I fully acknowledge that your music knowledge dwarfs mine but I have two thoughts (one which I think you've heard from me before):
First, I put a moratorium on inducting acts into the Hall for a few years. Why? We have a few years where we induct just albums. The first class could be bigger (say 20 or so), then it goes down to say 4-5 per year. In that way you honor the all time best but simultaneously acts that may have an iconic album but not a HOF resume. Maybe after a few years of this we can start re-inducting acts.
Second I admit I'm one of those guys who has an issue with the name of the Hall vis a vis who is getting in. If I go shop at House of Shoes, I fully expect to see just about any kind of footwear in its inventory, but if I go to the House of Sneakers, I don't need multiple displays of 4-inch stilettos.
I hear you, but their calling it the Rock & Roll Hall as opposed to the Rock Music hall has different implications. A Rock Music hall by definition would essentially be limited to white guys with guitars. A Rock & Roll hall suggests you’re honoring an era in which a DJ would segue the Stones to the Four Tops to Neil Diamond. Honoring that broad of a range should necessarily trickle down to current times in the same way so that the Foo Fighters, Jay Z, and Janet Jackson all fall under the same blanket.
I fully acknowledge that your music knowledge dwarfs mine but I have two thoughts (one which I think you've heard from me before):
First, I put a moratorium on inducting acts into the Hall for a few years. Why? We have a few years where we induct just albums. The first class could be bigger (say 20 or so), then it goes down to say 4-5 per year. In that way you honor the all time best but simultaneously acts that may have an iconic album but not a HOF resume. Maybe after a few years of this we can start re-inducting acts.
Second I admit I'm one of those guys who has an issue with the name of the Hall vis a vis who is getting in. If I go shop at House of Shoes, I fully expect to see just about any kind of footwear in its inventory, but if I go to the House of Sneakers, I don't need multiple displays of 4-inch stilettos.
I hear you, but their calling it the Rock & Roll Hall as opposed to the Rock Music hall has different implications. A Rock Music hall by definition would essentially be limited to white guys with guitars. A Rock & Roll hall suggests you’re honoring an era in which a DJ would segue the Stones to the Four Tops to Neil Diamond. Honoring that broad of a range should necessarily trickle down to current times in the same way so that the Foo Fighters, Jay Z, and Janet Jackson all fall under the same blanket.
As always your lack of respect for Sex Dwarf is appalling.
You’re living in your own Private Idaho if you don’t think that the B-52s belong in the RNR HOF!
Agree 100%. In my eyes they’re easily one of the top 10 omissions. An election this year would be a perfect coda to their retirement tour.