I bet "Spinal Tap" makes it in soon. :P
Posted on 09/18/2005 6:51:20 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominations Leave Out Many Rock Acts Again
By: Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter
September 18,2005 9:41 A.M. EST
Cleveland,Ohio (AHN) - The nominees for the Class of 2006 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is filled with a lot of hold overs from previous years and virtually ignores a truckload of artists that many critics are shaking their heads over.
J.Geils Band, John Mellencamp, the Patti Smith Group, Chic, Joe Tex,Miles Davis, Cat Stevens, Blondie, the Paul Butterfield Band, the Dave Clark Five and the Sir Douglas Quintet will all have a chance to make it into the hall of fame located in Cleveland.
This year also marks the eighth chance for Black Sabbath, Lynyd Skynyrd gets their seventh chance,and the Sex Pistols and the Stooges all of which are on try number five.
Missing from the nomination list again this year include bands like Rush, Van Halen, Yes, Genesis, ELO, Joan Jett, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper, Heart, Deep Purple, Pat Benatar, and Duran Duran.
Nominees are picked by a 70-member committee of rock 'n' roll historians, journalists and label execs, with ballots then mailed to an international voting body of 700 music industry types for the final decision. The five to seven nominees that receive the most votes will be inducted into the Rock Hall next year.
Isn't that one of theTalking Heads CDs, Stop Making Sense? I think the THs are on a similar level with Devo.
Again, why is Devo leftwing? It breaks my heart!
Heh. My wife is rabidly anti-Rush. She can spot a Rush song a mile away even if she's never heard it before. =)
OTOH, it's a crime if ELO doesn't make it in there eventually. There's injustice all over the list but ELO, I mean... geez!
"Rock and roll started with Hank Williams, Move It On Over."
- An interesting take and one I'd never heard of before. As a young teenager at the time, I became aware of R&R as a distinct sound when I first heard Bill Haley and the Comets on the radio doing, "Rock Around the Clock".
Of course since then many have contended that the sound was stolen from previously ignored black performers and, who knows, maybe that's where Hank Williams got his inspiration.
Sadly, around here in Nashville, the lefties have appropriated the plain white on black CASH bumperstickers.
Now there is a group that is a real blast from the past. I loved the electric jug sound. They too were on the San Antonio Shindig like show on Saturday Morning.
Rush, Van Halen, Yes, Genesis, ELO, Deep Purple..........
.......pale in comparison to the Sir Douglas Quintet.....
.....once you get your medication right.
Loved them. How about the Outfield?
That depends on what you define as being “Libertarian.” I'm not a Libertarian (big “L”).
As far as 2112 as an album, it was great musical composition. Philosophically, it was a Communist advocacy full of New Age neo-paganism.
(Canadians are almost a lost cause, as far as I am concerned anyway.)
I am also not part of the Ayn Rand cult of personality. Although I do agree with a lot of her economic theory, Ayn Rand and her idea of “morality” is nothing but an anti-Judaic self-loathing (she was a Russian Jew) that fed a lot of her nihilism she inherited from Neitzche. Ayn Rand's egotism was something that came directly from Thomas Hobbes and the later John Locke.
In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates advanced argument that piety to many gods, who all want conflicting devotions and/or actions from humans, is impossible. Socrates exposed pagan esoteric sophistry.
Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the presupposition some higher power defines what is correct in human behavior. Today, “morals” are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins. Transfiguration is a pantheon of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics and enemies will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.
There are three ways people are influenced according to the school of behavioral psychology - - visual (sight), auditory (sound), kinesthetic (emotion). The kinesthetic or ‘feeling’ is also olfactory and tactile sense, just like Pavlov’s salivating dogs (conditioned responses).
Considering that 90% of people tend to be more influenced by the visual, television has become a new religion. It is analogous to Plato’s cave allegory and the pagan Oracle of Delphi. The visual media as a propaganda tool helps create visual phantasms or fantastical images in the brain.
Was Freudian psychoanalytic theory of sexual stages in psychological development more accurate than accredited? The Michael Jackson Complex is fixation on mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy in the media. It is a social psychosis catering to the lowest common denominator and generated with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture.
Visual images and sound portrayed can be used to anchor emotional and/or conditioned responses desired by those that present them, which is the case of the visual media, actors who create fantastical images in film, and Leftist politicians who pander to ‘symbolism over substance.’
Observe when in public places, at your workplace or in other community activities (i.e., restaurants, retail stores, gas stations, etc.) the pervasive presence of some exposure to music or television. This is because many people are actually terrified of being alone with their own thoughts or at the prospect of it (neuro-linguistic programming).
There is a clear connection between modern neo-paganism and ancient paganism related to Islamic conflict with the Judaic roots of Christendom. A focus on how this is manifested in a modern sense only requires a look at pop-culture icons in entertainment, steroid sports "heroes," and attempts by the Left to use a pseudo-Judaic sense of pagan moralistic idolatry to demonize political opposition. (Attacks on U.S. Senator Rick Santorum for comments on sodomy, and the ostracizing of U.S. Senator Zell Miller within the Democratic Party are cases in point.)
It is no coincidence Islamist pagans hate Israel, Jews, Christians and Western Civilization. The entire basis of Western Civilization is Mosaic Law; something both the Neo-Pagan Left and the pagan Islamist thugs cannot abide and wish to destroy. (Surprisingly, something a lot of Libertarians and so-called conservatives want to ignore.)
Should we really be canonizing special societal privileges in secular law based on idolatrous fetishes? Perhaps civil union and homosexual monogamy advocates could conclave to enshrine their own phantasmal state religion and consecrate Michael Jackson as its first ecumenical Pope!
Contemplate the macabre pagan elements of Michael Jackson's video, Thriller, and his Nation of Islam entourage escorting their pharaoh to and from court. (A Golden Calf; something Ayn Rand, as a Jew, should have been aware of when she began to use the term “morality,” it is a huge, gaping hole in her philosophy of Objectivism.)
Paraphrasing Thomas Hobbes:
‘They ‘worship for gods those appearances that remain in the brain from the impression of external bodies upon the organs of their senses, which are commonly called ideas, idols, phantasms, conceits, as being representations of those external bodies which cause them, and have nothing in them of reality, no more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream…’(http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html)
Rush as a musical performance is (or was, since I have not seen them in years) no different in their politics than the Hollywood left-wing nutcases.
The Trashmen were the best.
It's the Hall of Fame. By definition, mediocre rock acts should not be in it. They seem to add bands for the sole purpose of having a ceremony. Most of the bands mentioned do not rate Hall of Fame status.
Nah, one hit wonders. And it was pretty top 40 shlock, too.
Saw em in 71. Wild, we didn't even bother rolling them before we went. Just rolled them as we needed them during the show.
No reason to get excited, the thief he kindly spoke. Me, I don't get this business of Halls of Fame. Don't get it at all. So what? It's nothing but another commercial enterprise with no intrinsic value of its own. Isn't there a Cauliflower Hall of Fame too? Nothing but a celebration of its own artificiality.
Morrison never whipped it out on stage. A myth.
Holy cow, I guess I have been schooled. Thanks for all the info, but I don't put that much thought into the music I listen to
I respect your point of view, and more importantly the thought that goes into it. Thanks, I understand everything you say, but there are certain things in my life I am happy to deal with as just something that pleases me and others. Music is one of them.
The one exception I make to that philosophy is Rap due to its fored mainstreming into the culture
I wish so much that I could have seen them with Ritchie, but I love the DVD's with him
Much like Led Zeppelin in their early days, Rush will never get the respect they deserve from the music industry insiders. Never mind that they're wildly popular with their fans... On their first tour of Rio, they sold out 100,000 seat stadiums. To this day, IMHO, they're one of the best bands out there. Some of the finest musicians playing in rock.
Of course, I'd LOVE to see Yes in there too. They're my favorite band. My favorite incarnation being Anderson, Bruford, Howe, Squire, and Wakeman, from the Yes Album / Close to the Edge era.
Mark
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