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Biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs
it seemed to be a pretty good twitter alternative the last few months especially, and I joined the Rock Hall subreddit around the time of the nominations were announced.
But, I make 1 comment about how The Monkees are more FAMOUS than every name included there, and 3 or 4 replied to me proved to be a fine waste of time.
The people who replied clearly are not well informed on The Monkees history and importance. I would guess they are younger and less versed in just pop music that is from The Monkees era or even just pre-90's. Or maybe more so, just not well versed how far reaching and KNOWN The Monkees are among musicians and pop-culture.
But we've seen this how many times?.."they were just a TV Show..fake band..they didn't write their own songs or play on their albums"
ignorantly uninformed bullshit from countless people.
odd how the 1 reply stated The White Stripes and Outkast, the Nomination Committee member Alan Light, who was just on that podcast Who Cares About the Rock Hall? stated those were the 2 names he brings to the committee every year.
Is the user on Reddit, Alan Light?..doubt it, but that's odd. as a side note, given how long he's been on the NomCom and what I got from listening to about 1/2 of that podcast, he needs to be removed per Term Limits.
but this video on YouTube discusses this very point about The Monkees influence, which objectively cannot be argued. Those people on Reddit are plain and simply ignorant and uninformed. And while I don't know if there's value in trying to argue with them any more at this point, it does reiterate a larger issue, even beyond just their egregious lack of recognition in the Rock Hall. It illustrates a huge problem with the culture and their ignorance of The Monkees in the history of music and pop culture, the fact they are not even known beyond the show and not thought of to be considered for the Rock Hall.
They don't deserve to be Leif Erickson..but the way history has gone, in 10 or 50+ years, they sadly could be undeservedly. The Rock Hall might not fully change that, but it could help to some degree.
And it would be funny, if they were put in even for Musical Excellence..some crow might be consumed by those uninformed redditors.
Rules
3. Please be civil if discussing who ought to be inducted as to who is already.
Coming from a lunatic who says "THE MONKEES ARE MORE FAMOUS THAN THE LISTED ARTISTS". Gosh no wonder why your fandom is so insanely stupid.
the rules seem to be followed well here, lol (regardless of the fact it's coming from the Creator of the topic).
I decided to instead of replying, to report that. I would question whether much happens given 2 of the other replies were from the Moderators. But this person clearly resorted to name calling and personally attacking me.
But if I had to guess, 1 of 3 things will occur.
-it'll get ignored
-1 of the moderators will contact me about it, unsure how supportive they'll be
-they will remove me from the subreddit, which will speak to how poorly run it is, but at the same time, it would probably be best to avoid anyway.
edit: it looks like the comment was removed. Which is nice, however, the damage is kind of done, so I don't fathom chiming in anytime soon beyond someone bringing up Marillion or Dream Theater, lol.
Also, the 3 links I replied with were hardly "old" from 2021, 2020 and 2018, lol. There are newer posts, discussions, and articles than those, I just was providing a few examples.
Here's just a preliminary list of artists that have cited, covered, or had songs very clearly influenced by The Monkees.
U2
REM
Squeeze
XTC
Smash Mouth
Death Cab For Cutie/Ben Gibbard
Fountains of Wayne
The Sex Pistols
Nirvana
Metallica
The Ramones
The Rembrandts
CCR
Elvis Costello
Rush
Toy Matinee
Bruce Springsteen
They Might Be Giants
Rogue Wave
Incubus
Green Day
Twisted Sister
The Bangles
Frank Zappa
Weezer
Run DMC
Linda Rondstadt
Neko Case
Nickel Creek
Lambchop
Shawn Colvin
Oasis
Ann Murray
