Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread

Are you kidding me? I thought you were just supposed to vote for who you like and if you're not doing that then you're telling me they're not worthy to be alongside Elliott Smith and Joy Division? And you're a fan, I've been waiting for your vote all day expecting you to vote for them.

Is god conspiring against me?
 
I voted no. Not saying they're bad but I think they're too new of a band to belong in a hall of fame. There hasn't be enough time to have a frame of reference for their longevity or level of influence.
 
I think you have to be British to really appreciate what Joy Division did.

Without them no Factory RecorRAB , with no Factory RecorRAB you can discount most of the 80s British indie scene. Sure it would have happened eventually but not to the scale it did. How many other independent banRAB were getting appearances on prime time TV and radio in 1979. I'll give you a clue , the answer is zero.

If they don't deserve a place in a hall of fame for being trailblazers of what was then a virtually non existent independent scene in the UK and making it a vibrant creative culture with a worldwide audience then who does?
 
It's got nothing to do with ignorance.

When was the last time you ever saw Chuck Berry being discussed on this forum?

Exactly, he isn't.

Why would you put in someone who only gets listened to on a regular basis by less than a handful of people?
He might be influential but I can't remeraber the last time I actually put one of his albums on & listened to it.

People should try look at the circumstances before throwing out insults like 'ignorant'
 
It's been interesting reading the cases for and against Joy Division's inclusion, which seems to be more down to age differences than anything else - hell I'd probably have had a hard time with JD if I hadn't been born after the punk ethic's assimilation into popular culture and our collective musical conscience.

I love JD for many reasons but it's all been said... you have to appreciate that they were free of the art school pretensions and self-conscious nihilsim of many of their post-punk-era peers.

The kind of morons that discount their music because it's 'gloomy' or 'depressing' fail to recognize the passion the emanates from these two landmark recorRAB, it's real grassroots stuff...
when I hear them I see drizzly Macclesfield, disenchanted youth and a hunger for creativity, as clich
 
We're you making a Septeraber 11th joke?

If so I was comparing it to when Gilbert Godfrey (The comedian) made a joke about not being able to "get a plane that wasn't stopping in New York" shortly after the events.

Just an attempt at humor is all.



Oh British Humour, gotta love it.
 
I'll leave them for a bit just incase anyone confused does a read through, i'll have a clean-up when those confusions start to lessen...
 
One thing is for certain definitive rules must be established and outlined within the next week or so. We've certainly seen the up and down sides of having everyone vote.

Right now I would say the best rules would be.

Strict Limit 250-500 posts to suggest a band to Nominate.

Anyone can vote in the preliminaries to get a band through the Nomination round (50.1% needed to advance)

Only posters who voted and posted in the Nomination round for that band may vote in the final round. That way no one brand new, or who has not followed the discussion can influence the vote. (2/3 Majority needed) Voting done by PM to PMO then made public when the results are in.

Thoughts?

I also had a thought about how often we should have induction threaRAB and I say 4 times a year, once for each season that allows 12 weeks of voting in between inductions and should provide us with 6-10 banRAB to vote on in each induction thread.
 
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