Slayer, The Misfits and Motley Crue (just based on the first five albums alone) deserve to be in before everyone on that list besides Maiden and Mariah Carey. This is my yearly "the RNRHOF is a joke" post.

The current leaderboard

https://vote.rockhall.com/leaderboard

• Phil Collins 39,374
• Billy Idol 28,465
• INXS 25,121
• Iron Maiden 23,257
• Luther Vandross 20,525
• Sade 19,155
• Oasis 18,843
• Mariah Carey 17,156
• Joy Division + New Order 16,933
• The Black Crowes 15,137
• P!NK 14,961
• Jeff Buckley 14,889
• Wu-Tang Clan 14,625
• Melissa Etheridge 13,795
• New Edition 13,669
• Lauryn Hill 13,323
• Shakira 7,383

The funniest thing about this lists (and I'd find a way to attend that induction ceremony!) is that I honestly think David Johansen will get in as Buster Pointdexter before he does as a member of the Dolls.

Im thinking I should vote anyway. By voting for all of the legitimate rock bands, the ones that get in will create openings for others next year. I even left out The Pixies and The Smiths to keep it down to 7.

Better get Phil and Billy in, they're over 70.

The Smiths not being in yet is NUTS. People must just hate Morrissey as a human being. I actually get that.

My votes
Iron Maiden
New Order
Wu Tang Clan
Mariah Carey
Sade
Phil Collins

abstained for 7th vote
Though Lauryn Hill and Jeff Buckley might have 2 of the best albums of all time............ ,but think they should probably wait for a less crowded year

And while I think Rebel Yell is a pretty underrated album, I don't think Billy Idol made anything else that warrants a vote and he wasn't succesful enough commercially to be voted in for that reason ala a Bon Jovi or Journey. Like he has 3 top 10 hits,and 2 of them are cover songs that are considerably worse then the original.

He's the British Ted Nugent.

What are your thoughts on Oasis? Personally I think they're awesone and produced in (What's The Story) Morning Glory, one of the best albums of the 90s. They're much more popular in Britain than America, but they're still popular here, and they're SO popular in Great Britain that it's fair to say that no band formed after 1979 is as popular there today as they are.
I'm stunned they didn't make it on their first or second ballots, but after a HUGELY successful World Tour in 2025, I feel they have to make it this year.

They've been nominated for a couple of years and then dropped. Now there is too much drama with The Smiths. Johnny Marr hates Morrissey so there is zero chance of getting them on the same stage. Probably not even in the same building.

In as much as one can compare an asexual militant vegan to a hunting advocate who....well... it's probably best not to mention his sexual proclivities, yeah.

If the Stone Roses had managed to stay together and not implode they would/could have been far bigger than Oasis.That first album in 1989 was massive in England (and especially the North of England where both bands are from). I was still living there then and the buzz about them was huge. but drugs and egos blew them apart and although their second album had some great songs on it they were already circling the drain.

INXS?

They had a brief short career and if Hutchence did not kill himself would they have a big legacy?

Stone Roses sold 4M copies worldwide and 1.5M copies in the UK. Definitely Maybe has sold 15M copies worldwide and 5M in the UK. That's a bold claim not supported by album sales.

Yes. They have a big legacy as it is. Several top selling albums, countless singles, a "new wave" band that crossed over into the mainstream and achieved success. Absolutely HOFers

I like the Stone Roses but that argument never held water. They were together for over a decade right at the cusp of the Cool Britannia wave but never wanted to put in the work on the road and frankly in the studio. Oasis gets shit about touring…I give them shit about touring but after Definitely Maybe they played anywhere and everywhere to promote it. From 1994 to 1995 Oasis played more gigs than the Stone Roses played combined...ever...including the reunion tour. The Stone Roses were too cool for school and ignored the US completely. They wanted to be rock stars without making their bones.

Someone must have left out the "L" by mistake.

IRON MAIDEN
JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER
BILLY IDOL
WU TANG CLAN

In that order. I kind of want to see a jam with Maiden, Billy Idol, and New Order with Wu Tang thrown into the mix.

BLACK CROWES and OASIS

Kind of odd choices. I love the Black Crowes, but they're one of those bands that feels like they're a conglomeration of their influences. Doubly so for Oasis.


PHIL COLLINS

Should probably be in for "In the Air Tonight" alone.

MARIAH CAREY
SADE
PINK
SHAKIRA

Pop fluff. All three will probably get in before Maiden.

But who cites them as a major influence on becoming a musican?

I just think of that brief run in the mid to late 80's and nothing else.

Wow. I had no idea THAT was the only criteria for the Hall of Fame.

Does anybody that was born after the 80's knows or ever heard of INXS or cites thens as a musical influence?

Name 5 songs everybody should know and recognize?

Their music is not a big presense in movies and TV soundtracks either.

Don't Change
The One Thing
What You Need
Need You Tonight
Listen Like Thieves
Never Tear us Apart
Bitter Tears
Suicide Blonde
Original Sin
Send a Message

I am NOT a fan of INXS. I don't own a single recording by them, and don't plan to. I named all those songs off the top of my head without Google. They were a popular band. And like I snarkily said, "musical influence" is not a requirement for HoF entry last time I checked. They belong in though.

I'm kind of between you two here. They don't make my cut this year, but I wouldn't mind if they did get inducted. I just think they're mid-tier 80s pop-rock band. Fine, but I don't see a big difference between them and, say, Simple Minds. Nobody is gonna list them among the top 20 or 30 artists of their decade (which also is not any sort of requirement), but I don't think most would include Oasis as one of the top 90s bands for example. And Billy Idol is I think a more iconic 80s pop-rock artist than they are.

So if INXS is inducted will JD Fortune be included?

I don't think you give INXS the credit they deserve. They were quite popular in the 1980s and produced a number of noteworthy singles. Their albums "Listen Like Thieves," "Kick," and "X" were multiple-platinum sellers. They could easily be on top-20 lists of 80s bands. I did have to look them up on wikipedia to jog my memory and get details, but I do recall INXS being quite ubiquitous in the latter half of the 1980s. They also comfortably bridged the line between rock and pop; where pop music fans could dance to their songs in clubs, but they also didn't alienate the mainstream rock crowd, either.

Oasis would probably make a lot of top-ten lists of 90s bands depending on who was compiling the lists. Rock really exploded in the 1990s, but it also balkanized like crazy, too. Heavy metal (Hair metal died, but Metallica and Pantera carried the metal torch), punk revival (Green Day, Offspring, et al), Nu-Metal, Alternative, Post-grunge, Lilith Fair stuff. Easily top 10 if you were into alternative or pop, not so much if you were moshing at a Pantera gig.

Billy Idol? He was like one of the faces of the 1980s. You think 1980s, and see his face sneering back at you.