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Atavachron 
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 Posted: January 11 2007 at 23:45 |
 This is beginning to sound like a PA argument about which bands are prog enough to be here
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 11 2007 at 23:51 |
 Atavachron wrote:
This is beginning to sound like a PA argument about which bands are prog enough to be here |
No, it's simple, you can't induct Pele to the Beisball Hall of Fame no matter how good he was because HE NEVER PLAYED BEISBALL.
For the same reason you can't induct a rap artist who doesn't play Rock to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
It's illogical and absurd.
Iván
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ViolinCyndee
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 01:50 |
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Spacerock will never be included...
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tuxon
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 02:31 |
ViolinCyndee wrote:
Spacerock will never be included... |
They would need a bigger hall
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darren
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 06:25 |
If any prog band makes it, it would be Pink Floyd. Not just prog lovers but stoners as well, not to mention the years of being on the top 500 list.
Come to think of it, I don't think most prog bands will make it. They want to induct bands that will show up and maybe play... and sell tickets, a lot of Hall of Fame T- Shirts, souvenir books, etc. The suits obviously want a rock and roll EVENT (you know, like the last couple of Woodstock "events"). Why else would they induct Madonna?
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"they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world.
the fools
they locked up the wrong man."
- Leonard Cohen
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The T
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 12:15 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
[IMG]smileys/smiley36.gif" align=middle> This is beginning to sound like a PA argument about which bands are prog enough to be here |
No, it's simple, you can't induct Pele to the Beisball Hall of Fame no matter how good he was because HE NEVER PLAYED BEISBALL.
For the same reason you can't induct a rap artist who doesn't play Rock to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
It's illogical and absurd.
Iván |
But there's a logic to that (at least in their eyes):
rap exposure in Rock Hall of Fame = better sells for everyone involved
not that quality or adherence to a genre matters anyway...
I've heard the HIPHOP Hall and Fame next inductees are Run DMC, N234 and Genesis
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 15:04 |
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Pink Floyd are already in the hall of fame, so the "barrier" has already been broken.
Inducting a rapper is just stupid, just like the couple Jazz people they have in there.
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1800iareyay
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 18:04 |
Though I don't like the idea of rap entering the rock hall of fame, I could see a few making it. Public Enemy's punk attitude as well as sampling metal and collaborating with rockers. They have as much business in there as so many of the jazz artists.
If my post came off as remorseful and/or enraged that certain high caliber bands were not inducted, that wasn't my intention. I was merely happy that Van Halen and REM got a nod, and pointed out a few bands that should have entered a long time ago. I too will lose no sleep over Purple's and Genesis' exclusion from what hsa become a building of irony, where the music industry visibly shows how it has tamed the once rebellious rock into a cash-cow complete with cookie-cutter bands who all sell millions of albums because the United States has miserably failed the War on Drugs. Huh, come to think of it, guess I am a little mad 
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The T
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Posted: January 12 2007 at 18:37 |
1800iareyay wrote:
Though I don't like the idea of rap entering the rock hall of fame, I could see a few making it. Public Enemy's punk attitude as well as sampling metal and collaborating with rockers. They have as much business in there as so many of the jazz artists.
If my post came off as remorseful and/or enraged that certain high caliber bands were not inducted, that wasn't my intention. I was merely happy that Van Halen and REM got a nod, and pointed out a few bands that should have entered a long time ago. I too will lose no sleep over Purple's and Genesis' exclusion from what hsa become a building of irony, where the music industry visibly shows how it has tamed the once rebellious rock into a cash-cow complete with cookie-cutter bands who all sell millions of albums because the United States has miserably failed the War on Drugs. Huh, come to think of it, guess I am a little mad |
I don't blame you. The reasons are there, you explained them.
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