Guns n Roses: Critical Rehab

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haha xpost

Though if Bob Seger isn't in the hall of fame yet...

oh wait he got in in 2004

if bob seger is in the HOF than anything's possible.

then

argh

hey

just thinking of the R'n'R Hall of fame in 2025*, though, yeesh

*i refuse to believe kid rock will spend less time twiddling his thumbs than bob seger did

do you think in 20 years time, kids will be able to recall lines from pfork's neon indian reviews. probably.

frankly, with the way the music industry and music audiences have fragmented in general, I'd be surprised if anyone remembers any bands from this era. it kind of seems to me that music simply can't have longevity anymore.

Man, Seger is popular here on ILM. He's one guy the Hall got right.

I'd argue there's lots of guys (and gals) the Hall got right. It's the crazyshits like RHCP that make people forget about the deserving inducteed.

(And looking over said list, RHCP are the worst by a longshot; there's no other inductee that approaches them for sheer "What the fuck are they doing there?!"-ness)

"inducteed" = inductees

Billy Joel is in = the place must burn.

Oh, forgot about him. Yeah, fuck 'em.

switch out the RHCP for The Spinners and you've got yourself a good 2012 crew.

I like the RHCP but no-one's really clamoring for them to be acknowledged for their contribution, surely.

Spinners were nominated for 2012, even.

I would argue that RHCP isn't even that bad a nominee if you ignore everything they did post-BSSM

(well really I'd argue post-UMPP because I really hate Mothers' Milk but I know that removing their commercial breakthroughs would be silly)

Kiedis' horrible facial hair decisions should be enough to disqualify them

I'd go along with that (ignoring post-UMPP).

xp

haha dan do you ever get tired of pretending as if most people have even heard the first three RHCP albums and/or that they would vastly change their opinion of the band if they had

This looks like it might be a couple of years out of date, but here's a list of artists who have been nominated (or "considered") in the past without making it in: http://www.futurerocklegends.com/previously_considered.php

Albert King! Chic! The E-Street Band

why are we even talking abt GNR/RHCP ffs

half that list reads like a HOF list on its own!

I would have thought Carole King would be right up their alley.

She was inducted as a songwriter (with Gerry Goffin), but not as a performer.

Carole King is the definition of Rock and Roll. Fuck the MC5 and Deep Purple, Carole King rocks!

Mother's Milk would have made a great maxisingle.

Taste the Pain
Knock Me Down
Pretty Little Ditty

stop trying to sway me to your opinion on Mother's Milk with seductive haikus

knock me down is such a beautiful song

Carole King is the definition of Rock and Roll. Fuck the MC5 and Deep Purple, Carole King rocks!

Interestingly, the MC5 and Deep Purple are not in the HoF specifically, and explicitly, because Carole King is. It's stipulated in her contract.

("I want Deep Pur-ple under my feet, I want the 5 tumbling down..."

Wait, Frank Zappa's in there. Didn't he have a song where he sings about Deep Purple?

I think it's the other way around

shit

:D

Interestingly, the MC5 and Deep Purple are not in the HoF specifically, and explicitly, because Carole King is. It's stipulated in her contract.

^so stupid

the deep purple snub is kinda weird and MC5 should totally be in, but so should carole king!

i love you all

haha dan do you ever get tired of pretending as if most people have even heard the first three RHCP albums and/or that they would vastly change their opinion of the band if they had

that's an.. interesting piece of selective reading

guys, GNR isn't hair metal

i just think it's funny how you have to talk about their early stuff every time RHCP comes up, to the point of saying that they'd be a good Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame nominee if they'd stopped after the first 3 albums nobody bought

yeah how bizarre that someone talks about the stuff they like by a band, it really doesn't make any kind of sense

ok if you don't see the humor in "they wouldn't be a bad Hall of Fame nominee if you ignore virtually the entire period in which they've been famous" then nevermind

guys, GNR isn't hair metal

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:53 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they have an interesting relationship to hair metal IMO..they seem to be at once a part of it and outside of it...like Appetite feels like the complete masterpiece of that era of music, but at the same time the end of that era, and GnR kind of put the definitive cap on the era while killing it at the same time (to me at least)

Appetite isn't hair metal at all though; it's total sleaze rock. It's way closer to ACDC than Cinderella.

Paradise City is sort of hair metal in the sense that it was an arena anthem but the song is basically Skynyrd.

yeah it's kind of strange how GNR debuted after almost every other big band of that scene (and 5+ years after Motley Crue) and were able to kind of eclipse them all in a lot of ways and not be looked at as johnny come latelys or anything like that. (xpost)

Guns 'N Roses sound like a gritty version of Winger

matt, no i know what you're saying...i guess i meant more from the perspective of being a fan at the time, like i didn't really cut those distinctions, all metal was good because of the fact that it was metal, and i thought iron maiden was metal and bon jovi was metal and GnR was metal and britney fox was metal etc

making a distinction between "sleaze rock" and "hair metal" is just vanity

It's way closer to ACDC than Cinderella.

But Cinderella were practically AC/DC copyists!