I looked at the Top 40 rejects. There are some good ones that certainly should be ahead of “The Stooges”
1. Deep Purple - very influential band. And better than Black Sabbath, (already in)
2. Dire Straits - the last of great rock bands.
3. The Cars - even though I don’t like them, they started New Wave.
Missing from this list:
1. Little Feat
2. Ted Nugent
And yet Grand Master Flash is in.
The Modern Lovers started new wave (out of a love of the Velvet Underground but not of heroin).
Members moved into other bands including the Cars.
Sex Pistols even covered “Road Runner”.
But the Stooges belong in the hall. Certainly more than the overhyped, White Panther loving MC5.
And neither Chic nor Abba belong in a “rock” hall, but that is my take.
If you like New Wave, here’s a pretty cool list of bands. Some you’ve forgotten about, and this site helps finding some good stuff on youtube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Wave_bands_and_artists
Never gonna happen. The libs of the HOF hate him almost as much they hate Sarah Palin.