2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees

2011 Nominees

Bon Jovi? Really? Bon Jovi and J Geils, but not Rush or KISS?

I am totally on board for Beastie Boys being nominated, however.

Atrocity.

Bon Jovi? Get your Jersey stink out of here.

Tom Waits & Dr. John? Fuck yeah.

Neil Diamond FTW.

Waits, all the way

Dr. John and Tom Waits!

IIf this mattered:

Inductees should be (out of these nominees):
Donna Summer,
Neil Diamond,
Tom Waits,
Dr John,


Alice Cooper and Donovan get in when Kiss and Ian Hunter get in.

I'd like to see Bob Moog get in there too.

Rush? Yes? Deep Purple? Kiss?

im glad that tom waits got a nomination but i have a lingering fear he will have to die before he gets in.

im still disgusted they put fucking ABBA in last year. ABBA is the antithesis of rock and roll.

If Kiss gets in before Alice Cooper, that would be a travesty. Now, if it were the Rock & Roll Merchandising Whore Hall of Fame, Kiss would be the bar which all others would be measured.

I find these more disturbing

I like the Kiss Koffin Kasket best.

And, yes, Kiss are an awful band, and a bunch of douchebags. But they're sort of an important part of Rock history, and should be in a Hall of Fame. It's not a Hall of Great Music, after all.

LL Cool J is Rock and Roll?

Jimmie Rodgers and Jimmy Yancey were inaugural inductees. It's never been JUST about rock.

Ehhhh, after I found how artists got nominated for the RR Hall of Fame, it sort of lost it's excitement for me. From what I understand, basically Jann Wenner gets together with his friends and they make up a list of people they like. Though I will say, Tom Waits deserves any and all recognition that goes his way. Maybe he'll respond the same way the Sex Pistols did when they were nominated.

To all the Kiss-haters out there: As a life-long Kiss fan, I will be the first to admit that in the last 12 years Kiss has kind of become a joke and that Alice Cooper belongs in the HOF first. As far as saying their music sucks, that's pretty ignorant. Go back and listen to "Alive!," "Destroyer," "Rock And Roll Over," "Creatures Of The Night," "Revenge" or "Carnival Of Souls-The Final Sessions," then you might change your opinion. Or, if you are too young to have remembered, go on youtube and look up Kiss MSG 1977, Cobo Hall 1976, Largo 1977, Brazil 1983, Foundations Forum 1983, Club Tour 1992. Believe it or not, there was a time when Kiss was AWESOME!! P.S. Ace Frehley is no douchebag!!!!

No, but Gene is.

Does anyone actually take the Rock & Roll HOF seriously? I think the monster on-stage circle-jerk jam-session at the end says it all.

Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Dr. John, Neil Diamond make it in

the rock and roll hall of fame should be boycotted until lil' b the based god is inducted

I'm only glad for Alice Cooper.