Which of today's artists will get into Rock and Roll HOF?

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Smashing Pumpkins (maybe after Yes gets inducted)

Didn't Corgan induct Pink Floyd? They're totally in. Yet another meaningless band for a meaninless institution. HUMBUG!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Bjork's got a decent shot as does Beck. I don't see Dr. dre having a chance at all though. Same for Pavement, especially if The Fall aren't, and they never will.

― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Whiffleheaded Sheep = good band name

http://www.a-cappella.com/tbimages/45075.md.jpg

!!!

― Myonga Von BaaRamEwe (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 8 April 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe Weezer (although I don't know with their recent string of stuff)?

Missy Elliott/Timbaland?

R.E.M. is totally there.

― Dave M, Friday, 8 April 2005 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Snoop and Missy would get inducted before Dre and Timbaland - performers ROCK harder than producers.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 8 April 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd be surprised if R.E.M. doesn't make it next year or the year after, and Nirvana Will probably be in the first year they're eligible. (2014?)

I also think Radiohead, the Pixies, Metallica, Dave Matthews band, Guns N Roses, Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Beck and Sonic Youth have a good shot.

Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Public Enemy will either make it in, or they'll start a hip hop hall of fame.

I don't see Teenage Fanclub,m the White Stripes, the Strokes or Coldplay making it.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Great, worthy, ground-breaking, innovative, influential bands who will NEVER EVEN BE CONSIDERED for the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame:

The Stranglers
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Motorhead
Killing Joke
Julian Cope/the Teardrop Explodes
Dead Kennedys
Black Flag
Throbbing Gristle
the Misfits
the Pop Group
Cop Shoot Cop
Pussy Galore
Swans

The thinnest of possible chances:
Buzzcocks
the Damned
Joy Division
Devo
B-52s

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 April 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd put money on DEVO making it. They are still fairly high profile in the music business and have a high memory quotient for people that were around at the time.

― everything, Friday, 8 April 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

devo have been eligible for a few years now and have never even made the ballot

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Depends a bit what kind of judgement values the people behind the HOF will use in 20 years, and how wide their definition of "rock'n'roll" will be by then.

Even though I am not at all into hip-hop, I hope they will also be able to include hip-hop (and electronica), as hip-hop and electronica are both clearly part of the bigger and broader history of rock'n'roll.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Nevertheless. Depends how you define "today", but U2 will obviously be in there. Probably Radiohead too.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Um, Geir, you do know that U2 are being inducted this year?

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh OK. I thought they were too recent still.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

**Nirvana (they'd be inducted at least thrice if allowed)**

Hahahhaha...OTM.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd say oasis is a lock to NOT get in. in america, which is all the hall of fame cares about, they're a barely remembered two-hit wonder. tommy james and the shondells, who should be in but aren't, will get in long before oasis does. which is as is should be.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 8 April 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

The most patently ridiculous omisson from the HOF right now is Black Sabbath. Which is all the more fitting, because the old guard (Wenner, et al) angrily dismissed them for so long and STILL wants them to go away, but they are totally indestructible. Kids will be rocking out to "Iron Man" as long as this globe is spinning.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Kids will be rocking out to "Iron Man" as long as this globe is spinning.

They've swiftly become my nephew's favorite band (.........and he's only eleven).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 April 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

The guy who most deserves to get into the HOF but sadly will probably never is Brian Eno. If you combine all his contributions to music--keyboard player in Roxy Music, solo records, producer--he'd warrant his own WING of the entire goddamn building.

Anyway, REM, Metallica, Madonna, Run DMC and Public Enemy are the sure-thing locks from the 1980s. 1990s, you've got Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead. After that it gets a little fuzzy.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there any Hip Hoppers in currently? Kurtis Blow? Anyone like that?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Are there any....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Class of 2015: WEEN

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and, No sir, there are no hip-hoppers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...yet.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

except
http://cretinhop.canalblog.com/Dee_Dee_King.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

REM will definitely get in in a year or too. I'm pretty sire Coldplay will too if they keep on the way they are going. And the Pixies if their legend continues to grow - they are bigger now than they ever were first time round.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

-- Keith C (kcraw91...), April 9th, 2005.

OTFM \m/

― latebloomer: strawman knockdowner (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't understand how The Dells are in but Chic aren't. If I was in PE or Run DMC I wouldn't be ordering my tux just yet.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

The guy who most deserves to get into the HOF but sadly will probably never is Brian Eno

Actually, I bet he'll get in as a "non-performer," which would be hilarious. "Yeah he was that guy who produced Joshua Tree, so we should put him in."

― Keith C (kcraw916), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Regarding hip-hop'ers, I am pretty sure Public Enemy will get in there in 5-6 years time. And probably De La Soul a few years later. Those early hip-hop'ers haven't made any albums that have made impact, and even though not everybody in the HOF is "rock", they will certainly have to be part of the rock "canon" to get in.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Didn't Ozzy say the HOF can get bent? Maybe they haven't inducted Sabbath in part because they know the dude won't show.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd almost think Iggy has a better chance of getting in solo than with the Stooges (or maybe as "Iggy & The Stooges") what with "Lust For Life" and all.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

The New Pornographers
Spoon

― Zeno, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link

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