But he spent his career making records that helped us straight guys score! How many guys of my Dad’s generation lost their virginity in the back seat, while “Chances Are” played on the radio?
Regardless, Johnny never rocked, so he doesn’t go in the Hall of Fame. But like Perry Como, he had more hits after 1972 than Lou Reed did.
Offensive, off-topic, and inappropriate. Also not funny, if that’s what you were going for.
No warning issued.
twickster, Cafe Society moderator
I believe he was sarcastically referring to a remark I made earlier- my own remark was also inappropriate, and I’ll take your warning to him as a warning to myself.
Yeah, the tie-in was the claim that Lou Reed sucked cock.
Which I think was a reference to “Take a Walk on the Wild Side,” which is not about Lou himself, but Warhol’s transgender factory lizards.
Anyway, point is, not quite off-topic. And I, for one, welcome all cock suckers.
Kraftwerk and Joan Jett should get in. There are other worthy nominees, but they deserve it most.
OH MY GOD I AM SO JEALOUS!!!
I guess Karl would have seemed like a normal name to them, but they were probably laughing at Wolfgang too. I named my pet snail after Wolfgang.
The fact that you only like a couple of her songs is irrelevant. You severely underestimate the importance and influence of Joan Jett, both for her work with the Runaways and her later success with the Blackhearts.
She was not only influential musically, but also personally. She’s a role model of confidence, chutzpah, and sheer badassery for many girls and women, including me. She made it okay for us to say “I don’t give a damn about my bad reputation.” My life changed the day I saw her on the I Love Rock’n’Roll album cover when I was 10 years old.
Oh, and by the way, since you think she’s undeserving, I might as well give you some more ammunition: She didn’t write most of her hit songs. She has credit as a co-writer on some of them, but the rest are mostly covers. But she’s the best damn cover artist out there.
That made me laugh. I like Green Day well enough, but I consider them pop more than punk. Or punk-styled pop. Sort of like Poison was supposedly a metal band but was really metal-styled pop. (Once I realized that Poison was not a super-lame metal band, but a metal-styled pop band, I got to like them a lot better.) As far as the HoF nomination, Green Day is definitely somewhere in the bottom three of who should get in.
From the NYTimes, bolding mine:
Well, I am glad Bill Withers was recognized, and Joan Jett got in, and Ringo getting recognized for drumming is always a good thing ;). Nice to see Paul Butterfield, simply because guitarist Mike Bloomfield is underappreciated for his influence on blues guitar, his work with the PBB, Dylan, etc.
Bill Withers is in, Deep Purple is not.
Nice.
Updated the thread title from “Nominees” to “Inductees.”
Green Fucking Day.
That just says it all.
I mean, I can probably name 100 bands off the top of my head which were better than those bozos.
Gotta defend Green Day.
Green Day’s American Idiot show was one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.
FWIW, my concert going props include The Who, Zeppelin, numerous LA shows in the 80’s, and the Stones and Springsteen multiple times.
As long as there’s no Dick Dale and no Link Wray in that building, it will be a strange place that I don’t understand.
Yay for Stevie Ray!
You had to be there.
At least they recognized The Staple Singers. What kind of farce would they be without The Staple Singers?
Cat Stevens last year and now Bill Withers…
Who the heck is voting for these guys? I know they had their hits, I know they had their fans, but WHO gets excited enough about “Lean on Me” and “Morning Has Broken” to vote them into the Hall of Fame?
At this rate, I figure Dan Fogelberg will be in next year, and the Main Ingredient the year after that.
Does Joan Jett have a boyfriend on the committee? She’s about the same as 200 other artists from the 80s.
How many of them were women? Of those, how many were not influenced by Joan Jett (career dating to 1975)?
I’m not a fan, but I find this pick at least as justifiable as the Hall average.
Looks like I continue my streak of whiffing about half my predictions.
Got the obvious Lou Reed one. Completely missed on NWA. Maybe the hall’s NYC bias overcomes the need-a-token-hop-hop-act urge. Or maybe they figure they can stop with the hip-hop now that Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC and Public Enemy are in, just like they stopped with prog after Genesis and Pink Floyd got in.
Two out of 3, not bad
SRV did place #1 on the fan ballot, so I got that one.
Did not see Bill Withers or Paul Butterfield making the cut.
Joan Jett was my personal favorite of this year’s nominees, so I glad she got in. Happy for Green Day and Stevie Ray as well.
Now how about some Cheap Trick, dammit. They’ve never even been nominated.
Don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or serious, but I, for one, can totally live with this. And I say this as a person who lists Ritchie Blackmore as my absolute favorite RAWK guitarist of all time.
But you know, fuck the Hall for not inducting the Smiths the first time they were nominated. (Please, please, please, let me get what I want and get the Smiths INDUCTED next year.)
I can name 1000. Seriously, fuck Green Day getting inducted before the Smiths, the Cure, and, well, DEEP PURPLE!