it's gotta be fuckin Weezer
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Bjork is the only person listed I want to see inducted (incl. FF).
― Eric H., Friday, 10 October 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Billy Corgan could definitely have a great Mike Love moment at the podium
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Bjork: Kate Bush is in
Time for another debate about PJ Harvey's odds.
― jaymc, Friday, 10 October 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Weezer, christ
― example (crüt), Friday, 10 October 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― iatee, Friday, 10 October 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Friday, 10 October 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Foo fighters are worse than all the poll options
― brimstead, Friday, 10 October 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
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!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 11 October 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― fgti, Saturday, 11 October 2014 13:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
I mean there's always Hole
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
dgaf. none of these would infuriate me bc the rnrhof is meaningless.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
You hate rock 'n' roll, big surprise.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
it's not Eric's Hall of Shake Your Ass Music
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 October 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Problem #1.
― Eric H., Saturday, 11 October 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
i mean, i know how to fix the Pro Football HOF too -- by inducting Bonds and Clemens
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 October 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
i guess maybe i'm in the wrong thread but how great would it be to see Pavement in the rnrhof
― alpine static, Saturday, 11 October 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
also the answer to this poll is clearly RATM, then Alice in Chains
― alpine static, Saturday, 11 October 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
foo fighters would still maybe be worse than all but STP.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, October 10, 2014 6:37 AM (Yesterday)
i agree with this
― dyl, Saturday, 11 October 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
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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."
― intheblanks, Sunday, 12 October 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
foo fighters are worse than every band on the list
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 12 October 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 12 October 2014 09:16 (nine years ago) link
I guess now that I think about it there's only one no doubt song I like.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 12 October 2014 09:17 (nine years ago) link
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.
― agincourtgirl, Sunday, 12 October 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Keep reading "FF" as Final Fantasy. I prefer my alternate reality.
― emil.y, Sunday, 12 October 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
oasis infuriates me. i like no doubt!
― syro gyra (get bent), Sunday, 12 October 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
but yeah, fuck the foo fighters and dave grohl's dadrock self-importance.
― syro gyra (get bent), Sunday, 12 October 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Bobby Ono Bland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 October 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 12 October 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
No Doubt is hella good you guys.
― how's life, Sunday, 12 October 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Only interested in Pavement playing a "Perfume-V"- "In A Mouth A Desert" 1-2 at HOF
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 13 October 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
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
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Monday, 13 October 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
i hope they both get in the same year and Corgan and Malkmus have a fistfight in the parking lot
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Monday, 13 October 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
The core. The heart music. The Foo Fighters.
― Bobby Ono Bland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 October 2014 02:16 (nine years ago) link
why are the pumpkins missing from the list? they deserve to be inducted ASAP
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Monday, 13 October 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
"i have a bald head / my name is yul brynner / and i am a famous movie star"
― syro gyra (get bent), Monday, 13 October 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
"The core. The heart music. The Foo Fighters."
This for the win.
― earlnash, Monday, 13 October 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
dave grohl hurt me deeply. he hurt me deeply in my heart.
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Monday, 13 October 2014 06:29 (nine years ago) link
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
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 13 October 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
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...
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
(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.")
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
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
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
STP have been largely forgotten
Really? The classic rock/'world class rock' station here has played them twice since noon today.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Woah, that surprises me. What songs?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
Stone Temple Pilots is what the radio folks call a "core artist" in the Active Rock world. Take a look at this Mediabase request list for one of the leading Active Rock stations WRIF:
http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/7/stationplaylistrequest.asp?format=H1&OB=1
There are eight STP songs in recurrent (meaning older songs that still get consistent airplay), which is more than the likes of Alice In Chains (6), Ozzy (7), Pearl Jam (6), Soundgarden (5) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (5), and as many as AC/DC and Motley Crue.
Active Rock will be playing the shit out of Stone Temple Pilots for years to come.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
Well, color me surprised! Re: Pearl Jam in particular.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 12:36 (nine years ago) link
bump bump bump
― da croupier, Wednesday, May 12, 2021 12:57 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
damn b2k is almost rrhof eligible
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
Beck, Bjork & Addiction, my favourite supergroup. (Dumb old-guy joke.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
worst hall ever
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Business_Hall_of_Fame
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
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.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Besides the three that are already in, the only acts to get nominated were RATM, Soundgarden and Jane's Addiction.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 13 May 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 May 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link