No Zevon. Makes me hate the Hall. What a joke!!!Originally Posted by Strikes Out Looking
No Zevon. Makes me hate the Hall. What a joke!!!
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
Any artist who can write and record an upbeat, rollicking good time of a tune that has as its subject rape, murder, and abuse of a corpse has to be in the HOF, right? Zevon should have been HOF-worth for "Excitable Boy," alone. lol Linda Ronstadt sang backup on the song.
Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
Last edited by Ky Fried Redleg; 05-07-2023 at 11:53 AM.
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
No one would write a better song about their RnRHOF snub than Zevon.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Revering4Blue (05-09-2023),Roy Tucker (10-05-2023)
And it's important to remember this is a music rooted in R&B and doo-wop. Yes, it veered toward rock, but it also veered toward rap and in a dozen other directions.
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Danny Serafini (05-09-2023)
Got that right. That would be hilarious.
“It’s the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.”
---- Bill Vaughn
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved." ---Tim Minchin("Storm")
The mental gymnastics to put Missy Elliott in the rrhof, or any music hall of fame, is staggering.
I can think of a million artists that deserve to be in the r and b Hof before she does.
Is there a "****ty r and b that sells a lot of albums hall of fame?" Maybe she gets the nod there.
Maybe have her and Positive K do a sing off for it or something.
Last edited by Bob Sheed; 05-08-2023 at 07:26 PM.
"Lemonade requires a significant amount of sugar. Otherwise, you've just made lemon juice."
Yet there's Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers and the Staples Singers, inducted decades ago. Staggering.
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Revering4Blue (05-09-2023),westofyou (05-09-2023)
The proper format is “My name is [Your Name] and I’m here to say, I dislike hip hop acts in the rock hall in a major way.”
RedTeamGo! (05-08-2023)
Ike Turner and Rocket 88 got in 32 years ago
Revering4Blue (05-09-2023)
Even more staggering, James Taylor's in there. There's nothing remotely rock n roll about James Taylor's music. Yet there he is. It's almost like it's not and never has been this institution making all of its picks from within an extremely narrow band.
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Again... All of those names. Putting them as an equivalent to Missy Elliott. In ANY genre.
Mental. Gymnastics.
"Lemonade requires a significant amount of sugar. Otherwise, you've just made lemon juice."
As a new/current artist, stylistically, James Taylor would likely be relegated to AAA (Adult Album Alternative) and Lite FM today. Yet several of his tracks are still on Classic Rock Radio playlists today, and were also receiving significant then-Mainstream Rock (AOR) Radio airplay back in the day.
But that's beside the point, as you, westofyou and others have pointed out, functionally, it really isn't the "Rock and Roll" Hall of Fame; it's the Popular Music Hall of Fame. It just hasn't been rebranded as such.
Last edited by Revering4Blue; 05-09-2023 at 01:32 PM.
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M2 (05-09-2023),RedTeamGo! (05-10-2023)
Stuck the landing, though.
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Why no issue with Kate Bush getting in?
What would you say.....ya do here?
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