2014 Rock Hall Inductees Announced
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 12:01AM KISS are finally in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joining them in the 2014 class are Nirvana, Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Linda Rondstadt and Peter Gabriel.
I knew KISS would get in eventually. I also knew that Nirvana would get in on this first ballot. Go ahead and discuss.
I know a lot of you have comments on both KISS and Nirvana. I'm only going to inject my opinion on Hall & Oates: I love them and I'm glad they are part of the 2014 class. I know people are already grumbling that Hall & Oates don't belong in the Rock Hall. My argument is that half the artists already inducted aren't "rock" acts anyway, so why not make room for some cool Hall & Oates? After all, they did give us "She's Gone." The tune is one of my favorite songs of all time.
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Congrats to Hall And Oates, not a fan, but good for them.
Yep, Gary, $immon$ okayed Frehley and Cris, as "I", METALBOY!, commented on here BEFORE anyone else! Sheesh! Read the friggin' comments!
It's gonna be a Rock & Roll moment indeed, to see a band accept their awards with the complete original line-up! AND perform! I think they should do the whole thing in their make-up and I bet they will!
KISS in full costume is the look they had when the band was at it's iconic peak in the 70's with "Destroyer" as their pinnacle. As much as I love their 80's output, it's their 70's stuff that makes KISS worthy of induction.
It only makes sense and kudos to Gene for only wanting the original four being inducted. Who knows, maybe this will bring about yet ANOTHER REUNION! If anyone can capitalize on the induction and turn it into a cash cow, it would be $immon$
By the way, speaking of "Destroyer", I read an interview with Cobain awhile back in Rolling Stone. When Courtney opened the front door to let the interviewer in, he noted Cheap Trick's "Heaven Tonight" blaring n the stereo. Love had him wait in the parlor and he noted a very small collection of records by the turntable... Sabbath "Paranoid" and "Heaven & Hell", Zeppelin II and IV, AC/DC "High Voltage", "Let There Be Rock", "Dirty Deeds" and "Powerage", the aforementioned Cheap Trick album, as well as their first album and "In Color" plus, KISS, "Destroyer" AND "Alive II".
Just how much did Cobain and Nirvana love KISS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moUU4LkuvaY
And THE Runaways AND The Raspberries are worthy of induction, bar none! Boy wouldn't The Runaways be a reunion to be remembered? Kenny Laguna, eat my frickin' official SLASH Autograph Limited Edition Top Hat, ya frickin' prick! Finally, you won't be able to stop a Runaways reunion once they are inducted, as*hole!
And ya know, The Hall just might be redeemed eventually, if they continue the trend of inducting more BIG Rock Acts.
p.s. It's actually shaping up to be a MONUMENTAL show. There is not one dog in the whole list. EVERY performance will be phenomenal. What a shame about about Ronstadt. Whoever said she isn't deserving does not know what the h*ll their talking about.
Same with Cat Stephens. The catalog of hits these two have are awe inspiring AND those recordings are testimony to the greatness of their immortal voices. I look forward to hearing Stevens and I only wish Ronstadt could still sing, God Bless her soul.
Kiss is real HAIR METAL..."Crazy Crazy Nights" and "Uh All Night" NOW that is REAL HAIR METAL! Kiss are the real deal not a bunch of poseurs like Motley Crue. Don't even get me started on Hanoi Rocks. They suck ass compared to the HAIR METAL genius of Bon Jovi.
Look at ALL my comments here. Do you think I went to KISS point blank in front of ACE at Madison Square Garden during the reunion tour for the sheer helluvit? NO, dude, I went because I love KISS.
And just because I know Crüe will never get into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame doesn't mean I don't regard them as one of my favorite bands and put them at The Top of Glam Metal Mountain.
The dumbass crue will never make the r&rhof because the don't suck like Kiss.
You have a lot to learn Metalboy! You call yourself a hair metal fan but yet you like Motley Crue. They are not hair metal. Bon Jovi, Kix, Trixter, Kiss, Firehouse, Britny Fox NOW that my poor misguided friend is REAL HAIR METAL. Motley Crue wouldn't know what real hair metal was if it hit them on the head.
NOW 2 make myself perfectly clear. Bon Jovi and Trixter are tied for greatest hair metal bands of all time. Kiss is the second greatest hair metal band of all time. Only fools think otherwise. Awful bands like Motley Crue and Hanoi Rocks could never in a million years ever even come close to being as hair metal as them.
It's about time somebody made some sense around here. You are a 100% right. Motley Crue and Hanoi Rocks are not hair metal at all. It's as clear as night and day. The big 4 of hair metal are as follows:
1.Kiss/Nitro(Tied)
2.Bon Jovi
3.Tesla
4.Trixter
And yes Kix, Firehouse and Britny Fox are excellent hair metal. I love how some people here claim to be experts on hair metal. Journey, Y&T, Night Ranger and Helix are hair metal. The rock and roll hall of fame needs to have a hair metal wing. Every band I mentioned here needs to be in the rock n roll hall of fame. Nirvana, Motley Crue, Judas Priest and Hanoi Rocks should never be in the rock n roll hall of fame. I do though love how they are going to induct the hair metal legends Kiss FINALLY! If they are smart enough to put a hair metal band like Kiss in, then Nitro is a no brainer.
And Devon ? Nitro ? Seriously ?!?!?!
Trixter being great ? haha... good one.
I'm not trying to rag on Kiss like those other 2 guy's. I just don't see the appeal as an adult. They were OK when I was a kid. They have some good songs but it's very hard for me to take them seriously. Having other people dress up like Ace and Peter is pretty messed up. I don't know why they couldn't of done what Vinnie Vincent and Eric Carr did back in the day.
The vast and varied quality and style of the inductees says a lot about the vague Group of 600. They choose who they like. And I think the range is a reflection (sometimes poor) on the influence of Ertegun (from beyond the grave) and Wenner (limping through the years as a fading taste-maker), who influence the decisions of the Nominating Committee that submits the final list to the 600.
This year, as an example, the Committee selected 16 candidates; nine are being inducted (six if you don't count the three special awards being handed out that are not part of the original 16 sent out to the 600 by the Committee for induction in the "performer" category). That is not a lot to choose from on a yearly basis.
This isn't some NGO. Like the museum, they are catering to their likes and dislikes while trying to catch broader trends both historical and more contemporary. Those are going to be varied and, at times, cancel each other out when the process of narrowing the list happens (or when it comes time for the Foundation's BODs to decide on permanent and rotating exhibits in Cleveland).
The grip of both the Committee and the Group of 600 was loosened a bit when they started to allow fan input (five fan votes count as much as one Gang of 600 vote) in 2012 on the performer nominees. While that might, in this age of Facebook, count--and I think it has a lot to do with KISS getting in and less to do with Nirvana--for something, it still isn't numerically important if there is enough push amongst the 600 to get some person affiliated with light rock, or early soul, or blues, or AOR, into the Hall . . . after they are given a list by the Committee. And, to be fair and as others noted, remember that there is a 25 year wait to even get to the start of this whole process.
So there are a lot of groups and artists that a lot of people would like to see get in and/or get in before other groups and artists and/or replace previous choices. That doesn't help the case for very specific (and well-loved) niche players in sub-genres like Glam. It also leads to armchair quarterbacking about issues to which there are no definitive answers: is N.W.A. culturally significant? comparable to Nirvana in their given genre? did Kerry King help the Beastie Boys? does any of this even matter or make sense given what I wrote above?
I think the museum is fun to wander around, regardless the focus of the particular exhibit. I think the ceremony celebrating the inductees is, often, more fun in theory than in practice. Moreover, I think the more appropriate, though less catchy, name should have been "The Music Hall of Fame."
Just my three cents. I'll leave the squabbling about who is or is not this or that for you or I to another day. That's why I gave myself an extra cent: for the most part I just stuck to the process itself and stayed out of the battle(s).
Enjoy the holidays. I hope this was somewhat helpful.
Back in the trenches, to the facetious trolls (It's time for another feeding, Bob), I repeat, in my view Crüe is one of the GREATS but they'll never get in. Nor will Priest, unfortunately.
Deep Purple, on the other hand, WILL eventually get in.
p.s. Judging from who is getting in this year, this is going to be the best Induction Ceremony to date.
Motley Crue have had a much more successful career then Deep Purple. Doesn't surprise me at all that Deep Purple haven't been inducted yet. Motley Crue will get in probably before or right around the same time as Deep Purple. Sadly Motley Crue faces the same image biased problem that made it take forever for Kiss to get in.
Deep Purple have been eligible for a long, long time. Deep Purple is just a footnote in rock history. They didn't help spark any new kind of revolution in rock. The Sex Pistols were a major factor in the explosion of punk in the late 70's. Motley Crue were very instrumental in the whole glam metal era of the 80's. Nirvana were responsible for the early 90's grunge era.
Out of those 3 bands Motley Crue had the longest run of success from 1981 to 1991 they released 6 albums that sold millions each. Motley crue will no doubt get in, it's just a matter of when.