No Black Sabbath?
I was looking at the list of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I can't believe they missed Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. I mean the Talking Heads and Tom Petty are nice and all, but no decent self-respecting rock star wannabe cranks out tortured versions of Take Me to the River or Refugee or any of that. First you learn Smoke on the Water, then Iron Man, and then you are ready to rock and roll. And Ozzy should be a double inductee! Come on, Steven Stills gets in a second time with Buffalo Springfield (a one hit wonder 60's protest band) and nothing for Ozzy - what's up with that? I think this is just a typical representation of the pseudo-sophisticated bias prevalent amongst music critics types; they ignore the obvious innovators (power chord riffs in unison - what could be more influential than that?) in favor of artists that seem more "intelligent." Be intelligent, but don't ignore true genius. Their one saving grace is at least P-Funk got in.
Speaking of meaningful, check out this list of Jewish rock stars.
Speaking of meaningful, check out this list of Jewish rock stars.
posted by The Big Elephant at 11:27 AM
4 Comments:
yea, but ozzy sold out to mtv. not that other artists haven't as well, but his sellout is so recent that the public's view of him is bad and now he'll have to wait a while to be inducted.
ps - im the first comment! wheee!
Poor Ozzy. Too many drugs . . . he'll get in soon enough. :-)
It's a crying shame. The man has his own music festival!
he'll make it in there, dont you fret tzviki.
as far as all this news on jews, yeah - the explanation makes sense: only the clever survive, and, jews are taught to be clever.
Tzvi Gluckin for Rock Hall of Fame 2018!
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