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.
Thanks for the word, sushiman. I did remember that The Zombies had already broken up when "Time Of The Season" hit the charts. That video you mentioned sounds cool. I don't remember Pop Gear in the theaters. I do remember going to see the TAMI show, which had tons of great acts, although I think the Stones were the only Brit group in it. I also liked a few things by Sandy Shaw -- "Always Something There To Remind Me" and "Girl Don't Come." And loved Marianne Faithfull's version of "As Tears Go By." Do you recall Adam Faith and Ian Whitcombe?
Oh, Lloyd Thaxton, definitely. He used to do the lip synch contests on his show. First place I ever saw Sonny and Cher, and they were doing "Baby Don't Go." Hedgehoppers Anonymous had one hit called "Good News Week." And we haven't touched on Peter and Gordon yet.
Chad and Jeremy "Ferry across the Mersey"
You triggered an old grey matter cell with "Good News Week" LOL.
NYA -- "Ferry Cross The Mersey" was Gerry and the Pacemakers. C&J had songs like "Yesterday's Gone" and "Summer Song" and "Willow Weep For Me." I remember them being on an episode of "The Patty Duke Show."
Yep, you are correct. It is has been a long day.
Sanctimonious: Affecting piety; hypocritically devout. (Webster's Seventh New Collegiate)
I thought you were an atheist; how can an atheist be sanctimonious? I guess if one pretends to be religious.
Just an observation in general: A lot of mental aberration is directly caused by pharmaceuticals, both licit and illicit.
The Vedic view is that every conditioned soul (IOW not enlightened) is burdened or covered with these four defects, to varying degrees depending on amount of darkness:
1. Tendency to cheat or lie.
2. Tendency to be illusioned - to believe that which is not.
3. Proneness to make mistakes.
4. Imperfect senses.
These are actually a type of spiritual sickness, which can be cured if one is willing to pay the price. These defects vary according to the mixture of the three gunas (modes of nature) that each living being is bound up in. Like the three primary colors which, when mixed, create endless shades and tints, the three modes creat admixtures of personalities, desires, fears, convictions, and so on.
Everything is interesting.
Good News Week was "political" by 1964 standards -- "Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere contaminating atmosphere -- who won that race? What's the weather like today." They don't write them like that anymore. Then there was Jonathan King "Everyone's Gone To The Moon." Weird lyrics in that one too. Last I heard, he was serving time in prison for kiddie porn.
"Eve of Destruction" and the answer song "Dawn of Correction" also had political overtones.
I love it when the Hindus take on the Muzzies and dish it back ten times harder to them
Neil Peart is/was a genius when it comes to drumming. Unmatched by only a few in any genre or era. As far as the rest of musicians in the Canadian culture go, do you know anything of Michael Buble or have you cut yourself off mid 1980's?
I NEVER saw the big deal in Neil Peart to be honest . Or Rush for that matter.
But the HoF IS noise pollution!
Wow, I'm surprised you remember "Dawn Of Correction." It was done by a group called The Spokesmen, one of whose members was Dave White of Danny and the Juniors fame!! Of course Barry McGuire went on to become a Christian rock singer. Even The Searchers had a midly political song called "What Have They Done To The Rain." Oh jeez, how did I not mention my favorite British invasion female singer, Dusty Springfield? "I Only Want To Be With You" is still one of my all time favorites. I think it must have taken her three days to putty on all that makeup!!
Wow, I sure did. But, everyone is different. I like a very wide range of music and what you like I may not and vice versa. The thing is, you can not care for Rush but if you listen, really listen, you have to appreciate Peart's talent, even if you don't care for the songs themselves.
BTW, with the Hoboken screen name, are you a Sinatra fan?
Hindus certainly have taken it for a long time - starting about 800 AD or thereabouts.
Actually, (as I've mentioned before) practically all Muslims east of Saudi Arabia are all descendents of those converted by the sword. It would do them and the world good if they'd all convert back to whatever their great great (etc) grandfathers and grandmothers were. Hindu, Christian, Parsee, Jain, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, whatever.
BTW, was that in reference to anything specific? Were there any Muslims on this thread?
:-)
Remember the Chambers Brothers and "Time"?
No, just making a snide aside. I like the Hindus. My favorite polytheists. Live and let live, unlike the Muslims. And people from India SPEAK FREAKIN' ENGLISH! At least half of them do.
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