The lengthy listing of 2019 nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has arrived. Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Janet Jackson, the Cure, Kraftwerk, MC5, Rufus & Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, and the Zombies have been nominated as soon as once more this 12 months. Devo, Roxy Music, Stevie Nicks, Todd Rundgren, John Prine, and Def Leppard have all been nominated for the primary time. Fans can vote for his or her favourite nominees at the Rock Hall’s website. The 2019 class of inductees will likely be revealed in December.
No artists eligible for the primary time this 12 months have been nominated. OutKast, Beck, Fugees, Jeff Buckley, the Roots, Snoop Dogg, and Dave Matthews Band are among the many artists of their first 12 months of rivalry (which means their first business data have been launched in 1993). Previous nominees omitted from this 12 months’s listing embrace Kate Bush, Nine Inch Nails, the Smiths, the Replacements, Depeche Mode, Bad Brains, Eric B. & Rakim, Jane’s Addiction, Eurythmics, and Gram Parsons.
Before they have been nominated last year, Radiohead gave an interview the place they discussed their disinterest in a possible Rock Hall induction. “I don’t care,” stated Jonny Greenwood. “Maybe it’s a cultural thing that I really don’t understand. I mean, from the outside it looks like… it’s quite a self-regarding profession anyway. And anything that heightens that just makes me feel even more uncomfortable.” While Thom Yorke, Philip Selway, and Ed O’Brien additionally sounded apathetic, Colin Greenwood stated, “I’d be grateful if we got in.”
The 2018 class of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees included Nina Simone, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi, the Cars, the Moody Blues, and early affect Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Simone obtained a tribute from the Roots and Lauryn Hill; Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard paid tribute to Tharpe.
See the place Janet Jackson, Kraftwerk, the Cure, and Roxy Music landed on Pitchfork’s listing of “The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s.”
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