Top 5 Artists that should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Last week were the inductions of the newest HOF members, which included: Jeff Beck, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Metallica, Run-D.M.C., and Bobby Womack. Not a horrible list, but honestly, there are so many more deserving artists that have not received their due. The only criteria for being nominated is that it has to be 25 years after the release of the first album.

1. The Cars – Granted, these fine men will get their due fairly soon (I hope), but I still think they should be in it already. Soooo many classic hits…My Best Friend’s Girl, Good Times Roll, Just What I Needed, Let’s Go, Magic, Drive, You Might Think, and Shake It Up just to name a few. I learned how to play almost all of their songs on guitar because they are such a great example of pop songwriting.

2. The Cure – These guys should have been inducted the first year of elegibility, which would have been 2004. Instead, that year they inducted Jackson Browne, ZZ Top, George Harrison, The Dells, Bob Seger, Prince, and Traffic. Really? Traffic?

3. Devo – Akron, OH’s bext export, along with naming their university team the Zips. Pioneers of everything awesome, these guys are mostly known for Whip It, but there are so many other great songs. Also, I would argue that they have influeced as many musicians in my generation as the Beatles have. Granted, the HOF has a yellow Devo suit in the museum, which was the highlight of the exibit for me. Who cares about the actual wall from Pink Floyd’s The Wall? Not me.

4. Genesis/Peter Gabriel/Phil Collins – Genesis deserves to be in it as an entity, and Gabriel and Collins both need to be there as solo artists. Formed in 1967, and still playing to this day, these men can be credited with some of the most influential ambient/prog rock songs with Gabriel, and some of the most influential pop songs of the 1980’s with Collins.

5. Tommy James and the Shondells – I hope that Tiffany doesn’t make it with her cover of I Think We’re Alone Now before the original group is inducted. Tommy James and the Shondells had a string of hits in the mid-late 60’s with Hanky Panky, Crimson and Clover, I Think We’re Alone Now, Mony Mony, and Sweet Cherry Wine, which are some of the greatest rock anthems and most memorable melodies. Who doesn’t go nuts when they hear Mony, Mony?

H.M’s
- Roxy Music/Brian Eno
- Foreigner
- Journey (although, since growing up in a city whose theme song is Don’t Stop Believing I could really care less if they got in)
- MC5
- Joy Division
- Hüsker Dü
- Tom Waits
- Sonic Youth

Steve R.

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~ by thekillertouch on April 7, 2009.