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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The RNR HOF just announced this morning the new inductees into the almighty and super-intelligent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Freakin’ lame.
Tom Petty, Talking Heads, Ramones, Isaac Hayes, Gene Pitney, Brenda Lee, Chet Atkins & Jim Stewart.
Most of these I have no problem with and they’re probably deserving (I have no clue about Pitney and Lee). Chet Atkins? Hell yes, a fantastic guitar player and even though he’s in the “sideman” category, he was VERY important to the history and being of RNR. Jim Stewart was the co-founder of Stax records. He totally deserves it. Isaac Hayes is a stud and everyone knows this. I have to admit I’m kinda ignorant about most of his life’s work other than Shaft and South Park. Yeah, I’m lame in that regard. He may not deserve it, he might; I’m not going to argue it. Ramones, well it was expected since Joey Ramone died earlier this year. The HOF is very lame in that regard,they’ll wait until someone dies until they get in when they absolutely deserved it the first year they were eligible. Um, Frank Zappa comes to mind here. He SHOULD have been inducted, while alive, in 1991. Instead it was 1995 after he was already gone. I’m not sure when the first Ramones album came out, but regardless they DO deserve the HOF. Not because JR died, but IMO they were the best and most import of the punk bands. One of the earliest (if you don’t count Iggy Pop) and absolutely the best punk songwriters. I know that the Sex Pistols will get in next year, I think it’s their first year of eligibilty. The HOF is just drooling to get them in. I think they are boring and their inclusion would be like putting Milli Vanilli in the HOF.
Talking Heads deserve it too. Good band, very original, very creative. Can’t argue with it.
But Tom Petty. Tom Petty??? What the heck is that about? News flash: Tom Petty SUCKS. He is THE most boring and over-rated songwriter and “musician” ever in the history of RNR. I admit that I’m a total music snob, and I often scoff at those who exclusively use only 3 chords in their songs, but when an individual bases his entire career on songs with only 3 chords in them, that is wrong for that person to recieve recognition of this kind. This induction validates all the crap he’s made since 1976. UGH! Yeah, I totally will admit he’s written some good songs in his time. I won’t deny that. But I’m looking at his output as a whole, the entire thing. And the entire thing is utterly BORING!
There are so many other people way more deserving of the induction into the HOF. Um, Black Sabbath? King Crimson? GEORGE HARRISON??? George just happened to die at the wrong time for them not to put him in this year. He will be in next year, just watch. If the HOF committee actually gave a damn about MUSIC and not popularity people like Harrison, Zappa and the Ramones would have been in at the first chance. Harrison should have been inducted in 1995.
Think about it: for this year the brainiacs of the HOF think that Tom Petty is more deserving than George Harrison to be inducted into the HOF. This is so incredibly wrong. And as for the other 2 I mentioned, Sabbath and Crimson, they should have both been in there in 1994. Yeah I know that Ozzy tells them every year to not induct Sabbath since it’s not something voted on by the fans, and he’s got a good point. But their importance in RNR can not be denied. As for Crimson, no one knows who they are. They’re just some old dinosaur prog act right? They’re just like Yes and ELP and all those self-indulgent dorks that Punk (our musical savior) thankfully destroyed. NO. Crimson are the only one of the “art rock” groups who did not sell out, did not reform with the original line up and do a Greatest Hits tour, did not make crappy music. King Crimson has ALWAYS pushed themselves and their music to levels that most groups can’t even fathom reaching. The Crimson of today sounds nothing like the Crimson of 1969, or 1974, or 1981, or really even 1995. Yet for all their creativity and originality and influence (ask Tool about them), they go over looked. For Tom Petty.
Ack.
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