2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees

no requisite 'this is some bullshit' option huh

LL

should probably be Alice

joe tex

Chic, by a million.

ha ha ha DAMN! I reviewed a terrible Alice Cooper album for Spin in 1989 and wrote that Alice would never get in the Hall of Fame.

I'd be okay with none of these artists being inducted...not because I think they're bullshit, I like more than a few of them...but, eh, meh.

chic chic chic

Why should artists who never made a rock and roll record be included in the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"?

Because trolling nitwits is the only way this could possibly have any value?

I remain an agnostic on Alice Cooper, but I won't get into that again. Who I'd put in from this group: Beastie Boys, Chic, Donovan, L.L. Cool J, Donna Summer. The really subjective choice is Donovan, hugely influenced by how his music has been used in a whole bunch of great movies the past 20 years. I agree with the comment above--widening "rock and roll" to mean something a little closer to "pop"--so the name on the list I have the most problems with is Tom Waits. Ditto some people already in there, like Leonard Cohen and James Taylor. I'm not commenting on the quality of their music--both Cohen and Taylor have songs that are among my all-time favourites. I just don't see them as having much to do with rock and roll...unless the term is applied to their primary audience, in which case okay.

It's all about the audience.

We're voting on whether they deserve inclusion on the bullshit merits of the R&R Hall of Fame, right? Then of course Alice Cooper deserves inclusion. So do Chic, Donna Summer, LL, and Laura Nyro.

Diamond too.

Will the R&R HOF ever nominate Sonic Youth, or is that too much to ask for in a world where the J. Geils Band gets nominated thrice?

gonna have to go w/ Beasties on this one

Alice.

joe tex!

Waits

If Thurston Moore hangs out with Jann, then Jann will consider it.

no order-
Chic
Beasties
LL
Donovan

so yeah not sure who i will actually vote for

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dr john the night tripper

• donna summer
• chic
• llcj

Chic Cheer!

I really, really really want Chic and Donna Summer to win. Donna Summer's The Wanderer was a great rock/pop record. It was #2 on the critics list in Rolling Stones in 1980 or 1981. There was a great write up about it on popmatters.com: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/a-long-way-from-wonderland/

Chic made great dance records and that should be evidence enough they belong in that old fogie rock club. I never understand these rock purist who slam other Western music genres when it comes to HoF nominations. Rock music was dance music when it started, and I believe Chic and Donna Summer carried that "let's all have a good time and dance the night away" feeling rock music use to have when it started. If so called rock fans can't feel that then they have two left feet.

Alas, the lack of Edwards and Thompson means some horrible faux version of Chic will inevitably perform.

Why are Chic's "rock" credentials being questioned but not Neil Diamond's (or, for that matter, Tom Waits')?

The Wanderer still doesn't get enough love.

Love Chic the most, Nyro and Donovan and Darlene Love (!) are all seriously overdue...voted Nyro cuz according to my calculations she was the one most likely to get a goose-egg in this poll...

Not clear if this is a prediction poll, or a who-would-you-put-in? poll. Really, Laura Nyro? "Wedding Bell Blues" is one of the greatest pop songs ever, she wrote some other good ones too, and I like the Gonna Take a Miracle LP. A songwriters Hall of Fame, sure. But I can't see her in a performers Hall of Fame--her impact seems almost non-existent in terms of her own records.

Alas, the lack of Edwards and Thompson means some horrible faux version of Chic will inevitably perform.

The version Nile is touting around these days is pretty fine.

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I like the winner, and I like the last-place choice. Tom Waits is one big "Huh?" for me. When he came along in the '70s, wasn't his whole persona (a nicer way to say schtick) a rejection of rock and roll?

Chic would actually deserve it, but I would guess they will not be voted in. The people deciding are very rock centric and it takes typical pop (or, in this case, disco) acts years to get in there.

Yr probably right.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/12/tom-waits-neil-diamond-alice-cooper-rock-hall-inductees.html

Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, the Alice Cooper Band, Dr. John and Darlene Love will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next spring, the organization will announce Wednesday.

haha. I would have voted for Chuck Willis, Chic, Donna Summer, LL Cool J and Joe Tex. 100# miss. Fuck you too Hall.

can't wait for the tom waits/neil diamond/alice cooper jammmm