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

xpost - popularity 'round here is a non-issue! I can take or leave Chicago, but I'm surprised that 120 million records sold wasn't enough to get 'em inducted. And presumably the other four voters felt the same.

I didnt vote for them, but I kind of like early Chicago.

i have only the faintest idea of what Chicago even sound like ... are the early records secretly good?

The early records are a lot more interesting than their 80s ballads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soLIZ4W0rZw&feature=related

the 80s ballads are all I know. or rather, one 80s ballad -- "look away, baaaaaby, look away!" love that. that is Chicago, isn't it?

I remember them having a hit of some sorts with a ballad here in the UK in the early 80s because they had a song on Hits 3 or 4 or something. I cant remember what song it was. But I'd be surprised if they sold many records here.

This was their big comeback single (lolling so hard at Rutger Hauer Peter Cetera here, plz let Alex in NYC see this)

actually everything about this video is hilarious and pretty much encapsulates the 80s

Dubious distinction of Chicago being the first band I ever saw live. St Paul Civic Center 1983. I didn't even like them then-- think i was just excited about the idea of seeing a big rock show.

A comedian was the opener (what a grand tradition that was...)

ahh dan, i think that's the song i was trying to remember the name of! Prob their only song that gets played on oldies radio here. Usually played before or after you win again by the bee gees.

oh lol I had the chronology all backwards, this was actually the comeback single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9cNYlmXEY

Don't know that one at all. I expect it may have been a minor hit here and missed my 9 year old ears

UK #4 in 1982 according to Wikipedia

i was too busy listening to madness

speaking of minor hits, lol I had forgotten this song existed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZ4w_OyZx4

P. Cetera lost a certain edge to his voice once he finally had that bowel movement...

This was their big comeback single (lolling so hard at Rutger Hauer Peter Cetera here, plz let Alex in NYC see this)

Yes, the Bauhaus t-shirt has been well documented and outraged over already.

aw

I find it strange that 20 people would vote PE when it was already established that they're not eligible yet, so it's the least shocking exclusion by default.

Maybe they thought it read "Most Shocklee" exclusion.

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actual lols

Mea culpa. Halfway through the school year, I started playing music over the P.A. system during morning entry. Our staff has a typical age range of late-20s through to early-50s (I'm close to one end of that spectrum), so I'd mix things up, from the new Cypress Hill single to the Spice Girls to Andy Williams' "Can't Get Used to Losing You." (Loud guitars generally no, although I did play "Good Times Bad Times" one morning.) Anyway, yesterday I got to satisfy a lifelong dream: as the kids filed in, "School's Out" blared. So I'm here to say that Alice Cooper needs to go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame immediately.

haha! what was the reaction from the kids?

Oddly enough, all 500 of them started chanting "Hall-of-Fame! Hall-of-Fame!" in unison...I spotted at least a couple who obviously knew the song already, which was nice.

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.