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by **LOLtron** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:13 am

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame manages to snub Rush and other deserving acts yet again. The Nacireman gives his picks of who are most deserving for the HOF.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its latest members for 2012. Guns N' Roses. The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beastie Boys, Donovan, The Small Faces (aka The Faces), and Laura Nyro made the cut this year. Left on the outside looking in were acts like The Cure, Donna Summer, and The Spinners.

The HOF is notoriously fickle with its inductees, making big-name and popular acts wait years (sometimes decades) for induction. That GN'R made it this year is cool. But other metal big metal acts like KISS, Def Leppard, and Motorhead continue to be snubbed. So do more mainstream acts like Foreigner, The Moody Blues, and Bryan Adams continue to get no love, either.

Here are the ten acts that in my humble opinion seriously need to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. These are all acts that make the twenty-five year cut-off date the Hall imposes (acts aren't eligible for induction until twenty-five after their first recording.)

1) Rush
The HOF's notorious bias against progressive rock really stand out with the continual snubbing of Rush. The Canadian trio have never been much of a favorite with the rock critics, but their musical prowess and brainy lyrical content has garnered the band a legion of worldwide followers. Songs like "Tom Sawyer" and "The Spirit of Radio" have long been standards on classic rock radio. And even rock critics have had to give albums like 2112 and Moving Pictures their due.

2) The B-52's
The original New Wave feel good party band, which went on to inspire other Athens, Ga. bands like R.E.M. that they could make it big nationally. The group's music, which combined early-rock and roll influenced music with quirky lyrics, along with Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson's retro fashion stylings helped shaped the early New Wave scene and 80's pop music in general. Songs such as "Rock Lobster" and "Love Shack" have become party rock standards.

3) Joy Division/New Order
Combined as one entry here, as New Order formed out of the ashes of Joy Division after the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. As Joy Division, the group were one of the original post-punk bands out of England, paving the way for the dark underpinnings of Goth and future acts like Nine Inch Nails (which covered "Dead Souls" for the soundtrack to The Crow). The remainder of the group's core continued on as New Order, and helped influence the synth-based sound English New Wave became known for in the Eighties.

4) LL Cool J
The rapper has made the list of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finalists before, but somehow has yet to garner enough votes for election, which is a crime. LL Cool J was one of the artists who helped bring rap into the mainstream in the mid-to-late Eighties. Tracks like "Goin' Back to Cali" and "I Need Love" were among the first rap songs to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. He also managed to crossover into Hollywood, starring in several hit movies and TV shows, the current hit NCIS: Los Angeles among them.

5) Johnny RIvers.
The Georgia native had a string of hits in the Sixties, including "Secret Agent Man," and "Poor Side of Town." Rivers style ranged from rock hits like his cover of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" to blue-eyed soul with "Summer Rain," and "The Tracks of My Tears" (a Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' cover. He also produced early hits for The Fifth Dimension.

6) Tommy James and the Shondells.
One of the most successful American rock acts of the Sixties, James and his band recorded a slew of classics such as "Mony Mony" (made infamous in the Eighies by Billy Idol), "I Think We're Alone Now," and "Crimson and Clover." James has a solo hits in the Seventies, including "Draggin' the Line" (later recorded by R.E.M.)

7) Janet Jackson
Seriously, how is Janet Jackson not in the HOF? She laid the groundwork for late Eighties and early Nineties R&B the way older brother Michael did at the start of the decade. Seriously, has the "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl in 2004 ostracized her that much?

8) The Smiths
Arguably the ultimate British alternative band of the Eighites. (The Cure notwithstanding.) The Smiths combined the bitter and stinging lyrics of Morrissey with the tremendous guitar of Johnny Marr. "How Soon Is Now?" was one of the greatest rock achievements of the Eighties. The group continues to inspire the alternative artists of today.

9) Journey.
Three words: "Don't Stop Belivin'." If that's not enough, consider an utter landslide of pop-rock hits that made the San Francisco group one of the biggest bands of the Eighties.

10) Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Take away the cheesy Revoloutionary War costums the band was notorious for wearing, and you get what was probably one of the original Sixties' "garage rock" bands. Hits like "Kicks," and "Hungry" helped keep American rock music on the radio during the onslaught of the British Invasion of the Sixties.

Written or Contributed by: The Nacireman

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by **Timbales** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:17 am

I agree with the majority, but I think there are others the deserve to be there more than Janet Jackson, like Heart.

by **Juan Cena** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:29 am

Timbales wrote:I agree with the majority, but I think there are others the deserve to be there more than Janet Jackson, like Heart.

I'd put Janet in before Heart. She's the more influential of the two. Heart's good, but there are bands like Journey or Foreigner or Bad Company I'd put in before them.

by **eltopo** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:38 am

I'm not a fan but
Kiss really should be in there,they are and where a huge band

by **Juan Cena** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:41 am

eltopo wrote:I'm not a fan but
Kiss really should be in there,they are and where a huge band

They should. It's just the matter of all the rock critics who are voters being snotty for keeping them out. Though you probably have to think that the band's relationship with the press had something to do with it as well.

by **Keb** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:37 pm

Why isn't LL Cool J there? Because every record he's put out since Walking With a Panther has sucked arse. His last great album was his first album.

by **e_galston** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:09 pm

I agree with a lot of them.. I'm sure Janet will get her due in time. She's always gonna be in Michael's shadow though regardless of when she's inducted.

and i love that you included the b-52s..

by **Timbales** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:10 pm

when karaoke kicks off again next month, I'm going to do "Round the Way Girl"

by **Chesscub** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:47 pm

Moody Blues: Albums such as Seventh Sojourn and Days of Future Passed are highly influential.

by **Juan Cena** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:52 pm

Keb wrote:Why isn't LL Cool J there? Because every record he's put out since Walking With a Panther has sucked arse. His last great album was his first album.

Maybe, but singles like "Mama Said Knock You Out" and "Doin' It" were huge hits. And Goin' Back to Cali" may have been one of the only two good things about Less Than Zero. (The Bangles' version of "A Hazy Shade of Winter" being the other.

by **Juan Cena** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:53 pm

Chesscub wrote:Moody Blues: Albums such as Seventh Sojourn and Days of Future Passed are highly influential.

I thought about adding them, but I decided to try to add some less obvious choices.

by **eltopo** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:31 pm

Keb wrote:Why isn't LL Cool J there? Because every record he's put out since Walking With a Panther has sucked arse. His last great album was his first album.

but
he hat is like a shark fin
you gotta give him that

by **guitarsmashley** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:40 pm

why is he who will not be named writing anything about music?

by **Juan Cena** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:46 pm

guitarsmashley wrote:why is he who will not be named writing anything about music?

by **Keb** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:54 pm

The Nacireman wrote:
Maybe, but singles like "Mama Said Knock You Out" and "Doin' It" were huge hits. And Goin' Back to Cali" may have been one of the only two good things about Less Than Zero. (The Bangles' version of "A Hazy Shade of Winter" being the other.

He gets no respect in the hip hop community and since he dropped I Need Love is more of an RnB artist. Plus, the bullshit little beef he pulled on Canibus proves that he's a washed up man with muscles. He basically showed he was a bitchmade diva when removed Canibus's vocal from the track for the video and re-recorded his verse to diss Canibus. Then he made two shitty diss tracks (the one with Dre was lame as hell) and his tracks were basically him calling Canibus and Wyclef homos. Pretty lame IMO.

Dude gets no love in hip hop. If the Crock and Roll Hall of Fame wants to honor him, it just shows how much BS credibility those lames have. If they really want to induct a hip hop group (since they do it so they can keep it "even"), they should induct A Tribe Called Quest or De La Soul.

"When I was younger, I wanted to be LL Cool J. But then he started makin' records for the girls and shit, so I ripped up the Kangol and threw it away." - Sean Daley