U2, Pretenders to enter rock and roll hall of fame

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

even though it's a meanigless ritual, i love the fact that my two favorite bands of all time are getting in, but how many times are they going to pass up my hero, patti smith? and the pistols are still being neglected?


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U2 to Enter Rock Hall
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6765107/u2?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion

The Pretenders, O'Jays, Guy, Sledge also to be enshrined

Also scheduled for induction at the institution's twentieth anniversary gala on March 14th are the 1970s soul group the O'Jays, U.K.-based New Wave group the Pretenders, blues guitarist Buddy Guy and R&B veteran Percy Sledge.

From their earliest days in post-punk Dublin, U2 -- whose latestalbum, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, debuted last month at Number One -- have been a rock band with a purpose. Beginning with the 1987 blockbuster The Joshua Tree, which won a Grammy for Album of the Year, the band became one of the first alternative acts to achieve classic-rock status, building a following that spans generations. Guitarist Dave "The Edge" Evans' frantic, chiming style has influenced countless successors, and singer Paul "Bono" Hewson has created a larger-than-life celebrity persona for himself, singing with Frank Sinatra and Luciano Pavarotti and making international news for his activism on behalf of reducing third-world debt.

The Pretenders, contemporaries of U2, were formed during the punk movement in England in 1978 by the American-born former rock critic Chrissie Hynde, who once worked in Malcolm McLaren's infamous boutique, Sex. Despite the drug overdoses of two of the group's founding members, guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon, the group went on to log six Top Forty hits, including "Back on the Chain Gang" and "I'll Stand By You."
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Approximately 700 music-industry figures vote each year on eligible nominees. Among the list of first-time candidates who did not receive enough votes for induction were Randy Newman, the J. Geils Band, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Past nominees who were again passed over this year include the Sex Pistols, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Stooges. Artists are eligible for induction to the Rock Hall twenty-five years after the release of their first album.

JAMES SULLIVAN
(Posted Dec 13, 2004)

[tjdee]

1. AWWWWWEEEESSSSOOMMMMMEEEEE

Very cool.
Very, very cool--wait, does this mean we're going to have to sit through No Doubt or someone singing U2 songs?

[Placebo]

2. Pretenders ROCK.

[complain jane]

3. Holy shit the Pretenders!

My all time favorite band (in junior high), I'm so friggen old.

[Deja Q]

4. It is meaningless. Eventually they'll run out of bands to put into the HoF

Heck, I'm amazed Jessica Ashlee Simpson isn't in the Hall of Fame yet.

[baldguy]

5. Chrissie Hynde is beautiful & sexy

OK, so I'm a pig - shoot me.

[Kikosexy2]

6. Yes,

Patti Smith rocks! But will Devo, The B-52s, Blondie ever make the cut? And yes, even....gasp! Madonna will be eligible soon! Unfortunately, the music-makers of today are sooooo baaaaadddd (Justin, Britney, Ashlee, Jessica, Backstreet Boys, Usher, et. al.) that the list of worthy nominees will be so small in the future. Thank God I grew up during the 60s, 70s & 80s--all the best music from those decades.

[joeybee12]

7. What about Donna Summer? I know it's disco, but most who make it

in really ain't rock anyway, like Aretha and Miss Ross.

[Kikosexy2]

9. But they're women...

who had great influence in rock, pop & R&B & country. When they induct these artists in, they're not just honoring rock 'n roll, they're honoring what influences it. That's why you have Aretha Franklin & the Supremes as well as other girl groups & soul artist such as Gladys Knight, Al Green, James Brown et al. inducted. So you'll see Madonna come up for consideration mixing sex, politics & religion into danceable pop--Donna Summer deserves a nod since she took a genre like disco (which is just danceable pop/R&B) into a whole different level. Linda Ronstadt deserves a nod as well for practically exploring all kinds of genres of music. Pat Benatar for bringing hard sounding rock back to women who know how to rock--especially Heart and Joan Jett. Also you have to consider longevity--like Bonnie Raitt, Aretha, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand, Etta James, etc.

[Forkboy]

8. Geez,they'll let anybody in that joint wont they?

:evilgrin:

[BurtWorm]

12. U2 beat the Sex Pistols into the Hall of Fame?!

The Pretenders beat the Stooges?!

:wtf:

What is a "rebellious" art form doing with a Hall of Fame anyway?

[Forkboy]

13. It's about as serious as the Grammys

:)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Or, "How a comma and capitalization can make all the difference." (nt)

[HughBeaumont]

11. R&R HOF HATES Prog Rock.

Since it's SO scenester and chic to rip on the genre. At least Rush ELP and Yes should have been nominated by now.

[MissMillie]

14. "I shot my mouth off...

... and he showed me what that hole was for."

I love The Pretenders first album.