{"id":1925575,"date":"2023-05-06T06:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T10:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-beclowns-itself-again\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T06:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T10:31:12","slug":"the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-beclowns-itself-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-beclowns-itself-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame embarrasses itself (once more)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-beclowns-itself-again%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1925575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Willie Nelson Finally Makes the Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame Cut<\/h2>\n<p>Country music legend Willie Nelson received an odd gift for his 90th birthday &#8211; he finally made the Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame cut. But is there any sane argument against the singer\/songwriter\u2019s legendary status? Did the Hall\u2019s voters need another year of Nelson above ground to finally say, \u201cIt\u2019s time?\u201d Did they miss his decades-worth of essential songs, tours and collaborations?<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, isn\u2019t he a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-nick-cannon-gets-his-job-back-after-calling-white-people-savages-this-is-how-real-privilege-works\/\" title=\"WALSH: Nick Cannon Gets His Job Back After Calling White People \u2018Savages.\u2019 This Is How Real Privilege Works.\">country singer<\/a>, not a rock \u2018n\u2019 roller? Absurd. All of it.<\/p>\n<h3>Absurdity Rules the Hall<\/h3>\n<p>Then again, absurdity rules this Hall, which officially opened its doors in 1995. The institution is meant to honor rock legends, but through the years it\u2019s welcomed acts whose songs soar beyond the \u201crock\u201d category. Think this year\u2019s nominees, including Nelson, Missy Elliott, Chaka Khan and \u201cSoul Train\u2019s\u201d Don Cornelius. Do any of those names scream, \u201crock\u201d to anyone?<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse. Bon Jovi, the band that brought the song \u201cBad Medicine\u201d into existence, is enshrined in the Hall but Iron Maiden isn\u2019t. A more embarrassing case of exclusion comes via the so-called Pre-Fab Four. The Monkees remain uninvited despite their outsized impact on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-15-most-anticipated-albums-of-2021\/\" title=\"The 15 Most Anticipated Albums of 2021\u00a0\">pop music<\/a>. The faux band became the real deal, reportedly outsold the Beatles at its musical peak and enjoyed musical rebirths in both the \u201980s and mid-2010s.<\/p>\n<p>Their wacky TV show built on the Beatles\u2019 visual legacy and became a precursor to MTV. And the songs! So many perfect pop moments \u2013 think \u201cLast Train to Clarksville,\u201d \u201cDaydream Believer,\u201d \u201cSometime in the Morning,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a Believer,\u201d \u201cShades of Gray\u201d and \u201cPleasant Valley Sunday.\u201d Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-beclowns-itself-again\/\" title=\"Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame embarrasses itself (once more)\">deep cuts count<\/a>, and the band\u2019s 2016 \u201cGood Times\u201d album delivered more essential tracks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No invitation as of yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The same holds true for the Indigo Girls, a tireless duo with a string of killer tracks and albums. They\u2019re one of the most beloved touring acts around, and yet they still stand outside the Cleveland Hall. Warren Zevon, Soundgarden and Joy Division also await their induction, assuming it ever happens. Maybe Hall voters are waiting until they each turn 90, which hits Zevon the hardest since he passed in 2003 at the age of 56.<\/p>\n<h3>Does the Honor Mean Anything?<\/h3>\n<p>Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame chairman John Sykes accidentally summed up the institution\u2019s irrelevance via this quote to Variety. \u201cSometimes it takes a major moment like Willie\u2019s 90th birthday or, in the case of Kate Bush, music being played in \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 to shine a light on them for a lot of younger people who didn\u2019t know who she was in 1985; they probably weren\u2019t even born yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good thing Nelson lived to be 90, otherwise his body of work might have gotten ignored. Embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>The Baseball Hall of Fame is special, in large part, due to the brutal barrier to entry. Some of the best players of the modern era, including Curt Schilling and Don Mattingly, have yet to make the cut. The former\u2019s political positions clearly play a role in his omission. Other MLB giants excluded from the Hall include Lou Whitaker, Dale Murphy and Dwight Evans. That means getting a Hall pass means something significant to the culture and the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The musicians who make the Hall cut? The honor means little in the long run. Perhaps that\u2019s why we\u2019ve seen inductee no-shows over the years, including three-fifths of Van Halen, Paul McCartney, Axl Rose and David Bowie.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To quote Bill Murray in the classic camp comedy \u201cMeatballs\u201d \u2026 it just doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetShare93ShareEmailReddit93 SharesWillie Nelson got an odd gift for his 90th birthday. The country music legend learned he finally made the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame cut. Huh? Is there any sane argument against the singer\/songwriter\u2019s legendary status? Did the Hall\u2019s voters need another year of Nelson above ground to finally say, \u201cIt\u2019s time?\u201d Did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[19660,12286,9165,3826,4242,3730,8058],"class_list":["post-1925575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-embarrasses","tag-fame","tag-hall","tag-more","tag-once","tag-rock","tag-roll"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}