Andy Greene of Rolling Stone reports:
The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014 are in, and the list includes Nirvana, KISS, the Replacements and Hall and Oates. The rest of this year’s hopefuls include the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, LL Cool J, N.W.A, Link Wray, the Meters, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Yes and the Zombies. The top vote-getters will be inducted in April at a ceremony in New York City.
For the second consecutive year, the public gets to vote alongside the artists, historians and music industry insiders of the Rock Hall voting body. From now until December 10th, fans can vote on RollingStone.com for the nominees they’d like to see inducted. The top five acts will comprise a “fan’s ballot” that will count as one of the more than 600 ballots that determine the Class of 2014.
In order to be eligible for this year’s ballot, artists or bands need to have released their first single or album in 1988 or earlier. Many of the nominees have appeared on previous ballots, but this is the first appearance for Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, the Replacements, Linda Ronstadt, Link Wray, Cat Stevens, Yes and the Zombies. (Gabriel was inducted as a member of Genesis in 2009.)
Nirvana is the only act this year to land on the ballot in its first year of eligibility. Their cover of Love Buzz by Shocking Blue was their first single, hitting stores in late 1988.
If Yes are inducted, it might lead to their first performance with original singer Jon Anderson since 2004. “I don’t have any anger about our exclusion,” Yes bassist Chris Squire told Rolling Stone in 2011. “But it would be a magnificent thing if they would include every member of Yes – I think there’s about 19 or 20 of us.”
source: rollingstone.com
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NO ONE GETS IN. THEY ALL TOOK STEROIDS THE BASTARDS.
Dammit Richman those test results were supposed to remained sealed as per the union agreement. And some of those bands didn’t even know they were on roids. They were just taking stuff that their cousins gave them back in the Dominican.
Very funny!!!!!!!!
f&*$ k the r& r hof!!
Kurt Cobain was a huge KISS fan and Dave Grohl was, and still is a huge KISS fan. Says it all doesn’t it?
KISS is one of the most influential bands on this planet. The fans LOVE them. Critics HATE them. Why? Because KISS never needed them. KISS are the epitome of Rock and Roll rebellion. They took the Rock and Roll rule book and ripped it to shreds. One would think for that reason alone – the musical elites would appreciate them. So, having said that – the voting committee will of course welcome in Cat Stevens.
Their omission of true Rock legends such as KISS, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, etc is astonishingly arrogant and childish. We ( the fans ) know the voting committee are idiots. The problem is there is nothing we can do about it. They’re like bad university teaches with tenure.
So on induction night, grab a cold one, some pop corn, and watch the ceremony, as they induct some band or artist you’ve likely never heard of.
KISS are the epitome of Rock and Roll rebellion. They took the Rock and Roll rule book and ripped it to shreds.
Can you elaborate on that for me Tony? That’s a lofty claim.
I’ll defend Tony on the basis that nobody did what KISS did in the 70’s when they first came out. Not even the New York Dolls took it to that level. Haters wouldn’t even listen to their music and panned it because of their schtick, but they wouldn’t change it. As Paul Stanley says ‘we wanted to be the band that we never got to see’. They spent money on stage designs and costumes that most bands would rather keep in their own pockets. KISS was the first marketing machine outside of The Beatles and Elvis. Their music was good to (first 6 albums plus the live albums). People can hate on them all they want, but 40 years later they’re still here and they’re still doing the same thing. I won’t call them influential – but clearly alot of artists who rose up in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and even today were fans. So in a way, they are an epitome of rock n roll rebellion. They certainly didn’t take the easy way when they first came out.
DR: How is marketing and merchandizing “rock and roll rebellion?” I guess if you look at Woodstock and the “Counter culture” – i.e. the anti-corporate, anti-establishment culture, KISS certainly was very rebellious. They basically said screw the hippie-ethic, let’s bring good old greed right back into the equation.
FUCK Nirvana
Nirvana is an automatic, whether you like them or not. They might have been the most influential rock band of the 1990s. They SINGLEHANDLY MADE HAIR METAL UNCOOL! Their was hard rock and metal pre-Nirvana and post-Nirvana. Way more influential than KISS by the way. It’s not even close. Nirvana was a game changer. And I don’t care if some 14 year old kid who just started playing guitar can play their stuff. It wasn’t complex, but they changed the music world.
Ill NEVER understand how someone like Chaka-kan gets in before the likes of Rush, KISS, Deep Purple ect. Oh, BTW I see that Judas Priest is ONCE AGAIN left off…only been around for 40 plus years! What the hell do I know anyways!!!!!!!!
Amen Scott! Get the Priest in there! Priest took Deep Purple and Sabbath to a whole new level. No one had the power and range of Halford’s voice and the dual guitarists, leads and lics were something original. Maybe some day…but like you, what the hell do I know anyways!!!