Posted on 09/25/2009 4:45:41 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
DETROIT (Billboard) - KISS, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis, the Hollies, LL Cool J and Jimmy Cliff are first-time contenders for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, organizers said Wednesday.
They join returning candidates ABBA, the Chantels, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, the Stooges and Donna Summer.
Five of the 12 nominees will be chosen for induction from ballots cast by more than 500 music industry voters. An announcement of the inductees is expected in January, and the Hall's 25th annual induction ceremony will take place March 15 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. Broadcast plans have not yet been announced.
Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith told Billboard.com that "it's a real honor to be nominated in our first year of eligibility. Obviously the Hall of Fame has excellent musical taste."
But the year's big story could turn out to be KISS, which has been eligible since 1999 but, like shock-rock predecessor Alice Cooper, has famously been snubbed by the Hall's nominating committee and has made some harsh comments about the organization in the past.
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Gene Simmons has no love for the RRHOF.
I thought KISS got into the Hall of Fame back in the mid-80s. Shows how much I (don’t) know.
I’ll go with KISS, Darlene Love, Genesis, Chantels and Jimmy Cliff.
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Stooges are about the only ones on this list I give any damn about.
that whole forum has become a joke with Hip Hop included
Rock is dead basically
I must be getting old. But that notwithstanding, the pickings must be slim. Jimmy Cliff, I understand, has a cult following of about half the world's population. Chili Peppers? wuttever. Genesis? Pre-Phil, they were interesting. Hollies had a hit or two. Cool J? puhhhhh-lease.
The Stooges. That’s it.
I tend to agree with the rest of your post, too.
I won’t take this organization seriously until Rush gets in.
the industry might be dead.
But rock and roll can never die.
It's like capitalism, in that sense.
And like capitalism, it is getting a bad name.
Rock is still vibrant, although not the dominant genre anymore.
The R&R HOF has economic considerations here as much as anything, otherwise they wouldn’t continually leave out so many deserving artists and let in several who do not even if they have made worthy contributions to pop music as a whole.
LL Cool J??? How is he even eligible?
It’s been dead since Dirt Nobrain ruined rock.
Wow. Any wonder why the Beatles sold 2.5 million CD’s last month. Geez.
Because they released high quality remasters of all of their albums?
I Can't Let Go (written by Chip Talor - brother of Jon Voight)
amazing how many folks have done this one....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYALsp-sIg&feature=fvw
including ironically RHCP
No, just because Sony or somebody released that “Beatles, A Rock Band” interactive product, and the promotion features a bunch of Beatles music being played. Thus reminding America what it was like when a real band was creating real music. Almost as good as Kanye West.
Fifi the Flea (early Graham Nash keeper)
it can be resurrected but till then it’s just some ghosts floating about
I'll Pay You Back With Interest
Look Through Any Window (The "jangly" guitar later heard in the Byrds)
They’ll never make it in, but Pere Ubu deserves to be in the RnR Hall of Fame, IMO.
Those guys were funny but I didn't realize they could sing as well...
Laura Nyro didn’t make it the first time? Shame on the voters!
It was kind of a lucky coincidence that Rockband and the remasters came out in the same week.
I would contest that there are not real bands creating real music today. There are many very talented bands out today. They just aren’t working in the dominant genre in an already very fractured marketplace. That doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
I agree that many of the most talented bands are not allowed into the mainstream today by the music industry tyrants, commies, faggots, and social engineers who keep them out.
Kiss? Sure, why not.
Chili Peppers? Yah, OK, considering who else is on the list.
Genesis? Before Phil Collins turned them into “Murph and the Magictones” they were good but not HOF.
The rest of the artists I don’t see going to the HOF. LL Cool J? In what way exactly is that Rock?
I think Rock is dying out. Too many kids, by demographics, who should be carrying on the rock tradition and following new artists, instead listen to (c)rap music. Makes me sick.
No way in HELL these are even remotely Rock and Roll. Especially ABBA.
The RnRHoF is a joke. A lot of the people who are in it would have scoffed at the very idea when they were younger. Maybe one of the reasons rock is where it is today is because of such a place?
Thanks Silvie!
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So what is the eligibility, 25 years from the release of the first album?
It’ll be a cold day in hell when they think of Iron Maiden. They make bands half their age look geriatric in comparison.
There’s something very wrong about LL Cool J being mentioned in the same group as Genesis.
... or LLCoolJ being mentioned along with KISS, for that matter.
You’re welcome, Grizz! Hope you’re doing well!
Ditto to that — they have sold something like 50 million albums, sell out stadiums across the world, and every recent album has debuted in the top 10.
Not to mention the fact that you won’t find a group made up of such individually great musicians anywhere else near the mainstream.
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