2019 Rock N Roll HOF Nominees

My favorite RRHoF story involves a stone/cement mason hired to do some work around John Mellencamp's pool, in the early 2000s. The deck around the pool was all smashed up, and the mason asked what had happened. It turns out that when John learned he wasn't going to be inducted in the HoF in his first year of eligibility, he took a jackhammer to the deck in a fit of rage.

Ranked by giveashits:

Devo
Radiohead
The Zombies
Def Leppard
The Cure
Todd Rundgren
Stevie Nicks
Rufus & Chaka Kahn
MC5
Kraftwerk
Janet Jackson
Roxy Music
LL Cool J
Rage Against the Machine
John Prine

I don't get Stevie Nicks as a solo artist at all. George Harrison is iffy as a solo artist; Ringo's second induction is silly. Stevie Nicks would be even sillier.

Does the principal in School of Rock have a vote? That's the only explanation I can come up with.

That "Future Rock Legends" site is thorough. The first name listed on the Eligible Artists subsection is Adam Sandler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIAbxI3r0rU

Everyone talks about the snubs, but whats the consensus on the most inconsequential artist to actually get in?

In the "Performers" category? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_inductees#Performers

They all seem pretty consequential to me (though I'm not familiar with a few of the early guys, or backing bands inducted on their own, like the Blue Caps and Famous Flames).

I feel like RHCP are too artistically mediocre to be in there (despite their obvious success), but I realize the same case could be made for others, depending on personal taste.

I went with Kraftwerk, Radiohead would have been my alternate.

Everyone talks about the snubs, but whats the consensus on the most inconsequential artist to actually get in?

― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, October 10, 2018 6:06 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Dave Clark 5

Everyone talks about the snubs, but whats the consensus on the most inconsequential artist to actually get in?

it's not as if they induct artists of actually no consequence, but considering who they could've inducted and who they haven't inducted, dire straits and ringo starr seem highly questionable, and maybe jackson browne and tom waits should leave the museum and get back in line, out of respect for those they jumped in front of.

I think Joan Jett and the Blackhearts were maybe a questionable choice.

dire straits deserve to be in for making movies alone. also, they had an outsized influence on musicians in west africa, which is cool: https://africasacountry.com/2015/03/the-unexpected-popularity-of-dire-straits-in-north-african-tuareg-communities/

Dude waht joan jett is incredible

I don't get Stevie Nicks as a solo artist at all. George Harrison is iffy as a solo artist; Ringo's second induction is silly. Stevie Nicks would be even sillier.

― clemenza, W

by RHOF standards she qualifies: more than enough solo hits, distinctive enough from her full time gig. Influential? Undoubtedly. Whether the influenced distinguish Nicks solo from FM is another question.

Stevie is more defensible than Ringo by far, she at least has some iconic and unforgettable solo moments vs...whatever Ringo has done post-Beatles.

I would entertain a chat over drinks in which It Don't Come Easy, Early 1970, and Snookeroo >>> Stand Back, If Anyone Falls, etc

First two seasons of Thomas and Friends getting insufficient respect.

His role as the Pope in Listztomania too.

very cool story about dire straits' influence on tuareg musicians, but i'm voting tinariwen into my rrhof before i vote dire straits in.

Dude waht joan jett is incredible

this is a true fact.

^^This all just proves my point (about taste) when it comes to the batch of inducted artists... I don’t think there can be anything like a consensus “not quite worthy” pick.

I think I want to go with Chaka Khan & Rufus or mb the Zombies?

i always feel like you need to fill yr hall with the ones who came first before you start letting the later years in but it never happens

like it is crazy to me that Janet or Def Leppard could go in before Chaka & Rufus!

I must have looked away during Stevie Nicks's solo career. I like "Edge of Seventeen" and the song she did with Tom Petty. I know nothing else.

My list of people who warrant induction twice would be very small. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Neil Young, Lou Reed, and probably Eric Clapton (for the Yardbirds and Cream, not necessarily for his own albums, although I guess Layla counts as an Eric Clapton record). I've probably forgotten somebody. When Beyonce and Justin Timberlake go in twice, I'll be happily dead.

Mick Jagger is a five-star solo artist. Surely he'll get a slot. We're just a few years away from the 20th anniversary of his peak!

Stevie is more defensible than Ringo by far, she at least has some iconic and unforgettable solo moments vs...whatever Ringo has done post-Beatles.

― omar little, Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:12 (nine hours ago) Permalink

fwiw, ringo got in with the hall's "Award for Musical Excellence," which according to wikipedia, "honors those musicians, producers and others who have spent their careers out of the spotlight working with major artists on various parts of their recording and live careers." other winners include leon russell, glyn johns, etc. he's not technically in the hall as a solo performer.

reminds me of Zappa a bit, that combination of bitterness/sarcasm and ego and inclination towards being a show-off

― Οὖτις

but when the time came rundgren could be sincere, could write a love song, which zappa could never bring himself to do. god, what do you think zappa would have made of something like "healing"? and certainly zappa never could have written something like "just one victory".

Another thing is Rundgren seemed to have a fairly healthy ego/self-image whereas Zappa always seemed riddled with insecurity to me.

one redeeming factor that's always struck me personality-wise w/Todd (and this has absolutely nothing to do w his music, to be clear) is how highly Liv Tyler and Bebe Buell have publicly spoken of him re: being a father to Liv while she was growing up.

That whole story is so strange, ha.

ZOMS GLOM NOM; THOM'S QUALM

lmao is that real ?

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Wow, Kraftwerk, the Cure, and Radiohead?!

2019: the year the Rock HoF got good.

We'll find out in "December 2019" (they can't get more precise on that?)

*Dec. 2018

Radiohead 5 more votes than Def Lep GTFO

I agree, only 5 votes more!?

two votes for the zombies ?

y’all are crazy

roxy music lol gtfo

Are we voting for who we want to get in/most deserving in our eyes? Or predicting who will get in?

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, October 10, 2018

This wasn’t (and still isn’t) clear to me, either...

I don’t think I’ve even followed any HoF ceremony. How many winners are there? Previous years give me like 4 or 5 winners unless I’m reading it wrong.

Stevie Nicks 0

lmao

So I started listening to that Rock Hall podcast mentioned upthread. It's pretty damn charming. I thought it would be something enjoyable to hate-listen while stuck in traffic, but I'm actually kind of hooked.

“Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2019 Inductees” (RockHall.com). The Zombies: two effectively Beatle-style Top 10 hits in 1965 (think of “She’s Not There” and “No Reply” — which one disappears in the face of the other?) and another one, boring even if the radio loves it, four years later. But when the Shangri-Las — “Remember (Walking in the Sand),” “Leader of the Pack,” “Give Him a Great Big Kiss,” “Out in the Streets” and “I Can Never Go Home Anymore” — three of them Top Ten in 1964 and 1965, one of them Number One, all of them not merely hits, but iconic — have never been nominated, let alone voted in, how can this mean anything at all? I don’t know if Janet Jackson or Def Leppard would agree, but I’d bet Stevie Nicks and Bryan Ferry would.

This made me laugh, because I've seen the same point made a thousand times in relation to Barry Bonds and/or Roger Clemens. I've always resisted the formulation when applied to baseball because, agree or disagree, I've always known why Bonds and Clemens have not (yet) been voted in--it's not some inexplicable mystery.

When it comes to the Shangri-Las, he may be onto something.

(Greil Marcus--was going to post that on his thread but moved it over here.)

I'm all for putting the Shangri-Las in the MLB hall of fame

did dude just shit on "Time of the Season"

Shirelles and Ronettes are in; Shangs absolutely should be, too.

i love time of the season and i think this year's rock hall class is a perfectly decent one, all things considered, and i'd take the shangri-las over every single one of 'em in a heartbeat.

and now that alan trammell's in the mlb hall, i'd be happy to devote my efforts to getting the shangri-las in there too.