Wendy Carlos

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1991

First Recording: 1965

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Wendy Carlos
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
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🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys
✅Grammy HoF Album
Grammy Hall of Fame AlbumsClass
Switched-On Bach (1969)1999
Essential Albums (?)WikiVinylYouTube
Switched on Bach (1968)☆ ☊
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969)☆ ☊
Sonic Seasonings (1972)☆ ☊
A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos' Complete Original Score (1972)☆ ☊
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) (1972)☆☊
Main Title (The Shining) (1980)☆☊

Wendy Carlos @ Wikipedia

Will Wendy Carlos be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Commenting cause I feel this is worth discussing post-Kraftwerk.

While Wendy feels outside of the loop of what came after her (eg the previously mentioned Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream) it is important to remember she did influence them and other. Giorgio Moroder has stated he discovered the synth because of Switched on Bach. While she had limited impact on what happened with the synth, she definitely opened the door for it.

There's also the recent comments from Arca calling Carlos a role model and Carlos re-entering the spotlight as artists like Arca, Vektroid, 100 Gecs, Sophie, and Dorian Electra have in some media outlets opinion have returned trans people to the forefront of electronic music with Carlos as the godmother of the genre.

With that I would argue her influence is at least 20.

Her innovation is a 30, commercial and critical are at least 10 to 15s if we count her works with Stanley Kubrick, which are quite popular to this day.

I think she's an ideal early influence contender, someone outside of the box who had a lot of influence on it.

Posted by Mat R on Saturday, 01/8/2022 @ 12:40pm

I would put her soundtrack work in there, too.

Posted by Alex Stockwell on Wednesday, 04/12/2023 @ 23:25pm

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