Eminem is a lock, I don't think that needs much debate.

It will interesting to see if the Hall is caught up enough on its backlog by this time to even consider Belle & Sebastian or Modest Mouse, two quite deserving and charming bands that suffer from their indiedom but make up for it by remaining (comparatively) relevant.

I don't think they will be, as all of the years prior to this except 2018 offer no fewer than 2 essential first-year inductees (and this is on top of the continuing backlog queue).

Posted by Paul K on Wednesday, 05/28/2014 @ 04:21am

Aside from Eminem, who’s a first-ballot lock, it’s tough to see anyone getting in from this year. Shakira’s obviously a popular hero, but does not have any major contributions in a purely musical sense, whilst Neutral Milk Hotel and Belle and Sebastian would now be obscure to most.

In a manner reminiscent of the writings of J.D. Unwin six decades before, the radical individuoegalitarianism of the Boomers seems to have lost its creative spark just as this class (and perhaps the previous one which I have not yet looked at) emerged.

The early 1990s was an undoubted high point of creativity in rock music which I never heard from Melbourne’s suburban cloisters.

It saw the culmination of a cultural revolution that extreme conservatives of the 1980s wished to reverse with spending cuts and poll taxes to restrict lower-class voting but never could because the workers had understood that radical individualism was a perfect complement to their long-desired radical egalitarianism.

Posted by Julien Peter Benney on Saturday, 12/10/2016 @ 18:29pm

Modest Mouse is a darkhorse for this year, IMO. Not 1st ballot or anything like that, but someday if they keep doing what they are doing.

Posted by Paul in KY on Monday, 12/12/2016 @ 08:49am

Wilco - 2021

Posted by Kevin Kalal on Wednesday, 10/30/2019 @ 18:24pm

why aren't the monkees in the rock hall? along with gary puckett?

Posted by georgy on Sunday, 10/25/2020 @ 22:42pm

So you updated things.

Posted by Garrus on Monday, 12/14/2020 @ 21:25pm

Three Dog Night ?

Posted by Clark Willis on Thursday, 02/11/2021 @ 10:44am

I really don't know why the Backstreet Boys haven't been added, they really deserve it since they are one of the most famous boy bands of all times, I was really surprised when I noticed they weren't in the Hall of Fame.

Posted by JP SIGALA on Wednesday, 04/21/2021 @ 10:52am

This page needs to be removed

Posted by Garrus on Sunday, 08/8/2021 @ 17:51pm

FFS.... this just keeps getting more pathetic ..... there are so many glaring and embarrassing ( to the very ideals of the organisation) that you put out these lists of "are you kidding" and " who the Eff are they" ....... If only there was a way to cleanse the BS that has already infected the sanctity of the original idea. Do the right thing and end this farce, change the name of the joint to 'A Music Museum with Varied Genres"......

Posted by Heeza Hore on Monday, 12/6/2021 @ 18:31pm