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He should be inducted, rather than inducted Cher.

His video "Amish Paradise" is pure genius.

Flame away and have fun.

1 posted on 01/03/2025 4:24:49 PM PST by DallasBiff
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who cares? They hardly nominate actual rock for a very long time now


2 posted on 01/03/2025 4:25:57 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: DallasBiff

My favorite Weird Al song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw


3 posted on 01/03/2025 4:27:17 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: DallasBiff

He could just tell them to just Eat It.


4 posted on 01/03/2025 4:27:51 PM PST by BipolarBob (I injured myself measuring radio frequencies. It still Hertz.)
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To: DallasBiff

One of his best.


5 posted on 01/03/2025 4:28:23 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: DallasBiff

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been a jole since at least 2007.


7 posted on 01/03/2025 4:30:31 PM PST by kosciusko51
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Yes it is. I love his stuff. So clever.


9 posted on 01/03/2025 4:35:47 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's over for the weak minded GOP. Do the right thing or leave. You will be primaried!)
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To: DallasBiff

For sure he has as much reason to be there as Dolly Parton or anybody else. (All respect to Dolly, who didn’t understand why she would be inducted, but happily accepted it in stride.)

Is there no one left in “rock and roll” who is happy to be the rebel? The outsider? Notorious for simply _not_ being in it?

When I saw that building that I.M. Pei put together, I thought: of course, he put together a monument to a form of music that eschews monuments. A permanent memorial to music that lives in the moment with the motto ‘you had to be there.’

It’s just me, I’m sure, but when I read that some one or group has been inducted, I read it like a loss to “rock-and-roll.” They haven’t broken in, they’ve been captured. Taken from the wild, tamed, and put in the “rock-and-roll” zoo.

Flame away!


13 posted on 01/03/2025 4:45:26 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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LOVE “Weird Al”! Definitely should be honored as brilliant!

11 “Weird Al” songs:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYTtL1FB2XCo4PgLNrE9My6HFhwKYJdOq

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66HERLkQLQ
Witness - Amish Paradise - “Weird Al” Yankovic
or streaming from my website:
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/misc/video/Miscellaneous-Amish-Paradise-Weird-Al-Yankovic.htm


17 posted on 01/03/2025 4:50:22 PM PST by mairdie (fireworks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHboDhFT9dc)
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The RnR HoF is a joke in many ways.

For but one of dozens of examples, Jethro Tull is not in it, but CHER is!? LOLOLOL

Jan Wenner is an idiot. Convince me otherwise.


19 posted on 01/03/2025 5:06:36 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DallasBiff

While putting him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would be a good thing, I’d really love to see him do the halftime of a Super Bowl. It’ll be a thousand times better than anything they’ve had for the last few years.

(And I’d hope they kick it off with ‘Dare To Be Stupid’)


24 posted on 01/03/2025 5:14:21 PM PST by hoagy62 (Don't let evil win again!)
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He is a musical genius- yeah, he went weird, but he really is an accomplished musician


28 posted on 01/03/2025 5:34:23 PM PST by Bob434
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I don’t really know how rock and roll is defined.

I think I know it when I hear it, when hearing music by a group such as Van Halen.

But is Billy Joel considered rock? Paul Simon? Kim Carnes?
The Bee Gees? Men at Work from the land down under? Rod Stewart? Cat Stevens? Gordon Lightfoot? Pat Benetar?

That guy who did music chart countdowns, KC Kasem, always talked about the rock era of music, implying that the modern music he was playing in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, was all some version of rock and roll. I’ve heard some say that disco music was part of the evolution of rock and roll.

So if Cher is rock, how many others are also considered rock and roll musicians.


29 posted on 01/03/2025 5:38:24 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Watch Weird AL do a Killer Parody
on this So Called ‘Hall of Shame!”
.
Al and Ted Nugent should Roast’em!


30 posted on 01/03/2025 5:47:08 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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I'm a huge Weird Al fan. He's more talented than most of the artists he parodies.

If you Eat it you might get Fat and have to go on the Grapefruit Diet.

Your Horoscope for Today says you'll Dare to be Stupid and ignore the Virus Alert because you think It's all about the Pentiums.

33 posted on 01/03/2025 5:58:43 PM PST by CtBigPat
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Forget that. He otta be in the cabinet.


34 posted on 01/03/2025 5:59:56 PM PST by x
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Weird Al can’t be inducted. They are adding too many Country artists to include him also.


35 posted on 01/03/2025 6:08:57 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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I’m still waiting for Johnny Rivers.


37 posted on 01/03/2025 6:13:16 PM PST by logitech
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I hope Weird Al gets inducted soon.


39 posted on 01/03/2025 6:27:53 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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"...so why not welcome him into the prestigious music organization?"

Because he plays the accordion.

45 posted on 01/03/2025 6:57:54 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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Well the Jackson 5 has been in there since 1997, and since Wayne Osmond died on New Years Day I say it’s time to get the Osmond Brothers in there too. They’re not getting any younger and they sold close to 80 million records.


49 posted on 01/03/2025 7:58:25 PM PST by chuck allen
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