Complete garbage.

I mean I could go on and on. The Live at Carnegie Hall box set was EPIC.

Perhaps you’re thinking of the “Cock’ n ‘Hole” hall of fame. Kiss is a charter member.

In fact, Paul Stanley occupies a flat directly above the main atrium.

It’s a lifetime lease, sadly.

On the other hand, the fact that influential and commercially successful bands like Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and Yes haven’t been inducted into the Hall of Fame is a travesty. I’d include Roxy Music as a fine example of glam-era rock, and maybe Rush, as much as I dislike them, if only for their career longevity and influence.

Then, of course, there’s Motorhead. If there was ever a band that epitomized the invincible rock & roll, road warrior spirit, it’s Lemmy the K and his merry men. “No sleep ’til Cleveland!” will be our battle cry…induct Motorhead!

And Hall & Oates were the fourth-most successful artists of the 80s, right?

Also, KISS!

@FionaScrapple: Whoa…Jackson Browne was pretty amazing early on and worked with such total cheeseballs as Nico and Tim Buckley.

Someday Jann Wenner will die and Kiss WILL be inducted. Oh yes, it will happen.

But I generally agree that as long as that cuntfart Jann Wenner is calling the shots, the RnR HoF will be a tribute to his coke buddies from the ’70s, so fuck ‘em.

I’m still unsure as to why anyone gives a shit about it other than the bands in it and the friends of Werner who vote them in. The best thing is people who poo-poo it and then launch into a lengthy diatribe about how it’s a crime against humanity that _______ is in while Mungo Jerry or Five Man Electrical Band or The Blues Magoos wait outside with their faces pressed to the windows.

The only thing I see the RnRHOF has is a way for boomers to reassure themselves that their generation rocked harder than anyone else and that MTV ruined everything (Madonna and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s token places excepted.)

    Out of the big list in the post above, I’ll go along with Boston, Deep Purple, ELO, Heart, and Yes. Just had some Yes in my car CD player this afternoon:

The Faces.

Randy Newman.

Roy Wood.

The Monkees, fer chrissakes.

And HELL YES Grand Funk Railroad!

And believe me, I’m one with no problem with Madonna being in. It’s just that these, and many of the other acts listed above, should be in as well. There’s just too much hipper-than-thou bullshit going on in the voting process.

A couple of brief points:

1. There is no “voting public”; nominations and finals voting have always been handled by an elite (elitist?) rockcrit/industry committee.

2. Gallo’s they’re-too-young argument is clearly spurious; a bias toward younger acts is not one of the Hall committee’s problems. Quite the opposite.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to run the other way before the rockist crowd comes swarming in here with their anti-Madonna theories.

There’s goes my shot at ever getting to vote.