I think this is still my all-time favorite SP episode.
Posted on 10/07/2022 5:30:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame co-founder Jann Wenner said Foreigner and Styx have never even been considered for induction.
Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine, added that bands from the same era, including REO Speedwagon and Boston, have also never been discussed by those tasked with choosing inductees.
In a new episode of the WTF podcast, host Marc Maron asked, “Are there bands – and I know you’ve been accused of this before – are there bands you will not, you know, indulge at all? ... There’s been talk of you maybe stifling some people’s membership into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that feel like they deserve it.”
Wenner replied, “There is talk of that, but I don’t control that. I’m not on the nominating committee.” Asked specifically about Foreigner, he said, “Nothing against Foreigner – in fact, I was very good friends with Mick Jones … but, you know, Foreigner’s name has never come up in a nominating committee to be nominated.”
Maron also asked about REO Speedwagon, Boston and Styx, but Wenner said none of them had been mentioned either. “No, that whole era, it doesn’t come up,” he noted. “I grew up in that era, I went to high school in that era,” Maron replied. “Well, you’re not gonna get in the Hall of Fame either!” Wenner joked. He went on to cite another example: “Bon Jovi – it took years for him to get in.”
Elsewhere in the episode, Wenner reflected on Almost Famous, the 2000 movie written by Cameron Crowe based on the director and writer's experience of being commissioned to write for Rolling Stone at a young age. “I always think of it as a love letter at Rolling Stone and to those days, and to who we all were,” he said.
"That's what Rolling Stone reporters did, more or less: They’d go out and hang out on the road for a while, hang with the band, get into it because they love the band," Wenner explained. "It was a true story and a true story about Cameron."
As they should. It took “Ok Computer” for me to get into Radiohead, even though I think “The Bends” is their best album.
On the verge of the coming Total Nuclear War we will be experiencing, I find it comforting I can be among friends and discuss the music of our youth.
OTOH I will give Robert Smith, the frontman for The Cure, huge credit. One, he wrote that song to his wife, and two, he is well-known among the industry to be one of the very few rock stars that refused groupies and remained faithful to his wife.
And he defeated Mecha-Streisand!
AKA Leslie Wunderman
Mr. Roboto was Styx’s version of jumping the ahark.
Paradise Theater was my favorite Styx album.
Absolutely.
Older fans may not have liked "Mr. Roboto" from Styx but the song bridged the 70s into the 80s well. It's a great theme and very relevant due to a focus on AI and implanting circuit technology into humans.
"Miss America" is a great song; music, lyrics, message.
You were the apple of the public's eye
As you cut the ribbon at the local mall
A mirage for both you and us
How can this be real?
We love your body in that photograph
Your home state sure must be proud
The queen of the United States
Have you lost your crown?
Well, aren't you (Miss America?)
Don't you (Miss America?)
Won't you (Miss America, our love?)
Well, are you really who we think you are?
Or does your smile seem to wear you down?
Is the girl who you once were
Screaming to jump out?
In the dream that you must live
A disease for which there is no cure
This rollercoaster ride you're on
Won't stop to let you off
Well, aren't you (Miss America?)
Don't you (Miss America?)
Won't you (Miss America, our love?)
Miss America
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Well, it's true just take a look
The cover sometimes makes the book
And the judges, did they ever ask
To read between your lines?
In your cage at the human zoo
They all stop to look at you
Next year, what will you do
When you have been forgotten?
] Aren't you (Miss America?)
Don't you (Miss America?)
Won't you (Miss America, our love?)
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No, Three Imaginary Boys, or Boys Don’t Cry, is their best album.
Those tight pants, long haired weakness can get in after Jethro Tull. At least their stuff sounded different. Let’s see those pansies play a flute standing on one leg.
I think this is still my all-time favorite SP episode.
Give me the best The Cure song from one of those albums, let’s see if I can like them.
**And if anyone riffs on, ‘Kansas’ I will find you and I will mess you up!**
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=No8wNBqn4RI
I have heard those band’s songs for years. May not have been my favorite music, but so what. They were indeed famous.
“Bon Jovi – it took years for him to get in.”
Never heard this character at all, just some name, but he must have serviced the right liberal at rolling stoned.
From what I saw of it years ago at my liberal bother’s house, it is just a leftist propaganda sheet that no one else reads.
Yet they induct rap crap “artists”:
2crap shaker
notorious PIG
nwa
public enema
have drink, have a drive, go out and get a DUI.
“Bon Jovi is in?”
He gives rock a bad name..
-PJ
-PJ
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