“The HOF is a joke.”
I certainly agree with you. Some of the greatest artists and music goes unnoticed by most people.
We agree that rock and roll history is false.
And can I get a witness that conventional books got it wrong about movies, comics, jazz, politics, and history itself for decades?
It isn’t a new phenomenon. I read a short stroy about a mummy, it was attributed to Edgar Allan Poe. Seems that the Egyptians froze these people in time to set the historical record straigth thouasads of years later when they were revived.
As to the rock hall, there is an ideological and publishing reason for putting some acts in the hall as well as keeping others out of the hall.
It is not surprising that the Stooges got rejected. It was surprising that the Velvet Underground got in while the members were still alive. Both bands were disliked by Jann’s Rolling Stone.
There is an early edition of Rolling Stone Album Reviews (not the full title). It gave 1 star reviews to the Police, AC/DC and other bands while gushing over Carly Simon and James Taylor.
Look at the bands from Britney to NKOTB on the cover of Rolling Stoned. Much of the content now is political They know less about music than they know about politics and that speaks volumes.
As a last comment, ever notice how any “500 best” list in RS is weighted with a bunch of latest-greatest releases that don’t deserve to be there?
And how can you have a “best” list of albums when albums didn’t really exist as a static concept until 1965? Before that the market was single driven. If you lasted a long time you got an album of your singles with some other cuts to pad it out.