Bashing the Rock Hall has become the quite vogue thing to do. Of course, they have inducted hundreds of deserving artists alongside those who raise many music fans eyebrows. However, fans get outraged this time every year when their favorites get snubbed…yet again.
In the true spirit of Dave’s Music Database, the occasion for a list presented itself. Just who are the biggest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame snubs, those acts which fans most think have been overlooked? More than 90 lists were consolidated to create this list of the top 100 overlooked acts which will hopefully someday be enshrined in the Hall. Here we go:
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1. Motörhead
2. The Smiths
3. Jethro Tull
4. Pixies
5. Boston
6. Devo
7. Sonic Youth
8. Thin Lizzy
9. The Monkees
10. King Crimson
11. New York Dolls
12. Chic
13. Mötley Crüe
14. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
15. The Replacements
16. Styx
17. Jane’s Addiction
18. The Guess Who
19. The B-52’s
20. Dick Dale
21. Three Dog Night
22. Alice in Chains
23. The Scorpions
24. John Coltrane
25. War
26. Slayer
27. Steppenwolf
28. Big Star
29. Brian Eno
30. Björk
31. Harry Nilsson
32. Smashing Pumpkins
33. Diana Ross
34. J. Geils Band
35. Weird Al Yankovic
36. Nick Drake
37. Blue Öyster Cult
38. Grand Funk Railroad
39. Mariah Carey
40. Tommy James & the Shondells
41. INXS
42. Chuck Willis
43. Procol Harum
44. Pantera
45. Barry White
46. Captain Beefheart
47. Jim Croce
48. Megadeth
49. Ted Nugent
50. Mary Wells
51. Ronnie James Dio
52. Ben E. King
53. Connie Francis
54. Love
55. REO Speedwagon
56. The Meters
57. Los Lobos
58. Black Flag
59. Bryan Adams
60. The Dominoes
61. Carpenters
62. Eric B. & Rakim
63. Jan & Dean
64. The Marvelettes
65. Little Feat
66. Meat Loaf
67. Steve Winwood
68. Sting
69. Television
70. The Runaways
71. The Pointer Sisters
72. Tool
73. The Shangri-La’s
74. Beck
75. Bad Brains
76. Faith No More
77. Commodores
78. Joe Tex
79. Patti LaBelle
80. X
81. Afrika Bambaataa
82. De La Soul
83. Toto
84. Mott the Hoople
85. Tears for Fears
86. Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio
87. Supertramp
88. Kansas
89. Stone Temple Pilots
90. Daft Punk
91. Toots & the Maytals
92. The Sonics
93. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
94. Nas
95. Dead Kennedys
96. Huey Lewis & the News
97. Rick James
98. Alanis Morissette
99. John Prine
100. Snoop Dogg
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First posted 10/11/2011; last updated 4/15/2026. | 
