The Press Release:
Today, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces its 2025 Inductees in the following categories:
Performer Category:
Bad Company
Chubby Checker
Joe Cocker
Cyndi Lauper
Outkast
Soundgarden
The White Stripes
Musical Influence Award:
Salt-N-Pepa
Warren Zevon
Musical Excellence Award:
Thom Bell
Nicky Hopkins
Carol Kaye
Ahmet Ertegun Award:
Lenny Waronker
PiercingMetal Thoughts: In looking at the “Class of 2025” Rock Hall Inductees I really don’t feel that I need to add any additional editorial mutterings because I am fairly happy with the artists that have gotten in. Truth be told I wasn’t too keen on Mariah Carey getting nominated but she didn’t make it at the end of the day. She might not Rock IMHO but she does surely rule the Christmas Holidays with that song but moving along. I’ve long enjoyed Bad Company and the famous tunes by Joe Cocker and yeah even a dozen or so Cyndi songs are on my occasional playlist. I was very stoked to see Soundgarden making it in some years after the death of Chris Cornell but as they make it in I remain puzzled that artists like Iron Maiden, Styx and Scorpions are still sitting around waiting to be considered. On the “Musical Influence” side I agree about both Salt-N-Pepa and the late great Warren Zevon who was a hell of a songwriter. For me the “Musical Excellence” side is also fine. Now I want to point out something rather interesting. Phish actually won that whole “Fan Vote” process and had more than 325K votes which is absolutely insane and yet they didn’t make it in. Their fans are outraged but let me repeat something that people still are not really listening to. THE FAN VOTE AMOUNTS TO NOTHING!!! This is just the Rock Halls way to get considerable web-traffic out of the site visitor and I cannot say this enough, the next time there is a fan vote DO NOT DO IT. Why? Because IT DOES NOT COUNT. There you go. I still maintain that this institution needs to be called “The Music Hall of Fame” and I cannot stress it enough. Doing this will let them nominate whoever they want to going forward and finally let them be rid of the Metal Magazine scribes screaming about them when a Rap artist gets in over a Rock and Roll or Metal artist. Don’t get me wrong, I know I would miss soapboxing about that since its always good for website traffic but wrapping up I wonder what you all think about it. Do please chime in down in the comments below. See you next time.
Official: http://www.rockhall.com