Thursday, May 4, 2023

The Top 100 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hopefuls

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

Top 100 Snubs

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. Iron Maiden
2. The Smiths
3. Motörhead
4. Jethro Tull
5. Warren Zevon
6. Pixies
7. Chic
8. Bad Company
9. Joy Division
10. Soundgarden

11. The Replacements
12. Devo
13. MC5
14. King Crimson
15. New York Dolls
16. The Monkees
17. Sonic Youth
18. Thin Lizzy
19. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
20. The Guess Who

21. Joe Cocker
22. Gram Parsons
23. Boston
24. Slayer
25. Dick Dale
26. Ozzy Osbourne
27. The B-52’s
28. Jane’s Addiction
29. Big Star
30. Mötley Crüe

31. Steppenwolf
32. Three Dog Night
33. War
34. Björk
35. John Coltrane
36. Procol Harum
37. New Order
38. Pantera
39. Peter Frampton
40. Styx

41. Nick Drake
42. Brian Eno
43. Chuck Willis
44. Cher
45. Ben E. King
46. Smashing Pumpkins
47. Blue Öyster Cult
48. Kool & the Gang
49. The Marvelettes
50. OutKast

51. Barry White
52. The Meters
53. Captain Beefheart
54. Megadeth
55. Harry Nilsson
56. Black Flag
57. Joe Tex
58. Jan & Dean
59. Alice in Chains
60. Eric B. & Rakim

61. The Runaways
62. Foreigner
63. The Dominoes
64. Tommy James & the Shondells
65. J. Geils Band
66. Weird Al Yankovic
67. Television
68. Mary Wells
69. Diana Ross
70. The Shangri-La’s

71. The Scorpions
72. Afrika Bambaataa
73. Connie Francis
74. Jim Croce
75. Love
76. Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio
77. Mott the Hoople
78. Carpenters
79. Mariah Carey
80. Faith No More

81. A Tribe Called Quest
82. Los Lobos
83. Steve Winwood
84. Little Feat
85. Bad Brains
86. Dead Kennedys
87. Billy Idol
88. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
89. Ted Nugent
90. Commodores

91. X
92. Mary J. Blige
93. INXS
94. Badfinger
95. Rick James
96. Grand Funk Railroad
97. De La Soul
98. Dionne Warwick
99. Hüsker Dü
100. Peter, Paul & Mary


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First posted 10/11/2011; last updated 5/4/2023.

1 comment:

  1. Willie Nelson before Pat Boone, Connie Francis or Paul Anka? Pleaseeeeeeeee!

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