Which Of These Alt-Rock Acts Would Most Infuriate You If They Made The R'n'R Hall Of Fame Before The Foo Fighters Undoubted Will In 2020

also c'mon paul mccartney and wings weren't going to get separate inductions

were Smashing Pumpkins an oversight in this poll or fall into some other category? i feel like they're more likely than all but maybe 3 on the list

xpost AW MAN forgot them too dammit

i'll say the foos might have had to wait a while in an alternate reality where Kurt Cobain/Plastic Love Band existed

corgan's such a dillpickle i'd be more inclined to say "all but 3" will get in before them (neither yes nor the cure are in) but pumpkins definitely belong on the list

i mean who in the industry is like "you know who needs more respect, billy corgan" aside from billy corgan

it's gotta be fuckin Weezer

Bjork is the only person listed I want to see inducted (incl. FF).

Billy Corgan could definitely have a great Mike Love moment at the podium

Bjork: Kate Bush is in

Time for another debate about PJ Harvey's odds.

Weezer, christ

the only purpose of the rock and roll hall of fame was to troll kiss fans and it doesn't even serve that purpose anymore, so why would anyone let themselves get infuriated by someone getting in

see above where i suggested one not let verb choice disrupt their zen

voting "da croupier, you putz" not just out of shame for forgetting radiohead and the pumpkins but also because, while radiohead predates weezer in terms of possible induction, and weezer's critical stature wasn't solidified until the '00s, it stems up from albums circa 94-96, where radiohead's mostly stems from albums circa 95-00. seeing thom york on stage would force me to acknowledge that the my college years are now classic rock rather than my high school years. so they'd offend me most.

Foo fighters are worse than all the poll options

This is clearly No Doubt. Are there any ska bands in the RnRHOF? It would be like, say, Fatboy Slim getting elected before Chic. Wait, that'll probably happen!

Tori Amos has way more chance than Björk, imo: multiple platinum records, domestic, always-been-on-a-major, high-grossing tours, etc. The only infuriating thing for me is seeing that DM and Cure are not yet HOF'd that is strange

Yeah I guess I see tori as having less cultural recognition or critical stature, despite selling more in the early 90s and being more prolific. But since all the early alt ladies are playing to the converted and not guesting on singing competition shows or played on 90s nostalgia radio much, its hard to guess where the hall will go when they decide they need to acknowledge some.

I mean there's always Hole

dgaf. none of these would infuriate me bc the rnrhof is meaningless.

i really should have added an "i am above such concerns, despite being a music-nerd board regular, and want you to know that" option

I dislike Oasis but it's hard to deny their place in the world as a significant rock band

I like them and i do deny it. Boy, the UK is a funny place.

Bjork is the only person listed I want to see inducted (incl. FF).

You hate rock 'n' roll, big surprise.

it's not Eric's Hall of Shake Your Ass Music

Problem #1.

i mean, i know how to fix the Pro Football HOF too -- by inducting Bonds and Clemens

i guess maybe i'm in the wrong thread but how great would it be to see Pavement in the rnrhof

also the answer to this poll is clearly RATM, then Alice in Chains

foo fighters would still maybe be worse than all but STP.

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i agree with this

i guess maybe i'm in the wrong thread but how great would it be to see Pavement in the rnrhof

― alpine static, Saturday, October 11, 2014 2:55 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is otm. I'm hoping they are inducted in like 2039, in the same way the hall has inducted older blues and doo-wop groups during the past 10 years. It'd be worth it to see a bunch of guys in their 70s plow through "Cut Your Hair."

foo fighters are worse than every band on the list

jane's addiction and rage against the machine are the only bands on here I don't like and of the two it's hard to say which is more annoying.

Stone Temple Pilots rule, open your minds.

I guess now that I think about it there's only one no doubt song I like.

Bjork, I mean if they don't have Kate Bush in there already then the hell, people.

I'd rather have Weezer and Pavement actually get in the Hall of Fame, but suspect it's never going to happen.

Keep reading "FF" as Final Fantasy. I prefer my alternate reality.

oasis infuriates me. i like no doubt!

but yeah, fuck the foo fighters and dave grohl's dadrock self-importance.

Pretty much like every poll option more than the FFs as well, even the ones I don't like as a band but have to cherry pick songs from, such as Oasis. Only thing I liked from Dave G in recent decades is his work with QOTSA.

It'd be worth it to see a bunch of guys in their 70s plow through "Cut Your Hair."

Screw that, they'd play "Serpentine Pad" or "Yr Killing Me" or "Unfair" because they rule

No Doubt is hella good you guys.

Only interested in Pavement playing a "Perfume-V"- "In A Mouth A Desert" 1-2 at HOF

smashing punkins. OTOH the certainty of smashing pumpkins' induction is kinda perfectly representative of why the RARHOF is ridiculous so I kinda want them in there to affirm my biases on both sides

i hope they both get in the same year and Corgan and Malkmus have a fistfight in the parking lot

The core. The heart music. The Foo Fighters.

why are the pumpkins missing from the list? they deserve to be inducted ASAP

"i have a bald head / my name is yul brynner / and i am a famous movie star"

"The core. The heart music. The Foo Fighters."

This for the win.

dave grohl hurt me deeply. he hurt me deeply in my heart.

didn't they also hurt each other in a fistfight at some point

More interested in a snidey oblique diss of Corgan from Malkmus onstage

Nothing infuriating here really but AiC, STP, Weezer, and Oasis probably the least compelling cases for induction...feels kinda like Herman's Hermits or the Dave Clark Five or whatever getting in - just, you know, here's some more bands that were indeed, famed. Oasis (not really THAT big in America, I doubt their chances) and Weezer basically had one great album in them. STP maybe a similar amount but spread over a few records, with some wack filler. Not really sure they have a chance in hell actually... do kids today grow up hearing about this great band Stone Temple Pilots? Not having an obvious "classic album" must hurt them in Spin decade lists or whatever. A pity, they had some fun singles but I think you kinda had to 'be there' and it would be hard to argue they were really significant to where rock was or where it ended up going.

I kinda want to vote based on whose geriatric induction performance I'm least interested in seeing - - - which of course would be the Foo Fighters since it's not like they'll have ever gone away at any point in between. If Oasis did have a chance, their reunion gig would be some unbearable shit but I think Weezer will be worse, and since they do have a chance (couple of minor hits, but to different generations of teenagers - consensus!) I guess that's the most groan-inducing, and I say this as a Blue Album die-hard.

But really, at a certain point the hall of fame list basically becomes every band you've ever heard of, so that the tiny handful of missing names seem really glaring...

(At this point I would easily believe STP are less popular/listened-to than the Pixies, who at least have a couple of ubiquitous gateway songs that have been used in fucking everything, aside from the magazine countdown list effect. They may even be less popular than Pavement and Sonic Youth although probably outside of my bubble there are bar bands wowing the crowd with boozy covers of "Tripping On A Hole In A Paper Heart" and "Creep.")

STP have been largely forgotten yes but Weezer had a pretty decent stretch of commercially and artistically successful albums and hit singles and, for whatever it's worth, I still run in to loads of people who love them.

i will say it's vaguely bullshit if Cheap Trick and Boston don't get in before Weezer

the ... green album?

bump bump bump

Impressed by their restraint in waiting until 2021

worst hall ever

beaten by cure, depeche mode, and pearl jam. 7 infuriated ilxors by my count.

bump bump bump

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damn b2k is almost rrhof eligible

Beck, Bjork & Addiction, my favourite supergroup. (Dumb old-guy joke.)

worst hall ever

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it's not Eric's Hall of Shake Your Ass Music
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, October 11, 2014 10:48 AM (six years ago)

I still say it should be.

Besides the three that are already in, the only acts to get nominated were RATM, Soundgarden and Jane's Addiction.

i think both rage and soundgarden have a pretty good chance of eventually getting in.

tom morello is not quite on the dave grohl level of "rock ambassador" but he's close. and people seem to miss chris cornell.