It’s called “Bullshit”!

Metallica has likened themselves to Rush before, and now, here they are, artists that look up to Rush getting inducted before Rush! Seriously, the RNR Hall of Fame must have their heads up their collective ass.

Over/Under on comment that state “RUN-DMC does not belong”

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? what a joke.

Many have considered it a joke, which of course it is not. Many have refused or only reluctantly accepted Hall of Fame mentions, maybe it is not vainglory at all. Think Neil Young induced late. Think several people. Think…

Um yeah. I love Metallica and all but this year should of been a Stooges year, Asheton notwithstanding. Jeff Beck is just another British blues rock clone. I’m sorry. It’s wanky and tired. I will give him his props, but not against the Stooges.

Here’s some bait for disco-haters … So did the Hall decide that once the Bee-Gees got in, disco had its representative and could be ignored? Between them Chic and Donna Summer might have been responsible for half of the best pop music of the mid to late ’70s. So now that the Hall has acknowledged that disco belongs (unless you think the Bee-Gees got in because of “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart”), what standard can it use to keep out the two greatest artists in the genre? I don’t get it.

Jeff Beck deserves this. The man is among the best, and most underrated guitarists ever.

and where’s The Cure?
and The Replacements?
both elgible and slightly more in the category of ‘rock;’ than Run DMC

DISCO SUCKS! Happy now, Brian(1/14, 6:00 EST)?
Chic? Donna Summer? Rock? Puhlleeez! It may be regarded as a joke by many, but it’s the ROCK AND ROLL hof, not the pop or disco or American music hof. It is my opinion that rap is a direct descendant of rock–perhaps a love child with r&b or some other mistress–and of course blues is the big daddy that spawned all modern American music forms. So they both belong. Disco, on the other hand, is like modern-day techno–a Frankenstein’s monster cobbled together from such disparate elements as 50’s-60’s girl-group pop, early synthesizers and, perhaps, The Vienna Boys’ Choir. In short, disco is a genre of its own, not a subset of rock. So it simply doesn’t belong.

Deep Purple?? Hello!! This so called Hall of Fame is a JOKE!!!!

The “Rock and Roll Hall of Shame” once again ignores the legions who should have been in there years ago.

Why don’t you guys listen to the people who have been on you for years to induct worthy artists you have ignored (just off the top of my head: MC5, Stooges, Moby Grape, KISS, Rush, Hall and Oates, etc…)

RNRHOF is elitist and should have the people vote and nominate the acts…not the 1,000 industry clowns you guys use to vote every year!

So, Tommy, because obviously deserving artists such as Rush, The Stooges, and Hall and Oates(your choice, not mine) have not been chosen (yet), the remaining inductions are invalid.

The Rock Hall commemorates Ron Asheton’s death by snubbing the Stooges yet again. Yes, Ron Asheton, who influenced and paved the way for countless Rock and Roll bands and musicians. Ramones, Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, The White Stripes/Jack White, Steve Albini, J Mascis/Dinosaur Jr, Joe Strummer, Kurt Cobain/Nirvana, Henry Rollins, Television, Spacemen 3, The Minutemen, and countless others.

And let’s not forget the R.E.M./Patti Smith “I Wanna Be Your Dog” performance last year…a not so subtle protest for The Stooges. I hope one of this year’s inductees plays a set of Stooges songs just to remind Jann what a gigantic fuck-up it is to leave the Stooges out of the Hall.

Well, there will be plenty of stooges there, just not of the musician variety.

The first two mentioned in this article’s title were shoo-ins, both well-deserved. The rest are dubious to ridiculous. Apparently the HOF can’t shake its addiction to coronating minor R&B (Womack) and doo-wop (Little Anthony) vets, and still acts like protopunk (Stooges) and disco (Chic) never happened. No serious historian of the music would ever argue that the former two artists were as influential as the latter, yet here we are. I’ve long been a slightly reluctant supporter of the Hall, but at this point its half-decade-and-counting slide into irrelevance seems not just inevitable but deserved. Dave Marsh, how do you sleep at night?

And, uh, Jeff Beck?? WTF?

“It is my opinion that rap is a direct descendant of rock–perhaps a love child with r&b or some other mistress–and of course blues is the big daddy that spawned all modern American music forms.”

Which is why they don’t pay you to write about rock and roll. Disco is the skeleton in the closet here – the early rap hits were all backed by disco rhythms. Just pull out any Sugar Hill record from 79-82…wait, you’ve probably never heard of Sugar Hill, right?

Get your facts straight before serving up your vaunted “opinion” – last thing the world needs is another ill-informed ideologue gumming up the forums. Dipshit.

You say that Run DMC isn’t rock?
They may be rappers/hiphop artists, but never, ever forget what they did with Aerosmith. That was the first time when Rap and Rock, the bloody enemies, the completely different genres were combined to one: a smash hit.