# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/81 "2015-12-20T16:19:46Z")
If they let in Janet Jackson, next year Tito will be on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/82 "2015-12-20T16:40:13Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Chicago wasn’t influential or popular with critics, but they were hugely successful for a long time, and still have numerous songs getting heavy radio airplay. In my book, that makes them Hall of Famers. Chicago changed partway through its career to gain success on the AOR charts. Not my style, but their fans loved them. Lots of Hall-of-Famers score on the AOR charts, so they can’t really be separated completely from rock. I’ll still take Chicago’s first album, which was filled with wonderful music that didn’t sound like very much else at the time. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/83 "2015-12-20T18:24:21Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Chicago changed partway through its career to gain success on the AOR charts. Not my style, but their fans loved them. Lots of Hall-of-Famers score on the AOR charts, so they can’t really be separated completely from rock. I thought they changed to get on the MOR charts (soft rock or whatever it was called back then, perhaps nothing more fancy than the Top 40). I any event I was a huge fan who was completely done with them by 1979. > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > It’s also obvious that, if an artist is simply popular - but not influential, creative, ground-breaking, etc. - the judges look down on them. King Crimson was all of those things, yet they still are on the outside looking in. It’s very simple-the voting board has been consistently pre-selected based on nothing more than a series of biases by the puppet masters in question (starting with that RS guy). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/84 "2015-12-20T19:48:24Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Chicago changed partway through its career to gain success on the AOR charts. Not my style, but their fans loved them. Lots of Hall-of-Famers score on the AOR charts, so they can’t really be separated completely from rock. > > I’ll still take Chicago’s first album, which was filled with wonderful music that didn’t sound like very much else at the time. To some extent, Chicago’s turn toward mellow pop reflected the loss of Terry Kath. The band had always recorded some of Peter Cetera’s love ballads and pop tunes, but those songs became more prominent after Kath shot himself. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/85 "2015-12-21T04:22:56Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If they let in Janet Jackson, next year Tito will be on the list. Janet Jackson was an absolute giant of popular music. She was as important an artist as Dire Straits or Tom Petty. It would be ridiculous to exclude her. Tito Jackson isn’t much more important to music history than I am. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915/86 "2015-12-21T13:02:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If they let in Janet Jackson, next year Tito will be on the list. I’m not a big fan of Janet Jackson, but she WAS hugely popular, and would be a deserving Hall of Famer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-hall-of-fame-class-of-2016/733915.md?page=4)