Artist: Earth, Wind & Fire
Album: The Need of Love
Tracklist :
- Energy
- Beauty
- I Can Feel It In My Bones
- I Think About Lovin' You
- Everything Is Everything
Why do people make such a big fuss out of non-rock artists getting into the hall of fame?
All I ever hear these days is whining about Madonna and Run-D.M.C. getting inducted. "Oh no," people complain, "the hall of fame has rejected its rock and roll roots!" Well, the way I see it, there are currently 164 artists inducted (It's the way I see it because I might have miscounted, but it's around there.) Out of those they have inducted 58 that cannot be considered rock, being these 58:
James Brown
Ray Charles
Sam Cooke
Fats Domino
Aretha Franklin
Marvin Gaye
B.B. King
Clyde McPhatter
Smokey Robinson
Big Joe Turner
Muddy Waters
Jackie Wilson
The Drifters
The Supremes
Dion
Otis Redding
The Temptations
Stevie Wonder
Hank Ballard
The Four Tops
The Platters
LaVern Baker
John Lee Hooker
The Impressions
Wilson Pickett
Jimmy Reed
Ike & Tina Turner
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Booker T and the M.G.s
Johnny Cash
The Isley Brothers
Sam & Dave
Ruth Brown
Etta James
Sly and the Family Stone
Bob Marley
Al Green
Martha and the Vandellas
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Little Willie John
The Shirelles
The Jackson 5
Parliament-Funkadelic
Curtis Mayfield
The Staple Singers
Earth, Wind and Fire
The Moonglows
Solomon Burke
The Flamingos
Isaac Hayes
The Dells
The O'Jays
Percy Sledge
Miles Davis
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Little Anthony and the Imperials
Run-D.M.C.
Bobby Womack
That means that over a third of the members are not rock musicians. Furthermore, of the original ten members inducted in '86, four (the first four on the list) are not rock musicians. The museum should just change its name to the pop music hall of fame and get it over with.
Thoughts?
I don't quite understand, guitar god. You say anything that isn't rock is a subgenre of rock, which I would take to mean that blues, folk, rap, yada yada yada are all subgenres of rock. But then you say that rock is a subgenre of other genres. I don't understand.