2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominations Leave Out Many Rock Acts Again

All Headline News ^ | 9-18-05 | Douglas Maher

[speedy]

I love this stuff!! Buzz Buzz a Diddle Lit to you!! (That was Freddy Cannon, BTW)

[concretebob]

The Seeds...Tobacco Road..from Electric Pipedreams

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That's a keeper.
I need to dig out my lps this winter and see what's still playable. Still have the old turntable and four track tapes for the reel to reel.

[Ueriah]

No Pixies? No Breeders? No Amps?

Meh!

[itsamelman]

Well let's see, the song is from 1981 and the Vietnam memorial wasn't dedicated until 1982. And the lyrics are pretty obtuse. Seems to me it's more likely they were referring to the Berlin Wall?



Piss on the Wall

(Peter Wolf/Seth Justman) - 1981
Now some people think the world is what it ain't
To some I'm a sinner, to others a saint
Some folks say the world ain't what is is
All I know is I just got to take a wiz
Where am I goin' and where have I been
My head's in the clouds and my tail's in a spin
Jumpin' out of planes for the thrill of it all
Then I bounce back and take a Piss On The Wall
Politics - Shmolitics
They oughta save their breath
Mean streak - blue streak
They sentence me to death
Harangue me from a tree
Twist and shout until I crawl
Do the flip - do the flop
Piss On The Wall
Well the Yanks hate the Reds
And the Greeks hate the Turks
I really hate to say it
But they're all a bunch of jerks
Seems like everybody's shakin'
'Cause the big one's 'bout to fall
I'm just tryin' to hold it steady while I
Piss On The Wall

[speedy]

Remember Music Machine -- "Talk Talk." Blues Magoos -- "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet." Good garage band stuff.

[mylife]

while the RR HOF cant admit every band out there and is a bit mainstream, I enjoyed the place immensely.

Janice joplins psychedelic porsche was on display there, and Letters from a pre adolescent Jim Morrison that gave a disturbing glimpse into his mind.

I recommend the RR HOF to anyone.

My mouse is currently resting atop a RR HOF mousepad :)

Cleveland Rocks!

[rollo tomasi]

What is the requirements to get into the Hall of Fame?

Is it playing the same boring ass time signatures over and over again, while at the same time proclaiming yourself to be a die hard hypocritical collectivist campaigning for Democrats?

[speedy]

The Nashville Teens also did a great version of "Tobacco Road."

[NY Attitude]

The radio announcer would always announce the song was by Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon.

[cbkaty]

You are a DC5 audiofile.....and I respct that. I have my original albums....

[My Favorite Headache]

LA Confidential fan I see...;)

[cbkaty]

Ahhhhhhhhh...The Electric Prunes.......

[Dane]

I only wished I grew up in the 80s and could have expiernced the golden years of MTV and the video music era.

Our cable system was one of the first to get MTV back in early 82. Five VJ's and not enough videos that they had to have filler instrumental music. The USA network had a competing video show on Friday nights.

ASIA, Duran Duran, the band that did "I think I'm turning Japanese" etc.etc. Mostly all British tech punk bands.

[speedy]

Hee hee -- yep -- or as Joey Reynold on WKBW in Buffalo used to say, "Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon shoots off his mouth. How about "Transistor Sister" or "Action" or "Abigail Beecher."

[concretebob]

Hold on, I'm having a flashback..BRB

[NY Attitude]

Didn't Freddie Cannon do "Way down yonder in New Orleans"?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Bonedaddys played a one-nighter at a little place in downtown Minneapolis when we lived there back in about 1990. It was 30 below zero when they got off the plane. They still put on a damned good show.

[mylife]

I have a great recording of an AM radio commercial by the Electric Prunes for the "Vox Wha Wha Peddle" L0L

Wish I could share it L0L Its a H00t

[CaptainMorgantown]

The R&R HOF was controlled from the start by the music industry in-crowd who view their taste as superior to ours and have always wanted the power to tell the rest of us what to listen to. Read the list of Grammy award winners down the years to get an idea of truly forgetable music that these leeches told us was great at the time, and how infrequently they honored music that anyone cared about. Having failed in force-feeding us the music they liked the first time around, they have hit upon the R&R HOF as a way of telling us what music we should have liked if we were really hip like they were.

There are two kinds of acts that make the R&R HOF list: (1) The early acts that everyone would insist on (BB King, Elvis, The Beatles, Chubby Checker, the Rolling Stones) and therefore lends 'legitimacy' to their other choices; (2) The acts that meet their standards of political correctness and they would like to construe as the legitimate successors of acts in the first group, even if they just weren't that popular.

The result is that Patti Smith, John Mellencamp, and Cat Stevens are shoe-ins because they fit the political ideals of the people running the group, just as Iggy Pop and Jackson Browne have before. If they could find another way to cannonize John Lennon, they would. (e.g., "We know we've already inducted him twice, but this year we are inducting the letter 'I' from the song 'Imagine'). Green Day can pencil their name in on the 2015 induction list right now.

In the meantime, they will ignore bands that were tremendously popular but largely apolitical, like Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, and Heart. And they will pretend that bands which espoused conservative or traditional values, like Kansas or Styx, were a stain on the very fabric of Rock 'n Roll.

Interestingly enough, since they the arbiters of 'taste' took over the playlists of Rock 'n Roll stations in the early 1990s and foisted an endless series of one-hit wonder grunge and 'alt' bands on us, the public has stopped listening to new rock 'n roll. The music formats that are now successful are Classic Rock (which plays Van Halen, Skynyrd, Heart, Rush, Kansas & Styx), and Country (which now sounds remarkably like mainstream rock from the 70s and 80s).

Oh well, that's enough a rant.