Why even have a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vote?

[R00T]

I’m guessing many people in this thread haven’t been to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame proper. I was a member for several years, went multiple times each year and was able to get people in for free as a guest. Part of the reason that you don’t just have the most voted artist get in is that they focus on diversity of acts as well. It’s to prevent each year being an entire genre just being the only winners.

The Rock Hall also changed its mindset from just being only Rock and Roll to branch out to more styles. When you attend in real life and see the exhibits it makes a hell of a lot more sense. The primary focus is still Rock and Roll, but it highlights *how* we got there, including sections on early big band and blues to highlight the idea of music stars and pay homage to the genres that influenced rock.

One of the cooler exhibits just talks about the evolution of the tech involved in recording and goes down the list of nearly every iteration of recording mic used.

In the case of some artists too they hold off until their careers are a little more settled. Don’t Phish still show up at places no one asked them to and tune their instruments for 3 hours still?

 

[McMitch]

In the case of some artists too they hold off until their careers are a little more settled.

It’s still incredibly arbitrary when a lot of the greats have been stagnant for over forty years and only promoting the tracks that are in the 100-song rotation of every radio station and retail music player these days.

The only cool thing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ever did was fulfill Geddy Lee’s lifelong dream of playing in Yes:

And Roundabout was only their big song then because it was the ending theme in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

All award shows are fucking gay and "rock" is a meaningless descriptor now

 

[DoomsdayElite]

It was created by a bunch of boomer music "journalists", it never had any credibility.

 

[Calandrino]

the fuck's the point of giving out an award for being famous

 

[William Murderface]

I’m guessing many people in this thread haven’t been to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame proper. I was a member for several years, went multiple times each year and was able to get people in for free as a guest. Part of the reason that you don’t just have the most voted artist get in is that they focus on diversity of acts as well. It’s to prevent each year being an entire genre just being the only winners.

The Rock Hall also changed its mindset from just being only Rock and Roll to branch out to more styles. When you attend in real life and see the exhibits it makes a hell of a lot more sense. The primary focus is still Rock and Roll, but it highlights *how* we got there, including sections on early big band and blues to highlight the idea of music stars and pay homage to the genres that influenced rock.

One of the cooler exhibits just talks about the evolution of the tech involved in recording and goes down the list of nearly every iteration of recording mic used.

In the case of some artists too they hold off until their careers are a little more settled. Don’t Phish still show up at places no one asked them to and tune their instruments for 3 hours still?

Showing older blues and R&B and country acts that influenced rock is one thing. Shoving in modern pop or rap acts as though they are trailblazing rock acts is quite another. How many big rock acts are saying Cyndi Lauper or Outkast or Jay Z were huge influences on them or their style? If there was really a push for diversity of rock genres they would include stuff like heavy metal, surf rock, and foreign acts.

 

[R00T]

Showing older blues and R&B and country acts that influenced rock is one thing. Shoving in modern pop or rap acts as though they are trailblazing rock acts is quite another. How many big rock acts are saying Cyndi Lauper or Outkast or Jay Z were huge influences on them or their style? If there was really a push for diversity of rock genres they would include stuff like heavy metal, surf rock, and foreign acts.

Guess what. All of those genres have exhibits at the Hall of Fame. They have things like ska, reggae, jazz, bluegrass, Motown, etc etc…

And things like R and B and hip hop are included because they were influenced by rock. The cultural angst rock created is what allows rap to exist. If we were still doo whopping X woulda given us something a hell of a lot different.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Showing older blues and R&B and country acts that influenced rock is one thing. Shoving in modern pop or rap acts as though they are trailblazing rock acts is quite another. How many big rock acts are saying Cyndi Lauper or Outkast or Jay Z were huge influences on them or their style? If there was really a push for diversity of rock genres they would include stuff like heavy metal, surf rock, and foreign acts.

Cyndi was the image on the pamphlet that they gave out one year. Yes she is pop but she incorporated rock into it. She's even dipped into jazz and country.

Foreign acts would be interesting but they probably wouldn't do it because language barrier.

 

[Water 2.0]

>Joey Division
Corpo journos, please, I already hate you enough.

 

[TheGoodNamesHaveBeenTaken]

Museum started fake and gay "journalist" is fake and gay.
Many such cases.
Sad.