Most shocking Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs (according to CNN.com)

Dick from California March 15th, 2010 7:15 pm ET

Which Dick from California wrote it?

Yeah, it's funny reading Rolling Stone being referred to as a trendy magazine. When your publisher stopped listening to music back in 1974, I believe you cease being trendy.

I suppose if you stopped listening to music in 1969 you might think Rolling Stone Magazine was trendy

Mick March 15th, 2010 9:33 pm ET

Chicago – horn crap
Hall and Oates – fudge packers
Moody Blues – overrated trash
Peter Frampton-only relevant in Humble Pie
Bon Jovi -blow dryers
Public Enemy- escaped slaves
Delaney and Bonnie and Friends- doobie burnouts
Flying Burrito Brothers – ass gas
Badfinger -lets all commit suicide!
Stephen Stills- huh? wheres my coke spoon?
Harry Nilsson -dead lame depressing slug
Herman's Hermits-Peter Noone-infomercial guru with bad English teeth man.
Bread-the biggest pussies on planet Earth
The Marshal Tucker Band – they're cowboys dumb-ass
Boston- one note wonders
Karen Carpenter-eat a sandwich will ya?
The Cowsills-inbred goobers
ABBA-euro trash in jump suits
Kansas/Journey/Foreigner/Styx/ REO Speedwagon – all the same band right?
Neil Diamond- grandma music
Cat Stevens-terrorist
Gary Glitter -homosexual pedophile (see Michael Jackson)
New York Dolls-one great album cover and nuthin else
Doctor Hook & The Medicine Show-Wenner bought it.
Andy Gibb /Maurice Gibb – 2 down 2 to go.
How come no one has mentioned Rush?
Leon Redbone -Zappas alter-ego without the talent
Joan Jett -slut
Doobie Brothers- pick a genre!
Toto – karaoke rubbish
Three Dog Night-great vocals ,crappy songs
Meatloaf- wishes he picked a cooler name. Fat.
Sammy Hagar -Drive 55 off a freakin cliff lame-o
Jimmy Buffet -hello?? Rock & Roll
Boz Scaggs – once a good bluesman-sold out to the disco scene.
The Guess Who -guess what? They stink. aka Rare Earth-interchangeable crap.
Poco-LameO
Little Feat-less talent
Tori Amos -somebody shoot that guy who wrote that.

^ could be a poll

Out of the list at the top, I'd say the two that should get in first are Alice Cooper and T-Rex for their music and the music they influenced. Kiss makes sense for a Hall of Fame, but Alice pretty much did it first you know. Marc Bolan also didn't get a second shot, as he died as he was just coming around for him to maybe have another shot, but the guy was gold.

suddenly i feel very young.

Voting Alice, since he/they are easily the best one up there, though I can't say I'm "shocked" by him being "snubbed". (Even though he/they invented shock rock. Wait, are we talking about the guy or the band?) I really have no clue as to who's in and who isn't, otherwise. (I like T. Rex fine, but they seem kinda minor to me compared to most of the rest. Plus Cheap Trick, Heart, and Foreigner were all better anyway.)

Chicago should be in there! And Kiss! And Van Halen! Down with trendy liberal magazines like Rolling Stone telling good ole americans what should be in a hall of fame. Make it a public vote!

Do people really think like that?

they do & it is why people should come w/their own SB buttons

went with Heart, just coz they seem to be lost in the trex AC rush battle


Flying Burrito Brothers – ass gas
, etc.

had no clue Humble Pie and non-disco (?) Boz Scaggs fans were so Alex in NYC-esque.

Doobie Brothers- pick a genre!
Toto – karaoke rubbish = ?

Little Feat-less talent

genuine lolz

Heart because a female fronted rock band seems like obvious HOF bait

Mick March 15th, 2010 9:33 pm ET

Chicago – horn crap
Hall and Oates – fudge packers
Moody Blues – overrated trash
Peter Frampton-only relevant in Humble Pie
Bon Jovi -blow dryers
Public Enemy- escaped slaves
Delaney and Bonnie and Friends- doobie burnouts
Flying Burrito Brothers – ass gas
Badfinger -lets all commit suicide!
Stephen Stills- huh? wheres my coke spoon?
Harry Nilsson -dead lame depressing slug
Herman's Hermits-Peter Noone-infomercial guru with bad English teeth man.
Bread-the biggest pussies on planet Earth
The Marshal Tucker Band – they're cowboys dumb-ass
Boston- one note wonders
Karen Carpenter-eat a sandwich will ya?
The Cowsills-inbred goobers
ABBA-euro trash in jump suits
Kansas/Journey/Foreigner/Styx/ REO Speedwagon – all the same band right?
Neil Diamond- grandma music
Cat Stevens-terrorist
Gary Glitter -homosexual pedophile (see Michael Jackson)
New York Dolls-one great album cover and nuthin else
Doctor Hook & The Medicine Show-Wenner bought it.
Andy Gibb /Maurice Gibb – 2 down 2 to go.
How come no one has mentioned Rush?
Leon Redbone -Zappas alter-ego without the talent
Joan Jett -slut
Doobie Brothers- pick a genre!
Toto – karaoke rubbish
Three Dog Night-great vocals ,crappy songs
Meatloaf- wishes he picked a cooler name. Fat.
Sammy Hagar -Drive 55 off a freakin cliff lame-o
Jimmy Buffet -hello?? Rock & Roll
Boz Scaggs – once a good bluesman-sold out to the disco scene.
The Guess Who -guess what? They stink. aka Rare Earth-interchangeable crap.
Poco-LameO
Little Feat-less talent
Tori Amos -somebody shoot that guy who wrote that.

is this the same guy who reviewed everyone at his high school?

i'm voting for them because it's a hall of FAME

This is silly even when ppl arent talkin bout baseball

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 15, 2010 8:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's makes a lot more sense than if you try to pretend it's the Rock & Roll Hall of Quality/Greatness/Originality/etc.

It still doesn't make sense because it's basically a monument to a Rolling Stone-style canon. I'd certainly say "quality/greatness/originality/etc." is very much the criteria, at least by the committee's standards.

ALICE.

the CURE

they were pretty original
they have more than enough great music
I've heard tons trying to sound like Robert Smith over the last 10 years.

Public Enemy :)

(Although seriously, they belong there, because of their historical importance for the development of popular music, as R&RHOF is not supposed to be rock'n'roll only)

But now understanding the question properly, I understand I should have voted Depeche Mode instead. They have the time ahead of them, though, and I am pretty certain they will get in.

Wow, if even Geir's voting PE, surely they will run away with this?

Personally, the only other one I'd go vote for would be TRex, but they didn't happen at all in the US apart from "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" right?

"20th Century Boy" was briefly ubiquitous in the US a few years ago thanks to its use in a Mitsubishi commercial that played on tv every ten minutes.

Are PE even eligible yet? As of 25 years ago, they'd only released one obscure single under a different name.

What, Gay Dad?

Jedward

(serious answer: Spectrum City)

if my personal tastes were dictating, it would likely be a toss-up between T. Rex and ELO. Cheap Trick & Public Enemy would be great. (i mean insofar as RnR Hall of Fame induction is "great")

but dude, Rush deserves this.

wouldn't be suprised if the Rock Hall was just consideringYo! Bum Rush The ShowNation Of Millions their recorded debut and are waiting until20122013

Did that above thing make sense? What I'm trying to say is PE will get in without question, but 25 years after Nation Of Millions.

so elegibility is 25 years after group/band/artist inception or 25 years after breathrough landmark work?

If the Stooges made it in, Alice Cooper and Kiss can't be far behind, give 'em another year or so. I'll bet Rush and PE will make it in time too. And anyways, this really isn't about who deserves admission, assuming induction is even a desirable thing, which nobody on this thread really thinks it is. So, based on my impression of the HoF, I think the most truly surprising (not surprising enough to be "shocking") omission is Chicago.

tbh the only band on here whose inclusion in a hall of fame would surprise me is RHCP

What about Yes? Blue Oyster Cult? Of the crew in the poll, I gotta go with Rush.

Really? I think their inclusion would be one of the least surprising. According to Wikipedia, RHCP have sold 55 million albums ... who on that list has sold more? Kiss, Frampton, and Bon Jovi maybe?

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CHEAP FUCKING TRICK

Really? I think their inclusion would be one of the least surprising. According to Wikipedia, RHCP have sold 55 million albums ... who on that list has sold more? Kiss, Frampton, and Bon Jovi maybe?

Aside from the ones you mentioned

Depeche Mode: 100 million albums/singles
Chicago: over 120 million albums
Hall and Oates: over 60 million
ELO: over 100 million
Journey: 75 million

so elegibility is 25 years after group/band/artist inception or 25 years after breathrough landmark work?

That's probably how it will work for inductees going forward. So the Chili Peppers will most likely get voted in 25 years after Blood Sugar...

Of the acts where I could find numbers, The Cure (27 million as of 1994) and Heart (over 30 million) hit the low end

Between Alice and T-Rex... but Alice it is

... LOL, I didn't notice Public Enemy!!!!!!

Of the names listed here, only 2 have ever been nominated before: Kiss and RHCP. None of the others have ever been nominated. And Public Enemy aren't eligible yet. Of the names listed, I can say for sure that Frampton, Journey, Bad Company and Foreigner have little to no chance of ever getting in.

John Huston, in Chinatown: "'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough." Bad '70s rock bands, too--he forgot bad '70s rock bands.

RHCP are as establishment (rubber-stamped four star RS reviews of every new album, Gramy AOTY nod) as any band of their generation gets. they may not get in before some of those older bands, but they'll get in.

... LOL, I didn't notice Public Enemy!!!!!!

― The Oort Locker (Tom D.), Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:00 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

That's what Jann Wenner said.

RHCP are as establishment (rubber-stamped four star RS reviews of every new album, Gramy AOTY nod) as any band of their generation gets. they may not get in before some of those older bands, but they'll get in.

that's true, I guess I keep thinking of them as being the same band I encountered on their first three albums and therefore seeing them listed with "the greats" seems (unfairly) bizarre

By personal taste, I'd vote for Hall & Oates or ELO. By "significance", I guess I'd pick Public Enemy.

I notice that the Beastie Boys didn't make the CNN.com list.

All right, point taken on the sales figures for the other bands on the list. ELO sold 100 million albums? WTF???

I guess I keep thinking of them as being the same band I encountered on their first three albums and therefore seeing them listed with "the greats" seems (unfairly) bizarre

Yeah, me too. Still, I can't deny that: huge sales numbers + being one of the world's most popular rock bands going on 20 years + RS-approved = easy HOF selection

Beastie Boys were nominated in 2007, but not last 2 years.
BTW- I voted for Hall & Oates.

keep thinking of them as being the same band I encountered on their first three albums and therefore seeing them listed with "the greats" seems (unfairly) bizarre

Yeah, me too. I'm all "what're they gonna do, show up for the HoF ceremony with socks on their cocks"? (The "they totally suck" factor works into it too, probably.)

I will ride for the first 3 RHCP albums until the day I die

http://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2014/08/rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame_to_2.html

Get him out of there. You need the room for the Police and Rush and Britney Spears.

the rock and roll hall of fame

Pathetically pleased that all four of my inductions predicted upthread came to pass. (I also correctly predicted the top six Oscars in both '83 and '84)

lol alan freed

like he is definitely a huge part of the rock n roll hall of fame for anyone who cares more than an iota about the rock n roll hall of fame. but that group of people really isn't that big. and i say that as someone who cares more than iota!

I've always had a soft spot for Freed, based on American Hot Wax and on a couple of LPs I bought years ago, where he provides intros to a bunch of great doo-wop songs. (They were put out by Roulette, I think towards the end when he was having a hard time.)

http://www.shugarecords.com/images/products/thumb/1b4ce305-51bd-432f-9538-e57b314dbf17-0.jpg

He strikes me a really heroic figure, brought down by the IRS, but really because he played black artists at a time when no one would. I should read a biography, though--I'm sure the story isn't quite that simple.