[a fool in paradise]

1. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
2. THE B-52s
3. BEASTIE BOYS
4. THE CARS
5. CLARENCE CARTER
6. CHIC
7. JOE COCKER
8. ALICE COOPER
9. DICK DALE
10. DEEP PURPLE
11. DIRE STRAITS
12. DONOVAN
13. DR. JOHN
14. THE FACES
15. THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS
16. LESLEY GORE
17. JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS
18. JUDAS PRIEST
19. KING CRIMSON
20. KRAFTWERK
21. LOVE
22. MC5
23. THE METERS
24. MOTORHEAD
25. MOTT THE HOOPLE
26. NEW YORK DOLLS
27. LAURA NYRO
28. THE OHIO PLAYERS
29. THE POINTER SISTERS
30. PROCOL HARUM
31. PUBLIC ENEMY
32. LINDA RONSTADT
33. RUSH
34. LEON RUSSELL
35. THE SPINNERS
36. STEPPENWOLF
37. THE STYLISTICS
38. WAR
39. BARRY WHITE
40. WARREN ZEVON

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Very 70s heavy list and very light on “rock and roll” as a pure art form (disco, soul, rap, yes but not rock and roll; hell the Black Eyed Fleas looped Dick Dale’s Miserlou, that right there ought to clinch his nomination...).

I expect most of these names to get in the hall before The Seeds, The Stray Cats, Johnny Burnette Trio (who influenced the Yardbirds and others), Link Wray, Sun Ra, The Fleshtones, Iron Maiden...

[skeeter]

Cheap Trick.

[wagglebee]

I won't speak for all of these names, but there is absolutely no reason that the following should not be in the Hall of Fame:

The Cars
Joe Cocker
Deep Purple
Dire Straits
Procul Harum
Rush
Steppenwolf
Warren Zevon

[mad_as_he$$]

Judas Priest isn’t in the Hall? That’s it my boycott of Cleveland continues.

[537cant be wrong]

OH GOODNESS
what a list, and those you say will wait till the others get in is a shame. seeds burnette ooooooh baby.