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Annually a topic of discussion on this board.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announces 2024 nominees: Mariah Carey, Cher, Ozzy Osborne make the list
It’s music to their ears.
Agree on Ozzie, Frampton, Foreigner. Only one will get in so that Mariah and Mary J can get in ahead of them. 🤦♂️
There is a recording of the full show on YouTube. He sounded very good. Those high notes are not easy to hit as one gets older.
Let's be real.
How do you define Rock and Roll? It’s not an easy thing to do without being very subjective. I agree that there are folks on this list and in previous years that should not be in and there are numerous oversights. Back when I was young, Simon & Garfunkel, Carole King, Carly Simon , James Taylor, etc were considered R&R. So was America, Neil Diamond. So was Cream, Led Zeppelin, etc. Traditional R&B has been a huge influence on R&R , so many R&B artists should be and some are included. As for the list this year, at least Mary Blige can flat out sing, Cher certainly can’t.
All fair points. Except Cher. She rocked out on I Got You Babe with Beavis and Butt-Head. But they had to carry the song.
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This linked list- it's criminal that Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige are nominated. Some on this list:
America, Bad Company, Badfinger, Asia, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Blind Faith, Blue Cheer, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Phil Collins, The Cult, Spencer Davis Group, Devo, Dio, ELP, John Fogerty, Foghat, Foreigner, Frampton, J Geils Band, Grand Funk Railroad, Sammy Hagar, Humble Pie, Billy Idol, INXS, Iron Butterfly, Iron Maiden, James Gang, Jethro Tull, Kansas, King Crimson, Korn, Annie Lennox, Manfred Mann, Marshall Tucker Band, MC5, Meat Loaf, Megadeth, The Monkees, Montrose, Motorhead, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, Nazareth, NY Dolls, Night Ranger, Ted Nugent (will never happen and we know why), The Outlaws, Pixies, Robert Freaking Plant, Iggy Pop, Procol Harum, Rainbow, The Rasberries, REO Speedwagon, David Lee Roth, Joe Satriani, Slade, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Billy Squier, Steppenwolf, Stone Temple Pilots, Stray Cats, Styx, Supertramp, Thin Lizzy, 38 Special, Three Dog Night, Tool, Toto, Uriah Heep, Joe Walsh, War, Steve Winwood, Warren Zevon.
And not on the list, but Living Colour. A definite bias against alternative and hard rock bands in favor of artists with very questionable "rock" credentials.
150 Artists Not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
A list of artists who are eligible but have not been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Donna Summer is in, and have no problem with her being in. Same for Kool and the Gang. But as @RUGuitarMan intimated, then the definitions get fuzzy and you get blurred lines. Speaking of which, Robin Thicke should be in for that video he made for that song alone. Even though he lost a copyright infringement suit for that song.
I have a bigger problem with Lenny Kravitz, who has like 3 known songs and 1 is a cover.
I don't agree on Def Leppard. They have sold over 100 million records. They owned the radio and MTV airwaves in the 1980s into the 1990s. One of the early British "metal" bands that made it in America, although as Beavis and Butt-Head would say, they started making wuss music after Pyromania. On Through the Night, High and Dry and Pyromania are three solid albums.
Foreigner can make the same claim 10 years earlier
