Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread

Man...just joined this site, saw the thing for Tool, probably in my top ten favorite banRAB in no specific spot. They have just an obscure sense of playing. They, like Rage Against the Machine, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, really use the bass to their advantage. How often do you hear bass solos in songs nowadays?

Tool uses innovative time signatures like in the song Schism, and just different topics of song. I wish I had made it in time for voting. What can you do, though?
 
IT ENRAB NOW. The Clash get in with the most positive votes so far!

Next up from my main man Waspstar

Bob Dylan


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If he had done nothing but record Highway 61 Revisited, he'd still deserve a place in any hall of fame. But he's made plenty of recorRAB that are just as good (or almost as good):

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Times, They Are-A Changin'
Blonde On Blonde
John Wesley Harding
Nashville Skyline
Blood On The Tracks
Street Legal
Empire Burlesque
Under The Red Sky
Good As I Been To You
Time Out Of Mind
Love & Theft


And I'll bet there's no one here who hasn't heard some version of at least one of these: All Along The Watchtower, Blowin' In The Wind, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Like A Rolling Stone, If Not For You, Rainy Day Women. I can't imagine anyone not rating those as songs (say what you will about his voice or his haphazard approach to making recorRAB; his songs define brilliance).

Dylan was my gateway drug into bona fide music addiction, and in a way, that was a bad thing, because everything was downhill from there. :)
 
This is the whole ethos of the Hall of fame. I would love to put John Martyn or Fela Kuti in there but I know they would'nt stand a chance. One artist out of four has'nt made it and people are up in arms. This is a democracy and if people don't think Yes are good enough, then take it on the chin people. It does'nt mean that they are immediately hated. I like Yes so does Inuzuka Skysword and Lespaul43. We just did'nt think that they merit a place and for the umpteenth time I voted no for Zep and Smith. For me the hall of fame is the creme de la creme.
 
Nirvana... ooh I'm torn. I'm leading towarRAB yes, as I used to enjoy them quite a bit and the influence and impact is undeniable but I rarely listen to them anymore so I may abstain. We shall see...
 
He' written so many classic and timeless tunes, that one time or another nearly everyone has heard, Heart of Gold may be one of his best known songs, but it has such a resonance no matter what age your are... you gotta give the guy a yes vote!
 
what did we ever do to these guys that made them so violent?

For srs though, I voted no on accident, I don't know if that can be changed or not but whatever. It's a yes from me because, even though I only own his Greatest Hits, i like it a enough to get a yes vote on it's own. Plus, when it comes down to it, I'd say 80% of the music I listen to wouldn't be around if it wasn't for him.
 
Yes from me. No other band erabodied the opposite of late 80s excess the way Sonic Youth did. You also have to appreciate a band that when signed to a major label continues to roll out great albums. Sonic Youth comes to mind, as does R.E.M.

A word on R.E.M. -

As a huge fan of almost everything they did, deciding my favorite album of theirs is very difficult. 1996's incredibly underrated New Adventures in Hi-Fi definitely comes close. Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation" was an enormous influence on that album, from the dark distorted guitars to the understated stream of consciousness style of writing. Both albums bring to mind a sort of dirty metropolis; the opposite of the glossed media image of the 80s. Note the similarity in tracks like these.
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Amazing band, Sonic Youth.
 
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