I love the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, same way I love the Oscars. When something bad wins Best Picture or some great act gets overlooked, I don't get angry. I love it. At this point, it's an institution completely and totally dedicated to itself.
In recent developments, the Hall of Fame gets more timid and uncertain as it dips its toes into the '80s. The last year of inductees were Madonna, John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark Five -- one of the weakest years in its history. The wide gulf between what was popular in the '80s and what was acclaimed is making things difficult for the R&RHoF. Some predict that the voters will remain in the safety of the '70s until it can get to the '90s.
So who gets in next year? I say it will be the following:
Tom Waits Abba The Stooges (finally) Cheap Trick The Beastie Boys
― My name is Kenny, Monday, 16 June 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
Dan Fogelberg Sammy Davis, Jr. Juice Newton The Partridge Family Bachman-Turner Overdrive Duran Duran Andy Gibb Kool & the Gang Journey
― m coleman, Monday, 16 June 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)
Juice Newton is already in...(the Spurs got inducted in '98)...
― henry s, Monday, 16 June 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)
Miley Cyrus. You know it's gonna happen.
― VeronaInTheClub, Monday, 16 June 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)
will they fucking induct Chic and Donna Summer already?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 16 June 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)
Metallica
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 16 June 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)
Will Roxy Music ever get in?
― iago g., Tuesday, 17 June 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)
Run-DMC Joan Jett Cheap Trick War The Spinners
I would gladly pay for such a show.
― dad a, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 03:43 (seventeen years ago)
It is mind boggling to me that Rush isn't in there, yet I have a feeling they will be ignored once more.
This proves that the Hall of Fame is useless.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 03:48 (seventeen years ago)
The last year of inductees were Madonna, John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark Five -- one of the weakest years in its history.
Might not have been had they instead gone with Afrika Bambaataa, Chic and/or Donna Summer.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 17 June 2008 04:18 (seventeen years ago)
Though I see Donna Summer getting inducted on the 12th of never.
They have now become a bit too fixated that the Hall Of Fame is a "rock'n'roll" one and forgetting that there are already lots of non-rock'n'roll acts there, so this is going to be more and more boring.
Yes, a lot of recent non-rock sucks, but 80s synthpop and new romantics surely didn't. By then, they had actual songs with verse and chorus and all, and they were written by the band members themselves, not by some wealthy 40 year-old who knows what the kids want and doesn't care what he likes himself as the kids' taste makes him a lot wealthier than his own. It is wrong to blame those excellent early 80s acts for what is wrong with today's mainstream pop.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 08:20 (seventeen years ago)
round-the-clock negotiations continue in the hope of brokering a reunion of the classic STYX lineup w/Tommy Shaw at next year's "Rock & Roll" Hall of Fame induction ceremony...
― m coleman, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 10:24 (seventeen years ago)
keep yr fingers crossed!
HATING ON AYN RAND AM I RITE DUED
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 10:53 (seventeen years ago)
I don't really get Donna Summer. Abba or Chic should totally get in though, and I don't even like Abba.
― My name is Kenny, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)