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

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

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STP have been largely forgotten

Really? The classic rock/'world class rock' station here has played them twice since noon today.

Woah, that surprises me. What songs?

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.

Well, color me surprised! Re: Pearl Jam in particular.

What songs?

"Plush" and "Vasoline"

STP were pretty huge (Core sold almost as many copies as Nevermind) but obv they always had a 'tier 2 alt rock' vibe and have further tarnished their brand over the years with breakups and stuff (Chester Bennington is currently their lead singer, which i'd already forgotten about). nobody remembers any song they did after '96, unlike RHCP or Green Day etc.

Woah, that surprises me. What songs?

― Doctor Casino,

IN the last week I've heard "Interstate Love Song" and "Plush." These guys have never gone away.

They're like the Creedence of grunge.

So weird to me. I like their singles plenty, just never got the impression they had any kind of rep. Wonder if bands like them have benefited, legacy-wise, from the fact that not having a single "great" album with a place in the canon doesn't really matter in the digital era.

to unpack my earlier short-hand about including stp on this poll: probably the biggest stretch but commercially enduring and a semi-bone-throw to the woodstock III crowd

again, the band least likely to, but they had new rock radio hits long after the grunge era including a comeback during the nu-metal era. granted, Chicago and ELO aren't in the Hall Of Fame yet, so "inescapable radio fare" doesn't guarantee induction esp if you lack artistic cred. but the HOF has been making hay with some Gen X titans who debuted in the 80s but didn't really peak until the 90s, and as boomer acts get more geriatric with each year, they're not going to want to lose the Gen X to millennial "rock" viewing audience. so i think commercially enduring "rock" groups that had success from 92-02 will get in quicker than their peers from 72-82. though even then, I can see Alice In Chains, Rage Against The Machine, the other machos on the poll, getting in with fewer hackles.

also where b-level acts from the 70s could be ignored to rush in "started in the 70s, blew up up in the 80s", the post-napster collapse of the industry means there aren't really many "started in the 90s, blew up in the 00s" rock acts to rope in millennial ratings with. so they're going to be stuck with b-level 90s acts.

Plenty of rock bands who blew up in the 00s, but I guess the thing is that it's rare now that bands cut their teeth in relative obscurity for a few years/albums and then get their big break, but instead are picked up in the pre-demo stage, matched with the producer-du-jour and are marketed with full major label force for their debut. It's a new MO for sure but I don't really see that as a "collapse of the industry".

But I guess Coldplay and Muse are the quintessential "started in the 90s blew up in the 00s" bands.

Coldplay's first album was released in 2000, they only JUST count.

Oasis are probably the worst here other than maybe Stone Temple Pilots which is just so unlikely as to not be worth the vote, so I went for Weezer because seriously.

no doubt would be baffling and prob impossible

fyi muse has yet to even go platinum in the us, so if they're the quintessential band that "blew up" in the 00s that kind of proves my point that few did

and if you don't believe there's been a "collapse of the industry" google "music industry collapse"

Voted Oasis as the band here I hate the most.

Weezer would be especially objectionable, but I still like their first album, so y'know...

Not in the sense that the industry makes less money (that's obvious), but in the sense that they can't launch bands into superstardom anymore. Even if fans are stealing rather than buying their albums these days, bands like Muse, Foo Fighters, Kings Of Leon, Coldplay etc are superstars to their generation in the same sense that Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin were - they sell out the same arenas etc.

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top 2 otm

awww i like that nobody hates the cure

Oh plenty hate the Cure but not as much as these other bozos.

weezer twice as infuriating as oasis? what the fuck? what has oasis done that's even close to the green album?

the ... green album?

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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.

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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.