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: See other Hall of Fames. 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 Resources/Related Links: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame official website Dave’s Music Database: “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees” Dave’s Music Database: “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees ranked” Dave’s Music Database: “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/NARM’s Definitive Albums” Dave’s Music Database: “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll” Dave’s Music Database (9/2/1995). “The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its doors” Dave’s Music Database (1/23/1986). “The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first class” FutureRockLegends.com First posted 10/11/2011; last updated 5/4/2023.