New Hall of Fame Inductees. Why not the Moody Blues

[FRR]

Any good ideas of why the Moody Blues have never been considered for membership? They had some great tunes and have lasted forever. Comments?

 

[CTListener]

Big Moodies fan here, too. They never got any respect from the rock journalism intelligentsia, for some reason, probably because they didn't noodle around to show off their instrumental chops the way other progressive rock bands did. They weren't Yes, they weren't Pink Floyd, they weren't Emerson Lake & Palmer. They were just the Moody Blues, a light prog band with a distinctive, ethereal sound with a knack for turning out songs with honest-to-goodness hooks. Nothing wrong with that, IMO, but maybe the voters want something deeper. I'd put both the Moodies and Electric Light Orchestra in the Hall with no hesitation at all, but obviously that's not the majority opinion among those who actually have the vote.

 

[firepoint525]

I quit paying attention to the R&R Hall of Fame once they let Madonna in! : UGH! Now they have no credibility at all! : And to make it worse, she was inducted by Justin Timberlake!

 

[oldies76]

"Tuesday Afternoon" & "Nights in White Satin"....some of the best music ever produced!!

They deserve the Fame.

 

[Silkie]

Why not Chicago? When I asked they told me the days of Buddy Holly were over. Does this give you a clue that they don't know what the heck they are doing?

 

[CTListener]

Why not Chicago? When I asked they told me the days of Buddy Holly were over. Does this give you a clue that they don't know what the heck they are doing?

Talk about a non sequitur! What does Buddy Holly have to do with Chicago?

I think the problem with Chicago was their mid-career transformation into a soft, MOR-style group. If they'd continued to put out material like "25 or 6 to 4" and "Beginnings" rather than becoming adult contemporary staples, they might be in the Hall already. There's no doubt that the reason Neil Diamond took as long as he did to get in was that Diamond has had a much longer career of writing and singing bland AC material than he did while writing more rock-tinged, uptempo songs. Think "Cherry, Cherry" and "Thank the Lord for the Nighttime" vs. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" and "I Am, I Said."

 

[Silkie]

Buddy Holly has nothing to do with Chicago, just as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has nothing to do with the selection process. They just make excuses for following orders from New York.

 

[WPPCProductions]

Hum thats a good question ,the Moody Blues should of been in the Fame ages ago.now I see newer bands and singers get their name in the Hall of Fame and some are not rock artists to start with and some great legends are left out in the cold.This organization and the Country Music Hall a fame are strange how they vote for these artists Now I can see Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood elected for the Country Music Hall a fame .

 

[OldNumber7]

Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, who leads the nominee selection process, has always been biased against English progressive rock -- hence the absence from the Hall of the Moody Blues; Jethro Tull: Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and others (and the long wait before Genesis was inducted last year). IMHO, there's also no excuse for the absence of Rush and the Doobie Brothers.
And if Madonna can be in the Hall, there's no reason why Chicago shouldn't be.
In recent years the selection process has become a bigger and bigger joke.

 

[landtuna]

The only larger joke being the actual location of the HoF.

 

[billyg]

Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, who leads the nominee selection process, has always been biased against English progressive rock -- hence the absence from the Hall of the Moody Blues; Jethro Tull: Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and others (and the long wait before Genesis was inducted last year). IMHO, there's also no excuse for the absence of Rush and the Doobie Brothers.
And if Madonna can be in the Hall, there's no reason why Chicago shouldn't be.
In recent years the selection process has become a bigger and bigger joke.

It has become a joke, Along with the Progressive Rock bands, Metal and Hard Rock bands also get screwed over, fat chance we'll ever see Deep Purple or KISS get in. Wenner hates those bands.

I lost all respect when Wenner screwed over the Dave Clark 5. Even though they had more votes, he kicked them off the 2007 inductees for Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (who only had ONE Top 40 hit compared to the 20+ singles the DC5 placed) because the Hall needed a "rap act" to be politically correct or to get better TV ratings.

And some of the reunions have been a disaster. I loved the Hollies and I was happy to see them get in... I was hoping to see a full band reunion. But to see a drunken Terry Sylvester croak a lousy version of "Long Cool Woman" with a disgusted Allan Clarke pulling the mic out of his hands was totally embarrassing. :-\

 

[OldNumber7]

Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, who leads the nominee selection process, has always been biased against English progressive rock -- hence the absence from the Hall of the Moody Blues; Jethro Tull: Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and others (and the long wait before Genesis was inducted last year). IMHO, there's also no excuse for the absence of Rush and the Doobie Brothers.
And if Madonna can be in the Hall, there's no reason why Chicago shouldn't be.
In recent years the selection process has become a bigger and bigger joke.

It has become a joke, Along with the Progressive Rock bands, Metal and Hard Rock bands also get screwed over, fat chance we'll ever see Deep Purple or KISS get in. Wenner hates those bands.

I lost all respect when Wenner screwed over the Dave Clark 5. Even though they had more votes, he kicked them off the 2007 inductees for Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (who only had ONE Top 40 hit compared to the 20+ singles the DC5 placed) because the Hall needed a "rap act" to be politically correct or to get better TV ratings.

And some of the reunions have been a disaster. I loved the Hollies and I was happy to see them get in... I was hoping to see a full band reunion. But to see a drunken Terry Sylvester croak a lousy version of "Long Cool Woman" with a disgusted Allan Clarke pulling the mic out of his hands was totally embarrassing. :-\

I forgot about Deep Purple and Kiss. They ought to be in. Two more: Heart and Bad Company.

 

[johnbasalla]

The Moody Blues deserve to be in big time! They were relevant from the 1960s through the 1980s, hit music wise. Remember "Gemini Dream" and even later "I Know You're Out There Somewhere". Two memorable tracks that I can still sing a long to, or even just "hear" in my head.

I think the Rock Hall is where it should be in Cleveland, Ohio... the birth place of the name. Full disclosure: I was born in that area.

 

[Jay F]

Yes, great band. I like all their music from their first hit "Go Now" through their 80s product. Their music had a dreamy metaphysical feel combined with great hooks that stay in your head.

I heard an 80s Moody Blues song I haven't heard in ages on internet radio (boomerradio.com) "The Other Side Of Life". Looking up the chart information I found it interesting that it was a top 20 hit on both AC and Rock but only #58 on CHR. I can't think of other songs with that type of chart history.

As for the R&R Hall of Fame.If acts like that don't get indcuted it says more about the Hall of Fame itself than the Moody Blues. It seems more random than anything.

 

[flashback]

Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, who leads the nominee selection process, has always been biased against English progressive rock -- hence the absence from the Hall of the Moody Blues; Jethro Tull: Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and others (and the long wait before Genesis was inducted last year). IMHO, there's also no excuse for the absence of Rush and the Doobie Brothers.
And if Madonna can be in the Hall, there's no reason why Chicago shouldn't be.
In recent years the selection process has become a bigger and bigger joke.

It has become a joke, Along with the Progressive Rock bands, Metal and Hard Rock bands also get screwed over, fat chance we'll ever see Deep Purple or KISS get in. Wenner hates those bands.

I lost all respect when Wenner screwed over the Dave Clark 5. Even though they had more votes, he kicked them off the 2007 inductees for Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (who only had ONE Top 40 hit compared to the 20+ singles the DC5 placed) because the Hall needed a "rap act" to be politically correct or to get better TV ratings.

And some of the reunions have been a disaster. I loved the Hollies and I was happy to see them get in... I was hoping to see a full band reunion. But to see a drunken Terry Sylvester croak a lousy version of "Long Cool Woman" with a disgusted Allan Clarke pulling the mic out of his hands was totally embarrassing. :-\

wenner started to lose my respect when as the years went on he distanced rolling stone from the hippie culture that spawned it.at one time he showed a bar of soap in an ad and said our readers now use this or something to that effect,he showed a beat up vw microbus picture next to a picture of a nice new car saying the readers now buy these cars(refering to the new car) instead of these(refering to the microbus) my respect for him was totally lost when rolling stone put out a issue dedicated to briytney spears.

 

[billyg]

my respect for him was totally lost when rolling stone put out a issue dedicated to briytney spears.

I jumped the shark when he gave the Backstreet Boys "Artists of the Year" award. It was disgusting that he basically told anyone who supported his magazine in the 70's-90's to basically take a hike - you're not our audience anymore - we're for teenagers and young adults.

I respect the Country Music HOF much more than the Rock HOF - they do consider record sales, popularity and career longevity as a big factor for inductees, not just critical acceptance.

 

[landtuna]

The Rock and Roll HOF joins its host city as another Mistake on the Lake.