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. Motörhead
3. The Smiths
4. Jethro Tull
5. Pixies
6. Joy Division
7. Sonic Youth
8. Devo
9. King Crimson
10. Chic
11. Boston
12. The Monkees
13. Thin Lizzy
14. New York Dolls
15. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
16. The Replacements
17. Jane’s Addiction
18. Mötley Crüe
19. The Guess Who
20. Gram Parsons
21. Styx
22. The B-52’s
23. Dick Dale
24. John Coltrane
25. New Order
26. Slayer
27. Steppenwolf
28. Brian Eno
29. Alice in Chains
30. Björk
31. Three Dog Night
32. War
33. Big Star
34. Diana Ross
35. Weird Al Yankovic
36. Smashing Pumpkins
37. Chuck Willis
38. Nick Drake
39. Procol Harum
40. Pantera
41. Barry White
42. Harry Nilsson
43. Blue Öyster Cult
44. Wu-Tang Clan
45. The Scorpions
46. Captain Beefheart
47. Tommy James & the Shondells
48. Megadeth
49. Ben E. King
50. Mariah Carey
51. Billy Idol
52. INXS
53. The Dominoes
54. Eric B. & Rakim
55. The Marvelettes
56. Mary Wells
57. Television
58. Jim Croce
59. The Runaways
60. Connie Francis
61. J. Geils Band
62. Love
63. Bad Brains
64. The Meters
65. Black Flag
66. Carpenters
67. Oasis
68. Jan & Dean
69. Commodores
70. Joe Tex
71. X
72. Afrika Bambaataa
73. Steve Winwood
74. Mott the Hoople
75. Tool
76. Beck
77. Grand Funk Railroad
78. The Pointer Sisters
79. Ted Nugent
80. Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio
81. Phil Collins
82. Faith No More
83. Ronnie James Dio
84. Los Lobos
85. Daft Punk
86. Toots & the Maytals
87. The Shangri-La’s
88. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
89. De La Soul
90. Dead Kennedys
91. Supertramp
92. Patti LaBelle
93. Rick James
94. Merle Haggard
95. Stone Temple Pilots
96. Little Feat
97. Nas
98. The Sonics
99. Badfinger
100. The Buzzcocks
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First posted 10/11/2011; last updated 5/3/2025. |
Willie Nelson before Pat Boone, Connie Francis or Paul Anka? Pleaseeeeeeeee!
ReplyDeleteI don't see Paul Revere and the Raiders on your list.
ReplyDeleteAs explained at the top of the page, this list is an aggregate taken from more than 90 lists of acts that different sources thought belonged in the Hall. Paul Revere & the Raiders only showed up on 3 of the lists.
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