Getting top 5 in the fan ballot is worth 1 vote compared to the 1,000 member ballots that will be submitted. Where you finish in the fan ballot means just about nothing. If a pile of RnR historians and artists feel Kraftwerk was mega important, and they are the wellspring from which all electronic music flows (including every hip hop backbeat), then they're getting in.
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If NiN and Soundgarden aren't worthy 90s bands then what does a worthy 90s RnR HoF band look like? That list has to be less than 10 or 15...
M2 (10-20-2019)
They'll get in, but it might take a few more years. Rage and Jane's are in that same sort of limbo. The Pumpkins and the Pixies haven't even gotten a nomination. I suspect there's an order of operations argument that takes place with these sorts bands. Like, are they next in line for their era/genre?
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marcshoe (10-20-2019)
M2 (10-24-2019)
M2 (10-24-2019),Redsfaithful (10-24-2019)
I've come to the conclusion that there are actually great bands, but radio's so dead that no one's hearing them. The only rock on the radio is, effectively, oldies. No one plays the new stuff. We probably all ought to know Amanda Palmer's "Do It with a Rockstar" by rote, but radio wasn't there to flog it.
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Motorhead, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy
Motorhead, Depeche Mode.
Love Personal Jesus. I could listen to that on repeat.
I get the Judas Priest nomination, but god do I loathe them. Doobies make me think of BJ and the Bear. I cannot decide if that is a good thing. Was never a Benetar fan.
I get the reason for some of the nominees, just not my cup of Mt. Dew.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
That's not a new phenomenon though.
Portishead should have been a household name. Now it's bands like Middle Class Rut, Death Cab for Cutie, Von Grey, Let's Eat Grandma getting some acclaim but the mainstream is missing it.
Honestly I get more music from YouTube than I do the radio. It's how I discovered the magic that is Meg Myers.
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