Posted on 10/19/2013 5:06:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
Hmm ... the only one I really disagree with removing is the Eagles — the others’ contributions to rock and roll is nowhere near the Eagles’. I think they absolutely belong there — and while they’re at it, they should induct Warren Zevon in place of some of those that are being deleted.
REM should be removed just for “Shiny Happy People”
Dennis Leary said it best:
“Shiny Happy People— Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey! Pull that bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turnpike, all right? I want everybody off the bus. I want the shiny people over here, and the happy people over here, okay? I represent angry gun-toting meat-eating f-—ing people, all right? Sit down and shut the f-— up.”
ummm i think Dance was done by that POS henley all on his own, no Eagles involved...
ABBA? Really?
wendy o williams and the plasmatics
Fun article, and I don’t disagree with some of the picks. But the guy is WAY wrong on The Eagles, IMHO. Their early stuff, in particular, is fantastic. To this day I still keep a copy of Eagles’ Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 in the car for long drives. The miles just slip by when that one is playing. Don’t so much care for the later sound with Joe Walsh (nothing against Joe, the whole band was going a way I didn’t like).
As for Henley and other solo Eagles...eh. I hated most of Henley’s solo work, but Boys of Summer is a classic, and Glenn Frey’s “Party Town” album is a lot of fun.
I also agree with the poster who says its time to get Warren Zevon in the HoF. Excitable Boy is a brilliant album, start to finish.
-- The Dude ("The Big Lebowski")
Pretentious musicians aside, I’d be for kicking out the rap, fern bar singers, and disco acts from the ROCK AND ROLL hall of fame.
The hook from plenty of rock music has been lifted in total (no other songs references, just the existing “radio hit”) to make ‘new’ rap songs. Didn’t even play the notes.
Ironic yet. But hardly “art”. And any “rap hall” is unlikely to induct those rock acts as a “key influence”.
He’s a tortured artist
Used to be in the Eagles
Now he whines
Like a wounded beagle
Poet of despair!
Pumped up with hot air!
He’s serious, pretentious
And I just don’t care
Don Henley must die!
Don’t let him get back together
With Glenn Frey!
Don Henley must die!
you mean it is still in existence??? /s
I agree with most of the picks. The eagles mellencamp and rush gotta stay. I need a lover that won’t drive me crazy has a 20 hour intro. Rush from 1975 to 1989 was amazing. Hotel California. nuff said.
What’s Heino, chopped liver?
Dang it, put in Slim Whitman.
Btw I love the line about James Taylor
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