2015 Rock Hall Of Fame Class Includes Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Green Day

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Loooooooooooou!

Both The Smiths and N.W.A. were left off the list of new inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as Hall voters instead chose acts such as Lou Reed, Bill Withers, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. They'll be welcomed to the Hall in April.

"About 700 music journalists, performers and other industry insiders spent two months deciding on the six inductees," David C. Barnett of member station WCPN in Cleveland reports.

Barnett adds, "Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after their first recording. Los Angeles soul singer Bill Withers' first album came out in 1971, but this is his first time on the ballot."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...jett-green-day

[Brock]

Sublime > Green Day

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by Brock

Sublime > Green Day

Two different animals, hard to compare.

ska vs punk

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

So can a lot of cover bands at bars on Saturday nights.

Nonsense

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

You're comparing Joan Jett to Frank Sinatra?
And he's not in there either.

For someone who's constantly trying to prove how smart you are, you constantly fail the test.

Frank Sinatra never wrote a song. As a matter of fact, he felt he deserved writer royalties because if he hadn't sang the song, it wouldn't have been a hit (which is bullshit).

The point was that music history is littered with successful artists who didn't write their own songs. The most important aspect was their interpretation of the song.

Joan Jett may not had written some of her biggest hits but she certainly delivered the best interpretations, which connected with a world wide audience.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Brock

I like Joan, but there's a lot of more deserving acts. I mean ELO isn't good enough? Deep purple?

Deep Purple's absence is a travesty, IMO, but they'll get in eventually, although it doesn't help that Ian Gillen has repeatedly said nasty things about the R&R HOF.

But it would be weird to actually visit that place and see Madonna but not the band that wrote and performed "Smoke on the Water".

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

she could execute a song like nobody's business.

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

So can a lot of cover bands at bars on Saturday nights.

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Nonsense

cosmo apologizes, he meant to say Guitar Center.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Brock

Sublime > Green Day

If Bradley Knowles hadn't died, it's not too difficult to see them as one of the biggest bands in the world for as long as they stayed together.

We used to get calls at Uni all the time from people trying to get in touch him because they didn't know he had died before their hit record was released.

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

First, the ROR HOF is stupid.
But since it does exist...There is no reason for Joan Jett to be in there. For what? Just for being a female rocker? The couple hits she had and anything anyone has heard of are all covers.

I didn't know I love rock and roll was a cover
I got no problem with her getting in
cause that 8 track was in my 66 impala from the day I got it from columbia record club until the day it broke...
the tape not the impala

[PunkinDrublic]

People who bitch about who gets nominated for the rock n roll HOF don't appreciate the irony of how un RocknRoll it is to have a music HOF.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Nonsense

Guitar Center?

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

For someone who's constantly trying to prove how smart you are, you constantly fail the test.

Frank Sinatra never wrote a song. As a matter of fact, he felt he deserved writer royalties because if he hadn't sang the song, it wouldn't have been a hit (which is bullshit).

The point was that music history is littered with successful artists who didn't write their own songs. The most important aspect was their interpretation of the song.

Joan Jett may not had written some of her biggest hits but she certainly delivered the best interpretations, which connected with a world wide audience.

Not sure why the douche comment was necessary, but the comparison with Sinatra is just silly. You brought him up. I'm not interested in defending him. But when she sustains 60 years of popularity singing her 4 cover songs (1 major hit), let me know. And whether she delivered the best interpretation of songs someone else had already written, recorded and performed is debatable. She had the one huge hit. Some of her other covers probably weren't as popular as the originals.

Again, I'm not saying she sucks. But is her music really is "Hall of Fame" level? Come on...

[cosmo20002]

JFC...does she ever stop?

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

cosmo apologizes, he meant to say Guitar Center.

Which I now have.

I hadn't made it to your post when I wrote that.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

People who bitch about who gets nominated for the rock n roll HOF don't appreciate the irony of how un RocknRoll it is to have a music HOF.

I acknowledged the HOF is stupid, but if it is going to exist, we might as well debate who is in there.

[Demonpenz]

W.A.S.P. gets stung by news of shunned RRHOF induction