Instead of coming up with my own introduction to the predictions below, I humbly suggest you check out Anthony Cartouche's write-up for a much more detailed and interesting explanation. But for now, the lazy man version:
A local classic rock station has started announcing the inductees to their own 'rock hall' -- The Hall of Fame of the People, dammit! -- voted on by the hard-workin', middle-aged, blue-collar listeners of Northeast Ohio, all with the chance to win a Wii, which is what all hard-workin', middle-aged, blue-collar listeners want. Gotta do something while jamming to The Wall, no?
The inductees so far:
1. Led Zeppelin
2. The Beatles
3. Pink Floyd
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Eric Clapton
My predictions:
6. AC/DC
7. The Who
8. Boston
9. Van Halen
10. ZZ Top
Monday, March 10, 2008
"I'm a white male age eighteen to forty-nine fifty-nine, everyone listens to me!"
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We want Jim Morrison, we want Jim Morrison!
Lists are stupid. But if they were not,
Captain Beefheart
Traffic
John Mayall
The Faces
The Zombies
Savoy Brown
Wishbone Ash
Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Aerosmith
Boston
Jimmi Hendrix
The Who
I am so un-cool in this department, but you still like me right?
Dead Kennedys
Circle Jerks
The Germs
Avengers
Television
Wang Chung
I think your predictions sound pretty right on, but I fear I am limited where music appreciation is concerned. I love music, I appreciate it, but my comparative knowledge, etc. is weak.
Rock on. Get that Wii, you wannabe blue-collar Ohioan!! :)
Helloooo!
Spinal Tap.
"You can't really dust for vomit."
I was also going to add Weezer, but wasn't sure if I'm the only one who listens to them anymore. I forgot about Dead Kennedys, too...but fairlane remembered them. I also like Phish, but that's kinda local and you have to be higher than a kite to enjoy them.
Ooo, I second Dean. Spinal Tap!
And Boston. But only because of "Amanda," the most un-Boston song of all the Boston songs.
Obviously, my knowledge of rock and roll is pretty weak.
Salut,
Marjorie
Hey, where is Randal today? He must have the day off. I'll bet he's running around naked while chasing his wife. You'd think he'd rather be blogging. Sheesh.
I agree with all ten you have up there. But if fairlane wants wang chung. I say Stone Temple Pilots.
Kinks
Jeff Beck
Mothers of Invention
Sex Pistols
R. Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders
5 more reasons why I wear an i-pod at work.
ABBA
Wham
The Bee Gees
Gloria Gaynor
Whoever sings that "I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt" song.
Oh wait, that was the list I heard on my area's quirky radio banter. Top five gayest bands/ artists. (Really.)
frederick, oh shit, that's not a bad choice. But we must remember, this isn't a list of what WE want, but what the average classic rock listener wants.
okjimm, only Traffic and the Kinks really get played - and barely at that - on that station. And lists are one of the greatest inventions of all time! Blasphemy!
me, some of those are already one there, though. ;-)
fot, uncool? I listen to metal, the red-headed stepchild of music. Don't worry, you're still groovy.
fairlane, I guarantee that the only band on your list that maybe, maybe, has been played on this station at one point was Wang Chung. Maybe. Maybe.
b, I guess I don't know my classic rock listeners as well as I thought. #6 was The Eagles! And the contest is long over, so no Wii for me.:(
dean, "It's very pretty." "This piece is called Lick My Love Pump."
me, no Weezer on this station either.
marjorie, I'm just trying to think of what gets played a lot because apparently, that's what the people dig since they still listen, damn Clear Channel corporate crap.
me, I DID have the day off but I was recuperating from shoveling by doing absolutely nothing. ;-)
mathman, I don't think STP got played, certainly not Sex Type Thing, because the only bad word that corporate radio allows that I can recall is "bullshit" in Pink Floyd's Money.
susan, you can't go wrong with that. I just have my CDs burned on my hard drive. The classical station is about the only one I'll listen to.
FB, Right Said Fred! And wait. Andrew Ridgley is gay? With those crushing power chords?
Sounds like a shitty station.
Ya, what Fairlane said, sounds like a shitty radio station. It is why god invented CD players for cars!
Exactly. When I want to get my Zeppelin on, I have their albums on CD. And I'm permitted to listen to something other than Whole Lotta Love if I so choose.
Democracy. *sniff* She's beautiful, ain't she.
I like all the groups listed in your post except one: Boston?? God I hated that group.
Lots of excellent choices in the comments.
Instead of a list, I'm just gonna name 2 unknown/forgotten '60s groups who were playing heavy metal a long time before the term was invented:
The Music Machine. Anyone who could listen to "Talk Talk" on the car radio without doing drum solos on the dashboard and the steering wheel, was a better man than I.
13th Floor Elevators. Their song "You're Gonna Miss Me" was part of the "High Fidelity" soundtrack. Sounded sort of like the early Rolling Stones but much much harder rocking.
If we are talking about NE Ohio, does that include Dayton? If it does, how could we ignore Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices! Well, they're one of my all-time favorite bands, anyway, from 1997 up until the time they split up a couple years ago.
I could make a case for any of the following:
Pollard/GbV
Velvet Underground/Lou Reed
XTC
Neil Young
Warren Zevon
Led Zeppelin
Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention
The Who
Bob Dylan
Yo La Tengo
Van Morrison
Split Enz/Crowded House/Neil Finn
Brian Eno
Van Halen
Todd Rundgren
King Crimson/Robert Fripp
Radiohead
Yes
REM
Speaking of REM, I have my tickets to the Sasquatch Music Festival this May at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington, and REM is one of the headliners! I have always wanted to see them, so I'm pretty excited.
Oh hello -- what about a little band called HEART? They effin' RAWK.
The obligatory Clear Channel classic rock station in our town plays a TON of Led Zep, but they actually do branch out and play more than just Whole Lotta Love. We get Kashmir, Dancing Days, Immigrant Song, and Black Dog. So it's not so bad. And they also play one of my faves, Molly Hatchet's "Flirting with Disaster."
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