Music: Who Should Get in the 2025 Rock n Roll HoF?

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

how is bryan adams not in yet? and even writing and singing that awful song of the year ballad should not exclude him from a long overdue induction.

 

[sabremike]

The correct answer is Seth Putnam.

 

[Neil Racki]

Chubby Checker? Didnt he literally just have 2 songs

The Twist

Lets Twist Again

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Stripes and Billy Idol ... come on down

 

[Unholy Diver]

Chubby Checker? Didnt he literally just have 2 songs

The Twist

Lets Twist Again

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Stripes and Billy Idol ... come on down

No Chubby Checker had more than two songs, he had 14 top 20 singles, and 35 charting songs overall on the US charts

Besides The Twist, and Let's Twist Again, he also had top 10 hits with Pony Time, The Fly, Limbo Rock, and Slow Twistin

The Twist went # 1 in 1960 and 1962, as well as hitting #16 in a collab with The Fat Boys in 1988

 

[Shareefruck]

Only Joy Division for me. I don't think Soundgarden's very good either, personally.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Soundgarden and Bad Company should both be in. 2 bands with the greatest frontmen not in the RRHOF. It’s criminal how Paul Rodgers gets ignored for what he has done in Rock.,

 

[Behn Wilson]

Soundgarden and Bad Company should both be in. 2 bands with the greatest frontmen not in the RRHOF.

Maybe not THE greatest frontman not in

 

[#37]

Soundgarden and Bad Company should both be in. 2 bands with the greatest frontmen not in the RRHOF. It’s criminal how Paul Rodgers gets ignored for what he has done in Rock.,

What he is still doing... this guy can still sing in his 70's.



Edit: Listening, I now understand why he won't get into the hall of fame while he is still alive, because he will blow everyone else off the stage...

 

[I am not exposed]

Bad Company are solid. Fine with them getting in.

Can't stand Soundgarden. Mostly due to Cornell's voice. Urgh. Yeah, he's technically a good singer but just not my cup of tea. I can understand their nomination though.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Will rant/rave about it every year

Sade not being in HOF is a travesty

 

[DaaaaB's]

I can only name 1 outKast songs but I can name about 30 Bad Company songs

That's fine but I'm guessing a lot of people can name more than one Outkast song.

 

[Behn Wilson]

That's fine but I'm guessing a lot of people can name more than one Outkast song.

I cant, but that one song is a great song and video

 

[Troy McClure]

That's fine but I'm guessing a lot of people can name more than one Outkast song.

If you only ask grey haired white guys, then yeah, you're probably right about Outlast.

At the same time, if you ask anyone (of any race or gender) under 45 to name Bad Company songs, you're going to come up very empty as well.

This becomes a demographic problem where having the hall of fame cater to only one demographic doesn't work.

 

[Unholy Diver]

the easiest way to solve it is to just put everyone in, it's just a museum after all

 

[DaaaaB's]

I cant, but that one song is a great song and video

You've seriously never heard of one of Hey Ya or Ms. Jackson?

Don't mean to sound rude but both those songs were played on the radio non stop back when they were released.

If you only ask grey haired white guys, then yeah, you're probably right about Outlast.

At the same time, if you ask anyone (of any race or gender) under 45 to name Bad Company songs, you're going to come up very empty as well.

This becomes a demographic problem where having the hall of fame cater to only one demographic doesn't work.

I was saying most people can name more than one Outkast song but you're probably right about older white guys not being able to.

I'm 41 and only know three Bad Company songs. I'd be surprised if most of my friends can name that many so I agree with you there as well.

 

[Behn Wilson]

You've seriously never heard of one of Hey Ya or Ms. Jackson?

Don't mean to sound rude but both those songs were played on the radio non stop back when they were released.


I was saying most people can name more than one Outkast song but you're probably right about older white guys not being able to.

I'm 41 and only know three Bad Company songs. I'd be surprised if most of my friends can name that many so I agree with you there as well.

Ive heard Hey Ya, that is the one song I was talking about. I like that song, especially the video.

I dont listen to radio stations that play their music, ever so I dont / didnt even know there was a song Ms. Jackson. Im 62 and grew up on Bad Company etc and can pretty much name their entire catelogue. Remember being excited that Paul Rodgers was forming a new band after Free.

Just got two cds in the mail and Im guessing you never heard of the artist or cant name a song by either of them, Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Ive heard Hey Ya, that is the one song I was talking about. I like that song, especially the video.

I dont listen to radio stations that play their music, ever so I dont / didnt even know there was a song Ms. Jackson. Im 62 and grew up on Bad Company etc and can pretty much name their entire catelogue. Remember being excited that Paul Rodgers was forming a new band after Free.

Just got two cds in the mail and Im guessing you never heard of the artist or cant name a song by either of them, Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore.

Bombs Over Baghdad is a great song by Outkast. Although it definitely didn’t have the crossover appeal that Hey Ya did.

 

[DaaaaB's]

Ive heard Hey Ya, that is the one song I was talking about. I like that song, especially the video.

I dont listen to radio stations that play their music, ever so I dont / didnt even know there was a song Ms. Jackson. Im 62 and grew up on Bad Company etc and can pretty much name their entire catelogue. Remember being excited that Paul Rodgers was forming a new band after Free.

Just got two cds in the mail and Im guessing you never heard of the artist or cant name a song by either of them, Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore.

No, I haven't heard of them but I don't think it's comparable considering neither one ever had a song that went anywhere close to the top of the charts while Ms. Jackson was #1 in the US and several other countries. I don't even like the song but you almost couldn't avoid hearing it back 25 years ago. I believe you though.

 

[Behn Wilson]

No, I haven't heard of them but I don't think it's comparable considering neither one ever had a song that went anywhere close to the top of the charts while Ms. Jackson was #1 in the US and several other countries. I don't even like the song but you almost couldn't avoid hearing it back 25 years ago. I believe you though.

You could not avoid it based on the medium you watch and listen to. The places that played that are not in my viewing or listening habits.

Just like people older than me didnt listen to rock stations and I didnt listen to stuff from their era like Sinatra and Perry Como...

 

[I am not exposed]

I only know two Outkast songs (Hey Ya and Ms. Jackson). I couldn't escape them when they were released (I was in my 3rd year of Uni). It actually put me off listening to any of their other material. Completely understand why they are up for nomination though.

 

[NyQuil]

Bombs Over Baghdad is a great song by Outkast. Although it definitely didn’t have the crossover appeal that Hey Ya did.

They evolved into a similar situation as Supertramp where they were basically two separate artists who wrote songs separately and then merged them together on the album.

I always liked "The Way You Move" which was clearly a more traditional soul-infused Big Boi track as opposed to a more eclectic Andre 3000 track.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

They evolved into a similar situation as Supertramp where they were basically two separate artists who wrote songs separately and then merged them together on the album.

I always liked "The Way You Move" which was clearly a more traditional soul-infused Big Boi track as opposed to a more eclectic Andre 3000 track.

Yup. Hence why that was a double album. I didn’t really listen to it, other than whatever came on in the morning on Muchmusic while I was getting ready, seeing I didn’t have time to with working 5 jobs at the time.

And as an aside, I doubt I’d last a week working 5 jobs at once now like I could 20 years ago. Let alone do it for three years.

 

[DaaaaB's]

You could not avoid it based on the medium you watch and listen to. The places that played that are not in my viewing or listening habits.

Just like people older than me didnt listen to rock stations and I didnt listen to stuff from their era like Sinatra and Perry Como...

No, I couldn't avoid it because it was played everywhere I went including stores, taxi's, bars, parties etc. If you've never heard it though, that's perfectly fine. If you were in your late 30's then you likely weren't going to parties or bars that played it.

As for your 2nd paragraph, I was born in '83 and I'm a fan of a lot of bands from the 60's, 70's and 80's as well as some stuff from the past 15 years. Lots of people listen to music from other eras especially as they get older although less so into newer music. What you're saying is typically more true of teenagers and young adults imo.