His manager, Jon Landau, is a major figure at the hall, and of course Springsteen himself has lent his name to it for years. And now he writes songs for Pixar movies. The debate about Radiohead is whether they are a transformative, pantheonic band worthy of immediate entry to the hall, or just a really great one.
I think they are at least as great as, say, R. And they may go down in history as the last great rock band. She is also one of our most precise and meaningful vocalists, from that pure emotional vibrato to those dark whispers. Along with Jonathan Richman, they showed early on that punk was a thing not a sound; austere and questioning at first, then with a darkened postmodern paranoia, and then on to an ecstatic, highly mental funk. They merged New York hipster intellectualism to Southern California anomie, and first flecked it with and then immersed it all into a persuasive jazz sheen.
The band engaged in some high-level trolling of the hall of fame for a year before their induction, posting various demands on their website and mocking the hall in various ways. Their presence is so large now, we forget they were kids from one of the most fucked-up cities in the Western world who liked the Ramones. Not a bad rhythm section, and you have to give the Edge credit for expanding the sound of rock guitar, always at the service of riffs riffs riffs.
Yes, I am aware the lead singer has become annoying. He was convicted of manslaughter and died in prison at the age of His mids stardom was phenomenal, and he spurred it on with various tactics, some clever, some Trumpian, and of course many self-destructive. In other words, he was a big known star who suddenly got very big.
Elvis and the Beatles by contrast offered confrontational, controversial music — music of the world to come, not the world they were in. That said, as a pop artist Jackson was certainly innovative, and set new standards. And as a Presley-like pop archetype of failed potential, very rock and roll.
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The two boards really, really hated each other. John unquestionably is a pop-rocker not a rocker. He was flamboyant, but he was also someone you could take home to mother. He fairly bravely came out in the mids. His melodrama never goes overboard and his pop instincts were always natural and flowing. Diana Ross has now been a star for nearly 60 years, floating on a magical projected personality and a dulcet voice. I know the other Supremes had spectacular voices as well, but the rules are different for a superstar, which is what Ross is.
The trio with a lot of help from Berry Gordy, the stable of songwriters and the Motown production teams radiated a sophistication and a glamour that never clashed with the urgent emotions and happy stories they sang out. Very early exemplars of the potent emotional beauty the music was capable of conveying, spurred by the cosmic fraternal mix of their voices. Among other things, the perfect showcase for the songs of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant.
Smith is an interesting figure, a bit too hippieish and too accepting of shamanism and religiosity for my taste. But albums one and three — Horses, Easter — were sprawling and daring, more daring than anything else at the time. She also reinjected Van Morrisonian levels of exaltation and ecstasy to the music, which then lived on in the work of R. Meanwhile, back at the hall: I asked Conforth for an example of how the Cleveland—New York division manifested itself.
He said that one day shortly after he started work he was abruptly summoned to meet with Wenner, so he dutifully boarded a plane to New York. I was allowed to enter the inner sanctum. There is something irresistible about Eddie Cochran. Presley always seemed a bit Olympian; Cochran was rough and ready, but never distant. But this is another tragic rock story: Cochran was killed at 21 in a car crash while on tour in the U. With lots of help from producer Rick Rubin, they made their mark with extreme brattiness married to highly artful and meaningful samples.
Smart enough, too, to formally distance themselves from early anti-women behavior. A viscerally exciting performer with a mighty voice and a magnanimous and supple mind. She was the first female rock star; among nonblack artists, you could argue that she had been the most persecuted, and endured the most humiliations for her art, having grown up creative, gay, and odd in Texas. I have to bow to the blues experts on this.
He is a lovable character and a friendly, articulate guitarist; he is considered by all to be a, if not the , quintessential bluesman but to me lacks something. She fought hard to emerge from a Eurodisco ghetto and became, for a time, a glamorous pop-disco superstar whose thick and luscious gatefold albums penetrated deep into the consciousness of suburban America, culminating in Bad Girls , a rock-disco triumph of no little power. Some people like them, of course.
With the Airplane, the Dead defined the San Francisco psychedelic sound, such as it was, and over time came to embody a chaotic independence, in their latter days providing a comfy hippie vibe for stadia of slumming yuppies. Note that he lineup of the band inducted into the hall includes several highly inessential members, ranging from the dubious Constanten, Mydland to the risible Welnick, formerly of [ checks notes ] the Tubes. Garcia was supposedly on his way but never made it to the ceremony.
I asked Wenner who decides such things. Turner had an unmistakable and infectious voice and used it, irresistibly, to turn blithe not-quite-blues, not-quite-rock songs into highly enjoyable romps. More about this under Ruth Brown, below. This makes no sense. Deservedly, the first of the girl groups to be inducted. I find McCartney refreshingly one-dimensional and dependable, save for this one thing: He is both industrious and lazy.
There are great songs strewn throughout his albums from this period, and slighter, highly enjoyable ones, too, but way too many throwaways. He still likes you. In their own way, subtle. Then they became MTV stars. And the youngest had a lot of potential.
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Later recorded as the Jacksons. Is the hall of fame voting process rigged? And no one had any idea how the votes from the voters at large were tabulated. The story about Wenner clinging to a penultimate vote count to sneak Grandmaster Flash into the hall in front of the Dave Clark Five surprised me in this way: Having read Sticky Fingers I had no expectations at all that any sort of count was kept in the first place. For the record, Peresman says that, today, ballots come in and are tabulated each day, and that Wenner has nothing to do with the counting.
This manic white-blues outfit, with the Stones, were the commercial face of the move from white-bluesmen wannabes to rock stars. They have lots better work than that. One of the difficulties the hall has grappled with is how it should take into account popularity; Madonna was, after all, one of the very biggest pop stars of all time. There is an argument for excellence that gets overlooked in all sorts of artistic endeavors, so let me make it clear: Being popular gets you a lot of things. Fuck off! The Moody Blues are a great example. They pioneered a sort of orchestrated, lush, and it must be said ambitious rock but have never quite been taken seriously.
What to do? The hall has been schizophrenic. Tamarkin recalls he was asked if he was an enthusiastic supporter of the band. The meeting moved on.
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The Moonglows got in, eventually, in ; the Moodys in In fairness, the long delay in inducting some of these bands, like the Moodies and Chicago, to some extent points to their second-tier status. Still, I think the hall should push back on this point, and insist on the primacy of artistic value, but it will be difficult after the induction of bands like ABBA. As for Tamarkin, he said his stay on the nominating committee came to an end after he published an editorial in Billboard criticizing the hall.
Unlike a lot of people on this list, he was a true star.
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Definitely a tragic figure shot to death in , a sometimes-principled lyricist, and fluid, not-too-show-offy rapper who tried to expand the music even as he kept one foot in its least estimable parts. I wish this smart man had been smart enough not to run with Suge Knight.
Could he have become the man his biggest fans say he could have been?
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Again, back to Cleveland. Conforth, the curator, is a highly entertaining interview. He turned out not to be a good fit for the hall. One mistake he made, he allows, is requesting to work in Cleveland, which he thought made sense at the time but led to many of his decisions being overruled from New York. Even two decades later he remains amused at his tenure. Their Latino-psychedelic fusion was distinctive. All of their early albums are worth hearing today; they are immensely varied and persuasive without being chaotic or unfocused.