OT: Rock n Roll Hall of Fame nominees
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Just my opinion, and I completely respect that of others. I personally think Radiohead blows, and I have listened to their music and tried to like them. Same thing with Stevie Nicks, just not my thing. I was in college when RATM came onto the scene, and love everything that they ever produced. Freshman year (94) at PSU, there was a time when every other car on a Friday night rolling through town with the system up was bumping Rage.
if Janet Jackson and LL Cool J can be on the list for Rock and Roll HOF, then John Prine should be a shoe in!!!
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Yeah, I was a SO in '94, so RATM was in my wheel house too. Loved going to Blue Train Music every Monday at midnight (or was it Tuesday?) to get the new NIN, Pumpkins, Manson, Nirvana CD, etc. RATM is great, but they never sort of transcended their platform - Okay, full of rage and protest - got it - what next? I think ZDLR got burned out and everyone else wanted to keep playing music. Morello has been performing as 'The Nightwatchman' for the past 15 years. I know ZDLR did a bunch of work with Trent Reznor, DJ Shadow, and Questlove, and I hear a solo album may be imminent (of course, he recorded a ton of this stuff nearly 20 years ago).
the first year he was eligible for nomination was 1994. I don't believe he's ever been nominated.
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I guess there’s a difference between being a great rock artist (I would include the Replacements in here as well as Zevon) and being popular enough to be in the hall of fame.
After Rush was inducted I stopped caring. I can't think of too many bands that deserve it that have been skipped over, at least from the golden era of the 60s-80s.
We're down to bands with one totally kick ass live album and no great studio albums: Thin Lizzy, UFO, Humble Pie, MC5, etc.
Rage Against the Machine is great and they deserve the nod. I remember during the big free music festival on Blue & White weekend we were waiting for Run-DMC to come on and a radio promo guy handed me a promo copy of the Battle of Los Angeles. I was so happy because I wanted that CD and I could not afford it! Great album. Crappy mastering but awesome music.
We're down to bands with one totally kick ass live album and no great studio albums: Thin Lizzy, UFO, Humble Pie, MC5, etc.
Rage Against the Machine is great and they deserve the nod. I remember during the big free music festival on Blue & White weekend we were waiting for Run-DMC to come on and a radio promo guy handed me a promo copy of the Battle of Los Angeles. I was so happy because I wanted that CD and I could not afford it! Great album. Crappy mastering but awesome music.
I was fortunate to see RATM twice live, and they just killed it. I saw audioslave 3 times, and while amazing, just wasn't as good as RATM.
I can think of Several 80's bands that deserve it.
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
Joy Divison/New Order
The Cure
No great studio albums? Shows what little you know about rock music. Two of the best albums from the 70’s were Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak and UFO’s Lights Out.
With regard to the list, there is nobody on that list that should be in a rock hall of fame. The list is just pure crap. I think the hall of fame has jumped the shark.
How little I know about rock music? Kiss my ass old man. That's my opinion after listening to them all. I like some studio albums by those bands, but none of them are "great". They all pale in comparison to the live albums that I'm referring to. The bands I mentioned all deserve a hall nod just for those live albums, over the dross on the current list.
Sounds like you are agreeing with me that UFO and Thin Lizzy are great artists but instead of being civil you call me out. You get one chance to not go on the ignore list since you're at least passionate about music, if not rude as hell about it.
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That was good. I love good singer/songwriters. This guy, like most, is better at one than the other, but it’s honest. I have to explore more of his work. I still think Leonard Cohen is the gold standard. And I love Rufus Wainwright and Fiona Apple too; best of the modern era IMO.
You're lucky. I had tickets to see Rage and the Beasties in Pittsburgh and a few days before the show Mike D broke his ankle riding his bike. Rage broke up soon after. Sucks.
I have seen Audioslave twice and they were good but not great. I saw the Prophets of Rage tour last summer for free with my tickmaster scam settlement vouchers and it was really fun show.
The Zombies and Todd Rundgren. Showing my age. Can't believe the Zombies still aren't in, particularly considering some that are.
Great songwriter. He has 3 Grammys, 4 Americana Music Awards, and he's in the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
Any album with Jailbreak, Boys are Back in Town AND Cowboy Song on it is, by definition great - indeed legendary.
I'm a big fan of Rufas Wainwright as well but then I liked Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
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All you need to know about Cohen is he wrote something like 80 draft verses for Hallelujah.
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They’re awesome. His sister Martha is too. Seen them dozens of times.
And interesting fact - Rufus and Cohen’s daughter Lorca have a child together; they raise her together with Rufus’s partner Jorn.
Def Leppard
Jon Prine
Todd Rundgren
Stevie Nicks
MC5
Huge Leppard fan. From the beginning. If you are under 30 years old, I’m guessing that you hate them because they sound over produced. But, in the 80s, that was the norm. They were massively huge. Pyromania and Hysteria were gargantuan albums., selling 10, million and 12 million units respectively in the US alone.The toured incessantly, and pretty much have since then. And, minus Steve Clark, who passed away in the early 90s, it’s the same band since Pyromania. I saw them with Journey in Columbus in August. Sold out the Schottenstein center, and the crowd went crazy for them. They blew Journey off the stage. No backing tracks in concert either.
Jon Prine
Todd Rundgren
Stevie Nicks
MC5
Huge Leppard fan. From the beginning. If you are under 30 years old, I’m guessing that you hate them because they sound over produced. But, in the 80s, that was the norm. They were massively huge. Pyromania and Hysteria were gargantuan albums., selling 10, million and 12 million units respectively in the US alone.The toured incessantly, and pretty much have since then. And, minus Steve Clark, who passed away in the early 90s, it’s the same band since Pyromania. I saw them with Journey in Columbus in August. Sold out the Schottenstein center, and the crowd went crazy for them. They blew Journey off the stage. No backing tracks in concert either.
I was just thinking the same today. I heard Pour some sugar on me today & it struck me as incredibly bad. It's almost an attempt at heavy metal rap
Sorry, but I am not getting into a name calling game. But if I see a totally inaccurate statement, I am going to call it out. You didn’t state that it was your own opinion regarding those bands, rather your statement insinuated that was the consensus in the music scene at the time. Otherwise, I would have gone easier on you. And you can put me on ignore, because I don’t care (which by the way is a song by a Punk band named Klark Kent that was actually Stewart Copeland of the Police).
Only a few songs make me angry... Pour-Some and Armageddon It constitute a one-two punch to my glans... both songs blow donkeys on a level not often seen in popular music ... simply very bad music
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