For purposes of this Hall, the definition of rock and roll has (long) been stretched beyond recognition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_a...Fame#Criticism
I've been; it wasn't that great.
OK, I may be the only one who cares about that, but Electric Warrior is one of the 5 albums I'd take to a desert island.
Along with The Doobie Brothers (seriously? 1st time nominee, about time), Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Whitney Houston, and The Notorious B.I.G.
Marc Bolan will be Bang(in') A Gong in heaven.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...YaR?li=BBnbfcL
Now if we can just get Foreigner in there.
For purposes of this Hall, the definition of rock and roll has (long) been stretched beyond recognition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_a...Fame#Criticism
I've been; it wasn't that great.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
No Zevon, no Feat ... no peace.
As an owner of "Prophets, Seers, and Sages", "Electric Warrior", and "The Slider", I did love me some T-Rex back in the day, but how they're in ahead of Judas Priest and Pat Benetar is beyond me. I realize T-Rex gets credit for being Glam Rock innovators and plenty of New Wave bands credit them as inspirations, but Priest are Metal Gods and the cool girls back in the day, dressed either like Pat or Madonna.
Of course this is the same institution that fails to recognize Grand Funk Railroad, so why am I shocked. I'm just glad the Doobies finally made it, way overdue.
Exactly. And speaking of the late great Neal Peart, Rush was for many years the Hall's longest-running, most inexplicable snub ... IMHO. I mean, airplay, concert ticket sales, album sales, and longevity have to count for something at some point, don't they?? Well, for about 15 years, the answer was no, if the keepers of the keys don't like the cut of your jib. And they apparently didn't.
Long-running snubs and inexplicable inclusions generate publicity, and maybe for the R&R HOF, that's not a bad thing. Or maybe they're just blankety-blanks.
Foreigner needs to be there.