F--- The Hall

[Obscured]

N.W.A. gets in before Yes along with Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Puple and Steve Miller. I have nothing else to say.
http://abc7ny.com/entertainment/nwa-...-hall/1126078/

[BravadoNJ]

i had a feeling that Yes would be snubbed even though they got more votes then the other inductees.
but adding insult to injury- they keep letting artist that are not in the Rock & Roll genre in.

[Flightwave]

HOF is a bunch of garbage anyway. I don't need them to affirm what musicians are stellar or not. That's what my ears are for.

[whoislikegod]

Apart from NWA, all of the inductees are worthy, especially Purple who should have been there back when Zep and Sabbath were inducted.

[battema]

GODDAMNITSOMUCH R&RHOF...

[dgtlman]

NWA? Whatever. Just amazing!

[Scott Bails]

N.W.A. has been elected to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

In other news, Wilt Chamberlain has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

[fingertrick]

Being a fan of progressive music is like being a member of an exclusive club in some ways.
My wife tells me, down deep I really don't want the general population to accept or like the kind of music I listen to ...
It would ruin my elitist standing.
Maybe she's right.
Therefore, affronts and comparisons to pond scum should be worn like a badge of honor by bands like KC and YES.
Although, the reality that YES actually performed on Mike Huckabee's TV show a few years back might have factored into the RRHOF's decision.

[Lopez]

So what else is new?

[miamiscot]

I'm ashamed to be an Ohioan. YES will never get in. If they couldn't kick the door down this year after the tragic passing of the Mighty Chris Squire, then they obviously never will. I've been to the Hall once and was actually looking forward to going again but I don't think I can step foot in that place after this travesty.

Oh well. Yes is, and always will be, my band and I really don't want to share them with the unwashed masses anyway.

[Scott Bails]

I'm ashamed to be an Ohioan. YES will never get in. If they couldn't kick the door down this year after the tragic passing of the Mighty Chris Squire, then they obviously never will.

I'm sure Purple fans thought that after Jon Lord's passing.

[Rand Kelly]

Genesis and Rush,but no Yes? Completely illogical.

[bob_32_116]

Of course NWA should in the Hall of Fame - but so should Yes.

But... the R&RHOF is irrelevant, right? That's what people keep saying, yet they seem to care an awful lot about who is in and who is out.

[Mister Triscuits]

F--- The Hall

...with boughs of holly?

[paythesnuka]

Can we get past that fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is electing bands that don't fall under the rock and roll category. From the very beginning, the RnRHOF has inducted bands that are not rock and roll bands. Get over it. Would there be anyone crying about NWA getting in if Yes DID get in?

I'm actually shocked Janet Jackson didn't make it. Glad to see Purple and Chicago go in.

[Scott Bails]

Can we get past that fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is electing bands that don't fall under the rock and roll category.

No. Can't do it.

Would there be anyone crying about NWA getting in if Yes DID get in?

Absolutely.

[Gizmotron]

Being a fan of progressive music is like being a member of an exclusive club in some ways.
My wife tells me, down deep I really don't want the general population to accept or like the kind of music I listen to ...
It would ruin my elitist standing.
Maybe she's right.
Therefore, affronts and comparisons to pond scum should be worn like a badge of honor by bands like KC and YES.
Although, the reality that YES actually performed on Mike Huckabee's TV show a few years back might have factored into the RRHOF's decision.

This.

[dgtlman]

F--- The Hall

...with boughs of holly?

LOL. I thought of that very same thing!

[Gruno]

"F--- The Hall"

...but, if Yes were to have been gifted with an induction, somehow "F--- The Hall" would not be said and this thread not exist?

[mnprogger]

NWA got in because of that BIOPIC that came out over the Summer.

they did awful in the Fans Poll, which shows how little that 1 vote is actually worth.

[PeterG]

F--- The Hall

...with boughs of holly?

aaaghhh ,you beat me to it, that was my immediate reaction.

[3LockBox]

As the Prog Turns. I didn't care last year or ten years ago or last month... still don't. I mean, what Yes band members are getting in? All of them, some of them? Yes membership been a convoluted mess for decades. Not surprised they didn't get in and not sorry I don't have to explain their soap opera dealings to my friends. A lot of gnashing of teeth for something that's alleged to be irrelevant.

[PeterG]

Really though? Who cares? Hasn't it been established enough times on this forum and in numerous musical periodicals that the HOF is a joke and not taken seriously by serious musicians.

If I was of a cynical nature, I might suggest that the record company chucking the biggest bung at the HOF board members/voting committee or whatever it's called might get one of their artists inducted into the HOF.

[Gruno]

they did awful in the Fans Poll, which shows how little that 1 vote is actually worth.

That's been my point all along. All the poll did was generate traffic to RollingStone.com. Some fans became obsessed with the fan poll and acted as if gaining percentage points was a huge victory in climbing that Hall of Fame wall. The Hall will vote in who they want and when they want; there is no mathematical way around it.

[GuitarGeek]

Can we get past that fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is electing bands that don't fall under the rock and roll category. From the very beginning, the RnRHOF has inducted bands that are not rock and roll bands. Get over it. Would there be anyone crying about NWA getting in if Yes DID get in?

I'm actually shocked Janet Jackson didn't make it. Glad to see Purple and Chicago go in.

I think it's funny that everyone keeps throwing shit fits about rap groups getting inducted but nobody seems to care that James Taylor is in there. Coincidence? I don't think so.