It’s from this thread. I had forgotten how much that escalated. Haha.
Name 3 bands that aren’t in HOF….
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I don’t know if he’s an a\$$hole or not (I suspect he is). But he sucks.
I will give him some love for he and John Sykes creating one of the more iconic guitar riffs of the 80s.
Stone Roses
Stone Temple Pilots
Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Talking Heads, Modest Mouse, Pretenders, The The, Electronic, The Petshop boys, Oasis, Crowded House, The Cribs, et al)
Stone Temple Pilots
Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Talking Heads, Modest Mouse, Pretenders, The The, Electronic, The Petshop boys, Oasis, Crowded House, The Cribs, et al)
STP is a good one.
Tons of hits although the critics always took a dump on their records.
All of these. INXS & Oasis at the top.
I could listen to the Definitely Maybe album on repeat forever. But if I had one song to pick it would be Listen Like Thieves.
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Jethro Tull
Huey Lewis & the News
Billy Idol
Huey Lewis & the News
Billy Idol
The Scorpions aren't in? Wow. That rocks me like a hurricane.
REO Speedwagon.
The Hall is kind of a laughingstock. For years it was just whatever was obvious and obscure **** Jann Wenner liked, and he kept out tons of artists that should have obviously been in just because he didn't find them worthy.
Now they're trying to make up for that and pull in the money and interest so they're putting in country and rap and whatever comes next.
If you play something approaching rock and roll and you've filled up huge venues with fans you should probably be in. So the REO Speedwagons and Styx of the world should be in. Hell 3 Doors Down might qualify.
ETA Supertramp & Bryan Adams seem like no brainers to me.
The Hall is kind of a laughingstock. For years it was just whatever was obvious and obscure **** Jann Wenner liked, and he kept out tons of artists that should have obviously been in just because he didn't find them worthy.
Now they're trying to make up for that and pull in the money and interest so they're putting in country and rap and whatever comes next.
If you play something approaching rock and roll and you've filled up huge venues with fans you should probably be in. So the REO Speedwagons and Styx of the world should be in. Hell 3 Doors Down might qualify.
ETA Supertramp & Bryan Adams seem like no brainers to me.
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1, George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers
2. Johnny Rivers
3. Marshal Tucker and ole Toy Caldwell
2. Johnny Rivers
3. Marshal Tucker and ole Toy Caldwell
Reallly? Amanda was on their third album and it was awful (although Cool the Engines was pretty good). And they never really did anything after that (I mean they released a few albums but they didn't do anything).
And trust me when I tell you, you are most likely playing it wrong.Come on man. Smoke on the Water ! That’s still the only guitar riff I can play
well they sold more than 75 million albums and only 17 million albums were from their first album. I guess if you don't like them then that means they suck. got it.
That third album pretty much sucked, and I owned it and was excited to buy it when it came out.
If I remember correctly, a lot of it had been recorded quite a while before the release date. Kind of some dregs that didn't make earlier albums.
That said, Boston should be in the HOF based solely on the first album, which probably spawned more air guitar players than any other album in history (causing not an insignificant # of fender benders).
They haven't sold 75 million albums.
Boston - 17,000,000
Don't Look Back - 7,000,000
Third State - 4,000,000
Walk On 1,000,000
Everything else - <500,000
That's about 30,000,000 total with well over half from the first album, and a very strong downward trend for every album after the first one.
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Easy there plow boy, you didn't actually know him.
^^^^^THIS^^^^^ all day. I know their overall quantity of work is small but it was groundbreaking stuff and that debut album is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Exactly, and though they don't have an extensive catalog, their first 3 albums were all stacked with great songs. No fluff on those albums at all.
They should be in, IMO. The problem is that Tom Sholz is such a damn OCD perfectionists that it took him years to put together albums. You strike while the iron is hot and Scholz didn't do it . After Don't Look Back it would be another 8 years before they released Third Stage (which BTW, had more than just Amanda and CTE on it - Can'tcha Say, HollyAnn and I think I like it are good songs). Then it would be another 8 years after that before Walk On was released. By then music had changed and only the Boston purists listened to them and they couldn't hit mainstream radio but Walk On is a solid record. Corp. America and their last release (life, love, hope) aren't what I would consider great records. It's one of those things that if you like Boston, you'll like those records. If you don't you probably won't.
You are way in the minority there as Amanda was actually Boston's only #1 charting song.
I realize it was a big hit. But it was pure drivel.
According to wikipedia:
The band has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 31 million units sold in the United States, of which 17 million were the band's debut album, and seven million copies of the band's second studio album,
R&R HOF should be like the Golf HOF. In golf you win 15 tournaments or 2 majors, your in. If the artist sold X number of records they are in. Just come up with the number. There is not a better measurement of fame than that. You can have another group that gets voted in due to influence / excellence / innovation. Why do you take something that has all that objective information and turn it into a subjective issue?
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US sales of 31 million albums, with 17MM first album. Worldwide sales of 75MM, but no breakdown by album. So most likely about 40MM from first album.
It was an ok song in my book (Holly Ann and Cant'cha say much better ballads IMO) but what you're missing is that chicks loved it. I mean panty soaking wet loved it. That song led to a lot of guys getting laid in the mid to late 80's.