now George Thorogood, there's a guy who reeleases the same album all the time. I still dig him.

 

Hear, hear.

Let me also add my annual lament that KISS is once again excluded. Fuck you, Jann Wenner.

Until Rush, Genesis, KISS and Yes are added, it's really not a legitimate HOF in my eyes. It's just a friends of Jann Wenner meeting place.

 

I think you should just go around singing Tom Sawyer at the top of your lungs as you go around the museum.

 

Bobby Womack -- really? When your career highlight is marrying your mentor's widow, is that really HOF worthy?

 

I used to love her, but it's all over now.

 

Jimmy Buffett is snubbed again!?!

 

Run-DMC were influential and deserve in for their groundbreaking crossover popularity, but I can think of 4 or 5 other rap acts of the era who deserve in more. One of them, Grandmaster Flash, is already in. LL Cool J, the Sugar Hill Gang, and Kurtis Blow fall in the same category. You probably could go back to Kool Herc and put him in as one of the pioneers of scratching.

PE should be a first- or second-ballot selection in a few years just for being a bridge between old-school and gangsta. They blazed the trail for the West Coast new-schoolers.

 

I would take LL Cool J out and replace him with Slick Rick.

 

Rush = no

This is the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. I don't give a shit if Rush are sublime musicians. They have never nor will ever rock.

As for snubs who continue to wait... KISS, The MC5, New York Dolls, Alice Cooper, The Dead Kennedys, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, a shitload of pioneer rappers, Jimmy Cliff...

If I sat here and thought about it, I could go on for a while.