# Rock Hall of Fame Class of 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915 "2015-10-08T12:40:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/1 "2015-10-08T12:40:45Z")
``` The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016 are in, and the list includes: ``` Chicago Cheap Trick Deep Purple The Cars Janet Jackson N.W.A Nine Inch Nails The Smiths Yes Chaka Khan Chic The J.B.’s Los Lobos Steve Miller The Spinners Who is your vote for? Who’s missing? Who shouldn’t be on this list? Poll to follow (if I can get it to work) ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/2 "2015-10-08T13:00:05Z")
Some good and not so good choices for this year but I gotta go with Deep Purple. In fact, I’m surprised they haven’t already been inducted. The Cars and The Smiths would be my other choices due to their influence in the following decade and beyond. I predict N.W.A. is a shoe in, given their massive popularity at the moment with Straight Outta Compton’s success. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/3 "2015-10-08T13:31:54Z")
A weak year; so many of the choices were not particularly good and had long but terribly mediocre careers (Chicago, Steve Miller). I went with Yes, but not with a lot of enthusiasm. Cheap Trick was a possibility – I saw them a few years ago in concert and they were very impressive – but they were too limited. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/4 "2015-10-08T13:49:10Z")
I voted for Los Lobos, but I think making the poll single choice was a mistake, there can be multiple inductees after all. My other choices would have been NIN and The Smiths. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/5 "2015-10-08T13:54:33Z")
Based on the way it usually goes, I bowed to peer pressure and voted for Steve Miller. I’d have voted for The Smiths, but no way will they get in. Los Lobos, Yes and Chicago don’t belong on the list at all. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/6 "2015-10-08T13:55:37Z")
Cheap Trick Deep Purple The Cars Yes The very fact that Yes and Deep Purple are not _already in_ tells us that RRHOF is a sham. Who the hell are the The J.B.’s?? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/7 "2015-10-08T14:24:05Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Cheap Trick > Deep Purple > The Cars > Yes > > The very fact that Yes and Deep Purple are not _already in_ tells us that RRHOF is a sham. > > Who the hell are the The J.B.’s?? James Brown’s '70’s band, featuring Bootsy Collins and his brother Catfish. > **[The J.B.'s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_J.B.%27s)** > > The J.B.'s (sometimes punctuated The JB's or The J.B.s) was James Brown's band from 1970 through the early 1980s. On records the band was sometimes billed under alternate names such as Fred Wesley and the JBs, The James Brown Soul Train, Maceo and the Macks, A.A.B.B., Fred Wesley and the New JBs, The First Family, and The Last Word. In addition to backing Brown, the J.B.'s played behind Bobby Byrd, Lyn Collins, and other singers associated with the James Brown Revue, and performed and recorded Th... In terms of votes, The Cars, The Smiths, NIN, Janet Jackson, and Los Lobos; all seem easy. I would add Deep Purple and Yes. The ones like Chic, JB’s, NWA and others - all are “hall of fame” caliber, in their own respective genres. I never know how to approach them. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/8 "2015-10-08T14:26:21Z")
Voted for _The Smiths_. Could have voted for : _Deep Purple_ (how come they were not inducted decades ago 😕) _The Cars Nine Inch Nails Yes Chic Steve Miller_ ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/9 "2015-10-08T14:49:41Z")
Still no Dick Dale, still no Link Wray. If either of them had been inducted already, I’d have voted for the J. B.'s. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/10 "2015-10-08T15:32:23Z")
Deep Purple tops the list for me, followed closely by Yes and Steve Miller. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/11 "2015-10-08T15:39:45Z")
I voted for the Smiths, but Chicago, NWA, and Nine Inch Nails should all be inducted. Funny, nobody in the thread mentioned Chicago, but they’re winning the poll right now. Really good band, especially their early stuff. Now when will Steely Dan get nominated? EDIT: [Apparently in 2001](http://rockhall.com/inductees/steely-dan/). Shows what I know. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/12 "2015-10-08T15:56:42Z")
With one choice I went with Deep Purple, but others are just as worthy. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/13 "2015-10-08T16:07:45Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > With one choice I went with Deep Purple, but others are just as worthy. I thought about opening it up to more than one but I concluded that one vote would make people make an absolute choice. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/14 "2015-10-08T16:28:21Z")
Based on ‘which of these acts would I most like to have seen in their prime’, I went with Chicago. I have seen a couple of the others but have no great desire to see either Yes or NIN again. A second vote would probably have been for Deep Purple. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/15 "2015-10-08T16:58:05Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > With one choice I went with Deep Purple, but others are just as worthy. Wow. :smack: I originally read that as ‘just \*not \*worthy’. I had researched and composed a screeching rebuttal (polite, of course) in support of Yes and Cheap Trick. Glad I looked again before posting it. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/16 "2015-10-08T16:59:35Z")
inb4 where’s Rush?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/17 "2015-10-08T17:00:44Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Who is your vote for? > Who’s missing? > Who shouldn’t be on this list? > Poll to follow (if I can get it to work) Who? Why can’t I vote for more than one act? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/18 "2015-10-08T17:12:18Z")
Really lop-sided for American bands this year… To run through my own personal filter of “Merely being remembered or successful isn’t HoF worthy, but should have pushed or influenced the genre beyond mere sales and airplay”: The Cars N.W.A Nine Inch Nails Chic The J.B.’s Who I suspect will get in: Chicago Yes Janet Jackson Steve Miller ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/19 "2015-10-08T17:31:42Z")
I chose _That’s nice but Todd Rundgren should have been inducted already_ One could make an argument that he should or should not be inducted as a performer, but his legacy as a producer is unquestioned. Producing _Bat Out of Hell_, one of the top selling albums of all time. He wasn’t just the producer, he was the arranger, guitarist and did the majority of the background vocals. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/20 "2015-10-08T17:31:46Z")
I went with Cheap Trick, but I could also have voted for Chicago, The Smiths, NIN, and The Cars. NWA is guaranteed to get in—they’re this year’s token rap group. (Not that they don’t deserve it, but the HOF is pretty blatant in their tokenism.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915.md?page=2)