Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees 2023

Watching the (edited) 2023 Induction Ceremony on ABC…. Bernie Taupin’s digs at Wenner were widely reported, but I hadn’t read about how his comments (celebrating diversity at the ceremony) also featured a passionate defense of “pop”:

“Diversity in genres and styles is exciting and relevant. When it exactly was when the term ‘pop’ became a dirty word, I don’t know. (…) Every artist in this musical institution and every artist inducted on this stage tonight is pop(…).”

Missy was great and her speech was very affecting

Watain

Yeah no that’s never happening.

Looking at that list above, I guess Coheed & Cambria, Lil Wayne and Phoenix look the most likely to get in?

Fully aware that this says more about me than them, but I have literally never heard of Coheed & Cambria.

None of these will get in for a while but here are the ones I think they'll eventually go for:

50 Cent
John Mayer
Jennifer Lopez
Lil Wayne

Coheed & Cambria are an emo/prog band with a huge cult following, basically Tool/NIN for millennials. Not my thing but I’m sure they’ll get voted in at some point.

Trapt is going in

(xpost) I looked them up...They've had a few Top 10 albums, but in all honesty, they seem to have a somewhat narrow, genre-specific fan base. I know I don't keep up, but there's never been an inductee I've never even heard of. If you're right, I have to believe "at some point" means decades from now. I suspect there are a lot of more famous possibilities to get to first.

One example among dozens, probably hundreds (listening to a sale CD I bought last week): TLC. Says here they've been eligible since 2018.

https://futurerocklegends.com/Artist/TLC/

(Their "HOF Indicators" are interesting--most are good, but the only critical barometer looks like the Rolling Stone list, so they'd need a lot more there, I'd say. And they definitely need to add something commercial/sales/chart-based.)

The last 50s-associated artists to be inducted were several backing bands in 2012. The last 60s-associated artists to be inducted were the Zombies in 2019. (Proper induction, not being snuck in a back door.)
Can we assume that the Hall is done with adding acts that are primarily associated with those decades?

Probably, tho there are at least these perpetual snubees to consider (and how many years they've been eligible):

Johnny Burnette and the Rock N Roll Trio	42
Connie Francis	40
Jan & Dean	38
Dick Dale	36
Peter, Paul & Mary	36
Toots & the Maytals	36
Barry White	35
Cher	33
The Guess Who	33
The Sonics	33
Captain Beefheart	32
Jim Croce	32
Love	32
The Monkees	32
Scott Walker	32
Tommy James & the Shondells	32
Harry Nilsson	31
Can	30
Jethro Tull	30
Silver Apples	30
The Carpenters	29
King Crimson	29
Kool & the Gang	29
Nick Drake	29
Three Dog Night	29
Diana Ross	28
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	28
Sparks	27
Big Star	26
Blue Öyster Cult	26
Neu!	26
The Pointer Sisters	25

I'd imagine The Monkees will get inducted before Jennifer Lopez and Lil Wayne ... but still probably after John Mayer

The Monkees are still the devil to these Rock Hall guys.

Also Silver Apples won't get any acknowledgement in a million years.

Top of the list: the Shangri-Las.

^Yeah, they should be included in that "perpetual snubees" accounting...

surprised Nick Drake never got in

He keeps emailing the hall asking why not

Wonder if Wenner was the main anti-Monkees zealot?

no ones' lol'ed at the idea of Ariel Pink in the RRHOF yet? Will be more likely to get a Presidential Medal of Freedom

Amazed that Dick Dale's not in.

Dionne Motherfuckin' Warwick

Huh, I had not previously known her middle name.

A psychic made her change it to "Motherfuckin'e"

walk on by
don't
fuck

I recorded this from ABC a few days ago and watching parts of it now. Miguel, Adam Levine and Carrie Underwood are singing George Michael's songs. They're not bad at all but makes you realize that George Michael is one of a kind.

I said the same thing! (My wife thought Miguel did a pretty good job…)

Tom Morello speech from Rage Against the Machine was, by far, the best thing of this years show. Inspiring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DSf53xiYOg