APlacakis

APlacakis t1_j43r75e wrote

Reply to Two Rock Hall voters share who needs to be on this year's ballot, including Devo and Kate Bush by stroh_1002

Here's my list of worthy artists that should be in the Hall: Nominated for RRHOF before:

  • Iron Maiden
  • Jane's Addiction
  • MC5
  • Motorhead
  • New York Dolls,
  • Rage Against the Machine,
  • Replacements
  • The Smiths
  • Steppenwolf
  • Soundgarden
  • Thin Lizzy

Never Nominated:

  • Free/Bad Company
  • Blur
  • Oasis
  • Alice in Chains
  • The Runaways
  • Motley Crue
  • Styx
  • Boston
  • Grand Funk Railroad
  • Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
  • Ronnie James Dio (whole career)
  • Whitesnake
  • Poison
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Smashing Pumpkins
  • Primus
  • Megadeth
  • Anthrax
  • Slayer
  • Black Flag
  • Blue Oyster Cult
  • Dream Theater
  • Foreigner
  • No Doubt
  • Hole
  • Kansas
  • Living Colour
  • The Offspring
  • Ozzy Osbourne solo career
  • Tool
  • Scorpions
  • Sublime
  • Supertramp
  • Toto
  • Weather Report
  • Weezer
  • Yngwie Malmsteen

I always say that you should prioritize older artists because #1 They've waited much longer than some of the artists who got in their first year eligible whose careers only go back to the mid eighties to mid nineties at this point. And #2 if some of these artists keep waiting, there's a good chance that they could die before they potentially get inducted. This has happened before with examples including Jon Lord of Depp Purple, and Chris Squire of Yes, both men were key founding members of their respective bands, but because the Rock Hall dragged their feet in inducting them, they died before they could see their bands get inducted. So it's important to honor older artists before it's too late. One thing that really irritates me is this attempt to redefine what "Rock n' Roll" is, i.e. places like the Rock Hall or the Grammys defining Rock as not a musical genre with key elements that set it apart from other genres, but into an "attitude", of a "mindset", of a "lifestyle". Now it can be those things, but what I'm talking is when people say someone like NWA, who I am a fan of BTW so I don't want to hear people call me bias or whatever, is Rock n' Roll, when they are obviously a rap group. I'm willing to bet nobody would call Metallica "Rap", because that would be ridiculous and it wouldn't make sense because those two genres have characteristics that make them different. At the end of the day, the Rock Hall can induct whoever they want, I'm just saying either live up to their name, or change it to something more broad.

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