How the FUCK……

igotid88

Lost In Ohio said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

ComeToTX said:

One rock band got in. Lol. 

If that doesn’t convince people the Hall is a joke, nothing will. 

I fear it'll get worse before it gets better.

At the rate things are going, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys and Taylor Swift are shoe-ins. Heck, Justin Timberlake could also be in as a solo artist.

Taylor is definitely getting in

Abe Froman

All about politics and inclusiveness instead of actually trying to get it right. It’s been like this for years. 

goldrush

Looks like Jeff has updated his shirt

It would be much cooler to be on Jeff’s shirt than in the RRHOF anyway  

vant0037

Gern Blansten said:

And Kate Bush? She had like one song that was popular right? Was she is some groundbreaking group that I'm not aware of?

Yes.  She’s was a huge inspiration and influence to a generation of female songwriters. Let’s assume things like that matter rather than quibble about whether she’s “rock” or not.

Jason P

Are the Dead Milkmen in?

Poncier

goldrush said:

Looks like Jeff has updated his shirt

It would be much cooler to be on Jeff’s shirt than in the RRHOF anyway  

Jeff loses a tad of credibility having The Monkees on there. Maybe we induct the Brady Kids & Jessie and The Rippers while we're at it.

Poncier

Jason P said:

Are the Dead Milkmen in?

First year inductees I think.
Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard and the Dead Milkmen. All eating fudge banana swirl at the induction ceremony.

JeBurkhardt

Jason P said:

Are the Dead Milkmen in?

They are too cool for the hall. Besides they blew their chance at the hall when they wrote The Thing That Only Eats Hippies. Making fun of the bands and fans of the era that the hall of fame seems to idolize. 

Tim Simmons

Abe Froman said:

All about politics and inclusiveness instead of actually trying to get it right. It’s been like this for years. 

Tim Simmons

I said it in other music, People get way too hung up on who gets in and who doesn’t every year. Its barely a validation for them and it certainly doesn’t validate your beliefs or liking of these artists. 

Gern Blansten

Tim Simmons said:

I said it in other music, People get way too hung up on who gets in and who doesn’t every year. Its barely a validation for them and it certainly doesn’t validate your beliefs or liking of these artists. 

yeah but....Missy Elliot over Soundgarden? No

bootlegger10

vant0037 said:

Gern Blansten said:

And Kate Bush? She had like one song that was popular right? Was she is some groundbreaking group that I'm not aware of?

Yes.  She’s was a huge inspiration and influence to a generation of female songwriters. Let’s assume things like that matter rather than quibble about whether she’s “rock” or not.

Ah, Gern obviously forgot this was the Hall of Influence induction and not RRHOF.

1ThoughtKnown

vant0037 said:

Gern Blansten said:

And Kate Bush? She had like one song that was popular right? Was she is some groundbreaking group that I'm not aware of?

Yes.  She’s was a huge inspiration and influence to a generation of female songwriters. Let’s assume things like that matter rather than quibble about whether she’s “rock” or not.

It’s in the name. ROCK n roll hall of fame. It’s not the “Influenced a new generation of songwriters” hall of fame. 

Having said that, I don’t mind Kate Bush and she was an influence on alternative music.  She wouldn’t be in my HOF, but this one is supposed to belong to everyone. I have problems with Willie Nelson and the like, they have their own hall already. 

Then again, who cares. I’ll never go see this place anyway. 

Tim Simmons

Gern Blansten said:

Tim Simmons said:

I said it in other music, People get way too hung up on who gets in and who doesn’t every year. Its barely a validation for them and it certainly doesn’t validate your beliefs or liking of these artists. 

yeah but....Missy Elliot over Soundgarden? No

Why not? 

Gern Blansten

vant0037 said:

Gern Blansten said:

And Kate Bush? She had like one song that was popular right? Was she is some groundbreaking group that I'm not aware of?

Yes.  She’s was a huge inspiration and influence to a generation of female songwriters. Let’s assume things like that matter rather than quibble about whether she’s “rock” or not.

And I'm all for that and respect that. But no one can convince me that she should be in the RRHOF over Soundgarden

ZoSoTim

Poncier said:

goldrush said:

Looks like Jeff has updated his shirt

It would be much cooler to be on Jeff’s shirt than in the RRHOF anyway  

Jeff loses a tad of credibility having The Monkees on there. 

They were a big influence on The Beatles.

lowbudgetlush

Poncier said:

goldrush said:

Looks like Jeff has updated his shirt

It would be much cooler to be on Jeff’s shirt than in the RRHOF anyway  

Jeff loses a tad of credibility having The Monkees on there. Maybe we induct the Brady Kids & Jessie and The Rippers while we're at it.

Could not disagree more. The monkees absolutely belong in the hall of fame.

Ledbetterman10

qcrete said:

Iron Maiden got snubbed also - 

Which is a way bigger snub than Soundgarden. I love Soundgarden, but their day will come. Maiden's day should've come decades ago. 

But whole Rock Hall is a joke. Why not just branch it off and have a separate hip-hop hall of fame? Then it wouldn't be so mind-numbingly stupid that Missy Elliot is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and IRON MAIDEN isn't.

cp3iverson

It's an HBO yearly special.  Don't take it so seriously fellas.  My favorite bands are probably never getting in and theyd probably never show up.   The Replacements making the ballot once was like them getting in.  This household plays Missy Elliott an awful lot lol.  She belongs in some kind of hall of fame either way.  

Glorified KC

Sonic Youth not being in is the biggest oversight IMO.