I agree. They have lowered the bar so much. This is the same thinking that brought us the “Participation Trophy”. It is basically meaningless already. Realistically everybody will have there own favorites and their own hall of fame list and that is what will mean the most to each person.
The biggest problem is that the term “Rock and Roll” or just “Rock” has been expanded to become pretty much meaningless. Very little of the music produced 25 years ago or since meets my (admittedly vague) definition of the genre.
I have always wondered:
Are they people who surf buttholes, or buttholes who surf?
Since they are from San Antonio, I assume the former.
Which also leads to one of the big criticisms some folks have about recent nominees: “They don’t play (what I consider to be) rock & roll / rock music!”
Truth in advertising would be a title for the place like, “The Hall of Fame for Music Which Has Been Popular in the U.S. from the Late 1950s Onward,” but that doesn’t roll off the tongue.
Hell, I know most of my faves which aren’t in never will even be considered for nomination. And while I don’t really care all that much for Tull, their continued snubbing is truly preposterous even if Ian Anderson said he wouldn’t accept it anyway.
I totally disagree. I like that the Hall embraces popular music in all its messy diversity, rather than trying to police the boundaries of genre. I like that it gets us to engage in ridiculous conversations about the relative merits of Iron Maiden and Luther Vandross. Apples-to-apples comparisons are boring. The greatest musicians are usually the ones that are hard to slot into any easily-defined genre, anyway.
There are way too many categories made up. This happens when people over analyze stuff. They could just have two categories - “Rock and Roll” and “Fringe Trash”.
A.k.a. “Music I Like” and “Music I Hate.”
LOL, YES! You nailed it.
Wrong Buckley, you’re thinking of Tim, the dad. Jeff is the Hallellujah cover guy. And I don’t think he deserves it, myself.
Put Styx in the Hall of Fame, dammit.
Yeah I realized that after the edit window closed.
32 out of 50 ain’t bad
Joy Division/New Order should and will get selected.
Wu-Tang Clan is a no-brainer, slam dunk selection.
Oasis would be an automatic pick if the Rock and Roll HOF was located in the UK. However, since it’s not, they may have to wait a bit.
Black Crowes: started off with two solid albums, but were uneven after that. I don’t know if that’s enough to get them in.