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| About The Song Project, Rick Vendl II wrote: | |
| Any interest in July 2026 and beyond? Amy Grant - That's What Love Is For (1991) Amy Grant - Lucky One (1994) Breakfast Club - Right on Track (1987) Bryan Adams - One Night Love Affair (1984) Carole King - Only Love Is Real (1976) Chicago - Free (1971) Company B - Fascinated (1986) Expose - Let Me Be the One (1987) Gary U.S. Bonds - This Little Girl (1981) Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop (1960) Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle (1986) Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - Lost in Emotion (1987) Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly (1988) Oxo - Whirly Girl (1983) Perry Como - And I Love You So (1973) Rod Stewart - Baby Jane (1983) Survivor - I Can't Hold Back (1984) Survivor - Is This Love (1986) The Who - The Relay (1972) Utopia - Set Me Free (1979) | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 22:24pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Chris Lyons wrote: | |
| I'll nominate Minor Threat | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 20:50pm | |
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| About The Song Project, joker wrote: | |
| Johnny, I nominated these over the past few years: The Cyrkle - Turn-Down Day (1966) Keith - 98.6 (1967) Every Mother's Son - Come On Down to My Boat (1967) They would all have my vote. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 16:06pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, dmg wrote: | |
| if 3 Doors Down appears on the ballot I swear to god | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 15:01pm | |
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About the 2026 Inductees,  omar wrote: | |
| The Rock Hall committee is still too conservative. Even when it comes to 1990s artists, they seem determined to preserve the traditional rock sound by continuing to nominate retro-rock acts that evoke the "golden age of rock and roll." I wouldn't be surprised if they keep bringing back acts like The Black Crowes and Melissa Etheridge year after year. After that, they could easily move on to artists such as George Thorogood (though he is in 80s), Hootie & the Blowfish, Counting Crows, and even Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, The Wallflowers... This shows how the case of Black Crowes are weak, though they are most obvious choice that will be reminded of when people talking about retro rock in 90s, their streaming number, album selling and charts performance and hits in rock ratio in US is not much different to likes of Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, The Wallflowers... I won't be surprised by any name I mentioned that will be suddenly appeared on ballot. It feels like they're willing to dig deeper and deeper into the pool of classic-rock-oriented artists in order to keep that tradition alive. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 13:24pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Em wrote: | |
| I honestly recommend that FRL add a basic ignore function. It would be better for everyone. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 12:57pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Em wrote: | |
| I am pretty sure 5-10 years later likes of Tame Impala, Lana Del Ray will still be arena touring acts that have huge draw... We will see and I am pretty sure I will be right. Jim C is polluting this forum and insulting other people's IQ... It is really waste of time to even look his bullshit... Come on at this point can we have better to have ignore button to just mute this annoying user... I am tired of seeing his shit again and again. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 12:52pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Jim C. wrote: | |
| Taylor Swift is getting by on mediocre songs, but really, it is mostly pandering and this new generation's parasocial relationship with her. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/14/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-relatable-parasocial/ | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 12:21pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Jim C. wrote: | |
| Tame Impala will be a distant memory very soon. Music has never been more disposable. Trends and virality matter more. Rock acts that last 50-60 years isn't going to happen. The 90s acts that would be touring stadiums now all imploded. Look at albums now -> they are dumped and consumed in a week and people move on quickly. Band release multiple singles before the album comes out -> they get a lot of first week sales and then the album disappears. Metallica's 72 Seasons sold 373K in its first week and has around 843K pure album sales after 3 years. And Metallica has a huge brand and a fanbase that buys CDs. It is over for music. The future of music is very poor and you want to diminish big acts (the likes of which aren't ever going to be created again). You can deny it all you want but music has never been in worse shape. AI songs are good enough for some people. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 12:14pm | |
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| About Sting, omar wrote: | |
| Unfortunately, unlikely Phil Collins, or Peter Gabriel or Ozzy, his solo career is way overshadowed by the works of the Police. When thinking about Sting, everyone will think about "Every Breath you take" first | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 12:06pm | |
| Leave your own comment about Sting here. | |
| About Rock Hall Projected, Darren wrote: | |
| Some prominent artists from last year's Classic Alternative / Punk ballot that haven't been nominated yet this year (in case anyone is looking for nomination ideas): The Human League The Bangles Grace Jones Violent Femmes Iggy Pop Minor Threat Squeeze Erasure Joe Jackson The Fall | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 11:58am | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Lilly C. wrote: | |
| And yeah, I just saw JIm C.'s comment and it basically screams "HEY EVERYONE, I AM STUPID RACIST SEXIST MORON WHO DOESN'T LIKE WOMEN AND BLACK ARTISTS AND HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE IN MUSIC. AND ALSO I LIKE TO SMELL MY OWN FARTS." Like I said, he's useless and should leave the site forever. At this point, I now want Taylor Swift to get in (even though she's now 100% a lock) just to annoy Jim C. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 10:27am | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Lilly C. wrote: | |
| Em At this point, all of Jim C.'s advocacy is laughable. He'll come in and say something Winger should be in the Rock and Hall of Fame despite the fact that they are more well known as a cultural punching bag for Beavis & Butthead. I still remember him acting all irrational about Bad Bunny, which made see that his opinion is bad and not worth the time. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 10:22am | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Em wrote: | |
| Deacon It is more of personal taste to be honest. I can understand some people can't stand her music She is supported by major label to do indie music without charting hits, and still has very large audience. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 09:54am | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Timothy Pernell wrote: | |
| Clive Davis died Monday, leaving behind a complicated legacy - one that included him promoting and distributing lots of talent of various genres (especially R&B) to extreme commercial highs and another that saw him as an "exploiter" of said talent. Here are the artists he worked with that eventually got in the RRHOF (those he cultivated and those he reenergized past glories of, and some he tried to but ultimately failed): 1987: Aretha Franklin (an artist for Arista at the time of her historic induction; she was enjoying her biggest commercial success since the late 60s with albums like "Who's Zoomin' Who" and "Aretha 86", adding in a synthesized pop-rock sound into her trademark soul style, echoing what had happened with Tina Turner) 1993: Sly and the Family Stone (one of the acts Davis promoted when he was president of CBS Records - Sly recorded for the Epic subsidiary - the history between Davis and Sly was a complicated mess. By the time the act was inducted into the RRHOF, Sly had become a famous eccentric recluse, years away from his late 1960s and early 1970s commercial heights) 1994: The Grateful Dead (despite already being a successful act on Warner Bros. Records for a number of years and then signing albums on their own label, by the time their contract was sold off to Arista in 1976, the group was in need of a resurgence according to Clive and under his tutelage, the group enjoyed a series of hit albums, which culminated with the release of 1987's "In the Dark" and its hit single "Touch of Grey", which brought the legendary rock band their first top ten pop hit, their peak before founder Jerry Garcia's tragic 1995 death. Luckily Garcia was still around to smell the roses when the Grateful Dead was inducted in 1994.) 1995: Janis Joplin (another act he cultivated while at Columbia; it was Davis that saw Janis as a solo star away from her group Big Brother and the Holding Company and played an impact on Janis eventually leaving the group where she forged on a brief solo career that ended prematurely with her death at 27 in 1970 but also led to one of the first successful posthumous albums with "Pearl") 1998: Santana (the group had a long fruitful partnership with Clive going back to the late 60s when Clive was president of CBS, after the group signed with Arista, Clive assembled an all-star team of producers and artists such as Wyclef Jean and Rob Thomas to create their best-selling work "Supernatural".) 1999: Bruce Springsteen (though Clive left by the time "The Boss" became an iconic rocker, it was through Clive that Bruce got in the RRHOF, a fact that Bruce would remember. Bruce joined the long list of artists to praise Mr. Davis after his death Monday.) 2000: Earth, Wind & Fire (much like BRUUUUUUCE, the legendary Chicago funk and soul outfit also benefited from getting signed by Davis. Clive was gone by the time the band began finding success around 1974.) 2001: Aerosmith (one of the final acts Davis signed to Columbia before his departure at the end of 1973, the Boston rockers immediately found success afterwards and occasionally mentioned Clive by name on some of their songs) 2004: Prince** (another legend whose work with Davis deserves an asterisk in a similar way to Santana but almost in the reverse; Davis tried to revive Prince's career upon signing him in 1999 but Prince being Prince played mostly by his rules and as a result, while "Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic" was his first gold-certified album since 1996's "Emancipation", it was far from the success Clive hoped to have as he did with the then-current releases of Whitney Houston's and Santana's "comeback" albums.) 2005: The O'Jays (though they didn't work closely with Clive, it was Clive who distributed the group's label Philadelphia International through CBS. "Backstabbers" and "Love Train", probably the group's most iconic recordings, were released while Davis was still king of CBS. Ironically the group is the only Philadelphia International act inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame while other acts such as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass and Patti LaBelle have yet to get in.) 2007: Patti Smith (she made a little history as the first act who signed with Arista as a "new artist" to be inducted into the RRHOF - though it infamously took her seven attempts. It was Patti who inducted Clive into the RRHOF - after a tabloid-plagued Whitney Houston failed to show up due to mysterious circumstances.) 2009: Run-DMC** (the group were already legends by the time Clive acquired their label Profile Records and promised to make them commercially relevant to the current trends of mainstream hip-hop and rap rock but "Crown Royal" was the catalyst to him getting fired from Arista indicating "The Music Man" had lost his Midas touch - though his work on J Records proved they were wrong in that assessment.) 2012: Donovan (one of Clive's first acts he signed along with Sly and the Family Stone on CBS, he also helped to cultivate into a major rock success story.) 2016: Chicago (the group almost immediately found success after signing in 1968 leading to a series of commercially successful albums during and after Davis' tenure in CBS.) 2020: Whitney Houston (Clive's most famous signee instantly became one of the most successful recording artists in history as soon as she released her landmark 1985 self-titled debut, building from there. For 15 years, Houston was flawless under Davis' tutelage in a way few artists ever were (only one that had a similar flawless career was Mariah Carey), though it wasn't without some controversy. Whitney was one of the few that remained loyal to Clive even after he was kicked out of Arista - though he'd return in 2004 once L.A. Reid struggled to make anyone who wasn't Usher and Avril Lavigne successful, through her tragic (and to me mysterious and questionable) 2012 death, which was controversial after Clive literally kept his pre-Grammy party going. Still, Davis made countless interviews calling Whitney a "musical genius" up until his passing.) 2022: Carly Simon (much like Aretha, Santana and the Grateful Dead, Carly was another legend whose career Clive revived in the 80s.) 2024: Dionne Warwick (after the Grateful Dead, Dionne was another 60s legend whose career was revived by Clive after signing with him in 1979. Her rendition of "I'll Never Love This Way Again" earned her a new fan base as did 1982's "Heartbreaker" and 1985's iconic "That's What Friends Are For".) 2026: Luther Vandross (another legendary career that was flagging by the time he signed with Clive - this time to J Records. Luther was actually one of the first acts signed there in 2000 though his first J album (the self titled effort) wouldn't come out until 2001. But it led to him reaching the top 40 on the pop charts for the first time since 1994 and his first platinum album since 1996's "Your Secret Love" - ironically his sole 1998 Virgin album, "I Know", only managed a gold certification, the only Luther release to do so. Luther enjoyed a number one double platinum album with "Dance with My Father" while the title track was a successful crossover hit, albeit this was accomplished after Luther suffered a massive stroke that he never fully recovered from, later dying in 2005.) ** - acts whose careers failed to get reignited by Clive So that's 18 acts, including 16 who enjoyed successful careers with Clive, including seven Arista acts, eight Columbia acts and one from J Records. One Arista act that might never ever see a RRHOF induction despite his successful career is Barry Manilow lol | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 09:44am | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Deacon wrote: | |
| Em, Charli XCX has to be an industry plant. No one with that annoying of a voice should be famous. Nails on a chalkboard. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 09:38am | |
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| About The Famous Flames, Bill G wrote: | |
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbL3M4UrI0 So now ladies and gentlemen it is star time, are you ready for star time? Thank you and thank you very kindly. It is indeed a great pleasure to present to you at this particular time, national and international[ly] known as the hardest working man in show business, the men that sing "I'll Go Crazy" ... "Try Me" ... "You've Got the Power" ... "Think" ... "If You Want Me" ... "I Don't Mind" ... "Bewildered" ...the million dollar seller, "Lost Someone" ... the very latest release, "Night Train" ... let's everybody "Shout and Shimmy" ... Mr. Dynamite, the amazing Mr. Please Please Himself…the STAR of the show… JAMES BROWN and THE FAMOUS FLAMES !! | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 09:27am | |
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| About The Song Project, Johnny wrote: | |
| Is anyone interested in these songs for the 1960s Song Vote? The Beatles - You Won't See Me (1965) The Cyrkle - Turn-Down Day (1966) Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny (1966) Keith - 98.6 (1967) Every Mother's Son - Come On Down to My Boat (1967) | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 07:50am | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Michael W. wrote: | |
| I'll nominate 10,000 Maniacs for this round. If Jack Antonoff advances through the tiebreaker, I'll put up Benny Blanco as a replacement. | |
| Wednesday, 06/24/2026 @ 07:10am | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Em wrote: | |
| Likes of Lana Del Rey and Charli XCX as well. They both operate without consistently charting major hits, yet they remain huge and relevant artists, selling out arena tours. And you seriously think their relevance to people today is somehow less than that of a C-tier rock act to people in the 1970s or 1980s? If you really think so, then you're basically just yelling, "I won't listen, I won't care, my favorite white corporate rock bands were the best of the best." At that point, your argument becomes laughable. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 23:51pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Em wrote: | |
| Jim C -> You're not really engaging with what I'm saying. You're just repeating yourself. Honestly, this is starting to sound less like an argument and more like someone being upset that the world moved on. For example, Tame Impala can operate without charting hits, maintain an indie music orientation, and still be a very big arena/stadium-level act, with longevity, popularity, and a huge audience (Their monthly listeners on Spotify are more than Linkin Park). | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 23:40pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Lax43 wrote: | |
| My pick for the classic alternative/punk nominations is: Sarah McLachlan She fits in since her first album was completed in 1988. So, it makes sense to put McLachlan in this way. My nomination for the side performers category is: James Ingram I think this fits since the only James Ingram hit, I can think of that was not a duet or part of a collaboration was I Don't Have the Heart in 1990. So again, this seems legitimate. Persistence= Success, eventually, Lax43 | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 20:46pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Denis wrote: | |
| Early Influence: Arthur Alexander Mississippi John Hurt Tony Sheridan Long John Baldry Manfred Mann Performer Bob Geldof & Boomtown Rats | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 20:13pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Mason wrote: | |
| I'll go with Gary Numan for this round | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 19:15pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, jtrichey wrote: | |
| Nomination: Madness | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 19:10pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Jim C. wrote: | |
| Saxon is unknown in America. You can't even get a sales number (likely well under a million sales in their peak 80s prime). Watching American Idol or the nightly news, people are not going to know who Saxon is or even care to find out. Music history vs commerce -> there is no reason to ever nominate them. Em -> Real record sales vs streams are not equivalent in the slightest. Artists nowadays are way more throwaway. There is way less investment in acts (Taylor Swift / Lady Gaga / Adele were the last pop stars of the CD era). You stream a hot song and move on. Look at Lizzo, Iggy Azalea, Meghan Trainor, and many more. They had some hit songs, but no real fanbase. You could withstand bad albums or no hit songs in the past -> now you are dead after one album with no hits. Look at Halsey -> the record company won't even finance a new album. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 19:02pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Casper wrote: | |
| My nomination is Dinosaur Jr. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 18:31pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Greg F wrote: | |
| My nomination is The Waterboys. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 16:32pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Alec T wrote: | |
| If you know about the New Wave of British Heavy Metal you would know how important Saxon is | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 15:07pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Raichu wrote: | |
| My nomination: Misfits | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 14:53pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Nick B. wrote: | |
| Hi Darren - only replace Allee Willis as my non-performer pick if Linda Perry is one of the tiebreaker votes. If Perry loses, I will stick with her for the next round. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 14:19pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Em wrote: | |
| What you actually miss is the era when white rock functioned as a monoculture, or more accurately, the monoculture of a particular segment of white America. In that era, white artists sales and chart performance were artificially amplified by the industry's structure. During the 1970s, Black R&B artists with comparable chart success often sold far fewer records than white rock acts. Like Marvin Gaye sold less albums than ... Boz Scaggs... Even into the 1980s, many Black radio stations were not even counted by billboard main charts, which significantly suppressed the chart performance of numerous Black artists. The real issue is that you cannot accept the music and culture that came after your youth. What you are nostalgic for is the corporate white rock that dominated when you were young. As a result, you feel compelled to dismiss artists who fall outside that narrow frame of reference, whether they are from the 1960s and early 1970s (rnb or rock), or from the many genres and scenes that emerged after the 1980s not in corporate rock umbrella. That's why the entire premise of your argument falls apart. The claim that a C-tier white rock band from the 1970s or 1980s had more cultural impact than today's biggest artists is not an objective observation. It's a nostalgia-driven judgment rooted in an aging white-centric perspective and an inability to separate personal taste from cultural reality. What you can't accept is just your white corporate rock monoculture has been declining. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 13:59pm | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, Jim C. wrote: | |
| Outside of Jeff Ament, most musicians have no clue who to induct. Accept or Saxon vs. Scorpions? Let me think. Em -> You need to realize even being a C-tier rock act in the 1970s or 1980s provided way more reach and impact than being a headliner now. It is not even comparable in the slightest. Music has massively declined and is still continuing to decline. Podcasting is outpacing music. https://www.insideradio.com/free/data-shows-podcasts-are-winning-the-battle-for-attention/article_871ddc1f-117f-4fd5-a70a-9bd8fa26e5ca.html | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 13:13pm | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, KING wrote: | |
| KING Classic Alternative/Punk Selection. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) KING | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 12:38pm | |
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| About Youssou NDour, Jason wrote: | |
| I hope he can be recognized at some point Bigger African musician in US/UK aside from Fela Kuti If there is international category in the future, he is very suitable candidate | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 11:48am | |
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| About The Oak Ridge Boys, Roy wrote: | |
| Elvira | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 09:51am | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Ian wrote: | |
| Wow, didn't imagine Dolemite would get spanked like that. Going to switch my Influence nominee back to Ennio Morricone. My Classic Alternative/Punk nominee is They Might Be Giants. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 09:47am | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, John R.C. wrote: | |
| Classic Alternative/Punk Nominee: Happy Mondays I'm gonna replace my nomination of Jon Savage with a new one: Non-Performer: Mustard (or DJ Mustard if you preferred that) | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 09:47am | |
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| About Rock Hall Projected, Tom H. wrote: | |
| Performer: Midnight Oil Influence: Tampa Red | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 09:47am | |
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| About the 2026 Inductees, EJ wrote: | |
| Omar, Anita Baker should 100% be inducted based on her influence to other R&B artists over the last few decades. | |
| Tuesday, 06/23/2026 @ 09:44am | |
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