Posted on 03/07/2008 11:56:33 AM PST by GQuagmire
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and your third grade teacher have some strikingly wrong similarities They’re both bloated, dowdy and prissy fossils that are way too full of unconditional love. Oh, and they both get positively giddy over James Taylor’s chardonnay-and-brie, adult-contemporary lullabies.
The Hall of Fame induction committee has never wanted to hurt anyone’s feelings or make tough decisions - like actually defining what is and isn’t rock ’n’ roll - so for 22 years it has distributed inductions like Miss Anderson handed out ribbons on diorama day.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Taylor writes and plays schmaltzy pablum. He is a ninth-rate hack who also does not rock.
Cohen writes great songs, he is a highly-talented lyricist and his songs occasionally rock as well - but his aesthetic is more folk/Songbook than rock.
I know what is good. I don’t need a Hall of Fame or Grammy Awards or American Music Awards to tell me.
They’re all jokes in my opinion.
I think that people have their own definition of “Rock and Roll” and choose accordingly.
That YouTube is amazing!
The Beatles led the British Invasion that re-introduced rock and roll to America. As much as I despise 90% of their catalog they must be in the Hall because the vast majority of post 1963 rock history would have never happened without them.
Chicago should have been inducted years ago.
Period.
Sorry disagree completely with this, while yes the Eagles were IMHO better when accoustic, And yes Henley is a gasbag... you can't deny after Joe Walsh helped electrify them, that they had an impact on the more rockin side of things.
But blame Bill Graham and the SF types for holding this band in such high regard. Meanwhile the 13th Floor Elevators played the West Coast with The Great Society and others and transformed those bands INTO Psychedelic bands (the Elevators’ named their album “psychedelic sounds of” when that was still an unheard of concept). Guess who ISN'T in the hall as an innovator?
Unfortunately that clip gets cut off before Prince appears. Here’s the full version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zOPGMIyMQ
Petition to induct Yes into the RRHOF
IMHO, Yes definitely belongs in the RRHOF, but because of that bone smuggler Jann Wenner (the flaming commie who publishes Rolling Stone) who despises prog rock, they (and Rush, King Crimson, etc: ie. bands whose members are truly accomplished musicians) never are considered.
Which 10% of the Beatles’ catalog do you not despise?
And the BeeGees have also had a huge influence on Rock and Roll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees
Check the end for how many artists have performed Gibb songs.
“Their songs have been covered by singers of all stripes including Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Al Green, Eric Clapton, Lulu, Elton John, Tom Jones, and Nina Simone as well as newer acts like John Frusciante (who has been known to cover “How Deep Is Your Love” during Red Hot Chili Peppers concerts), and Feist singing a soulful “Love You Inside Out”, Billy Corgan and Robert Smith covering “To Love Somebody”, Ardijah singing “Love So Right” and “Desire”, Steps and Destiny’s Child. Songs written by the Gibbs but better known through versions by other artists include, “Immortality” by Celine Dion, “If I Can’t Have You” by Yvonne Elliman, “Chain Reaction” by Diana Ross,”Spicks and specks” by Status Quo , “Emotion” by Samantha Sang and Destiny’s Child, “Come On Over”, by Olivia Newton-John, “Warm Ride” by Graham Bonnet, “Guilty” and “Woman in Love” by Barbra Streisand, “Heartbreaker” by Dionne Warwick, “Islands in the Stream” by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, “Grease” by Frankie Valli, and “Only One Woman” by The Marbles. Many hit covers and album tracks of the Bee Gees’ songs have been recorded, and the band’s music has also been sampled by dozens of hip hop artists.”
They have been overlooked because the Baby Boomer, hippie-druggies weren’t into them. Like they were the Beatles. The whole idea that Post rock history wouldn’t have happened without them is BS. It was just cool to like the Beatles. I was there, young but there.
See “Across The Universe” Such crap. Yet it’s up for an Academy Award. Geez.
The video is on George Harrison website along with another song. Much better quality.
ELO and Jeff Lynn are not in the Hall of Fame. I would put him in before Madonna.
LOVE ELO!!!!!!
Oh yeah!
I never liked Prince till I saw that video. I was really amazed how good he was.
George Harrison’s son looks exactly like him.
That would be some of Revolver, most of Sgt Pepper, and a bit of the White Album. Basically that delicate period between when they moved away from lame saccharine love songs and when drugs and Yoko got them just plain too weird and unstructured. Stuff like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita.
There’s Britney stuff in there.
Better to just burn it down! (sarcasm)
The BeeGees have been over looked because they made their biggest piles of cash with well harmonized pap. Have they made really good music? Yes. Have they made rock and roll? Never. Half the people in that list who’ve covered them shouldn’t even be allowed to know there is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and thus proves that indeed the BeeGees do not belong there. Celine Dion, Olia Newton-John, and Barbra Streisand?! No hall for the Beegees.
I enjoyed taking the family there a number of years back and was charmed by what the city has done withthe general locale — but then, I remember what that spot was like in 1967.
The problem with ELO, whom I love, is all their bad habits lead to disco, which while potentially enjoyable is just not Hall material.
But the Beatles have?
Right.
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