ODD!
Doesn't it seem a little odd to have a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I mean isn't Rock and Roll partly about rebellion? It hardly seems rebellious to have a big museum charging 35 dollars a pop devoted to Rock and Roll. The other thing odd is most big Rock Stars already have plenty of fame. TOO MUCH FAME, and TOO MUCH MONEY!. Too much sex and too many drugs. Does Mick Jagger need more fame? Does Bono need more money? Does Gene Simmons need more sex? Ah-no, no and NO!
No that's not true of everybody, not every rock artist is rich and famous. A lot of the Rock and Roll pioneers, people like Ruth Brown or Solomon Burke, or blues greats like Buddy Guy are not rich and they haven't been on the cover of People, so heck put them in the Hall of Great Ignored, Ripped Off music artists. In fact, that was the original idea of the founders of the Hall, people like Ahmet Ertegun wanted to recognize all those great rock and roll and soul artists of the 1950's that record company owners like him had ripped off.
So meanwhile, there is still much wringing of hands about whether certain artists belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. People bitch about who is in, people bitch about who is not in. Some folks love to bitch about all the non-rock artists who are in the Hall of Fame. Dance music stars like Madonna or Donna Summer. These ladies are not rock are they? Does Madonna belong in the Hall? Isn't most of her stuff is crap? Isn't she is a evil, evil person? True, true.. but just remind yourself the Material Girl does have more hits then the mafia, and she somehow managed to stay on the radio for 30 years. That must be worth something....
So who does belong? Should anybody really care? No. But, if we did, in fact, care, we would have to go over it . ANAL-yze IT. Go over it (yeah we said that). Who belongs-who doesn't. Sift the wheat from the chaff.
WHO !!!!!!!
There is a lot controversy about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's selection process. The acts chosen seem to be fairly random, and many of them have somewhat small bodies of work. It seems to me that you should have more than one albums worth of quality stuff to be in the rock and roll of fame, but what are you going to do-Bill Haley has got be in there even if can we only think of two songs that he actually did.
Many of the acts in the hall of fame are not even rock acts. I am actually OK with that since it appears to be the point of of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to celebrate all the music of the Rock Era. But lots of people get all worked up that Hall of Fame leaves out a lot of rock acts in favor of acts from other genres. Why ABBA and not Kiss? Why Laura Nyro and not Motley Crue? Maybe it's because Motley Crue sucks. Just saying!
I can think of a few acts that I personally really don't think belong in the hall-Alice Cooper, Grand Master Flash, Miles Davis, and Percy Sledge . I thought Miles Davis was Jazz. Oh sure he's done some fusion shit-but he's JAZZ!!!!!!!!
There are so many acts in the hall that just seem to be borderline choices and there many other borderline acts that are not in the Hall of Fame that could just as well be in there like The Moody Blues or Chicago. (Update-these two were finally let in decades after they became eligible).
The problem is the Hall of Fame lets in far too many acts, so many, that many of the choices seem questionable. What if they did it like the Baseball Hall of Fame, where there were only 2-4 inductees a year (instead of the 5 to 7 in the rock hall ) , plus a veteran's committee to pick from candidates snubbed in the the original voting process. I mean Roger Maris is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame is he? NO, NO he is not. One or two great years does not get you into to the baseball Hall of Fame. It's fairly easy to figure out who to put in the Baseball Hall of Fame because you can just compare stats. But if you just go by the stats for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the place would be filled with the likes of Britney Spears, Justin Bieber (if they were eligible) and Kiss. Oh wait, Kiss is in the Hall of Fame, now.
If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had a lot fewer acts, people wouldn't wonder why Blondie is in there and not Kate Bush, because none of the non-consensus acts would be in there.
SNUB!
At least, now it has gotten a little better. In the past few years , a lot of the long snubbed acts have been inducted. These are commercially successful (but sometimes not highly esteemed ) acts who have eligible for a long time but who had been snubbed: Kiss, ABBA, Heart, Hall and Oates, Neil Diamond (maybe they should have just inducted the 1960's Neil Diamond) , Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens (remember Fatwa's are OK now) . In recent years, somebody let fans into the voting process, and that seems to have helped cut down on the bull shit of picking people like the Stooges when nobody can remember anything the Stooges ever did. Now we get the bull shit of picking acts just because they were popular.
The snubbing process is sometimes personal. The biggest female rock star of the 1970's -Linda Ronstadt was kept out because Hall of Fame Board member, Jann Wanner didn't like her. It seems she finally got in now-because she has Parkinson's Disease. Wanner is also blamed for personally messing with the voting process and installing Grand Master Flash over the Dave Clark Five, because he said he thought the hall needed at least one hip hop act. Rock Critic Dave Marsh, personally kept Kiss out of the Hall of Fame. But eventually both of these acts got in
Even now, the snub list is still long. It's a roll of honor. A badge of honor. You know a lot of acts on the snub list have never even been nominated.
The most notable snubs now are the Monkees, ELO, Deep Purple, , Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Journey, Joy Division, Fairport Convention, The Spinners, Kraftwerk, Motley Crue, Nick Drake Procul Harum, Ozzy Osborne (solo), , Kate Bush, The Doobie Brothers, Duran Duran, Dire Straits, Bad Company, Depeche Mode, Def Leppard, Jethro Tull, and , but there so many other plausible acts left out as well.
A few acts such as Mariah Carey , and Whitney Houston, have only been eligible for a few years, and it's to early to say it is a " snub" that they have been left out.
WHO ARE THE OBVIOUS CHOICES?
What if the Rock and Roll Fame only had rock acts? What if you only included the fairly obvious choices? Well the first list below this is a fairly good guess as to who would be in there if only the clear, very obvious choices were in there. Indeed, All of these acts listed really are already in the Hall of Fame!
I did include in a few R&B soul acts who are borderline rock and roll, such as the Supremes. The number of R&B acts in the real hall of fame is fairly large, since Rock is based on this genre, it's sometimes hard to make the distinction on these acts.
Bob Marley, Michael Jackson , Madonna, Simon and Garfunkel, the Bee Gees, Prince, Carole King and ABBA belong in the hall but the diehards will tell you they are not rock acts. I have excluded some clearly important choices who have only small amounts of important works (Bill Haley, The Sex Pistols, Buffalo Springfield, Gene Vincent) or who are more soul than rock (Al Green). This lists below do not include pioneers, sidemen, non musical performers etc.
THE WHEAT: ACTS THAT ARE FAIRLY OBVIOUS CHOICES FOR THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME.
----These are the more consensus might be the acts that would likely still be in if far fewer acts were allowed in...
Most of the acts were chosen within their first three years of eligibility,
Most of the acts were chosen within their first three years of eligibility,
Pretty small list it is....
1986
*Chuck Berry
James
Brown
*Ray Charles *Sam Cooke *Fats Domino *The Everly Brothers *Buddy Holly *Jerry Lee Lewis *Elvis Presley *Little Richard |
1987
Aretha
Franklin
Carl
Perkins
Roy Orbison |
1988
*The
Beach Boys
*The Beatles *Bob Dylan *The Supremes |
1989
*The Rolling Stones
The
Temptations
*Stevie Wonder |
1990
The Four Seasons *The Kinks *The Who |
1991
|
1992
*The
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Johnny
Cash
|
1993
David
Bowie
*Creedence Clearwater Revival *The Doors *Van Morrison |
1994
The Band *The Grateful Dead *Elton John *John Lennon |
1995
*Janis Joplin *Led Zeppelin
Neil
Young
|
1996
*Pink Floyd |
1997
*Crosby, Stills and Nash |
1998
*The Eagles *Fleetwood Mac |
1999
*Billy Joel *Paul McCartney *Bruce Springsteen |
2000
*Eric Clapton |
2001
Steely
Dan
*Queen Paul Simon Aerosmith |
2002
|
AC/DC
2003
*The
Clash
Police
|
2005
*U2
|
2006
*Lynyrd
Skynyrd
|
2007-*R.E.M,
and Van Halen
2009 Metallica 2010 Genesis |
2014 Linda Ronstadt |
THE CHAFF
ACTS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT OF THE HALL OF FAME, if fewer acts were chosen each year, or if non-rock artists were excluded. And I'm not saying all these people do not belong-I am just saying that there are other folks who have been left out who are just as good.
1986
|
1987
Ricky Nelson
The Coasters Eddie Cochran Bo Diddley *Marvin Gaye Bill Haley B. B. King Clyde McPhatter *Ricky Nelson *Smokey Robinson Big Joe Turner Muddy Waters Jackie Wilson |
1988
*The Drifters |
1989
Dion
Otis Redding *The Temptations |
1990
Hank Ballard Bobby Darin *The Four Tops The Platters |
1991
LaVern Baker *The Byrds John Lee Hooker The Impressions Wilson Pickett Jimmy Reed Ike and Tina Turner |
1992
Bobby "Blue" Bland Booker T. and the M.G.'s *The Isley Brothers Sam and Dave The Yardbirds |
1993
Ruth Brown Cream Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Etta James Sly and the Family Stone |
1994
The Animals Duane Eddy *Bob Marley Rod Stewart |
1995
*The Allman Brothers Band Al Green Martha and the Vandellas Frank Zappa |
1996
Gladys Knight and the Pips Jefferson Airplane Little Willie John *Pink Floyd The Shirelles The Velvet Underground |
1997
The (Young) Rascals *The Bee Gees Buffalo Springfield The Jackson Five *Joni Mitchell Parliament-Funkadelic |
1998
The Mamas and the Papas Lloyd Price Santana Gene Vincent |
1999
Curtis Mayfield
Del Shannon *Dusty Springfield The Staple Singers |
2000
*Earth, Wind & Fire Lovin' Spoonful The Moonglows Bonnie Raitt *James Taylor |
2001
Solomon Burke The Flamingos *Michael Jackson Ritchie Valens |
2002
Isaac Hayes Brenda Lee Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Gene Pitney Ramones Talking Heads |
2003
AC/DC Elvis Costello & the Attractions Righteous Brothers |
2004
Jackson Browne
The Dells
George Harrison
Traffic
ZZtop
Bob Seger |
2005
The Pretenders
Percy Sledge
Buddy Guy
The O'Jays
|
2006
Blondie,
Miles Davis
The Sex Pistols
Black Sabbath
|
2007Grand Master Flash,
Patty Smith, The Ronettes,
|
2008- Madonna, Leonard Cohen, the Ventures and the Dave
Clark Five.
|
| 2009 Jeff Beck Little Anthony and the Imperials Metallica Run DMC Bobby Womack 2010 ABBA Genesis Hollies Jimmy Cliff Stooges Gun and Roses 2013 Rush Donna Summer Heart Randy Newman Public Enemy Albert King | Alice Cooper Neil Diamond Dr. John Darlene Love Tom Waits 2012 Beastie Boys Blue Caps Comets Crickets Donovan Famous Flames Midnighters The Miracles Laura Nyro Red Hot Chilli Peppers The Small Faces 2014 Cat Stevens Linda Ronstadt Kiss The E street Band Hall and Oates Nirvana |
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