Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees 2022

I realize that someone else posted about this, but it nowhere in the title was Rock and Roll HOF mentioned, so it could not be properly searched. Sorry.

The RRHOF is a piece of shit organization that needs to be cancelled. They mainly honor white, male musicians.

FUCK THEM.

They need to be as cancelled as the Hollywood Foreign Press.

silly

Ranking the nominees.

Eurythmics, Duran Duran and The NY Dolls will blow the Gen Z minds.

We played with gender in a healthier way, kidz.

They are Inducting adult contemporary artists now?? Lionel Richie of all people? The fuck. Gloria Estefan can’t be fat behind.

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After Madonna was inducted, I stopped caring about this meaningless "honor". And I genuinely hope that IF they ever deign to nominate Cher, that she tells them all to go fuck themselves.

Judas Priest isnt in the RHOF? Have they not heard Screaming for Vengeance?

PAT BENATAR deserved this years ago. How is Dolly Parton even being considered??? She is country/pop at best.

Devo, MC5, New York Dolls, Dolly Parton are the ones that should have been in a long time ago. How the hell is Dolly being nominated only now, for the first time?

R4 What a moronic list. So they out Dolly Parton at number 8 cause she's not "rock'n'roll" but Eminem at number 1, cause he is?

Love Dolly, but she's got zilch to do with rock. They might as well nominate Olivia Newton John and Debby Boone.

R13 Really? Country and rock are that far apart? They nominated Eminem, for fuck's sake. RnR HoF is full of rappers and people like Madonna, but you are complaining about Dolly, who's music isn't that far from rock music. She's a lot more RnR than Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Eminem, Dionne Warwick, Lionel Richie and many more

Why don't they just induct everyone who ever had a hit song??!! It would be easier than this long, dragged-out, meaningless game that they play every year.

It’s a shame that George Michael isn’t in there. He had many many hits. He wrote and produced 20 top 10 hits and 12. #1s.

And where is Connie Francis' name? Massive error.

It is really a crime that Judas Preiest has been eligible for 30 years and they are only getting inducted now. How disrespectful. They were instrumental to the metal sound and are credited with taking the “blues” out of heavy metal and giving it a thrashing sound that paved the way for metalica and others.

RRHOF has always honored artists from genres closely related to rock. Country music is a direct parent of rock, along with blues and R&B. There's nothing unusual about Dolly's inclusion.

Here are the current standings. Some good news: Duran Duran has overtaken Eminem and Beck has very little support.

As I understand it the fan vote has no impact on who actually gets inducted. It's just to generate a buzz around the event.

Devo should definitely be in there; they may not have been a huge commercial concern, but they have been incredibly influential.

Dolly belongs more than Carly Simon or Lionel Richie.

DEVO and Fela Kuti are both overdue.

Pioneers Connie Francis and Pat Boone!!!!!!

Connie Francis should have been inducted a long time ago. NOW!!!

Datalounge, the only place on earth that still gives a shit about Connie Francis.

This is basically the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In Cleveland.

Carly Simon was hugely influential as a singer/songwriter, and deserves to be in. Lionel Richie? Cher is more deserving.

Beck (first-time nominee) - NO

Pat Benatar - YES

Kate Bush - YES

DEVO - YES

Duran Duran (first-time nominee) - YES

Eminem (first-time nominee, first-year eligible) - NO

Eurythmics - YES

Judas Priest - YES

Fela Kuti - YES

MC5 - YES

New York Dolls - YES

Dolly Parton (first-time nominee) - YES

Rage Against The Machine - YES

Lionel Richie (first-time nominee) - YES but the Commodores should be there.

Carly Simon (first-time nominee) - YES

A Tribe Called Quest (first-time nominee) - YES

Dionne Warwick - YES

Dolly Parton should get in after Whitney Houston easily got in partly on the reputation of Dolly's songwriting.

Until I see Claudine Longet on that list the RRHOF is DUST to moi!

Dan Fogelberg

R14 Enemeamin is crap. Dolly is NOT rock, neither is Dionne, who I also love. RAP is crap. Carly Simon is MOR, Easy Listening, love her too. Boys In The Trees, You Belong To Me are great songs.

R20 Wussy pop of Duran Duran at the top and two of the most influential rock bands ever at the bottom? People really have no taste.

R32 Country and Rock'n'roll are closely related. Both are guitar driven music. If Dolly isn't rock than neither are 3/4 of the bands and musicians in the RnR HoF

I voted for at r20 link.

Devo, Kate, Pat , Eurythmics and Priest.

CHIC is loooooooooooong overdue!

Billy Idol has been overlooked again. Fuckers.

Chic is too good for the RHoF.

Dolly's influence runs wide and deep. John Lydon, Patti Smith, Sinead O Connor, Michelle n'dechello and Bjork have cited her as an influence.

Pat Benatar won't accept unless her husband is equally billed - as if anyone gives a fuck about him.

Paula Abdul was snubbed again.

R41

The Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock

I love Duran Duran but their music has not held up well.

Oh it has too. Most of todays indie and pop is heavy on 80s sound.

Dolly in the country music hall of fame NOT rock n roll hall of fame. Get over it.

thanks R46. Love Dolly, she does not belong to rock. Someday, when all her movies croak, Gaga will turn to country, and her monsters will insist she belongs in the Country Music HOF.

Connie should have been among the first to be inducted.

Beck????

R48 YES!!! Connie was the first big female singing star of the pop/rock era!!!

R46 R47 There are dozens of rappers, soul musicians, funk musicians in Rock n Roll HoF but Dolly somehow doesn't fit in?

Connie? Connie Stevens? I remember her on a lot of talk shows, but she wasn't rock either. Sort of Vegas schmaltzy, but cute.

Predictions

R53 articles under a paywall.

Paywall r53.

Absurd that Connie Francis is still not on the list. Part of it is her fault, in that she shifted towards lounge singer music in the mid 60's, and that's what etched her status in many people's minds. But she was definitely a rock and roll pioneer in the late 50's/early 60's. One of the very few women who cranked out top ten hits in a field dominated by men.

R56 Totally true! INSIST that Connie Francis be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame! NOW!!

[quote] [R53] articles under a paywall.

In:

Eminem

Duran Duran

Dolly

Pat Benetar

Rage Against the Machine

Lionel Richie

Out:

Beck

Dionne Warwick

Kate Bush

Devo

Judas Priest

Dionne, Devo and Kate should have gotten in over Eminem and Rage

Judas Priest is still too leathery and threatening? Nice.

Eminem, Duran Duran and Rage Against the Machine over Devo? What a joke.

Dolly is the new Betty White.

Young people are just now noticing what a talent she is, and they want to shower her with kudos before she croaks.

Rage Against the Machine WOULDN'T be in the game if it wasn't for Priest. FACT!

R63 Their music has zero to do with Priest. Sabbath, punk and hard core, trash metal, funk and early hip hop. But long solos and screeching vocals of bluesy heavy metal of Judas Priest?

Of course Beck should be inducted. He *was* the 1990s! More recently, he won the Album of the Year Grammy.

I would have put in Judas Priest over Lionel Richie but otherwise it’s expected.

Also Beck over Dolly if only because she doesn’t want to be there.

Bullshit r64. Everything after early metal if you're a hard rock band has been influenced in some way by British metal including RATM.

These were just predictions, not a list of who has gotten in.

Priest is NOT bluesy

Never said they were, r70.

Judas Priest sucks. The best Priest is Maxi Priest.

The Monkees.

Woohoo, Duran Duran is about a hundred thousand votes ahead of everybody else.

Yeah, that vote doesn’t really matter but it shows they still have obsessive fans who go once a day and vote. 😛

Their music instantly takes you back to happier times for some people. They are still making music today. Their new album is great.

Their tour later this year is already sold out everywhere.

They were part of the the “second British Invasion” which revitalized radio and record sales back in the 80’s.

R57 True...She should have been among the first. Even though she turned to standards and ethnic music, she was the first female churning out those hits and controlling her own career. Perhaps this latter factor keeps her out more than anything else.

R75, see R56.

R75 True, but there are many reasons why Connie Francis should have made it into the Hall at the very beginning. Many reasons.

Here is a list of everyone who has been eligible for nominations and the number of nominations they've had over the years.

Carpenters, one of my personal favorites on this list, has been eligible for nomination for 28 years and has received 0 nominations.

How is Dire Straits not in there?!

Whaddabout Soft Cell???

They were inducted in 2018 r79.