Cue the obligatory annual R&R HOF scorn

[Highernoon]

I enjoy watching for entertainment purposes

This moment is certainly entertaining

 

[Devil is Dill]

THE HALL OF MUSIC BELOVED AND/OR APPRECIATED BY FORMER YUPPIES & NOW THEIR ADULT CHILDREN

 

[Psychotronic]

Foo Fighters dropped a stinker of a record last week.

LL Cool J and Jay-Z are more rock than The Go-Go's.

That's absurd. If you asked them they'd agree.

 

[Guitar Heel]

I already have an ire list, but I can add a scorn list.

Yeah, the RRHOF is dumb.

 

[Andrew Sak]

This moment is certainly entertaining

I thought this was hilarious.

*Posting regrets

 

[Honkridge]

Isn't this one of those mid-west tourist traps?

 

[jbj]

Is it okay if I think the Foo Fighters are overrated and kind of bland? I mean, I get that Dave Grohl's a decent guy, and that it's nice that some aspect of Nirvana still perseveres into the 21st Century long after the death of Cobain, but really now.

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I'm with you. Colour and Shape is a good album but everything else is pedestrian.

I've put their new album on. 2 songs in and totally underwhelmed. I preferred Taylor Swifts last record.

 

[GusChiggins]

I'm with you. Colour and Shape is a good album but everything else is pedestrian.

I've put their new album on. 2 songs in and totally underwhelmed. I preferred Taylor Swifts last record.

I will say I hadn't listened to the first album in a while - there are some great, and much more raw sounding, tunes on that one.

 

[Jbird]

 

[Denverdave]

That institution has been a bad joke for nearly as long as it has been in existence. Nothing to see here - move along please.

 

[surfsteve]

This moment is certainly entertaining

EPIC. I'm going to make that my retirement speech.

 

[Bones McHorror]

Jay-Z more rock than The Go-Go's.

Remember when he did Wonderwall into Back in Black at Glastonbury?

 

[Peen Simmons]

Foo Fighters dropped a stinker of a record last week.

True story. I heard a track off it on the radio a couple days ago and it made me want to drive into oncoming traffic.

 

[Peen Simmons]

I'm with you. Colour and Shape is a good album but everything else is pedestrian.

I've put their new album on. 2 songs in and totally underwhelmed. I preferred Taylor Swifts last record.

Swift’s last two records are great. She writes a much better song than Dave Grohl.

 

[B Valley]

Still no Pat Travers.

 

[GusChiggins]

Swift’s last two records are great. She writes a much better song than Dave Grohl.

This is the most Taylor Swift sounding song Dave ever wrote

 

[Bones McHorror]

That institution has been a bad joke for nearly as long as it has been in existence. Nothing to see here - move along please.

What is your problem with it?

And what would make it a serious institution?

 

[Denverdave]

Swift’s last two records are great. She writes a much better song than Dave Grohl.

I would be interested to know how much of the songs are her, and how much are her co-writers. Not doubting her writing - when you work regularly with the cream of the crop as far as pop writing/producing for years some of it is bound to rub off on you. But she always works with established elite writers, and part of me wonders how much of her more recent success is due to them and massive marketing rather than Taylor herself.

 

[Denverdave]

What is your problem with it?

And what would make it a serious institution?

It is a private institution run for the most part by industry execs and entertainment lawyers. The 'nomination' process excludes musicians and relies on the personal taste of the board and who they feel will financially benefit their little club. There are no rules as to who gets nominated and who gets in and absolutely no transparency to the process at all.

 

[Lerxst]

I would be interested to know how much of the songs are her, and how much are her co-writers. Not doubting her writing - when you work regularly with the cream of the crop as far as pop writing/producing for years some of it is bound to rub off on you. But she always works with established elite writers, and part of me wonders how much of her more recent success is due to them and massive marketing rather than Taylor herself.

Does it matter? The bottom line is that she & her performance of those songs is the product that the public wants to consume.