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    List of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers - including how many nominations it took them to get inducted.
    Future Inductees?
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    What are people talking about?

    About the 2026 Inductees, omar wrote:
    At this point, the Rock Hall still needs another 10–15 years to finish inducting most of the 90-00s rock acts that have both somewhat respectable critical acclaim (not too bad commercially) and somewhat respectable commercial success (not too badly reviewed), such as Smashing Pumpkins, Coldplay, Weezer, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park, No Doubt, Beck, Björk... Maybe even slower given committee is still very conservative.

    However, after that, where will the Rock Hall go?

    There are two obvious camps:

    1. Commercially successful but poorly acclaimed modern butt rock acts: Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, Creed, Goo Goo Dolls, and many others.

    2. Commercially not so obvious but critically well-acclaimed indie acts: earlier acts like Jeff Buckley, Pavement, and later acts like Wilco, Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and others.

    The Strokes somewhat fit into Group 2, but I believe they are big and influential enough to transcend that category and will be inducted anyway, regardless of whichever direction the Rock Hall ultimately goes.

    Which direction rock hall will go will depend on the makeup of next committee (after current head John Sykes and Rick Krim stepping down). Then it will decide the fate of lots of candidates falling into but not transcend over two groups. I am also curious to see for example Creed vs Vampire Weekend, and with most younger voters, who can get more votes?
    Wednesday, 07/22/2026 @ 14:05pm

    About Benson Boone, Jake Morin wrote:
    A tad early I'd say
    Wednesday, 07/22/2026 @ 13:44pm

    About Benson Boone, Jake Morin wrote:
    A tad early I'd say
    Wednesday, 07/22/2026 @ 13:44pm

    About The Song Project, Greg F wrote:
    Also

    Mono - Life in Mono (1996)
    Nanci Griffith - Love at the Five and Dime (1987)
    Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection (1976)
    Janis Ian - Stars (1974)
    Cher - Save Up All Your Tears (1991)
    Deanna Carter - Strawberry Wine (1996)
    Jungle Brothers - I'll House You (1988)
    Iron Butterfly - Soul Experience (1969)
    Wednesday, 07/22/2026 @ 12:47pm
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