Embarrassing...The Cars, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi ?? Over Radiohead, Depeche Mode and Judas Priest ?? I'm not even a fan of JP and know they should be in well before Bon Jovi or the others...
I think they're all deserving, though not ahead of Priest and Radiohead; but the HOF have historically shafted influential metal acts. Just look how long it took Sabbath to get in.
Everything I've seen needs rearranging And for anyone who thinks it's strange Then you should be the first to want to make this change And for everyone who thinks that life is just a game Do you like the part you're playing? -- Love (Arthur Lee) - "You Set the Scene"
Bon Jovi is a farce, other than the fact that the RRHoF has been dead to me for some time.
People are too hard on Bon Jovi. Underneath the "hair metal" surface they were just good, solid, pop songwriters. I think they've held up better than most every other band from that era and genre. Not sure if I'd consider them a HOF-status band, but I can understand it given their (lasting) popularity. There is a reason they managed to survive the 90s Nirvana/alt-rock onslaught.
Everything I've seen needs rearranging And for anyone who thinks it's strange Then you should be the first to want to make this change And for everyone who thinks that life is just a game Do you like the part you're playing? -- Love (Arthur Lee) - "You Set the Scene"
Bon Jovi is a farce, other than the fact that the RRHoF has been dead to me for some time.
People are too hard on Bon Jovi. Underneath the "hair metal" surface they were just good, solid, pop songwriters. I think they've held up better than most every other band from that era and genre. Not sure if I'd consider them a HOF-status band, but I can understand it given their (lasting) popularity. There is a reason they managed to survive the 90s Nirvana/alt-rock onslaught.
Never really considered them pop, probably due to how seriously they seem to take themselves. Actually their quality to seriousness ratio seems astonishingly low to me.
People are too hard on Bon Jovi. Underneath the "hair metal" surface they were just good, solid, pop songwriters. I think they've held up better than most every other band from that era and genre. Not sure if I'd consider them a HOF-status band, but I can understand it given their (lasting) popularity. There is a reason they managed to survive the 90s Nirvana/alt-rock onslaught.
Never really considered them pop, probably due to how seriously they seem to take themselves. Actually their quality to seriousness ratio seems astonishingly low to me.
The band that wrote "I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all" and Bad Medicine and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead gave you the impression they took themselves seriously? They were just an amalgam of Springsteen's gospel-sized folksy storytelling and Van Halen's good-times arena party rock with lots of poppy hooks--more power pop than anything else. The only time I thought them remotely serious was on These Days, and that was mostly due to the alt-rock influence.
Everything I've seen needs rearranging And for anyone who thinks it's strange Then you should be the first to want to make this change And for everyone who thinks that life is just a game Do you like the part you're playing? -- Love (Arthur Lee) - "You Set the Scene"
The band that wrote "I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all" and Bad Medicine and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead gave you the impression they took themselves seriously?
Yes. Granted I don't mean 'their aunt just died and everything they say and do today will be gravely serious' serious. Contrast to The Cars. Listen to just about anything of theirs and you can hear through the music how lighthearted and jocular they were. BTW I see Springsteen as taking himself too seriously also.
The band that wrote "I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all" and Bad Medicine and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead gave you the impression they took themselves seriously?
Yes. Granted I don't mean 'their aunt just died and everything they say and do today will be gravely serious' serious. Contrast to The Cars. Listen to just about anything of theirs and you can hear through the music how lighthearted and jocular they were. BTW I see Springsteen as taking himself too seriously also.
Springsteen did/does take himself seriously. One thing he sadly forgot to take from Dylan was Dylan's subversive sense of humor. However, all BJ really took from Springsteen was the gospel-tinged storytelling; the fact that they dressed it in Van Halen's arena-sized party rock is the clue that they didn't take it all that seriously (again, These Days excepted). I'd honestly say if any song encapsulated their aesthetic it would be this:
BTW, if you want to hear them in their most Cars-esque pop-mode, give Crush a listen.
Everything I've seen needs rearranging And for anyone who thinks it's strange Then you should be the first to want to make this change And for everyone who thinks that life is just a game Do you like the part you're playing? -- Love (Arthur Lee) - "You Set the Scene"
Overall, I think it is a good class. Replace Bon Jovi this year with Judas Priest and it would have been great. I've been listening to songs on Youtube of the inductees and they are great. I'm really enjoying Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Nina Simone, two artists I've never heard before. There is always good music to be found, no matter how old you are. I'm listening to Judas Priest's "Run of the Mill" off their first album.
Overall, I think it is a good class. Replace Bon Jovi this year with Judas Priest and it would have been great. I've been listening to songs on Youtube of the inductees and they are great. I'm really enjoying Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Nina Simone, two artists I've never heard before. There is always good music to be found, no matter how old you are. I'm listening to Judas Priest's "Run of the Mill" off their first album.
Agree, not bad. 3 of the 4 I voted for made it in (Moodys, Dire Straits, Sister RT). Only Kate Bush didn't.
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The other day I heard a dj on the radio talking about this. He complained that no one he knows had ever heard of two of the artists. I'm quite sure he was referring to Simone and Tharp. It's okay to be ignorant of something, but an unwillingness to learn is sad. A few minutes on Google would have enlightened him.
"Live music is better" bumper stickers should be issued.
The other day I heard a dj on the radio talking about this. He complained that no one he knows had ever heard of two of the artists. I'm quite sure he was referring to Simone and Tharp. It's okay to be ignorant of something, but an unwillingness to learn is sad. A few minutes on Google would have enlightened him.
So, a DJ who plays nothing but what's on the station manager's playlist, and who would get canned if he deviated from it, sees himself as a repository of musical knowledge.
They were just an amalgam of Springsteen's gospel-sized folksy storytelling and Van Halen's good-times arena party rock with lots of poppy hooks--more power pop than anything else. The only time I thought them remotely serious was on These Days, and that was mostly due to the alt-rock influence. 
