Yearly Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Debate Thread

If the Kennedys got in they'd have to do "Too Drunk To Fuck".

No Alice Cooper in the RRHOF is a glaring ommission.

 

I love Slick Rick, and he certainly was more of a pioneer, but I'd argue that LL was the first true rap star.

 

Are you sure Cooper isn't in? I might be totally wrong, but I thought he went in the same year AC/DC did.

 

Just my opinion: LL's stuff doesn't hold up like the other's on that list.

 

Womack is borderline, but that's NOT his career highlight. In addition to being a seminal soul artist, he is one of the most diverse musicians of the 1970s, playing guitar on Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Going On, Janis Joplin's Pearl, and he played on various sessions with the Rolling Stones over the years, while they covered one of his songs, It's All Over Now, for a hit of their own.

And anyone who owns the Across 110th Street soundtrack, knows just how great he could be. There's nary a bad Womack track on that album.

Admittedly borderline for the HOF, but undeniably in the Hall of Great.

 

Bubbler beat me to it - Bobby Womack gets my vote based on "Across 110th Street" alone.

Otherwise, from the list provided I'll go with Metallica, Jeff Beck and Run-DMC. And while there may be rap acts that had a bigger role within the genre, no one broke rap through to the mainstream like Run-DMC did.

I'll avoid my annual mockery of Rush, but I wouldn't have any problem with Genesis getting in. Seems odd that they're not.

 

Seriously?

SERIOUSLY?

Honestly . . . get over the whole "voice" thing.

 

Bobby Womack can lick Geddy Lee's taint.

 

Or to make up for the crime of Rod Stewart ripping his "(If You Want My Love) Put Something Down on It" for "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" In other news, I'm stunned Brian Eno isn't in.

The bigger problem is that the Rock Hall is going to run out of worthy inductees. What rock 'n' roll pioneer from today is getting in? John Mayer?

 

That's a problem for the 2026 Hall voters.

 

No Genesis?
No Rush?

No legitimacy.

That's All.

 

Jeff Beck, Metallica and Run-DMC for sure.